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Creative Democracy, Communication, And The Uncharted Sources Of Bhimrao Ambedkar’S Deweyan Pragmatism, Scott R. Stroud

Education and Culture

This article explores the contours of the Indian pragmatist Bhimrao Ambedkar and his reconstruction of Buddhism in the 1950s. As a student of John Dewey at Columbia University, young Ambedkar was heavily influenced by the pragmatist ideas of democracy and reconstruction. Throughout his life he would continue to evoke Dewey’s words and ideas in his fight against caste injustice in India. This article explores the possibility that Ambedkar could have been influenced by Dewey’s work, “Creative Democracy—The Task Before Us.” In exploring the intriguing evidence that points toward such an influence, Ambedkar’s The Buddha and His Dhamma emerges as a …

Sophic Education: Where Is Your Treasure?, Tyson Anderson

Education and Culture

Challenges to education today are part of a wider cultural context. Dewey, Heidegger, and certain Russian thinkers have remarkably similar diagnoses of our post-Cartesian reductive condition. In education this complex appears as “educational materialism.” In contrast, a “sophic education” would be similar to Bulgakov’s “sophic economy.” The discovery of Chauvet Cave shows an original human situation where the practical and the spiritual were integrated and “sophic.” For Americans, Plymouth Colony’s commitment to “the general good” and Roger Williams’s advocacy of democracy and freedom of conscience were also nonreductive and suggest a direction for an integrative, sophic education.

Reconstruction Of Social Studies, William Gaudelli, Megan J. Laverty

Education and Culture

As the world grows increasingly contentious, education for citizenship demands greater attention. Yet at this perilous juncture, social studies has neglected to take up the task of preparing citizens in a democratic and global society. Social studies has become increasingly fragmented and isolated by disciplinary foci that fetishize academic pursuits over broadly social purposes, precisely what Dewey warned against and which represent but a small portion of its functions. The academic-only social studies education has created a temporal disconnection that affirms the preparation for future life rather than, as Dewey preferred, the school as life itself. Dewey tasked the school …

The School As A Democratic Workplace: The Political Dimension Of Dewey’S Democracy And Education, Atli Harðarson

Education and Culture

In Democracy and Education, John Dewey argued that teachers should have control over their own work. He was, though, not only concerned about workplace democracy for teachers. He also argued against the philosophical underpinnings of educational policies that reproduced social hierarchies in the workplace.

The main arguments of Dewey’s book support teachers’ autonomy and students’ equality. When these arguments are read in light of what he wrote about democracy in many other works, they appear to be arguments for workplace democracy. These arguments raise questions about school management that are highly relevant today when prevalent views favor a culture of …

Editor's Note, David Granger

Education and Culture

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Second Reaction: Teaching With A Trauma-Informed Text, John Mcdermott

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First Opinion: Loving Through Loss, Penny Silvers

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Second Reaction: Wrestling With The Heart And The Bottle, Clara Thiry

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First Opinion: Art, Metaphor, And More Questions Than Answers, Caitlin L. Ryan

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Second Reaction: Tears, Laughs, And Hugs: Building Community Through A Shared Reading Experience, Margaret Boling Mullin

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First Opinion: Making Space For The Tonal Subtleties Of Sadness, Beth A. Buchholz, Angena Lebarre

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Second Reaction: Stretching Beyond The Comfort Zone: Using Children’S Books As Critical Invitations To Explore Death, Grief, And Healing In The Classroom, Meredith Labadie

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First Opinion: Simple Friendship And Death, Repositioned, Christy Wessel Powell

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Second Reaction: Some Adult Reactions Are Not Helpful For Children, Allyson A. Hensley

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First Opinion: A Response To Glenn Ringtved’S Cry, Heart, But Never Break, Sarah Vander Zanden

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Building Loving Fences: Death And Grief In Children’S Literature, Nicholas E. Husbye

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Front Matter

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Children’S Negotiations Of Visualization Skills During A Design-Based Learning Experience Using Nondigital And Digital Techniques, Shaunna Smith

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

In the context of a 10-day summer camp makerspace experience that employed design-based learning (DBL) strategies, the purpose of this descriptive case study was to better understand the ways in which children use visualization skills to negotiate design as they move back and forth between the world of nondigital design techniques (i.e., drawing, 3-D drawing with hot glue, sculpture, discussion, writing) and digital technologies (i.e., 3-D scanning, 3-D modeling, 3-D printing). Participants included 20 children aged 6–12. This research was guided by Vossoughi, Hooper, and Escudé’s (2016) call for explicit attention to pedagogical practices during the integration of “making” activities. …

Making Learners: A Framework For Evaluating Making In Stem Education, Jill A. Marshall, Jason R. Harron

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

The maker movement has strong connections to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) as well as art and crafts, but the goals of making are not in perfect alignment with any of these disciplines. Within the problem-based paradigm, however, there is room to incorporate making as situated STEM learning, even in formal, standards-based educational settings. We report on a framework for making in STEM education and describe a rubric for assessing the presence of the essential elements of making within STEM instruction. We present examples of the application of the rubric in a STEM teacher education course.

Call For Manuscripts: Special Issue: Unpacking The Role Of Assessment In Problem- And Project-Based Learning, Krista Glazewski

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

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The Linguistic Landscape Of A Cambodia Town In Lowell, Massachusetts, Virak Chan

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This research was conducted in a Cambodian community recently recognized as the second Cambodia Town in the U.S, which is new to the linguistic landscape research community. Data for this research were 279 photos collected in Lowell, MA during August of 2013. They were collected from two important main streets (Westford Street and Branch Street) that house many Cambodian businesses. The site for this data collection was purposefully selected because it is located in the heart of the Cambodia Town with many Cambodian businesses and offices. All the photos were entered into and coded with NVivo 10. Findings were reported …

‘Preferred’ Stimulus Of A Whole Model Visual System, Olivier Penacchio, Julie M. Harris

MODVIS Workshop

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Finding Any Waldo: Zero-Shot Invariant And Efficient Visual Search, Gabriel Kreiman, Mengmi Zhang

MODVIS Workshop

Visual search constitutes a ubiquitous challenge in natural vision, including daily tasks such as finding a friend in a crowd or searching for a car in a parking lot. Visual search must fulfill four key properties: selectivity (to distinguish the target from distractors in a cluttered scene), invariance (to localize the target despite changes in its rotation, scale, illumination, and even searching for generic object categories), speed (to efficiently localize the target without exhaustive sampling), and generalization (to search for any object, even ones that we have had minimal or no experience with). Here we propose a computational model that …

Linking Signal Detection Theory And Encoding Models To Reveal Independent Neural Representations From Neuroimaging Data, Fabian A. Soto

MODVIS Workshop

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Texture Statistics Are Sufficient For Ensemble Perception, Sasen S. Cain, Matthew S. Cain

MODVIS Workshop

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The Channel Capacity Of Visual Awareness, Joe Lappin

MODVIS Workshop

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Tutorial On A Theory-Driven Methodology For Identification Of Vital Properties Of Elementary Cognitive Processes: Systems Factorial Technology, James Townsend, Yanjun Liu, Brett Jefferson

MODVIS Workshop

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Pictures And Reflections, Suranjan Panigrahi

Sustainable Solution With Appropriate Technological Development and Innovation (SWADIN) Conference

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Invited Guest’S Reflection: Water Quality Issue In Selected Region In Orissa—An Eastern State Of India, Ajit Kumar Panda

Sustainable Solution With Appropriate Technological Development and Innovation (SWADIN) Conference

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Flood Modeling Within The Context Of Sustainable Water Resources Management, Venkatesh Merwade

Sustainable Solution With Appropriate Technological Development and Innovation (SWADIN) Conference

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