Eric Jones (2022). On a New Conception of Evaluation: Exploring the Potential for Human Performance Assessment Grounded in Peircean Semiotics. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University. The assessment of human performance is not a new phenomenon. We have evidence that people have been required to prove their worth dating back at least to the Epic of Gilgamesh. What has changed, at least on a large scale, is the importance given to quantitative evidence in the evaluation process. For example, many employers have begun subjecting applicants to pre-employment screenings that include personality tests and emotional intelligence evaluations – all in the interest of finding the right 'fit' for a particular job. Another fairly recent extension, and the primary impetus of this project, is the use of student assessment to evaluate teachers and schools. The high stakes applied to assessments of this sort present a number of challenges–particularly related to the interpretation of the data. There is already a large body of research that considers these challenges within the traditional conceptions of human performance assessment, but there is still no widely accepted… [Direct]

Khue N. Tran (2022). Algorithmic Reactions and Task Characteristics in College Admission. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota. The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate factors that affect decision-makers' trust in and reliance on algorithmic predictions as decision aids in the context of college admission prediction tasks. College admission officers often made predictions about the applicants' future success based on multiple pieces of available information, such as applicants' standardized test scores and high school GPA. While research showed that admission officers could benefit from algorithmic decision aids to make admission decisions, it remained unclear how people perceived the competence of the advice from a mechanical approach in this type of prediction task. The dissertation examined the interplay between sources of advice (whether advice comes from a college admission expert or a statistical model) and the characteristics of the prediction task (i.e., the task complexity and the cost of prediction failures). The results from the two studies suggested that people trusted the… [Direct]

Craig, Emory; Georgieva, Maya (2020). Spatial Computing: Creating the Future of Learning. Current Issues in Education, v21 n2. Spatial computing is the fourth paradigm of the digital revolution and could profoundly transform learning. It is the convergence of several technological developments, including Augmented and Virtual Reality (XR), Artificial Intelligence, haptic feedback, motion-capture, and situational awareness engines. This article explores how the shift from 2D screens to virtual worlds will impact learning and raise new ethical and digital literacy challenges. Spatial computing goes far beyond the simple use of a VR headset for virtual experiences. Microsoft's experimental Dreamwalker project has already demonstrated how a user can remain entirely immersed in a virtual environment while successfully navigating the real world around them. These developments offer far-reaching implications for learning and our social interactions. Students may prefer virtual embodied avatars who are adaptive, personalized, and available anytime over real faculty – or they may gain a new-found appreciation for… [Direct]

Bowman, Richard F. (2018). Teaching and Learning in a Storytelling Culture. Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, v91 n3 p97-102. In the classroom, the ability to tell the right story at the right time is an essential pedagogical skill. Storytelling speaks to what makes us human: a search for meaning. In diverse instructional settings, non-stories provide information while resonant narratives teach, inspire, and motivate students by engaging them emotionally and intellectually. Inspirational stories in educational environments provide a compelling challenge, narrate the struggle to overcome that unexpected challenge, and deliver an eye-opening resolution that calls listeners to action. Because our lives and our cultures are composed of a series of overlapping stories, a single story is almost never the definitive story of another individual or culture essentially due to its incompleteness…. [Direct]

Wanasinghe, Shaminda (2022). Contribution to the Development of Political Concepts of Civic Education among in Grades 10-11 in Sri Lanka. Shanlax International Journal of Education, v10 n4 p45-51 Sep. The man began to live a civilized life in the study of human history; he realized the need and importance of living in a way that would not be a trouble to other living things. They were accustomed to shaping their lives because they had some understanding of the rights of others as well as their duties. The main reason for conflict to arise in any society is that human beings do not live lawfully. Humans always live by emphasizing only his rights and do not care about the duties they have to fulfill. Therefore, it is clear that there are some conflicts between individuals as well as between societies. From the school days, citizens need to understand that to live together in a community; they must live lawfully and democratically. Accordingly, the school curriculum in Sri Lanka has taken steps to provide an understanding of political concepts for the students in schools. Special attention is paid to the Civic Education Curriculum for Grades 10 and 11. It is planned to impart the… [PDF]

Herr, Stanley S. (1984). Issues in Human Rights: A Guide for Parents, Professionals, Policymakers and All Those Who Are Concerned about the Rights of Mentally Retarded and Developmentally Disabled People. The guide examines fundamental rights of mentally retarded and developmentally disabled persons. The monograph focuses on some of the central controversies of which consumers, professionals, planners, and advocates concerned with developmental disabilities should be aware. Problems of living and dying, resettlement and confinement, choice and coercion, assertion and passivity are considered. An overview chapter states the central problem in protecting human and legal rights, followed by a more in-depth look at specific court cases. Chapter 3 examines implications for the field of mental retardation of three major cases: Romeo v. Youngberg and the right to minimal training, Rogers v. Mills and the right to refuse treatment, and Rowley v. Hendrick Hudson Central School District and the right to appropriate education. Chapter 4 outlines methods to upgrade the quality of care, safeguard individual rights, and help consumers identify and exercise their rights. The final chapter…

Cranley, L.; Johnson, G.; O'Connor, Dee; Robinson, A.; Robinson, C. (2020). Love in Education: West Australian Early Childhood Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives on Children's Right to Be Loved and Its Actualisation within Their Future Practice. Early Child Development and Care, v190 n15 p2402-2413. Children's right to love is a recognised fundamental human need set down within the 1992 "United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child." This recognition stems from an acknowledgement that the Early Years of Development are emotionally driven (Degotardi, S., & Sweller, N. (2012). Mind-mindedness in infant child-care: Associations with early childhood practitioner sensitivity and stimulation. "Early Childhood Research Quarterly," 27(2), 253-265. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.09.002.). Young children respond best to those with whom they experience love and acceptance (Carter, M. A., & Fewster, C. (2013). Diversifying early years' professional learning: One size no longer fits all. "Australasian Journal of Early Childhood," 38(1), 73-?80.). As such, love in the classroom is important as an empowering agent of children's well-being and achievement. Children's need and right to be surrounded by love poses a challenge for many early childhood… [Direct]

Adedoyin, A. Christson; Boamah, Daniel A.; Clayton, Dewey M.; Harmon, Dana K.; Moore, Sharon E.; Robinson, Michael A. (2019). The Dehumanization of Black Males by Police: Teaching Social Justice–Black Life Really Does Matter!. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, v39 n2 p111-131. Despite the contemporary public's discourse regarding the embrace of human diversity within the United States, Black males still are perennially brutalized, killed, and negatively stereotyped. Recent events regarding police killings underscore the reality that even though Black males have the same constitutional and civil rights as all other citizens, in practice their rights are often violated or denied. The negative stereotypes of Black males is problematic because it creates an environment and negative perception of them that causes some police officers to claim that they feared for their life before shooting. In this article the authors discuss the history of police oppression and killing of Black males and offer critical race theory as a theoretical perspective that helps to explain this pervasive social inequity. More important, the authors provide practical classroom narratives, assignments, and strategies that may hold promise in addressing the problem of police brutality and… [Direct]

Morantes-Africano, Leonardo (2023). Queering "Habitus": Interrogating Heteronormative Dispositions That Reproduce Inequalities towards Sexual Minorities. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, v28 n2 p241-259. This paper engages Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural reproduction, namely that of habitus, symbolic power, and symbolic violence, with the work of queer theorists, to interrogate the theory and practice of heteronormativity. The paper centrally argues that issues of inequalities experienced by sexual minorities are rooted on a received discourse that is normative in nature, and that, if unexamined, will continue to reproduce them. It also argues that negative dispositions towards sexual difference are not innate to human nature but 'learned' via early socialisation. Thus, to advance social justice, disrupting heteronormativity is the right thing to do, and initial teacher education is in a privileged position to help teachers and students with processes of learning and unlearning, necessary for a critical interrogation of received gender/sexuality norms. The first section contextualises habitus against critical interpretations of gender and sexuality. The second section… [Direct]

Guleria, Pratiyush; Sood, Manu (2023). Explainable AI and Machine Learning: Performance Evaluation and Explainability of Classifiers on Educational Data Mining Inspired Career Counseling. Education and Information Technologies, v28 n1 p1081-1116 Jan. Machine Learning concept learns from experiences, inferences and conceives complex queries. Machine learning techniques can be used to develop the educational framework which understands the inputs from students, parents and with intelligence generates the result. The framework integrates the features of Machine Learning (ML), Explainable AI (XAI) to analyze the educational factors which are helpful to students in achieving career placements and help students to opt for the right decision for their career growth. It is supposed to work like an expert system with decision support to figure out the problems, the way humans solve the problems by understanding, analyzing, and remembering. In this paper, the authors have proposed a framework for career counseling of students using ML and AI techniques. ML-based White and Black Box models analyze the educational dataset comprising of academic and employability attributes that are important for the job placements and skilling of the… [Direct]

Amponsah, Samuel (2023). Akan Folklore as a Philosophical Framework for Education in Ghana. International Review of Education, v69 n1-2 p125-142 Apr. Philosophies of education serve as frameworks for producing lifelong learners and a knowledgeable and skilled human workforce who brace up their societies for changes in the 21st century. However, the Ghanaian education system continues to relegate its rich Indigenous philosophies to the back burner, favouring Western educational philosophies to drive its educational policies and practices. Ghana cannot continue to pursue a lifelong education agenda by relying on education that is entirely centred on foreign cultural values. The author of this article argues that lifelong education in Ghana needs to incorporate more elements of an authentic Ghanaian framework. Based on the view that a connection between education, culture and development in Ghana is imperative, he thus analyses the educational strengths of African folklore from the Akan ethnic group of Ghana. His conclusion is that aspects of Akan folklore, including its stories and proverbs, its kinship rights and rules, its moral… [Direct]

Adawiyah, Wiwiek Rabiatul; Pariyanti, Eka; Wulandari, Siti Zulaikha (2023). We Need to Talk about Kinship: How Kinship Weakens Turnover Intentions among Academicians at Private Higher Education Institutions in Indonesia. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, v15 n4 p988-1010. Purpose: There are two objectives in this study. First, testing the relationship between person-organization fit (P-O fit) and person-job fit (P-J fit) on turnover intentions. Second, examining the moderating role of kinship on the relationship between P-O fit and P-J fit on turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach: This research was conducted at private universities in Lampung with a total of 282 respondents. The analytical method used to test the research hypothesis was moderated regression analysis (MRA) Findings: There are five proposed hypotheses, and all of them are supported. The findings of this study reveal that P-O fit and P-J fit are predictors that are negatively related to turnover intentions. Furthermore, kinship moderates the relationship between P-O fit and P-J fit on turnover intentions. Research limitations/implications: This study adds to the literature on turnover intentions in universities and underscores some important advances and contributions in… [Direct]

Roseanne Carmen Tomelty-Rosenthal (2024). More than Repatriation Native American Student Narratives of Intergenerational Trauma. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Riverside. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was enacted in the United States in 1990 to protect the rights of the descendants of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives to their ancestors' human remains and sacred and cultural items (25 U.S.C; 43 CFR Part 10). Although enacted to protect and ensure that ancestors and cultural remains would be returned to their Native communities for proper burial, this policy was often contested in the judicial system, such as in the case of the Kennewick Man, where Native communities were in litigation against the Army Corps of Engineers for over a decade (Bruning, 2006). A further complication of NAGPRA is its exclusive application to those Native Tribes that are federally recognized, which often delegitimizes claims from descendants of the tribes who are not federally recognized (Kelsey et al., 2011). Universities, museums, and other agencies have fought Native communities for the ownership of their Ancestors… [Direct]

Quigley, Kevin F. F. (1997). For Democracy's Sake: Foundations and Democracy Assistance in Central Europe. Woodrow Wilson Center Special Studies. Assisting democracy has become a major concern of the international community since the end of the Cold War. Private actors–foundations and other nongovernmental organizations–are playing a growing role in these efforts, rivaling those of governments and international institutions. The study reported in this book examined foundations' democracy assistance programs in Central Europe in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall, both measuring their size and evaluating their strategies. Chapters in the book are: (1) "Introduction: A New World" ("Phases of Assistance"; "Purpose"; "Concepts and Techniques"; "Approach"); (2) "Czech Republic: Standing Apart" ("External Involvement"; "Education"; "Featured Projects"; "Results"); (3) "Hungary: The Long Road" ("External Involvement"; "Human Rights"; "Featured Projects";…

Bach, Michael, Ed.; Rioux, Marcia H., Ed. (1994). Disability Is Not Measles: New Research Paradigms in Disability. This book is the product of a forum titled New Research Directions and Paradigms, held at the Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency in Australia in August 1992. The book presents 13 chapters, all written within a critical paradigm for disability research which critiques the reification of disability entrenched through a positivist theory of knowledge and focuses on the social, economic, political, and legal construction of disability. This paradigm sees disability as socially constructed rather than an inherent and fixed feature of a person and examines disability research questions through the lens of human rights and ethics. The following chapters are included: (1) "New Research Directions and Paradigms: Disability Is Not Measles" (Marcia H. Rioux); (2) "Intellectual Disability and the Heritage of Modernity" (John P. Radford); (3) "What Matters Most: Disability, Research and Empowerment" (Linda Ward… [PDF]

(1989). Qualities Required of Education Today To Meet Foreseeable Demands in the Twenty-first Century. International Symposium and Round Table Proceedings (Beijing, China, November 27-December 2, 1989). This report contains proceedings of a United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) international symposium and round table. The main objective of the meeting was to debate long-term goals of education and its role in preparing young people to face the demands of the 21st century. Papers presented include: (1) \Young People–The Leaders of Tomorrow? The Role of the Social Network as a Means of Creating Favorable Conditions for Enhancing the Quality of Education in the Future\ (Gunnel Backenroth); (2) \Deepening Reform and Wider Openings to the Outside World–The Cornerstone of China's Development of Education in the Twenty-first Century\ (Yuan Baohua); (3) \Teaching Human Rights\ (Etienne Copel); (4) \Beliefs and Action in Educational Change\ (Rosalind Driver); (5) Untitled paper (Peter Ellyard); (6) \Understanding the Predicament of Humankind\ (John E. Fobes); (7) Untitled paper (Sergei A. Povalyaev); (8) \What Are the Challenges Which Face Humanity in… [PDF]

Blackburn, Mollie V. (2005). Co-Constructing Space for Literacy and Identity Work with LGBTQ Youth. Afterschool Matters, n4 p17-23 Spr. Young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT), or are perceived as such, often suffer from neglect and abuse in schools. School personnel typically ignore the issues of LGBT youth in the academic curriculum and in extracurricular activities (Gray, 1999; Owens, 1998). Youth perceived as LGBT are often called derogatory names, harassed, or physically abused (Eaton, 1993; Gray, 1999; Human Rights Watch, 2001; Owens, 1998; Rofes, 1995). This neglect and abuse hinders the education of these youth, as suggested by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) 2001 nationwide school climate survey of 904 LGBT youth across the United States. According to the GLSEN report, 68.6 percent of these youth felt unsafe in their schools because of their sexual orientation, and 45.7 percent felt unsafe because of their gender expression (Kosciw, 2001). As a result, 31.9 percent had skipped a class, and 30.8 percent had missed an entire day of school in the month… [PDF]

Woodward, Tessa, Ed. (1996). The Teacher Trainer, A Practical Journal Mainly for Modern Language Teacher Trainers, 1996. Teacher Trainer, v10 n1-3 Spr-Aut. The three issues of the journal on second language teacher education include these articles: "We Need More and Different Flags" (Agnes Martin); "Dealing with Timetabling on Second Language Teacher Training Courses" (Craig Thaine); "Interview with Jill Florent"; "Haiku Idea" (Tim Hahn); "The Hidden History of a Lesson or Who Trained Me?" (Mario Rinvolucri); "Language Matters" (David Crystal); "Micro-Planning: A New Technique in In-Service Training" (Mihaela Tilinca); "Using Unseen Observations for and IST Development Programme" (Phil Quirke); "Breaking Down Barriers: The Adjustment of Immigrant Teachers to New Educational Frameworks" (Ephraim Weintroub); "The Post-PPP Debate: An Alternative Model?" (Clive Lovelock); "Suitcases, a Training Idea" (Rod Bolitho); "On 'Control' in Second Language Teaching Classrooms" (Zuo Biao); "Who Trains the Trainers?… [PDF]

Totten, Samuel, Ed. (1986). Teaching Social Issues in the English Classroom. Arizona English Bulletin, v29 n1 Fall. Focusing on the rationales and materials for teaching social issues in the English classroom, this thematic issue contains the following articles: \Introduction: Reflections of Society in Literature\ (M. B. Fleming); \Addressing Social and/or Controversial Issues in the English Classroom\ (S. Totten); \The Growing Threat to Quality Education: How the Censors are Restricting School Curriculum\ (A. T. Podesta and C. Macy); \What Price Academic Freedom?\ (R. Ehrlich); \Reflections on Controversial Topics and Their Place in the Public Classroom\ (O. McGraw); \From the Other Side of the Desk: A Student's View–'Social Issues in the English Classroom–Here Today, Here to Stay'\ (D. G. Hunt); \Teaching Controversial Social Issues: Personal and Professional Tasks for Teachers of English\ (A. Molnar and D. R. Walling); \Facing Controversy: An Organization's Role in Addressing the Nuclear World\ (S. Alexander); \Controversy Doesn't Have to Find the Teacher\ (J. D. Black); \Three Tactics for…

de Leo, Joy, Ed.; Quisumbing, Lourdes R., Ed. (2005). Learning to Do: Values for Learning and Working Together in a Globalized World. An Integrated Approach to Incorporating Values Education in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. UNESCO-APNIEVE Sourcebook No. 3. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training This new Sourcebook provides information on how to teach values for learning and working together in a globalized world. It is designed for educators and trainers of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Its emphasis is on the integrated development of the whole person within the context of lifelong learning and TVET, in preparation for life and the world of work. The body of the book comprises 35 modules following the steps of a holistic teaching /learning cycle in each of the core and related values which can be integrated within a TVET education and training context to empower technical and vocational educators to adapt the process to their own training packages, units, lessons and resource materials. Chapter Two, "An Approach to Teaching and Learning Values," offers a way for the integration of values into the TVET curriculum. In this manner, the practical application of values becomes a living reality. The valuing process is an integral part of the… [PDF]

Slimbach, Richard (2005). The Transcultural Journey. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, v11 p205-230 Aug. Ready or not, a \transcultural\ era is here. The dramatic expansion of airline travel and telecommunications technologies, tourism and student exchanges, immigration policies and trade agreements have served to connect vastly different peoples and places into increasingly complex relationships. Local, regional, and national economies are now largely integrated into a single interdependent economy, working in real time on a global scale. Buyers and sellers increasingly connect, not through physical proximity, but through electronic networks. At the same time, everything and everyone appears to be on the move. Capital and commodities, products and services, businesspersons and migrants, tourists and terrorists–all move across borders with relative freedom. More persons than ever before are pursuing lives that link the local and the global. They are becoming increasingly transcultural–physically or electronically connected with diverse peoples, and involved in decision-making that is… [PDF] [Direct]

Vendramin, Valerija (2004). Curricular Framework Documents from Slovenia. Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, v34 n1 p113-125 Mar. Slovenia is currently undergoing a process of school reform in order to extend compulsory education from eight to nine years and to lower the school entering age from 7 to 6. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, the new elementary schools will focus less on the content and more on developing cognitive and social skills. At the request of the International Bureau of Education (IBE), and on behalf of UNESCO's Education for All Monitoring Team, it was decided to review the general curriculum framework documents for primary education in Slovenia from the point of view of the integration of gender-equality goals. According to the IBE, Slovenia was selected on the basis of the aims and priorities of the education system as reported to sessions of the International Conference on Education. A set of initial guidelines prepared by the IBE was taken into account, and the review was complemented by a theoretical framework informed by cultural studies, women's studies and… [Direct]

Bunge, Silvia A.; Leib, Elena R.; Project iLead Consortium; Starr, Ariel; Uncapher, Melina R.; Younger, Jessica W. (2023). Relational Thinking: An Overlooked Component of Executive Functioning. Developmental Science, v26 n3 e13320 May. Relational thinking, the ability to represent abstract, generalizable relations, is a core component of reasoning and human cognition. Relational thinking contributes to fluid reasoning and academic achievement, particularly in the domain of math. However, due to the complex nature of many fluid reasoning tasks, it has been difficult to determine the degree to which relational thinking has a separable role from the cognitive processes collectively known as executive functions (EFs). Here, we used a simplified reasoning task to better understand how relational thinking contributes to math achievement in a large, diverse sample of elementary and middle school students (N = 942). Students also performed a set of ten adaptive EF assessments, as well as tests of math fluency and fraction magnitude comparison. We found that relational thinking was significantly correlated with each of the three EF composite scores previously derived from this dataset, albeit no more strongly than they were… [Direct]

Kaveh, Yalda M. (2023). Re-Orienting to Language Users: Humanizing Orientations in Language Planning as Praxis. Language Policy, v22 n1 p1-23 Mar. The field of language policy and planning (LPP) has increasingly expanded its focus beyond legislative measures and macro-level policies toward understanding the power of social actors and their interpretation, appropriation, and creation of language policies in societies. This article aims to advance LPP theory and research by offering a critical and decolonial lens for conceptualizing and analyzing language policy in research, education, and language planning. This critical lens expands on one of the most influential LPP models: Ruiz's (1984) framework for Orientations in Language Planning. Ruiz's framework was proposed as a "meta-model" for language planning specialists to examine and advocate for new policies. This article invites researchers of language use in society to consider an epistemological shift from defining languages with fixed orientations, such as problem, resource, and right, toward looking at the intersectional roles of the listening and speaking… [Direct]

Jackson, Denise; Macau, Flavio; Riebe, Linda (2022). Determining Factors in Graduate Recruitment and Preparing Students for Success. Education & Training, v64 n5 p681-699. Purpose: This study aims to investigate graduate employer perceptions of determining factors in recruitment decisions and their preferred use of recruitment channels. This study drew on the employability capitals model to interpret findings and identify ways to better prepare higher education students for recruitment and selection. This is particularly important in declining graduate labour markets, further weakened by COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach: This study gathered data from surveying 183 Australian employers from different organisational settings. Responses were analysed using descriptive and multivariate techniques, the latter exploring variations by role type, sector and organisation size. Findings: Findings reaffirmed the criticality of students having the right disposition and demonstrating professional capabilities during recruitment, highlighting the value of building cultural and human capital during university years. Recruitment channels that require students to… [Direct]

Giugale, Marcelo M., Ed.; Lafourcade, Olivier, Ed.; Luff, Connie, Ed. (2003). Columbia: The Economic Foundation of Peace. Chapters 21-28. This document contains 8 chapters of a 35-chapter book that presents a comprehensive diagnosis of current economic, social, and educational conditions in Colombia and their importance to development prospects and the quest for peace. The eight chapters covered here are part of a section titled "Sharing the Fruits of Growth with All Colombians." Chapter 21, "Education" (Eduardo Velez), describes Colombia's education system and current enrollment trends and focuses on seven policy issues: highly inequitable access to schooling, excluding poor and rural children; low, perhaps deteriorating, educational quality; high grade repetition and dropout rates; allocation of public expenditures; growing household demand for schooling; inefficient and inequitable decentralization of education management; and negative impacts of violence and social displacement on schooling. Chapter 22, "Health" (Maria-Luisa Escobar, Panagiota Panopoulou), looks at recent reforms in…

Jackson, Liz; Oleksiyenko, Anatoly V. (2021). Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: The Crisis of Higher Education in the Post-Truth Era. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v53 n11 p1057-1062. With increasing influence of illiberalism, freedom should not be considered or interpreted lightly. Post-truth contexts provide grounds for alt-right movements to capture and pervert notions of freedom of speech, making universities battlefields of politicised emotions and expressions (Peters et al., 2019). In societies facing these pressures around the world, academic freedom has never been challenged as much as it is today (Gibbs, 2019). As Peters and colleagues note (2019), conceptualisations of 'facts' and 'evidences' are politically, socially, and epistemically reconstructed in post-truth contexts. At the same time, with intelligence commodified, reified or marginalised, freedom of speech and of mobility can entail fights for entitlements, or escapes from local responsibilities (Calitz, 2018; Lo, 2019). The decline and corruptions of democratic free speech and academic freedom, or the absence of forces to defend them, are thus serious challenges. These challenges grow as the… [Direct]

Christie, Pam (2010). The Complexity of Human Rights in Global Times: The Case of the Right to Education in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, v30 n1 p3-11 Jan. The right to education has an established legacy in international agreements and debates, but has nonetheless proved difficult to achieve across the countries of the world. This paper explores why this might be so. It begins by locating the current architecture of rights in Enlightenment philosophy and the political and legal formations of modernity, exploring the paradoxical legacy this brings. It then looks more specifically at the right to education, and why it cannot be assumed that statements of rights deliver what they promise. Finally, it looks at education in South Africa to explore both the limits and the possibilities of using a framework of rights to achieve greater social justice in global times…. [Direct]

Atsuko Nakagawa; Kayo Nomura; Masune Sukigara; Taishi Miyachi; Yukiyo Nagai (2025). Orienting and Alerting Attention in Very Low and Normal Birth Weight Children at 42 Months: A Follow-Up Study. Journal of Attention Disorders, v29 n4 p244-255. Objective: In preterm and very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, attention-related problems have been found to be more pronounced and emerge later as academic difficulties that may persist into school age. In response, based on three attention networks: alerting, orienting, and executive attention, we examined the development of attention functions at 42 months (not corrected for prematurity) as a follow-up study of VLBW (n = 23) and normal birth weight (NBW: n = 48) infants. Method: The alerting and orienting attention networks were examined through an overlap task with or without warning signal. The orienting network was also examined through the distribution of gaze points when exposed to videos of human faces talking and silently looking straight ahead. Executive attention was examined using a parental report measure for temperamental self-regulation, effortful control. Results: In the overlap task, the difference between VLBWs and NBWs was not the latency of attentional… [Direct]

Bohn, Dawn M.; Mendes, Clarion (2020). Expanding Horizons: Encouraging Cross-Campus Student Collaboration to Develop a Novel Food Product for Individuals Experiencing Dysphagia. Journal of Food Science Education, v19 n2 p36-40 Apr. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), cross-campus collaborations are strongly encouraged; however, due to the vast size of the university, opportunities for student collaboration commonly rely on serendipitous events–being at the right place at the right time. On a cold day in February 2017, the required serendipity befell Clarion Mendes (Speech and Hearing Sciences [SHS]) and Dawn Bohn (Food Science and Human Nutrition [FSHN] concentration Food Science [FS]). The SHS department is part of the College of Applied Health Sciences and the FS department is part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. SHS graduate students in Speech-Language Pathology pursue careers in schools, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities. FS undergraduate and graduate students often pursue careers in food product development, quality assurance, sensory science, ingredient applications, and regulatory compliance. Seemingly, these two fields are… [Direct]