Behera, Santosh Kumar; Mohakud, Lalit Lalitav; Mohapatra, Rajiba Lochan (2012). Encouraging Higher Education through Open and Distance Learning (ODL): Some Aspects. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, v13 n4 p359-368 Oct. Higher Education system of a country enhances the human resources potential and gives the country the right niche in global scenario. Due to wide scattered and over whelming population and an increasing demand, it is not possible for country like India to provide higher education to all who really need through formal mode. Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is one of the best alternatives to satisfy the growing demand for education of a variety of learners. The present writing deals with the role of ODL in the promotion of higher education in India…. [PDF]

Mertz, Gayle (1997). War, Peace, and Human Rights: Listening to Children's Voices. Teaching Strategy. Update on Law-Related Education, v21 n1 p12-14 Win. Presents a lesson plan that teaches students the relationship between basic international doctrine and the proliferation and control of weapons of mass destruction. Assigned readings and handouts, including the preamble to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, facilitate student reports and group discussions. (MJP)…

Zimmermann, Warren (1987). The Evolving Soviet Approach to Human Rights. Current Policy No. 929. The Soviet Union (USSR) is a different place from what it was two years ago. The essential nature of these differences is, however, not obvious and the picture remains mixed. Recent developments involving political prisoners, freedom to travel and emigrate, broadcast jamming, and Czechoslovak relations seem to indicate that the Soviet society is at a turning point. It will be apparent whether Soviet society will turn in a positive direction only when predictions become reality, when promises become performance, when gestures become practices, when episodes become patterns, and when isolated steps become a long march. In the view of the United States, implementation is the key element in the entire process. New proposals can be an incentive to implementation; they must not be a substitute for it. In that spirit, the United States and 16 other Western countries have, during the past two weeks, introduced 16 proposals covering the entire human dimension of the Helsinki Final Act. They… [PDF]

Pollock, John Crothers; And Others (1978). Media Agendas and Human Rights: The Supreme Court Decision on Abortion. Journalism Quarterly, v55 n3 p544-48,561 Fall. Examines coverage of the abortion issue prior to, during, and after the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing elective abortion in daily newspapers in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. Considers the effect on news coverage of local religious composition, income levels, race, and abortion rate. (GW)…

Edwards, Harry (1979). The Olympic Project for Human Rights: An Assessment Ten Years Later. Black Scholar, v10 n6-7 p2-8 Mar-Apr. A brief profile on the circumstances of Blacks in sports is presented to demonstrate the point that, even for the \successful\ Black athlete, life in sports comes to approximate a racist nightmare more than the \dream come true\ it is purported to be. (Author/EB)…

Phillipson, Robert (1998). Globalizing English: Are Linguistic Human Rights an Alternative to Linguistic Imperialism?. Language Sciences, v20 n1 p101-12 Jan. Questions whether the expansion of English and other dominant languages, an intrinsic part of contemporary globalization, serves to encourage and promote other languages and cultures or the reverse. Argues that there is overwhelming evidence of linguicide, with speakers of "world languages" as active agents in the demise of other languages. (49 references) (Author/CK)…

Ashman, Adrian F. (1990). Sterilization and Training for Normal Sexual Development: Human Rights and Obligations. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, v16 n4 p359-68. This paper notes the lack of attention given to the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities in both the literature and service delivery (in Australia). It discusses sterilization issues (such as authority to give consent and the "best interest" concept) and recommends approaches less intrusive on individual rights than sterilization. (DB)…

Grossmann, Tobias; Missana, Manuela (2015). Infants' Emerging Sensitivity to Emotional Body Expressions: Insights from Asymmetrical Frontal Brain Activity. Developmental Psychology, v51 n2 p151-160 Feb. Sensitive responding to others' emotional body expressions is an essential social skill in humans. Using event-related brain potentials, it has recently been shown that the ability to discriminate between emotional body expressions develops between 4 and 8 months of age. However, it is not clear whether the perception of emotional body expressions in others evokes sensitive brain responses linked to motivational processes in infants. We therefore examined frontal EEG alpha asymmetry in response to dynamic happy and fearful body expressions presented to 4- and 8-month-old infants in 2 orientations (upright and inverted). Our results revealed that only 8-month-olds but not 4-month-olds showed significant differences in their frontal asymmetry responses between emotional expressions when presented in an upright orientation. Specifically, 8-month-old infants showed a greater lateralization to the left hemisphere in response to happy expression, indexing a greater tendency to approach,… [Direct]

Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. (2017). Education and New Developments 2017. Online Submission This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). 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 bring… [PDF]

Balaraman, Selvam; Fook, Chan Yuen (2016). Formal University Education and Job Competency of New Engineers in Automotive Industry in Malaysia. Asian Journal of University Education, v12 n2 p39-64 Dec. The main purpose of this research is to verify the relevancy of knowledge and skills acquired by engineering graduates from university to automotive industry in Malaysia. Hence, this paper aims to identify to what extent the knowledge and skills acquired by the new engineers in the university have equipped them with job competency in the automotive industry. This study adopts a qualitative case study method to analyze and compare data collected from a private engineering college, a public university and an automotive manufacturing industry. The identified target groups are one human resource manager, six new engineering graduates, and 4 university lecturers. The findings of this study suggested that the stakeholders, university, students as well as industries are aware that it is not easy for new engineers to fit into industries right after graduation. The study emphasizes the important role of the stakeholders namely; university, new engineer and industry, to enhance the acquisition… [PDF]

Bouma, A.; Brouwer, W. H.; Geuze, R. H.; Groothuis, A. G. G.; Lust, J. M.; van der Zwan, J. E.; van Wolffelaar, P. C. (2011). Driving Performance during Word Generation–Testing the Function of Human Brain Lateralization Using fTCD in an Ecologically Relevant Context. Neuropsychologia, v49 n9 p2375-2383 Jul. It has been hypothesized that cerebral lateralization of function enhances cognitive performance. Evidence was found in birds and fish. However, recent research in humans did not support this hypothesis. We aimed to replicate and extend these findings for single- and dual-task performance in an ecologically relevant task. We combined a word generation task which is assumed to be primarily processed in the left hemisphere with a driving task which is assumed to be primarily processed in the right hemisphere. For each task the individual strength and direction of hemispheric lateralization was assessed by using functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD). For each subject (36 right-handed, 35 nonright-handed) performance was measured in the two single-tasks and in the dual-task condition. On average, subjects showed a left hemisphere bias for the word generation task, a right hemisphere bias for the driving task and dual-task interference. Within subjects, lateralization of… [Direct]

Edwards, Charles K. (2013). A Framework for the Governance of Information Security. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Nova Southeastern University. Information security is a complex issue, which is very critical for success of modern businesses. It can be implemented with the help of well-tested global standards and best practices. However, it has been studied that the human aspects of information security compliance pose significant challenge to its practitioners. There has been significant interest in the recent past on how human compliance to information security policy can be achieved in an organization. Various models have been proposed by these researchers. However, there are very few models that have tried to link human commitment attributes with information security governance of an organization. The research problem of this study was to identify the security controls and mechanisms to govern information security effectively. The proposed model was based on agency theory and comprises a relationship between human commitment variables (ethics, integrity and trust) with security governance variables (structural, relational… [Direct]

Aarde, S.M.; Baig, K.; Zaidel, D.W. (2005). Appearance of Symmetry, Beauty, and Health in Human Faces. Brain and Cognition, v57 n3 p261-263 Apr. Symmetry is an important concept in biology, being related to mate selection strategies, health, and survival of species. In human faces, the relevance of left-right symmetry to attractiveness and health is not well understood. We compared the appearance of facial attractiveness, health, and symmetry in three separate experiments. Participants inspected front views of faces on the computer screen and judged them on a 5-point scale according to their attractiveness in Experiment 1, health in Experiment 2, and symmetry in Experiment 3. We found that symmetry and attractiveness were not strongly related in faces of women or men while health and symmetry were related. There was a significant difference between attractiveness and symmetry judgments but not between health and symmetry judgments. Moreover, there was a significant difference between attractiveness and health. Facial symmetry may be critical for the appearance of health but it does not seem to be critical for the appearance… [Direct]

LaMontagne, Ramona Marie (2012). Facing Ethical Dilemmas in the Workplace: A Qualitative Study of HR Managers' Perceptions of the Influences on Their Behavior and the Implications for Building an Ethical Culture in Organizations. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Northern Illinois University. This qualitative study examined the perceptions of human resource managers who had faced ethical dilemmas in the workplace, to gain an understanding of how they felt their life experiences shaped their values in making ethical decisions. The experiences of ten human resource managers who believed they chose a right course of action when faced with a real world situation are examined within the context of their life experiences. Each human resource manager shared a personal story through the process of interviews that told of an ethical dilemma, and the development of the value perspectives that made up his or her ethical framework. The interviews were analyzed through the process of the constant comparison method which revealed some common themes throughout. Themes which emerged through the interview process included: a diversity of childhood and adult learning experiences from formal and informal church teachings and activities, immediate and extended family influences, and the… [Direct]

(2009). Higher Education: Approaches to Attract and Fund International Students in the United States and Abroad. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives. GAO-09-379. US Government Accountability Office Following September 11, 2001, the number of international students coming to the United States dropped for the first time in over 30 years. While enrollments have rebounded, the U.S. image has declined in the Muslim world and elsewhere. To improve global attitudes toward America, the U.S. government funds higher education for international students to facilitate exchanges, promote understanding among peoples in different countries, and build capacity in developing nations. To provide insight on how higher education is used to advance public diplomacy and development assistance goals, we examined (1) the objectives the United States and selected peer governments seek to advance through higher education for international students and the approaches they employ to attract international students, and (2) the characteristics of major U.S. and peer government programs that fund higher education for international students to support public diplomacy and development goals. GAO collected… [PDF]

Grealy, Deborah S.; Hall-Ellis, Sylvia D. (2013). The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition: A Career Development Framework for Succession Planning and Management in Academic Libraries. College & Research Libraries, v74 n6 p587-603 Nov. Succession planning and management are critical parts of strategic planning for libraries in the twenty-first century. Making certain that the right people are in place with the prerequisite training and experience to assume leadership positions is a vital part of strategic planning and talent management in libraries that rely on teams of people working in flatter structures and greater accountability. The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition framework suggests that mentoring, coaching, and professional development empower staff for movement up organizational career ladders as part of succession planning and management. To maximize human capital, administrators need to determine skill development levels among staff so that they can identify skill "gaps" internally, create new career ladders, identify emerging stars, and enhance evidence of values for staff contributions…. [Direct]

Brenner, Charles (2013). Changes in Chemistry and Biochemistry Education: Creative Responses to Medical College Admissions Test Revisions in the Age of the Genome. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, v41 n1 p1-4 Jan-Feb. Approximately two million students matriculate into American colleges and universities per year. Almost 20% of these students begin taking a series of courses specified by advisers of health preprofessionals. The single most important influence on health profession advisers and on course selection for this huge population of learners is the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), which was last revised in 1991, 10 years before publication of the first draft human genome sequence. In preparation for the 2015 MCAT, there is a broad discussion among stakeholders of how best to revise undergraduate and medical education in the molecular sciences to prepare researchers and doctors to acquire, analyze and use individual genomic and metabolomic data in the coming decades. Getting these changes right is among the most important educational problems of our era…. [Direct]

(2014). Guidance Materials to Support the Use of Hawai'i-Specific, Publicly Available Data Sources. Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific Effective evidence-based action requires getting the right data into the right hands at the right time to help make decisions. The Data Quality Campaign (2011) has provided suggestions to state education agencies for effectively using data within state longitudinal data systems. One suggestion is to identify "the variety of ways available data can be used and the types of analyses required to answer critical policy questions". In addition to answering policy questions, publicly available data sources have the potential to assist educators, policy makers, and other education stakeholders in Hawai'i with making evidence-based decisions related to education policy, programming, and support. As such, this document provides guidance to education researchers on how to access publicly available data sources, the questions that can be supported by the data sources, and the limitations of the data sources in order to support the advancement of education research and evidence-based… [PDF]

Baciu, M.; Bougerol, T.; Cousin, E.; Perrone, M.; Pichat, C.; Polosan, M. (2011). An fMRI Study of the Social Competition in Healthy Subjects. Brain and Cognition, v77 n3 p401-411 Dec. Social interaction requires the ability to infer another person's mental state (Theory of Mind, ToM) and also executive functions. This fMRI study aimed to identify the cerebral correlates activated by ToM during a specific social interaction, the human-human competition. In this framework, we tested a conflict resolution task (Stroop) adapted to a virtual situation of competition. The participants were instructed to play in order to win either against a human-like competitor (human-human competition) or against a non-human competitor (human-machine competition). Only the human-human competition requires ToM as this type of competition is performed under social interaction. We identified first the classical network of executive regions activated by Stroop. Secondly, we identified the social (human-human) competition regions, represented by the bilateral superior and inferior frontal gyri, the anterior cingulate, the insula, the superior and anterior temporal, the hippocampus, the… [Direct]

(1983). Federal Civil Rights Commitments: An Assessment of Enforcement Resources and Performance. United States Commission on Civil Rights Clearinghouse Publication 82. This report reviews, in the context of their budget and staff resources, selected activities of six Federal agencies with significant responsibility for enforcing civil rights laws. They are: (1) the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights; (2) The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights; (3) the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity; (4) the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs; (5) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and (6) the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. For each agency, the report evaluates major program components according to the agency's own objectives and other available measures of enforcement needs. The report identifies issues that should be tracked in the continuing budget process; discusses changing policies, demands, and procedures that may affect the way resources are used; and considers agency efforts to economize and… [PDF]

Atabekova, Anastasia A.; Gorbatenko, Rimma G.; Shoustikova, Tatyana V.; Valero-Garc√©s, Carmen (2018). Cross-Cultural Mediation with Refugees in Emergency Settings: ICT Use by Language Service Providers. Journal of Social Studies Education Research, v9 n3 p351-369. The paper explores the current state of affairs in the language service providers' attitude and practice regarding the digital tools potential for language and culture mediation with refugees. The issue is considered from the angle of interpreters' awareness of and competency in using up-to-date electronic tools to support refugees' language rights in emergency settings in general and at the border crossing points and temporary settlements, in particular. The current importance of the research rests on the global migration tendencies that map a lot of challenges for cross cultural communication with forced migrants and refugees. The paper aims to explore the language service providers' competence and their aptitude to use digital tools for interpreting in diverse settings, including those related to migration contexts, oral human interaction and language mediation at the border crossing points, in particular. The study integrates desk and field research, includes the analysis of… [PDF]

Park, J. Charles (1980). Rise of the New Right: Human and Civil Rights in Jeopardy. NJEA Review, v53 n7 p12-14 Mar. The author warns that ultra-conservatism is growing in strength and sophistication as a political force. He cites literature from various right-wing groups attacking the public schools and suggests that educators must learn to cope with social stress and the political extremism it generates. (SJL)…

Piper, Benjamin (2016). International Education Is a Broken Field: Can "Ubuntu" Education Bring Solutions?. International Review of Education, v62 n1 p101-111 Feb. "Ubuntu" is an African philosophy of human kindness; applying it in the Global South would fundamentally alter the design of the education sector. This essay argues, however, that the field of international educational development is not, in fact, structured to support an education influenced by "ubuntu" ideals. Specifically, the educational development milieu includes donors, implementers and academicians who do not sufficiently question the power dynamics which underpin education development. This creates a field where the power imbalances between donors and host governments are not interrogated, where development workers place too much faith in their own knowledge rather than that of local education experts, and where development practitioners rarely appreciate the privilege of working in countries which are not their own. An "ubuntu" education would alter the educational development field in myriad critical ways, a few of which are suggested in this… [Direct]

Alleman, Nathan F.; Allen, Cara Cliburn; Haviland, Don; Jacobs, Jenny (2020). Inclusive Collegiality and Nontenure-Track Faculty: Engaging "All Faculty" as Colleagues to Promote Healthy Departments and Institutions. The New Faculty Majority. Stylus Publishing LLC This book focuses on the status and work of full-time non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) whose ranks are increasing as tenure track faculty (TTF) make up a smaller percentage of the professoriate. NTTF experience highly uneven and conditional access to collegiality, are often excluded from decision-making spaces, and receive limited respect from their TTF colleagues because of outdated notions that link perceived expertise almost exclusively to scholarship. The result is often a sub-class of faculty marginalized in their departments, which reduces the inclusion of diverse voices in academic governance, professional relationships, and student learning. Given these implications, the authors ask, how can departments, institutions, and the profession do more to engage NTTF as full and active colleagues? The limited access of NTTF to the rights and responsibilities of collegiality harms institutional success in several ways. Given the full-time nature of their work and the heavy (but not… [Direct]

(1975). Rules of the South Dakota Commission on Human Rights, Proposed January 3, 1975… Rules 20:13:12 through 20:03:22 are interpretations by the commission of SDCL Chapter 20-13, as it covers education. 11 new Chapters read as follows: 20:03:12–General; 20:03:13–Public Education. Each educational institution shall ensure that members of its community are informed of the South Dakota Human Relations Act of 1972 as amended as it relates to equal educational opportunities, and shall ensure that such persons are aware that all courses of study, educational programs, extra-curricular and athletic activities and financial assistance, service, aid, and benefits are available without discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry. 29:13:14–Discrimination in school admissions; 20:13:15–Discrimination in financial assistance and other forms of aid; 20:13:16–Discrimination in admission to courses of study and educational programs; 20:13:17–Discrimination in course content; 20:13:18–Discrimination in guidance and counseling;… [PDF]

Gewaily, M. (2014). OUTSELVES Linked: Cultural Alienation in Literary Performance. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, v5 n2 p142-148 Apr. This article is a study of the relationship between the self and its others. It aims to reconsider the two major principles of relevance and context to present a human relationship between the art of communicative performance and the art of cognitive competence throughout some mental representations in literary performances. The article here draws attention to the three main criteria of the discourse of a work of art: "Make, Intend and Agree". This set of three key terms is to be compared with the liberal art of writing in a random selection from the oeuvre of four different authors. The main question is: Is there unity in the writings of different writers? There will be reference to the selective works of a group of well-known writers: such as J. Swift, N. Mahfouz, N. Gordimer and L. Hughes. The article attempts to present how these four writers stress that the cultural alienation (betrayal) is generated by the mechanical execution of legislation, and then contrasts it… [PDF]

Mundrawala, Asma (2007). Fitting the Bill: Commissioned Theatre Projects on Human Rights in Pakistan–The Work of Karachi-Based Theatre Group "Tehrik e Niswan". Research in Drama Education, v12 n2 p149-161 Jun. Theatre practitioners in Pakistan's southern city Karachi have seen a recent surge of interest in the past two decades by donor agencies from the Western world to fund theatre companies and employ various forms of theatre for development to service their agendas and areas of interest within their target communities. This trend may have lent a structure to the practice but it has also brought its own share of problems. Whereas the patronage of donor agencies has facilitated the spread of community theatre, it has also gradually defined the transformation of some theatre groups from their politically motivated ideologies to more reformist agendas. This paper examines this phenomenon through the practice of one of Karachi's oldest theatre groups, the "Tehrik e Niswan" (The Women's Movement), and its recent engagement with community theatre projects within its practice through two recent British Council commissioned projects on forced marriages (2004) and honour killings… [Direct]

Dixon, Derrick Demarcus (2018). Sexual Misconduct and Interpersonal Violence Education: An Analysis of the Athletic Department's Influence on the Proactive Approaches Utilized to Address Title IX Issues among College Student Athletes. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Arkansas State University. In 1972, collegiate and K-12 institutions were introduced to thirty-seven words that changed the face of women's sports and sexual discrimination (Wulf, 2012). As outlined by the Office of Civil Rights (2017), Title IX is a federal law that states that "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" (Title IX of The Education Amendments of 1972). In addition to providing equality for athletes (high school and college), Title IX also protects members of the school or university community from discrimination in the areas of sexual harassment (Silbaugh, 2015). In recent years, there have been several major incidents that have garnered national attention in relation to sexual violence and relationship violence among college athletes. As such the purpose of this descriptive quantitative study… [Direct]

Srinivasan, V. K. (2013). Enjoyment of Euclidean Planar Triangles. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, v44 n6 p905-921. This article adopts the following classification for a Euclidean planar [triangle]ABC, purely based on angles alone. A Euclidean planar triangle is said to be acute angled if all the three angles of the Euclidean planar [triangle]ABC are acute angles. It is said to be right angled at a specific vertex, say B, if the angle ?ABC is a right angle with the two remaining angles as acute angles. It is said to be obtuse angled at the vertex B if ?ABC = ?B is an obtuse angle, with the two remaining angles as acute angles. In spite of the availability of numerous text books that contain our human knowledge of Euclidean plane geometry, softwares can offer newer insights about the characterizations of planar geometrical objects. The author's characterizations of triangles involve points like the centroid G, the orthocentre H of the [triangle]ABC, the circumcentre S of the [triangle]ABC, the centre N of the nine-point circle of the [triangle]ABC. Also the radical centre rc of three involved… [Direct]

Massoudi, Mehrdad (2010). Us and Them: Religious Education and the Role of Proper Communication in Conflict Prevention. Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, v41 n3 p285-304 Jul. The importance of proper language, in the context of multicultural education, and how it can be of help in conflict prevention is discussed. A brief discussion of what a model does and how a scientific model is constructed is provided. A circular model is developed where it is proposed that thought, language, and action, as the three most important fields of human activity, are mutually affecting each other. The element of right (proper) speech in Buddhism is extended to include right writing, or in short, right communication…. [Direct]