Teaching managing diversity via feminist theory     

Joan Eveline  Patricia Todd 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(1):33-46

This paper explores a project to design and mount a unit on ‘managing diversity’. For its conceptual framework the unit draws on feminist theories of struggles for equity and social justice and the various policy approaches that workplace equality agents have correspondingly developed. Despite the emphasis on feminist theory, the paper makes no attempt to compare gender equity initiatives with strategies for managing diversity. Rather, some of the tensions are identified between the culturalist aims of the Managing Diversity movement and the redistributive goals that generated affirmative action and equal employment opportunities strategies; and it is suggested how an analysis of those tensions may promote increased student understanding of the topic. Secondly, it is assessed how a unit may juxtapose industrial relations and human resource management concepts to the benefit of curricula in both.In planning a new unit, moreover, it is not only the content which needs to be considered, but also the students' prior learning experience and the politics of persuading one's colleagues of the proposal's worth. Thus an account of these more pragmatic issues is integrated into the discussion.  相似文献   

The Effects of ‘Falling Rolls’ on the 16–19 Curriculum     

Ian Morgan Vice Principal 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(4):359-364

This article offers a critique of the concept of ownership central to contemporary theorising about professional development in education. The theorising was tested against data from a national programme of professional development projects for 185 primary headteachers, in which a strong sense of ownership had been embedded. In four areas, i.e. the focus of the projects, funding priorities, capacity building and impact on pupils, the theory appeared to be paradoxical. The concluding discussion examines some explanations for the paradoxes, including the possibility that theorising has developed ahead of empirical data and that pragmatism has high salience for headteachers.  相似文献   

Database Reviews     

Todd M. Hines 《Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship》2013,18(3)

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Communication,Liminality, and Hope: The September 11th Missing Person Posters     

Kevin T. Jones  Kenneth S. Zagacki  Todd V. Lewis 《Communication Studies》2013,64(1):105-121

Immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, family and friends of victims missing in the towers began placing “Missing Person Posters” of their loved ones around New York City. In this paper, we argue that the posters represent a powerful response to a traumatic and in some ways unprecedented situation, a response that transformed the death of loved ones from a reality or future certainty into a probability made possible by the searchers' desire, emotions, or imagination. We demonstrate how the posters, operating in the “subjunctive” voice, transformed the “liminal” space between life and death and “haunted” onlookers, so that survivors and spectators alike could ponder the possibilities of a world that would “hopefully” turn out for the best. We also consider the implications of the posters for those who were unable to acknowledge the loss of their loved ones.  相似文献   

He may not be a liberal,but he plays one on TV: Imagining the ideology of president Clinton*     

Justin Lewis  Michael Morgan 《The Communication Review》2013,16(3):327-345

This study focuses on questions of knowledge and belief in terms of public assumptions about President Clinton. Data from a national survey reveal the widespread assumption that Clinton is more liberal than his record would indicate. The data suggest that while people may not structure their own beliefs along conventional ideological lines, many interpret contemporary politics in terms of broad ideological frameworks, even if those frameworks lead to misleading conclusions. Thus while Clinton's liberal side is well‐known (or correctly assumed), his conservative side is not: indeed, most respondents associate him with liberal indicators in nearly every area. This point is explored in the context of the relation between traditional indicators of political knowledge and ideological assumptions. The authors conclude by speculating how the notion of a uniformly “liberal” Clinton may have its origins in media coverage.  相似文献   

Popular Music     

Frank Tirro  Leonard Feather  Jim Haskins  Jeff Todd Titon 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(5):76-77

Frank Tirro Jazz: A History (New York: Norton, 1977—$16.95 in trade edition; $12.95 in text edition, both hardback)

Leonard Feather Inside Jazz (New York: Da Capo, 1977—$4.95, paper)

Jim Haskins The Cotton Club (New York: Random House, 1977—$15.00, with paperback edition available)

Jeff Todd Titon Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977—$16.50)  相似文献   

Television and Family Values: Was Dan Quayle Right?     

Michael Morgan  Susan Leggett  James Shanahan 《Mass Communication and Society》2013,16(1-2):47-63

In this article, we explore the extent to which heavy television viewers' beliefs about the real world are consistent with the most repetitive and overarching patterns that television presents, especially in its dramatic entertainment programs. We test the hypothesis (put forth by many besides Dan Quayle) that television encourages viewers to embrace alternatives to the traditional 2-parent family. For purposes of conceptual clarity, we chose to focus on the question of illegitimacy and single parenthood, which is most directly related to the Murphy Brown controversy and is frequently touched on in many strands of political discourse. We reviewed previous research on television portrayal of the family and then used the 1988 and 1994 General Social Surveys (Davis & Smith, 1996) to assess relations between television viewing and judgments about illegitimacy and single parenthood. The data do not contradict Quayle's contention that television viewing is contributing to fraying of traditional family values.  相似文献   

Private Higher Education in Russia: capacity for innovation and investment     

Vladimir A. Geroimenko  Grigori A. Kliucharev  W. John Morgan 《European Journal of Education》2012,47(1):77-91

This article considers the potential role of private institutions in the development of Russian higher education. After decades of a government centralised higher education system, there is a clear trend towards the privatisation of education institutions and the diversification of education practices. Some commentators consider this to indicate that the Russian State is losing control of education; others welcome private initiatives, both in formal and informal education. Russian higher education has also been greatly challenged by the current demographic gap: the total number of secondary school graduates expected in 2012 is half that of 2006. This strengthens the competition for the enrolment of students in private and public (federal and municipal) institutions. Based on recent interviews with senior management at a number of provincial private universities, this article suggests possible avenues for private universities to extend into the education market and considers the implications.  相似文献   

The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global Karst Research: An Information Needs Assessment for a Globally Distributed Interdisciplinary Community     

Todd A. Chavez  Anna H. Perrault  Pete Reehling  Courtney Crummett 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2007,23(1):3-18

A survey of the global karst community was conducted in 2006. The survey was distributed via the World Wide Web to known karst researchers. The instrument was designed to generate an initial inventory of core grey information types, to assess levels of usage of grey information by the respondents, and to gauge the karst community’s willingness to participate in building and expanding both this collection and the associated controlled vocabularies.  相似文献   

From Low-Lying Roofs to Towering Spires: Toward a Heideggerian understanding of learning environments     

Todd C.  Ream & Tyler W.  Ream 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2005,37(4):585-597

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