(2010). Spotlight on Speech Codes 2010: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (NJ1) Each year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) conducts a rigorous survey of restrictions on speech at America's colleges and universities. The survey and resulting report explore the extent to which schools are meeting their legal and moral obligations to uphold students' and faculty members' rights to freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and private conscience. This year's report examines the restrictions on speech that are in force at a large sample of American colleges and universities and identifies emergent trends within the data. The report also addresses recent developments regarding free speech in the university setting, drawing from FIRE's research on university policies and from cases that FIRE has handled over the past academic year. Some highlights from this year's research include: (1) New York University prohibits "insulting, teasing, mocking, degrading or ridiculing another person or group"; (2) Keene State College in New Hampshire… [PDF]

Sawhill, Isabel (2015). Purposeful Parenthood: Better Planning Benefits New Parents and Their Children. Education Next, v15 n2 p51-55 Spr. The effects on children of the increase in single parents is no longer much debated. They do less well in school, are less likely to graduate, and are more likely to be involved in crime, teen pregnancy, and other behaviors that make it harder to succeed in life. Research at the Brookings Institution shows that social mobility is much higher for the children of continuously married parents than for those who grow up with discontinuously married or never-married parents. What does all of this have to do with education? Rates of unwed childbearing and divorce are much lower among well-educated than among less-educated women. More and better education is one clear path to reducing unwed parenthood and the growth of single-parent families in the future. The better-educated are much more successful at avoiding the arrival of a baby before they are in a committed relationship and ready to be parents. The relationship between education and the ability to plan a family goes in both… [Direct]

Jordan, Timothy R.; Paterson, Kevin B. (2009). Re-Evaluating Split-Fovea Processing in Word Recognition: A Critical Assessment of Recent Research. Neuropsychologia, v47 n12 p2341-2353 Oct. In recent years, some researchers have proposed that a fundamental component of the word recognition process is that each fovea is divided precisely at its vertical midline and that information either side of this midline projects to different, contralateral hemispheres. Thus, when a word is fixated, all letters to the left of the point of fixation project only to the right hemisphere whereas all letters to the right of the point of fixation project only to the left hemisphere. An informed assessment of research in this area requires an accurate understanding of the nature of the evidence and arguments that have been used to develop this \split-fovea theory\ of word recognition (SFT). The purpose of this article is to facilitate this understanding by assessing recent published support for SFT. In particular, we assess (i) the precision with which experiments have been conducted, (ii) the assumptions made about human visual ability, and (iii) the accuracy with which earlier research… [Direct]

Joller, Helen; Lalive, Patrice; Landis, Theodor; Lengen, Charis; Regard, Marianne (2009). Anomalous Brain Dominance and the Immune System: Do Left-Handers Have Specific Immunological Patterns?. Brain and Cognition, v69 n1 p188-193 Feb. Geschwind and Behan (1982) and Geschwind and Galaburda (1985a, 1985b, 1985c) suggested a correlation between brain laterality and immune disorders. To test whether this hypothesis holds true not only for the frequency of immune diseases and circulating autoantibodies, but extends also to cellular immunity, we examined the association between handedness and markers of cellular immunity. Twenty-seven left-handed and 37 right-handed subjects were serologically screened for cellular parameters and 22 left-handed subjects were typed for human leukocyte antigen (HLA). When compared to the right-handers, the left-handed group showed a significant decrease in the inflammatory cell types CD3[superscript +] T cells (total T cells), CD4[superscript +] T cells (T-helper cells), and HLA-Dr (MHC-II, antigen-presenting cells) as well as in the CD19[superscript +] cells (B cells) and CD16/CD57[superscript +] cells (natural killer cells). We assume a relationship exists between cerebral hemispheric… [Direct]

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline (2012). Credible Immigration Policy Reform: A Response to Briggs. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, v31 n4 p963-966 Fall. The authors agree with Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., that U.S. immigration policy has had unexpected consequences. The 1965 immigration reforms led to unanticipated chain migration from developing countries whereas the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act failed to slow unauthorized immigration. The result is a large foreign-born population with relatively low levels of human capital. The authors disagree with him, however, on the labor market effects of this migration stream and on his proposed policy reforms. Briggs suggests that immigration policy has the power to solve society's most vexing problems. By simply reducing legal immigration by 30 percent and eliminating illegal immigration, the United States can reverse the long-term decline in blue-collar wages, reduce unemployment, and lower poverty and income inequality. The authors think immigration policy has important economic effects and needs to be overhauled, but immigration policy reform is not a silver bullet. Briggs… [Direct]

Wright, Tessa (2009). The Role of Hand Dominance in Beginning Braille Readers. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, v103 n10 p705-708 Oct. In this article, the author examines the role of \hand dominance\ in beginning braille readers. \Hand dominance\ refers to whether an individual is \right handed\ or \left handed.\ The data for these analyses were taken from the Alphabetic Braille and Contracted Braille Study (ABC Braille Study). The ABC Braille Study was a five-year nonrandomized longitudinal study that was conducted with approval of the Human Subjects Institutional Review Board at Vanderbilt University and those of other researchers' universities. The analyses in this article used data from 35 students in a range of educational placements. The analyses examined two major variables: (1) hand dominance; and (2) reading patterns. Data on hand dominance were based on reports by the teachers of students with visual impairments at the beginning of the study. Hand movement patterns for reading were derived through observation. Through visual and statistical analysis, no statistically significant correlations were found… [Direct]

Gasman, Marybeth (2012). The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American Medical School. Johns Hopkins University Press The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the United States. Among its illustrious alumni are surgeons general of the United States, medical school presidents, and numerous other highly regarded medical professionals. This book tells the engrossing history of this venerable institution. The school was founded just after the civil rights era, when major barriers prevented minorities from receiving adequate health care and Black students were underrepresented in predominantly White medical schools. The Morehouse School of Medicine was conceived to address both problems–it was a minority-serving institution educating doctors who would practice in underserved communities. The school's history involves political maneuvering, skilled leadership, dedication to training African American physicians, and a mission of primary care in disadvantaged communities. Highlighting such influential leaders as former Health and Human… [Direct]

Gur-Ze'ev, Ilan (2010). Beyond Peace Education: Toward Co-Poiesis and Enduring Improvisation. Policy Futures in Education, v8 n3-4 p315-339. Is it possible that the essence of peace is negated in peace education? And is it possible that even against its own will peace education calls for the negation of its negation? In peace education no serious attempts have been made to elaborate its most central concepts. \Pacifism\, \violence\, \counter-violence\ and \emancipation\, \culture of peace\, among others, have still not been probed. Peace education, actually, is a serious threat to human edification. Peace for the eternal Jew, for the enduring improviser, is a condition of the one who found his way: an endless path of a nomad that has Love but no other \home\, dogma or quest for \home-returning\ into thingness, the continuum or the Same. He will never find and never search for \peace\ as an end of Diasporic existence and terminality of the suffering of the nomad. He will be at peace with his mission of avoiding history within history, of overcoming the temptation to be part of the collective \I\/consensus/pleasure… [Direct]

Alvarez, George A.; Battelli, Lorella; Carlson, Thomas; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro (2009). The Role of the Parietal Lobe in Visual Extinction Studied with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, v21 n10 p1946-1955 Oct. Interhemispheric competition between homologous areas in the human brain is believed to be involved in a wide variety of human behaviors from motor activity to visual perception and particularly attention. For example, patients with lesions in the posterior parietal cortex are unable to selectively track objects in the contralesional side of visual space when targets are simultaneously present in the ipsilesional visual field, a form of visual extinction. Visual extinction may arise due to an imbalance in the normal interhemispheric competition. To directly assess the issue of reciprocal inhibition, we used fMRI to localize those brain regions active during attention-based visual tracking and then applied low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over identified areas in the left and right intraparietal sulcus to asses the behavioral effects on visual tracking. We induced a severe impairment in visual tracking that was selective for conditions of simultaneous… [Direct]

Graham, John; Jantzi, Jennifer K.; McCulloh, Ian A.; Morton, Jillian; Rodriguez, Amy M. (2008). Quantifying the Efficiency of a Translator: The Effect of Syntactical and Literal Written Translations on Language Comprehension Using the Machine Translation System FALCon. Applied Language Learning, v18 n1-2 p17-25. This study introduces a new method of evaluating human comprehension in the context of machine translation using a language translation program known as the FALCon (Forward Area Language Converter). The participants include 48 freshmen from the United States Military Academy enrolled in the General Psychology course, PL100. Results of this study have brought a few key points for consideration in Arabic machine translation. First, human understanding is not a factor to be ignored in gauging the usefulness of such translators. Secondly, the type of translation used can depend on the type of information needed, whether it is key people and places or the general plans or opinions. An even better method would combine the two types (probably through human interpretation) to have one complete translation with both key details and the right concepts. Combining the strengths of the two types is especially important in developing a training strategy to employ translators like the FALCON for… [Direct]

(2005). Special Education: Children with Autism. Report to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. GAO-05-220. US Government Accountability Office In this report to the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes the trend in the number of children diagnosed with autism served under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, the services provided to these children, the estimated per pupil expenditures for educating children with autism, and approaches to their education. GAO provided a draft of this briefing to officials at the Department of Education for their technical review and incorporated their comments in this final report where appropriate…. [PDF]

Godbole-Chaudhuri, Pragati; Srikantaiah, Deepa; van Fleet, Justin (2008). Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Confronting Modern Norms to Promote Sustainability. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, v2 n4 p276-294 Oct. The global proliferation of intellectual property rights (IPRs), most recently through the World Trade Organization's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, poses a grave threat for Indigenous knowledge systems. There is an increasing amount of \piracy\ of Indigenous knowledge, whereby corporations and scientists from rich countries are claiming proprietary rights over knowledge that has belonged to cultures and people for hundreds of years. From the hoodia cactus and the Mexican yellow bean, to the use of neem and turmeric in India, IPRs have been inappropriately utilized to promote growth for the rich while hindering development and perpetuating poverty within many Indigenous knowledge-holding communities. The separation of humans from culture, culture from ecology, and ecology from economics has caused severe ecological exploitation and subsequent degradation. This article frames the current debate at the intersection of IPRs and Indigenous… [Direct]

Haller, William; Lynch, Scott M.; Portes, Alejandro (2011). On the Dangers of Rosy Lenses: Reply to Alba, Kasinitz and Waters. Social Forces, v89 n3 p775-781 Mar. This article responds to the Alba, Kasinitz and Waters' commentary on the authors' article. The authors state that not all kids are doing \all right,\ and the substantial number at risk of social and economic stagnation or downward mobility looms as a significant social problem. They contend it is true that right-wing commentators may pick on these findings for their own purposes, but this is certainly no reason to obscure the facts. Laying a rosy veil over them is a dangerous strategy. The authors go on to explain that a good part of the divergence in this field has to do with an emphasis on different aspects of the process of assimilation. Many scholars privilege a culturalist perspective where the emphasis is on immigrants, and especially their descendants, becoming indistinct from the natives. After they learn unaccented English, give up loyalties and concerns in their old country, and become fully involved in things American, the process is essentially complete. It matters… [Direct]

Brooker-Gross, Susan, Ed.; Martinson, Tom, Ed. (1992). Revisiting the Americas: Teaching and Learning the Geography of the Western Hemisphere. Pathways in Geography Series, Title No. 4. This book, issued in observance of the Columbus Quincentennial and on the occasion of the 27th International Geographical Congress, addresses a broad range of contemporary topics including environmental change, dynamics of the world economy, human needs, wants and rights, political order and change, and contemporary cultures. The format is one of essays and complementary learning activities, including one essay and two activities in Spanish. Divided into five sections, section 1, "Environmental Change," contains the following essays: (1) "The Changing Use of Water in the Americas" (Lee); (2) "Streamflow" (Bock); (3) "The Effects of Volcanoes on the Landscapes and Peoples of the Americas" (Romey); (4) "Volcanoes and Human Activities in the Caribbean (Bencloski); (5) "The Global Effect of El Nino" (Caviedes); (6) "Teaching El Nino" (Prorok); (7) "Tropical and Temperate Rainforests" (Hansis); (8) "Humans,… [PDF]

Bonatti, Luca L.; D'Agostini, Serena; Reverberi, Carlo; Shallice, Tim; Skrap, Miran (2009). Cortical Bases of Elementary Deductive Reasoning: Inference, Memory, and Metadeduction. Neuropsychologia, v47 n4 p1107-1116 Mar. Elementary deduction is the ability of unreflectively drawing conclusions from explicit or implicit premises, on the basis of their logical forms. This ability is involved in many aspects of human cognition and interactions. To date, limited evidence exists on its cortical bases. We propose a model of elementary deduction in which logical inferences, memory, and meta-logical control are separable subcomponents. We explore deficits in patients with left, medial and right frontal lesions, by both studying patients' deductive abilities and providing measures of their meta-logical sensitivity for proof difficulty. We show that lesions to left lateral and medial frontal cortex impair abilities at solving elementary deductive problems, but not so lesions to right frontal cortex. Furthermore, we show that memory deficits differentially affect patients according to the locus of the lesion. Left lateral patients with working memory deficits had defective deductive abilities, but not so left… [Direct]

Jiang, Xiaoming; Zhou, Xiaolin (2012). Multiple Semantic Processes at Different Levels of Syntactic Hierarchy: Does the Higher-Level Process Proceed in Face of a Lower-Level Failure?. Neuropsychologia, v50 n8 p1918-1928 Jul. Humans have special abilities in processing hierarchical, recursive structures. Here we investigated how an upcoming word embedded in a hierarchical structure is semantically integrated into the prior representation during sentence comprehension. Participants read Chinese sentences with a complex verb argument structure \subject noun+verb+numeral+classifier+object noun\, in which the object noun was constrained by the classifier in a local structure and by the verb in a higher-level structure. The semantic congruence between the classifier and the noun, between the verb and the noun, and between the verb and the classifier was manipulated individually or simultaneously to create a local mismatch (i.e., with classifier-noun mismatch), a sequential mismatch (with verb-classifier and classifier-noun mismatches) or a triple mismatch (with verb-classifier, classifier-noun, and verb-classifier mismatches) condition. Event-related potentials locked to the object noun showed increased N400… [Direct]

Curtis, Clayton E.; Ikkai, Akiko; Jerde, Trenton A. (2011). Perception and Action Selection Dissociate Human Ventral and Dorsal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, v23 n6 p1494-1506 Jun. We test theories about the functional organization of the human cortex by correlating brain activity with demands on perception versus action selection. Subjects covertly searched for a target among an array of 4, 8, or 12 items (perceptual manipulation) and then, depending on the color of the array, made a saccade toward, away from, or at a right angle from the target (action manipulation). First, choice response times increased linearly as the demands increased for each factor, and brain activity in several cortical areas increased with increasing choice response times. Second, we found a double dissociation in posterior cortex: Activity in ventral regions (occipito-temporal cortex) increased linearly with perceptual, but not action, selection demands; conversely, activity in dorsal regions (parietal cortex) increased linearly with action, but not perceptual, selection demands. This result provides the clearest support of the theory that posterior cortex is segregated into two… [Direct]

Johansson, Eva (2009). The Preschool Child of Today–The World-Citizen of Tomorrow?. International Journal of Early Childhood, v41 n2 p79-95 Sep. Ideas of sustainable development, globalization and global citizenship raise questions about justice, rights, responsibility and caring for human beings and the world. Interest in the role of education for sustainable development has increased during the last decades, however little attention has been directed to early education. Even if the moral dimension in learning for sustainable development is evident it is seldom discussed or analysed. The aim of this paper is to discuss issues in everyday interaction as aspects of learning for sustainable development in preschool. The examples used as the basis for discussion are drawn from research on morality among young children (aged 1-6 years) in various daycare contexts in Sweden. From the analyses certain core values and competences are identified as tentative dimensions in early learning for global citizenship…. [Direct]

Casler, Krista; Greene, Kimberly; Terziyan, Treysi (2009). Toddlers View Artifact Function Normatively. Cognitive Development, v24 n3 p240-247 Jul-Sep. When children use objects like adults, are they simply tracking regularities in others' object use, or are they demonstrating a normatively defined awareness that there are right and wrong ways to act? This study provides the first evidence for the latter possibility. Young 2- and 3-year-olds (n = 32) learned functions of 6 artifacts, both familiar and novel. A puppet subsequently used the artifacts, sometimes in atypical ways, and children's spontaneous reactions were coded. Children responded normatively to non-designed uses (e.g., protesting, tattling), although the effect was stronger among older children. Reactions were identical for novel and familiar items, underscoring how rapidly tool-function mappings are formed. Results depict toddlers as already sensitive to the uniquely human, normative nature of tool use. (Contains 2 tables.)… [Direct]

White, April L. (2013). A Quantitative Investigation of the Relationship between Adult Attachment and the Leadership Styles of Florida's Public Service Leaders. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Capella University. Many organizations find selecting a leader to be highly challenging. Investigators have found and admit that the study of leadership is a very complex phenomenon that cannot be easily captured and explained in a manner that could lead to a final description about leadership or offer clear steps on how to choose the right leader. Among the many things considered during the selection process are personality, behaviors, and other characteristics of prospective leaders. Great emphasis placed on prospective leader qualities presents yet another challenge that many organizations face–not knowing which assessments to choose to guide the leader selection process. This investigation sought to identify whether attachment styles developed during infancy could be used as an indicator of the types of leadership behaviors and qualities that are witnessed in adulthood. Two-hundred and twenty-six public service leaders throughout the state of Florida participated in this study that sought to… [Direct]

Reville, Paul (2010). Translating Education Reform into Action. New England Journal of Higher Education, Jun. A lot of national attention was paid over the past few months to a situation in Central Falls, Rhode Island, where the superintendent took the action of firing all the high school's teachers. What started off as a small story about a labor dispute between the administration and the teachers' union at the high school catapulted into the national education reform debate and had everyone talking from local and state leaders to pundits to the president of the United States. Some suggested it was indicative of the approach needed to reform schools. Other suggested it was a hostile attack on teachers. The author believes that a wholesale, undifferentiated firing of an entire faculty is unlikely to lead to the desired reform outcome of improved education for students. And recent updates to the story, with teachers regaining employment after making concessions on school time and in other areas, only help to illustrate why Massachusetts' approach is more beneficial. Massachusetts is deeply… [Direct]

Fuchs, Eckhardt (2007). Children's Rights and Global Civil Society. Comparative Education, v43 n3 p393-412 Aug. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) was a significant international achievement, its adoption requires analysis and interpretation in terms of the possibilities and limitations of multilateral cooperation. The international movement for children's rights can only be conceived as the result of a system of multilateral education, which from its beginning in the late nineteenth century was shaped by interrelationships among governments and international and transnational non-governmental organizations. The development of international commitments is traced, from tightly-bounded prescriptions concerning children's rights to international community insistence that the survival, protection and development of children are universal development imperatives integral to human progress…. [Direct]

Bulf, Hermann; Valenza, Eloisa (2011). Early Development of Object Unity: Evidence for Perceptual Completion in Newborns. Developmental Science, v14 n4 p799-808 Jul. The present study aimed to investigate whether perceptual completion is available at birth, in the absence of any visual experience. An extremely underspecified kinetic visual display composed of four spatially separated fragments arranged to give rise to an illusory rectangle that occluded a vertical rod (illusory condition) or rotated so as not to elicit perceptual grouping (control condition) was constructed. After newborns' ability to detect the particular kind of rod-and-box display used in the present study had been probed (Experiment 1), they were habituated to the illusory rod-and-box display (Experiment 2), to the control display that did not contain illusory contours (Experiment 3), and to a standard real rod-and-box display akin to those used in previous infants' studies (Experiment 4). Newborns perceived the rod as a connected unit either in the illusory condition (Experiment 2) or in the real condition (Experiment 4), as documented by a preference for a broken rod over a… [Direct]

Danforth, Scot (2008). John Dewey's Contributions to an Educational Philosophy of Intellectual Disability. Educational Theory, v58 n1 p45-62 Feb. Leading researchers describe the field of special education as sharply divided between two different theories of disability. In this article Scot Danforth takes as his project addressing that division from the perspective of a Deweyan philosophy of the education of students with intellectual disabilities. In 1922, John Dewey authored two articles in New Republic that criticized the use of intelligence tests as both undemocratic and impractical in meeting the needs of teachers. Drawing from these two articles and a variety of Dewey's other works, Danforth puts forward a Deweyan educational theory of intellectual disability. This theory is perhaps encapsulated in Dewey's observation that \The democratic faith in human equality is belief that every human being, independent of the quantity or range of his personal endowment, has the right to equal opportunity with every other person for development of whatever gifts he has.\… [Direct]

Cooke, Flora J. (2011). Forward or Backward? (1920). Schools: Studies in Education, v8 n1 p72-73 Spr. Is it better to aim at a high ideal, with only moderate success in attainment, or is it better to be satisfied with a lower goal, one involving less effort and little responsibility? This is the question which pupils in upper grades and high school face every year. There are always some members of every class who seek the best things. They desire both freedom and responsibility. They want to understand the necessary laws and regulations–even to share in making them. They desire to obey and cooperate in any plan involving the rights of all. They have already caught the spirit which underlies good citizenship. They are the people who are apt to move forward to positions of leadership. They can command because they know how to obey. But there are others–also a goodly number in each class–who desire to be told just what to do and to be \made\ to do the right thing. They want the school authorities to take all the responsibility for discipline. Then there is usually a small group,… [Direct]

Paetzold, Ramona L. (2010). Why Incorporate Disability Studies into Teaching Discrimination Law?. Journal of Legal Studies Education, v27 n1 p61-80 Win-Spr. Those who teach employment discrimination law, particularly as a separate course or part of a course on employment law, are used to covering a broad range of legal models and issues pertaining to the protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The disparate treatment, disparate impact, and hostile environment models of discrimination apply broadly and are often discussed within a framework of feminist, critical race, or other perspectives. The author stresses that it is important to view American discrimination law through a lens of critical race and feminist theory. However, the importance of race, ethnic, and gender studies as multidisciplinary enterprises that have influenced law cannot be overemphasized. In this article the author attempts to make a strong case that another theoretical perspective be brought into one's discourse of employment discrimination law–that of disability studies. Disability studies is a relatively new field that seeks to examine the… [Direct]

Hiltmann, Maren; Huber, Stephan Gerhard (2011). Competence Profile School Management (CPSM)–An Inventory for the Self-Assessment of School Leadership. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, v23 n1 p65-88 Feb. The professional demands on school leaders have changed drastically and have become highly complex in the last few years. The professionalization of school leaders is high on the agenda. Human resource management includes different aspects of professionalization. One major domain is the preparation, induction and continuous professional development of individual leaders and leadership teams. Another is personnel marketing and selection, which includes the question of attracting capable future leaders and of appointing the right candidates. However in Europe there is a need for standardised tools which provide systematic feedback to professionals interested in assessing their strengths and individual development needs. Suitable instruments are still scarce. The Competence Profile School Management CPSM (German: KompetenzProfil SchulManagement; KPSM) is the first online-based self-assessment in the German language which has been designed to fit the school context and is based on… [Direct]

Malachowski, Margot (2011). Patient Activation: Public Libraries and Health Literacy. Computers in Libraries, v31 n10 p5-9 Dec. Patient activation is a new term for a perennial problem. People know what they need to do for their health: exercise, eat right, and get enough rest–but how are they motivated to actually do these things? This is what patient activation is. From this author's vantage point as a medical librarian, public libraries are well-placed to be part of nationwide health initiatives to expand patient activation. Healthy People 2020 (www.healthy people.gov) is an initiative from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to improve public health. Healthy People 2020 has identified the lack of broadband access as a risk for health disparities. Patient activation is about people taking an active interest in their health, and the internet is where they can find the most current health information. HHS draws a correlation between internet-based information seeking and the status of people experiencing disease. Comparing statistics from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the… [Direct]

Hayhoe, Ruth, Ed.; Sivasubramaniam, Malina, Ed. (2018). Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education Series. Symposium Books Despite the increased trend towards secularization in state schooling, issues of religion and spirituality have remained important. Increased pluralism within societies through expanding migration patterns is changing the religious and cultural contours of many countries in Europe and North America, and is creating a need for a deeper understanding of religious diversity. However, the lack of religious or spiritual education within the educational curriculum leaves a moral vacuum that can become a space to be exploited by religious extremism. More recently, religiously motivated incidences of terrorism in several parts of the world have heightened prejudicial attitudes and distrust of certain religions, in particular. These are profound concerns and there is an urgency to examine how religion, religious education and interfaith initiatives can address such misconceptions. This book is thus timely, focusing on an area that is often neglected, particularly on the role of religion in… [Direct]

Hayhoe, Ruth, Ed.; Sivasubramaniam, Malini, Ed. (2018). Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education. Symposium Books Despite the increased trend towards secularisation in state schooling, issues of religion and spirituality have remained important. Increased pluralism within societies through expanding migration patterns is changing the religious and cultural contours of many countries in Europe and North America, and is creating a need for a deeper understanding of religious diversity. However, the lack of religious or spiritual education within the educational curriculum leaves a moral vacuum that can become a space to be exploited by religious extremism. More recently, religiously motivated incidences of terrorism in several parts of the world have heightened prejudicial attitudes and distrust of certain religions, in particular. These are profound concerns and there is an urgency to examine how religion, religious education and interfaith initiatives can address such misconceptions. This book is thus timely, focusing on an area that is often neglected, particularly on the role of religion in… [Direct]