(1991). The Pragmatics of Minority Politics in Belgium. Language in Society, v20 n4 p503-31 Dec. An analysis of newspaper reports, political policy papers and social science investigations, uncovers a coherent world of beliefs concerning minority-majority relations. These beliefs, centered around stable but vague notions of culture, nation, state, democracy, and human rights, reveal a society profoundly troubled by the idea of diversity, instead fostering a strict norm of homogeneity. (23 references) (JL)…
(1999). Children at the Margins of Society: Research and Practice. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, n85 p71-82 Fall. Presents research model for working with street children from a public-health and human-rights perspective. Suggests framework to guide health promotion in pursuit of child well-being, sampling and recruiting strategies in studying street and working children, conceptual issues related to studying these children, and supporting street children while changing the conditions that produce them. (LBT)…
(1998). By Virtue of Being Human. Teaching Tolerance, v7 n2 p46-53 Fall. Describes some efforts to ensure that teachers in the United States understand and teach about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although the declaration is 50 years old, it is not as well known in the United States as it is in other parts of the world. Teaching its content and meaning to children is discussed. (SLD)…
(2000). Aboriginal Language-Learning in Cyberspace: A Typology of Language-Related Web Sites and Their Potential Uses. Canadian Journal of Native Education, v24 n2 p120-33. The literature on language diversity, linguistic human rights, and language renewal is reviewed, and Web sites dedicated to Aboriginal languages are examined. The Internet provides a resource center where grammars, lexicons, fonts, and other resources can be developed; a means of learning languages; and a medium for communicating in Aboriginal languages. (Contains 35 references and 18 Web sites.) (TD)…
(2001). Religious Freedom in the World: A Global Comparative Survey Sponsored by Freedom House. American Educator, v25 n2 p18-32 Sum. Summarizes findings from a report on religious freedom around the world created by a multidisciplinary, multi-religious group of international scholars, explaining that this basic human right is under assault in many areas. Presents descriptions of religious freedom in Russia, India, North Korea, and Sudan. A chart describes and rates religious freedom by area of the world. (SM)…
(2000). Inclusion and Credibility: The Basics of Sexual Orientation. Journal of Intergroup Relations, v27 n2 p34-46 Sum. Provides a general overview of current literature on sexual orientation, emphasizing that the explicit inclusion of sexual orientation and of gay issues in human rights policy, training, and advocacy is necessary. Suggests that the failure to include sexual orientation issues does injury by reinforcing a presumption of heterosexuality, and this presumption encourages oppressive compulsory heterosexuality laws. (SM)…
(2002). Social Justice and Critical Literacy. Language Arts, v79 n5 p432-37 May. Presents annotations of 24 recently published works of children's literature that offer opportunities for teachers and students to consider how people's lives are affected by social justice issues. Addresses issues such as human rights, issues of racial justice, issues of gender equity, socioeconomic and class issues, political issues, and issues of social justice from a child's perspective. (SG)…
(1999). Parents and Children: Legal Reform To Facilitate Children's Participation. American Psychologist, v54 n11 p935-44 Nov. Explicates the rationale for efforts to promote the participation of children (and their parents and other interested adults) to help them feel that they are heard, noting the framework that is currently in place in most western countries, explaining this effort's foundation in international human rights law, and describing ways that it can be applied. (SM)…
(1999). Citizenship, Democracy and Political Literacy. MCT, v18 n1 p12-15,29 Aut. Draws on the Crick Report, Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools, to examine citizenship, democracy, and political literacy, considering the report's potential as a framework for promoting racial equality in European schools. Discusses the following issues: racism and the education system; racism, democracy, and citizenship education; and human rights and political literacy. (SM)…
(2001). Public Discourse: Creating the Conditions for Dialogue Concerning the Common Good in a Postmodern Heterogeneous Democracy. Studies in Philosophy and Education, v20 n3 p191-99 May. Offers a philosophical history of the nature of public discourse, describing it as a basic constituent of human rights. Analyzes the dichotomy between the common good and tolerance and protection of pluralism. Discusses the philosophical views of Condorcet, Jefferson, Dewey, and Habermas, portraying public discourse in relation to the Enlightenment ideal, scientific inquiry, and critique. (Contains 12 references.) (NB)…
(2003). The \Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (FIPLV)\ and Language Rights. Current Issues in Language Planning, v4 n2 p161-171 Apr. This paper outlines work undertaken by FIPLV as an affiliate of UNESCO in the development of a document outlining linguistic human rights. The paper examines how subsequent drafts have been modified and identifies some of the difficulties experienced in developing the drafts. After more than two decades of work, the process is still incomplete. (Contains 1 note.)… [Direct]
(1975). The Unfinished Agenda. Integrated Education, 13, 3, 18-20, May-Jun 75. This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, has the expressed purposes of briefly discussing and evaluating some of the gains that have been made in the 10 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 20 years after the historic decision that ended legal school segregation. (Author/JM)…
(1975). Progress Toward Civil Rights. Integrated Education, 13, 3, 60-62, May-Jun 75. This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is stated to discuss aspects of progress toward achieving racial equality in the past 10 years and to develop strategies for the decade ahead, was given by the Chairman of the New York State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (Author/JM)…
(2001). Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools. American Journal of Health Education, v32 n5 p302-306 Sep-Oct. Local, state, and federal governments fail to protect homosexual, bisexual, and transgender students from human rights violations (harassment, violence, and deprivation of the right to education). State authorities must: end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; compel school officials to protect all students from harassment and violence; create intervention models; and monitor school systems regarding compliance with nondiscrimination. (SM)… [PDF]
(2023). Radical Praxis Pedagogies: A Critical Podcast Methodology. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University. Podcasts in academia have largely been employed as either a supplementary resource to lectures, as an alternative for giving student feedback, or as a specific text to be utilized for research analysis. Largely overshadowed by the prior, there are few examples of podcast ethnographies and even fewer examples of researchers that are experimenting with podcasts as an alternative medium for academic publishing. However, what is largely absent from the literature is research examining how podcasts have the potential to be utilized as a pedagogical tool inextricable from offering rich opportunities as qualitative arts-inquiry research. This dissertation explores these possibilities for education research in the form of Critical Podcasting Methodology (CPM). Drawing on critical arts-inquiry research, this dissertation introduces CPM as the use of podcasting as both a research method and pedagogical tool so as to facilitate potential learning spaces of critical and reflexive dialogue,… [Direct]