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Popular Culture And Social Semiotics In Advertising, J. Connelly Nov 2009

Popular Culture And Social Semiotics In Advertising, J. Connelly

Dr. CONNELLY, Jennifer

No abstract provided.


Navigating Similarity And Difference: A Lens Of Whiteness In Preparing White, Middle Class Preservice Teachers For Diverse Classrooms, Susan Adams Nov 2009

Navigating Similarity And Difference: A Lens Of Whiteness In Preparing White, Middle Class Preservice Teachers For Diverse Classrooms, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Presentation at the International Teacher Education and Social Justice Conference, Chicago, IL, December 2009.


The Impact Of Curriculum-Based External Examinations On School Priorities And Student Learning, John H. Bishop Oct 2009

The Impact Of Curriculum-Based External Examinations On School Priorities And Student Learning, John H. Bishop

John H Bishop

[Excerpt] The first major prediction of the theory is that an increase in the extrinsic rewards for learning will cause student effort and achievement to increase. The primary extrinsic reward for achievement in high school is a higher probability of completing college. Thus the extrinsic rewards for learning in high school depend on the size of the payoff to college and on how contingent college admissions decisions are on achievement in high school. Time series data suggests that changes in college selectivity and payoff may have contributed to the ups and downs of student achievement during the postwar period. The …


We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams Sep 2009

We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Workshop presented at the Indiana Teachers of Writing Annual Conference, October 2009.


Troubling The Waters: Alterity In The Experienced Curriculum Of English Language Learners And Special Education Students, Susan Adams Sep 2009

Troubling The Waters: Alterity In The Experienced Curriculum Of English Language Learners And Special Education Students, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Presentation at the 30th Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October 2009.


Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer Of Women’S Studies In India, Professor Vibhuti Patel Jul 2009

Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer Of Women’S Studies In India, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

The front runner of Women’s Studies in India and the creator of a model women’s studies centre that combined the ethos of women’s studies and women’s movement at the SNDT University, Mumbai, Neera Desai passed away on 25 June, 2009.


Critiquing The Visual Via Semiotic Tools Inside The Image Saturated World Of Advertising. Learning Through The Mobilization Of The Iconic Popular Culture Programme: ‘The Gruen Transfer’ (Abc), J. Connelly Jun 2009

Critiquing The Visual Via Semiotic Tools Inside The Image Saturated World Of Advertising. Learning Through The Mobilization Of The Iconic Popular Culture Programme: ‘The Gruen Transfer’ (Abc), J. Connelly

Dr. CONNELLY, Jennifer

No abstract provided.


Gender Mainstreaming In Social Protection By Vibhuti Patel, Professor Vibhuti Patel Apr 2009

Gender Mainstreaming In Social Protection By Vibhuti Patel, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

Gender mainstreaming has become a buzzword in development discourse in the 21st century. The volume under review is a timely publication in the context of the ever increasing pauperisation and immiserisation of millions of people, especially women and children. Naila Kabeer has performed a daunting task in examining the effect of economic globalisation on gender relations for a large majority of the poor around the world and the affirmative actions taken by the nation states.


We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams Mar 2009

We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Presentation at the National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference, Louisville, KY, April 2009.


Perry & Tor 09 Prospects.Pdf Mar 2009

Perry & Tor 09 Prospects.Pdf

Elina Tor

No abstract provided.


Learning From Each Other: Critical Conversations To Promote Equity For Bilingual Students, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks, Shelly Furuness Jan 2009

Learning From Each Other: Critical Conversations To Promote Equity For Bilingual Students, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks, Shelly Furuness

Susan Adams

Presentation at the National Association of Bilingual Educators Conference, Austin, TX, February 2009.


Critiquing The Visual Via Semiotic Tools Inside The Image Saturated World Of Advertising. Learning Through The Mobilization Of The Iconic Popular Culture Programme: ‘The Gruen Transfer’ (Abc), J. Connelly Dec 2008

Critiquing The Visual Via Semiotic Tools Inside The Image Saturated World Of Advertising. Learning Through The Mobilization Of The Iconic Popular Culture Programme: ‘The Gruen Transfer’ (Abc), J. Connelly

Dr. CONNELLY, Jennifer

No abstract provided.


Peer Assessment Of Oral Presentations Using Clickers: The Student Experience, Graham Barwell, Ruth Walker Dec 2008

Peer Assessment Of Oral Presentations Using Clickers: The Student Experience, Graham Barwell, Ruth Walker

Ruth Walker

No abstract provided.


Critique Of Virtual Worlds For The Young: Barbiegirls.Com, J. Connelly Dec 2008

Critique Of Virtual Worlds For The Young: Barbiegirls.Com, J. Connelly

Dr. CONNELLY, Jennifer

No abstract provided.


National Curriculum Standards: Let’S Think It Over, Christopher Tienken, David Canton Dec 2008

National Curriculum Standards: Let’S Think It Over, Christopher Tienken, David Canton

Christopher Tienken

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Critical Literacy In The New Information Age, Panayota Gounari Dec 2008

Rethinking Critical Literacy In The New Information Age, Panayota Gounari

Panayota Gounari

This article looks at new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as sites of public pedagogy in that they produce particular forms of knowledge and literacies and reproduce representations that are always mediated through specific social relations. Public pedagogy as a process that constitutes a broader category beyond classroom practices, official curricula, and educational canons, extends to all sectors of human life, including virtual spaces. No longer restricted to traditional sites of learning such as educational or religious sites, public pedagogy produces new forms of knowledge and apprenticeship and new narratives for agency and for naming the world. Virtual spaces as …


Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short Dec 2008

Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short

Donn Short

No abstract provided.


Proud Voices, P. Mannix Mcnamara Dr., E. Devaney, E. O Grady Dec 2008

Proud Voices, P. Mannix Mcnamara Dr., E. Devaney, E. O Grady

Dr. Patricia Mannix McNamara

No abstract provided.


How Do We Teach Sexual Health In The Pacific Classroom?, Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka'uta Dec 2008

How Do We Teach Sexual Health In The Pacific Classroom?, Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka'uta

Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka'uta

Paper developed for Teachers’ Curriculum Skills Workshop on SRHE in Fiji and Tonga 2009 – 2010 “Sensitizing teachers to the teaching of Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Pacific”. This curriculum development workshop aimed at changing mindsets and providing some basic skills in developing cultural appropriate and faith-based activities using (a) Integrated Across-the-curriculum approach; and (b) Expressive Arts.