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Racializing educational change: Melting pot and mosaic influences on educational policy and practice
Allison Skerrett 《Journal of Educational Change》2008,9(3):261-280
This article racializes educational change by examining literature on the history of educational approaches to diversity in
the United States and Ontario, Canada to demonstrate how their respective national myths for engaging with diversity—the melting
pot and mosaic—have impacted their educational policies and practices over three definable eras of educational change. The
educational policies and practices of the two countries are evaluated in relation to four significant and—within the existing
literature—widely used political and educational strategies for responding to racial and ethnocultural diversity in schools.
The paper cautions that the current era of curriculum standardization and high stakes assessments that reflects a melting
pot approach to education reinstitutes and reinforces an inequitable vertical mosaic structure of schooling experiences and
outcomes for diverse student populations. It urges policy makers to consider how the current movement toward post-standardization,
which reflects a mosaic approach, is presently influencing educational policy and practice in international contexts and achieving
more just and effective learning outcomes for diverse student groups.
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Allison SkerrettEmail: |
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Peter Wood 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):277-294
This essay on the ethical mission of the university explores extremes of anti-social behavior, visiting numerous crime scenes
before concluding that contemporary higher education has lost the capacity—and even the language—for taking character development
seriously. In his attempt to determine whether coincidently traditional-liberationist-diversiphilic-apathetic colleges can
morally improve their charges, Peter Wood collects a wrenching compendium of violent academic mayhem.
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Peter WoodEmail: |
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Diann L. Baecker 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(3):195-206
Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the archetypal story of the young, virgin, orphan girl who is vulnerable to either debauchery or rescue. That such
a girl must succumb to either one or the other is a necessary element of the archetype. In O’Dell’s work—one intended, after
all, for children—the heroine is rescued by a paternalistic figure and re-inscribed into the patriarchal world. Yet, in the
hands of young readers, Island—part fairytale, part rescue narrative, part feminist parable—becomes a story of independence and survival, despite the heroine’s
“rescue” at the end.
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Diann L. BaeckerEmail: |
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Mathematical concepts and conceptions have been theorized as abstractions from—and therefore transcending—bodily and embodied
experience. In this contribution, we re-theorize mathematical conceptions by building on recent philosophical work in dialectical
phenomenology. Accordingly, a conception exists only in, through, and as of the experiences that the individual realizes it.
To exemplify our reconceptualization of mathematical conceptions, we draw on an episode from a study in a second-grade classroom
where the students learned about three-dimensional geometrical objects.
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Wolff-Michael RothEmail: |
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Laureen Tedesco 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2006,37(2):133-148
This essay examines the interplay between Jane Andrews’s purpose and her pedagogy in The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air. The book demonstrates the teaching strategies she learned at the First State Normal in Massachusetts, moving from what the child knows to new material, engaging the child in personal observation and experiment, and introducing broad concepts before using precise terms. However, a sense of international children as distinctly “other” emerges from the author’s use of the white American reader as the point of comparison with the children of color she writes about.
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Laureen TedescoEmail: Phone: +252-328-6571 |
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This article argues that Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials may be read as a series which attempts to assault the Christian doctrine of God. We believe that this demonstrably accords with Pullman’s personal views, and that, through his story, he seeks to foster such views in his readership. However, the accuracy of his attack falls short of its intended mark when it is examined alongside classical Christian theology. The Authority which Pullman’s narrative destroys is actually more akin to the Christian view of the devil than he is the divine, and the victories of Will and Lyra—as a new Adam and Eve—have strong resemblances to the victories which Christianity claims for Christ and Mary. Pullman’s narrative, therefore, becomes an inversion of his deicidal intention rather than an inverting and revolutionary destruction of theology.
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Jonathan PadleyEmail: |
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In this article, we concentrate upon the lifeworld resources that comprise the funds of knowledge for children living in a
rural community in the southeastern United States. Through interview conversations with a group of third grade children, we
identified three lifeworld resources—interdependence, garbage dumping, and feral dogs—that rural teachers might draw on to
generate curriculum that is connected to the community in which they teach. Through such connections rural teachers may increase
the likelihood that they will remain teaching in rural schools.
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Amy Suzanne JohnsonEmail: |
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Akiko Yamazaki 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(4):305-313
This article examines three novels which use stories of elves—especially the ballad “Tam Lin”—as pre-texts, and contemplates
how they explore the issue of Otherness. The three novels are The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price, Cold Tom by Sally Prue, and Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones. Although the novels seem to be about elves as Other, they can be read as observations on human nature
and human relationships. The article speculates on how encounters with the Other illuminate what humans are like and how these
contacts affect the human characters by making them see themselves in a different light.
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Akiko YamazakiEmail: Email: |
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The doctoral advisor is said to be one of the most important persons—if not the single most critical person—with whom doctoral students will develop a relationship during their doctoral degree programs
(Baird 1995). However, we have limited knowledge regarding how doctoral advisors see their roles and responsibilities as advisors. Therefore,
through in-depth interviews, we explored the perceptions of 25 exemplary doctoral advisors, who have graduated a large number
of doctoral students, about their roles and responsibilities as advisors. We conclude this article with implications for doctoral
education.
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Ann E. AustinEmail: |
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Joby Gardner 《The Urban Review》2009,41(2):174-197
This article explores how incarcerated youth and adult supervisors contest claims to identity via language of “representing”.
Comparing how youth and adults “represent” in discussions of their own past and future selves sheds light on the constrained
universe of discourse within which both groups work to express identities and on the basis of which we counsel, mentor, and
educate young people. Acknowledging these constraints can contribute to understanding what I call exceptionalism—the idea that only exceptional poor and raced young men, through great personal effort and sacrifice, may resist the lure
of the “street”. I conclude by discussing implications of this work for education and youth development work both inside and
beyond the juvenile justice system as well as for research across lines of difference by committed “outsiders”.
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Joby GardnerEmail: |
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Indigenous knowledge and science revisited 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
This article provides a guided tour through three diverse cultural ways of understanding nature: an Indigenous way (with a
focus on Indigenous nations in North America), a neo-indigenous way (a concept proposed to recognize many Asian nations’ unique
ways of knowing nature; in this case, Japan), and a Euro-American scientific way. An exploration of these three ways of knowing
unfolds in a developmental way such that some key terms change to become more authentic terms that better represent each culture’s
collective, yet heterogeneous, worldview, metaphysics, epistemology, and values. For example, the three ways of understanding
nature are eventually described as Indigenous ways of living in nature, a Japanese way of knowing seigyo-shizen, and Eurocentric
sciences (plural). Characteristics of a postcolonial or anti-hegemonic discourse are suggested for science education, but
some inherent difficulties with this discourse are also noted.
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Masakata OgawaEmail: |
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Christina Rose Dubb 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(3):219-232
This article compares the first-person narratives of two adolescent girls in the novels The Rain Catchers and The House on Mango Street. I propose that adolescent girls can use literacy to read the world around them as a text and therefore help them to form
their own identities enough to ultimately find authority in telling their own stories. I use Judith Langer’s theory of envisionment-building
as a primary lens through which to interpret the girls’ narrative work and further elucidate the feminist aspects involved
through Belenky et al.’s famous work, Women’s Ways of Knowing.
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Christina Rose DubbEmail: |
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Thomas Crisp 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(4):237-261
Few pieces of GLBTQ fiction have received the popular and scholarly acclaim awarded to Alex Sanchez’s Rainbow Boys series. Although “problem novels” are rarely taken seriously as literature, the books—the first novel in particular—have
joined the few pieces of GLBTQ literature incorporated into educational discourse and curriculum. In this article, the author
suggests that although the positive nature and surface construction appeals to those seeking “affirmative” representations
of GLBTQ youth, the contributions made by the series may be overshadowed by its reliance on heteronormative gender stereotypes
that may actually work to perpetuate homophobic attitudes toward gay sexuality.
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Thomas CrispEmail: |
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Ireland has two official languages—Gaeilge (Irish) and English. Similarly, primary- and second-level education can be mediated
through the medium of Gaeilge or through the medium of English. This research is primarily focused on students (Gaeilgeoirí)
in the transition from Gaeilge-medium mathematics education to English-medium mathematics education. Language is an essential
element of learning, of thinking, of understanding and of communicating and is essential for mathematics learning. The content
of mathematics is not taught without language and educational objectives advocate the development of fluency in the mathematics
register. The theoretical framework underpinning the research design is Cummins’ (1976). Thresholds Hypothesis. This hypothesis infers that there might be a threshold level of language proficiency that bilingual
students must achieve both in order to avoid cognitive deficits and to allow the potential benefits of being bilingual to
come to the fore. The findings emerging from this study provide strong support for Cummins’ Thresholds Hypothesis at the key
transitions—primary- to second-level and second-level to third-level mathematics education—in Ireland. Some implications and
applications for mathematics teaching and learning are presented.
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John O’DonoghueEmail: |
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Since many teachers and students recognize other kinds of knowledge (faith) based on other ways of knowing, consideration
of these realities is appropriate for the science education community. Understanding the multitude of ways that clergy view
relationships between science and faith (i.e. alternative ways of knowing) would assist in understanding various ways that
people address complex issues arising from ideas about science and faith. We administered a questionnaire composed of multiple-choice
and short answer items to 63 United Methodist ministers. Findings included (1) that formal, organized faith contexts (e.g.
church services) serve as informal science education opportunities, (2) participants demonstrated considerable diversity regarding
the types of relationships developed between science and faith, and (3) participants recognized a need exists for better understandings
of science and its relationship to faith for them, their colleagues, and their congregations.
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Daniel L. Dickerson (Corresponding author)Email: |
Karen R. DawkinsEmail: |
John E. PenickEmail: |
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Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms. Part 1: Investigating corporate and communal practices 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Christopher Emdin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(2):319-350
In this paper, I discuss the existence of varying ideologies and perspectives within urban science classrooms and uncover
the importance of focusing on student and teacher practices as a means to bridge these disconnections. Specifically, I describe
the existence of corporate and communal ideologies and the dynamics that create the misalignment between groups that hold
allegiances to these varying belief systems. Utilizing three allied theoretical frames, this paper provides a multi layered
and timely analysis of the teaching of science in an urban high school in New York City. I conjoin Bourdieu’s sociocultural
theory, an analysis of social life through the use of the structure|agency dialectic, and a theorizing of corporate and communal
practice to embark on a journey into how African American and Latino/a students’ ways of knowing and being can be utilized
to meet the goal of improving their success in science.
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Christopher EmdinEmail: |
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This case study identifies four targets groups that are specific to the achievement of the EFA Millennium Development Goals
in Mongolia: boys, out-of-school children, vulnerable children and minorities, and children of herders. Boys from herder families
in remote rural areas are at the greatest risk of drop-out or non-enrollment. The case study therefore focuses on problems
with access to education for boys from nomadic herder families. The inverse gender gap in the Mongolian education sector is
a well-explored topic in educational policy research. What is lacking, however, is a more comprehensive look at how, and why,
the combination of gender, household income and location of school—urban, semi-urban, rural—affect access to education in
Mongolia.
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Amgaabazar GerelmaaEmail: |
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Scott Edgar 《Science & Education》2009,18(2):177-189
This paper considers George A. Reisch’s account of the role of Cold War political forces in shaping the apolitical stance
that came to dominate philosophy of science in the late 1940s and 1950s. It argues that at least as early as the 1930s, Logical
Empiricists such as Rudolf Carnap already held that philosophy of science could not properly have political aims, and further
suggests that political forces alone cannot explain this view’s rise to dominance during the Cold War, since political forces
cannot explain why a philosophy of science with liberal democratic, anti-communist aims did not flourish. The paper then argues
that if professionalization is understood in the right way, it might point toward an explanation of the apolitical stance
of Cold War philosophy of science.
Scott Edgar is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. 相似文献
Scott EdgarEmail: |
Scott Edgar is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. 相似文献
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William Medina-Jerez 《Research in Science Education》2008,38(2):189-212
A lack of congruency between the teaching and learning of science and the student’s personal worlds has long been recognised
by the international science education community as an issue deserving space in the research agenda. The purpose of this study
was to explore the diversity of student reactions when subcultures such as family, community peers, and personal worldviews
are considered along side the subculture of school science. Two-hundred and fifty students from urban and provincial schools
in the northeastern region of Colombia (South America) participated. From this group, 18 students were interviewed. It was
observed that students adopt a compartmentalisation of knowledge that is evident as both an avoiding strategy in the classroom
and as a mechanism to differentiate between the natural world of their everyday situations and the one portrayed by a Westernised
science instruction in the classroom. The findings reflect how multiple worldviews correlate with student frameworks as implanted
by school science.
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William Medina-JerezEmail: |