Polat, Hamza (2020). Investigating the Use of Text Positions on Videos: An Eye Movement Study. Contemporary Educational Technology, v12 n1 Article ep262. Videos have become an indispensable part of both online and blended learning environments. However, the design of such videos requires careful consideration of multimedia learning principles to reduce the cognitive load during the instruction. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of text-positions presented at two videos on eye-fixation duration and remembering. An experimental research with one-shot case study design was employed to meet this purpose. Two videos about financial issues were selected from a public TV channel archive: one of them included on-screen texts located at the bottom, and the other included informative texts located on the right side of the screen. A total of 61 students first watched these videos by interacting with an eye-tracking device in a human-computer interaction lab and then completed a retention test. The results indicated a significant positive correlation between total eye fixation duration and retention test… [PDF]

Bazzanella, Mary Beth; Gehrig, Jody; Hilton, Cheri; Nassar, Nance; Peterson, Carol; White, Nancy (2009). Doesn't Everyone Have Rights to a Learner's Permit?. School Library Media Activities Monthly, v25 n9 p19-20 May. The word "rights" often conjures up emotions and images and a sense of entitlement. The word "rights" might be preceded with other words such as "civil," "constitutional," or "human." Merriam-Webster defines a right as "something to which one has a just claim: as the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled." What about applying these ideas of rights to learners? Doesn't everyone have rights to a "learner's permit?" A group of innovative thinkers in Colorado recognized the opportunity and the need to address both of these issues: (1) lack of student motivation; and (2) declining skills. While pondering a vision statement to accompany the new "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner," it became clear that something was missing in the standards, the educational plans, and the accountability processes in the education system. Fundamentally, that missing item was–learner's rights. This article… [Direct]

Hesterman, Sandra; Wallace, Ruth (2021). The Nexus of Play-Based Learning and Early Childhood Education: A Western Australian Account. Education and Society, v39 n1 p5-24 Jul. Human development theories identify child-initiated play as the primary source of early learning. Accordingly, the role of early childhood educators is to utilise the natural medium of play as a context for learning; an educational approach known as play-based learning. Recently, Western Australia (WA) has experienced an erosion of play-based learning opportunities across the early childhood education (ECE) spectrum, potentially violating children's rights. This paper presents research evidence related to this concerning issue. A self-completion, electronic questionnaire was distributed to educators through via several WA early childhood advocacy organisations. Participants (n=204) shared their perceptions about the availability of play-based learning opportunities for young children. Results identified perceived barriers and enablers to providing play-based learning in WA early childhood education settings that impact on children's wellbeing, development and learning. Assessment of… [Direct]

Err√°zuriz, Valentina; Garc√≠a-Gonz√°lez, Macarena (2021). "More Person, and, Therefore, More Satisfied and Happy": The Affective Economy of Reading Promotion in Chile. Curriculum Inquiry, v51 n2 p229-260. Reading is often regarded as a public good and an essential part of developing almost every aspect of human potential. In this article, we survey the "affective economies" of literary reading through a textual and visual analysis of documents issued by Chile's Ministry of Education. Through a critical and diffractive reading of these documents with Ahmed's (2004, 2010) and Braidotti's (2018) conceptualizations of the affective, we claim that when reading is presented as beneficial, pleasurable, and promising, an assemblage of exclusion is set into motion. We describe how the affective repertoires in these documents reinforce oppressive and exclusionary neoliberal values under the guise of the promise of future happiness. The pleasure and happiness that can be achieved through literary reading, however, is only accessible to those who are willing to orientate themselves in the "right ways." In this orientation, the cognitive is privileged over the emotional, and… [Direct]

Schulze-Cleven, Tobias (2021). Universities and the Future of Work: The Promise of Labor Studies. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.7.2021. Center for Studies in Higher Education There continues to be widespread anxiety about the future of work. I recently proposed a labor studies perspective on how to understand and meet undeniable challenges. This follow-up paper explores the implications of my analysis for the contemporary American academy, reflecting on how labor studies can help enlist public research universities in support of building a human-centered world of work. American universities have long been intricate bundles of contradictions, but recent trends have left them at a crossroads: Will they be able to reform and connect with a progressive reading of the original land-grant vision to support a future in the interest of workers? Or will their practices further drift away from a public-serving mission as they succumb to neoliberal expectations? This paper contends that the three constitutive features of labor studies–its focus on people's struggles, interdisciplinarity, and upholding workers' rights–illuminate crucial steps for realizing… [PDF]

Kodelja, Zdenko (2021). Intellectual Doping and Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement in Education: Some Ethical Questions. Journal of Philosophy of Education, v55 n1 p167-185 Feb. The main aim of this paper is to discuss some moral implications of cognitive doping in education. In this context, the term 'cognitive doping' refers to the use of cognitive enhancing drugs–such as Ritalin–among students in order to improve their cognitive functions and educational performance on college exams. Cognitive doping raises not only the question of its health consequences and its legal regulation, but also the ethical questions concerning the moral difference between medical treating and enhancing humans, on the one hand, and the fairness of educational examination results, on the other. Such doping, which is similar to the doping in sports, gives an unfair advantage to students who use cognitive enhancing drugs over those who do not. However, the key question is not how to ensure equal access to the enhancing drugs, but rather whether their use for educational purposes is right. Therefore, this question would remain even if all students had equal access to such drugs… [Direct]

Joseph, Rony; Nair, Tara S. (2022). Learning Virtue Ethics for Developing Psychological Sustainability. Journal on Educational Psychology, v16 n1 p38-47 May-Jul. Virtue ethics has been considered to be of utmost relevance in every aspect of education in terms of cultivating virtuous character in individuals. Moral education aims at the development of worthy moral character through the cultivation of virtues, values, attitudes, ethical conduct and habits. Eudemonic well-being suggests engaging in behaviours that people perceive to be morally right and derive a sense of personal meaning from righteous actions. Modern education has neglected concern for human virtues, which has led to the erosion of moral virtues in society at large. With this backdrop, a study which could investigate what virtues could be inculcated that are most essential to students and those that would improve their psychological sustainability seems relevant. This study aimed to practice virtue ethics as a means to learn virtues based on an Aristotelian perspective. Virtue-based lessons were prepared and taught to students based on set objectives. A Situational Judgment… [Direct]

Coppett, John I.; Glass, Harold E. (1984). Manage Telemarketers Effectively. Personnel Journal, v63 n8 p34-36,37-38,40 Aug. Discusses four types of telemarketing centers and their human resource needs, selecting the right people for the job, motivating and compensating employees, and handling burnout and turnover. Charts are included illustrating key tasks and job design factors, selection criteria, and training and development factors. (CT)…

Chris Brown (2024). Australian Construction Students' Experiences in the Pursuit of Human Capital through Cadetships. Australian Universities' Review, v65 n1-2 p22-30. T his paper presents an assessment of suggestions in international research and media that the modern construction cadetship experience is exploitative and, on that basis, problematises the growing trend of work integrated learning (WIL) in the Australian construction industry. Field research, aligning with the methodologies of major studies in this field, was conducted to examine the experiences of some construction cadets enrolled in construction degrees in six Australian universities. The data related to student experience and remuneration were analysed within a Marxist-Polanyian dialectical framework. The results show there is limited consistency in construction students' experiences and education while participating in this WIL. This indicates that the construction industry lacks a regulated and collaboratively driven program for cadetships. The findings also identify causes and consequences of the high rates of burnout of this cohort that have already been established in the… [PDF]

Mawel, Maurice; Sambasivam, Samuel (2023). Exploring the Strategic Cybersecurity Defense Information Technology Managers Should Implement to Reduce Healthcare Data Breaches. Information Systems Education Journal, v21 n3 p4-11 Jul. The principal investigator (PI) conducted this research study to explore the strategic cybersecurity defense IT Managers should implement to reduce healthcare data breaches. The PI conducted a systematic literature review and selected articles that addressed healthcare data security breaches, information disclosure, cybersecurity in healthcare, and IT Managers' lack of leadership competence. Also, various annotations from contextual, seminal, grey, and recent literature were used to find the research problem: The strategic cybersecurity defense IT Managers should implement to reduce healthcare data breaches has not been established. The PI collected secondary data from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR)/Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The analysis, results, and findings are provided below in Part 9. Nevertheless, the routine interaction during health information exchange (HIE) on an interoperable network and the behavior of care providers and third parties who use… [PDF]

Ayyanathan, N.; Snekha, S. (2023). An Educational CRM Chatbot for Learning Management System. Shanlax International Journal of Education, v11 n4 p58-62. An educational customer relationship management (CRM) Chatbot is a learner support service automation tool that enhances the human computer interaction and user experience in higher education institutions through effective online conversation and information exchange. The machine with embedded knowledge is trained to identify the sentences and taking a right decision itself in response to answer a question. An E-learning platform is a web-based platform designed to streamline the administration, delivery of online educational courses and training programs. It serves as a centralized hub where educators, learners, and administrators can interact, collaborate, and access learning resources anytime, anywhere. The research objective is to design and build a E-Learning Management System with CRM chatbot for effective user interaction. A website is developed for managing course materials in the form of videos, flip-books and quiz using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. Students can… [PDF]

M. Cay Holbrook; Robert Englebretson; Simon Fischer-Baum (2023). A Position Paper on Researching Braille in the Cognitive Sciences: Decentering the Sighted Norm. Grantee Submission This article positions braille as a writing system worthy of study in its own right and on its own terms. We begin with a discussion of the role of braille in the lives of those who read and write it and a call for more attention to braille in the reading sciences. We then give an overview of the history and development of braille, focusing on its formal characteristics as a writing system, in order to acquaint sighted print readers with the basics of braille and to spark further interest among reading researchers. We then explore how print-centric assumptions and sight-centric motivations have potentially negative consequences, not only for braille users but also for the types of questions researchers think to pursue. We conclude with recommendations for conducting responsible and informed research about braille. We affirm that blindness is most equitably understood as but one of the many diverse ways humans experience the world. Researching braille literacy from an equity and… [PDF] [Direct] [Direct]

Lia Fisher-Janosz (2023). Finding Courage in the Heart of the School: The Library. Knowledge Quest, v51 n5 p26-31. In this article, the author finds connection between courage and a place that, at first glance, might seem to many to be among the unlikeliest of places in which to find courage: the library. The author maintains that the library–public or, as applies more directly here, school– is precisely and even profoundly the place. How so? In the books on the shelves and in the stacks, wherein are stories of bravery and resilience that can serve as models and inspiration; in the person of the school librarian, as curator of collected tales and caretaker of rights and freedoms; and, of course, in the structure of the library itself, the room where it happens, the spot that serves as safe haven to students (and indeed anyone) in need. Yet just as the strength of the human heart must be forged and maintained in certain ways to ensure its endurance, so must the library be built and sustained to create and keep up a sense of community, a culture of care and kindness, and a physical space where… [PDF]

Wall, Stephen (2020). The Good Citizen. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, v32 n1 Fall. What does it mean to be a good citizen? In some ways, the answer is simple: participate in government (vote), pay your taxes, don't break the law, and contribute to the economic well-being of the United States. But there is more. The definition of being a good citizen is bound up in society's core cultural values and how those values are practiced in the nation or community. Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are on the forefront of the application of tribal core cultural values that are the foundation of good citizenship. For tribal communities, the core cultural values that define what a good citizen is are very different than those of the United States or any of the individual 50 states. Each tribal nation has core cultural values that are specific to the tribal place and its human and non-human residents. Such values have developed over thousands of years. Native people have the right to participate in American politics at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels. Of… [Direct]

Castelli, Mike; Trevathan, Abdullah (2008). Citizenship and Human Rights in Islamic Education. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, v13 n1 p85-93 Feb. The nature of English citizenship, the need for cohesion in society, and the place of faith community schools, particularly Muslim schools, are issues of import in contemporary English society. When these three issues come together, in an examination of the nature of an English Islam, they raise questions that have implications for the nature of contemporary English society and the role of English state education and citizenship education within this educational system. An institutionalised and systematised curriculum subject called citizenship education risks isolating an academic subject from the day-to-day experience of young people. If citizenship is not a lived experience in the school, on the street and at home, then the attendant spiritual and moral development cannot flourish. This paper explores some of the philosophical and theological foundations that inform a discourse on the nature of English citizenship, English Islam and their influence on children's spiritual and… [Direct]

Grant, Agnes (1996). No End of Grief: Indian Residential Schools in Canada. This book documents and comments on what is known about the Indian residential school era in Canada. The aftermath of this era has exacted a huge toll, both in the human suffering of First Nations and on Canadian society in general, but understanding the impact of residential schools can aid the healing process. Chapters are: (1) "Examining the Past" (reflections on pursuing painful history); (2) "Traditional Education" (aboriginal societies, education of early and middle-years children, adolescence, discipline and testing, missionary perceptions); (3) "Early History" (United States 1568-1934, Canada prior to 1870, Canada 1870-1900); (4) "Canada: The 20th Century" (questioning the system, Canadian Welfare Council System, the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians Study); (5) "The Church and the State" (colonialism, government policies, bureaucrats, federally funded church schools for Natives); (6) "Health" (facilities, food,…

Echegoyen-Sanz, Yolanda; Mart√≠n-Ezpeleta, Antonio; Mart√≠nez-Urbano, Patricio (2022). Let's Read Green! A Comparison between Approaches in Different Disciplines to Enhance Preservice Teachers' Environmental Attitudes. Environmental Education Research, v28 n6 p886-906. This article examines the effect of different educational approaches to environmental education (EE) in the environmental attitudes of 507 preservice teachers. In one experimental group EE was addressed in a science subject and in other experimental group in a literature subject. The latter integrated content and competences in a transdisciplinary way, overcoming the idea that environmental attitudes should only be addressed in science classes. The analysis of their responses to the Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI) in a prestest-postest design show that both approaches were able to increase their pro-environmental attitudes, while the control group showed no significant changes. The educational intervention at the literature subject was able to significantly increase those dimensions related to preserving nature and the diversity of natural species in their original natural state, while the educational intervention at the science subject was also able to significantly decrease… [Direct]

Bonastia, Christopher (2012). Southern Stalemate: Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia. University of Chicago Press In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citizens public education. Investigating this remarkable and nearly forgotten story of local, state, and federal political confrontation, Christopher Bonastia recounts the test of wills that pitted resolute African Americans against equally steadfast white segregationists in a battle over the future of public education in America. Beginning in 1951 when black high school students protested unequal facilities and continuing through the return of whites to public schools in the 1970s and 1980s, Bonastia describes the struggle over education during the civil rights era and the human suffering that came with it, as well as the inspiring determination of black residents to see justice served. Artfully exploring the lessons of the Prince Edward saga,… [Direct]

Vera, Elizabeth M. (2009). When Human Rights and Cultural Values Collide: What Do We Value?. Counseling Psychologist, v37 n5 p744-751. This reaction article commends the authors of the Major Contribution articles for their courage and creativity in responding to a tension in the field of multicultural training. In an effort to extend the conversation on how the field should respond when cultural values collide in the training of psychologists, this reaction highlights some of the most provocative points raised in the Major Contribution and, in particular, expands on what are arguably the most contentious aspects of reconciling cultural conflicts in the training process: those conflicts involving religious beliefs…. [Direct]

Jamil, Baela Raza; Saeed, Saba (2018). Building Partnerships in Pakistan: Meeting the Learning Needs of Vulnerable Children through Interdependency. Childhood Education, v94 n3 p20-24. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is ambitious and tests national governments' capacity to address human development challenges, such as access to quality education. Collaborative initiatives that leverage the capacity of diverse stakeholders will be essential to meet the education and learning needs of the world's children, particularly the most vulnerable. Teaching at the Right Level in Pakistan is a cooperative example characterized by Education Diplomacy principles of community-based participation, partnership, and sustainability that supports the potential of every child…. [Direct]

Chu, Yee Han; Quinn, Andrew (2018). Examining the Usefulness of Student-Produced PSAs to Learn Advocacy in a Human Behavior and the Social Environment Course. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, v38 n1 p54-72. Advocacy is a complex set of applications that applies knowledge of human behavior in the social environment to promote the rights of others. The purpose of this study was to explore the usefulness of student-created public service announcements (PSAs) to help BSW students learn cause-based advocacy. Our results suggest that assigning a PSA project supports competencies in cause-based advocacy, professional identity development social work, critical thinking, engagement with research-informed practice, and capacity to respond to contexts…. [Direct]

Rogers, Helen, Ed. (1974). Indian-Inuit Authors; An Annotated Bibliography. Auteurs indiens et inuit; bibliographie annotee. Written in English and French, this annotated bibliography cites 528 works by Canadian Indian, Metis, and Inuit authors. Published between 1847 and 1972, the materials are divided into books by native children; books; anthologies; poetry and songs; articles; addresses (speeches); conferences, reports, studies, theses; and texts. The works cover such topics as history, education, culture, language, life style, beliefs, religion, health, career education, Eskimo legends, folk culture, myths, social organization, ethnology of the Kwakiutl, the Cree language, Indian rights, legal status of Indians in the Maritimes, natural resources, Indian leadership, dropouts, school integration, employment, and human and civil rights. An author and an illustrator indices are included. (NQ)…

Czusz-Sudol, Agnieszka; Otrebski, Wojciech (2022). Moral Sensitivity of Young People with Intellectual Disability — Its Role in the Process of Their Education. European Educational Researcher, v5 n1 p37-57. According to Heller and Zycinski (1980) the primary regulator of human behaviour is the system of values therefore its development should be in the centre of all educational and upbringing measures. Our focus here is on moral sensitivity understood as the ability of an individual to see social situations from the perspective of moral good and moral evil that represent values embodied in moral norms adopted by the world and internalised by humans as the principles of conduct. The main research question was the following: How morally sensitive are persons with ID and how is their sensitivity associated with the degree of intellectual disability and gender? A non-probability sample 267 of Polish residents aged 16-30 years with mild (58.42%) or moderate (41.58%) intellectual disability was assembled. Men and women were almost in equal proportion. The Moral Sensitivity Inventory (MSI; Otrebski, Sudol, 2020) has been used to measure the moral sensitivity of people with ID. It consists of… [PDF]

Martinez-Vargas, Carmen; Mkwananzi, Faith; Walker, Melanie (2020). Access to Higher Education in South Africa: Expanding Capabilities in and through an Undergraduate Photovoice Project. Educational Action Research, v28 n3 p427-442. There is a gap in research on access to universities in South Africa. The research that exists focuses on quantitative methodologies, although some qualitative studies are now emerging. These research methodologies, although necessary and substantial for the development of equity measures and policies, might be less successful in their impact on the local context, on research participants and in expanding what counts as knowledge in the university. In this paper, participatory research, which has not been used to research access, is explored. The paper seeks to go beyond the instrumentalization of research participants — especially those from low-income households — highlighting the potential of using multi-strategy research, in which participatory elements are included as a way to foster both participants' human development and local impact. Drawing on a research project on access to higher education in South Africa, the paper demonstrates that by including participatory elements… [Direct]

Joshua Sarpong; Temitope Adelekan (2024). Globalisation and Education Equity: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Universities' Mission. Policy Futures in Education, v22 n6 p1114-1129. In his writing in the mid-nineteenth century — "The Idea of a University," John Henry Newman argues that the university provides a platform for human advancement through teaching and research. Over a century later, our public university now hedged on several social, political, ecological and economic factors that bully its traditional mission daily. More recently, neoliberalism — a key feature of globalisation, knowledge economy, environmental crises and other economic logic — continues to significantly shift universities' missions in another direction by creating winners and losers. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, such as the glonacal agency heuristic, global economic and social forces, and empirical data, this paper examines the implications of these changes for equity in education, highlighting how global and national market-oriented policies, practices and outcomes continue to add to the stratification of higher education. Although the benefits of… [Direct]

Bernard Guerin; Elspeth McInnes; Sarah N. Menz; Sarven S. McLinton (2024). Evidence-Based Guidelines for Low-Risk Ethics Applicants: A Qualitative Analysis of the Most Frequent Feedback Made by Human Research Ethics Proposal Reviewers. Journal of Academic Ethics, v22 n4 p735-758. Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) reviewers often provide similar feedback across applications, which suggests that the problem lies in researcher awareness of key issues rather than novel, unsolvable challenges. If common problems can be addressed before lodgement by applicants referencing clear evidence-based supports (e.g., FAQs on common application shortcomings), it would improve efficiency for HREC members and expedite approvals. We aim to inform such supports by analysing the patterns in the most frequent feedback made by HREC members during review processes. We collected every instance (N = 4,195) of feedback made on N = 197 'low-risk' protocols by all HREC staff (N = 16) at one institution over the course of a full year (2019). Reflexive thematic analysis to identify themes (and content analysis to determine relative frequency) revealed that the top three themes are consistent with existing literature: Consent, Administrative, and Methodological concerns. However, we… [Direct]

Carl-Emil Marstrander Askildsen; Kenneth Aggerholm (2024). Practising in Physical Education: A Phenomenologically Grounded Study of Student Experiences. Sport, Education and Society, v29 n9 p1041-1055. This study investigates 10th-grade students' experiences with physical education (PE) units informed by a pedagogical model called the practising model (PM). We apply a theoretical framework that integrates core concepts from phenomenology with empirical investigations of experience by focusing on structures of human existence, such as embodiment, intentionality, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and temporality. Based on qualitative data from observations of 21 PE sessions, 22 student interviews, and the students' diaries, we discuss three key findings: First, we look into the relational aspect of practising and discuss how three levels of intersubjectivity – primary, secondary, and narrative – affect students' experiences. Second, we investigate the bodily aspect of practising by discussing how a dialectic orientation between deliberation, conscious reflections, and embodied actions led to a creative and awakened goal-directedness that nurtured future-oriented and meaningful… [Direct]

Clarita Lefthand-Begay; Ethan J. Kuhn; Michael Vendiola; Nicole S. Kuhn (2024). Indigenous Research Ethics and Tribal Research Review Boards in the United States: Examining Online Presence and Themes across Online Documentation. Research Ethics, v20 n3 p574-603. Researchers seeking to engage in projects related to Tribal communities and their citizens, lands, and non-human relatives are responsible for understanding and abiding by each Tribal nation's research laws and review processes. Few studies, however, have described the many diverse forms of Tribal research review systems across the United States (US). This study provides one of the most comprehensive examinations of research review processes administered by Tribal Research Review Boards (TRRBs) in the US. Through a systematic analysis, we consider TRRBs' online presence, online documentation, and themes across documents, for five entity types: Tribal nations and Tribal consortiums, Tribal colleges and universities, Tribal health organizations, Indian Health Services, and other Tribal organizations. Results include an assessment of online presence for 98 potential TRRBs, identification of 118 publicly available online documents, and analysis of 41 themes across four document types:… [Direct]

von Kotze, Astrid (2005). "Are We All Together?". Adults Learning, v16 n10 p13-16 Jun. In 2002, Sierra Leone, a small country on the west coast of Africa, emerged from a brutal civil war that had lasted 11 years. It claimed 20,000 lives and displaced well over one million people, who either fled into neighbouring Guinea or Liberia or survived in the forests, swamps, and mountains. The devastation caused by rebel campaigns of terror–known as, among other things, "operation no living thing"–destabilised rural areas throughout the country and is in evidence everywhere: in the burnt out shells of houses, in old electricity wires that are no longer connected, in youths who try to sell ice-lollies from cooler boxes suspended in wheelchairs donated for amputees, in the flock of vultures that perch on the roof of the local hospital. Come mid-2004, Sierra Leone's ranking as last in the world in the Human Development Index was unchanged. The conditions of extreme poverty and oppression that gave rise to widespread dissatisfaction, particularly among young people,… [Direct]

Schultz, Carole Rose, Ed. (1979). The Educator's Role in Equal Rights: A Panel Discussion. Journal of Experiential Education, v2 n1 p14-16 Spr. Asserting that educators and educational institutions should view equal rights as a human, rather than sex specific issue, this panel discussion explores the ramifications for society when equal rights are not afforded males, females, homosexuals, or minorities. A case is made for using experiential education to equalize sex roles. (JC)…