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Social Competence, Transition Plans And Children With Learning Disabilities, Erica Ruegg
Social Competence, Transition Plans And Children With Learning Disabilities, Erica Ruegg
Essays in Education
Social competence is the ability to use the appropriate social skills in every aspect of life. For children with learning disabilities, it is a difficult skill to master. These children have trouble with communicating, following directions, listening and completing a task, which can cause problems in the classroom and in adulthood. Yet, these skills are rarely addressed on the individual education and transition plans for these students. The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics of children who have learning disabilities and social competence deficits. The difficulties of social competence are examined through the definition of this skill, …
Chronic Illness And Academic Accommodation: Meeting Disabled Students' "Unique Needs" And Preserving The Institutional Order Of The University, Karen E. Jung
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
People with disabilities are just one of the groups designated for special attention in relation to equity in postsecondary education. This paper explores the way in which policies that provide academic accommodation for students disabled by chronic illness unfold in practice. As part of the administrative regime of the university, these policies are typically designed to reconcile the interests and relevances of the law with the interests and relevances of the academy. When a disabled student "activates" the policy, regardless of whether or not services and assistance are provided or are useful, the student becomes situated within social relations that …
Including Students With Disabilities And Achieving Accountability: Educators’ Emerging Challenge, Martin J. Ward, Nicole Montague, Thomas H. Linton
Including Students With Disabilities And Achieving Accountability: Educators’ Emerging Challenge, Martin J. Ward, Nicole Montague, Thomas H. Linton
Essays in Education
The nation-wide movement toward increased accountability in our schools has been implemented in large part through state-mandated standardized testing of students. The state assessments in Texas, as in many states, have a powerful influence on educators’ decisions and practices. Whether or not students with special learning needs are provided with an educational experience in the least restrictive environment is dependent upon the decisions and actions of educators. The high-stakes testing agenda in Texas influences decisions related to the inclusion of students with special learning needs. In this article, we examine the issue of how the inclusion of students with disabilities …
Practicing Universality: The Inter-Disciplinary Imperatives Of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan
Practicing Universality: The Inter-Disciplinary Imperatives Of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Human Rights: Universality in Practice by Peter R. Baehr. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2001. 178pp.
Front Matter
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Editors' Message
Surrounded by the dead he had caused through his wanton murder of an albatross, the tortured mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge fame watches the water snakes beyond the shadow of his ghost ship and “blessed them unaware./The selfsame moment I could pray; And from my neck so free/The Albatross fell off, and sank/Like lead into the sea” (ll. 287-291). Without deliberately looking, he suddenly recognizes the beauty of all creatures and blesses them “unaware.” The sailor experiences a serendipitous moment, and through that accidental wisdom frees himself from his self-created purgatory.
Serendipity: Teaching for Accidental Wisdom serves as …
Spiritual Identities, Teacher Identities, And The Teaching Of Writing, Kilian Mccurrie
Spiritual Identities, Teacher Identities, And The Teaching Of Writing, Kilian Mccurrie
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Through a case study, this article examines the ways teacher identity and spiritual identity intersect in the teaching of writing. By showing that a teacher's pedagogy is prodoundly informed by a basic spiritual disposition, the author offers a view of teaching that is often neglected in studies of teacher identity.
The Experimental Art, Robert Root
The Experimental Art, Robert Root
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Nonfiction is an experimental art, as contemporary examples make clear, and writing teachers need to show students both how meaning arises from writers' experiments with material and also how form from writers' experiments at representing meaning.
Engaged Buddhism & Women In Black: Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War, Candace Walworth
Engaged Buddhism & Women In Black: Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War, Candace Walworth
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
This paper explores principles, practices, and manifestations of engaged Busshism in the United States. It includes a personal narrative based on the author's participation in Women in Black (a silent, symbolic protest against war) and classroom stories based on the author's experience teaching at a Buddhist-inspired university.
Encounters: Relationship In The Study And Teaching Of Literature, Christina Vischer Bruns
Encounters: Relationship In The Study And Teaching Of Literature, Christina Vischer Bruns
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
While trends in the teaching of literature of the last few decades may seem at odds with one another, the thread that can weave them together is a recognition of relationship among readers, text, author, and other readers.
Jaepl, Vol. 9, Winter 2003-2004, Katie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
Jaepl, Vol. 9, Winter 2003-2004, Katie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Essays
Kilian McCurrie. Spiritual Identities, Teacher Identities, and the Teaching of Writing.
Through a case study, this article examines the ways teacher identity and spiritual identity intersect in the teaching of writing. By showing that a teacher's pedagogy is prodoundly informed by a basic spiritual disposition, the author offers a view of teaching that is often neglected in studies of teacher identity.
Robert Root. The Experimental Art.
Nonfiction is an experimental art, as contemporary examples make clear, and writing teachers need to show students both how meaning arises from writers' experiments with material and also how form from …
Compos(T)Ing Loss: Transformation In The Telling, Laura Milner
Compos(T)Ing Loss: Transformation In The Telling, Laura Milner
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Using composting as a metaphor, this author examines the transformative potential in writing about and bearing witness to stories of loss, particularly the death of a parent.
An Unspoken Trust – Violated?, Kia Jane Richmond
An Unspoken Trust – Violated?, Kia Jane Richmond
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Reflecting on our decisions in the classroom, both when we are honest with our students & when we are not, can offer teachers opportunities for growth and change.
Connecting, Helen Walker, Jim Super, Pamela Hartman, Nancy Myers, Andrea Siegel, Traci L. Merritt, Susan A. Schiller, Wilma Romatz
Connecting, Helen Walker, Jim Super, Pamela Hartman, Nancy Myers, Andrea Siegel, Traci L. Merritt, Susan A. Schiller, Wilma Romatz
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Helen Walker. Connecting.
Jim Super—Fearless
Pamela Hartman—English? I'd Rather Read A Book
Nancy Myers—B
Andrea Siegel—Walking the Talk, Breathing the Breath
Traci L. Merritt—The Day Jenny Died
Susan A. Schiller—Touched by the Spirit in AEPL Topics
Wilma Romatz—On the Delicate Art of Teaching
Multiple Forms Of Prewriting In Elementary Writing Lessons, Carolyn L. Piazza, Christine Jecko
Multiple Forms Of Prewriting In Elementary Writing Lessons, Carolyn L. Piazza, Christine Jecko
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Multisensory prewriting invitations (creative visualizations, art, music, dreams, and mediations) affect writing fluency and idea generation in the first draft writing of elementary students.
Community, Spirituality, And The Writing Classroom, W. Keith Duffy
Community, Spirituality, And The Writing Classroom, W. Keith Duffy
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
From a spiritual perspective, this article critiques the concept of community as defined by scholars of rhetoric and composition; the author suggests that our experience of community in the writing classroom cab be enhanced if we strike a balance between doing and being.
Reviews, Dale Jacobs, Stan Scott, Sue Hum, Lita Kurth
Reviews, Dale Jacobs, Stan Scott, Sue Hum, Lita Kurth
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Reviews
Dale Jacobs. The Energy to Teach (Donald H. Graves, 2001)
Stan Scott. Writing with Elbow (Pat Belanodd, 2002)
Sue Hum. Unfolding Bodymind (Brent Hocking, Johnna Haskell, Warren Linds, 2001)
Lita Kurth. The Unconscious (Athony Easthope, 1999)
Back Matter
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
No abstract provided.
Socioeconomic Status, Race, Gender, & Retention: Impact On Student Achievement, June Thomas, Cathy Stockton
Socioeconomic Status, Race, Gender, & Retention: Impact On Student Achievement, June Thomas, Cathy Stockton
Essays in Education
The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of socioeconomic status, race, gender, and retention on student achievement. Increasing attention has been paid to the quality of education in the United States as international reports compare the academic achievement of students in this country with others in the world. Many states are basing promotion of students on state assessments. High stakes testing has lead to higher retention rates in several states. It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that students who are retained do not drop out of school and therefore get left behind.