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Women Of African Descent: Persistence In Completing A Doctorate, Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu Dec 2012

Women Of African Descent: Persistence In Completing A Doctorate, Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu

Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu

This study examines the educational persistence of women of African descent (WOAD) in pursuit of a doctorate degree at universities in the southeastern United States. WOAD are women of African ancestry born outside the African continent. These women are heirs to an inner dogged determination and spirit to survive despite all odds (Pulliam, 2003, p. 337).This study used Ellis’s (1997) Three Stages for Graduate Student Development as the conceptual framework to examine the persistent strategies used by these women to persist to the completion of their studies.


Research As Collaborative Act: A Latherian Approach To Collaborative Analysis Of Race-Based Professional Development With K-12 Educators, Susan Adams Sep 2012

Research As Collaborative Act: A Latherian Approach To Collaborative Analysis Of Race-Based Professional Development With K-12 Educators, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October 19, 2012.


Addressing Plagiarism In A Digital Age, Eleanor Kutz, Wayne Rhodes, Stephen Sutherland, Vivian Zamel Aug 2012

Addressing Plagiarism In A Digital Age, Eleanor Kutz, Wayne Rhodes, Stephen Sutherland, Vivian Zamel

Eleanor Kutz

Four faculty members from UMass Boston's English Department explore possible ways of addressing the issue of plagiarism with their students as easy access to materials on the Internet is making it easier then ever to draw on others’ words, with or without appropriate documentation. Approaching faculty concerns from four complementary perspectives, the authors make the case for 1) recasting our understanding of plagiarism in terms of influence, borrowing, and remixing of the sort that is central to musical and artistic creation, 2) examining how students might develop greater awareness of the ways in which they are working with sources in …


Estudios Nacionales Sobre Académicos En México: Una Comparación Metodológica, Rosalba Pinto, Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Laura E. Padilla-González Jun 2012

Estudios Nacionales Sobre Académicos En México: Una Comparación Metodológica, Rosalba Pinto, Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Laura E. Padilla-González

Jesús Francisco Galaz Fontes

Apartir de los años ochenta, los académicos comienzan a ser identificados como objeto de estudio en la investigación educativa en México. Entre 1992 y 2007 se realizaron cuatro estudios nacionales de carácter cuantitativo sobre la planta académica. En este artículo se realiza una comparación metodológica entre dichos trabajos, a lo largo de seis dimensiones: 1) universo, 2) muestra, 3) diseño de muestreo, 4) instrumento, 5) aplicación del instrumento y tasa de respuesta, y 6) captura de la información y base de datos generada. Se concluye que los trabajos analizados son estudios nacionales que han contribuido a establecer a la profesión …


Sociological Perspectives On Ethnicity And Education In China: Views From Chinese And English Literatures, Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Emily C. Hannum, Chunping Lu Jun 2012

Sociological Perspectives On Ethnicity And Education In China: Views From Chinese And English Literatures, Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Emily C. Hannum, Chunping Lu

Emily C. Hannum

This paper reviews Chinese- and English-language literature on ethnic minorities and education in China. Six major research topics emerge from the Chinese-language research: (1) Marxism and ethnic minority education; (2) patriotism and national unity in education for ethnic minority students; (3) multicultural education; (4) determinants of ethnic differences in education; (5) school facilities and teacher quality; and (6) preferential / affirmative action policies. Four research themes are identified from the English-language literature: (1) policy overviews; (2) education and ethnic identity; (3) incentives and disincentives for buy-in to the education system; and (4) educational stratification. The majority of quantitative research from …


Connecting The Dots: Threat Assessment, Depression And The Troubled Student, Valerie Harwood Apr 2012

Connecting The Dots: Threat Assessment, Depression And The Troubled Student, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

On April 18, 2007, a package containing over twenty digital videos arrived at the NBC building in New York city. Within a short time the material had been publicly broadcast, and images of Seung Hui Cho soon appeared on Youtube. Two days earlier the twenty-three year-old university student had been responsible for what has been claimed to be the worst mass shooting in the United States. Just days after the mass shooting, the Governor of Virginia, Timothy M. Kaine convened a review panel that was comprised of nine “nationally recognized individuals” across the disciplines of “law enforcement, security, governmental management, …


El Académico Mexicano Miembro Del Sistema Nacional De Investigadores: Una Primera Exploración Con Base En Los Resultados De La Encuesta "La Reconfiguración De La Profesión Académica En México", Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Ana L. De La Cruz - Santana, Rocío Rodríguez-García, Ramón A. Cedillo-Nakay, Ma. G. Villaseñor-Amézquita Mar 2012

El Académico Mexicano Miembro Del Sistema Nacional De Investigadores: Una Primera Exploración Con Base En Los Resultados De La Encuesta "La Reconfiguración De La Profesión Académica En México", Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Ana L. De La Cruz - Santana, Rocío Rodríguez-García, Ramón A. Cedillo-Nakay, Ma. G. Villaseñor-Amézquita

Jesús Francisco Galaz Fontes

El desarrollo reciente de la educación superior mexicana no solamente ha sido cuantitativo, sino que también se han presentado transformaciones en varios de sus aspectos centrales. Los académicos, en particular, han transitado de ser catedráticos, a docentes y, hoy en día, a ser investigadores. Sin que ninguno de estos tipos ideales haya desaparecido, sobre los hechos se ha ido conformando un nuevo académico que fundamenta su unicidad en sus actividades de investigación y en ser miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. En este resporte se lleva a cabo una primera aproximación al perfil del académico-investigaor, situándolo en el contexto de …


Balancing Yin And Yang, Roger Clark, Angela Lang Mar 2012

Balancing Yin And Yang, Roger Clark, Angela Lang

Roger D. Clark

The first three-quarters of the semester flew by. We learned about quantitative data analysis and I loved it. I really enjoyed the numerical manipulations and seeing how it all related to people. Everything was there in front of me. Not too much imagination on my part was really needed. Then it all ended. Professor Clark introduced qualitative methods and the anxiety began. I soon realized I had to reinvent my creative side, which is something that as an undergraduate I am not required to do very often. I was nervous that I would discover that I was not creative at …


Looking East, Looking West: Penang As A Knowledge Hub, Solvay Gerke, Hans-Dieter Evers Feb 2012

Looking East, Looking West: Penang As A Knowledge Hub, Solvay Gerke, Hans-Dieter Evers

Hans-Dieter Evers

Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing nowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research papers and reports. Based on an analysis of joint research output, the changing international position of Penang as an emerging research hub will be analysed. The paper will show that international cooperation has increased considerably between 1970 and 2010, but that there has also been a remarkable shift from European, Australian and American partners to East …


Looking East, Looking West: Penang As A Knowledge Hub, Solvay Gerke, Hans-Dieter Evers Feb 2012

Looking East, Looking West: Penang As A Knowledge Hub, Solvay Gerke, Hans-Dieter Evers

Solvay Gerke

Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing nowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research papers and reports. Based on an analysis of joint research output, the changing international position of Penang as an emerging research hub will be analysed. The paper will show that international cooperation has increased considerably between 1970 and 2010, but that there has also been a remarkable shift from European, Australian and American partners to East …


La Reconfiguración De La Profesión Académica En México, Jesús F. Galaz Fontes, Manuel Gil Antón, Laura E. Padilla González, Juan J. Sevilla García, José L. Arcos Vega, Jorge G. Martínez Stack Jan 2012

La Reconfiguración De La Profesión Académica En México, Jesús F. Galaz Fontes, Manuel Gil Antón, Laura E. Padilla González, Juan J. Sevilla García, José L. Arcos Vega, Jorge G. Martínez Stack

Jesús Francisco Galaz Fontes

Durante el ciclo escolar 2007-2008, como parte del proyecto internacional "La Profesión Académica en Transición," se implementó la encuesta "La Reconfiguración de la Profesión Académica en México." Con base en una muestra representativa de casi dos mil dos mil académicos de tiempo completo que laboraban en instituciones de educación superior de todo el territorio nacional, la Red de Investigadores sobre Académicos recolectó información sobre las trayectorias, condiciones de trabajo, actividades académicas, productividad, actitudes institucionales y perfil socioeconómico. El presente volumen constituye un compendio de reflexiones y reportes sobre esos aspectos, presentados en foros nacionales e internacionales desde 2008 por diferentes …


Attracting Black Male Students To Research Careers In Education: A Report From The Grad Prep Academy Project, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Andrew C. Porter, Ph.D. Jan 2012

Attracting Black Male Students To Research Careers In Education: A Report From The Grad Prep Academy Project, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Andrew C. Porter, Ph.D.

Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D.

This report is about the University of Pennsylvania’s Grad Prep Academy, a project that prepares Black undergraduate men for graduate study and research-related careers in the field of education. The project is also a longitudinal research study that enables us to analyze Black men’s trajectories from undergraduate study through graduate degree programs and eventually into their careers. Eighteen students participated in our first two cohorts of Academy Scholars. The project described in this report, as well as the recommendations we offer, can be instructive for other schools of education and a range of stakeholders who are concerned about the diversity …


Understanding Engagement In Science Education: The Psychological And The Social, Stacy Olitsky, Catherine Milne Jan 2012

Understanding Engagement In Science Education: The Psychological And The Social, Stacy Olitsky, Catherine Milne

Stacy Olitsky

Traditionally, engagement as a feature of student action has been the purview of psychologists seeking to identify the individual variables that come together to constitute student engagement. Recognition of the complexity of the concept has led to multidimensional models that include behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement. Data for these studies typically are culled from surveys of individual students. However, such approaches have two limitations – there is no place for examining collective engagement and the role of classroom interactions for engendering engagement is not sufficiently emphasized. In this chapter, we explore sociological approaches that can offer the possibility for developing …


National Schooling In Crisis: Neoliberal Policies And The 2011 Justice Campaign For The Pgcps Filipino Overseas Contract Teachers, Peter Chua Jan 2012

National Schooling In Crisis: Neoliberal Policies And The 2011 Justice Campaign For The Pgcps Filipino Overseas Contract Teachers, Peter Chua

Peter Chua

No abstract provided.


Neither Good Nor Useful: Looking Ad Vivum In Children's Assessments Of Fat And Healthy Boides, Valerie Harwood Dec 2011

Neither Good Nor Useful: Looking Ad Vivum In Children's Assessments Of Fat And Healthy Boides, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

Fat bodies are not, fait accompli, bad. Yet in our international research we found overwhelmingly that fat functioned as a marker to indicate health or lack of health. A body with fat was simply and conclusively unhealthy. This paper reports on how this unbalanced view of fat was tied to assessments of healthy bodies that were achieved by the act of looking. Despite the efforts of health education in each of the three countries in our study, children and young people cited the act of looking at bodies to assess health and when they did they arrived at the conclusion …