(1979). Citizen Me: An Experiential Curriculum for Citizenship Education. Level: Seven. The Citizen Me Level Seven guide incorporates the project's goal of providing a curriculum which integrates concepts of basic citizenship education with community involvement through gaining an understanding of rights, liberties, and obligations of citizens, understanding the free enterprise system, and applying values that lead to skill in human relationships and effective citizenship. The 14 lessons deal with the process of establishing a community, with students working in small groups and role playing in positions of leadership in the community they settle. The lessons deal with such topics as leadership, citizen responsibilities, problem solving, and various aspects of government and the law, and are to be completed in sequence as each lesson builds on another. Role cards provide background information, traits/personality, and reasons for joining the group. Land data cards simulate various geographic settings. While the unit is appropriate as an introductory or culminating…
(1975). The Development of a Model for the Management of a Student-Centered Program at a Community College Utilizing Human Potential Seminars, Cognitive Style Mapping, and Career Planning. Based on the example of the experimental We Weigh and Achieve to Gain Success (WAGS) program at Polk Community College which is designed to deal with unmotivated, undecided, and unprepared students, this study develops a model for implementing a student-centered remedial program at the community college level. The model outlines procedures to follow in program development, staffing, organization, implementation, supervision, and evaluation. Basically, what results is an interdisciplinary course employing three techniques: (1) human potential seminar (a structured small group experience founded on the assumption that something is right with the participant); (2) cognitive style mapping (a diagnostic battery which determines how a student takes notice of his total surrounding, how he searches for meaning, and how he contrasts or relates information); (3) career planning. This model program is intended to improve the student's self-concept, and motivate him to achieve a definable…
(1969). Every Student Is A Gifted Student. The Human Potential Seminars at Kendall College, a part of the Program for Humanized Curriculum Design are described. The Seminars are based on the assumption that every student is gifted in the sense of having unique potentialities. The conviction is held that something is right with the participants; motivation focuses on individual discovery and group reinforcement of strengths, capabilities, and success factors of each individual. Three techniques used are: (1) strength bombardment, in which the individual reveals his concept of his own strengths, the group indicates further strengths seen in the person, and there is discussion regarding causes that are preventing usage of these strengths; (2) success bombardment, in which successful and unsuccessful experiences are analyzed by the group for each participant; and (3) goal-setting activities, using student values, the goals set being achievable and believable. Behavioral objectives are increases in: (1) self-motivation, (2)… [PDF]
(2000). The Learning Organisation Part I. The Learning Organisation: What Is It? Does It Constitute a Useful Set of Ideas for the Human Resource Development Practitioner? CLMS Working Paper. The learning organization is one that has a strategy of continuous organizational change, exploring and facilitating a link between the development of the organization and the personal development of the employee. These five disciplines lead the innovation of learning organizations: systems thinking (meaning the whole is more than the sum of the parts); personal mastery or proficiency; mental models or ways of seeing and understanding; building shared visions; and team learning. One limit to the learning organization concept is the assumption that organizations have an existence in and of themselves beyond the level of individuals and can 'learn'. The implications for human resources development encompass the entire scope of the field. A more useful conceptualization is that of organizational learning, in which people learn from each other in a mutually beneficial manner. This assumes that under the right conditions people are able to learn more effectively in groups. Individual… [PDF]
(1997). The Impact of Technology on Youth in the 21st Century. This paper examines the potentially transforming power of interactive communications on young people. Discussion includes the need for free, unrestricted access to the Internet for all citizens; the breakdown of community, fewer institutions to provide positive gathering places for young people, and increased "risk" for inner city youth; the ability of computers to increase literacy and interpersonal skills; and examples of individuals, groups and institutions devoted to enabling young people to take part in and benefit from new technologies. The following 10 ways that teachers, parents, and members of the community can make a difference for young people are then discussed: (1) focus on human outcomes, not technology; (2) get involved with the new technologies; (3) adopt a learning-to-learn approach; (4) understand the issues; (5) ensure low-cost access for all; (6) claim your "citizen's right" to information; (7) investigate new economic opportunities; (8)… [PDF]
(2005). Rapid Categorization of Foveal and Extrafoveal Natural Images: Associated ERPs and Effects of Lateralization. Brain and Cognition, v59 n2 p145-158 Nov. Humans are fast and accurate at performing an animal categorization task with natural photographs briefly flashed centrally. Here, this central categorization task is compared to a three position task in which photographs could appear randomly either centrally, or at 3.6 [degrees] eccentricity (right or left) of the fixation point. A mild behavioral impairment was found with peripheral stimuli with no evidence in support of hemispheric superiority; but enlarging the window of spatial attention to three possible stimuli locations had no behavioral cost on the processing of central images. Performance in the central categorization task has been associated with a large difference between the potentials evoked to target and non-target correct trials, starting about 150 ms after stimulus onset on frontal sites. Present results show that this activity originates within extrastriate visual cortices and probably reflects perceptual stimuli differences processed within areas involved in… [Direct]
(1984). Learning Elementary School Mathematics as a Culturally Conditioned Process. Mathematics is thought to be the most culturally independent of all academic subjects. \New Math\ textbooks printed in the United States or Belgium were translated into Spanish and Portuguese with only minor variations in the story problems and are now taught in most Latin-American countries. Looking backwards, it was not different in past years in Colombia, where standard school textbooks copied each other in a chain going back to Spanish and Latin Renaissance arithmetics. The myth of mathematics as the universal language of science and the superficial image of mathematical truth as invariable and \a priori\ structured in human reason, reinforced the stereotype of mathematics as a supra-cultural subject. The purpose of this paper is to (1) determine as accurately as possible the cultural dependence of the learning process in mathematics; (2) examine what is essentially right in the claim to universality in mathematics; (3) consider where the culturally specific aspects of…
(1981). Individual Differences and Universals in Language Learning Aptitude. The following articles are included: (1) \Neurolinguistic Considerations on the Optimum Age for Second Language Learning\ by Terence M. Walsh and Karl C. Diller; (2) \Major Variation in Language Skills Apparently under Genetic Influence (Discussed from the Viewpoint of Human Evolution)\ by Brenda K. Sladen; (3) \Language Learning Strategies: Does the Whole Equal the Sum of the Parts?\ by Ann M. Peters; (4) \Right Hemisphere Participation in Second Language Acquisition\ by Loraine K. Obler; (5) \A Set of Brains for Learning to Read\ by Dirk J. Bakker; (6) \Focal Brain Injuries, Speech and Language\ by J. P. Mohr; (7) \Twenty-Five Years of Research on Foreign Language Aptitude\ by John B. Carroll; (8) \Language Aptitude Measures in Streaming, Matching Students with Methods, and Diagnosis of Learning Problems\ by Marjorie Bingham Wesche; (9) \Aptitude and Attitude in Relation to Second Language Acquisition and Learning\ by Stephen D. Krashen; (10) \Normal Acquisition Processes Explain…
(2002). The Creation and Persistence of Misinformation in Shared Library Catalogs: Language and Subject Knowledge in a Technological Era. Occasional Papers. "Occasional Papers" deal with varied aspects of librarianship and consist of papers that generally are too long or too detailed for publication in a periodical, or are of specialized or contemporary interest. This latest volume in the series is a detailed look at the causes of and cures for the two fundamental types of misinformation found in bibliographic and authority records in library catalogs: that arising from linguistic errors, and that caused by errors in subject analysis, including missing or wrong subject headings. Bibliographic and authority records with such misinformation enter shared databases in several ways; all are originally the work of human agents. The author, a cataloger at the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library, makes the case for getting it right the first time through strict self-review and cooperation among catalogers. Not simply an indictment of current cataloging practices, this paper raises awareness of how the mistakes happen in…
(2003). Understanding "A Tale of Two Cities": A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Charles Dickens' novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," does not waste a word in telling a touching, suspenseful tale set against the background of one of the bloodiest events in history, the French Revolution. This casebook's collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich students' understanding of the French Revolution and the significant issues it raised. The casebook is divided into the following sections: Introduction; A Literary Analysis of "A Tale of Two Cities"; Before the Deluge; Events of the French Revolution; Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution; Dickens and Carlyle: Common Threads; The Mob in Two Cities, and the "Terror"; Voices from the Prisons of Paris in the Terror; Revolution: When, What and How; Due Process of Law: The Rights of Man; Capital Punishment; Prison Isolation and Its Consequences; Human Dissection and the "Resurrection Man"; and Glossary….
(1997). Theoretical Perspectives on the Importance of the Therapeutic Alliance and Their Implications for the Use of Technology. Two questions facing the therapeutic community right now are: Can machines replace therapists? and Can therapy occur without a therapist? This paper attempts to respond to these questions through an examination of some major Western and Eastern theories in the field of psychological therapy. It reviews existing writings in the field to emphasize that, whatever improvement may occur through the use of technology, psychotherapy builds a personal relationship between two or more individuals, and that it is through this personal relationship that therapeutic change occurs. To eliminate or limit this personal relationship in any way will inevitably destroy the essence of therapy. The brief overview of some of the writings of theorists concurs that therapy is an effective way of changing the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of human beings, and the relationship between the client and the therapist lies at the very heart of therapy. A brief examination of the benefits of technology… [PDF]
(1917). The Money Value of Education. Bulletin, 1917, No. 22. Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior The most valuable result of right education is the broadening, deepening, and refining of human life. This result can no more be measured by dollars and cents than truth, self-sacrifice, and love can be made out of pork and potatoes. While the higher things of the soul are priceless rewards which true education brings, they are not its only result. The material and measurable rewards of education should be made plain to those whose votes must determine the support of our educational system. Those who desire better support of that system should point out in terms that the people can understand and definite ways in which education promotes industrial efficiency and increases material wealth. That is the purpose of this bulletin. Contents of this bulletin include: (1) Letter of transmittal; (2) National wealth and power determined by education; (3) Education and individual success; (4) Salaries of college graduates; and (5) List of references on the money value of education. (Contains… [PDF]
(2004). A School District's Search for a New Superintendent. Journal of School Leadership, v14 n3 p286-307 May. This study explores the process one school district employed in its search for, and selection of, a new superintendent. The research design is a single site case study using qualitative methods. Data collection techniques include observation in the form of "shadowing" a search consultant, document analysis, and open-ended interviews of key informants. The study found that, while professional credentials are important in the initial stages of the search, personal attributes prove critical in the eventual "match" of candidate to school district. The "human connection" is a strong determinant of a candidate's success or failure in advancing in the search process. The search consultant, employed by the school district, acts as gatekeeper of the process, its people, and all pertinent information. The struggle between a candidate's privacy and the public's right to know is a central focus in this case. In effect, both candidate and board circumvent the laws… [Direct]
(2000). Internet Librarian 2000: Proceedings of the Internet Librarian Conference (4th, Monterey, California, November 6-8, 2000). These Proceedings of the fourth Internet Librarian Conference and Exhibition for Librarians and Information Managers include the following papers: \Common Diseases of the Online Tutorial, or Cures for \Onlinis Tutorialitis\; \FindInfo.html\; HiPHIVE-The Hawaii Public Health Information Virtual Emporium\; \Symbiosis: Beneficial Relationship between Librarians and Knowledge Managers\; \Actionable Data: Using Data Visualization Software To Interpret Search Results\; \Linux outside the Cave: Using Linux on a Public Internet Workstation\; Asking the Patron: Using Focus Groups To Improve Library Web Pages\; \The Research Process: Teachers, Students, Librarians, and the Internet\; \News Nets: News Library Case Studies\; \Everyone on the Same Page: Using the Web To Tame an Interdisciplinary Research Project\; \eContent in the Global Environment: American and European Approaches to Rights Management\; \The Many Hats of an Internet Librarian\; \The Many Hats of an Internet Librarian: A…
(1995). Guide for SUNSafe Schools. As a result of the decline in the thickness of the atmospheric ozone layer, the surface of the Earth will be exposed to increased levels of solar ultraviolet B radiation. This radiation has been shown to have harmful effects for life on Earth. These include damage to plants, animals, and materials. It has also been linked to many human health impacts such as sunburn, skin cancer, eye damage, and suppression of the body's immune system. In order to protect children from the negative health effects of ultraviolet B radiation, schools must embark on a SUNSafe education program which includes: SUNSafe education including nutritional education on boosting immune function, clothing recommendations, planning and staging of school events, and facilities design. Actions which should be taken include: teaching students about the hazards of excessive exposure to the sun, planning school activities around the peak sun hours, requiring proper protective clothing when outdoors, providing shading… [PDF]