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Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol.35, No. 1, Fall 2007, Jeff Zacharakis, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés, Dianne Glass
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol.35, No. 1, Fall 2007, Jeff Zacharakis, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés, Dianne Glass
Educational Considerations
This content includes the table of contents, editorial information and more on this special issue
Reflections On La Esperanza, Anita Cortez
Reflections On La Esperanza, Anita Cortez
Educational Considerations
It is Christmastime. My birthday is three days away, and I will be 56. There is the ugliest cup on campus sitting on my desk. What does it all mean?
Diversity In Kansas Adult Education Programs, Dianne Glass
Diversity In Kansas Adult Education Programs, Dianne Glass
Educational Considerations
Kansas is not typically considered a state with a great deal of diversity. In the past few years, however, Kansas has become more ethnically diverse. Kansas adult education programs could serve as a bellwether for diversity across Kansas.
The Changing Fabric Of Adult Basic Education In Kansas, Jeff Zacharakis
The Changing Fabric Of Adult Basic Education In Kansas, Jeff Zacharakis
Educational Considerations
Globalization is changing the demographic fabric of a world in which people are not only mobilizing in search of jobs and economic opportunity but so are technology and capital mobilizing in search of cheap labor.
Kansas: Themes In Multicultural Adult Education Resonating Across The Nation, Adult Learning, Jeff Zacharakis, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés, Dianne Glass
Kansas: Themes In Multicultural Adult Education Resonating Across The Nation, Adult Learning, Jeff Zacharakis, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés, Dianne Glass
Educational Considerations
Across the country in our communities, our schools, and our businesses, we are experiencing a cultural shift as new immigrants of many ethnic backgrounds arrive speaking different languages and adhering to different beliefs. From the beginning, the United States has always been a destination for people around the world seeking a better life.
Mirrors Reflecting Latinas' Realities In An Urban Community, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés
Mirrors Reflecting Latinas' Realities In An Urban Community, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés
Educational Considerations
What are the realities of Latina adult learners? This question guided the design of this research project. Utilizing a focus group approach, six Latinas in Kansas City, Kansas, had the opportunity to speak freely about themselves and to share their stories with each other.
Latinas In College: Contra Viento Y Marea (Against Winds And Tides), Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés
Latinas In College: Contra Viento Y Marea (Against Winds And Tides), Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés
Educational Considerations
With the rapid demographic changes that we are experiencing in the United States in general and in the state of Kansas in particular, our educational institutions are challenged with a gigantic task: to educate a very diverse population with multifaceted linguistic and cultural backgrounds, needs, and challenges that is growing exponentially.
Voices From Lawrence, Kansas: Diverse Adult Learners In A University Community, Angela White, Norma Herrod
Voices From Lawrence, Kansas: Diverse Adult Learners In A University Community, Angela White, Norma Herrod
Educational Considerations
Nestled in a neighborhood of modest bungalows, the Lawrence Adult Learning Center (LALC) is a part of the greater Lawrence High School campus. The high school annex building houses LALC, along with Native American Student Services, special education offices and personnel, and Lawrence Public Schools Nursing Services.
Garden City: Multicultural Issues In Adult Education, Hector Martinez, Debra J. Bolton
Garden City: Multicultural Issues In Adult Education, Hector Martinez, Debra J. Bolton
Educational Considerations
Kansas adult education is faced with the growing challenge to prepare its programs for serving the needs of a socioculturally diverse student population. It is imperative that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs develop effective learning techniques for multicultural student populations. These issues continue to be important topics for educators, administrators, and politicians.
Wichita: A Diverse Adult Basic Education Program In An Urban Center, Margaret Harris
Wichita: A Diverse Adult Basic Education Program In An Urban Center, Margaret Harris
Educational Considerations
Wichita, incorporated in 1870 as a village, is the largest city in Kansas. It is the county seat of Sedgwick County, located at the junction of the Arkansas Rivers in south central Kansas. Westward expansion and financial rewards attracted the first White settlers to the area in the 1850s and 1860s looking to profit from hunting and trapping wildlife and to trade with the native American population, the Wichita Indians, who had moved north from Oklahoma and built a permanent settlement in 1863.
Improving "Adequacy" Concepts In Education Finance: A Heuristic Examination Of The Professional Judgment Research Protocol, R. Craig Wood, R. Anthony Rolle
Improving "Adequacy" Concepts In Education Finance: A Heuristic Examination Of The Professional Judgment Research Protocol, R. Craig Wood, R. Anthony Rolle
Educational Considerations
State legislatures, policy analysts, and researchers are attempting, in many instances, to measure levels of equity as well as the levels of adequacy provided by public elementary and secondary education funding mechanisms.
The Mini United Nations Adult School In Southwest Kansas, Susan Lukwago
The Mini United Nations Adult School In Southwest Kansas, Susan Lukwago
Educational Considerations
Traveling down Kansas Avenue towards downtown Liberal at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, one might wonder what happens in the little building at the corner 10th and Kansas.
Educational Considerations, Vol. 35(1) Full Issue, Jeff Zacharakis, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés, Dianne Glass
Educational Considerations, Vol. 35(1) Full Issue, Jeff Zacharakis, Gabriela Díaz De Sabatés, Dianne Glass
Educational Considerations
Educational Considerations, vol. 35(1)-Fall 2007-Full issue
Outfront Adult Education Center: The Impact Of Closing The Adult Learning Center In Leavenworth, Kansas, Jewell Shepard
Outfront Adult Education Center: The Impact Of Closing The Adult Learning Center In Leavenworth, Kansas, Jewell Shepard
Educational Considerations
Every adult learning center is continually changing, reflecting demographic changes in their community and state and federal mandates. OutFront is not just changing; it is closing. Effective June 30, 2007, The University of Saint Mary, our host institution, ceased its sponsorship of OutFront.
Reading And Teaching: A Book About Learning, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Reading And Teaching: A Book About Learning, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
The series editors, Daniel Liston and Ken Zeichner, tell us that the book Reading and Teaching is designed to help teachers engage with “crucial issues that all teachers need to address.” I believe they are right. This book does not offer simple solutions, bulleted lists of recommendations, or formulas for becoming a star teacher. This book makes you think good and hard about being a literacy educator and lays bare the complexities of teaching literacy well.
Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
While Networks has always been an online journal, in the past year, with the help of a dedicated and patient staff at my university, we can now manage the entire review and publication process online. The new system affects the ways prospective authors submit papers to the journal.
Art And Design: Teaching Siddhartha In A Secondary Urban High School, David Lee Carlson
Art And Design: Teaching Siddhartha In A Secondary Urban High School, David Lee Carlson
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This paper describes, in detail, the process I followed to plan a unit on Hermann Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha. The primary argument of this paper is that inner-city, undereducated students can understand and relate to culturally disparate literary works when teachers plan backwards, develop art projects, and design thematically-based writing assignments. This article has been divided into three sections: a summary of the novel, a brief review of professional theories and research on teaching literature to secondary students, and an in-depth look at the student assignments.
Investigating An Expeditionary Learning Project, Mary Jensen, Jodie Duckett
Investigating An Expeditionary Learning Project, Mary Jensen, Jodie Duckett
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
As I read about the core practices of Expeditionary Learning, I became intrigued and began to question how an ExpeditionaryLearning Project (ELP) is built and developed in an early childhood classroom. From studies describing various Expeditionary Learning Projects, I identified five key themes in their development: 1. the importance of discussion and “Science Talk” in a project; 2. the importance of fieldwork in a project; 3. how students develop ideas in a project; 4. how a teacher promotes student ownership of learning through a project; and 5. how a teacher prepares and plans a project on an individual basis and …
Locating Reflective Practices: Findings From A Self-Study, Lourdes Zaragoza Mitchel
Locating Reflective Practices: Findings From A Self-Study, Lourdes Zaragoza Mitchel
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This article reports the findings of an action research project conducted by a group of teachers and professors at a Professional Development School (PDS) in suburban New Jersey. The study’s purpose was 1) to examine whether participation in the PDS activities increased in-service teachers’ reflective practices and 2) to provide the PDS leadership with data on how reflection might be increased throughout the district. Although student learning is the ultimate goal of the PDS partnership, the focus of the study is on teacher reflection as a first step towards improving students’ achievement. The findings speak to the need for teachers …
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 34, No.2, Spring 2007, Clayton E. Keller, Barbara L. Brock
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 34, No.2, Spring 2007, Clayton E. Keller, Barbara L. Brock
Educational Considerations
This content includes the table of contents and editorial information for this special issue "Inclusion Extended: Educators With Disabilities."
New Rules, New Roles: Technology Standards And Teacher Education, Becky Pasco, Phyllis G. Adcock
New Rules, New Roles: Technology Standards And Teacher Education, Becky Pasco, Phyllis G. Adcock
Educational Considerations
The digital age is infiltrating colleges of education around the country, but while some faculty are jumping on the bandwagon and working hard to improve their own technological literacy and that of their students, other faculty are resistant, afraid that technology may “dehumanize” education.
The Workplace Experiences Of Educators With Disabilities: Insights For School Leaders, Barbara L. Brock
The Workplace Experiences Of Educators With Disabilities: Insights For School Leaders, Barbara L. Brock
Educational Considerations
Educators with disabilities are a silent and often invisible minority about whom little is known. School leaders have gathered little input regarding the workplace experiences or level of satisfaction of personnel with disabilities.
An Exploratory Analysis Of Employment-Related Experiences Of Educators With Learning Disabilities, Susan A. Vogel, Christopher Murray, Carol Wren, Pamela B. Adelman
An Exploratory Analysis Of Employment-Related Experiences Of Educators With Learning Disabilities, Susan A. Vogel, Christopher Murray, Carol Wren, Pamela B. Adelman
Educational Considerations
The purpose of this study was to explore the general professional experiences of educators with learning disabilities, the unique skills and challenges among this group attributable to their experience as persons with learning disabilities, and their experience of schools as an employment context.
Educational Considerations, Vol. 34(2) Full Issue, Clayton E. Keller, Barbara L. Brock
Educational Considerations, Vol. 34(2) Full Issue, Clayton E. Keller, Barbara L. Brock
Educational Considerations
Educational Considerations, vol. 34(2)-Fall 2007-Full issue
Systems Of Support: The Educators With Disabilities Caucus And Its Mentoring Program, Polly G. Haselden, Pamela K, De Loach, Jennifer Miller, Monica Campbell, Lynn Boyer, Nancy Anderson
Systems Of Support: The Educators With Disabilities Caucus And Its Mentoring Program, Polly G. Haselden, Pamela K, De Loach, Jennifer Miller, Monica Campbell, Lynn Boyer, Nancy Anderson
Educational Considerations
In the field of education, critics have described the experiences of beginning teaching as “sink or swim, trial by fire, or boot camp experiences.”
Inclusion Extended: Educators With Disabilities, Clayton E. Keller, Barbara L. Brock
Inclusion Extended: Educators With Disabilities, Clayton E. Keller, Barbara L. Brock
Educational Considerations
Although historically the focus of disability-related research in education has centered on special education and the inclusion of students with disabilities, schools also employ teachers, administrators, and other educational personnel who have disabilities. How these educators fare in the workplace is of growing concern. If inclusion of students with disabilities in classrooms is a desirable goal, should not the idea be extended to adults with disabilities? Our response to this question is a resounding “Yes!” [Introduction to the special issue.]
Federal Legal Protections For Educators With Disabilities, Donald F. Uerling
Federal Legal Protections For Educators With Disabilities, Donald F. Uerling
Educational Considerations
Educators are generally aware that federal law protects persons with disabilities from unjustified discrimination, but they may not be familiar with the details of how these protections come into play when decisions are made about an individual’s educational or employment opportunities.
Adolescent Perceptions Of Educators With Physical Challenges, Marie Beattie
Adolescent Perceptions Of Educators With Physical Challenges, Marie Beattie
Educational Considerations
In 1987, I had a massive stroke, possibly caused by a brain tumor. Before this, I had been a special education teacher for 13 years. The stroke caused me to have to relearn basic math, language, and motor functions.