(1995). It Comes from the People: Community Development and Local Theology. The closing of local mines and factories collapsed the economic and social structure of Ivanhoe, Virginia, a small rural town once considered a dying community. This book is a case study that tells how the people of Ivanhoe organized to revitalize their town. It documents the community development process–a process that included hard work, a community consciousness raising experience that was intentionally sensitive to cultural and religious values, and many conflicts. It tells the story of the emergence and education of leaders, especially women, and the pain and joy of their growing and learning. Among these leaders is Maxine Waller, a dominant, charismatic woman who gave the townspeople inspiration and a sense of their capabilities and of their rights as human beings. Part I covers the community development process and includes chapters on historical background, community mobilization, confronting and using power, community education, using culture in community development,… [PDF]
(2012). Dividing the Self: Distinct Neural Substrates of Task-Based and Automatic Self-Prioritization after Brain Damage. Cognition, v122 n2 p150-162 Feb. Facial self-awareness is a basic human ability dependent on a distributed bilateral neural network and revealed through prioritized processing of our own over other faces. Using non-prosopagnosic patients we show, for the first time, that facial self-awareness can be fractionated into different component processes. Patients performed two face perception tasks. In a face orientation task, they judged whether their own or others' faces were oriented to the left or right. In the \cross\ experiment, they judged which horizontal or vertical element in a cross was relatively longer while ignoring a task-irrelevant face presented as background. The data indicate that impairments to a distinct task-based prioritization process (when faces had to be attended) were present after brain damage to right superior frontal gyrus, bilateral precuneus, and left middle temporal gyrus. In contrast, impairments to automatic prioritization processes (when faces had to be ignored) were associated only with… [Direct]
(1991). Building Local Labor Market Dynamics into Workforce 2000. Research Report No. 53. The Hudson Institute study, "Workforce 2000," created an awareness that labor markets are going to be dramatically different in the year 2000. The themes from Workforce 2000, events from the early 1990s, and the dynamics of local labor markets can be combined. At the analytical level, these three components form tracks that can be used to analyze the effectiveness of recruitment, hiring, training, and development. Workforce 2000 themes include a forecast that in the year 2000 there will be key shortages of skilled workers; divergent quality of life, income, and life prospects; and a culturally diverse work force. External key events include availability of skilled workers from Department of Defense cutbacks, the underrepresentation of females in higher decision-making jobs, and the challenge to seniority systems from the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1991. Human resource planning and forecasting models can be used to quantify specific job movements in local labor markets… [PDF]
(2006). Age Discrimination and Children's Rights. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers One of the aims of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is to accord due recognition to the fact that 'the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth". However, a question mark hangs over the extent to which "special safeguards and care' can negatively impact on the rights of the child and result in discrimination against the child in the guise of "his physical and mental immaturity". This volume explores the extent to which children's rights are secured at the national level; and the reasons why children's rights have or have not been recognised and secured by various states at the level of domestic law. It also explores the difficulties inherent in the accordance of rights to children in order to ascertain whether they do in fact derive from the particular nature of children or whether they mask a reluctance of states to… [Direct]
(2010). Right-Left Approach and Reaching Arm Movements of 4-Month Infants in Free and Constrained Conditions. Brain and Cognition, v72 n3 p419-422 Apr. Recent theories on the evolution of language (e.g. Corballis, 2009) emphazise the interest of early manifestations of manual laterality and manual specialization in human infants. In the present study, left- and right-hand movements towards a midline object were observed in 24 infants aged 4 months in a constrained condition, in which the hands were maintained closed, and in a free condition. A left-hand dominance for approach movements without contact with the object, and a right-hand dominance for reaching movements with object contact was observed in the free condition. In the constrained condition reaching movements of the right hand decreased dramatically. These results are interpreted as strong evidence of manual specialization in 4-month olds, with approach movements having a localization role and reaching movements announcing future right-hand dominance for prehension and object manipulation. (Contains 2 figures.)… [Direct]
(2016). END 2016: International Conference on Education and New Developments. Conference Proceedings (Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 12-14, 2016). Online Submission We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2016–END 2016, taking place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 12 to 14 of June. 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. Our International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. Our goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners… [PDF]
(2014). Critical Thinking and the Anti-Liberal State: The Politics of Pedagogic Recontextualization in Singapore. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v35 n5 p692-704. In concert with Singapore's ambitions of a global city well engineered to the human capital needs of the transnational knowledge economy, its schools in recent years have emphasized the teaching of critical thinking. Such efforts, however, are not without tensions and contradictions. Given that such a curricular ideal is underpinned by liberal discourses of democracy and autonomy, what form does it assume in a dominant one-party state with a deliberately weak and underdeveloped language of individual rights? In a "meritocratic" and highly stratified education system, what are the tensions involved in teaching all students what has traditionally been classified as "high-status" knowledge? This article draws upon Basil Bernstein's writings on pedagogic recontextualization and the relations between knowledge, curricular form, and ideology to examine the politics of teaching critical thinking in Singapore. Specifically, using ethnographic classroom data from a public… [Direct]
(2015). Human Freedom and the Philosophical Attitude. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v47 n11 p1185-1197. Attempts to describe the essential features of the Western philosophical tradition can often be characterized as "boundary work", that is, the attempt to create, promote, attack, or reinforce specific notions of the 'philosophical' in order to demarcate it as a field of intellectual inquiry. During the last century, the dominant tendency has been to delineate the discipline in terms of formal methods, techniques, and concepts and a given set of standard problems and alternative available solutions (although this element has been both present and at times highly influential at least since Plato). One vital feature of the philosophical tradition that has played a certain rather subterranean but nonetheless indispensable role, which I will discuss in this article, is that of repeatedly and stringently calling into question the conditions of its own possibility. The Cartesian tradition (including Kant, Husserl, Popper and Weber) shares with the anti-philosophers (say, Nietzsche… [Direct]
(2012). Comments on Mike Rose's Essay \Rethinking Remedial Education and the Academic-Vocational Divide\. Mind, Culture, and Activity, v19 n1 p26-28. The struggle over whether all students have a right to a high-quality, affordable college education, or whether it is a privilege they must \earn\ through high test scores and parental savings for tuition, plays out daily in the so-called \remedial\ or \developmental\ classes. This article presents the author's comments on Mike Rose's essay \Rethinking Remedial Education and the Academic-Vocational Divide.\ For as Rose so clearly describes in the article, practitioners have deep and valid knowledge of what they must do. Executing the work as they describe it is another matter entirely. Many remedial approaches assume a one-way street–teacher teaches student–that alienates learners with real experience from the start. Rose's research and writing over many decades shows that students teach teachers as well–and in doing so, teach themselves. It is the belief in human capacity that \creates both instructional responses and institutional structures that limit human development for… [Direct]
(2012). Policy, Power, and Predicaments: Negotiating Boundaries of Sexual Health and Curricular Leadership. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, v15 n2 p24-40 Jun. Joe McGinnis, principal of Jackson High School, is caught in the conflict between community values, parents' rights, teacher speech, public health policy, and his own positioning within the community and faculty. He must decide whether and how to discipline a teacher and former mentor who, in the absence of a clear school district policy, supplied a student with information regarding sexual health. The parents claim the teacher exceeded her duties by providing morality education that contradicted parental and community values. The teacher asserts she acted in the best interest of the student's health and academic future. This case poses questions about professional ethics and morality, community governance and school health education policies, school human resource rules, and school power…. [Direct]
(1978). Obstacles to Health Care in the Black Community: The Denial of a Human Right. Journal of Intergroup Relations, 6, 3, 19-33, Jun 78. Although health care has never emerged as a leading issue in the civil rights struggle, there has been a relatively quiet, low key movement over the past ten years to address many of the health issues in the black community. Now, however, the movement is regressing. (Author/AM)…
(1986). Resources for Education: Human Rights and the Canadian System for Redistribution of Public Funds. Canadian Journal of Education, v11 n3 p353-63 Sum. Three aspects of potential maldistribution of public funds are examined here: whether rich Canadians find it necessary or worthwhile to send their children to private schools, whether poverty deprives citizens of educational services, and whether the cost of a special educational service determines if or where it will be available. (Author/JAZ)…
(1984). The Responsibilities of the Scientist in International Understanding, Co-Operation, Peace, and Human Rights. Higher Education in Europe, v9 n2 p26-33 Apr-Jun. A discussion of the responsibility of scientists as repositories of knowledge, as educators, and as citizens outlines some concerns of the scientific community for problems of peace and disarmament. It is noted that a recent common awareness of a common responsibility for society is evident in the intensity of scientific contacts. (MSE)…
(2001). British Aid for Hungarian Deaf Education from a Linguistic Human Rights Point of View. Hungarian Journal of Applied Linguistics, v1 n2 p63-68. This paper discusses the issue of oral versus sign language in educating people who are deaf, focusing on Hungary, which currently emphasizes oralism and discourages the use of Hungarian Sign Language. Teachers of people who are hearing impaired are trained to use the acoustic channel and view signing as an obstacle to the integration of deaf people into mainstream Hungarian society. A recent news report describes how the British Council is giving children's books to a Hungarian college for teachers of handicapped students, because the college believes in encouraging hearing impaired students' speaking skills through picture books rather than allowing then to use sign language. One Hungarian researcher writes that the use of Hungarian Sign Language hinders the efficiency of teaching students who are hard of hearing, because they often prefer it to spoken Hungarian. This paper suggests that the research obscures the difference between medically deaf children, who will never learn to… [PDF]
(1997). 25 Years of Multiculturalism–Past, Present and Future, Part II. Focus on Human Rights. Canadian Social Studies, v31 n4 p163-65 Sum. Evaluates the effect of multicultural education on racism in Canada. Maintains that racism is still an integral part of Canadian life and, in some instances, appears to be on the rise. Argues for a vigorous and consistent educational policy emphasizing multicultural and antiracist training. (MJP)…