Ayers, William (2011). Trudge toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in Education. Philosophical Studies in Education, v42 p17-24. In this article, William Ayers constructs his Phil Smith Lecture as a call to action. Grounded in democratic principles of equality and social justice, the author invokes a liberal conception of human worth and the universal right to educational opportunity. The author critiques the passivity of the American polity in the face of Barack Obama's election and subsequent educational policies. The speech begins by quoting from Bertolt Brecht's poem \Motto,\ which asks, \In [the] dark times will there also be singing\ and answers, \Yes, there will be singing. /About the dark times.\ Ayers lists examples of the contemporary dark times: climate changes, Tea Party triumphalism, the privatization of the public space, Smithsonian's bowing to anti-intellectualism and art phobia. But, says Ayers, there is much singing in these dark times too, such as those of the mothers at Whittier School in Chicago seizing a field house and demanding a library for their children; the Cochabamba and Cancun… [PDF]

Bulf, Hermann; de Hevia, Maria Dolores; Macchi Cassia, Viola (2016). Small on the Left, Large on the Right: Numbers Orient Visual Attention onto Space in Preverbal Infants. Developmental Science, v19 n3 p394-401 May. Numbers are represented as ordered magnitudes along a spatially oriented number line. While culture and formal education modulate the direction of this number-space mapping, it is a matter of debate whether its emergence is entirely driven by cultural experience. By registering 8-9-month-old infants' eye movements, this study shows that numerical cues are critical in orienting infants' visual attention towards a peripheral region of space that is congruent with the number's relative position on a left-to-right oriented representational continuum. This finding provides the first direct evidence that, in humans, the association between numbers and oriented spatial codes occurs before the acquisition of symbols or exposure to formal education, suggesting that the number line is not merely a product of human invention…. [Direct]

Jacobson, Daniel (2016). Freedom of Speech under Assault on Campus. Policy Analysis No. 796. Cato Institute John Stuart Mill thought higher education should not tell us what it is our duty to believe, but should "help us to form our own belief in a manner worthy of intelligent beings." He added that "there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine," regardless of its falsity, immorality, or even harmfulness. The classical liberal argument for free speech has historically been championed in two distinct ways. First, the Founding documents of the United States recognize freedom of speech as a natural right. Second, alternatively, that right might be grounded in utility, meaning its acceptance best promotes human flourishing. In this article, the author examines Mill's philosophy on freedom of speech and how it has been challenged at American universities…. [PDF]

Duan, Haijun; Hu, Weiping; Qi, Senqing; Wang, Botao; Zhang, Huan (2017). When a Dog Has a Pen for a Tail: The Time Course of Creative Object Processing. Creativity Research Journal, v29 n1 p37-42. Creative objects differ from ordinary objects in that they are created by human beings to contain novel, creative information. Previous research has demonstrated that ordinary object processing involves both a perceptual process for analyzing different features of the visual input and a higher-order process for evaluating the relevance of this visual information. However, it is unclear how and when these processes are influenced by the creative information of the object. This study utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the time course of creative object processing. Behavioral results revealed that participants spent more time processing creative objects than they did ordinary objects. Analysis of scalp ERPs further revealed that creative objects elicited a more negative ERP deflection between 190 and 340 ms (N190-340) with an anterior scalp distribution. Additionally, creative objects elicited more positive ERP deflection than did ordinary objects between 400 and… [Direct]

Wu, Zunmin (2021). China's Experiences in Developing Lifelong Education, 1978-2017. ECNU Review of Education, v4 n4 p857-872 Dec. Purpose: This study systematically reviews the China's progress in lifelong education (LLE) policies, theories, and practices in the 40 years since its reform and opening-up and provides several guidelines for developing LLE going forward. Design/Approach/Methods: This study analyzes the characteristics of LLE in China through a review of its developmental process and prospects at the policy, theoretical, and practical levels. Findings: While following the goals of LLE set by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, China has developed and implemented LLE with distinctly Chinese characteristics. The development of LLE in China has focused on protecting citizens' learning rights, improving civic literacy, and enhancing human resources. This study reveals four aspects of China's experiences of LLE development. First, as the primary actor in promoting LLE, the government took responsibility for providing guidance and leadership in the development and… [PDF] [Direct]

Hayward, Bronwyn; Plew, Elizabeth; Selboe, Elin (2015). Citizenship for a Changing Global Climate: Learning from New Zealand and Norway. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, v14 n1 p19-27 Apr. Young citizens under the age of 25?years make up just under half of the world's population. Globally, they face new, interrelated problems of dangerous environmental change, including increasing incidence of severe storms associated with a changing climate, and related new threats to human security. Addressing the complex challenge of climate change will require new understandings of citizen rights and responsibilities. In this context, we were interested in comparing and contrasting how young citizens currently conceive their rights and responsibilities in two high-consumption societies with sharply contrasting democratic contexts: New Zealand's market liberal democracy and the social democratic state of Norway. Discussion reflects on youthful expectations of citizen rights and responsibilities and the implications of their assumptions in a changing climate…. [Direct]

Beck, Terence A.; Thornton, Stephen J.; Varga, Bretton A. (2019). Celebrating Stonewall at 50: A Culturally Geographic Approach to Introducing LGBT Themes. Social Studies, v110 n1 p33-42. July 28, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn. During this raid, police verbally, and in some cases, physically accosted patrons of the Stonewall Inn. Events from this encounter eventually set off a series of protests by members and allies of the LGBT community. These protests came to be known as the Stonewall Riots. On June 24, 2016, the Stonewall Inn became the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to LGBT history. While this event served as a pivotal role in the gay rights movement, this article begins with an investigation into the geographical and spatial conditions surrounding the Stonewall Inn and its neighborhood. In asking, "Why New York City, why Stonewall?" we attempt to establish a cultural version of geography that uses a National Monument as a way for students to engage in the world around them through an examination of human/environment relationships. To explore this further and to celebrate Stonewall at 50, we present a… [Direct]

Long, D. Stephen (2018). Being Good Pharisees: The Joy of Inauthentic Community. Part II. Christian Higher Education, v17 n5 p290-295. What does it mean to be a community in right relation with each other? That question, as well as a partial answer found in Taylor University's Life Together Covenant, still bear the marks of Wesleyan evangelical convictions. Exploring those convictions shines light for us on why this question and Taylor's covenant matter for Taylor University and, in their own unique ways, all Christian institutions of higher education. Addressing that question then comes through three points. First, we must never forget that Christianity is a social religion. Second, Christianity is social because its mission is to be a people, a nation called out of every nation, who are not like the other nations, for the sake of the nations. Finally, integral to Christian mission is to become what we have been made through baptism. In the end, righteousness cannot stem from mere human efforts as we endeavor to live out this mission. In contrast, we must depend upon the Holy Spirit to empower us to be the… [Direct]

Cress, Ulrike; Fischer, Ursula; Nuerk, Hans-Christoph; Patro, Katarzyna (2016). How to Rapidly Construct a Spatial-Numerical Representation in Preliterate Children (At Least Temporarily). Developmental Science, v19 n1 p126-144 Jan. Spatial processing of numbers has emerged as one of the basic properties of humans' mathematical thinking. However, how and when number-space relations develop is a highly contested issue. One dominant view has been that a link between numbers and left/right spatial directions is constructed based on directional experience associated with reading and writing. However, some early forms of a number-space link have been observed in preschool children who cannot yet read and write. As literacy experience is evidently not necessary for number-space effects, we are searching for other potential sources of this association. Here we propose and test a hypothesis that the number-space link can be quickly constructed in preschool children's cognition on the basis of spatially oriented visuo-motor activities. We trained 3- and 4-year-old children with a non-numerical spatial movement task (left-to-right or right-to-left), where via touch screen children had to move a frog across a pond. After… [Direct]

(1993). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (76th, Kansas City, Missouri, August 11-14, l993). Part XII: Foreign and International Media. The Foreign and International Media section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 27 papers: "Cultural Orientation in Turkey: Are The Theorists Right about the Effects of Imported Cultural Products?" (Christine Ogan); "The Role of Mass Media in a Newly Emerging Democracy: The Latvian Case Study" (Bruce J. Evensen); "Global TV News in Developing Countries: CNN's Expansion to Egypt" (Joe S. Foote and Hussein Amin); "West German and U.S. Journalists: Similarities and Differences in the l990s" (David Weaver and others); "The Price Was Right–Or Was It? The l991 British Commercial Broadcasting Franchise Auction and the New ITV" (Susan Q. Johnson and Joe S. Foote); "Goodbye to the Global Village: Entertainment TV Patterns in 50 Countries" (Anne Cooper-Chen); "U.S. Communication Policies Regarding Foreign Ownership of Media Outlets and Producers" (Xuejun Yu); "Historic Images of… [PDF]

Koegel, Robert L. (2018). The Evolution of Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, v20 n1 p4-5 Jan. This article focuses on an analysis of trends in the "Journal of Positive Behavorial Interventions" ("JPBI") since its inception. The primary emphasis is on the variables that contributed to the origin of the journal. Key researchers and other professionals felt that there was a need for a new field (with a new journal) in order to meet an unfullfilled demand. This new field would need to emphasize values of human dignity, nonaversive behavioral interventions, and data to support claims of effectiveness. Thus, both values and science were key elements of "JPBI" right from the very start, and have continued until the present time. These emphases have resulted in "JPBI" becoming one of the premier journals in the behavioral sciences, with an enthusiastic, competent, and ever growing number of members. The future looks bright…. [Direct]

Atance, Cristina M.; Cassidy, Kathleen S.; Caza, Julian S.; O'Brien, Bronwyn M.; Ziani-Bey, Hana A. (2021). Tomorrow Will Be Different: Children's Ability to Incorporate an Intervening Event When Thinking about the Future. Developmental Psychology, v57 n3 p376-385 Mar. Future-oriented thought is ubiquitous in humans but challenging to study in children. Adults not only think about the future but can also represent a future state of the world that differs from the present. However, behavioral tasks to assess the development of future thought have not traditionally required children to do so as most can be solved based solely on representations of the present. To overcome this limitation, we modified an existing task such that children could not simply rely on a representation of the present to succeed (i.e., the correct answer for "right now" was different than the correct answer for "tomorrow"). A sample of 117 4- to 7-year-olds (64 girls and 53 boys) from Ottawa, Canada, and surrounding area, who were predominantly European Canadian (78.6% of sample) and had a family income of over $100,000 CAN (66.1% of sample) participated. Children remembered the information required to solve our task, and there were age-related changes in… [Direct]

Park, Claire Su-Yeon; Park, Jee Young (2019). Optimal Safe Staffing Standard for Right Workforce Planning. Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, v4 n2 p42-44. The Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven automated decision-making support system has been heralded as a considerable workforce replacement in the near future by automating mundane repetitive tasks and eliminating time-consuming support tasks in all disciplines (Park & Glenn, 2017). Even though a number of practical hurdles in the field of the AI-integrated pathology still exist–which is mainly caused by a higher degree of complexity and specialty of the pathologic diagnosis process–such difficulties are expected to be soon overcome by rapid advances in AI technology. Accordingly, there is a growing sense of debate that medical AI could cause human doctors to lose their jobs (Lee, 2019). Since the doctoral function that can be replaced by AI is mainly limited to diagnoses at this stage, the opinion that doctors who make good use of AI would have a better chance of surviving seems to be a likely outcome (Lee, 2019). However, a considerable adjustment to the healthcare workforce… [PDF]

Leigh Nida (2024). What Professional Associations Communicated to Teachers about Participatory Democracy in the Civil Rights Era: Communication from the American Teachers Association (ATA) and the National Education Association (NEA) 1954-68. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Iowa. This dissertation examines what professional organizations, specifically the American Teachers Association (ATA) and the National Education Association (NEA), communicated with their members about participatory democracy in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1968. Major publications of the ATA and the NEA as well as archival records of the NEA-ATA Joint Committee revealed themes in the communication from each organization to their members. The ATA, communicated to mostly Black teachers (in the South) that Black teachers and students should be treated equally, that Black students should be prepared for citizenship in a democracy, and that integration was a worthy goal with hefty consequences for Black students and teachers. American democracy, according to the ATA, would be improved and enriched by the participation of Black students. Conversely, the NEA communicated to mostly White teachers (in the South) that students should know about the democracy with a heavy emphasis on patriotism. The… [Direct]

Rajab, Adaylah; Wright, Nigel (2020). The Idea of Autonomy and Its Interplay with Culture in Child-Centered Education: Evidence from Practitioners in Preschools in Saudi Arabia. Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, v40 n2 p174-187. Using interview data, this paper explores issues which head teachers and teachers in a sample of Saudi kindergartens in Makkah face in implementing an adapted curriculum and pedagogy which appear to conflict with the local culture. The Saudi Self-Learning Curriculum for Kindergarten has been developed from Western models of child-centered education as a result of frameworks developed by the UNCRC, Education for ALL and UNESCO's 2015 Sustainable Development Goals program 2015-2030. The Saudi Government's 10th national development plan, entitled Vision 2030, aims to develop and diversify the country's human resources and reduce dependency on oil reserves by creating a knowledge economy. The curriculum reforms are a response to the demand for classroom pedagogies that are based on the principle of respecting children's rights. Consequently, the core objective of preschool learning environments is to work with children in ways that maximize "autonomy." This leads to a conundrum… [Direct]

Hayes, Sarah; Jandric, Petar (2019). The Postdigital Challenge of Redefining Academic Publishing from the Margins. Learning, Media and Technology, v44 n3 p381-393. This paper explores relationships between knowledge production and academic publication and shows that the current political economy of mainstream academic publishing has resulted from a complex interplay between large academic publishers, academics, and hacker-activists. The process of publishing is a form of 'social production' that takes place across the economy, politics and culture, all of which are in turn accommodating both old and new technology in our postdigital age. Technologies such as software cannot be separated from human labour, academic centres cannot be looked at in isolation from their margins, and the necessity of transdisciplinary approaches does not imply the disappearance of traditional disciplines. In the postdigital age, the concept of the margins has not disappeared, but it has become somewhat marginal in its own right. We need to develop a new language of describing what we mean by 'marginal voices' in the social relations between knowledge production and… [Direct]

Bloom, Carol, Ed.; And Others (1994). Insights on Diversity. This state-of-the-art report presents a series of essays on the topic of diversity. Essays include: (1) "Committing to Diversity" (George L. Mehaffy); (2) "Serving the Community by Serving Our Members" (Michael P. Wolfe); (3) "How Diversity Matters" (Asa G. Hilliard, III); (4) "A Prerequisite to Teaching Multiculturally" (Mary Louise Gomez); (5) "Multicultural Education is for Everyone!" (Maureen Gillette); (6) "Intercultural Competencies" (James Anderson); (7) "Opening One Door" (P. C. Wu); (8) "Dimensions of Multicultural Education" (James A. Banks); (9) "Characterizing Ethnic Groups in the Curriculum" (Carmen Montecinos); (10) "The Needs of Our New Teachers" (Gloria Ladson-Billings); (11) "The Many Ways of Being Human" (M. Eugene Gillion); (12) "Understanding Ethnicity" (Wilma S. Longstreet); (13) "Dissension in Perspective" (Geneva Gay); (14) "To… [PDF]

(1992). Literacy across the Curriculum: Connecting Literacy in the Schools, Community and Workplace, 1992-1993. Literacy across the Curriculum, v8 n1-4 Mar 1992-Win 1993. The first of four issues in this volume consists of these articles: "The Fourth 'R'–Relating"; "On Baseball Cards and Literacy"; "On Literacy and Success"; "National Assessments: What They Can and Cannot Do"; and "In the Classroom: The Integrated Journal." It also contains two book reviews and a list of resources on adolescent literacy, at-risk youth, and dropouts. A supplement, Media Focus, contains "Exploding a Myth: TV Watching Is Not Passive" (Emery); "World View on Media Education"; "Commercial Advertising–Does It Have a Place in the Classroom? Two Views on Youth News Network"; and two book reviews. Issue 2 has these articles: "Concerning Literacy and Ethics"; "Ethics and Educators: Traveling in Hope"; "On Bamboo Literacy"; "On the Increasing Importance of Visual Communication"; "Drawing a Link to Literacy"; "Thinking about Writing and… [PDF]

Gramlich, Catherine (2003). Stromquist, N., & Samoff, J. (2000). Knowledge Management Systems: On the Promise and Actual Forms of Information Technologies. "British Association for International and Comparative Education," 30(3), 323-332. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, v29 n2 Spr. In their article," Knowledge Management Systems: On the Promise and Actual Forms of Information Technologies, Stromquist and Samoff (2000)" critically examined the role of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) in education. Stromquist and Samoff (2000) defined a KMS as a system "which proposes to produce easily retrievable materials via the Internet and hypertext". KMS attempts to be more than a mere data bank, for it seeks to provide highly selected and targeted knowledge. For its implementation, KMS depends on a manager to determine what constitutes "relevant" and "best" evidence" (p. 323). In a KMS, the manager controls the production and organization of information (Stromquist & Samoff, 2000). The authors consider the use of Knowledge Management Systems as a means to provide increased access to a diversity of information and knowledge, which can then be tailored to solve specific problems world-wide, problematic (Stromquist &… [PDF]

Childress, Michael T., Ed.; Schirmer, Peter, Ed.; Sebastian, Billie M., Ed.; Smith-Mello, Michal, Ed. (1996). Exploring the Frontier of the Future: How Kentucky Will Live, Learn and Work. This report provides Kentucky policymakers with information on economic, educational, demographic, and environmental trends and issues with implications for policy decisions. Following an introduction, "Past as Prologue" (James C. Klotter), the 28 chapters are presented in 5 sections: "The White Picket Fence: Trends Affecting the Quality of Life in Kentucky Communities"; "Our Emerging Culture of Learning"; "Our Changing Economy"; "Environmental Trends and Futures"; and "Government and Civic Participation." Chapters are: "Migration in Kentucky: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (Michael Price); "Growing Old in Kentucky: The Approaching Age of Age" (Graham D. Rowles, John F. Watkins); "Families and Children: The Common Wealth of Kentucky" (Stephan M. Wilson); "Poverty in Kentucky" (Miriam Fordham, Dan Jacovitch); "Assessing the Future of Housing in Kentucky" (F. Lynn Luallen);… [PDF]

Zulham (2022). The Public Behavior and the Social Role of National Legal Business Education. Journal of Social Studies Education Research, v13 n2 p83-102. This study investigates the role between public behavior and the social function of the National Legal Education for the online loan literacy case. The scope of the research includes community behavior integrated with technology and consumer education concerning business law regarding Self Evaluation and Protection of Personal Information in the case of Online Loans. The normative legal study design assesses ten principal legal documents, including nine Rhode Island laws, four government regulations issued by the Minister of Communication and Information and the Financial Services Authority, and one civil code. The study focuses on positive law regarding Self Evaluation and Protection of Consumer Information and Business Law Education on Online Loans. The findings disclose that in national law, online loan literacy cases occur in digital societies. It is necessary to conduct an independent evaluation to control the exploitative attitude of people literate in online loans and… [PDF]

Edwards, Patricia A. (2022). Cultivating a Dream as a Child Growing up in the Deep South: Keeping the Dream Alive for Today's Children. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, v71 n1 p190-210 Nov. The 2021 Oscar Causey Award Address presented at the Literacy Research Association by Professor Dr. Patricia A. Edwards is a response to two self-reflexive questions: "How were my dreams cultivated as a little Black girl growing up in Albany, Georgia during the mid-fifties. sixties, and early seventies?" and "What implications does my story have for cultivating the dreams of today's children?" To explore these questions, Edwards uses a qualitative methodology termed portraiture (Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997) to capture her insights and experiences, allowing her to "paint" rich pictures of the participants "in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational life" (p. xv). Through portraiture, which relies heavily on the use of storytelling and narration, Edwards converts the term "research" into "I-search" (Macrorie, 1988), affording her the opportunity to reflect on… [Direct]

Kubow, Patricia K.; Min, Mina (2016). The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship. Democracy & Education, v24 n2 Article 5. Drawing upon the African concept of "ubuntu," this article examines the epistemic orientations toward individual-society relations that inform democratic citizenship and identity in South Africa. Findings from focus group interviews conducted with 50 Xhosa teachers from all seven primary and intermediate schools in a township outside Cape Town depict the cultural contours of democracy and how the teachers reaffirm and question the dominant Western-oriented democratic narrative. Through "ubuntu," defined as the virtue of being human premised upon respect, the Xhosa teachers interrupt the prevailing rights-and-responsibilities discourse to interpose a conception of democracy based on rights, responsibilities, and respect. Society and schools, in their view, fall short in educating young learners for democratic citizenship in South Africa; their insights offer ways for formal schooling to improve upon its democratic mission…. [Direct]

Barbour, Nancy; Kinos, Jarmo; Pukk, Maarika; Robertson, Leena (2016). Child-Initiated Pedagogies: Moving toward Democratically Appropriate Practices in Finland, England, Estonia, and the United States. Childhood Education, v92 n5 p345-357. The Convention on the Rights of the Child calls for children to be treated as human beings with a distinct set of rights, instead of as passive objects of care. They can and should be agents in their own lives. Child-initiated pedagogy recognizes this by respecting children's individual and collective views, interests, and motivations. Instructional practices that support child-initiated activities promote children's self-determination and their cognitive and social development. By allowing young children to choose their own pursuits and learning explorations, take ownership of planned activities to adapt them to their own purposes, and incorporate their own experiences into learning opportunities, educators are moving toward implementation of democratically appropriate practices. The authors of this article examine how child-initiated pedagogy manifests in the different contexts of Finland, England, Estonia, and the United States…. [Direct]

Wiebe, Sean (2016). The Teacher as Silenced Superhero. Online Submission, LEARNing Landscapes v9 n2 p535-550 Spr. In this essay I argue that social ideals create an imaginary that inspires self-discipline in beliefs, thinking, and practices in order to achieve social-utopian hopes that the world will improve in particular ways. As such, social ideals limit human agency in general, and, for teachers in particular, there is limited terrain in which they have the right to speak. As a substitute for their right to speak, I argue, teachers are given the token social status of superhero, a fantasy consistent with neoliberal styles of thought. Following Pinar's notion of art-as-event, I propose that deep engagement in the arts might be a means of restoring agency and voice to teachers; I argue that art troubles the strong socialization motif in education and creates intellectual room for the development of genuinely educational moments in schooling…. [PDF]

Carl, Ed.; Davis, James, Ed.; Guarneri (2008). Teaching American History in a Global Context. M.E. Sharpe Inc This comprehensive resource is an invaluable aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view. The contributors include well-known American history scholars as well as ordinary classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race, and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in America in their courses. The book also includes a "Views from Abroad" section that examines problems and strategies for teaching American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print and online resources. This book contains five parts. Part I, Calls for Change,… [Direct]

Jutting, Johannes: Morrisson, Christian (2005). Changing Social Institutions to Improve the Status of Women in Developing Countries. OECD Development Centre Policy Brief No. 27. OECD Publishing (NJ1) One of the long-standing priorities of the international community is to reduce gender disparity in developing countries. Yet, the overall picture is still gloomy: women continue to be excluded from access to resources and employment and are denied basic human rights. This Policy Brief explains why progress has been so minimal and what should be done about it. Recent Development Centre research (Morrisson and Jutting, 2004, 2005; Morrisson and Friedrich, 2004) has shown the institutional framework as key to understanding the economic role of women in developing countries, yet this framework has not received the attention it deserves. This Policy Brief summarises the lessons from this and other research to answer three questions. First, why are social institutions so important for gender equality? Second, what obstacles impede reforms of discriminatory social institutions, and why is progress so limited? Third, what policy lessons emerge for donors? Feminist studies emphasised the… [PDF] [Direct]

Lightfoot, Jonathan D. (2006). Separate Is Inherently Unequal: Rethinking Commonly Held Wisdom. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, v10 n23. Modern educational reform owes much to the legal team and educational leaders who fought to make equal educational opportunity a reality for Black students in the United States of America. Their efforts helped to dismantle American apartheid; a.k.a. Jim Crow, a system of allocating human and civil rights according to assigned or assumed "racial" classifications. The 1954 Supreme Court concluded that the doctrine of "separate but equal", initiated in 1896 under Plessy, has no place in public education and separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Since the 1954 decision of "Brown v. Board of Education Topeka", Kansas "separate is inherently unequal" has been the mantra used by advocates of desegregated schools. The purpose of this research is to question commonly held wisdom promoting the idea that if things are separate, they must be unequal. Integration, it follows, is then sought as the solution to the problem of inequality. I… [Direct]

Bu, Yuhua; Chen, Hongyan (2019). Anthropocosmic Vision, Time, and Nature: Reconnecting Humanity and Nature. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v51 n11 p1130-1140. Having enjoyed remarkable economic success, China's natural environment is being increasingly degraded, and with it, the quality of life. Researchers and environmentalists have responded by exploring whether cultural resources can provide a means of understanding ecological systems. This article reviews philosophical Chinese concepts of "tian-ren-he-yi" and ecological time, and ponders their implications for understanding current ecological challenges. A motif of ancient Chinese thought, "tian-ren-he-yi" perceives the cosmos as an organic, mutually reciprocal entity in which human beings coexist harmoniously with nature. This entity does not unfold by following a cyclical pattern, but rather through a process of transformative harmony with the flow of time. In contrast to the linear time constructed by community life, this view of ecological time can reveal the new dimension of rhythm. To enhance children's awareness of their responsibility for caring for the… [Direct]

Kaiser, Lauren T.; Rahill, Stephanie A.; Tacovsky, Heather L.; Tomes, Yuma I. (2020). Pathways to Academia: Transitioning from Practitioner to Graduate Educator. Communique, v49 n4 p28-29 Dec. In accordance with the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Practice Model (NASP, 2020), school psychologists must have knowledge of professional identity, advocate for professional roles, and engage in lifelong learning and professional growth. Knowledge of potential career paths in academia can help school psychologists broaden both their understanding of the profession and potentially build an alternate career path vision. This is especially important because there are predicted faculty openings and data to suggest that an increasing number of openings are left unfilled each year (Castillo et al., 2014; Clopton & Haselhuhn, 2009). Practitioners possess a vital skill set and experience base for training and are an important human resource for addressing the current and predicted faculty shortages. This purpose of this article is to share the academic career pathway of four different school psychology practitioners. Themes from their pathways will be discussed to… [Direct]