(2005). Using the Learners World to Construct and Think in a System of Mathematical Symbols. College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, v1 n2 p17-26. According to Dutch mathematician and educator Hans Freudenthal, mathematics is a human activity that unfolds in a process and can be best learned through personal experience (Gravemeijer & Treffers, 2000). Such experience involves the solving of real life problems; they require mathematization based on reality. Students should therefore be given the opportunity to solve real life problems cooperatively in the classroom. They should be encouraged to appreciate mathematization, and share their findings during whole class discussions. This learning style requires a special environment, and demands math teachers who are well prepared in every respect: subject matter, child psychology, and didactics as a true and scientific analysis and interpretation of the dynamics of teaching and learning. Clearly, such capabilities require intense training, dedication, and a steep learning curve for teacher candidates. However, the burden is reduced by the practical nature of the approach, the… [Direct]
(2005). Literacy: What Level for Food, Land, Natural Resources, and Environment?. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, v34 p112-117. Many forms of literacy exist. Each literacy is an integration of ways of thinking, acting, interacting, and valuing. To understand the impact of agriculture (i.e., farming, ranching, forestry, and fisheries) and the contributions and interactions to the environment (e.g., losses of biological diversity, soil degradation, air and water pollution, the effects of human activity on the land, the landscape and natural resources, and the overall impact on nutrition and other biologically based consumer consumption choices) requires literacy about food, land, natural resources, and the environment. To define citizen levels of literacy we need to understand the competency levels of literacy–nominal, functional, cultural, and multidimensional. Nominal literacy identifies the minimal recognition of concepts. Functional literacy provides the content and understanding of \what.\ Cultural literacy provides context to concepts and ability to articulate \why.\ All three are conditions for… [PDF]
(2009). Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice. Rethinking Schools, Ltd Since the 1980s, "Rethinking Schools" magazine has been renowned for its commitment to racial equality in education. Now, "Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice" has collected the best Rethinking Schools articles that deal with race and culture. "Rethinking Multicultural Education" moves beyond a simplistic focus on heroes and holidays to demonstrate a powerful vision of anti-racist, social justice education. Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, "Rethinking Multicultural Education" reclaims multicultural education as part of a larger struggle for justice and against racism, colonization, and cultural oppression–in schools and society. This book contains four sections. Section I, Anti-Racist Orientations, contains the following: (1) Taking Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education Seriously: An interview with Enid Lee; (2) Origins of Multiculturalism (Christine Sleeter and Peter McLaren); (3) What… [Direct]
(1964). THE STRATEGY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE WAR AGAINST POVERTY. SUGGESTIONS FOR STRATEGIES TO WIN THE WAR ON POVERTY ARE BASED ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT POVERTY IS, HOW IT IS TO BE FOUGHT, AND THE MEANING OF LOSING THE WAR. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY, FOR INDIVIDUALS DIFFER IN THEIR VALUES AND THEIR IDEAS OF NEED. SUBJECTIVE ESTIMATES OF NEED DEPEND ON WHETHER THE ESTIMATOR IS RICH OR POOR, THRIFTY OR LAX, MATERIALISTIC OR IDEALISTIC. FROM SUCH DIFFERENCES STEM VARIED ESTIMATES OF THE NUMBER OF POOR IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH RANGE BETWEEN 20 TO 70 MILLION. DISAGREEMENT ALSO ARISES ON WHETHER THERE ARE MORE OR LESS POOR NOW THAN FORMERLY. THE POOR MAY ALSO BE DEFINED AS CONSTITUTING SOME PART OF THE BOTTOM OF THE INCOME DISTRIBUTION, BUT INCOME DISTRIBUTION IS A DERIVED ASPECT OF POVERTY RATHER THAN ITS CAUSE. TO PLAN AND CARRY OUT POLICIES EFFECTIVELY, PEOPLE WITH HIGH CHANCES OF BEING POOR SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED. IN ONE STUDY, A MEASURE WAS DEVELOPED SHOWING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSSESSION OF A GIVEN CHARACTERISTIC AND THE…
(1996). Answering Your Questions about AIDS. This book focuses on AIDS education and answers 350 commonly asked questions about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) taken from questions addressed to two major urban AIDS hotlines (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Houston, Texas). Chapter 1, "HIV – The Virus That Causes AIDS," discusses: the HIV virus; the origins of AIDS; HIV inside and outside the body; and the AIDS epidemic. Chapter 2, "HIV Infection and How It Causes AIDS," describes: the stages of HIV and AIDS; symptoms of HIV infection; AIDS; and children with HIV and AIDS. Chapter 3, "Sex, Drugs, and AIDS," discusses: various types of sexual intercourse; sharing needles; pregnancy and childbirth; and risk taking behavior. Chapter 4, "People at Risk," deals with: gay and bisexual men; lesbians and bisexual women; heterosexual men and women; risky partners and places; and infants, children, adolescents, and the elderly. Chapter 5, "Can I Get…
(1995). America's New War on Poverty: A Reader for Action. Companion to the Public Television Series "America's War on Poverty.". Companion to a five-part public television documentary, this book describes efforts across the United States to fight poverty, and also prescribes that we all take responsibility for a fight against economic inequality. The book's goal is to contribute to a meaningful discussion about poverty in America, a topic that cannot be broached today without noisy, bitter debate. Short stories, fiction excerpts, and personal essays are at the heart of the book. Policy-oriented discussions are limited to prologue and conclusion. Stories and essays were chosen to show the many manifestations of poverty today and a glimpse of the human faces usually hidden behind statistics and policies. Selections are arranged in three parts: (1) the poverty of children; (2) of families; and (3) of communities. The experience of poverty is examined in diverse places (inner cities, rural areas, farm communities) and among diverse groups (Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, migrant workers, homeless…
(2004). European Perspectives on the Learning Organisation. Journal of European Industrial Training, v28 n1 p67-92. This paper, based on a publication entitled "Facing up to the Learning Organisation Challenge," published in April 2003, provides an overview of the main questions emerging from recent European research projects related to the topic of the learning organisation. The rationale for focusing on this topic is the belief that the European Union goals related to "lifelong learning" and the creation of a "knowledge-based society" can only be attained if the organisations in which people work are also organisations in which they learn. Work organisations must become, at the same time, learning organisations. This paper has four main messages. The first is that, in order to build learning organisations, one has to ensure that: there is coherence between the "tangible" (formal/objective) and the "intangible" (informal/subjective) dimensions of an organisation; and that the organisation's learning goals are reconciled with individuals' learning… [Direct]
(2023). Academic Freedom and Tenure: Emporia State University (Kansas). American Association of University Professors This report concerns the action taken on September 15, 2022, by the administration of Emporia State University to terminate the appointments of thirty tenured and tenure-track faculty members under a temporary "COVID-related workforce management policy" adopted by the Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) in January 2021. The investigating committee concluded that the mass dismissal "is a signal event in American higher education" and in violation of several AAUP-recommended standards concerning academic freedom and tenure, such as the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure and Regulation 4 of the derivative Recommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Additionally, the report concludes that the Kansas Board of Regents actively enabled the administration of Emporia State University in these violations, and "initiated the process that assaulted tenure and imperiled academic freedom at Emporia State University." [The… [PDF]
(2007). A Survey–The Negative Aspects of in and out of School Suspensions and Alternatives That Promote Academic Achievement. Online Submission In almost every sector of the educational arena, educators, administrators and parents are concerned with the problem of establishing environments that are contributing to a successful educational outcome. The most profound questions today are safety in the schools, which stimulated political and educational leaders to establish zero tolerance policies for different negative behaviors in an effort to deter students into sustaining good behaviors. With an almost epidemic in school-based violent crimes; such as Virginia State University, in April 2007; school boards across America are searching for alternatives for educating violent and disruptive students while still meeting their constitutional rights to an education. The purpose of this research study is to determine to what extent students agree, and analyze the deterrent effects of in and out of school suspensions on the personal-social characteristics of the student and the academic achievement as well. Statistical figures will… [PDF]
(2022). Rupturing the Laws of Discourse: Learner Agency in the Construction of Their Identity in School Discourses. Perspectives in Education, v40 n4 p180-195. Utilising the theoretical frameworks of theory of power and theory of performativity, this case study explored how learners exercised agency in the construction of their identity in school discourses. Data capture incorporated a mix of a survey, semi-structured interviews and field notes. Data was analysed using content analysis. A total of 90 learners participated in the survey. Fifteen learners, three teachers and three principals participated in semi-structured interviews. This paper reports on findings from the semi-structured interviews. Findings were twofold. First, schools used Foucault's mechanisms and instruments of constructing learner identity. Learners were subjected to a constant gaze at schools. Second, learners became agentic in schools and asserted their own identities. Some of these identities clashed with the identity of the 'ideal learner' of schools. Despite established subject positions in schools, learners created their own subject positions to counter limiting… [Direct]
(2023). The 1964 Freedom Schools as Neglected Chapter in Geography Education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, v47 n3 p411-431. Our paper revisits a neglected chapter in the history of geographic education–the civil rights organization SNCC and the Freedom Schools it helped establish in 1964. An alternative to Mississippi's racially segregated public schools, Freedom Schools addressed basic educational needs of Black children while also creating a curriculum to empower them to become active citizens against White supremacy. Emerging out of a history of Black fugitive learning, Freedom Schools produced a critical regional pedagogy to help students identify the geographic conditions and power structures behind their oppression in the South and use regional comparisons to raise their political consciousness and expand their relational sense of place. Freedom Schools have important implications for higher educators, especially as contemporary conservative leaders seek to rid critical discussions of race from classrooms. They offer an evocative case study of the spatial imagination of the Black Freedom Struggle… [Direct]
(2023). The Inconsistency of Trauma-Related Journalism Education Goals and Instruction. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, v78 n2 p165-182 Jun. Many journalism students cover stories about tragedy and violence (trauma). Yet few journalism schools offer trauma training despite growing agreement among educators that early journalists need to learn about the impact of reporting trauma on victims, the community, and the journalists' themselves. This contrast is puzzling. This study aimed to identify what trauma-related topics are valued and which are taught. First, 156 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) members completed a survey rating the importance and extent of course coverage of self-care, trauma-informed interviewing, trauma's impact on the community, and best trauma community reporting practices. The commonly deemed highly valued topics include ethics of accuracy, sensitivity, respect for survivors, and privacy rights. Self-care was deemed important but often not covered. Qualitative interviews provided context on pedagogical techniques, experiences, and barriers to teaching trauma…. [Direct]
(1999). In Accord with Nature: Helping Students Form an Environmental Ethic Using Outdoor Experience and Reflection. This book demonstrates how educators and youth leaders can help middle-school and older students understand and define their relationship with nature and learn the importance of protecting the environment. Chapter 1 defines environmental ethics and discusses biocentric and anthropocentric ways of seeing the world. Chapter 2 examines how ecology, nature, technology, and human communities relate to environmental ethics. Chapter 3 classifies types of environmental ethics, discusses misconceptions and excuses that act as barriers to following an environmental ethic, and provides details on specific ethics: Wise Use movement, social ecology, ecofeminism, land stewardship or management, Leopold's ecological conscience or land as community, Schweitzer's reverence for life, deep ecology or bioregionalism, indigenous or traditional ethics, animal liberation and rights, and radical ecoactivism. Chapter 4 discusses strategies for teaching environmental ethics and values, criticisms of such… [PDF]
(1993). AIDS/HIV Infection Policies for Early Childhood and School Settings. This volume of policies related to children with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) describes appropriate ways to guarantee students' rights while maintaining public health, and answers questions for parents, educators, and caregivers. Section 1 presents policy guidelines for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with HIV infection or AIDS in early childhood settings. Guidelines cover the appropriateness of early childhood setting attendance, enrollment in a specific setting, restrictions, continued attendance, sharing medical information with child care providers, confidentiality, medical records, infection control, HIV screening, and consultation availability. Section 2 contains updated medical policy guidelines for children and adolescents with HIV infection or AIDS in school settings. This section includes facts about the transmission of HIV, guidelines for disclosure, and an overview of statutes governing disclosure. Medical… [PDF]
(1988). Infertility: Medical and Social Choices. This report illustrates a range of options for Congressional action in nine principal areas of public policy related to infertility: (1) collecting data on reproductive health; (2) preventing infertility; (3) information to inform and protect consumers; (4) providing access to infertility services; (5) reproductive health of veterans; (6) transfer of human eggs, sperm, and embryos; (7) recordkeeping; (8) surrogate motherhood; and (9) reproductive research. After introductory chapters on infertility and the demography of infertility, full chapters are devoted to factors contributing to infertility, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, services and costs. Quality assurance for research and clinical care is discussed. Reproductive health of veterans is discussed, including factors specific to veterans, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Agent Orange, and radiation. Ethical considerations relevant to infertility are reviewed, including the right to reproduce, the moral status of the embryo,… [PDF]