Pangrazio, Luci; Sefton-Green, Julian (2021). Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What's the Difference?. Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, v10 n1 p15-27. Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital-by-default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just some of the complex issues in modern societies. Existential questions associated with digital life challenge the individual to come to terms with who they are, as well as their social interactions and realities. In this article, we identify three contemporary normative responses to these complex issues–digital citizenship, digital rights and digital literacy. These three terms capture epistemological and ontological frames that theorise and enact (both in policy and everyday social interactions) how individuals learn to live in digitally mediated societies. The article explores the effectiveness of each in addressing the philosophical, ethical and practical issues raised by datafication, and the limitations of human agency as an overarching goal within these responses. We examine how each response… [PDF]

Imig, Scott; Sellars, Maura (2021). School Leadership, Reflective Practice, and Education for Students with Refugee Backgrounds: A Pathway to Radical Empathy. Intercultural Education, v32 n4 p417-429. As the world becomes increasingly violent and disrupted by forces which impact on millions of families, destroying the communities and ways of life, the lives and prospects of those who survive are increasingly dependent on the humanity of others for understanding, generosity and acceptance as fellow humans. Many of those who suffer forced migration as refugees and asylum seekers are children and young people who have the right to be educated and whose future well-being is heavily reliant on acceptance and inclusion into societies which are very different from their homelands. While only a relatively small percentage (16%) of these populations are placed in schools in developed countries, the challenges for both the students and school leaders is considerable. This paper discusses the importance of belonging as part of school culture and ethos, indicating that deep, critical reflective practice undertaken by school leaders and principals with the intention of deliberately developing… [Direct]

DeVane-Williams, ClarLynda; Fromm, Davida; MacWhinney, Brian; Minga, Jamila (2020). Question Use in Adults with Right-Hemisphere Brain Damage. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v63 n3 p738-748 Mar. Purpose: Right-hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can affect pragmatic aspects of communication that may contribute to an impaired ability to gather information. Questions are an explicit means of gathering information. Question types vary in terms of the demands they place on cognitive resources. The purpose of this exploratory descriptive study is to test the hypothesis that adults with RHD differ from neurologically healthy adults in the types of questions asked during a structured task. Method: Adults who sustained a single right-hemisphere stroke and neurologically healthy controls from the RHDBank Database completed the Unfamiliar Object Task of the RHDBank Discourse Protocol (Minga et al., 2016). Each task was video-recorded. Questions were transcribed using the Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts format. Coding and analysis of each response were conducted using Computerized Language Analysis (MacWhinney, 2000) programs. Results: The types of questions used differed… [Direct]

Grant, Maria; Ross, Donna L. (2022). Studying Collisions: Social Justice in Physics. Science Teacher, v89 n4 p46-52 Mar-Apr. Science is a human endeavor; the way it is taught, applied, and in some cases exclude populations from having access to it, may affect people for generations (NGSS Lead States 2013). Science education continues to be a complex civil rights issue (Tate 2001), but there is hope. Movements to promote just, equitable, and inclusive opportunities to learn within the context of community, identity, and action are being developed and implemented in classrooms across the country. This article describes lessons planned with a lens on gender equity, community needs, and engineering for a diverse population. It sits within a larger framework of physics knowledge for social justice and community applications. Before beginning a modeling, design, and construction project, students at an urban high school in southern California considered the implications of who participates on the design team for a science project. The following questions framed the exploration: (1) How does the perspective of… [Direct]

Howlett, Caitlin (2022). Sex Education's Community Problem. Journal of Philosophy of Education, v56 n5 p763-773 Oct. Legislating comprehensive sex education curricula has long been believed to be essential to aligning education about sex, sexuality and human relationships with the values of equality, inclusivity and autonomy. Defences of the need for 'good' sex education in public schools are contingent upon arguments about whose experiences ought to guide us in determining what sufficient alignment with such values might look like. The aim of this paper is to explore the assumptions underlying one prevailing norm in such defences: what I call parental deference or the practice of heeding to the rights of parents in debates about sex education. The question at the heart of this paper is, then, who in our communities does this deference exclude? I begin with a brief consideration of the appeal of parental deference within theories of education in general, and sex education in particular, before problematising its normalisation through a consideration of the exclusions such deference creates. In the… [Direct]

Abedin, Rejaul (2019). Implementation of Universal Education Theory in Global Education System towards the Development of Individual, Teams, Society and Prevention of Corruption. Online Submission, International Journal of Academic Research in Business, Arts and Science (IJARBAS) v1 n1 p1-11. The moral value is significant for everyone in every sphere of human life. Moral lessons should be properly taught among students in Schools, Colleges, Universities, Vocational training centers, Madrasas and so on. Above all, along with parents or guardians, it is the prime duty and responsibility of the educator to impart moral based values in order to develop moral qualities such as humility, integrity, truthfulness, courtesy, tolerance, sacrifice, mutual compromise etc among the youth and all level pupils. It will assist in developing positive, constructive social attitudes in new generation which prompt them to raise their moral voice against social evils. The harmonious coexistence of diverse ideologies in society requires respect for ethical and moral values. Value addition from moral education inculcates these virtues in a systematic and widely acceptable manner. Morality is basically the knowledge of knowing what is right and what is wrong. With the morality human being can… [PDF]

Eraslan, Levent; Kukuoglu, Ahmet (2019). Social Relations in Virtual World and Social Media Aggression. World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, v11 n2 p1-11. Living in the age of constant technology developments shifted social communication patterns and shifted social relations to virtual environments. The socialisation process that takes place in digital platforms also transferred many negative elements experienced in social life to the virtual environment. That is, the aggression behaviours concerning these negative processes have also been transferred to the virtual communication. The current study examines the effects of social media aggression (SMA) regarding digital platforms on the social relations in human life in the context of various variables. Results of the study revealed that the counter-comments towards participants' values have a significant effect on participants' demonstration of aggressive tendencies. In other notable finding participants reported that they aware of their rights f=75 (33%) against negative SMA, while f=150 (67%) of participants do not know them…. [PDF]

Cowan, William; Kryven, Marta; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.; Ullman, Tomer D. (2021). Plans or Outcomes: How Do We Attribute Intelligence to Others?. Cognitive Science, v45 n9 e13041 Sep. Humans routinely make inferences about both the contents and the workings of other minds based on observed actions. People consider what others want or know, but also how intelligent, rational, or attentive they might be. Here, we introduce a new methodology for quantitatively studying the mechanisms people use to attribute intelligence to others based on their behavior. We focus on two key judgments previously proposed in the literature: judgments based on observed outcomes (you're smart if you won the game) and judgments based on evaluating the quality of an agent's planning that led to their outcomes (you're smart if you made the right choice, even if you didn't succeed). We present a novel task, the maze search task (MST), in which participants rate the intelligence of agents searching a maze for a hidden goal. We model outcome-based attributions based on the observed utility of the agent upon achieving a goal, with higher utilities indicating higher intelligence, and model… [Direct]

Amundsen, Diana; Msoroka, Mohamed S. (2018). One Size Fits "Not Quite" All: Universal Research Ethics with Diversity. Research Ethics, v14 n3 Jul. For researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand who intend to conduct research with people, it is common practice to first ensure that their proposals are approved by a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC). HRECs take the role of reviewing, approving or rejecting research proposals and deciding on whether the intended research will be completed in the 'right', rather than the 'wrong' way. Such decisions are based upon a system which is guided by universal ethical principles–principles that assume there is universal agreement about the ethically right way to conduct research. Increasingly, Aotearoa New Zealand is becoming more culturally diverse. Actions that are assumed as 'right' in reference to ethical norms endorsed in one culture or society may not always be considered 'right' in reference to ethical norms in another culture or society. In this article we first set out what is already known in the literature about the origins and applications of universal ethics in a research context…. [Direct]

Rosenau, Nancy (2000). In Support of Families and Their Children. All Children Belong with Families and Families Need Support to Thrive. NRC Fact Sheet. Center on Human Policy Children grow and develop through a process called attachment. Attachment is a fundamental framework for human development. It requires that a child be emotionally connected to at least one adult caregiver who can provide an enduring, nurturing relationship that provides the safety and structure necessary for a child to feel a secure base. Children whose family homes are not safe or nurturing are protected in all states and by federal legislation that allows them to be removed from parents who cannot provide this secure base. There are two fundamental ways in which the human need and right to be part of a family can be assured: (1) by supporting families and (2) by intentionally planning for permanency. These two ideas are different but complementary…. [PDF]

Rodriguez, Kenneth (1995). We the People… The Citizen and the Constitution. Teacher's Guide [and Student's Guide]. Focusing on the history and principles of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the high school text and teacher's guide are intended to be the basis of study for the competitive component of the "We the People… The Citizen and the Constitution" civic education program. The 40 lessons in the text are divided into 6 study units examining the philosophical and historical foundations of the U.S. political system; the creation of the U.S. Constitution; the impact of the values and principles embodied in the Constitution on U.S. institutions and practices; the development and expansion of the protections of the Bill of Rights; the meaning of the various rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights; and the role of citizens in U.S. democracy. The text is based on a conceptually oriented approach that blends expository and inquiry methods, calling for active participation by students throughout. It stresses the development of analytic and evaluative skills, enabling students to… [PDF]

Li, Jie (2022). Policies and Practices in Educational Gerontology in Mainland China. Educational Gerontology, v48 n5 p191-209. The development of educational gerontology (EG) policies in mainland China has gone through two stages, the social welfare stage (1982-2000) and the lifelong learning stage (2001-present), and a rudimentary system of EG provisions and legislation has been formed. Although a system of EG practices in mainland China has also been built under the guidance of these policies, there are still some loopholes in the policies that hinder the further development of practices, such as a lack of awareness of EG as a separate discipline, misconceptions about lifelong education, and imperfections in the systems, techniques, and content of legislation related to EG. Additionally, there are some major gaps in EG policies and practices in China, unlike in other regions and countries. Therefore, this paper suggests a future EG policy agenda, including enacting legislation such as the "Lifelong Education Act" or "Adult Education Act"; improving the quality of the existing provisions… [Direct]

Sebidi, Simon Diatleng (2023). Financial Management Decision-Making of School Finance Committees in Public Primary Schools in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. South African Journal of Education, v43 n3 Article 2268. Subject to the South African Schools Act, 84 of 1996 section 16(1), the governance of every public school is vested in its governing body and it may perform only such functions and obligations and exercise only such rights as prescribed by the Act. Section 30(1a) of this Act demands school governing bodies to establish committees and appoint members of the School Governing Body (SGB) to such committees based on expertise. With this study I investigated the financial management decision-making of school finance committees in public primary schools in the Mpumalanga province in South Africa. A qualitative approach was applied in the study. Focus-group interviews were used to collect data from the purposefully selected 2 public primary schools in which the finance committee members were involved. A case study design was applied. Thematic data analysis was used to analyse the collected data. All the participants demonstrated awareness of their financial management decision-making roles…. [PDF]

Akinsola, Yemisi; Alade, Adeyemi; Moronkola, O. A.; Ogundare, Dipo; Olowookere, Kemi; Soyinka, Femi (2004). NELA: A Community Response to HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Convergence, v37 n4 p47-57. The greatest current threat to humanity, most especially in the developing countries of the world, is HIV/AIDS. The first case of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria was in 1986 in Lagos. Due to inaction and denial by the people, there was a rapid but subtle transmission of the virus within Nigeria's various populations and communities. Presently, the disease has been diagnosed in all the 774 local government areas in Nigeria. The trend suggests that there will be a continued increase in the seroprevalence rate of the disease. Going by the trend and the probable impact on the economy, healthcare system, and the polity of the nation, among others if the spread is left unchecked, there is a need for concerted efforts from all the stakeholders at government and NGO level to develop and implement programmes to help slow down the spread, and mitigate the impact of, the disease among Nigeria's large population. One of the leading NGOs in Nigeria is Network on Ethics, Law/Human Rights, HIV/AIDS Prevention,… [Direct]

Leach, Penelope (1994). Children First: What Our Society Must Do–and Is Not Doing–for Our Children Today. Most parents do everything they can to facilitate the health and happiness, growth and development of their children. Nevertheless, Western society leaves parents the responsibility for children's well-being, but does not empower parents to ensure that well-being. This book takes the position that our society is inimical to children and has devalued parents to the point that individual good parenting has become not only exceedingly difficult, but ultimately insufficient. Specific steps by which members of society can move to fashion a new social and economic priority for all children are discussed. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 covers parents and society; Part 2, children and parents; and Part 3, putting children first. The chapters are: (1) "People, Profits and Parenting," on the tension between the need for financial solvency and the desire to be good parents, and on the changing characteristics of Western families; (2) "Mother, Father or…

Nesbit, Tom, Ed. (2001). [Proceedings of the] 20th Anniversary Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (Quebec, Canada, May 25-27, 2001). This document contains 29 papers and 7 roundtable presentations from a Canadian conference on the study of adult education. The following papers are among those included: "Cultivating Knowledge" (Mike Ambach); "Subsistence Learning" (Rose Barg); "Non-Governmental Organizations and Popular Education Programs" (Bijoy P. Barua); "The Learning Organization" (Maureen S. Bogdanowicz, Elaine K. Baily); "Learning in Later Life" (Margaret Fisher Brillinger, Carole Roy); "Postcards from the Edge" (Shauna Butterwick, Michael Marker); "The Reading Strategies of Adult Basic Education Students" (Pat Campbell, Grace Malicky); "Feminist Artist-Educators and Community Revitalisation" (Darlene E. Clover); "Lifelong Learning in the New Economy" (Jane Cruikshank); "Contribution a la Reflexion Andragogique sur 'L'Economie du Savoir'" (Francine D'Ortun); "Adult Literacy as Social Relations"… [PDF]

(1997). Colombia, Many Countries in One: Economic Growth, Environmental Sustainability, Sociocultural Divergence and Biodiversity. Profile and Paradox. Volumes I and II. Fulbright Hays Summer Seminars Abroad 1997 (Colombia). This Fulbright Summer Seminar focused on the environmental challenge posed by Colombia's biodiversity and addressed the relationship between the last decade of Colombian economic development and the country's sociocultural situation, taking into account its historical background and the role of natural resources in a context of sustainable development. The seminar included an objective analysis Columbia's sociocultural and sociopolitical situation. Health conditions, education, living style, economy, geographical ecology and environmental aspects of Colombia's wealth were discussed in the academic portion of the seminar, along with the historical development of the country and its people. The traveling phase of the seminar included visits to three important regions: (1) the coffee producing areas located in central Colombia (to understand the traditional coffee culture); (2) the southwest part of the country (to study agricultural ecosystems and industrial development based on… [PDF]

Holladay, Jennifer (2009). Prom Night in Mississippi: A Teacher's Guide with Standards-Based Lessons for Grades 7 and up. Southern Poverty Law Center (NJ1) When Morris Dees was a young man in Alabama, the law said that black people couldn't drink from the same water fountain as white people, or sit at the same lunch counter. Back then, the government created and sanctioned divisions between human beings. The Civil Rights Movement changed all of that, of course, and ended state-mandated apartheid in America. But "Prom Night in Mississippi" serves as a powerful reminder that, despite those gains, many Americans live segregated lives. The film tells the story of children at Mississippi's Charleston High School, who receive a challenge from Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman: Are they willing to end the community's longstanding tradition of holding segregated proms? "Prom Night in Mississippi" is at once heart-breaking and inspiring. Harsh lessons of division and racial intolerance infect the lives of Charleston High's students. This teacher's guide is designed to help make the film an even more powerful and… [PDF]

Nureev, R. M. (2010). Human Capital and Its Development in Present-Day Russia. Russian Education and Society, v52 n3 p3-29 Mar. In the broad sense of the word human capital is a specific form of capital that is embodied in people themselves. It consists of the individual's reserve of health, knowledge, skills, abilities, and motivations that enable him to increase his labor productivity and give him an income in the form of wages, salaries, and other income. The structure of human capital is generally said to consist of natural abilities, overall culture, general and specialized knowledge, acquired abilities, skills, and experience, and the ability to put them to use at the right time and in the right place. Investment in human capital comes to constitute an important asset that provides an individual with a higher flow of income all his life. It should be noted, at the same time, that it is a particular form of capital. Under the conditions of the market economy there are many phenomena and processes that take on commodity and monetary forms and can be seen as an asset that yields a regular income. And the… [Direct]

Beane, James A. (2019). This Is What Democracy Looks Like: Some Thoughts on Democratic Schools. Middle Grades Review, v5 n3 Article 2 Dec. The author envisions a democratic school as one committed to human dignity, a common good, social justice, and equity. It is also committed to creative individuality in which people have the right to think for themselves, to be fully informed about the important issues of the day, to hold beliefs of their own choosing, to have a say in what and how things are done, to pursue personal aspirations and growth, to be free from oppression, and to experience just and equitable treatment. And, too, it is committed to social responsibility by which people understand their obligation to collaborate in resolving community problems, to seek accurate information about social and political topics, to promote justice and equity, and to act in ways that generally enhance the quality of social, political, and economic life of the larger society…. [PDF]

David Plaut; Patience Stevens (2020). Morphological and Pseudomorphological Effects in English Visual Word Processing: How Much Can We Attribute the Statistical Structure of the Language?. Grantee Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Jul 2020). The statistical structure of a given language likely drives our sensitivity to words' morphological structure. The current work begins to investigate to what degree morphological processing effects observed in visual word recognition can be attributed to statistical regularities between orthography and semantics in English, without any prior knowledge or explicitly coded processes. We trained a simple feedforward neural network on form-to-meaning mappings for words from an English educational text corpus. Over the course of training, we originally examined the network's processing times for prime-target word pairs taken from two masked primed lexical decision studies (Rastle, Davis & New, 2004; Beyersmann, Castles, & Coltheart, 2012) to determine if the network was learning similar sensitivities to those seen in human participants. Results showed no morphological sensitivity to prime-target pairs with a transparent morphological relationship (e.g., teacher [right arrow]… [PDF] [PDF] [Direct]

Saugestad, Sidsel, Ed. (1998). Indigenous Peoples in Modern Nation-States. Proceedings from an International Workshop (Tromso, Norway, October 13-16, 1997). Occasional Papers Series A, No. 90. The relationship between indigenous peoples and nation-states has long been of academic interest, and is also an emerging topic in the international debate about human rights and development. Universities and museums play an important part in this debate as producers, managers, and communicators of knowledge about indigenous peoples. In these processes, the voices of indigenous peoples themselves must also find their proper place. A workshop at the University of Tromso (Norway) in October 1997 addressed aspects of this debate. The point of departure was a collaborative research program between the Universities of Botswana and Tromso to promote research of relevance for the indigenous people of Botswana, called Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or Kwe. The University of Tromso also has a special responsibility to the Saami–indigenous people of Norway. The 17 papers in this proceedings address ethnographic research methods and issues; history, cultural heritage, and cultural maintenance;… [PDF]

Curnow, Joe; Vea, Tanner (2020). Emotional Configurations of Politicization in Social Justice Movements. Information and Learning Sciences, v121 n9-10 p729-747. Purpose: This paper aims to trace how emotion shapes the sense that is made of politics and how politicization can remake and re-mark emotion, giving it new meaning in context. This paper brings together theories of politicization and emotional configurations in learning to interrogate the role emotion plays in the learning of social justice activists. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on sociocultural learning perspectives, the paper traces politicization processes across the youth climate movement (using video-based interaction analysis) and the animal rights movement (using ethnographic interviews and participant observation). Findings: Emotional configurations significantly impacted activists' politicization in terms of what was learned conceptually, the kinds of practices — including emotional practices — that were taken up collectively, the epistemologies that framed social justice work, and the identities that were made salient in collective action. In turn,… [Direct]

Anandam, Kamala (1994). The Challenge of Institutionalizing Technology. In order to meet the challenge of institutionalizing technology, community college educators must first define their needs; second, delineate the physical, social, and cultural conditions that affect the environment; and third, examine the knowledge made available through the computer and its paraphernalia. Institutionalizing technology requires: (1) establishing institutional policies that address themes of funding; human infrastructure; rights and responsibilities of students, faculty, and staff; faculty and staff recruitment; and criteria for promotions, honors, and awards; (2) obtaining external funding; (3) undertaking a cost effectiveness study; (4) restructuring the human infrastructure; (5) using a 1:1:1:1/2 ratio in budgeting for hardware, software, personnel, and upgrading; (6) involving department heads in the integration of computing and curriculum; (7) promoting discipline-based training of faculty in computer applications; (8) promoting collaborative projects among… [PDF]

Ardimento, Pasquale; Bernardi, Mario Luca; Cimitile, Marta; De Ruvo, Giuseppe (2020). Reusing Bugged Source Code to Support Novice Programmers in Debugging Tasks. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, v20 n1 Article 2 Feb. Novice programmers often encounter difficulties performing debugging tasks effectively. Even if modern development environments (IDEs) provide high-level support for navigating through code elements and for identifying the right conditions leading to the bug, debugging still requires considerable human effort. Programmers usually have to make hypotheses that are based on both program state evolution and their past debugging experiences. To mitigate this effort and allow novice programmers to gain debugging experience quickly, we propose an approach based on the reuse of existing bugs of open source systems to provide informed guidance from the failure site to the fault position. The goal is to help novices in reasoning on the most promising paths to follow and conditions to define. We implemented this approach as a tool that exploits the knowledge about fault and bug position in the system, as long as any bug of the system is known. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is… [Direct]

Benson, Diane E. (2003). Standing up against the Giant. American Indian Quarterly, v27 n1-2 p67-79 Win-Spr. On December 12, 2000, one of the top three headlines on the front page of the "Anchorage Daily News" ("ADN") read, "Student Attacks Professor's Poem." The subtitle read, ""Indian Girls" described as racist, insulting." One of the two primary photos on the front page that garnered attention was the beleaguered look of a challenged local university professor postured amongst her books. Somehow, what seemed like a rather normal school semester and typical enough poetry class ended with a tidal wave of divisive controversy and inflamed a community already teetering from volatile race relations. The author was central to the controversy. She was the student. Tlingits have a story about the Cannibal Giant who at one time preyed on the people when they were weakened. The Cannibal Giant was once a woman but through evil became a monster. Even when she was seemingly destroyed by fire, the flame transformed her carnivorous essence from cannibal… [Direct]

Lake, Brenden M.; Lawrence, Neil D.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. (2018). The Emergence of Organizing Structure in Conceptual Representation. Cognitive Science, v42 suppl 3 p809-832 Jun. Both scientists and children make important structural discoveries, yet their computational underpinnings are not well understood. Structure discovery has previously been formalized as probabilistic inference about the right structural form–where form could be a tree, ring, chain, grid, etc. (Kemp & Tenenbaum, 2008). Although this approach can learn intuitive organizations, including a tree for animals and a ring for the color circle, it assumes a strong inductive bias that considers only these particular forms, and each form is explicitly provided as initial knowledge. Here we introduce a new computational model of how organizing structure can be discovered, utilizing a broad hypothesis space with a preference for sparse connectivity. Given that the inductive bias is more general, the model's initial knowledge shows little qualitative resemblance to some of the discoveries it supports. As a consequence, the model can also learn complex structures for domains that lack intuitive… [Direct]

Osafo, Emmanuel; Yawson, Robert M. (2019). The Role of HRD in University-Community Partnership. European Journal of Training and Development, v43 n5-6 p536-553. Purpose: This paper aims to identify ways by which the core functions of human resource development HRD can be used to enhance the university-community partnership (UCP) in lieu of the "town and gown" era. Furthermore, the paper addresses the need to extend HRD activities beyond the organization and leverage HRD to spearhead the community-development agenda through coalition building between organizations, local universities and the community. Design/methodology/approach: Literature on UCP is reviewed and analyzed, and the need to extend HRD focus beyond the organization to include community development through coalition building is discussed. A single-case descriptive analysis to illustrate the critical role of human resource and leadership development in UCP is done. Findings: HRD's interest in the UCP drive is negligible. UCP presents a new frontier for HRD research and practice because there is both public and private funding that can be assessed through the right… [Direct]

Cassel, Russell N. (1978). Split Brain Functioning. Education, v99 n1 p2-7 Fall. Summarizing recent research, this article defines the functions performed by the left and right sides of the human brain. Attention is given to the right side, or the nondominant side, of the brain and its potential in terms of perception of the environment, music, art, geometry, and the aesthetics. (JC)…

Sayers, Edna Edith (2021). Unlock(e)ing T. H. Gallaudet's Philosophy of Language. Sign Language Studies, v21 n2 p208-244 Win. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, when Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was famously advocating for sign language to be the language of instruction for deaf children in the United States, European philosophers were founding modern linguistics. Gallaudet was not able to benefit from their breakthroughs, however, because his upbringing, education, and religious beliefs all conspired to preclude any interest in European thought or, indeed, any secular thought at all. For this reason, his arguments for sign language were seen as naive and uninformed by educated people of his day and thus were easily dismissed by liberally educated oralists, who were better acquainted with new ways of understanding the human mind. The first part of the present study examines the limitations on what Gallaudet read and learned in his college courses and graduate studies, as well as how his underlying religious beliefs about language, its origin, and its purposes worked to compound these limitations…. [Direct]