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Dysconscious Ableism: Toward A Liberatory Praxis In Teacher Education, Alicia Broderick, Priya Lalvani Sep 2017

Dysconscious Ableism: Toward A Liberatory Praxis In Teacher Education, Alicia Broderick, Priya Lalvani

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

This study draws upon King’s [1991. “Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and the Miseducation of Teachers.” Journal of Negro Education 60 (2): 133–146] concept of dysconscious racism, extrapolating from it the analogous conceptual device of dysconscious ableism. We report upon data drawn from an inquiry at a US university-based teacher preparation programme, wherein we analyse our teacher education candidates’ writing through the conceptual lens of dysconscious ableism, to better understand their conceptualisations of dis/ability, and their understanding of existing examples of educational segregation based upon those conceptualisations. We make an argument for the necessity of engaging in studies of ableism in …


Do You See What I See? An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Experience In The Laboratory And Museum, Eva Specker, Pablo Tinio, Michiel Van Elk Aug 2017

Do You See What I See? An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Experience In The Laboratory And Museum, Eva Specker, Pablo Tinio, Michiel Van Elk

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

Two studies examined people's aesthetic experiences of art in the laboratory and the museum. The theoretical framework guiding the research was based on the Mirror Model of Art (Tinio, 2013), which proposes that the process of artistic creation and artistic reception mirror each other. Study 1 used a think-aloud protocol to assess people's natural and spontaneous reactions while looking at art. Study 2 examined whether presenting information about an artwork in a certain order (lower-order to higherorder information or higher-order to lower-order information) enhances aspects of the aesthetic experience and retention of information about art. Studies 1 and 2 were …


“It’S Like Breathing In Blue Skies And Breathing Out Stormy Clouds” Mindfulness Practices In Early Childhood, Elizabeth Erwin, Kimberly A. Robinson, Greg S. Mcgrath, Corrine J. Harney Jun 2017

“It’S Like Breathing In Blue Skies And Breathing Out Stormy Clouds” Mindfulness Practices In Early Childhood, Elizabeth Erwin, Kimberly A. Robinson, Greg S. Mcgrath, Corrine J. Harney

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

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Insiders Doing Par With Youth In Their Schools: Negotiating Professional Boundaries And Healing Justice, Kathryn Herr May 2017

Insiders Doing Par With Youth In Their Schools: Negotiating Professional Boundaries And Healing Justice, Kathryn Herr

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

In this essay, I explore my experiences as a practitioner researcher collaborating with my students on a participatory action research project aimed at institutional change. I take up two areas: blurring the boundaries of professionalism in working toward authentic collaborations with students, and secondly, incorporating perspectives of ‘healing justice’ into school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR). I first provide a framework by delineating the emancipatory aims of YPAR and how these may be at odds with much of the research teachers/practitioners currently conduct in their school sites. While ultimately acknowledging the risks in taking up emancipatory change efforts as insiders, …


From Advocacy To Activism: Families, Communities, And Collective Change, Janet Story Sauer, Priya Lalvani Mar 2017

From Advocacy To Activism: Families, Communities, And Collective Change, Janet Story Sauer, Priya Lalvani

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

Although countries across the globe support the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), when faced with competing economic priorities, their policies and practices too often negatively impact children with disabilities and their families (Ferguson,). Current social and educational structures are implicated in inequitable services, particularly for those families from nondominant languages and minority racial and ethnic groups (McCall & Skrtic, Ong-Dean,). Recognizing the importance of contexts and power imbalances, we posit that the broader communities in which families live and that determine the opportunities they are afforded, should be explicitly addressed when evaluating a family's …


Time Spent Viewing Art And Reading Labels, Lisa F. Smith, Jeffrey K. Smith, Pablo Tinio Feb 2017

Time Spent Viewing Art And Reading Labels, Lisa F. Smith, Jeffrey K. Smith, Pablo Tinio

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

A study conducted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 15 years ago found that the mean amount of time visitors spent looking at great works of art was 27.2 s, with the median at 17.0 s and the mode at 10.0 s (J. K. Smith & Smith, 2001). The study presented here aimed to revisit that study at The Art Institute of Chicago and expand on it by including a larger sample size, a larger number of artworks from more-diverse genres and time periods, and separate observations for time spent looking at the artworks and reading the accompanying labels. As …


"Integrated Out Of Existence": African American Debates Over School Integration Versus Separation At The Bordentown School In New Jersey, 1886-1955, Zoe Burkholder Jan 2017

"Integrated Out Of Existence": African American Debates Over School Integration Versus Separation At The Bordentown School In New Jersey, 1886-1955, Zoe Burkholder

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

The Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in New Jersey allows us to consider the history of black education from a new perspective: that of northern black educational activists in the first half of the twentieth century. While we know a great deal about how black southerners made school integration central to the civil rights movement in the decades following Brown, as well as later battles for school integration in northern cities like New York and Boston, we know less about how black educational activists in the North advocated for educational equality before Brown. This article expands …


Transition Goals For Youth With Social, Emotional, And Behavioral Problems: Parent And Student Knowledge, Judith R. Harrison, Talida State, Howard P. Wills, Beth A. Custer, Elaine Miller Jan 2017

Transition Goals For Youth With Social, Emotional, And Behavioral Problems: Parent And Student Knowledge, Judith R. Harrison, Talida State, Howard P. Wills, Beth A. Custer, Elaine Miller

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

Transition planning is a mandated component of individualized education plans (IEPs) designed to ensure successful transition to adult life for students with disabilities. Students with social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs experience poor post-school outcomes, suggesting a need for more effective transition planning. This study evaluated student and parent knowledge of employment and training goals in IEPs and the match between goals and student future planning. Ninety-three high school students and parents reported their IEP participation and knowledge of goals and responses were compared to goals in their IEPs. Results indicated that students and parents had limited knowledge of goals …


Teacher Preparation For Linguistically Rich Classrooms : A Qualitative Study Of Take-Up In Relation To Linguistically Responsive Teaching, Melissa A. Collucci Jan 2017

Teacher Preparation For Linguistically Rich Classrooms : A Qualitative Study Of Take-Up In Relation To Linguistically Responsive Teaching, Melissa A. Collucci

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

This qualitative study followed four urban early childhood teachers through their participation in a teacher education program designed to enhance their linguistically responsive teaching and into the first four months of the new school year in an effort to identify what the teachers indeed “took up” from the opportunities presented to them regarding linguistically responsive teaching. The sociocultural concept of funds of knowledge was used to frame this study and to ensure that each teacher’s work was analyzed with the understanding that individuals bring to each learning moment unique knowledge and knowhow that impacts learning and practice. All was undertaken …