(1998). Pedagogy of Freedom. Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. This translation of Paulo Friere's last book is a utopian text that suggests that, among other things, education is a specifically human act of intervening in the world. Chapter 1 presents introductory reflections. Chapter 2, There Is No Teaching without Learning, includes a discussion of Methodological Rigor; Research; Respect for What Students Know; A Capacity To be Critical; Ethics and Aesthetics; Words Incarnated in Example; Risk, Acceptance of What Is New, and Rejection of Discrimination; Critical Reflection on Practice; and Cultural Identity. Chapter 3, Teaching Is Not Just Transferring Knowledge, discusses Awareness of Our Unfinishedness; Recognition of One's Conditioning; Respect for the Autonomy of the Student; Common Sense; Humility, Tolerance, and the Struggle for the Rights of Educators; Capacity To Apprehend Reality; Joy and Hope; Conviction That Change Is Possible; and Teaching Requires Curiosity. Chapter 4, Teaching Is a Human Act, focuses on Self-Confidence,…
(1971). Human Services in Rural Alaska: Highlights from the Evaluation of the Rural Areas Social Services Project. The Social and Rehabilitation Service granted the Alaska Division of Public Welfare funds to train and employ qualified Native village people as paraprofessionals who could provide the social services needed while living right in the village. The Rural Areas Social Services Project (RASS), a demonstration and training project aimed at bringing public welfare services to Alaska's rural areas, was planned. Awarded $328,300 for the first year, operations began in December 1968. The project was awarded $426,500 for the second year. Nineteen Native human services workers and 2 supervisors were incorporated into the budget. The proposal also provided for evaluative research, which was implemented in July 1969. The Regional Research Institute in Social Welfare (School of Social Work, University of Southern California) and an investigator planned and conducted the evaluation. Evaluation was done by observations, field reconnaissance, and interviews with villagers and Human Services aides…. [PDF]
(1978). Kindergarten: Home and Family. The curriculum guide presents a working draft of the kindergarten component of a K-6 social studies program developed by the Allegany County Board of Education in Maryland. Goals and activities relating to ethnic heritage studies; family life; and career, consumer, citizenship, and environmental education are included in each of the seven guides. The overall objective is to help teachers assist their students in gaining the understanding needed to deal with the problems of living in a complex society. Specific goals are to develop students' knowledge of social science concepts and skills and to acquire democratic social attitudes. The kindergarten unit emphasizes the student's understanding of himself and his immediate environment in terms of the home and family. It is presented in two sections. Section I lists six concepts: basic human needs and how they are met; the form and function of government and citizens' rights and responsibilities; various ethnic, racial, and cultural…
(2000). The Use of Internet Courses in HRD Programs. Innovative Session 3. [Concurrent Innovative Session at AHRD Annual Conference, 2000.]. Faculty members at 58 institutions belonging to the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) were surveyed to identify trends in the use of Internet courses in graduate human resource development (HRD) programs. Of the 27 institutions that submitted valid responses, 10 offered Internet courses in HRD and 17 did not. Of the 17 that did not, 2 planned to add Internet courses in the future. Among the reasons given for not offering Internet courses were the following: not enough time to develop courses; lack of experience to develop Internet courses; lack of time to deliver and administer courses; lack of equipment; and insufficient student demand. The following policies and procedures related to Internet courses were in place by at least some of the schools offering Internet courses in HRD: technical support; instructional design support; intellectual property right of developer; release time to develop courses; and smaller course loads for teaching Internet courses. The… [PDF]
(2004). Irreconcilable Differences: The Education of Deaf Children in Canada. Education Canada, v44 n1 p16, 19, 26 Win. Samuel Johnson said it was the greatest human calamity, Helen Keller said she would rather be blind, and A.G. Bell feared that unless extraordinary measures were taken, a new and toxic variety of the human race would emerge. Deafness, the invisible disability, affects only one person in one thousand, but for as long as history has been recorded it is a topic that has been plagued with controversy. For the past 300 years, the question of the "right way" to educate deaf children has been at the center of a bitter educational dispute. Before that time, education was not an issue, as virtually every society took the term "deaf and dumb" quite literally. The idea that deaf children were capable of education constituted a dramatic breakthrough, but it came with a heavy price as it was based on two very divergent ideas: communication through sign language or teaching the deaf to speak. This article addresses some of these issues in the following sections: (1) Some… [Direct]
(1996). In Support of Civil Rights: Taking On the Initiative. LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.) Special Report, Proposition 209, "The California Civil Rights Initiative.". Proposition 209 is a statewide constitutional amendment initiative in California, which, if passed in November 1996, will eliminate all statewide affirmative action programs. It is argued that, contrary to its title, this amendment is an extreme and unnecessary measure that will actually undermine further advances in civil rights. There are differing opinions about affirmative action in the Asian Pacific community, but much of the discussion has focused on college admissions with many Asian Pacific Americans believing that affirmative action penalizes their ethnic group for academic achievement. However, it is important to look at the whole spectrum of affirmative action and to remember that success in the classroom does not equal success in the workplace. Proposition 209 deceives voters into thinking that they are voting for civil rights when they are actually voting to nullify some rights as we know them. Under Proposition 209 the following types of educational programs will be… [PDF]
(1996). The 1996 LARASA Directory of Latino Agencies, Organizations, and Associations. This directory includes information on 155 Latino organizations, cross-community agencies, and professional and employee groups that serve the Latino population in Colorado. Each listing includes name and address, a mission statement, available services, and events sponsored by the organization. The directory also lists media sources, including Latino newspapers and magazines published in Colorado, national Hispanic print media, and Hispanic radio and television stations; organizations offering scholarships to Latino students; and Internet sites relevant to the Latino community. An index lists organizations and resources by issue area: advocacy, civil rights, community development, culture, economic development, information clearinghouses, education, the elderly, emergency services, employment and training, health, housing, immigration, job placement, migrant farmworkers, public policy, social and human services, technical assistance, women, and youth. (LP)… [PDF]
(1986). Famous Black Americans: Folder Games for the Classroom. Few are aware of the extensive contributions of Blacks to every field of human endeavor, and few children have the experience of a hands-on learning activity that exposes them to prominent Black individuals. This book provides evidence of the many ways in which Blacks have invented, explored, and discovered, and the brief biographical material it contains is intended to arouse the interest of students at any grade or ability level. The book is interdisciplinary and therefore can be used in any classroom setting. Biographies and pen and ink drawings of 52 famous Blacks are featured and include women and men from literature, education, politics, science, and mathematics, civil rights movement, military, the humanities, and sports. A folder game and other activities accompany each biography. (BZ)…
(1981). Sex Differences and Brain Development: A Bibliography. This bibliography cites references dealing with background material on the functions of the human brain and current research on sex differences in brain development. A list of 10 books published since 1974 is followed by a more extensive annotated bibliography of 29 articles, and a bibliography of 19 reports, complete with ERIC reference numbers and instructions for retrieving the documents. Sample forms and instructions for ordering ERIC documents are included. The articles explore such topics as sex differences in cognitive functioning, brain hemispheric differences, cultural differences in information processing, symmetry and perceptual comprehension of children, spatial ability, dyslexia, left- and right-handedness, creativity, and age differences. Many articles focus on research with children and the implications of such research results for educators. (NRB)… [PDF]
(1979). Educational Finance at the Crossroads. This paper is an indepth survey of American educational finance from its origins to the present and with projections for the future. It discusses the influence of and impact on school finance of some of the following: demographic patterns, changes in the American economy, Sputnik and civil rights events, federal intervention, the courts, local government, and local taxpayers. The paper delves into different approaches to reform, both conservative and revolutionary, and then discusses the status of educational finance in the state of New York. It concludes that the productive capacity of education, like that of the rest of the economy, may be suffering. No amount of funding, the paper says, can compensate for deficiencies in human productivity. An extensive bibliography follows. (Author/LD)…
(1971). All About OSHA: The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. The pamphlet summarizes the operations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. OSHA's mission is to assure safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve human resources. Employers and employees who are covered by the act and employer and employee responsibilities and rights are described. The functions of OSHA include establishing standards and inspection procedures, which are described in detail. Sources of additional information about OSHA are suggested. Assistance for small businesses through long-term loans and the role of the States in developing and operating their own job safety and health programs are described. The pamphlet concludes with a listing of regional and area OSHA offices. (Author/NH)… [PDF]
(2005). A Simon Effect in Pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, v134 n1 p93-107 Feb. Pigeons pecked left versus right keys contingent upon the color presented at 1 of those locations. Spatial-response latencies were shorter when the color appeared at the same location as the required response than at the opposite location. This Simon effect occurred when the stimulus on the alternative key was constant, varied from trial to trial, or changed when the color cue appeared and when the reinforcement probability for correct responses was the same on corresponding as on noncorresponding trials. Humans performing the same task by touching the keys also showed the Simon effect. These findings demonstrate that for pigeons, too, a relevant symbolic cue activates a spatial code that produces faster responses at the location corresponding with the activated code…. [Direct]
(2023). Staff Training in Assent and Assent Withdrawal Behavior in Children with Disabilities. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Endicott College. In recent years, there have been calls to action regarding the integration of compassionate care and assent into behavior analytic practice. Assent, in medical and educational interventions, is associated with an absence of coercion and with a willingness to engage. It is a core foundational value of humane and compassionate intervention across human service professions. A recent review of the research literature (Morris et al., 2021) revealed that attention to assent in Applied Behavior Analytic (ABA) research is scarce. Critiques of the field have implied an inadequate focus on assent in clinical practice as well. There are definitional and measurement challenges associated with assent that are barriers to the integration of it into clinical work. In this study, instructors were trained to identify individualized indices of assent and withdrawal of assent for learners in their care. The focus on individualized indices represents an advance and reflects the highly tailored nature of… [Direct]
(1987). Statement of Mark R. Disler, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Concerning Grove City Legislation. Testimony concerning the Supreme Court decisions in the case of Grove City College v. Bell (1984) is presented in this document. The Courts ruling that Federal aid to a student constitutes funding only of the college's student air program, nor the entire institution, reflected the more persuasive reading of the Title IX Education Amendments, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The administration has supported specific legislation to address civil rights issues in response to Grove City and has opposed the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 (S. 557) for the following reasons: (1) the Act's expansion of mandatory abortion coverage, (2) its insufficient protection of religious tenets, and (3) the expanded federal authority it would grant over a wide range of activities. Legislation addressing the Grove City decision should contain abortion neutral language which would ensure that recipients of federal aid are neither required to provide or pay for abortions or… [PDF]
(1994). Prevention of Health Problems among Gay and Lesbian Youth. Making Health and Human Services Accessible and Effective for Gay and Lesbian Youth. This third report of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth deals with problems faced by gay and lesbian youth as they attempt to access health and human services. To gather information, the Commission held five hearings across Massachusetts in the autumn of 1992. This report focuses on the testimony of gay and lesbian teenagers as compelling evidence of the need for change in the manner of provision of health and human services in Massachusetts public and private organizations. Problems faced by gay and lesbian teenagers are discussed in sections on: (1) suicide; (2) HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; (3) violence; (4) runaway, homeless, and throwaway gay and lesbian youth; (5) substance abuse; (6) teen pregnancy; (7) minority gay and lesbian youth; (8) youth expressing nonconventional gender identities and behaviors; and (9) gay and lesbian youth and service provision. The Commission made recommendations for health and human services improvements…