(1984). Education for Peace: Collection of Papers and Bibliography for 1972-1984. Information Bulletin, Supplement No. 17. In November, 1982, the pedagogical faculty of the Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia organized a seminar called "Soviet Peace Policy and the Training of Teachers for Peace and International Understanding." At the seminar, all departments of the faculty demonstrated how UNESCO recommendations on education for international understanding, cooperation and peace, and for education concerning human rights and basic freedoms are implemented across the curriculum, including Departments of Preschool and Elementary Pedagogics, the Study Center of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism for Students Majoring in Civics, Department of Pedagogics for Students Majoring in General Education, Department of Special Pedagogics, and Departments of Human Biology and School Health Care, Czech Language and Literature, Russian and Non-Slavonic Languages, Mathematics, Chemistry, Work Education and Instruction Technology, Musical Education, Visual Art Education, Physical Training, Languages, and…
(1993). Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Implementation of the Helsinki Accords. Briefings of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (July 20, 1992; October 9, 1992; February 19, 1993; March 1, 1993; April 8, 1993). The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) monitors and encourages human rights compliance by signatories of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. Language pertaining to migrant workers is found in all major CSCE documents, and the examination of migrant farmworker issues represents part of the Commission's ongoing review of U.S. compliance with CSCE concerns. Five days of public hearings addressed: (1) farm labor market economics, demographics, living conditions, and the status of migrant farmworkers in the United States; (2) health and safety, including effects of pesticides; (3) children's issues, including education and day care; (4) women's issues; and (5) possible solutions to problems facing farmworkers and their employers. The Commission's recommendations cover reform and enforcement of labor laws (including those covering children), provision and coordination of human services, enforcement of occupational health and safety laws and regulations, and increasing… [PDF]
(1981). Innovation and International Education. Objectives and realities of education for international understanding, cooperation, and peace are examined. Information is presented in six major sections. In Section I, various meanings of international education are explored. In addition, central concerns of international education are identified, including respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, tolerance for differences of opinion, and ability to be objective and free from prejudice. Section II suggests how to cross national boundaries through an international curriculum emphasizing UNESCO's concepts of world peace and knowledge and appreciation of other cultures. Section III describes an ideal core curriculum for a university-level world studies course. The course would incorporate information from seven areas–the nature of man, the ecology of human and natural species, culture, social and economic consequences of development, values, resolution of differing points of view, and peaceful relations. Section IV…
(1997). Spirals of Suffering: Public Violence and Children. This book is a collection of papers on the effects of public violence on children in South Africa. Section 1 of this report is an overview of the findings of South Africa's Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Effects of Public Violence on Children. Section 2 concentrates on assessing problems and intervening to relieve them. The following essays are included: (1) "Introduction" (Brian Rock); (2) "Overview" (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (3) "Children and Violence: Quantifying the Damage" (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (4) "Going beyond the Statistics" (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (5) "Survey of Organizations Providing Services to Children" (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (6) "Inquiry Recommendations" (Norman Duncan and Brian Rock); (7) "Advisory Panel Recommendations"; (8) "Assessing the Impact of Violence on Children" (Peter Newell); (9) "Being Human vs. Having Human Rights" (Cosmas… [PDF]
(1968). The Two-Year College and the Federal Government–Issues and Directions. Federal-school relations are more than financial; other factors are basic to junior college governance. As higher education shapes our society more strongly, the federal role becomes more visible. Many historical influences have formed the national character–notably a steady rise in the education level. Increased religious and social pluralism and less isolationism have also affected social mobility; status is now judged by skill or knowledge. The government has long fostered this situation by aiding post-secondary schools. The Manpower Development and Training Act and the Higher Education Facilities Act have enabled 2-year colleges to meet some needs of the increased population. As federal aid grows, however, so does its influence on local power structures, overriding institutions based on family, economic, and racial factors and bringing increased guarantees of human rights, more education, and social justice. Considering these issues, the 2-year college must adapt to a… [PDF]
(1983). Status of Women in Kentucky State Agencies. Sixth Report. An Analysis of Employment Job Levels and Salaries as of November, 1982. Staff Report 83-6. According to this report by the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, women in the Kentucky State government continued to suffer from serious inequities as of November 1982. The salary gap between men and women widened to an annual difference of $4,114, the largest gap of an eight-year trend. The salary gap between black women and white women grew from $1,318 in 1980 to $1,828 in 1982. Thirteen State departments had totally sex-segregated job classes, and at least 75 percent of the job classes with more than one employee per job class in 41 State agencies were segregated by sex. For every woman making more than $36,000 per year, there were 16 men earning at that level, while, at the bottom 2,800 women more than men made less than $15,000 per year. Of the 1,421 job classes in State government, 594 (41.8 percent) were all male (an improvement over November 1980 when 48.5 percent of the job classes were without women). Twenty-three State departments had women working in less than 50…
(2022). Reading Picture Books Including Animal Matters: Making Space for Discussing Anthropocentrism with Young Children. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, v30 n6 p852-866. This study provides an opportunity for young children to express their thoughts about all matters affecting them based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Accordingly, 20 five-year-old children attending a preschool in Korea participated in this study, reading picture books, including animal matters. I recorded and transcribed our book reading process, analyzing educational meaning focusing on young children's stories. The participants in this study were responsive and attentive to the text in the picture books about animal matters. While reading these picture books, the children talked about life and extinction, confronted human-centered thinking, connected text with social issues surrounding them, identified problems, and suggested solutions. This reveals a flaw in the notion of human exceptionalism, opens up avenues for a new narrative regarding the coexistence with other species, and provides children living in the Anthropocene Epoch an… [Direct]
(2022). Creating Autonomy in the Advance of Teacher and Moral Educator Development. Journal of Education and Learning, v11 n2 p22-26. The demand for character development in many of the Western World's public schools is increasing. Yet there are substantive steps being taken beyond manipulating student behavior in rigidly constructed contexts. Unfortunately manipulating behavior only develops self-interest as the measure of all good and might makes right the legitimation of authority. Yet as any anthropologist can explain it is role-modeling family and village elders that decides which of two instincts will dominate human development: self-interest or cooperation (Tomasello, 2019). As Aristotle famously observed, it makes no small difference what habits humans develop rather, it makes all the difference. But to be truly conducive to moral development those habits must reflect autonomous conviction to develop organizational well-being over the pandemonium self-interest leads towards. The Moral Self-assessment Protocol discussed herein creates the conditions for teacher and other leaders to track their own moral… [PDF]
(2001). Scared at School: Sexual Violence against Girls in South African Schools. This book documents school-based sexual violence in South Africa and the discriminatory impact on girls' education when the government fails to respond effectively. Eleven chapters include: (1) "Preface"; (2) "Summary" (e.g., the effects of sexual violence on education and South Africa's legal obligations); (3) "Recommendations" (to the government of South Africa, the South African Council of Educators and the Teachers' Unions of South Africa, teachers' training colleges, and the international community); (4) "Background" (e.g., school violence in the apartheid era and attitudes toward violence against girls); (5) "Sexual Violence in Schools" (e.g., sexual violence by teachers, school employees, and students); (6) "Consequences of Gender Violence for Girls' Education and Health"; (7) "The School Response" (e.g., barriers to reporting abuse and inappropriate responses); (8) "The Criminal Justice System"…
(1978). New Directions in International Health Cooperation: A Report to The President. This report inventories the U.S. federal government's current expenditures of resources for international health and considers ways of better resource utilization and coordination. Presented in eight chapters, the report considers three major issues: (1) how governmental and multilateral development strategies could be reoriented to affect health, (2) how the international health assistance welfare image could be dispelled and its economic development aspects emphasized, and (3) how individuals and organizations could be motivated to action at the grassroots level. In each chapter problems/constraints are examined, and recommendations are made for improved health services. Chapter 1 reviews the foundations for U.S. international health policy. The second chapter discusses international relations and health diplomacy. Chapter 3 emphasizes the importance of improving health care in the U.S. The following chapter explores the role of the private sector in international health. Chapter… [PDF]
(2000). Global Perspective on School Leadership. The complexity of educational leadership belies simple models and must be examined holistically and historically. Leadership has a setting, a historical framework, a wholeness of meaning, and a diversity of influences. Effective leaders must both articulate the values of society and go beyond them. Most agree leadership: (1) is situational and varies with individuals and events; (2) emerges from every segment of society, and no single program produces leaders; (3) involves helping followers attain goals; (4) has an ethical dimension; and (5) is best understood through studying historical figures. Educational leadership today is made more difficult because of declining financial support, rising demand for accountability, increasing diversity, increasing policy conflicts, and pressure to use technology in the face of access gaps. Effective leaders require such personal competencies as the ability to listen, validate information, speak clearly, learn, use research, motivate, take… [PDF]
(2024). Affective Neuroscience and Adult Education. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, n184 p74-81. The expanding field of affective neuroscience is redefining the role of emotions in cognition, reasoning, and judgment. This contradicts long-standing assumptions about cognition that consider emotions antithetical to learning. Emotions arose early in human brain development as essential to survival by directing the embodied brain toward life-sustaining and away from life-threatening environments. Metaphorical language, which emerges from embodied experience, is also necessary for thinking, reasoning, and learning. The brain's right hemisphere (RH) is the primary site for understanding figurative and symbolic language. Educational environments emphasize the left hemisphere's capacity for syntactic language and direct, linear thought. Though the RH has a more comprehensive view of reality, its contributions may be ignored or dismissed because it communicates metaphorically and symbolically. Drawing on elements of affective neuroscience, embodied emotions, and hemispheric difference… [Direct]
(1999). The Indigenous World, 1998-99 = El Mundo Indigena, 1998-99. This annual publication examines political, legal, social, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples around the world in 1998-99. Part I highlights news events and ongoing situations in specific countries. In North America, these include court decisions on the legal status of Alaska Native tribal governments, indigenous subsistence rights and whaling by the Inuit of Nunavut and the Makah of Washington, political developments in Nunavut and the remaining Northwest Territories, and conflicts over Native land rights in the United States. Other sections cover the Arctic, Mexico and Central America, South America, Australia and the Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa. Issues in these regions include deteriorating economic and health conditions and educational needs in Russia's far north, conflicts over development of natural resources in indigenous territories by national and multinational companies, relationships between indigenous peoples and their…
(2023). Insistence on Sameness for Food Space Appropriation: An Exploratory Study on Brazilians with Autism (Self-)Diagnosis in Adulthood. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, v27 n4 p938-951 May. Insistence on Sameness has been pathologized as a subtype of restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, in autism. We examined the meanings of Insistence on Sameness for autistic adults through the lens of critical autism studies and environmental psychology, exploring their foodways and experiences of food environments, in relation to eating out and grocery shopping, and their experiences of autism (self-)diagnosis. Data were collected from earlier individual email interviews with Brazilian adults on the autism spectrum (N = 16), either formally diagnosed in adulthood (n = 10) or self-diagnosed (n = 6). Our thematic analysis generated the following three themes: (1) Insistence on Sameness behaviors in food space as participants' "efforts for human-environment optimization"–reducing uncertainty, uncontrollability, and exposure to unwanted sensory stimuli and social interaction; (2) suppressed Insistence on Sameness behaviors for being considered… [Direct]
(1988). Democratic Values: What the Schools Should Teach. If students are to fulfill their obligations and rights as U.S. citizens they must develop the ability to make careful judgements, based on a reasoned historical perspective and a meaningful conception of the basic democratic values underlying citizenship in our constitutional order. To this end, an agenda of 12 core civic values that are fundamental to the theory and practice of democratic citzenship in the United States has been devised. Called "The Twelve Tables of Civism," this agenda includes six obligations of citizenship: justice, equality, authority, participation, truth, and patriotism and six rights of citizenship: freedom, diversity, privacy, due process, property, and human rights. An in-depth discussion of each of these values, their place in the U.S. political system, and the nature of both their true and corrupted forms is given. Schools have an unparalleled opportunity to influence an entire generation of high school youth during the coming years,…