Advocating Heightened Education

Author : Kathleen F. McConnell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793609625

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Advocating Heightened Education by Kathleen F. McConnell Pdf

Colleges and universities face unprecedented pressure to streamline and reduce their infrastructure. A new generation of reformers, frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles and rising costs, dream of education without schools. Those reforms, if realized, promise to render education indistinguishable from other social spheres. Advocating Heightened Education mobilizes situated theories of learning to advocate the labor and expense that goes into maintaining campuses. Higher education’s bulky and incommensurable institutions—from the community colleges and Ivy Leagues to the regional public universities and small liberal arts campuses—serve a critical modality. They ensure that educational forms remain visible and available for critique. Their diversity of form retains the possibility of divergent and transformative educational futures. This ethnographic and archival study of two alternative campuses, The Evergreen State College and California State University, Monterey Bay, illustrates how educators advocate their work by heightening its visibility and by modeling appreciation for situated teaching and inquiry. It provides examples of those advocacy techniques with stories of professional life and close readings of historical documents that include institutional and legislative reports, facilities memoranda, and course descriptions. These materials offer a vibrant counter-narrative to reform movements that seek to standardize the college experience. Scholars of higher education, pedagogy, and communication will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : Joanna G. Burchfield,April A. Kedrowicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781666903959

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Teaching Communication Across Disciplines for Professional Development, Civic Engagement, and Beyond by Joanna G. Burchfield,April A. Kedrowicz Pdf

This volume addresses teaching and research across disciplines, communication and identity development, and the centrality of communication in our quickly changing world. Contributors convey the social and global need, value, and responsibility of communication instruction across disciplines.

Author : Musyoka, Millicent M.,Shen, Guofeng
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668486528

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Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement by Musyoka, Millicent M.,Shen, Guofeng Pdf

Family engagement varies in education literature and often includes collaboration, involvement, and partnership. The term “family in schools” has changed to include extended family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, and others who interact with the child, such as step-parents, caregivers, and neighbors. Family engagement is a practice, an interactive process, and a goal-oriented relationship involving professionals and families, allowing families to share their perspectives about their children, their learning, and their customs to improve their children's education. Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement provides the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for effective engagements of all families with children in special education. With recent changes in student population diversity among those enrolling in special education, the diversity of family compositions in the school system is also evolving. Covering topics such as laws and legal infrastructure, special education, and family engagement, this book is ideal for classroom teachers, administrators, researchers, and students in education programs.

Author : Daniel S. Strasser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793618061

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Communication and Identity in the Classroom by Daniel S. Strasser Pdf

This collection, edited by Daniel S. Strasser, was unearthed from the demand for more inclusive and expansive dialogues on intersectional identities, ethnicity, neuro-diversity, physical ability, religion, sexual orientation, class, and gender performance in academia. The autoethnographic and narrative accounts within Communication and Identity in the Classroom: Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy offer personal, experiential perspectives on the power of identity to influence educators in classroom and mentoring spaces. The multiple perspectives offered here promote dialogue about how personal experience provides the ground upon which we build more dynamic relationships and communities. The contributors’ experiences offer examples for a more expansive understanding of privilege, oppression, and identity. These seeds for conversation nourish discourses that build new communicative bridges between educators and students as we prepare to face the next interaction, class, and challenges and opportunity for resilience. This collection invites educators to be critical of their bodies, of their politics, of their intersecting identities, and acknowledge in words and actions that our bodies are political. Throughout this collection the contributors expand upon theories and methods of critical communication scholarship, radical love, and intersectionality using their embodied pedagogical experiences to ground the scholarship.

Author : May Hara,Annalee G. Good
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807767948

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Teachers as Policy Advocates by May Hara,Annalee G. Good Pdf

"The authors examine obstacles to teacher involvement in policy, analyze preservice and practicing teachers' experiences, and present a model for collaborative professional development for teacher policy advocacy. Case studies are used to explore four contemporary policy areas: school safety, student assessment, public health, and digital learning"--

Author : Ahmet Atay,David H. Kahl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793627193

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Pedagogies of Post-Truth by Ahmet Atay,David H. Kahl Pdf

Pedagogies of Post-Truth explores the national and international political developments in what has been called a post-truth society; specifically, in which conservative groups target media outlets claiming fabrication of news and that the veracity of evidence-based reporting should be questioned. Truth has been reduced to the validation of opinions instead of the presentation of scientific facts. This collection responds to these issues by initiating a scholarly dialogue about teaching in the era of post-truth in which research-based findings that do not align with political viewpoints are judged, criticized, and often described as “fake.” Contributors evaluate the pedagogical challenges of post-truth discourse and how post-truth messages negatively affect instructors and students. By highlighting ways instructors and students can resist the hegemony of post-truth, this book creates a dialogue among scholars, illustrates the challenges, and offers pedagogical techniques to discuss “post-truth,” the role of the educator, the role of media, and the role of other story-makers of our society.

Author : Matthew Cohen
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 1846429218

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A Guide to Special Education Advocacy by Matthew Cohen Pdf

Disability law can be complex and intimidating, so how can concerned parents use it to ensure their child with a disability receives the appropriate education they are legally entitled to? A Guide to Special Education Advocacy gives strategies for advocating for better provision of special education in schools. Despite the many services and accommodations that have been made for students with disabilities, such as the use of Braille or providing specialized education in a regular or special classroom, many children with disabilities do not get the services they need and are not placed in appropriate programs or settings. Because of this, the perception of disability often remains unchanged. Matthew Cohen's insightful manual gives a practical vision of how a parent or a professional can become an advocate to achieve a more inclusive and rewarding education for the child with a disability. This book will provide parents, people with disabilities, professionals and clinicians thinking about special education advocacy with an overview of current disability law and how it works, identifying practical ways for building positive and effective relationships with schools.

Author : Heidi L. Hallman,Kristen Pastore-Capuana,Donna L. Pasternak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475845464

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Possibilities, Challenges, and Changes in English Teacher Education Today by Heidi L. Hallman,Kristen Pastore-Capuana,Donna L. Pasternak Pdf

This book focuses on English teacher educators’ experiences concerning professionalization and teacher identity. The term professionalization, itself, can be problematized (Popkewitz, 1994), as it connotes adherence to realities to professional norms that are based within particular histories. Yet, teacher educators must confront how to mentor prospective teachers into the field and how changes to the field manifest changes to what it means to be a professional. In research about changes in English teacher education over the past twenty years, Pasternak, Caughlan, Hallman, Renzi and Rush (2017) presented five distinct foci of ELA programs that have evolved: 1) changes to field experiences within teacher education programs, 2) altered conceptions of teaching literature and literacy within the context of ELA, 3) increased adherence to standardization, 4) changing demographics of students in K-12 classrooms, and 5) increased expectations for use of technology within ELA. These foci impact how professionals in ELA are viewed both from inside and outside the profession and how they navigate these tensions in teacher education programs to define what it means to identify as an English teacher. Throughout the book, chapter authors articulate dilemmas that focus around professionalization and teacher identity, questioning what it means to be an English teacher today. While some chapters suggest methods for increased awareness of tensions within practice, other chapters approach professionalization and teacher identity by asking what the limits of methods classes and teacher education might be in preparing ELA teachers and supporting them to remain in the profession. Today’s political environment devalues teachers and teaching, a situation that has critics deriding the educational standards at institutes of higher education while concurrently lauding alternative programs that do not have to adhere to the same rigorous teacher certification requirements. English teacher educators are now being asked to design programs, soften requirements, and recruit and mentor teacher candidates to a profession that, in the past, certified more new English teachers than it could employ. The chapters in this book explore what it means to educate and be an English teacher educator under these conditions.

Author : Angelika Paseka,Delma Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351066334

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Parental Involvement Across European Education Systems by Angelika Paseka,Delma Byrne Pdf

This book addresses central questions regarding parental involvement across European educational systems; exploring the commonalities and differences across European countries and the extent to which current policy and practice pertaining to parental involvement is inclusive of diversity. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws from the fields of education, sociology and psychology, it presents a description of the policy context and empirical research on critical perspectives relating to parental involvement. Comprising a rich varied cross-section of national experiences from eleven European countries and the contexts surrounding them, case studies provide insights into parental involvement across Europe and identify challenges in the field. This volume’s in-depth approach and comprehensive interrogation of parental involvement across European education systems make it an ideal resource for parents, teachers and academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education policy and comparative education, as well as teacher educators and policy makers.

Author : Kathleen Ness
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000821871

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School Psychologists as Advocates for Social Justice by Kathleen Ness Pdf

School Psychologists as Advocates for Social Justice explores how school psychologists promote and protect the educational rights of children, using the author’s extensive experience as illustration. The roles of school psychologists have expanded from strictly assessment to advising school districts on how to improve school climate, helping schools face tragedy, and counseling students dealing with trauma. Combined with pertinent research, personal narratives describe challenges the author faced while a teacher and later as a school psychology practitioner and illustrate how necessary advocacy is in addressing the academic, behavioral, and emotional needs of students. Careful consideration is given to equity issues of disability, racism, Islamophobia, and bilingualism in schools. Combining informative personal experience with research, emphasizing the importance of children’s rights within the school community, and encouraging effective advocacy with legislative leaders, this book is a necessity for both new and seasoned school psychologists.

Author : Rausch, Meredith A.,Gallo, Laura L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799873211

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Strengthening School Counselor Advocacy and Practice for Important Populations and Difficult Topics by Rausch, Meredith A.,Gallo, Laura L. Pdf

School counselors often struggle to feel confident in delivering effective assistance to students due to a variety of reasons that currently do not have enough research or information developed. This leads to a struggle for counselors to adequately address tough and relevant issues. With these issues remaining unaddressed, or addressed less effectively, there is a concern that school counselors cannot mitigate these issues due to not being adequately informed. This can lead to a lifetime of consequences for students. Strengthening School Counselor Advocacy and Practice for Important Populations and Difficult Topics presents emerging research that seek to answer the tough and often unaddressed questions, target present-day issues of student populations, and prepare school counselors to feel confident and competent in their counseling and advocacy practice. These chapters, using the newest information available, will address these concerns and provide the best counseling work possible for underserved populations. While covering research on counseling for students with chronic illnesses, mixed-statuses, family issues, minority students, LGBTQ+ youth, and more, this book is ideal for school counselors, counseling educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in school counseling and meeting the needs of diverse and important populations of students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00623028O

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105-1 Hearing: H.R. 6, The Higher Education Amendments of 1998 Student Loan Programs, Serial No. 105-115, July 22, 1997 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009866463

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Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments, Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Education ..., 93-1, March 9 and 21, 1973 by United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor Pdf

Author : Laura Rothstein,Scott F. Johnson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452241098

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Special Education Law by Laura Rothstein,Scott F. Johnson Pdf

This text provides a comprehensive and current overview of the major federal laws that apply to the education of children with disabilities. The text helps students understand what the law requires so that when they become educators, they can develop policies and make decisions that comply with these laws.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : PSU:000017411608

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Science and Technical Education by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology Pdf