(2005). The Human Rights of Infants and Toddlers: A Comparison of Child-Care Philosophies in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Zero to Three (J), v25 n3 p43-46 Jan. This essay describes and analyzes economic rationalism, instrumental, and enrichment approaches to early care and education policy in the United States and abroad. The author proposes that differences in infant-toddler care and other services among nations can stem from differences in the way that societies define the basic rights of their youngest citizens. The author argues that the more a society leans toward social and educational enrichment as its conceptual base, the better it serves its children. The author argues that the U.S. embrace of economic rationalism as a justification for policy decisions regarding the care of infants and toddlers is a key reason it now lags far behind other industrialized nations in services to infants, toddlers, and their families. He recommends that the U.S. study the models of care that exist in other countries to avoid practices that put infants and toddlers at developmental risk…. [Direct]
(2013). Digital Alchemy: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation of Digital Storytelling for Peace and Justice. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park. This study explores the experiences of undergraduate students enrolled in an education I-Series (University of Maryland undergraduate courses designed to inspire innovation, imagination, and intellect) course, Good Stories: Teaching Stories for Peace and Justice. In this course students are asked to produce digital stories that project themes of peace and justice. The locus of this study focuses on the essential question: In what ways do participants "world" their experiences producing digital stories for peace and justice? The methodology of hermeneutic phenomenology is employed in order to elucidate interpretive understandings about digital storytelling for peace and justice in the experiences of nine undergraduates over the course of one semester. The metaphor of alchemy is used since the practice of alchemy entailed amalgamating base metals in the hopes of transmuting them into gold. Jung (1968) likens this process to our experience of becoming individuated, whole, and… [Direct]
(1980). Notes on the Human and Civil Rights of Handicapped People to Recreation. The author considers the recreation rights of handicapped individuals with particular emphasis on three pieces of federal legislation–Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The following areas are addressed: facilities, equipment, services, scheduling, transportation, recruitment, scholarships, selection of activities, instructional opportunity, levels of performance, nonsegregated participation, media coverage, noncompetence based restrictions of participation, and noncompetence based restrictions on employment. A charter of the recreation rights and responsibilities of people who are disabled is included which lists community services related to recreation, institutional recreation services, individual responsibilities of the handicapped, recreational service agencies, and personnel responsibilities. (SBH)… [PDF]
(2012). Two-Year College Succession Planning: Utilizing the Mission Statement for Selection of the Vice President of Human Resources. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Northcentral University. Colleges have a critical investment in the proper selection of key executive administrative positions with high quality leadership and character since leadership transitions can be unsettling and costly, and governing boards have a vested interest in getting it right. The problem is that two-year colleges are facing a strategic planning crisis because administrators fail to align the mission statement with a succession plan, leaving colleges struggling to plan for replacing key administrative positions. This qualitative case study analyzed the best strategy for the selection process of executive college administrative positions, specifically the Vice President of Human Resources. This study was undertaken because of the limited research on the ways in which college mission statements can guide the strategic succession planning for executive administrative positions. The study employed a purposive sample of six human resource college administrators, and utilized multiple data sources:… [Direct]
(2013). International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013: Book of Proceedings (June 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal). Online Submission We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, 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 and others interested… [PDF]
(2012). Handbook of Spatial Cognition. APA Books Spatial cognition is a branch of cognitive psychology that studies how people acquire and use knowledge about their environment to determine where they are, how to obtain resources, and how to find their way home. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including neuroscience, cognition, and sociology, have discovered a great deal about how humans and other animals sense, interpret, behave in, and communicate about space. This book addresses some of the most important dimensions of spatial cognition, such as neuroscience, perception, memory, and language. It provides a broad yet detailed overview that is useful not only to academics, practitioners, and advanced students of psychology, but also to city planners, architects, software designers, sociologists, and anyone else who seeks to understand how we perceive, interpret, and interact with the world around us. Contents include: (1) Hippocampus and Related Areas: What the Place Cell Literature Tells Us About Cognitive Maps in… [Direct]
(2010). Sex Specific Effect of Prenatal Testosterone on Language Lateralization in Children. Neuropsychologia, v48 n2 p536-540 Jan. Brain lateralization refers to the division of labour between the two hemispheres in controlling a wide array of functions and is remarkably well developed in humans. Based on sex differences in lateralization of handedness and language, several hypotheses have postulated an effect of prenatal exposure to testosterone on human lateralization development, the topic of a long-standing and unresolved debate. Here we demonstrate a clear relationship between prenatal levels of testosterone as assessed from amniotic fluid of healthy pregnant mothers and language lateralization of their offspring at the age of 6 years. Using focused attention conditions in the dichotic listening task, in which the child is instructed to report information from the left ear or the right ear, we were able to differentiate between potential effects of early testosterone on the left hemisphere and effects on inter-hemispheric connectivity. This provides a new method to distinguish between the claims of the… [Direct]
(2008). Neurology of Affective Prosody and Its Functional-Anatomic Organization in Right Hemisphere. Brain and Language, v104 n1 p51-74 Jan. Unlike the aphasic syndromes, the organization of affective prosody in brain has remained controversial because affective-prosodic deficits may occur after left or right brain damage. However, different patterns of deficits are observed following left and right brain damage that suggest affective prosody is a dominant and lateralized function of the right hemisphere. Using the Aprosodia Battery, which was developed to differentiate left and right hemisphere patterns of affective-prosodic deficits, functional-anatomic evidence is presented in patients with focal ischemic strokes to support the concepts that (1) affective prosody is a dominant and lateralized function of the right hemisphere, (2) the intrahemispheric organization of affective prosody in the right hemisphere, with the partial exception of Repetition, is analogous to the organization of propositional language in the left hemisphere and (3) the aprosodic syndromes are cortically based as part of evolutionary adaptations… [Direct]
(2011). Combining Functional Neuroimaging with Off-Line Brain Stimulation: Modulation of Task-Related Activity in Language Areas. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, v23 n2 p349-361 Feb. Repetitive TMS (rTMS) provides a noninvasive tool for modulating neural activity in the human brain. In healthy participants, rTMS applied over the language-related areas in the left hemisphere, including the left posterior temporal area of Wernicke (LTMP) and inferior frontal area of Broca, have been shown to affect performance on word recognition tasks. To investigate the neural substrate of these behavioral effects, off-line rTMS was combined with fMRI acquired during the performance of a word recognition task. Twenty right-handed healthy men underwent fMRI scans before and after a session of 10-Hz rTMS applied outside the magnetic resonance scanner. Functional magnetic resonance images were acquired during the performance of a word recognition task that used English or foreign-language words. rTMS was applied over the LTMP in one group of 10 participants (LTMP group), whereas the homologue region in the right hemisphere was stimulated in another group of 10 participants (RTMP… [Direct]
(2012). Language Universals and Misidentification: A Two-Way Street. Language and Speech, v55 n3 p311-330 Sep. Certain ill-formed phonological structures are systematically under-represented across languages and misidentified by human listeners. It is currently unclear whether this results from grammatical phonological knowledge that actively recodes ill-formed structures, or from difficulty with their phonetic encoding. To examine this question, we gauge the effect of two types of tasks on the identification of onset clusters that are unattested in an individual's language. One type calls attention to global phonological structure by eliciting a syllable count (e.g., does \medif\ include one syllable or two?). A second set of tasks promotes attention to local phonetic detail by requiring the detection of specific segments (e.g., does \medif\ include an \e\?). Results from five experiments show that, when participants attend to global phonological structure, ill-formed onsets are misidentified (e.g., \mdif\[right arrow]\medif\) relative to better-formed ones (e.g., \mlif\). In contrast, when… [Direct]
(2012). Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Multiple Forms of University-Industry Linkages. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, v64 n2 p237-265 Aug. This article focuses on the wide variety of channels through which the process of knowledge transfer occurs. The overall objective is to show the complexity of relationships between researchers and firms in a university system, and to identify some specific factors that influence such interactions. Our case study involves a face-to-face survey of 765 heads of research teams in a regional system to contrast the multiple forms of university-industry collaborative linkages. Drawing on the exploitation of a data set developed for the purpose, we show that for a majority of universities the thrust of their collaborative experiences is devoted to tacit knowledge rather than to intellectual property rights. Researchers actively engage in the provision of different services to firms such as consulting work, commissioned or joint research projects, and human resources training. Research teams also participate in non-academic knowledge dissemination and informal networking. The results of our… [Direct]
(2011). Use of Information and Communication Technology in Enhancing Teaching and Learning. International Education Studies, v4 n2 p153-156 May. The role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education has been peripheral, with new technologies being added to the traditional teacher centred model of instruction. Students in the global economy of the 21st Century need to be creative thinkers and innovators. Thus, this paper provides an overview of the integration of innovation and education which plays an important role in propelling the human capital to a higher level to realize the objectives of Vision 2020.The integration of teaching and research is becoming a key issue in higher education, not only in order to differentiate the character of universities from other teaching and learning institutions, but also in order to find ways to create the kind of knowledge needed in a world characterized by a turbulent environment and increasing change in daily life.The right blend of pedagogies, tools and media needs to be created, quality assurance at various stages of planning, design and implementation should be… [PDF]
(2011). Three Questions. Harvard Educational Review, v81 n3 p473-476 Fall. In this article, the author describes his experiences as a Mexican living "illegally" in the United States and how Esperanza Community Collegial Academy has given him a second chance to find himself and his place in this world. At Esperanza he is part of a program that promotes higher education, MEXA (Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan). He is also part of the student council. Through MEXA he has learned that he is a human above anything. He has the natural right to educate himself. He is free to migrate to wherever he wishes. He has learned about his ancestors, who were here over thirty thousand years ago versus the last six hundred years of colonization. This has helped him rethink what it means to be illegal. Because MEXA has helped him learn about where he comes from, he now knows where he's going. However, all of this means nothing without the will to move forward in order to make a difference. Education is slowly helping him relinquish these chains with which… [Direct]
(2011). The Academic Ethics of Open Access to Research and Scholarship. Ethics and Education, v6 n3 p217-223. In this article, we present the case for regarding the principles by which scholarly publications are disseminated and shared as a matter of academic ethics. The ethics of access have to do with recognizing people's right to know what is known, as well as the value to humanity of having one of its best forms of arriving at knowledge as widely shared as possible. The level of access is often reduced by the financial interests of publishers in a market in which there is little sense of a rational order, given huge discrepancies in prices for similar products. At the same time, there are risks to limiting researchers' access to scholarly resources, both for the quality of the knowledge that is not entirely open to review and for the production of new knowledge that it might inspire. Then, there are issues of access beyond the academy for professional practice and out of human interest, for both of which undue limitations raise what are, for us, more than \academic\ ethical questions…. [Direct]
(2008). Hemispheric Laterality in Music and Math. Learning Inquiry, v2 n3 p169-180 Dec. Hemispheric laterality may be a useful concept in teaching, learning, training, and in understanding more about human development. To address this issue, a measure of hemispheric laterality was compared to musical and mathematical ability. The Human Information Processing Survey (HIPS) instrument, designed to measure hemispheric laterality, was administered to 101 participants who were then asked to provide a measure of their conceptual aptitude for mathematics and music. Scores were then compared through canonical correlation to test the hypothesis that perceived mathematical ability may be explained by left-brain hemisphere preference and musical by the right hemisphere. A relatively strong correlation was found between music ability and right-brain hemisphere preference. A relationship between math and left-brain hemisphere preference or integrated brain processing scores was found to be marginal. Ramifications to learning are discussed…. [Direct]