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The Constitution Of Bilingual/Esl Education As A Disciplinary Practice: Genealogical Explorations, Jaime Grinberg, Elizabeth R. Saavedra

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

This article provides a cultural and political critique of the constitution of bilingual/English-as-a-second-language (ESL) education as a disciplinary practice in the case of New Mexico. Using genealogy and postcolonial, post-structural, and critical frameworks, this article claims that the directions advanced by the Chicano/Chicana movement were lost. Instead, what emerged was a field that nurtured a mix of symbolic colonization and docilization through the construction of a settlement that controls thought and behavior, perpetuating misrecognition in a Bourdieuian sense. Illusion, collusion, and delusion have enabled the dominance of psycholinguistic approaches. Problematizing the constitution of bilingual/ESL education within a cultural and political …

Care As A Goal Of Democratic Education, Maughn Gregory

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

In this article I present behavioural analyses of particular constructions of democracy and the ethic of care, in order to determine whether care is a democratic virtue. I analyse Carol Gilligan's concept of care as a complex of six virtues or behavioural dispositions: acquaintance, mindfulness, moral imagining, solidarity, tolerance and self-care. I then describe democracy in terms of two divergent but compatible sets of practices: social non-interference and social co-operation. These behavioural analyses lead me to conclude that certain behavioural habits that partially constitute a person's or a community's caring also partially constitute that person's or community's democracy. Specifically, the …

Volume 15, No. 2

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Green, Lena. “Never mind if it’s right or wrong, just think! Investigating the potential of Philosophy for Children with primary teachers in South Africa.” 12-­20.

Heesen, Berrie. “Stories for Thinking.” 2­-11.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: Rotten Island by William Steig.” 1.

Murris, Karin. “The role of the facilitator in philosophical inquiry.” 40-­46.

Saenz, Carmen Lopez. “The child, the school and philosophy: a phenomenological reflection.” 34­-39.

Sewald, Kristin. “4th and 5th graders discuss knowing.” 47-­48.

Turgeon, Wendy. “The mirror of aesthetic education: philosophy looks at art and art at philosophy.” 21­-31.

Producing Possible Hannahs: Theory And The Subject Of Research, Eileen Honan, Michele Knobel, Carolyn Baker, Bronwyn Davies

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

This article presents and compares three analyses of qualitative data drawn from an ethnographic case study using distinctive theoretical approaches. The article shows the power of theoretical approaches to constitute the “subject” of a study and to constitute the character of the social world in which such a subject is situated. The three readings of the data produce different possible subjects located in differently constituted possible worlds. By putting theory at the center of analysis, the article shows how theoretical approaches radically influence what can be found in the data and how it can be found there.

Valued Member Or Tolerated Participant: Parents' Experiences In Inclusive Early Childhood Settings, Leslie C. Soodak, Elizabeth Erwin

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

The present qualitative investigation explored the perspectives of parents of young children with severe disabilities to understand the factors that shape their participation in their child's inclusive education. Ten parents of children in early childhood inclusive settings were interviewed. A conceptual framework of factors that influence parent participation was developed based on the themes that emerged from the data. Findings indicated that parent participation is influenced by a number of factors, including the school's beliefs about inclusion, receptivity to parents, and willingness to change. Parent-professional partnerships were facilitated by trust, shared philosophies about children and schooling, and open communication. Achieving …

African Americans At Montclair State Teachers College, 1927 To 1957 : An Oral History Analysis, Lise Greene

Montclair State History Documents

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Volume 15, No. 3

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Curnow, Trevor. “The Value of Dialogue.” 36-­40.

Daniel, Marie­-France. “Audrey­Ann’s Tales.” 26­-32.

Daniel, Marie­-France and Ann-­Marie Michel. “Learning to think and to Speak: An Account of an Experiment Involving Children Aged 3 to 5 in France and Quebec.” 17­25.

Lushyn, Pavel and Kennedy, David. “The Psychodynamics of Community of Inquiry and Educational Reform: A Cross­Cultural Perspective.” 9­-16.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: Many Moons by James Thurber.” 1.

Mohr-­Lone, Jana. “5th graders discuss robotics.” 46-­47.

Scolnicov, Samuel. “The Problematic Community of Inquiry: The Socrates and Kant of Lipman and Dewey.” 41­-45.

Sheets­-Johnston, Maxine. “Dance Improvisation: A Paradigm of Thinking …