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A Critical Humanist Curriculum, Kevin Magill, Arturo Rodriguez
A Critical Humanist Curriculum, Kevin Magill, Arturo Rodriguez
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
This essay is a critical humanist discussion of curriculum; a departure from the technicist view of education [education meant to support a global capitalist economy] and an analysis of curriculum considering critical humanism, political economy and critical race theory among other modes of critical analysis and inquiry. Our discussion supports a revolutionary curriculum: the turn from a static coercive system of domination where the everyday lives of students are controlled to a dynamic liberatory education where education supports a student's imaginary (Pinar), creativity and their everyday practice of freedom (Freire, Greene, hooks).
The Battle For Higher Standards, Tom Luna, Mike Rush, Rod Gramer, Roger Stewart
The Battle For Higher Standards, Tom Luna, Mike Rush, Rod Gramer, Roger Stewart
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
In the aftermath of the federal mandates imposed through No Child Left Behind, the state-led effort to establish common math and English standards across states—known as the Common Core State Standards—seemed a welcome change in the approach to improving student achievement and success. However, the effort to ensure that students were ready for college or the workforce became the political target of those who distrust federal mandates and fear a nationalized education agenda bent on social engineering. The standards became intertwined with NSA spying, data mining, and federal grants for education with strings attached.
Children's Choices Through The Years: Some Surprising Results, Stan Steiner, Maggie Chase, Eun Hye Son
Children's Choices Through The Years: Some Surprising Results, Stan Steiner, Maggie Chase, Eun Hye Son
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
It’s difficult to ignore all the recent teacher talk about the importance of helping our students become adept users of nonfiction texts. With this rising interest and attention being focused on nonfiction books, spurred by the adoption of Common Core Standards, we decided to look at the Children’s Choices finalists over the last ten years to determine if there was a connection to what children liked to read. We were especially curious about how many of the award winning books selected by children were actually nonfiction. Given our findings, we also decided to investigate further by analyzing all the publishers’ …
Enhanced Storytimes: Effects On Parent/Caregiver Knowledge, Motivation, And Behaviors, Roger A. Stewart, Stephanie Bailey-White, Staci Shaw, Erica Compton, Saroj Ghoting
Enhanced Storytimes: Effects On Parent/Caregiver Knowledge, Motivation, And Behaviors, Roger A. Stewart, Stephanie Bailey-White, Staci Shaw, Erica Compton, Saroj Ghoting
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article offers information regarding the released of the Every Child Ready @ your library initiative's second edition of the Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children in 2011. It states that the initiative features five practices based in high-quality oral language development in children such as reading, writing, and talking. It mentions that the initiative will help children in early literacy development and will educate caregivers and parents.
Circling The Drain: Why Creativity Won’T Be Coming To School Today, Or Ever, David Gabbard
Circling The Drain: Why Creativity Won’T Be Coming To School Today, Or Ever, David Gabbard
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
We hear a lot of talk, recently, about America’s deepening “creativity crisis”(Seargeant Richardson, 2011) and what schools can do to resolve it. To whatever extent such a crisis is real (Schrage, 2010), we should not expect schools to be part of the solution. From its inception, compulsory schooling in the United States has always served the values of our nation’s dominant institutions and the interests of the social, political, and economic elites who own, control, and benefit most from the social arrangements and relations engendered by those institutions. To organize and operate a set of institutions dedicated to promoting critical …