Hewitt, Paul (2011). Teaching the Art of Employee Discipline to Educational Leadership Candidates. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, v6 n3 Jul-Sep. This activity is designed to be utilized in a School Law class, but is also appropriate for a class in Human Resources. Holding students and staff accountable for their actions is essential to a well run school. School principals are prepared to deal with student accountability and student discipline issues, but rarely are principals ready to deal with behavioral infractions by staff members. This instructional module insures that the educational leadership student will understand due process rights, the doctrine of progressive discipline, and how to hold staff members accountable through documentation. The critical skill that the educational leadership student will obtain from this activity is the ability to write a thorough and legally sound letter of reprimand or warning addressed to a school employee to lay the foundation for possible further disciplinary action, including dismissal. The letter of reprimand or warning written by the educational leadership student will be… [PDF]

Frazer, Elizabeth (2011). Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on Education. Oxford Review of Education, v37 n5 p603-617. Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft are linked by intellectual and political bonds; for both, education is a philosophical and political preoccupation in its own right, and also interacts with philosophical questions of morality, social power, theology, truth and human action. Macaulay's philosophical and political engagements with Hobbes, Burke and with 18th-century deism lend a particular cast to her theory of education, and influenced Wollstonecraft who shares a good deal of Macaulay's critical reading of Locke and Rousseau on education. They both focus in particular on the relationships between authority, social power and gender that structure Rousseau's pedagogy. Their method of criticism, as well as their developed evaluations of equality and friendship, are notably significant for later feminist and social theory, although their position on truth and rationality in connection with theology is not. For later social theorists the "social constructivism" and… [Direct]

Gonz√°lez-Andrieu, Cecilia (2016). A Latina Theological Reflection on Education, Faith, Love, and Beauty. Journal of Catholic Education, v19 n2 Article 2 Jan. In this article, Cecilia Gonz√°lez-Andrieu presents what she defines as a theological reflection. She writes that it is theological in that she engages jointly faith and reason, the religious tradition of the Catholic Church and the contemporary situation. What makes it theological "reflection" is that it arises out of a community of belief not only from data or theories but from hearts fully engaged in a shared and sacred story of a loving God. Here the author defines the goal of the Catholic religious education tradition as forming new generations whose gifts of intellect and wisdom will be guided by a coherent understanding of God's longing for a world full of love. The author argues that a radical stance about the basic right to education is a theological necessity for a well-articulated Catholic faith and not an "add on" or an "option" arising from particular political leanings. Universal access to quality education is not "politically… [PDF]

Egya, Sule E.; Epprecht, Marc (2011). Teaching about Homosexualities to Nigerian University Students: A Report from the Field. Gender and Education, v23 n4 p367-383. Nigeria's diverse cultures, religions and political parties appear to be unified by a strong taboo against homosexuality and gay rights. This has affected academic research, HIV/AIDS programmes, and sexuality education, all which commonly show evidence of heterosexism, self-censorship and even explicit condemnations of homosexuality. Yet a dissident discourse in Nigeria, as well as research from elsewhere in the region, suggests that this appearance of unity may belie greater openness to the issues than assumed. Indeed, research shows that (1) many African societies are traditionally more accommodating toward non-normative sexualities than contemporary nationalist or cultural claims would allow, and (2) secretive "bisexuality" is more common in practice (and tacitly acknowledged) than previously understood. Is it possible then that the presumption of homophobia and the fear of backlash that has clearly contributed to heterosexism and self-censorship in scholarship around… [Direct]

Barnes-Whitlock, Berneatta; Keselman, Alla; Kramer, Judy F.; Levin, Daniel M. (2012). Making the Argument. Science Teacher, v79 n5 p46-50 Jul. The effects of environmental pollutants on human and environmental health are a growing concern. Little science curriculum focuses specifically on environmental health, and little data exists on the extent to which environmental health is taught on a national level. Students have the right to access information that can enable them to make informed choices. In the political arena, legislators, lobbyists, environmental groups, and other stakeholders argue from vastly different perspectives issues of environmental health, such as the causes and consequences of global warming. Scientists, for their part, use argumentation to make progress in developing and supporting coherent theories. For several decades, education researchers have argued for the need to integrate scientific argumentation into the high school science classroom. Scientific argumentation involves making claims, supporting them with evidence, providing \warrants\ or reasoning for how the evidence supports the claims,… [Direct]

Tang, Hui-Hsuan (2012). Essays on the Economics of Higher Education. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon. This dissertation is comprised of two essays that broadly consider the role human capital plays in the matching process between individuals and institutions and builds on prior education literature that has found growing evidence that economic choices and opportunities are inextricably linked to human capital investment. The essays in this dissertation also build on the labor-economic tradition of bringing to bear new data sources that involve both collecting new data and combining these data with previously existing data sources in new ways so as to permit the study of interesting issues that could not have been addressed in the absence of these data. Using recent institutional data from the oldest stand-alone honors college in the country, Chapter II of this dissertation studies how the application and enrollment decisions of honors college students differ from the general population of students considering a large public university. Overall, the results suggest that honors college… [Direct]

Lafer, Gordon (2017). The Corporate Assault on Higher Education and Union Responses. Thought & Action, v33 n2 p11-36 Sum. Higher education is under siege by a barrage of policy initiatives that aim to fundamentally transform the academy. The most visible and most sustained assault has come in the form of funding cuts. Nationally, funding for public higher education was 18 percent lower in 2016 than in 2008, amounting to a $10 billion total disinvestment. In many states, cuts to higher education funding were made not as a fiscal necessity but as an affirmative policy choice, often instituted at the same time that legislators created new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. Beyond budget cuts, higher education has been hit from multiple directions by policy initiatives that threaten to radically alter what it means to teach or to learn in postsecondary institutions. These policies are part of a coherent and well-coordinated agenda fueled by the largest and most powerful political forces in the country: the nation's premier corporate lobbies. At the state level, corporate lobbying is coordinated by… [Direct]

Peppin Vaughan, Rosie (2010). Girls' and Women's Education within Unesco and the World Bank, 1945-2000. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, v40 n4 p405-423 Jul. By 2000, girls' and women's education was a priority for international development organisations. While studies have examined the impact of recent campaigns and programmes, there has been less exploration of ideas about girls' and women's education within development thought in the immediate post-colonial period, and the political mechanisms through which this came to be a global concern. Through a study of policy documents, this paper investigates how the education of girls and women came to be prioritised within the two principle UN agencies involved with education since 1945, the World Bank and Unesco. A shift in priorities is evident, from ensuring formal rights and improving the status of women, to expanding the productive capacities of women, fertility control and poverty reduction. While the ascendance of human capital theory provided a space for a new perception of the role of women's education in development, in other policy arenas women's education was central to exploring… [Direct]

Baldwin, David A. (1996). The Academic Librarian's Human Resources Handbook. Employer Rights and Responsibilities. This handbook offers "how to" guidance on library management and provides a single source for laws, regulations, executive orders, guidelines, and court decisions on employee and employer rights and responsibilities. Detailed information is provided on: recruiting and selecting personnel; the employment relationship; wages and hours; employee benefits; health, safety, and privacy; discipline and discharge; and disability and workers compensation. It covers routine procedures and regulations, such as those for social security, as well as issues such as discrimination in the workplace. One chapter, "What To Do Before You Phone an Attorney," covers such concerns as violations of employee rights, reassignments, and personal problems. Potential management difficulties are also discussed and case problems with suggestions for resolution are presented. (AEF)…

Stein, Zachary (2010). On the Difference between Designing Children and Raising Them: Ethics and the Use of Educationally Oriented Biotechnology. Mind, Brain, and Education, v4 n2 p53-67 Jun. The use of educationally oriented biotechnology has grown drastically in recent decades and is likely to continue to grow. Advances in both the neurosciences and genetics have opened up important areas of application and industry, from psychopharmacology to gene-chip technologies. This article reviews the current state of educationally oriented biological technologies, eventually focusing on the use of psychiatric drugs with children and adolescents to improve their academic performance. Distinguishing between \good\ and \bad\ uses of biological technologies is complicated by conflicting theoretical views about human development, the etiology of disability, and the diagnostic categories that structure treatments. To address these issues I introduce a set of ethical concepts, which are based on a biopsychosocial approach to human development. The difference between \designing children\ and \raising children\ marks an ethically salient difference between approaches that focus on only… [Direct]

Halder, Santoshi; Talukdar, Arindam (2013). Nature and Causes of Locomotor Disabilities in India. Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, p48-62 Win. A large proportion of disability around the world is preventable. Levels of disability in many poor countries can be reduced by achieving the international development targets for economic, social and human development. In this paper, the author studied the different contributory and causative factors of locomotor disability, disease states and the significance of poverty in relation to disability in Eastern part of India. Final data were collected from 200 people with locomotor disability by personally visiting each individual and their family at their home or institutes on the basis of personal interviews, discussions with them, their parents and teachers. Data were collected by situational sampling technique and tools used for the study were General information schedule (GIS) and Semi-structured interview schedule. The study revealed that various diseases which resulted in locomotor disability in some way were related to poverty. The nature and causative factors for various… [PDF]

Makino, Atsushi (2013). Changing Grassroots Communities and Lifelong Learning in Japan. Comparative Education, v49 n1 p42-56. Japanese "community" is falling apart. This is caused by the combination of two problems: on the one hand, people are feeling their existence to be less and less stable and their reality is being shaken; on the other hand, the sense of values in the society is becoming more and more diversified and fluid. In the background of the two problems are three issues facing society: the rapidly declining birth rate and aging and dwindling population; the prolonged economic depression and destabilised employment; and the destruction of communal ties among inhabitants due to change in grassroots communities and the increasing isolation of individuals comprising the so-called "no-bondage society." What is attracting more and more attention by policymakers addressing the two crises is lifelong learning. Challenges facing lifelong learning in Japan do not simply mean the acquisition of competency as often discussed in Western countries. More importantly, they are about how we… [Direct]

Hyona, Jukka; Kuisma, Jarmo; Oorni, Anssi; Simola, Jaana; Uusitalo, Liisa (2011). The Impact of Salient Advertisements on Reading and Attention on Web Pages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, v17 n2 p174-190 Jun. Human vision is sensitive to salient features such as motion. Therefore, animation and onset of advertisements on Websites may attract visual attention and disrupt reading. We conducted three eye tracking experiments with authentic Web pages to assess whether (a) ads are efficiently ignored, (b) ads attract overt visual attention and disrupt reading, or (c) ads are covertly attended with distraction showing up indirectly in the reading performance. The Web pages contained an ad above a central text and another ad to the right of the text. In Experiments 1, 2, and 3A the task was to read for comprehension. Experiment 1 examined whether the degree of animation affects attention toward the ads. The results showed that ads were overtly attended during reading and that the dwell times on ads were the longest when the ad above was static and the other ad was animated. In Experiments 2 and 3, the ads appeared abruptly after a random time interval. The results showed that attention (i.e.,… [Direct]

Kelly, Hilton (2010). What Jim Crow's Teachers Could Do: Educational Capital and Teachers' Work in Under-Resourced Schools. Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, v42 n4 p329-350 Nov. This article explains how Jim Crow's teachers–former teachers of legally segregated schools for blacks–prepared and motivated disadvantaged students in spite of funding and resource deprivation. According to the author, black teachers fashioned situated pedagogies for the acquisition of educational capital that could be used in exchange for jobs, rights, and social power. Findings reveal three strategies of opportunity which provide some clues to how urban teachers today can educate poor children of color in under-resourced schools, such as generating materials and supplies, situating curriculum and instruction, and mobilizing human resources. The analysis draws upon 44 oral history interviews with former teachers in the coastal plains of North Carolina, as well as secondary historical sources…. [Direct]

(1983). Cases of Discrimination against Native People and Settlements of These Cases: From the Files of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, 1978-1982. Canadian Journal of Native Education, v11 n1 p20-26. In connection with Ontario Ministry of Education high school curriculum guidelines on teaching about Native peoples, eight case studies of discrimination against Canada Natives, and court settlements of these cases, can be used with nine suggested learning activities to help students recognize the effects of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. (MH)…

Lally, J. Ronald (2005). The Human Rights of Infants and Toddlers: A Comparison of Child-Care Philosophies in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Zero to Three (J), v25 n3 p43-46 Jan. This essay describes and analyzes economic rationalism, instrumental, and enrichment approaches to early care and education policy in the United States and abroad. The author proposes that differences in infant-toddler care and other services among nations can stem from differences in the way that societies define the basic rights of their youngest citizens. The author argues that the more a society leans toward social and educational enrichment as its conceptual base, the better it serves its children. The author argues that the U.S. embrace of economic rationalism as a justification for policy decisions regarding the care of infants and toddlers is a key reason it now lags far behind other industrialized nations in services to infants, toddlers, and their families. He recommends that the U.S. study the models of care that exist in other countries to avoid practices that put infants and toddlers at developmental risk…. [Direct]

Gibbins, Thor (2013). Digital Alchemy: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation of Digital Storytelling for Peace and Justice. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park. This study explores the experiences of undergraduate students enrolled in an education I-Series (University of Maryland undergraduate courses designed to inspire innovation, imagination, and intellect) course, Good Stories: Teaching Stories for Peace and Justice. In this course students are asked to produce digital stories that project themes of peace and justice. The locus of this study focuses on the essential question: In what ways do participants "world" their experiences producing digital stories for peace and justice? The methodology of hermeneutic phenomenology is employed in order to elucidate interpretive understandings about digital storytelling for peace and justice in the experiences of nine undergraduates over the course of one semester. The metaphor of alchemy is used since the practice of alchemy entailed amalgamating base metals in the hopes of transmuting them into gold. Jung (1968) likens this process to our experience of becoming individuated, whole, and… [Direct]

Nesbitt, John A. (1980). Notes on the Human and Civil Rights of Handicapped People to Recreation. The author considers the recreation rights of handicapped individuals with particular emphasis on three pieces of federal legislation–Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The following areas are addressed: facilities, equipment, services, scheduling, transportation, recruitment, scholarships, selection of activities, instructional opportunity, levels of performance, nonsegregated participation, media coverage, noncompetence based restrictions of participation, and noncompetence based restrictions on employment. A charter of the recreation rights and responsibilities of people who are disabled is included which lists community services related to recreation, institutional recreation services, individual responsibilities of the handicapped, recreational service agencies, and personnel responsibilities. (SBH)… [PDF]

Lacey-Nevitt, Lucia (2012). Two-Year College Succession Planning: Utilizing the Mission Statement for Selection of the Vice President of Human Resources. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Northcentral University. Colleges have a critical investment in the proper selection of key executive administrative positions with high quality leadership and character since leadership transitions can be unsettling and costly, and governing boards have a vested interest in getting it right. The problem is that two-year colleges are facing a strategic planning crisis because administrators fail to align the mission statement with a succession plan, leaving colleges struggling to plan for replacing key administrative positions. This qualitative case study analyzed the best strategy for the selection process of executive college administrative positions, specifically the Vice President of Human Resources. This study was undertaken because of the limited research on the ways in which college mission statements can guide the strategic succession planning for executive administrative positions. The study employed a purposive sample of six human resource college administrators, and utilized multiple data sources:… [Direct]

Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. (2013). International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013: Book of Proceedings (June 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal). Online Submission We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, 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. Our International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. Our 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 together academics, scholars, practitioners and others interested… [PDF]

Nadel, Lynn, Ed.; Waller, David, Ed. (2012). Handbook of Spatial Cognition. APA Books Spatial cognition is a branch of cognitive psychology that studies how people acquire and use knowledge about their environment to determine where they are, how to obtain resources, and how to find their way home. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including neuroscience, cognition, and sociology, have discovered a great deal about how humans and other animals sense, interpret, behave in, and communicate about space. This book addresses some of the most important dimensions of spatial cognition, such as neuroscience, perception, memory, and language. It provides a broad yet detailed overview that is useful not only to academics, practitioners, and advanced students of psychology, but also to city planners, architects, software designers, sociologists, and anyone else who seeks to understand how we perceive, interpret, and interact with the world around us. Contents include: (1) Hippocampus and Related Areas: What the Place Cell Literature Tells Us About Cognitive Maps in… [Direct]

Bouma, A.; Cohen-Kettenis, P. T.; Geuze, R. H.; Groothuis, A. G. G.; Lust, J. M.; Van de Beek, C. (2010). Sex Specific Effect of Prenatal Testosterone on Language Lateralization in Children. Neuropsychologia, v48 n2 p536-540 Jan. Brain lateralization refers to the division of labour between the two hemispheres in controlling a wide array of functions and is remarkably well developed in humans. Based on sex differences in lateralization of handedness and language, several hypotheses have postulated an effect of prenatal exposure to testosterone on human lateralization development, the topic of a long-standing and unresolved debate. Here we demonstrate a clear relationship between prenatal levels of testosterone as assessed from amniotic fluid of healthy pregnant mothers and language lateralization of their offspring at the age of 6 years. Using focused attention conditions in the dichotic listening task, in which the child is instructed to report information from the left ear or the right ear, we were able to differentiate between potential effects of early testosterone on the left hemisphere and effects on inter-hemispheric connectivity. This provides a new method to distinguish between the claims of the… [Direct]

Monnot, Marilee; Ross, Elliott D. (2008). Neurology of Affective Prosody and Its Functional-Anatomic Organization in Right Hemisphere. Brain and Language, v104 n1 p51-74 Jan. Unlike the aphasic syndromes, the organization of affective prosody in brain has remained controversial because affective-prosodic deficits may occur after left or right brain damage. However, different patterns of deficits are observed following left and right brain damage that suggest affective prosody is a dominant and lateralized function of the right hemisphere. Using the Aprosodia Battery, which was developed to differentiate left and right hemisphere patterns of affective-prosodic deficits, functional-anatomic evidence is presented in patients with focal ischemic strokes to support the concepts that (1) affective prosody is a dominant and lateralized function of the right hemisphere, (2) the intrahemispheric organization of affective prosody in the right hemisphere, with the partial exception of Repetition, is analogous to the organization of propositional language in the left hemisphere and (3) the aprosodic syndromes are cortically based as part of evolutionary adaptations… [Direct]

Andoh, Jamila; Paus, Tomas (2011). Combining Functional Neuroimaging with Off-Line Brain Stimulation: Modulation of Task-Related Activity in Language Areas. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, v23 n2 p349-361 Feb. Repetitive TMS (rTMS) provides a noninvasive tool for modulating neural activity in the human brain. In healthy participants, rTMS applied over the language-related areas in the left hemisphere, including the left posterior temporal area of Wernicke (LTMP) and inferior frontal area of Broca, have been shown to affect performance on word recognition tasks. To investigate the neural substrate of these behavioral effects, off-line rTMS was combined with fMRI acquired during the performance of a word recognition task. Twenty right-handed healthy men underwent fMRI scans before and after a session of 10-Hz rTMS applied outside the magnetic resonance scanner. Functional magnetic resonance images were acquired during the performance of a word recognition task that used English or foreign-language words. rTMS was applied over the LTMP in one group of 10 participants (LTMP group), whereas the homologue region in the right hemisphere was stimulated in another group of 10 participants (RTMP… [Direct]

Balaban, Evan; Berent, Iris; Lennertz, Tracy (2012). Language Universals and Misidentification: A Two-Way Street. Language and Speech, v55 n3 p311-330 Sep. Certain ill-formed phonological structures are systematically under-represented across languages and misidentified by human listeners. It is currently unclear whether this results from grammatical phonological knowledge that actively recodes ill-formed structures, or from difficulty with their phonetic encoding. To examine this question, we gauge the effect of two types of tasks on the identification of onset clusters that are unattested in an individual's language. One type calls attention to global phonological structure by eliciting a syllable count (e.g., does \medif\ include one syllable or two?). A second set of tasks promotes attention to local phonetic detail by requiring the detection of specific segments (e.g., does \medif\ include an \e\?). Results from five experiments show that, when participants attend to global phonological structure, ill-formed onsets are misidentified (e.g., \mdif\[right arrow]\medif\) relative to better-formed ones (e.g., \mlif\). In contrast, when… [Direct]

Fernandez-Esquinas, Manuel; Ramos-Vielba, Irene (2012). Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Multiple Forms of University-Industry Linkages. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, v64 n2 p237-265 Aug. This article focuses on the wide variety of channels through which the process of knowledge transfer occurs. The overall objective is to show the complexity of relationships between researchers and firms in a university system, and to identify some specific factors that influence such interactions. Our case study involves a face-to-face survey of 765 heads of research teams in a regional system to contrast the multiple forms of university-industry collaborative linkages. Drawing on the exploitation of a data set developed for the purpose, we show that for a majority of universities the thrust of their collaborative experiences is devoted to tacit knowledge rather than to intellectual property rights. Researchers actively engage in the provision of different services to firms such as consulting work, commissioned or joint research projects, and human resources training. Research teams also participate in non-academic knowledge dissemination and informal networking. The results of our… [Direct]

Bohari, Zubaidah; Jack, Suriani; Jusoff, Hj. Kamaruzaman; Salleh, Siti Maliza Hj. (2011). Use of Information and Communication Technology in Enhancing Teaching and Learning. International Education Studies, v4 n2 p153-156 May. The role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education has been peripheral, with new technologies being added to the traditional teacher centred model of instruction. Students in the global economy of the 21st Century need to be creative thinkers and innovators. Thus, this paper provides an overview of the integration of innovation and education which plays an important role in propelling the human capital to a higher level to realize the objectives of Vision 2020.The integration of teaching and research is becoming a key issue in higher education, not only in order to differentiate the character of universities from other teaching and learning institutions, but also in order to find ways to create the kind of knowledge needed in a world characterized by a turbulent environment and increasing change in daily life.The right blend of pedagogies, tools and media needs to be created, quality assurance at various stages of planning, design and implementation should be… [PDF]

Moreno, Kriztyan Alberto (2011). Three Questions. Harvard Educational Review, v81 n3 p473-476 Fall. In this article, the author describes his experiences as a Mexican living "illegally" in the United States and how Esperanza Community Collegial Academy has given him a second chance to find himself and his place in this world. At Esperanza he is part of a program that promotes higher education, MEXA (Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan). He is also part of the student council. Through MEXA he has learned that he is a human above anything. He has the natural right to educate himself. He is free to migrate to wherever he wishes. He has learned about his ancestors, who were here over thirty thousand years ago versus the last six hundred years of colonization. This has helped him rethink what it means to be illegal. Because MEXA has helped him learn about where he comes from, he now knows where he's going. However, all of this means nothing without the will to move forward in order to make a difference. Education is slowly helping him relinquish these chains with which… [Direct]

Alperin, Juan Pablo; Willinsky, John (2011). The Academic Ethics of Open Access to Research and Scholarship. Ethics and Education, v6 n3 p217-223. In this article, we present the case for regarding the principles by which scholarly publications are disseminated and shared as a matter of academic ethics. The ethics of access have to do with recognizing people's right to know what is known, as well as the value to humanity of having one of its best forms of arriving at knowledge as widely shared as possible. The level of access is often reduced by the financial interests of publishers in a market in which there is little sense of a rational order, given huge discrepancies in prices for similar products. At the same time, there are risks to limiting researchers' access to scholarly resources, both for the quality of the knowledge that is not entirely open to review and for the production of new knowledge that it might inspire. Then, there are issues of access beyond the academy for professional practice and out of human interest, for both of which undue limitations raise what are, for us, more than \academic\ ethical questions…. [Direct]

Burgin, John S.; Pearson, L. Carolyn; Szirony, Gary Michael (2008). Hemispheric Laterality in Music and Math. Learning Inquiry, v2 n3 p169-180 Dec. Hemispheric laterality may be a useful concept in teaching, learning, training, and in understanding more about human development. To address this issue, a measure of hemispheric laterality was compared to musical and mathematical ability. The Human Information Processing Survey (HIPS) instrument, designed to measure hemispheric laterality, was administered to 101 participants who were then asked to provide a measure of their conceptual aptitude for mathematics and music. Scores were then compared through canonical correlation to test the hypothesis that perceived mathematical ability may be explained by left-brain hemisphere preference and musical by the right hemisphere. A relatively strong correlation was found between music ability and right-brain hemisphere preference. A relationship between math and left-brain hemisphere preference or integrated brain processing scores was found to be marginal. Ramifications to learning are discussed…. [Direct]