(1989). Qualities Required of Education Today To Meet Foreseeable Demands in the Twenty-first Century. International Symposium and Round Table Proceedings (Beijing, China, November 27-December 2, 1989). This report contains proceedings of a United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) international symposium and round table. The main objective of the meeting was to debate long-term goals of education and its role in preparing young people to face the demands of the 21st century. Papers presented include: (1) \Young People–The Leaders of Tomorrow? The Role of the Social Network as a Means of Creating Favorable Conditions for Enhancing the Quality of Education in the Future\ (Gunnel Backenroth); (2) \Deepening Reform and Wider Openings to the Outside World–The Cornerstone of China's Development of Education in the Twenty-first Century\ (Yuan Baohua); (3) \Teaching Human Rights\ (Etienne Copel); (4) \Beliefs and Action in Educational Change\ (Rosalind Driver); (5) Untitled paper (Peter Ellyard); (6) \Understanding the Predicament of Humankind\ (John E. Fobes); (7) Untitled paper (Sergei A. Povalyaev); (8) \What Are the Challenges Which Face Humanity in… [PDF]
(2005). Co-Constructing Space for Literacy and Identity Work with LGBTQ Youth. Afterschool Matters, n4 p17-23 Spr. Young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT), or are perceived as such, often suffer from neglect and abuse in schools. School personnel typically ignore the issues of LGBT youth in the academic curriculum and in extracurricular activities (Gray, 1999; Owens, 1998). Youth perceived as LGBT are often called derogatory names, harassed, or physically abused (Eaton, 1993; Gray, 1999; Human Rights Watch, 2001; Owens, 1998; Rofes, 1995). This neglect and abuse hinders the education of these youth, as suggested by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) 2001 nationwide school climate survey of 904 LGBT youth across the United States. According to the GLSEN report, 68.6 percent of these youth felt unsafe in their schools because of their sexual orientation, and 45.7 percent felt unsafe because of their gender expression (Kosciw, 2001). As a result, 31.9 percent had skipped a class, and 30.8 percent had missed an entire day of school in the month… [PDF]
(1996). The Teacher Trainer, A Practical Journal Mainly for Modern Language Teacher Trainers, 1996. Teacher Trainer, v10 n1-3 Spr-Aut. The three issues of the journal on second language teacher education include these articles: "We Need More and Different Flags" (Agnes Martin); "Dealing with Timetabling on Second Language Teacher Training Courses" (Craig Thaine); "Interview with Jill Florent"; "Haiku Idea" (Tim Hahn); "The Hidden History of a Lesson or Who Trained Me?" (Mario Rinvolucri); "Language Matters" (David Crystal); "Micro-Planning: A New Technique in In-Service Training" (Mihaela Tilinca); "Using Unseen Observations for and IST Development Programme" (Phil Quirke); "Breaking Down Barriers: The Adjustment of Immigrant Teachers to New Educational Frameworks" (Ephraim Weintroub); "The Post-PPP Debate: An Alternative Model?" (Clive Lovelock); "Suitcases, a Training Idea" (Rod Bolitho); "On 'Control' in Second Language Teaching Classrooms" (Zuo Biao); "Who Trains the Trainers?… [PDF]
(1986). Teaching Social Issues in the English Classroom. Arizona English Bulletin, v29 n1 Fall. Focusing on the rationales and materials for teaching social issues in the English classroom, this thematic issue contains the following articles: \Introduction: Reflections of Society in Literature\ (M. B. Fleming); \Addressing Social and/or Controversial Issues in the English Classroom\ (S. Totten); \The Growing Threat to Quality Education: How the Censors are Restricting School Curriculum\ (A. T. Podesta and C. Macy); \What Price Academic Freedom?\ (R. Ehrlich); \Reflections on Controversial Topics and Their Place in the Public Classroom\ (O. McGraw); \From the Other Side of the Desk: A Student's View–'Social Issues in the English Classroom–Here Today, Here to Stay'\ (D. G. Hunt); \Teaching Controversial Social Issues: Personal and Professional Tasks for Teachers of English\ (A. Molnar and D. R. Walling); \Facing Controversy: An Organization's Role in Addressing the Nuclear World\ (S. Alexander); \Controversy Doesn't Have to Find the Teacher\ (J. D. Black); \Three Tactics for…
(2005). Learning to Do: Values for Learning and Working Together in a Globalized World. An Integrated Approach to Incorporating Values Education in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. UNESCO-APNIEVE Sourcebook No. 3. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training This new Sourcebook provides information on how to teach values for learning and working together in a globalized world. It is designed for educators and trainers of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Its emphasis is on the integrated development of the whole person within the context of lifelong learning and TVET, in preparation for life and the world of work. The body of the book comprises 35 modules following the steps of a holistic teaching /learning cycle in each of the core and related values which can be integrated within a TVET education and training context to empower technical and vocational educators to adapt the process to their own training packages, units, lessons and resource materials. Chapter Two, "An Approach to Teaching and Learning Values," offers a way for the integration of values into the TVET curriculum. In this manner, the practical application of values becomes a living reality. The valuing process is an integral part of the… [PDF]
(2005). The Transcultural Journey. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, v11 p205-230 Aug. Ready or not, a \transcultural\ era is here. The dramatic expansion of airline travel and telecommunications technologies, tourism and student exchanges, immigration policies and trade agreements have served to connect vastly different peoples and places into increasingly complex relationships. Local, regional, and national economies are now largely integrated into a single interdependent economy, working in real time on a global scale. Buyers and sellers increasingly connect, not through physical proximity, but through electronic networks. At the same time, everything and everyone appears to be on the move. Capital and commodities, products and services, businesspersons and migrants, tourists and terrorists–all move across borders with relative freedom. More persons than ever before are pursuing lives that link the local and the global. They are becoming increasingly transcultural–physically or electronically connected with diverse peoples, and involved in decision-making that is… [PDF] [Direct]
(2004). Curricular Framework Documents from Slovenia. Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, v34 n1 p113-125 Mar. Slovenia is currently undergoing a process of school reform in order to extend compulsory education from eight to nine years and to lower the school entering age from 7 to 6. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, the new elementary schools will focus less on the content and more on developing cognitive and social skills. At the request of the International Bureau of Education (IBE), and on behalf of UNESCO's Education for All Monitoring Team, it was decided to review the general curriculum framework documents for primary education in Slovenia from the point of view of the integration of gender-equality goals. According to the IBE, Slovenia was selected on the basis of the aims and priorities of the education system as reported to sessions of the International Conference on Education. A set of initial guidelines prepared by the IBE was taken into account, and the review was complemented by a theoretical framework informed by cultural studies, women's studies and… [Direct]
(2023). Relational Thinking: An Overlooked Component of Executive Functioning. Developmental Science, v26 n3 e13320 May. Relational thinking, the ability to represent abstract, generalizable relations, is a core component of reasoning and human cognition. Relational thinking contributes to fluid reasoning and academic achievement, particularly in the domain of math. However, due to the complex nature of many fluid reasoning tasks, it has been difficult to determine the degree to which relational thinking has a separable role from the cognitive processes collectively known as executive functions (EFs). Here, we used a simplified reasoning task to better understand how relational thinking contributes to math achievement in a large, diverse sample of elementary and middle school students (N = 942). Students also performed a set of ten adaptive EF assessments, as well as tests of math fluency and fraction magnitude comparison. We found that relational thinking was significantly correlated with each of the three EF composite scores previously derived from this dataset, albeit no more strongly than they were… [Direct]
(2023). Re-Orienting to Language Users: Humanizing Orientations in Language Planning as Praxis. Language Policy, v22 n1 p1-23 Mar. The field of language policy and planning (LPP) has increasingly expanded its focus beyond legislative measures and macro-level policies toward understanding the power of social actors and their interpretation, appropriation, and creation of language policies in societies. This article aims to advance LPP theory and research by offering a critical and decolonial lens for conceptualizing and analyzing language policy in research, education, and language planning. This critical lens expands on one of the most influential LPP models: Ruiz's (1984) framework for Orientations in Language Planning. Ruiz's framework was proposed as a "meta-model" for language planning specialists to examine and advocate for new policies. This article invites researchers of language use in society to consider an epistemological shift from defining languages with fixed orientations, such as problem, resource, and right, toward looking at the intersectional roles of the listening and speaking… [Direct]
(2022). Determining Factors in Graduate Recruitment and Preparing Students for Success. Education & Training, v64 n5 p681-699. Purpose: This study aims to investigate graduate employer perceptions of determining factors in recruitment decisions and their preferred use of recruitment channels. This study drew on the employability capitals model to interpret findings and identify ways to better prepare higher education students for recruitment and selection. This is particularly important in declining graduate labour markets, further weakened by COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach: This study gathered data from surveying 183 Australian employers from different organisational settings. Responses were analysed using descriptive and multivariate techniques, the latter exploring variations by role type, sector and organisation size. Findings: Findings reaffirmed the criticality of students having the right disposition and demonstrating professional capabilities during recruitment, highlighting the value of building cultural and human capital during university years. Recruitment channels that require students to… [Direct]
(2003). Columbia: The Economic Foundation of Peace. Chapters 21-28. This document contains 8 chapters of a 35-chapter book that presents a comprehensive diagnosis of current economic, social, and educational conditions in Colombia and their importance to development prospects and the quest for peace. The eight chapters covered here are part of a section titled "Sharing the Fruits of Growth with All Colombians." Chapter 21, "Education" (Eduardo Velez), describes Colombia's education system and current enrollment trends and focuses on seven policy issues: highly inequitable access to schooling, excluding poor and rural children; low, perhaps deteriorating, educational quality; high grade repetition and dropout rates; allocation of public expenditures; growing household demand for schooling; inefficient and inequitable decentralization of education management; and negative impacts of violence and social displacement on schooling. Chapter 22, "Health" (Maria-Luisa Escobar, Panagiota Panopoulou), looks at recent reforms in…
(2021). Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: The Crisis of Higher Education in the Post-Truth Era. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v53 n11 p1057-1062. With increasing influence of illiberalism, freedom should not be considered or interpreted lightly. Post-truth contexts provide grounds for alt-right movements to capture and pervert notions of freedom of speech, making universities battlefields of politicised emotions and expressions (Peters et al., 2019). In societies facing these pressures around the world, academic freedom has never been challenged as much as it is today (Gibbs, 2019). As Peters and colleagues note (2019), conceptualisations of 'facts' and 'evidences' are politically, socially, and epistemically reconstructed in post-truth contexts. At the same time, with intelligence commodified, reified or marginalised, freedom of speech and of mobility can entail fights for entitlements, or escapes from local responsibilities (Calitz, 2018; Lo, 2019). The decline and corruptions of democratic free speech and academic freedom, or the absence of forces to defend them, are thus serious challenges. These challenges grow as the… [Direct]
(2010). The Complexity of Human Rights in Global Times: The Case of the Right to Education in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, v30 n1 p3-11 Jan. The right to education has an established legacy in international agreements and debates, but has nonetheless proved difficult to achieve across the countries of the world. This paper explores why this might be so. It begins by locating the current architecture of rights in Enlightenment philosophy and the political and legal formations of modernity, exploring the paradoxical legacy this brings. It then looks more specifically at the right to education, and why it cannot be assumed that statements of rights deliver what they promise. Finally, it looks at education in South Africa to explore both the limits and the possibilities of using a framework of rights to achieve greater social justice in global times…. [Direct]
(2025). Orienting and Alerting Attention in Very Low and Normal Birth Weight Children at 42 Months: A Follow-Up Study. Journal of Attention Disorders, v29 n4 p244-255. Objective: In preterm and very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, attention-related problems have been found to be more pronounced and emerge later as academic difficulties that may persist into school age. In response, based on three attention networks: alerting, orienting, and executive attention, we examined the development of attention functions at 42 months (not corrected for prematurity) as a follow-up study of VLBW (n = 23) and normal birth weight (NBW: n = 48) infants. Method: The alerting and orienting attention networks were examined through an overlap task with or without warning signal. The orienting network was also examined through the distribution of gaze points when exposed to videos of human faces talking and silently looking straight ahead. Executive attention was examined using a parental report measure for temperamental self-regulation, effortful control. Results: In the overlap task, the difference between VLBWs and NBWs was not the latency of attentional… [Direct]
(2020). Expanding Horizons: Encouraging Cross-Campus Student Collaboration to Develop a Novel Food Product for Individuals Experiencing Dysphagia. Journal of Food Science Education, v19 n2 p36-40 Apr. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), cross-campus collaborations are strongly encouraged; however, due to the vast size of the university, opportunities for student collaboration commonly rely on serendipitous events–being at the right place at the right time. On a cold day in February 2017, the required serendipity befell Clarion Mendes (Speech and Hearing Sciences [SHS]) and Dawn Bohn (Food Science and Human Nutrition [FSHN] concentration Food Science [FS]). The SHS department is part of the College of Applied Health Sciences and the FS department is part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. SHS graduate students in Speech-Language Pathology pursue careers in schools, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities. FS undergraduate and graduate students often pursue careers in food product development, quality assurance, sensory science, ingredient applications, and regulatory compliance. Seemingly, these two fields are… [Direct]