(2019). The Postdigital Challenge of Redefining Academic Publishing from the Margins. Learning, Media and Technology, v44 n3 p381-393. This paper explores relationships between knowledge production and academic publication and shows that the current political economy of mainstream academic publishing has resulted from a complex interplay between large academic publishers, academics, and hacker-activists. The process of publishing is a form of 'social production' that takes place across the economy, politics and culture, all of which are in turn accommodating both old and new technology in our postdigital age. Technologies such as software cannot be separated from human labour, academic centres cannot be looked at in isolation from their margins, and the necessity of transdisciplinary approaches does not imply the disappearance of traditional disciplines. In the postdigital age, the concept of the margins has not disappeared, but it has become somewhat marginal in its own right. We need to develop a new language of describing what we mean by 'marginal voices' in the social relations between knowledge production and… [Direct]
(1994). Insights on Diversity. This state-of-the-art report presents a series of essays on the topic of diversity. Essays include: (1) "Committing to Diversity" (George L. Mehaffy); (2) "Serving the Community by Serving Our Members" (Michael P. Wolfe); (3) "How Diversity Matters" (Asa G. Hilliard, III); (4) "A Prerequisite to Teaching Multiculturally" (Mary Louise Gomez); (5) "Multicultural Education is for Everyone!" (Maureen Gillette); (6) "Intercultural Competencies" (James Anderson); (7) "Opening One Door" (P. C. Wu); (8) "Dimensions of Multicultural Education" (James A. Banks); (9) "Characterizing Ethnic Groups in the Curriculum" (Carmen Montecinos); (10) "The Needs of Our New Teachers" (Gloria Ladson-Billings); (11) "The Many Ways of Being Human" (M. Eugene Gillion); (12) "Understanding Ethnicity" (Wilma S. Longstreet); (13) "Dissension in Perspective" (Geneva Gay); (14) "To… [PDF]
(1992). Literacy across the Curriculum: Connecting Literacy in the Schools, Community and Workplace, 1992-1993. Literacy across the Curriculum, v8 n1-4 Mar 1992-Win 1993. The first of four issues in this volume consists of these articles: "The Fourth 'R'–Relating"; "On Baseball Cards and Literacy"; "On Literacy and Success"; "National Assessments: What They Can and Cannot Do"; and "In the Classroom: The Integrated Journal." It also contains two book reviews and a list of resources on adolescent literacy, at-risk youth, and dropouts. A supplement, Media Focus, contains "Exploding a Myth: TV Watching Is Not Passive" (Emery); "World View on Media Education"; "Commercial Advertising–Does It Have a Place in the Classroom? Two Views on Youth News Network"; and two book reviews. Issue 2 has these articles: "Concerning Literacy and Ethics"; "Ethics and Educators: Traveling in Hope"; "On Bamboo Literacy"; "On the Increasing Importance of Visual Communication"; "Drawing a Link to Literacy"; "Thinking about Writing and… [PDF]
(2003). Stromquist, N., & Samoff, J. (2000). Knowledge Management Systems: On the Promise and Actual Forms of Information Technologies. "British Association for International and Comparative Education," 30(3), 323-332. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, v29 n2 Spr. In their article," Knowledge Management Systems: On the Promise and Actual Forms of Information Technologies, Stromquist and Samoff (2000)" critically examined the role of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) in education. Stromquist and Samoff (2000) defined a KMS as a system "which proposes to produce easily retrievable materials via the Internet and hypertext". KMS attempts to be more than a mere data bank, for it seeks to provide highly selected and targeted knowledge. For its implementation, KMS depends on a manager to determine what constitutes "relevant" and "best" evidence" (p. 323). In a KMS, the manager controls the production and organization of information (Stromquist & Samoff, 2000). The authors consider the use of Knowledge Management Systems as a means to provide increased access to a diversity of information and knowledge, which can then be tailored to solve specific problems world-wide, problematic (Stromquist &… [PDF]
(1996). Exploring the Frontier of the Future: How Kentucky Will Live, Learn and Work. This report provides Kentucky policymakers with information on economic, educational, demographic, and environmental trends and issues with implications for policy decisions. Following an introduction, "Past as Prologue" (James C. Klotter), the 28 chapters are presented in 5 sections: "The White Picket Fence: Trends Affecting the Quality of Life in Kentucky Communities"; "Our Emerging Culture of Learning"; "Our Changing Economy"; "Environmental Trends and Futures"; and "Government and Civic Participation." Chapters are: "Migration in Kentucky: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (Michael Price); "Growing Old in Kentucky: The Approaching Age of Age" (Graham D. Rowles, John F. Watkins); "Families and Children: The Common Wealth of Kentucky" (Stephan M. Wilson); "Poverty in Kentucky" (Miriam Fordham, Dan Jacovitch); "Assessing the Future of Housing in Kentucky" (F. Lynn Luallen);… [PDF]
(2022). The Public Behavior and the Social Role of National Legal Business Education. Journal of Social Studies Education Research, v13 n2 p83-102. This study investigates the role between public behavior and the social function of the National Legal Education for the online loan literacy case. The scope of the research includes community behavior integrated with technology and consumer education concerning business law regarding Self Evaluation and Protection of Personal Information in the case of Online Loans. The normative legal study design assesses ten principal legal documents, including nine Rhode Island laws, four government regulations issued by the Minister of Communication and Information and the Financial Services Authority, and one civil code. The study focuses on positive law regarding Self Evaluation and Protection of Consumer Information and Business Law Education on Online Loans. The findings disclose that in national law, online loan literacy cases occur in digital societies. It is necessary to conduct an independent evaluation to control the exploitative attitude of people literate in online loans and… [PDF]
(2022). Cultivating a Dream as a Child Growing up in the Deep South: Keeping the Dream Alive for Today's Children. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, v71 n1 p190-210 Nov. The 2021 Oscar Causey Award Address presented at the Literacy Research Association by Professor Dr. Patricia A. Edwards is a response to two self-reflexive questions: "How were my dreams cultivated as a little Black girl growing up in Albany, Georgia during the mid-fifties. sixties, and early seventies?" and "What implications does my story have for cultivating the dreams of today's children?" To explore these questions, Edwards uses a qualitative methodology termed portraiture (Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997) to capture her insights and experiences, allowing her to "paint" rich pictures of the participants "in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational life" (p. xv). Through portraiture, which relies heavily on the use of storytelling and narration, Edwards converts the term "research" into "I-search" (Macrorie, 1988), affording her the opportunity to reflect on… [Direct]
(2016). The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship. Democracy & Education, v24 n2 Article 5. Drawing upon the African concept of "ubuntu," this article examines the epistemic orientations toward individual-society relations that inform democratic citizenship and identity in South Africa. Findings from focus group interviews conducted with 50 Xhosa teachers from all seven primary and intermediate schools in a township outside Cape Town depict the cultural contours of democracy and how the teachers reaffirm and question the dominant Western-oriented democratic narrative. Through "ubuntu," defined as the virtue of being human premised upon respect, the Xhosa teachers interrupt the prevailing rights-and-responsibilities discourse to interpose a conception of democracy based on rights, responsibilities, and respect. Society and schools, in their view, fall short in educating young learners for democratic citizenship in South Africa; their insights offer ways for formal schooling to improve upon its democratic mission…. [Direct]
(2016). Child-Initiated Pedagogies: Moving toward Democratically Appropriate Practices in Finland, England, Estonia, and the United States. Childhood Education, v92 n5 p345-357. The Convention on the Rights of the Child calls for children to be treated as human beings with a distinct set of rights, instead of as passive objects of care. They can and should be agents in their own lives. Child-initiated pedagogy recognizes this by respecting children's individual and collective views, interests, and motivations. Instructional practices that support child-initiated activities promote children's self-determination and their cognitive and social development. By allowing young children to choose their own pursuits and learning explorations, take ownership of planned activities to adapt them to their own purposes, and incorporate their own experiences into learning opportunities, educators are moving toward implementation of democratically appropriate practices. The authors of this article examine how child-initiated pedagogy manifests in the different contexts of Finland, England, Estonia, and the United States…. [Direct]
(2016). The Teacher as Silenced Superhero. Online Submission, LEARNing Landscapes v9 n2 p535-550 Spr. In this essay I argue that social ideals create an imaginary that inspires self-discipline in beliefs, thinking, and practices in order to achieve social-utopian hopes that the world will improve in particular ways. As such, social ideals limit human agency in general, and, for teachers in particular, there is limited terrain in which they have the right to speak. As a substitute for their right to speak, I argue, teachers are given the token social status of superhero, a fantasy consistent with neoliberal styles of thought. Following Pinar's notion of art-as-event, I propose that deep engagement in the arts might be a means of restoring agency and voice to teachers; I argue that art troubles the strong socialization motif in education and creates intellectual room for the development of genuinely educational moments in schooling…. [PDF]
(2008). Teaching American History in a Global Context. M.E. Sharpe Inc This comprehensive resource is an invaluable aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view. The contributors include well-known American history scholars as well as ordinary classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race, and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in America in their courses. The book also includes a "Views from Abroad" section that examines problems and strategies for teaching American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print and online resources. This book contains five parts. Part I, Calls for Change,… [Direct]
(2005). Changing Social Institutions to Improve the Status of Women in Developing Countries. OECD Development Centre Policy Brief No. 27. OECD Publishing (NJ1) One of the long-standing priorities of the international community is to reduce gender disparity in developing countries. Yet, the overall picture is still gloomy: women continue to be excluded from access to resources and employment and are denied basic human rights. This Policy Brief explains why progress has been so minimal and what should be done about it. Recent Development Centre research (Morrisson and Jutting, 2004, 2005; Morrisson and Friedrich, 2004) has shown the institutional framework as key to understanding the economic role of women in developing countries, yet this framework has not received the attention it deserves. This Policy Brief summarises the lessons from this and other research to answer three questions. First, why are social institutions so important for gender equality? Second, what obstacles impede reforms of discriminatory social institutions, and why is progress so limited? Third, what policy lessons emerge for donors? Feminist studies emphasised the… [PDF] [Direct]
(2006). Separate Is Inherently Unequal: Rethinking Commonly Held Wisdom. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, v10 n23. Modern educational reform owes much to the legal team and educational leaders who fought to make equal educational opportunity a reality for Black students in the United States of America. Their efforts helped to dismantle American apartheid; a.k.a. Jim Crow, a system of allocating human and civil rights according to assigned or assumed "racial" classifications. The 1954 Supreme Court concluded that the doctrine of "separate but equal", initiated in 1896 under Plessy, has no place in public education and separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Since the 1954 decision of "Brown v. Board of Education Topeka", Kansas "separate is inherently unequal" has been the mantra used by advocates of desegregated schools. The purpose of this research is to question commonly held wisdom promoting the idea that if things are separate, they must be unequal. Integration, it follows, is then sought as the solution to the problem of inequality. I… [Direct]
(2019). Anthropocosmic Vision, Time, and Nature: Reconnecting Humanity and Nature. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v51 n11 p1130-1140. Having enjoyed remarkable economic success, China's natural environment is being increasingly degraded, and with it, the quality of life. Researchers and environmentalists have responded by exploring whether cultural resources can provide a means of understanding ecological systems. This article reviews philosophical Chinese concepts of "tian-ren-he-yi" and ecological time, and ponders their implications for understanding current ecological challenges. A motif of ancient Chinese thought, "tian-ren-he-yi" perceives the cosmos as an organic, mutually reciprocal entity in which human beings coexist harmoniously with nature. This entity does not unfold by following a cyclical pattern, but rather through a process of transformative harmony with the flow of time. In contrast to the linear time constructed by community life, this view of ecological time can reveal the new dimension of rhythm. To enhance children's awareness of their responsibility for caring for the… [Direct]
(2020). Pathways to Academia: Transitioning from Practitioner to Graduate Educator. Communique, v49 n4 p28-29 Dec. In accordance with the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Practice Model (NASP, 2020), school psychologists must have knowledge of professional identity, advocate for professional roles, and engage in lifelong learning and professional growth. Knowledge of potential career paths in academia can help school psychologists broaden both their understanding of the profession and potentially build an alternate career path vision. This is especially important because there are predicted faculty openings and data to suggest that an increasing number of openings are left unfilled each year (Castillo et al., 2014; Clopton & Haselhuhn, 2009). Practitioners possess a vital skill set and experience base for training and are an important human resource for addressing the current and predicted faculty shortages. This purpose of this article is to share the academic career pathway of four different school psychology practitioners. Themes from their pathways will be discussed to… [Direct]