(2018). Encountering Dignity: Building Human Community. Religious Education, v113 n3 p314-325. Encounters with dignity are learning moments that foster humanization and communal values, even in settings of radical difference. This article probes the potential of such learning, reviewing pedagogies of encounter and analyzing the values of dignity implicit in that work. Diving more deeply into the phenomenon of dignity, the authors analyze biographical and oral history narratives to discover the complex features of dignity encounters. They then interpret these features from the perspectives of Confucian and Christian traditions of learning, concluding with proposals for educational practices in communities faced with the wonders and challenges of radical difference…. [Direct]
(2018). Breaking Bad News to People with Learning Disabilities: A Literature Review. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, v46 n4 p225-232 Dec. Background: This article provides a literature review exploring reasons for disclosure and nondisclosure of bad news to people with learning disabilities. Connections are made to current policy, law and ethics to highlight the complexity of this issue. Methods: This review examines literature on disclosing bad news to people with learning disabilities from 2007 to 2017. A total of 13 articles were found with nine articles having a direct focus on breaking bad news. Results: The main themes identified from this review are maintaining rights and dignity, upholding duty of care, underestimating resilience, protection from harm and capacity to understand. Exploration of who should disclose is examined in reference to relatives, staff and healthcare professionals. Conclusions: Trends surrounding disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis to people with learning disabilities have not kept pace with the trend to disclose with the general population. People with learning disabilities are… [Direct]
(2022). Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education. Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning. Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access for adults hitherto excluded from higher education. Examining a range of geographic contexts, the editors and contributors aim to address these contexts and highlight various similarities and differences in developments. They locate their analyses within the various political and socio-economic contexts, which can make particular reforms possible and achievable in one context and almost unthinkable in another. Ultimately, the book promotes a critical understanding of evolving provisions of higher vocational education, refusing assumptions that policy borrowing from apparently 'successful' countries offers a straightforward model for others… [Direct]
(2021). Speaking Bodies-Silenced Voices: Child Protection and the Knowledge Culture of 'Evidencing'. Global Studies of Childhood, v11 n3 p252-264 Sep. Using the metaphors "body" and "voice" and drawing on critical contributions on biopolitics, this article interrogates children's participation rights in a knowledge culture of 'evidencing'. With child welfare and protection practice as an empirical example, I analyse written assessment reports from a Swedish child welfare agency, all exemplifying how social workers evidence needs for protection and reasons for removing children from the home. I discuss how 'evidencing' equals a knowledge culture of "seeing-believing" and "predicting-believing" and the search for visibly damaged bodies and underdeveloped minds. I furthermore problematise how such conceptualisation of evidencing foregrounds children's 'speaking' bodies while silencing their voices. By showing these manifestations of evidencing, this critical contribution discusses some wider epistemic concerns for fields influenced by the knowledge cultures of 'the evidence-based'…. [Direct]
(1999). Report on Tribal Priority Allocations. As part of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funding, Tribal Priority Allocations (TPA) are the principal source of funds for tribal governments and agency offices at the reservation level. According to their unique needs and circumstances, tribes may prioritize funding among eight general categories: government, human services, education, public safety, community development, resources management, trust services, and general administration. In 1997, Congress directed the BIA to examine options on other methods of distributing TPA funds based on identified tribal need. This report summarizes findings of a BIA/tribal workgroup on this issue. Chapter 1 describes background issues: wide variations among Indian tribes and lands that impede development of one funding formula; American Indians' severely disadvantaged status; Federal trust responsibilities to Indians; and the right of tribal governments to have their priorities respected. Chapter 2 recounts the historical and legal basis for… [PDF]
(1985). "Dialogue Is Not a Chaste Event." Comments by Paulo Freire on Issues in Participatory Research. This document records the reactions of the Brazilian author/educator Paulo Freire to the questions: (1) what should educators do when the people with whom they work are not interested in the ideas of dialogical analysis and participatory decision making?; (2) what should educators do when they encounter hostility from people who feel that a dialogical and participatory process would threaten the status quo?; and (3) do educators have any right to get involved in a process of transformation in another culture? These questions stemmed from a 1982 project intended to increase African farmers' understanding of their own cooperative marketing system and to raise their level of participation in management of the cooperatives. Freire's answers are summarized as follows. Dialogue with others is necessary to the act of knowing because knowing takes place in human, cultural, and historical space. First, educators have to respond to the group, answering their expectations. They must become…
(2005). Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in California. Civil Rights Project at Harvard University Every year, across the country, a dangerously high percentage of students–disproportionately poor and minority–disappear from the educational pipeline before graduating from high school. Nationally, only about 68% of all students who enter 9th grade will graduate "on time" with regular diplomas in 12th grade. While the graduation rate for white students is 75%, only approximately half of Black, Latino, and Native American students earn regular diplomas alongside their classmates. Graduation rates are even lower for Black, Latino and Native American males. Yet, because of misleading and inaccurate reporting of dropout and graduation rates, the public remains largely unaware of this educational and civil rights crisis. California's failure to graduate so many of its students is a tragic story of wasted human potential and tremendous economic loss. When high numbers of youth leave school ill-prepared to contribute to our labor force and to civic life, our economy and our… [PDF]
(1991). Adult Education Research Annual Conference Proceedings (32nd, Norman, Oklahoma, May 30-June 2, 1991). Papers in this volume include: "Retirement Learning" (Adair); "Effect of Literacy on Personal Income" (Blunt); "Popular Discourse Concerning Women and AIDS" (Boshier); "John Steinbeck's Learning Project" (Brockett); "Faculty Careers of Professors of Adult Education" (Caffarella); "Racism in Canada" (Carriere); "Perspectives on Program Planning in Adult Education" (Cervero, Wilson); "Inclusive Language and Perspective Transformation" (Coffman); "Impact of Critical Social Theory on Adult Education" (Collard, Law); "Assessing Adult Learning Strategies" (Conti, Fellenz); "Class Age Composition and Academic Achievement" (Darkenwald et al.); "Redesign of Continuing Education as a 'Practical Problem'" (Dirkx et al.); "Framework for Understanding Developmental Change among Older Adults" (Fisher); "Value of Literacy for Rural Elderly" (Freer);… [PDF]
(1995). The Individual, the Family, and Social Good: Personal Fulfillment in Times of Change. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Volume 42. The theme of this volume of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation is the state of contemporary family life and the likelihood of reconciling individual family members' interests with those of the family as a whole. The volume attempts to reflect the dramatic differences that took place within families currently and a generation ago, including changes in family attitudes, family law, everyday attitudes, and motivation. Eight articles are presented in this collection: (1) "Introduction: Personal Satisfaction and the Welfare of Families, Communities, and Society" (Gary B. Melton) provides an overview of changes in various aspects of family life; (2) "Growing Up in a Socially Toxic Environment: Life for Children and Families in 1990s" (James Garbarino) discusses the social context in which children live; (3) "The Deterioration of the Family: A Law and Economics Perspective" (Allen M. Parkman) discusses family formation and the importance of children from the…
(1993). Global Issues in the Elementary Classroom. Revised Edition. This activity book is the work of classroom teachers and is designed to address the need for global education elementary materials. There are 27 activities, organized into five sections, to help elementary teachers stimulate young students' global awareness and understanding. The activities are presented in a standard format: (1) a brief introduction; (2) a list of objectives; (3) recommended grade level; (4) estimated time required for the activity; (5) a list of needed materials; and (6) step-by-step procedures to complete the lesson. Some activities include suggested follow-up exercises, a bibliography, background information; and masters for student handouts. A list of resources for elementary teachers concludes the book. Section 1, \Introducing the Concept of Global Awareness,\ includes: (1) \People Puzzles\; (2) \Your Global Home\; and (3) \What Do We Know About…? What Do We Want to Know?\ Section 2, \Studying Human Values,\ include: (1) \Toys and Folk Tales\; (2) \The…
(1994). Global Issues in the Middle School Grades 5-8. Third Edition. This activity book contains 27 activities designed to help teachers address the goal of including global education in their classrooms. The activities, organized into five sections, are presented in a standard format of: (1) a brief introduction; (2) a list of objectives; (3) an estimate of required time for the activity; (4) list of needed materials; and (5) step-by-step procedures for the activity. Some activities include suggested follow-up exercises, a list of resources, background information, and masters for student handouts. A list of resources concludes the book. Section 1, \Introducing the Concept of Global Awareness,\ includes: (1) \Global Connections\; (2) \The Global Kid\; and (3) \What Do We Know About…? What Do We Want to Know?\ Section 2, \Studying Human Values,\ includes: (1) \What are 'American Family Values'?\ (2) \Special Ways with Holidays\; (3) \Religion and Values\; (4) \The Trees of Life\; (5) \World Music\; and (6) \Creating Culture Wheels.\ Section 3,…
(1988). The Contest for Public Culture in America Since the Sixties. The defeat of the United States in the Vietnam War affected the dearest notions held by Americans of the nature of the national existence. That defeat determined, in the words of John Hellman, "the disruption of our story, of our explanation of the past and vision of the future." This appears most poignantly, perhaps, in school history texts published after the defeat. Pre-war textbooks dispensed the indisputable truth of things. After the war, they were haunted by a sense of uncertainty. As authors tried to acknowledge the realities of a multiracial, multiethnic society, a resurgent political right reasserted the prerogatives of priviledged white males by appealing to an intransigent racism among voters. The one development of the 1980s which may have moved the nation toward conciliation rather than exacerbation of the persisting contentions of the 1960s was the dedication of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, DC. It marks the moment when the nation ceased to… [PDF]
(1998). Technology for Education. IDRA Focus. IDRA Newsletter, v25 n7 Aug. This theme issue includes five articles that focus on technology for education to benefit all students, including limited-English-proficient, minority, economically disadvantaged, and at-risk students. "Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program Students Meet Peers Via Video Conference" (Linda Cantu, Leticia Lopez-De La Garza) describes how at-risk student tutors learn to use e-mail, fax, and video equipment through participation in a video conference with other student tutors. A sidebar shows how the program supports Texas middle school academic standards. "Financial Aid: Challenges and Possibilities for Minority Students" (Felix Montes) discusses the increasingly hostile environment towards minorities exhibited by higher education institutions following court decisions weakening affirmative action, and reviews four financial aid and college information web sites. "Creating a Grade Book on the Computer" (Charles A. Cavazos) presents step-by-step instructions for… [PDF]
(1981). Structural Determinants of the Haitian Refugee Movement: Different Interpretations. Occasional Papers Series, Dialogues #4. By borrowing and adapting theoretical frameworks from the structural approach to migration and the dialectical view of legal repression, this paper attempts to explain why Haitian boat people in south Florida have been so singularly persecuted and, secondly, why the government's efforts to expel the Haitians have failed. First, the study's structural approach is developed: within this framework, the Haitian population's movements are seen as fundamentally determined by economic cycles and their fate is tied to their mode of incorporation into the receiving economy. Because the boat people possess neither the human nor financial capital to create an enclave or become integrated into the primary sector, their only alternative is south Florida's relatively underdeveloped secondary labor market. The paper also analyzes the particular "push" factors in Haiti which have encouraged massive emigration, and the "pull" factors in south Florida. The latter are seen as… [PDF]
(1980). Denuclearization for a Just World: The Failure of Non Proliferation. The document discusses the non proliferation policies of nuclear power nations. It specifically focuses on the credibility gap which exists between the actual statements of peaceful intentions made by these nations which express the need for non proliferation of nuclear weapons and their actual conduct with regards to nuclear-related issues in international relations. Described as a declaration prepared by a group of concerned scholars and open for signature by concerned individuals throughout the world, the document is part of a project committed to encouraging research, education, dialogue, and action for a more just world order. Instances in which nuclear nations have endangered world peace are identified. These include allowing politics to become increasingly militarized, neglecting social and human services in favor of increased military expenditures, deploying strategic and nuclear missiles in Europe (both NATO and Warsaw Pact nations are guilty of this), attempting to…