(1984). The Right to Education: The Case of the Federal Republic of Germany. This paper investigates the extension of educational rights to girls, working class children, and the children of migrant workers in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The first section discusses the theoretical basis of affirmative action in West Germany, legal provisions for attaining equality in education, and basic features of the West German educational system. Section II presents a legal overview of the right to education at the national and international levels. Although the German constitution does not contain an explicit "basic right to education," German policy is said to have been shaped by judicial interpretation, the influence of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, and the FRG's acceptance of the European Social Charter. Developments in German education, from 1960 to 1980, are outlined in Section III. Statistics are presented to document increased government expenditures to meet the growing demands of German students. Discussed next are…
(1965). BRASS RING THINKING. THIS DOCUMENT IS A COPY OF A SPEECH WHICH LOOKS AT EDUCATIONAL CHANGE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST. THE AUTHORS POINT OUT THAT EDUCATIONAL HISTORY SUPPORTS THE THESIS THAT CHANGES IN THE AIMS AND FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE VIEW THE LARGER SOCIAL CONTEXT HOLDS OF ITS OWN AIMS AND FUNCTIONS. THEY DISCUSSED CURRENT CHANGES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES WITH RESPECT TO TODAY'S GROWING CONCERN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CONSIDERED THE EFFECTS THIS CONCERN COULD HAVE ON THE IMPETUS FOR CHANGE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM IF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAN DISCARD THE TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES. THE AUTHORS CONTEND THAT THE SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEMBLE BENJAMIN'S SABER-TOOTH CURRICULUM. THE QUESTION OF WHAT IS BEING DONE TO REMEDY THE SITUATION IS RAISED AND DISCUSSED WITH RESPECT TO LEARNING THEORY AND RETENTION. THE MAJOR IDEAS IN SOCIAL STUDIES FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS ARE PRESENTED AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE CONCEPTS ARE… [PDF]
(2023). Formabiap's Indigenous Educative Community, Peru: A Biosocial Pedagogy. Oxford Review of Education, v49 n4 p536-554. This article provides a descriptive account of the workings of an Indigenous-led teacher training initiative in the Peruvian Amazon (Formabiap) and considers the extent of its transdisciplinary pedagogic approach, with a special focus on the ontological and epistemological stakes of intercultural knowledge exchanges in the context of contemporary global challenges. The article evaluates the extent to which Indigenous pedagogical projects can sustain inter-species relationships that promote a good life in which diverse species, including both humans and plants, can flourish. To extol the potential of Formabiap's 35 year plus Indigenous rights initiative, the authors forward the notion of biosocial pedagogy, a heuristic device that helps value the consubstantial, and relationally entangled epistemologies of Indigenous Life-worlds…. [Direct]
(1979). Fulfilling Our Promises: The United States and the Helsinki Final Act. A Status Report. This report examines compliance by the United States with agreements made in the Helsinki Final Act. The Act was signed in 1975 by leaders of 33 East and West European nations, Canada, and the U.S. It contains numerous cooperative measures aimed at improving East-West relations. This report was prepared by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), an independent advisory agency that monitors the implementation records of the U.S. and other countries which signed the Final Act. One of the report's purposes is the conscientious examination of the U.S. implementation record, including shortcomings pointed out by some CSCE participants and domestic critics. Four major chapters review U.S. actions in four conceptual areas. The chapter titled "Security in Europe" explores principles such as soverign equality, inviolability of frontiers, and non-intervention in internal affairs. It also examines aspects of military security. The chapter titled "Human… [PDF]
(2000). Hands That Shape the World: Report on the Conditions of Immigrant Women in the U.S. Five Years after the Beijing Conference. This report details the challenges that immigrant women in the United States have faced since the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. It presents a compilation of research and synthesis by immigrants' rights activists and organizations. Data come from immigrant women's testimony. The following topics are featured: "U.S. Immigration Policies Undermine Women's Rights"; "Border Patrol Abuse of Female Migrants"; "Immigration Enforcement's Impact on Women"; "Gender and Asylum"; "Women in Detention"; "Immigrant Women and Welfare Reform"; "Immigrant Women's Health"; "Employment Conditions of Immigrant Women"; "Trafficking in Women"; "Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence"; "Lesbian Immigrant Women"; and "Immigrant Girls and Youth." The report finds that not only has the United States failed to protect the rights of immigrant women, but…
(2005). Gender Equality in Education: Definitions and Measurements. International Journal of Educational Development, v25 n4 p395-407 Jul. International consensus on education priorities accords an important place to achieving gender justice in the educational sphere. Both the Dakar 'Education for All' goals and the Millennium Development goals emphasise two goals, in this regard. These two goals are distinguished as gender parity goals [achieving equal participation of girls and boys in all forms of education based on their proportion in the relevant age-groups in the population] and gender equality goals [ensuring educational equality between boys and girls]. In turn these have been characterised as quantitative/numerical and qualitative goals respectively. In order to consider progress towards both types of goal, both quantitative and qualitative assessments need to be made of the nature of progress towards gender equality. Achieving gender parity is just one step towards gender equality in and through education. An education system with equal numbers of boys and girls participating, who may progress evenly through… [Direct]
(2008). Right-Wing Extremist Violence among Adolescents in Germany. New Directions for Youth Development, n119 p169-185 Fall. What are the preconditions for right-wing extremist violence among German youths? For several years, the rate of this violence has been increasing in Germany, and the same can be observed for right-wing extremist orientations characterized by the coming together of ideologies of unequal worth and the acceptance of violence as a mode of action. And although it is emphasized that approval of and willingness to use violence do not automatically lead to actual acts of violence, this article suggests that the existence of these convictions in society helps to legitimize attitudes that become expressed in violence, in particular among youths. This article presents a five-stage process model that portrays the underlying preconditions for acts of right-wing extremist violence, the contexts in which such violence takes place, and the factors that cause it to escalate. This structural model is used to outline central empirical findings of recent German quantitative and especially qualitative… [Direct]
(1972). Information for Inmates, Series # 1; A Bibliography of Fundamental Rights. All of the books cited in this brief bibliography are annotated. Included are books on such subjects as: censorship, the moral and legal rights of prisoners, and basic human and civil rights. Some, if not all, of these books should be part of every prison library collection. (NH)… [PDF]
(2024). Getting It Right: On the (Im)Possibilities of Play in School Music. Philosophy of Music Education Review, v32 n2 p148-166. Research suggests that when we treat our non-obligatory activities playfully, we are more likely to engage with them and derive meaningfulness from them. Play is of interest to the field of music education on at least two counts: the perceived relationship between play and music, and the perceived educational aspects of play related to human development and behavior. Using Johan Huizinga's definition of play in Homo Ludens as a starting point, I interrogate the ways in which school music may militate against play efforts in music education. I draw particular attention to the problem of group-based musical performance, competition, and how school music in many jurisdictions has capitulated to an impoverished paradigm of "getting it right." I conclude with a brief appeal to re-center play as critically important to the aims of school music…. [Direct]
(1979). Proceedings of a National Multicultural Seminar on Mental Retardation among Minority Disadvantaged Populations (Norfolk, Virginia, October 10-12, 1977). The National Multicultural Seminar on Mental Retardation among Minority Disadvantaged Populations was initiated in response to concern about the root causes of mental retardation especially in mild forms which tend to be more prevalent and more devastating among persons living in depressed, disrupted, and impoverished environments. Nineteen papers from the seminar are provided: \The Issues of Human Rights and Human Services\ (W. Robertson); \Prevention of Environmental Causes\ (M. Ruiz); \Remarks Made\ (C. Kimber); \The Gerontological Aspects of Mental Retardation among Minority Disadvantaged Population\ (P. Chang); \Overview and Current Status of the Gerontological Aspects of Mental Retardation\ (P. Grob); \The Functions of Community Services Administration\ (W. Allison);\Towards Understanding the Need for Minority Participation in the Developmental Disabilities Movement: The Nationwide Study\ (B. Morgan); \Reaching the Low-Income Mentally Retarded Consumer\ (E. Long); \The Stop… [PDF]
(2021). Assessing Children's Environmental Worldviews and Concerns. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, v11 n1 p49-65. The goal of the present research was to assess the environmental worldviews and concerns of students from the fourth to the seventh grade in Slovenia. The New Ecological Paradigm Scale for Children was translated and validated for use with Slovenian primary school students (N = 310). The students were also asked about their environmental concerns (using statements from the Environmental Motives Scale) and demographic questions. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted for the New Ecological Paradigm scale using AMOS software, confirming a three-dimensional model with ten items. The students showed the highest agreement with the items in the factor Rights of Nature, and the lowest agreement with Human Exemptionalism. The environmental attitudes of the students decreased from the fourth to the seventh grade, while altruistic environmental concerns significantly increased with higher grades. Gender differences were not statistically significant for environmental worldviews and… [PDF]
(2022). Reflecting on an Unexpected Challenge in Obtaining Ethical Approval for Research with Adults with Learning Disabilities. Waikato Journal of Education, v27 n2 p27-32. Obtaining ethical approval for my PhD research with adults with learning (intellectual) disabilities presented an unexpected challenge of learning to work with two sets of guidance: the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and the Ethical Conduct in Human Research and Related Activities Regulations (HRR). The CRPD binds States Parties to progress equal rights for people with disabilities of which Article 12, equal recognition before the law, disconnects mental capacity from legal capacity. The HRR protects participants, researchers and institutions and recognises mental capacity as a component of informed consent. In applying the CRPD and the HRR as complementary safeguards, and looking through the lens of edgewalking, I gained an appreciation for positively encountering complexity and incorporating multiple points of view. This article will describe how my challenging experience enabled skill building to develop a more strategic academic voice… [PDF]
(2022). The Effects of Religious Education on Prodemocratic Positions in the Face of the Right-Wing Populism in Poland: Theoretical Analysis and Clues for Educational Practices. Journal of Religious Education, v70 n1 p43-62 Mar. The Right-wing populism in Poland faces multiple challenges with respect to Religious Education. This is a complex issue, given it is not only about school education supporting pro-democratic positions in the modern generation of students, but also the fact that today's populists have participated in long-term and complex educational processes of a similar nature. In this sense, the aim of this article is to seek an answer to the question of how Religious Education in Poland–with all of its theoretical and cognitive background rooted in the Christian vision of God and human and the world–can contribute to the elimination of the alliance of the right-wing populist perspectives from the dominant religion of the nation. The article will explain how practical educational opportunities will help students to understand the political strategy of populists, decipher their presentations and approaches, and so shape a positive attitude towards democracy as a desired ideological system within… [Direct]
(1988). Education and Its Management: Science, Art, and Spirit. From the 1960s to the present, the complexion of educational administration has changed greatly. One reason is growing public demand for input into educational decision-making; other factors are found in accountability, evaluation, opportunities for women, human rights, teacher militancy and collective bargaining agreements, changing enrollment trends, pluralism and multicultural concerns, professional development efforts, special education, independent schools, and restricted budgets. This book, comprised largely of reprinted articles from Canadian publications, attempts to consolidate information and critique the existing concepts, procedures, and values inherent in educational administration. This approach is supported by the disproportionate amounts of stress, burnout, and role ambiguity in educators; the discrepancy between educational objectives and real life; and the public's lack of confidence in education. The eight articles in part I address the current Canadian scene, and…
(1992). Daughters of Abya Yala: Native Women Regaining Control. This book compiles testimonies of the struggles, everyday life, and accomplishments of Indian women from Central and South America. Following an introduction to the increasing role of Indian women in international forums and indigenous organizations, the words of individual women describe the problems that affect them and their determination to overcome such difficulties. Testimonies discuss physical and sexual abuse of children; the imposition of machismo on indigenous cultures by European invaders; a maternal and infant health project in the Peruvian Amazon; the need for an indigenous curriculum that allows mothers to be involved in their children's education; precontact roles of indigenous men and women; mothers as teachers of culture and spiritual ways; revival of spiritual traditions; goals of international meetings related to indigenous women's human rights, bilingual and intercultural education, and self-determination; religious freedom; self-directed community development;… [PDF]