(1976). Ukrainians in America: Contributions to America, Relationship to Homeland, Integration into American Life, Retention of Ethnicity in America. Ethnic Heritage in America: Curriculum Materials in Elementary School Social Studies on Greeks, Jews, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians. This ethnic heritage unit is about Ukrainians in the United States. The first section presents basic facts, such as a map of Ukraine, map of Eastern Europe, facts about Ukraine, principal dates in Ukrainian history, ten outstanding figures in modern Ukrainian history, milestones of Ukrainian communities in the United States, bibliography about Ukrainians, and a resource guide of community organizations in the United States. The second section discusses early Ukrainian settlement in North America, religious feasts, and celebration of family occasions. The third section presents Ukrainian immigration, musical instruments, easter eggs, Pysanka, and Christmas puppet theater "Vertep." Cultural patterns in Europe and USSR are presented in the next section in light of the Ukrainian-American artist named Archipenko, two adventurers from Ukraine, historical consciousness, aspirations to freedom, and the modern and united Ukraine. The following section presents conflicting interests… [PDF]
(2001). The Voice of THIMUN Youth: Action Papers of the Annual Session (1st, The Hague, Netherlands, January 21-26, 2001). This document contains action paper reports from an international youth assembly that was held to enable young people from around the world to discuss a variety of social and economic issues and develop a common vision and plan of action. The report by the Committee on Youth Employment and Education examines the current state of education, its impact on employment, vocational education, and needed support systems. The report by the Committee on Water and Life discusses strategies for increasing awareness of the need to protect water resources and possible policy solutions to critical environmental problems. The report by the Committee on Peace and Justice considers the following topics: the need for formal and informal peace education; potential peace education programs; and possible roles for teachers and the media in peace education. The report by the Committee on Health and Social Development explores possible strategies for preventing and controlling HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, and… [PDF]
(1999). Interactive Teaching and the Multi Media Revolution: Case Method & Other Techniques. Selected Papers of the International Conference on Case Method Research & Application (15th, Marseille, France, July 9-13, 1998). This volume contains conference papers in which representatives from case method-oriented organizations present ideas on interactive, interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international teaching and learning. Eight chapters include: (1) "Case Method Research and Evaluation" (e.g., cross-cultural case research and writing and teaching research by distance education and computer technology); (2) "Adult Learning across Disciplines around the World" (e.g., modeling team learning and preparing teachers for urban settings); (3) "Case Teaching across Disciplines around the World" (e.g., case writing and role playing exercises for teaching legal processes); (4) "Educational Leadership and Case Method Application" (e.g., role plays to teach marketing cases and grading case courses to foster collaborative learning); (5) "Interactive Simulations and Distance Education" (e.g., interactive multimedia simulations in management and computer… [PDF]
(2001). Novicke, Spring 2001 (The News, Spring 2001). Novicke, Spr. This information bulletin is one in a series devoted to adult education and learning in Slovenia. The bulletin is organized in four sections. The first section, SIAE [Slovenian Institute for Adult Education] Events, contains the following articles: "Proposals for Making the Year of Languages" (Sonja Klemencic); "Evaluation of the PLYA [Project Learning for Young Adults] Programme in the 1999-2000 School Year: PLYAers Return to School" (Andreja Dobrovoljc); "Farewell to LLW [Lifelong Learning Week] 2000–Pre-New Year Meeting: "We Start with the Belief that We Are Rich–Also in Knowledge!" (Slavica Borka Kucler). The second section, Slovenian Adult Education Scene includes "New Step Towards Establishing Adult Education" (Peter Beltram); "External Assessment of Knowledge of Foreign Languages" (Suzana Bitenc Peharc); and "VAT [Value Added Tax] Still Disputable" (Peter Beltram). The third section, "International… [PDF]
(2000). Democracy and Education, Schools and Communities Initiative: Conceptual Framework and Preliminary Findings. Nine rural Vermont schools committed to linking to their local communities are participating in an ongoing study of how manifest curricula (what is taught) and latent curricula (how classes are taught and schools are governed) influence development of student dispositions toward democratic participation. This paper presents preliminary findings from the first year. In some schools that gave students opportunities to practice democratic values and that had a vision of how service learning or a curriculum of place relates to the school mission, school-community relations improved and the student body developed a sense of civic responsibility. The major factors impacting a school's adoption of service learning were school board support, collaborative leadership, common philosophies of education among teachers and staff, and adequate resources and professional development opportunities. Service-learning and related experiential education opportunities engaged alienated and marginalized… [PDF]
(2000). Conquest, Conflict, and Commerce: The Colonial Experience in the Congo. Teacher's Resource Book [and Student Text]. Public Policy Debate in the Classroom. Choices for the 21st Century Education Project. This teacher resource book and student text is part of a continuing series on current and historical international issues, placing special emphasis on the importance of educating students in their participatory role as citizens. The unit draws students into the international debate about how to respond to the imperialism that brutally disfigured the Congo in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. After examining the nature of pre-colonial central African societies, students use primary and secondary readings to develop an understanding of how European power politics contributed to one of the most shocking examples of European colonization in Africa. While the history of the Congo Free State, later the Belgian Congo, is atypical of European imperialism of this era, this unit confronts students with a dramatic story that provides the foundation for assessing the moral, political, cultural, and economic issues raised by colonialism in general. This unit examines the roles played by…
(1997). China: Tradition and Transformation. Curriculum Projects. Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar Abroad Program 1997 (China). These projects were completed by participants in the Fulbright-Hays summer seminar in China in 1997. The participants represented various regions of the U.S. and different grade levels and subject areas. The 15 curriculum projects in the collection are: (1) "China's One-Child Policy" (Michael Borrowman); (2) "China Chooses a Simulation" (Richard Celio); (3) "Women of China: Past, Present, Future" (Kathleen E. Dillon); (4) "The Cultural Revolution: An Introduction Unit for the Study of Contemporary China" (Dennis J. Ferry); (5) "China: Tradition and Transformation" (Claudette Butler Hatfield); (6) "China Approaching the 21st Century" (Sherry Henderson); (7) "A Multisensory Introduction to Modern China" (Anne Jellison); (8) "China Resource Based Unit of Study for Intermediate Ages" and "Chinese New Year" (Francia Johnson); (9) "The Dragon in China" (Sheila Karron); (10) "From Many… [PDF]
(2002). \Scary Thing, Being an Eighth Grader:\ Exploring Gender and Sexuality in a Middle School U.S. History Unit. Theory and Research in Social Education, v30 n2 p233-254 Spr. The study reported here provides an example of the complex interface among historical study, current issues, and adolescents' complex social worlds. The authors investigated the ways in which a group of eighth grade students conceptualize the significance of gender in the context of a study of antebellum U.S. history. Fifty students participated in a set of inquiries into women's involvement in nineteenth-century U.S. reform movements, industrialization, and culture contact and conflict on the shifting frontier. Classroom interactions, museum-like displays, presentations, and interviews contrast students' public constructions and private responses to issues of gender and sexuality in the context of historical study. Among other findings, students identified women's experiences as historically significant, recognized, analyzed, and expressed interest in the variety of perspectives represented by women they studied, and worried about \reverse sexism\–studying women at the expense of… [Direct]
(1983). Advocacy: Education's Professional Responsibility to Handicapped Citizens. Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, v18 n4 p266-70 Dec. Participatory advocacy interventions including citizen advocacy, ethical review boards, and surrogate parent programs are recommended as professional activities for educators. Immersion of professional educators in the human and legal rights arena is advised. State certification boards are urged to adopt competencies in advocacy as a part of teacher certification requirements. (Author/CL)…
(1995). Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone Criticism Grows. Alternatives, v21 n3 p6-9 Jul-Aug. Discusses concerns related to the use of recombinant bovine growth hormone in the United States and other countries. Analyses the issue from the perspectives of animal rights, human health, world hunger, concerns of small and organic farmers, costs to the taxpayer, and environmental questions. A sidebar discusses Canadian review of the hormone. (LZ)…
(1992). Social Justice and Minority Language Policy. Educational Theory, v42 n2 p181-200 Spr. Three individualistic accounts of social justice, (natural rights, human welfare, and fairness) are applicable to language policy planning in education. The article considers them limited and recommends a collectivist account which views various groups' needs as potentially different. It notes that language minority students require schooling responsive to their cultural differences. (SM)…
(2022). Nonplay in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care Institutions. American Journal of Play, v14 n3 p254-276. The authors consider play to be critical and intrinsic to healthy human life and development, and they argue that children's right to play should be supported by the environment in which they live. Their study seeks to understand what children do when they appear not to play during free play periods at early childhood education and care institutions. Their analysis of nonplay activities produced five categories: conversations, practical tasks, passive observation, wandering, and conflicts (or crying). These categories, they believe, can help kindergarten teachers become aware of factors in the physical environment that prevent children from playing and detect children who fall outside the play community…. [PDF]
(2024). An fMRI Study on the Generalization of Motor Learning after Brain Actuated Supernumerary Robot Training. npj Science of Learning, v9 Article 80. Generalization is central to motor learning. However, few studies are on the learning generalization of BCI-actuated supernumerary robotic finger (BCI-SRF) for human-machine interaction training, and no studies have explored its longitudinal neuroplasticity mechanisms. Here, 20 healthy right-handed participants were recruited and randomly assigned to BCI-SRF group or inborn finger group (Finger) for 4-week training and measured by novel SRF-finger opposition sequences and multimodal MRI. After training, the BCI-SRF group showed 350% times compared to the Finger group in the improvement of sequence opposition accuracy before and after training, and accompanied by significant functional connectivity increases in the sensorimotor region and prefrontal cortex, as well as in the intra- and inter-hemisphere of the sensorimotor network. Moreover, Granger Causality Analysis identified causal effect main transfer within the sensorimotor cortex-cerebellar-thalamus loop and frontal-parietal… [Direct]
(2024). The 'Ordinary' Violence of National Fantasy: Otherwise, 'Out of Time' Political Imaginaries for Posthuman Literacies and Book Banning. Gender and Education, v36 n8 p1033-1050. In this paper, I ask: How can thinking with posthuman theories of affect in gender and education enable us to trouble current book banning efforts that work to reassert the gender order, namely by aligning heterosexuality with the notion of a 'core national culture'? And how do post[left right arrow]feminisms, as more-than-human political practices of knowing/being/doing/feeling/sounding, help us to embrace otherwise imaginaries for 'literate-techno-bodies'? I begin from the premise that, as the im/material-discursive forces of white supremacist hyper-capitalist cisheteropatriarchy have historically shaped US aesthetic practices and notions of Americanness, gender and hetero-sexuality affectively extend into and entangle with texts, particularly fairytales. My hope is to redirect affective energies to otherwise worlds where gender, sexuality, and literacies are no longer bound to a stabilizing heteropatriarchal metanarrative that violently moves via subtle and not-so-subtle… [Direct]
(2009). International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference Proceedings (Orlando, Florida, February 26-27, 2009). Volume 2009, Issue 1. International Society for the Social Studies The "International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. It contains the following papers: (1) Teacher Perceptions of Authentic Pedagogy: A Case Study of Professional Development in an African American High School's Government Class (Christopher Andrew Brkich); (2) Characteristics of Effective Secondary Level History Teachers (Brad Burenheide); (3) Teaching Secondary Social Studies in Inner-City Schools (Chris Busey); (4) Using the 2008 Election to Teach Political and Social Concepts (Chris Busey and Stewart Waters); (5) Culturally Responsible Teaching: A Pedagogical Approach for the Social Studies Classroom (Brandon M. Butler and Alexander Cuenca); (6) The Battle for Stalingrad: An Interactive Approach towards Learning about World War Two (Jeff Byford); (7) Are We Ready for Another Curriculum Revolution? Evaluating the Strength and Weaknesses of the… [PDF]