(2021). Online Advertising Strategies to Effectively Market a Business School. International Journal of Higher Education, v10 n4 p61-104. Advertising has always played an important role in creating visibility for educational institutions. In today's time, digital marketing is the sought-after mode as there has been a significant shift from offline to online advertising. With the evolving times, flexibility and convenience take significant importance and it is critical for educational institutions to shift gears and adapt to the new formats. In order to stay relevant and have a competitive advantage, digital advertising helps higher educational institutions go that extra mile in engaging with their potential customers. It also helps in building awareness and attract good quality of students. In the world of digital advertising, 'Google Advertisement' is an online advertising platform developed by Google, where advertisers bid to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, or videos to web users. It can place advertisements both in the results of search engines like Google Search and on non-search… [PDF]
(2020). Education and New Developments 2020. Online Submission This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2020), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year had to be transformed into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic. Education, in our contemporary world, 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. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields,… [PDF]
(1980). White House Conference on Families: Summary of State Reports. Volume Three. This compilation contains the verbatim texts of recommendations made by states' delegates from 20 western states participating in the Los Angeles regional conference of the White House Conference on Families. The recommendations are organized by topic for each of the individual states. Topics include the following as related to the family: child care; governmental intervention; cultural and ethnic diversity; employment; alcohol and drug abuse; domestic violence; taxes; special needs; housing; education; the legal system; the media; divorce; energy; preventive health programs; communication; marriage; parenting; the workplace; the elderly; social services; transportation; insurance and pensions; business and industry; parenthood education; women's roles; pornography; abortion; agriculture; nutrition; children's rights; and human reproduction. States participating in the Los Angeles conference were Alaska, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,… [PDF]
(1975). A Factor Analysis of Peking Opera: Its Functions in Mass Communications. The study reported in this paper examined the structure and function of Chinese opera (also known as Peking opera) as an effective communication medium of social control and change in China, a land populated by 800 million people and nourished by a 5,000-year-old civilization. The study followed structural-functional analysis, content analysis, and factor analysis and was mainly based on ten Peking opera plays–five traditional and five revolutionary. Findings of the study indicate that the Chinese Communist revolutionary plays deal mostly with the salvation factor, which advocates the full dedication of the masses to the revolutionary causes; that traditional plays are mostly concerned with the family security factor, which stresses the importance of family love, individual rights, and human feelings; and that the traditional opera functions for social control, while the revolutionary opera works for social change. Appendixes contain data pertaining to the study. (JM)… [PDF]
(2013). Childhood as Social Investment, Rights and the Valuing of Education. Children & Society, v27 n4 p245-257 Jul. This paper discusses the impact of and close interplay between global discourses on children, notions of (a good) childhood at the national and local levels and childhoods as these are lived and experienced in particular social contexts. Two increasingly powerful global images of children are explored: Children as individual subjects with rights to participation as stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and children as human capital and early childhood investment. I argue that the market-oriented politics and "global images" of childhood are connected to particular ideological notions of what it means to be a human being, and an increasing individualization, separating children from an intergenerational social order. The discussion is empirically grounded in case studies in Norway and Ethiopia. The paper highlights the contradictions especially with respect to safeguarding local livelihoods and knowledge suggesting limits to the "sector… [Direct]
(2022). Indigeneity versus Diversity. Human Rights Education Review, v5 n1 p136-155. The article deals with the representation of the S√°mi in the new national curriculum for primary and lower secondary education in Norway. More precisely, it focuses on a specific formulation in the fourth core element of the curriculum for religious education, in which an awareness of S√°mi perspectives is presented as part of the diversity competence which pupils are supposed to acquire. Based on a critical analysis of governmental documents dealing with education it is argued that the term 'diversity' as it is used in the fourth core element addresses S√°mi perspectives in a way that may induce readers to think of the S√°mi as one of an increasing number of minorities in an originally Norwegian society. This implication, even if unintended, is highly problematic. It can be interpreted as a violation of both ILO 169, Article 31 and CRC, Article 29 (1), especially since the S√°mi are a people indigenous to Norway…. [Direct]
(2015). Robust Detection of Examinees with Aberrant Answer Changes. Journal of Educational Measurement, v52 n4 p437-456 Win. The statistical analysis of answer changes (ACs) has uncovered multiple testing irregularities on large-scale assessments and is now routinely performed at testing organizations. However, AC data has an uncertainty caused by technological or human factors. Therefore, existing statistics (e.g., number of wrong-to-right ACs) used to detect examinees with aberrant ACs capitalize on the uncertainty, which may result in a large Type I error. In this article, the information about ACs is used only for the partitioning of administered items into two disjoint subtests: items where ACs did not occur, and items where ACs did occur. A new statistic is based on the difference in performance between these subtests (measured as Kullback-Leibler divergence between corresponding posteriors of latent traits), where, in order to avoid the uncertainty, only final responses are used. One of the subtests can be filtered such that the asymptotic distribution of the statistic is chi-square with one degree… [Direct]
(1997). Making Integrated Curriculum Work: Teachers, Students, and the Quest for Coherent Curriculum. This book provides a detailed account of a year-long curriculum development project by an interdisciplinary team to create an inclusive, democratic curriculum at a suburban Georgia middle school. The first chapter is an overview of the study and lists the eight components deemed essential to a "coherent" curriculum. A separate chapter, many including illustrations, is devoted to each component. Project goals, the first component, were determined first. Another component, the democratic classroom, includes a discussion of management plans, group processing, grading policy, and group work guidelines. Traditional and alternative assessment models and the curriculum design processes are discussed next. A fifth component is content integration, and modeling as well as integrating content within thematic units, are covered here. The discussion of pedagogy uses a Human and Civil Rights unit to illustrate specific strategies for brainstorming, making connections, story telling,…
(1976). Involvement: A Practical Handbook for Teachers on Law-Related Methodologies. Law Related Education Program for the Schools of Maryland, Elementary Level. The teacher's handbook provides goals, objectives, and teaching strategies helpful to elementary teachers in supplementing existing law-related curriculum materials in the social studies classroom. Intended as a means of actively involving students in a study of law, the first section presents 17 lesson plans for use in grades K-2. Topics include enforcement of laws, justice in the courts, laws as social controls, human variability, property rights, fairness, rules, and diversity. The second section provides 34 plans for use in grades 3-5. Topics include responsibility, fairness, bicycle safety, honesty versus stealing, the need for rules, settling disputes, and the juvenile justice system. The third section presents six lesson plans for use in grades 3-5 developed by secondary school students trained by the program. Topics are law and values, leadership, functions of rules and law, rule making, freedom of speech, and justice. For each topic in Sections I-III, the following… [PDF]
(2022). Apprenticeships: A Descriptive Case Study to Investigate Apprenticeships as a Means of Workforce Development through Earn-and-Learn. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Baylor University. This study explored apprenticeships as a means of workforce development and the creation of new talent pools within manufacturing companies. An apprenticeship is an arrangement between an individual, a company, and in some instances an academic provider to learn a trade or a job through the combination of academics and on-the-job training (OJT). Successful completion of the academic and OJT generally results in the apprentice obtaining an offer of employment with the company that sponsored the apprenticeship in some cases the apprentice may be employed full-time with another employer within the same job field. This descriptive multiple case study sought to understand the process for designing, implementing, and measuring the benefits provided to the apprentice and company by using apprenticeships as a means of workforce development. I utilized a combination of a priori and a posteriori theory that served as a starting place to determine if apprenticeships could be a viable solution… [Direct]
(2018). The Mock Conference as a Teaching Tool: Role-Play and "Conplay" in the Classroom. Teaching Theology & Religion, v21 n1 p60-72 Jan. In our ostensibly secular age, discussing the real-world contexts and impacts of religious traditions in the classroom can be difficult. Religious traditions may appear at different times to different students as too irrelevant, too personal, or too inflammatory to allow them to engage openly with the materials, the issues, and each other. In this "Design & Analysis" article Aaron Ricker describes an attempt to address this awkward pedagogical situation with an experiment in role-play enacted on the model of a mock conference. This description is followed by four short responses by authors who have experimented with this form of pedagogy themselves. In "Conplay," students dramatize the wildly varying and often conflicting approaches to biblical tradition they have been reading about and discussing in class. They bring the believers, doubters, artists, and critics they have been studying into the room, to interact face-to-face with each other and the class. In… [Direct]
(1969). Human Rights, Equality, and Education. Educ Theor, 19, 3, 288-298, 69 Sum. Paper read at a Symposium on Education and Ethics at the University of Georgia, May 17-18, 1968….
(1974). Human Rights and Administrative Responsibility. Phi Delta Kappan, 56, 4, 243,247, Dec 74. …
(1974). Human Rights and Behavior Modification. Mental Retardation, 12, 3, 3-6, Jun 74. Criticisms of behavior modification, which charge that it violates ethical and legal principles, are discussed and reasons are presented to explain behavior modification's susceptibility to attack. (GW)…
(1979). Human Rights and University Contracts. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, v35 n2 p23-26 Feb. Universities should unite and refuse to contract with, or take gifts from oppressive foreign governments. (Author/BB)…