(2005). Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology (19th, Monticello, New York, April 6-8, 2005). Online Submission, Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology (19th, Monticello, NY, Apr 6-8, 2005). The 19th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology was held on April 6-8, 2005 at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, New York. The conference was sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference featured two keynote speakers–Dr. James Naire, sponsored by Wadsworth Publishing Company, and Dr. Michael Epstein, sponsored by Rider University. Participants also had 30 presentations from which to choose, an array of publishers' displays to visit, and many colleagues, old and new, with whom to network. Ten of these presentations are included in these proceedings. Topics ranged from the teaching of introductory psychology to teaching upper level courses such as abnormal and the capstone course. In addition, topics such as distance learning courses and including diversity in teaching were presented. Papers in this proceedings include: (1) A Qualitative Analysis of Student Evaluations of Courses & Instructors… [PDF]
(2004). The Use of Simulations in a Teacher Education Program: The Impact on Student Development. A Critical Review. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education (Jan 3-6, 2004). Simulations and games have been used in education for decades, but most of this development has been in the areas of business and economics. Well-designed simulations and games have been shown to improve decision-making and critical thinking skills as well as teaching discipline-specific concepts. Active learning also helps students develop interpersonal and communications skills. It is believed that simulations can be adapted and developed in other areas of education. In this paper, a description of a simulation that has been developed and used in a human development course in the teacher education program is reviewed. Students were divided into groups and the groups were given specific roles related to a scenario dealing with a dysfunctional family. The roles included the parents, advocates for the children, the children?s teachers, psychologists, and judges. The groups were given information at the beginning and during the simulation. The advocate groups made their presentations… [PDF]
(1999). The Human Cost of Waiting for Child Care: A Study. This study sought to put a human face on child care finances in New York City by documenting the everyday struggles of low-income working families, and those making the transition from welfare to work, who are unable to obtain good quality, stable child care. The Children's Aid Society surveyed 150 parents on child care waiting lists maintained by established community-based child care agencies. Specific findings were: (1) 77 percent of families believed that their current child care situations were negatively affecting their children; (2) over 70 percent of families used an unregulated child care arrangement; (3) 49 percent of families with incomes of $6,000 to $12,000 spent between 20 and 50 percent of their income on child care; (4) 36 percent of parents said they were either unable to work or had lost their jobs, 20 percent said they had been late or missed work, and 16 percent went on public assistance because of lack of quality child care; (5) 64 percent of parents said they… [PDF]
(1999). Textual Orientations: Gay and Lesbian Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. For Peter Elbow, a writing classroom should be an opportunity for students to tell their stories to a community in which everyone is safe to take risks, and all support each other in the development of their expressive skills. To be \other,\ however, is always a scary thing. The lesbian, gay, or bisexual writing student is usually seen as having a choice of being \in the closet\ or \in your face.\ She must size up every situation she enters: classroom, social, workplace, health care provider, etc., and determine how safe it is to reveal her true identity. What can courses in queer pedagogy do to address the issue of homophobia in the academy? For instance, the whole notion of a course designed specifically to address the issues of an oppressed group strikes many members of the dominant population as a deliberate stepping outside the mainstream to further delineate existing social divisions. Elbow refers to a \dangerous audience\ but does not specify what makes it so. Any writing… [PDF]
(2004). Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. Princeton University Press Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often \yes.\ Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage. Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit. Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are… [Direct]
(2005). Observing the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1954 United States Supreme Court School Desegregation Decision in Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Negro Educational Review, The, v56 n1 p19-32 Jan. As Americans commemorate the 50th anniversary of the "Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" U.S. Supreme Court public school desegregation decision on (the Brown decision), the author was tempted to refer to it as a "celebration of the Golden Anniversary of the legal end to racial segregation in the public schools of the United States." When the decision was rendered, on May 17,1954, he was so elated that he was confident that 50 years later public school racial desegregation would be a thing of the past and a truly "golden celebration" would be highly appropriate. While he is still convinced that the Brown Decision was a necessary and fundamental prerequisite for human dignity, race relations, personal/social adjustment, equal educational access, and progress toward the American Ideal, events that have emerged and continuing efforts to obscure, evade, emasculate, and override the Decision, demand that Americans have an "observance"… [Direct]
(1918). Moral Values in Secondary Education. Bulletin, 1917, No. 51. Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior The purpose of this bulletin is to stimulate the thought of teachers in discovering their innumerable opportunities for quickening the conscience and clarifying the moral vision of their pupils. The attention of teachers is here directed also to the other reports of the commission, in which are elaborated many of the ideas presented in this report. No series of reports, however, could compass the rich opportunities of the secondary school for developing the ethical life of young people. To consider moral values in education is to fix attention upon what should be the paramount aim. A schooling that imparts knowledge or develops skill or cultivates tastes or intellectual aptitudes, fails of its supreme object if it leaves its beneficiaries no better morally. In all their relationships present and future, that is, as schoolmates, as friends, as members of a family, as workers in their special vocations, as Americans, as world citizens, the greatest need of boys and girls is character,… [PDF]
(2019). Educators' Use of Policy Resources to Understand English-Learner Policies. Leadership and Policy in Schools, v18 n4 p560-590. Research suggests that educators' use of resources influence the ground-level effects of policy. However, we know very little about educators' utilization of policy resources. This study employs a mixed-methods research design to provide empirical evidence of the policy resources available to education policy implementers and the ways in which individual and school factors influence how educators utilize resources that aid in their understanding of a policy that is of particular importance for one of the fastest-growing student populations in the United States: English learners…. [Direct]
(1983). Rehabilitation Amendments of 1983. Hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session on S. 1340. To Revise and Extend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and to Extend the Developmental Disability Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, and for Other Purposes. (Midvale, Utah). Statements are presented regarding the Rehabilitation Amendments of 1983. Following the text of the amendment are prepared statements and testimony from special educators, state officials, rehabilitation counselors, college students, rehabilitation practitioners, and a physician. Statements address budgetary aspects of the amendments, eligibility changes, accountability, and creation of a separate client assistance program. (CL)… [PDF]
(2021). Towards a Whole-School Approach for Sexuality Education in Supporting and Upholding the Rights and Health of Students with Intersex Variations. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v21 n5 p568-583. It is well documented that the most effective sexuality education programmes employ a whole-school learning approach. More specifically, when schools and their leaders and teachers embrace such an approach, they view student learning in the context of the whole experience of being at school — from the classroom, to the home and the partnerships schools form with the local community. In parallel to this, people born with intersex variations report the lack of a systematic and broad approach to recognition and inclusion of intersex variations in schools due to strong 'normativity' messaging, including that pertaining to the body. Similarly, schools fail to engage mindfully with contemporary content that promotes a positive and diverse understanding of intersex in educational spaces, guidelines, policies and the curriculum. In line with community expectations outlined by the Darlington Intersex Community Consensus Statement, peer-led intersex rights-and-health-advocacy, and… [Direct]
(2021). Evaluating Lifesharing: Quality of Life for Pennsylvanians with Intellectual Disability by Residence Type. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, v56 n3 p255-267 Sep. This study examines differences in domains of quality of life (satisfaction; choice and control; dignity, respect, and rights; inclusion; physical setting; family satisfaction) among people with intellectual disability and varying levels of support needs in a variety of residence types. The sample includes 2,639 people with intellectual disability living in Pennsylvania and supported by the state's intellectual disability/autism agency. Overall, results indicate enhanced quality of life outcomes for people living in lifesharing, their own home, and with a relative, in contrast to those living in group homes or private intermediate care facilities. Furthermore, results suggest the critical need for equitable opportunities for community-based inclusive residential options for people with all levels of support needs. This study highlights the importance of authentic community living and the need to continue efforts to promote community living options for people with intellectual… [Direct]
(2020). Privacy and Security Considerations When Integrating Home Visiting Data. Early Childhood Data Collaborative Home visiting programs typically collect sensitive information about family characteristics, risk factors, and services received. States may choose to integrate these data with other early childhood data to learn more about the reach and effectiveness of the services and supports that families receive. As more states begin to integrate data across early childhood programs, data integration leaders should consider how the privacy and security of home visiting data are maintained when shared across organizations or integrated with other early childhood data. This resource describes the various types of entities, laws, and regulations that ensure the data privacy and security of home visiting data when they are used or integrated. To get data integration leaders the information they need to ensure privacy and security, we also include a series of questions for leaders to ask, research, and seek to answer prior to integrating home visiting data with other early childhood data. Data… [PDF]
(2021). Comprehensive Sexual Health Education and Intersex (In)visibility: An Ethnographic Exploration inside a California High School Classroom. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v21 n5 p584-599. Although marked by discourses of progressivism and revolutionary change with regard to the protection of civil rights for LGBTQIA+ people and equitable educational policies, California's institutionalised discriminatory ideologies against intersex people influence public school sexual health education. Focusing on one high school health classroom, both in-person and after moving online, this study provides a look at curriculum and instruction during one comprehensive sexual health unit. Analysis of materials and student interviews illustrates a lack of representation and perceived pathologisation of intersex bodies, people and lived experiences. Now more than ever, schools have a critical responsibility to rethink inclusive sexual health education and actively engage in the education and advocacy to end intersex marginalisation and erasure…. [Direct]
(2019). Women, Capitalism and Education: On the Pedagogical Implications of Postfeminism. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v51 n7 p709-720. We examine the emergence of the 'postfeminist' sensibility from feminist theory and praxis, and its relation and relevance to education. Analytical frameworks such as postfeminism and intersectionality have given equal weight to recognition-based struggles, such as those based on sexual, racial, class-based, gender-related identities. We follow Nancy Fraser's argument that these identity-based movements have been co-opted by neoliberal politicians and bureaucratic policy-makers, and become a divide and rule strategy, neglecting the subjugating power of capital. Beginning with third-wave feminism's emphasis on individual identity, women's struggles have been become a part of the greater parisitic neoliberal project. We consider the implications of this docile and domesticated feminism for the education of women…. [Direct]
(1991). Preventing AIDS Tomorrow through Education Today. In an effort to prevent the further spread of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infections, and to minimize unwarranted fear about HIV transmission, as well as the subtle and overt limitation of people's rights resulting from this fear, the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges developed a course entitled "Preventing AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Tomorrow through Education Today." This instructional manual details the components and activities of the course, which was designed for faculty to use with college students, business and industry employees, and community members. Introductory material presents course implementation guidelines, 15 tips for instructors, and suggested teaching/learning activities for adults. Objectives, activities, transparencies, handouts, and lists of equipment, supplies, audiovisual materials and other resources are provided for each of the following 2-hour sessions: (1) "Learning about AIDS," which covers all of… [PDF]