Gibbs, Leanne (2020). "That's Your Right as a Human Isn't It?" The Emergence and Development of Leading as a Socially-Just Practice in Early Childhood Education. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, v45 n4 p295-308 Dec. This article reports on an Australian study of the emergence and development of leadership that supports children's rights and their access to high-quality early childhood education (ECE). The qualitative study contributes to a growing body of research on ECE leadership practice; specifically, the area of site-based leadership cultivation and development. Complexity leadership theory was used to situate leadership within the Australian ECE context; accounting for the competing purposes of high-quality education programs and for the complex array of practices required for leadership to be effective. Additionally, the theory of practice architectures was employed as an analytical tool. The theory of practice architectures helped to identify socially-just leadership practices that uphold children's rights, and to understand the organisational arrangements that enabled and constrained those practices within each site. Study findings illuminate how leadership can be cultivated and… [Direct]

Carpenter, Rollo; Coniam, David; Fryer, Luke K.; Lapu?neanu, Diana (2020). Bots for Language Learning Now: Current and Future Directions. Language Learning & Technology, v24 n2 p8-22 Jun. Bots are destined to dominate how humans interact with the internet of things that continues to grow around them. Despite their still budding intellectual capacity, major companies (e.g., Apple, Google and Amazon) have already placed (chat)bots at the centre of their flagship devices. (Chat)Bots currently fill the internet acting as guides, merchants and assistants. Chatbots, designed as communicators, however, have yet to make a meaningful contribution to perhaps their most natural vocation: foreign language learning partners. This review engages in three questions that surround this issue: (1) Why are chatbots not already at the centre of foreign language learning? (2) What are two key developers of chatbots working towards that might push chatbots into the language learning spotlight? and (3) What might researchers, educators, and developers together do to support chatbots as foreign language learning partners right now?… [PDF]

Costa, Frederico Jorge Ferreira; de Paula, Alisson Slider do Nascimento; Lima, K√°tia Regina Rodrigues (2020). The Cicada Announces the Fire of the Brazilian Public School: Analysis of the Era of Privatizing Guidelines. Education Policy Analysis Archives, v28 n35 spec iss Mar. This text seeks to analyze the privatization guidelines both globally and at the local level and their deployment in public basic education in Brazil. For that, a bibliographic and documentary study was used, using only public domain. It is possible to diagnose the double movement of endo and exoprivatization carried out in the educational panorama of Brazil, especially through the insertion of large business groups, as well as the reforms undertaken to put into operation the privatization agenda of public basic education. It is observed that the insertion of the private sector into the spaces of human formation reverberate metamorphoses, including that of the social function of the school institution, since it incorporates a link with the business and financial logic and, consequently, will facilitate a loss of the public sense of education as a social right…. [PDF]

Deropoulou-Derou, Eudoxia; Karagianni, Panagiota; Spandagou, Ilektra; Zoniou-Sideri, Athina (2006). Inclusive Discourse in Greece: Strong Voices, Weak Policies. International Journal of Inclusive Education, v10 n2-3 p279-291 Mar. This paper explores the inclusive discourse in Greece at a period characterized by change in policy and practice. The aim is to discuss critically the distance between the strong voices and weak practices that characterizes the Greek inclusive discourse. The first part focuses on disability and presents the ways that a "common sense" understanding of disability is constructed in the public domain resulting in the de-politicization of the inclusive discourse. The second part focuses on inclusive education, discussing the contradiction between the rhetoric of inclusive education and the reality of the expansion of special provision for an increasing number of students. It is argued that the fragmentation of the inclusive discourse and the emphasis on common sense assumptions about human and social rights reduce policies about inclusive education to an add-on, peripheral element of the proposed educational reforms…. [Direct]

T√ºrksever, √ñmer (2021). Analysis of Disaster Awareness Perception Levels of Students in Social Studies Teaching Undergraduate Program. Education Quarterly Reviews, v4 n3 p14-22. Disasters are known as calamities affecting all humanity on earth and have adverse impacts on human life in various ways. Although many natural disasters cannot be prevented, their adverse effects on people can be mitigated. It is important to raise the awareness of people about disasters, whether they are caused by human effects or nature. Disaster education plays an important role in raising this awareness. The study group of the study consists of 172 teacher candidates receiving education in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of the department of social studies teaching in a state university located in the Central Anatolia region. In order to measure the disaster awareness of the teacher candidates, the scanning pattern included under the quantitative study method has been used. T-test and ANOVA has been utilized in the analysis of disaster awareness perception scale. As the result of the analysis; in the sub-dimensions of disaster education awareness, pre-disaster awareness, false… [PDF]

Abdellahi, Mohamed Leghdaf; Stonier, Francis (2021). A Dilemma of Primary Schools' Transition: A Stance from Classroom Teachers in Assaba-County, Mauritania. International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, v13 n3 p2902-2922. This study aimed to explore factors influencing students' transition from primary to secondary schools, the discrepancy of primary and secondary enrollments. The study used cluster sampling for identifying schools from the district of Assaba. The study aimed to explore the issue from teachers' perspectives. Classical Liberal Theory was adopted as a framework to guide this study. The theory argues that all individuals have the right to access education without any disparity. So, education systems are found to develop human capabilities and enable individuals to further their inherent skills. A qualitative approach was used as a study methodology, using a narrative inquiry approach to explore participants' perceptions about factors influencing the transition from primary to secondary. Interviews were the instrument used to collect data from 12 participants selected randomly from 3 schools. The study found that discontinuity of learning, home distance from schools, gender preference in… [PDF]

Kamecka-Antczak, Celina; Szafranski, Mateusz; Wos, Klaudia (2021). In Search of Solutions Regarding the Sex Education of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Poland – Participatory Action Research. European Journal of Special Needs Education, v36 n4 p517-530. Full and equal access to sex education for all citizens is ensured by international legal acts. Research shows, however, that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) receive neither support in understanding their sexual rights, nor access to sex education tailored to their needs. Sex education classes at a special school in Poland are not compulsory for students with ID, therefore they can be omitted from the curriculum. The research aims to learn the state of knowledge about human sexuality and to analyse the needs, barriers, and expectations of adult students with ID as regards their sex education. The methodology used included a qualitative approach (Participatory Action Research) using group interviews (FGI) with 24 ID students ages 18-24. The results of the study indicate that students taking part in the study possess fragmentary and incomplete knowledge about sexuality. They listed TV, the Internet, and friends as sources of information, leaving out school (teachers) and… [Direct]

(1996). CNN Newsroom Classroom Guides, October 1-31, 1996. These classroom guides, designed to accompany the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for the month of October, provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student handouts, and a list of related news terms. Topics include: the Middle East peace summit in Washington, DC, Israel's Netanyahu and Palestine's Arafat meet privately at the White House, federal judge dismisses Perot lawsuit; peace eludes Mideast leaders, search continues for downed Peruvian jet, and baseball's umpires threaten to strike in dispute regarding player discipline (October 1-4); U.S. President Clinton and challenger Bob Dole square off in first of two televised presidential debates, car bombs explode in Northern Ireland, British troops are extra vigilant in the wake of Monday's bombings, Pope has surgery, Al Gore and Jack Kemp face off in vice-presidential debate, and Netanyahu's rocky relationship with Jordan's King Hussein creates new tension in the Middle East…

Gentner, Dedre; King, Daniel (2022). Verb Metaphoric Extension under Semantic Strain. Cognitive Science, v46 n5 e13141 May. This paper explores the processes underlying verb metaphoric extension. Work on metaphor processing has largely focused on noun metaphor, despite evidence that verb metaphor is more common. Across three experiments, we collected paraphrases of simple intransitive sentences varying in semantic strain–for example, "The motor complained" [right arrow] "The engine made strange noises"–and assessed the degree of meaning change for the noun and the verb. We developed a novel methodology for this assessment using word2vec. In Experiments 1 and 2, we found that (a) under semantic strain, verb meanings were more likely to be adjusted than noun meanings; (b) the degree of verb meaning adjustment–but not noun meaning adjustment–increased with semantic strain; and (c) verb meaning extension is primarily driven by online adjustment, although sense selection also plays a role. In Experiment 3, we replicated the word2vec results with an assessment using human subjects. The… [Direct]

Kibbee, Douglas A. Ed. (1998). Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights: Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, March 21-23, 1996). IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, Volume 2. This edited volume of conference papers contains the following titles: "Presentation: Realism and Idealism in Language Conflict and Their Resolution" (Douglas A. Kibbee); "Legal and Linguistic Perspectives on Language Legislation" (Douglas A. Kibbee); "The Linguistic Rights of Non-English Speaking Suspects, Witnesses, Victims, and Defendants" (Kate Storey); "Great Mischiefs–An Historical Look at Language Legislation" (Ruth Morris); "The Criminalization of Spanish in the United States" (Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza); "Towards Consensus? Standard English in the National Curriculum" (Joan Swann); "Beyond Anglo-Saxon Confederation: The Clash of World Hegemonies in the Language Ideologies of Arthur Balfour and Woodrow Wilson" (Chris Andre); "Anatomy of the English-Only Movement: Social and Ideological Sources of Language Restrictionism in the United States" (James Crawford); "The Courts, the Legislature…

Reagan, Timothy (2019). Language Policies, Language Rights, and Sign Languages: A Critique of Disability-Based Approaches. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, v16 n4 p271-292. Among the focus of language policies addressing sign languages have been efforts to achieve official recognition for various national sign languages, coupled with the recognition of the language rights of d/Deaf people. The recognition of sign languages has most often taken place as a result of lobbying efforts by national Deaf communities, generally with the support of sympathetic hearing supporters. As a rule, efforts to grant official recognition to sign languages are seen as progressive undertakings, but such recognition is almost always grounded both ideologically and epistemologically in misguided views of d/Deaf people. The author provides a distinction between different kinds of language policies concerned with sign languages and suggests that policies granting official recognition to sign languages are fundamentally different in nature from language policies granting such status to spoken languages. The author argues that this difference is due to fundamentally indefensible… [Direct]

Goldman, Juliette D. G. (2008). Responding to Parental Objections to School Sexuality Education: A Selection of 12 Objections. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v8 n4 p415-438 Nov. Sexuality education for school-aged young people is a crucial component of all quality education systems. It prepares young people for participation in society as responsible, mature and community-minded citizens. Most contemporary school education curricula generally aim to enhance young people's knowledge, skills and understandings of the world, and of their rights as human beings and citizens of nations. The current sexuality problems of many young people are the opposite of these; namely, ignorance, lack of skills, misunderstandings, and loss of rights, as well as unnecessary fear and shame about themselves and others. Many young people do not receive any sexuality education at all, and frequently parents have been found to be unsatisfactory providers of sexuality education for their offspring. Schools, then, become the logical place to provide this. Nowadays, the earlier maturing of girls and boys provides a further persuasive argument for quality sexuality education in all… [Direct]

Andersen, Bjarke Linds√∏; Gundersen, Peter; J√∏rn√∏, Rasmus Leth (2022). The Imaginary of Personalization in Relation to Platforms and Teacher Agency in Denmark. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, v8 n1 p20-29. In this theoretical paper, we argue that Tech enthusiasts and skeptics are animated by the same sociotechnical personalization imaginary to improve education and teaching through personalization, but see very different paths to this goal. Tech boosters point to well-known problems of the existing education system — and rhetorically ask: 'why shouldn't we solve these problems with technology?' Doomsters claim that only humans can do this and ask 'why should we relinquish power to machines?' We believe that the full implications of incorporating adaptive technologies in schools have neither been considered, fully revealed, or adequately prepared for by either side. But we are not interested in evaluating either the claims of techboosters or doomsters. Through an analysis through the lens of imaginaries, we reveal the false dichotomy of for or against technology, which obfuscates the fundamental question of whether the social technology we have put in place to educate ourselves solves… [Direct]

Baccolo, Elisa; Conte, Stefania; Macchi Cassia, Viola; Peykarjou, Stefanie; Quadrelli, Ermanno (2023). Neural Discrimination of Facial Cues Associated with Trustworthiness in Adults and 6-Month-Old Infants as Revealed by Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation. Developmental Psychology, v59 n11 p2080-2093. Adults and children easily distinguish between fine-grained variations in trustworthiness intensity based on facial appearance, but the developmental origins of this fundamental social skill are still debated. Using a fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) oddball paradigm coupled with electroencephalographic (EEG) recording, we investigated neural discrimination of morphed faces that adults perceive as low- and high-trustworthy in a sample of 6-month-old infants (N = 29; 56% male; M[subscript age] = 196.8 days; all White) and young adults (N = 21; 40% male; M[subscript age] = 24.61 years; all White) recruited in Italy. Stimulus sequences were presented at 6 Hz with deviant faces interleaved every fifth stimulus (i.e., 1.2 Hz); oddball category (high/low trustworthiness) was varied within subjects. FPVS responses were analyzed at both frequencies of interest and their harmonics as a function of deviant type (high- vs. low-trustworthy) over occipital and occipitolateral electrode… [Direct]

Byungjun Kim; Jieun Song; Minjeong Kim; Paul Iverson (2023). The Korean Speech Recognition Sentences: A Large Corpus for Evaluating Semantic Context and Language Experience in Speech Perception. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v66 n9 p3399-3412. Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a large Korean sentence set with varying degrees of semantic predictability that can be used for testing speech recognition and lexical processing. Method: Sentences differing in the degree of final-word predictability (predictable, neutral, and anomalous) were created with words selected to be suitable for both native and nonnative speakers of Korean. Semantic predictability was evaluated through a series of cloze tests in which native (n = 56) and nonnative (n = 19) speakers of Korean participated. This study also used a computer language model to evaluate final-word predictabilities; this is a novel approach that the current study adopted to reduce human effort in validating a large number of sentences, which produced results comparable to those of the cloze tests. In a speech recognition task, the sentences were presented to native (n = 23) and nonnative (n = 21) speakers of Korean in speech-shaped noise at two levels of… [Direct]

Stephen Wall (2024). Sacred Sites, Sacred Rights: Preparing the Next Generation of Protectors. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, v36 n1. For several years there has been a movement to protect Chaco Canyon from the effects of fracking, yet it was not until 2022 that Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland imposed a ban on fracking within a 10-mile radius of Chaco. But Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and a coalition of Navajos who own land allotments within the 10-mile fracking ban zone have come out against the protections. Under the ban, Navajo land allottees can no longer lease their lands for development; the ban effectively limits the economic opportunities for the allottees and their families. The Navajo Nation has expressed concern over the impact of the ban on the economic development of the allotted portion of the reservation. This creates a novel situation for Indigenous communities: Native peoples resisting the protection of an Indigenous sacred site because of economics. These are some of the topics researched and discussed in "Sacred Places, Sacred Rights," an upper-division, Indigenous… [Direct]

Gesel, Samantha A.; LeJeune, Lauren M.; Lemons, Christopher J. (2021). Teaching Phonological Awareness to Preschoolers with Down Syndrome: Boosting Reading Readiness. Young Exceptional Children, v24 n1 p39-51 Mar. Phonological awareness (PA) is defined as a child's ability to hear and manipulate parts of spoken language (National Early Literacy Panel [NELP], 2009; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD], 2000). Ensuring that children develop PA increases the likelihood that they are successful with later reading instruction. Two types of PA skills are most important to future reading readiness (NICHD, 2000). These include the ability to "blend" smaller sound units into words (/b/ /a/ /t/ [right arrow] "bat") and "segment" spoken words into smaller sound units ("milk" [right arrow] /m/ /ilk/). Young children with Down Syndrome (DS) often struggle to develop PA skills, particularly in comparison with peers without disabilities (Lemons & Fuchs, 2010; Martin, Klusek, Estigarribia, & Roberts, 2009; Naess, 2016). Nonetheless, there is a significant relation between PA, current reading abilities, and later reading skills for… [PDF] [Direct]

Blackmore, Jill (2019). Feminism and Neo/Liberalism: Contesting Education's Possibilities. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v40 n2 p176-190. Feminist theorists critiqued classical liberalism for the gender binaries embedded in social, political and economic theory and everyday social relations. Neoliberalism economises the social and political based on autonomous individualism, equating equity with choice, naturalising the market as the mechanism to allocate social goods and education while disregarding constraining discursive and material contexts. Neoliberalism also co-opts the feminist desire for agency through notions of choice. The paper tracks the historical conditions in Anglophile states that nurtured neoliberalism's uptake with its focus on human capital theory, rethinking the dominant educational discourse of twenty-first-century skills using Yeatman's democratic framing of social liberalism and Nussbaum's capability approach. Feminists argue for a just and civil democratic society that dissolves binary thinking and focuses on relationality, rights and responsibility…. [Direct]

Timothy J. Watt (2023). An Analysis of Discourse and Experiences: Implementing Right to Read Legislation in Connecticut. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Central Connecticut State University. In 2021, Connecticut passed Right to Read legislation with the intent of improving reading outcomes for all students. This was passed in a national environment heavily influenced by the neoliberal education reform agenda, such as an emphasis on accountability. This study focused on the discourse surrounding the legislation and its implementation as evidence of and a product of existing power structures in literacy education, as well as what voices or perspectives are present or absent in the implementation of Right to Read legislation and what these voices or perspectives say. This study included interviews of three reading consultants and 15 district leaders. This study utilized critical discourse analysis and reflexive thematic analysis as articulated by Fairclough and Foucault. Foucault described power in terms of dynamic interactions in human relationships; those with power directly or indirectly dictate what must be done. Examining resistance, such as through dissents or… [Direct]

(2004). Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization. Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves is a nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote a more humane and informed citizenry. As the name Facing History and Ourselves implies, the organization helps teachers and their students make the essential connections between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives by examining the development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide. It is a study that helps young people think critically about their own behavior and the effect that their actions have on their community, nation, and the world. It is based on the belief that no classroom should exist in isolation. Facing History programs and materials involve the entire community: students, parents, teachers, civic leaders, and other citizens. The Chapters are listed in the Table of Contents as follows: Chapter I, Identity and History;…

Tierney, Nancy Leigh (1997). Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children. The situation for "street children" has degenerated over the past two decades following the economic and political transitions in much of Latin America. Drawing on scholarly materials, interviews with child rights advocates, and the words of the children themselves, this book explores the abuse, limited choices, despair, loyalty, and remarkable survival skills of street children in Guatemala–youths with weak or broken ties to their families, who live and work on the streets and rarely, if ever, return to their homes. The socio-political context influencing the plight of street children is also examined. The work levels an indictment at the Guatemalan government, reciting its acts, its violation of its own laws and constitution, and its miserly allocation of funds for children's welfare. Chapters in the book are: (1) "The Scene," examining the presence of street children in Guatemala, the circumstances that bring them to the street, and detrimental shifts in…

(2002). Lifelong Learning for Social Development: A Review of Global Perspectives. Papers Presented at the International Conference on Lifelong Learning for Social Development (Kerala, India, August 13-15, 2002). This document contains 67 papers from an international conference on lifelong learning for social development. The following papers are among those included: "Lifelong Learning for Social Development" (John Dewar Wilson); "Building Networks of Lifelong Learning for Social Development outside the Center" (Shen-Tzay Huang, Chi chuan Li, An-Chi Li); "Self Help Groups for Empowerment of Women" (C.B. Damle); "Institutional Intervention and Empowerment of Women Footwear Workers" (Giriyappa Kollannavar, B. Krishnama Naidu); "Women Development and Micro Enterprises in Kerala" (Abraham Vijayan); "Gender Equity and Lifelong Learning–Training of Women's Groups in Gender and Human Rights in Sri Lanka" (Tressie Leitan, Swinitha Gunasekera); "Life Skills and the Mentally Ill" (Helena Judith P.); "Healthy Aging" (Usha S. Nair); "Rural Development Programmes in India with Reference to Five Year Plans" (K…. [PDF]

Rollinde, E. (2019). Learning Science through Enacted Astronomy. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, v17 n2 p237-252 Feb. The Human Orrery is a representation of the Solar System at a human scale, on which positions of planets over time are symbolized by different discs. Learners can then walk along the orbits of the planets with the right pace. This pedagogical tool uses the principles of enacted cognition to promote a better understanding of the scientific laws of dynamics. Enaction assumes that cognition is based on action. Applied to pedagogy, it implies that learning of concepts must be based on gestures and perceptions first. I applied during 2 years an enacted pedagogical sequence using our Human Orrery to different populations of learners. The main purpose was the understanding of velocity and inertia by KS4 classes (14-16 years old). Interviews and closed questions reveal a qualitative enhancement of the motivation and well-being of the learners during the enacted sequence. To evaluate further the impact of the enacted sequence, I formulated 2 open questions. The first one concerns the relation… [Direct]

(1990). Literacy Materials Bulletin 1-8. Literacy Materials Bulletin, n1-8 Spr-Fall. These bulletins contain reviews of a total of 86 publications recommended for use in adult literacy programs. The materials reviewed have all been determined to meet the following requirements: currently in print; adult oriented and interesting to learners; free of age, sex, and racial bias; appropriate to the reading level of beginning readers; designed to encourage meaningful discussion and critical thinking; up to date and easy to use; and successful with learners. Each review includes the following: the publication's title, author, publisher, availability, and recommended level; the name/position of the individuals who recommended and reviewed the book; and a review covering topics such as special features of the publication, its strengths and weaknesses, suggestions for using it with literacy students, its reception by adult literacy students/teachers during field tests, and cost and ordering information. Included among the publications reviewed are the following: personal… [PDF]

Frazelle, Sarah; Mazzeo, Christopher; Pierson, Ashley (2020). Chapter 2: Adapting and Using Early Warning Indicators in Different Contexts. Teachers College Record, v122 n14. Background: Research shows that educators can identify half of future high school dropouts as early as Grade 6–and three quarters or more of future dropouts by Grade 9–by monitoring readily available data on attendance, behavior, and course performance. These data have come to be known as the ABCs of dropout prevention, and the measures are some of the more commonly used early warning indicators. Purpose: Developing and deploying an early warning indicator system (EWIS) is a complex endeavor for school districts, especially smaller districts without access to a large internal research team or experience implementing similar data-oriented initiatives at scale. In this chapter, we describe four key considerations that school districts and others should take account of when designing an EWIS: building broad consensus on the purpose of the system, planning around system design and data availability, validating indicators and setting thresholds, and implementing and monitoring the… [Direct]

Burstyn, Joan N. (1974). Sexism in Education: Pennsylvania Response to the Challenge. Tennessee Education, 4, 3, 27-33, F 74. A Joint Task Force on Sexism in Education represented by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvanians for Women's Rights, and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission outlined a broad program for combatting sexism in educational structures and educational personnel. (JC)…

Gilmore, David R. (1991). Politics & Prejudice: Dissection in Biology Education. Part I. American Biology Teacher, v53 n4 p211-13 Apr. The ideological basis from which dissection activities spring is discussed. Speciesism, the widely held belief that the human species is entitled to certain rights and privileges, is examined as the cause for dissection activities occurring in biology classrooms. (KR)…

Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. (2022). Education and New Developments 2022 — Volume 1. Online Submission This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2022), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and… [PDF]

Carmos, Mafalda, Ed. (2022). Education and New Developments 2022 — Volume 2. Online Submission This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2022), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and… [PDF]

Darby Vickers; Nicholas Smith (2024). Living Well with AI: Virtue, Education, and Artificial Intelligence. Theory and Research in Education, v22 n1 p19-44. Artificial intelligence technologies have become a ubiquitous part of human life. This prompts us to ask, "how should we live well with artificial intelligence?" Currently, the most prominent candidate answers to this question are principlist. According to these approaches, if you teach people some finite set of principles or convince them to adopt the right rules, people will be able to live and act well with artificial intelligence, even in an evolving and opaque moral world. We find the dominant principlist approaches to be ill-suited to providing forward-looking moral guidance regarding living well with artificial intelligence. We analyze some of the proposed principles to show that they oscillate between being too vague and too specific. We also argue that such rules are unlikely to be flexible enough to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. By contrast, we argue for an Aristotelian virtue ethics approach to artificial intelligence ethics. Aristotelian virtue ethics… [Direct]