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Merit In Meritocracy: Uncovering The Myth Of Exceptionality And Self-Reliance Through The Voices Of Urban Youth Of Color, David T. Lardier, Kathryn Herr, Veronica R. Barrios, Pauline Garcia-Reid, Robert Reid
Merit In Meritocracy: Uncovering The Myth Of Exceptionality And Self-Reliance Through The Voices Of Urban Youth Of Color, David T. Lardier, Kathryn Herr, Veronica R. Barrios, Pauline Garcia-Reid, Robert Reid
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A disproportionate number of urban youth attend underresourced and segregated schools. While tenets of the American Dream are inculcated in urban youth, a dearth of educational resources is available to help realize this dream. This qualitative study explored the narratives of urban youth (N = 85), many of whom sought to be the exceptions, embracing higher education as a pathway to successful futures, yet few identified resources that would make access to higher education possible. The capital accrued in their communities allowed them to navigate their social environment; however, it was an insufficient bridge for future success in higher education. …
Literacy Teachers’ Beliefs About Data Use At The Bookends Of Elementary School, Nicole Barnes, Catherine M. Brighton, Helenrose Fives, Tonya R. Moon
Literacy Teachers’ Beliefs About Data Use At The Bookends Of Elementary School, Nicole Barnes, Catherine M. Brighton, Helenrose Fives, Tonya R. Moon
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The purpose of this investigation was to explore elementary teachers’ beliefs about data and data use. Archived data from 2 research projects were used to address the following research questions: What are kindergarten and fifth-grade literacy teachers’ beliefs about data and data use? What functions do the beliefs serve in teachers’ actual use of data? Using a multicase study approach, 2 research teams carried out qualitative data analysis. Findings revealed that kindergarten and fifth-grade teachers held similar “macro” beliefs, and these beliefs were shaped and contextualized in response to their settings. The study’s implications suggest that teachers’ beliefs about data …
Community Coalitions As Spaces For Collective Voice, Action, And The Sharing Of Resources, David T. Lardier, Carrie Bergeson, Autumn M. Bermea, Kathryn Herr, Bradley Forenza, Pauline Garcia-Reid, Robert Reid
Community Coalitions As Spaces For Collective Voice, Action, And The Sharing Of Resources, David T. Lardier, Carrie Bergeson, Autumn M. Bermea, Kathryn Herr, Bradley Forenza, Pauline Garcia-Reid, Robert Reid
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
This study examined how a community coalition, focused on prevention efforts, can aid in bridging resources between community organizations in a resource-deprived area. We also explored how it may serve as a venue to support significant changes to the community, adults, and youth who live there. Drawing on 18 individual interviews with adult coalition members from various community organizations, in a large, underserved city in the northeastern United States, we examined these data for narrations of the coalition's place within the broader prevention community and how the coalition may be an organizational venue for collective voice. We were specifically interested …
On The Relevance Of Cognitive Neuroscience For Community Of Inquiry, Mark Weinstein, Dan Fisherman
On The Relevance Of Cognitive Neuroscience For Community Of Inquiry, Mark Weinstein, Dan Fisherman
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Community of inquiry is most often seen as a dialogical procedure for the cooperative development of reasonable approaches to knowledge and meaning. This reflects a deep commitment to normatively based reasoning that is pervasive in a wide range of approaches to critical thinking and argument, where the underlying theory of reasoning is logic driven, whether formal or informal. The commitment to normative reasoning is deeply historical reflecting the fundamental distinction between reason and emotion. Despite the deep roots of the distinction and its canonization in current educational thought contemporary cognitive neuroscience presents a fundamental challenge to the viability of the …
Symmetry Is Not A Universal Law Of Beauty, Helmut Leder, Pablo Tinio, David Brieber, Tonio Kröner, Thomas Jacobsen, Raphael Rosenberg
Symmetry Is Not A Universal Law Of Beauty, Helmut Leder, Pablo Tinio, David Brieber, Tonio Kröner, Thomas Jacobsen, Raphael Rosenberg
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Scientific disciplines as diverse as biology, physics, and psychological aesthetics regard symmetry as one of the most important principles in nature and one of the most powerful determinants of beauty. However, symmetry has a low standing in the arts and humanities. This difference in the valuation of symmetry is a remarkable illustration of the gap between the two cultures. To close this gap, we conducted an interdisciplinary, empirical study to directly demonstrate the effects of art expertise on symmetry appreciation. Two groups of art experts—artists and art historians—and a group of non-experts provided spontaneous beauty ratings of visual stimuli that …
The Impact Of Surface Cleaning Restoration Of Paintings On Observers' Eye Fixation Patterns And Artworks' Pictorial Qualities, Paul J. Locher, Pablo Tinio, Elizabeth A. Krupinski
The Impact Of Surface Cleaning Restoration Of Paintings On Observers' Eye Fixation Patterns And Artworks' Pictorial Qualities, Paul J. Locher, Pablo Tinio, Elizabeth A. Krupinski
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Surface cleaning is a restoration process that involves the removal of dirt, grime, and discolored varnish from a damaged painting's surface film, thereby presumably enhancing the visual clarity of its pictorial features and aesthetic effects. However, whether surface restoration really has these desired effects is an open question addressed in the present research. We report results of 2 studies, the first of which examined participants' visual exploration (scanpath) using eye tracking of 10 prerestored paintings and their postrestored counterparts. Participants in both studies rated the paintings on items of the Information Rate Scale, a measure of a painting's physical, structural, …