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Beyond Rosie : a documentary history of women and World War II
\"More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman's war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global conflict. Within the Allied countries, women of all ages proved to be invaluable in the fight for victory. Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women's involvement in World War II. What Rosie represented, however, is only a small portion of a complex story. As wartime production workers, enlistees in auxiliary military units, members of voluntary organizations or resistance groups, wives and mothers on the home front, journalists, and USO performers, American women found ways to challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes. Beyond Rosie offers readers an opportunity to see the numerous contributions women made to the fight against the Axis powers and how American women's roles changed during the war. The primary documents (newspapers, propaganda posters, cartoons, excerpts from oral histories and memoirs, speeches, photographs, and editorials) collected here represent cultural, political, economic, and social perspectives on the diverse roles women played during World War II.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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The impact of a museum travelling exhibition on middle school teachers and students from rural, low-income homes
Schools may be places of learning, but a great deal of learning occurs outside of school. A growing body of literature investigates how school field trips allow rural students to make real-life connections with their school curriculum. This paper contributes to that area of research by describing how students from five middle schools in the United States responded to a travelling museum exhibition hosted at a non-museum site. The authors explore the impact of the exhibition on students from poor, rural backgrounds, discussing how it helped them to engage with themes such as freedom of expression, democracy, citizenship and Holocaust education. The results show that, by connecting curricular content with real-life situations, field trips such as this have the potential to change not only students' understanding of the curriculum, but also their teachers' estimation of their abilities. Dépasser la conception déficitaire culturelle des enseignants? Impact d'une exposition itinérante sur des enseignants et des collégiens issus de foyers ruraux modestes – Les écoles peuvent être des lieux d'apprentissage, mais une grande partie de l'apprentissage s'accomplit à l'extérieur de l'école. Une documentation de plus en plus abondante examine comment les sorties scolaires permettent aux élèves habitant les régions rurales d'établir des liens entre vie réelle et programme scolaire. Cet article contribue à ce domaine de recherche en décrivant les réactions des élèves de cinq collèges des États-Unis à une exposition itinérante présentée autre part que dans un musée. Les auteurs explorent l'impact de l'exposition sur les élèves issus de foyers ruraux défavorisés, en analysant comment elle les a aidés à aborder des thèmes tels que la liberté d'expression, la démocratie, la citoyenneté et l'enseignement de l'Holocauste. Les résultats montrent que, en établissant un lien entre contenu du programme et situations de la vie réelle, les sorties scolaires telles que celle-ci ont le potentiel de modifier non seulement l'appréhension du programme par les élèves, mais aussi l'appréciation de leurs capacités par les enseignants.
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Beyond Rosie
More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman's war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global conflict. Within the Allied countries, women of all ages proved to be invaluable in the fight for victory. Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women's involvement in World War II. What Rosie represented, however, is only a small portion of a complex story. As wartime production workers, enlistees in auxiliary military units, members of voluntary organizations or resistance groups, wives and mothers on the home front, journalists, and USO performers, American women found ways to challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes.Beyond Rosieoffers readers an opportunity to see the numerous contributions they made to the fight against the Axis powers and how American women's roles changed during the war. The primary documents (newspapers, propaganda posters, cartoons, excerpts from oral histories and memoirs, speeches, photographs, and editorials) collected here represent cultural, political, economic, and social perspectives on the diverse roles women played during World War II.
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Traveling Exhibitions as Sites for Informal Learning: Assessing Different Strategies with Field Trips to Traveling Exhibitions at Non-museum Sites
This study investigated the use of different pedagogical techniques to create an intellectually engaging experience for middle school students who visited a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at a non-museum host site: the University of North Georgia Dahlonega's Library and Technology Center. The findings of this study show that traveling exhibitions hosted by libraries, community centers, and universities can provoke meaningful educational experiences for visiting school groups. It is recommended, however, that the parent museums provide the same substantial and thorough guidelines and materials for non-museum host sites and teachers as they do for their permanent, on-site exhibitions.
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Critic and Conscience of Society: A Reply to John Hattie
A reply is presented to John Hattie's response for the authors' critique of his book 'Visible Learning' (2009), citing that their critique did not warrant Hattie's expressed doubt over the role of academics as the 'critic and conscience of society'. It is clarified that their response was to highlight the inadequacy of meta-analyses of educational research in guiding educational policy and practice, and not to attack Hattie personally or accuse him of superficial research analysis.
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Achievement, Gender and the Single-Sex/Coed Debate
This paper explores the gender differences in achievements at a variety of levels in secondary schools in New Zealand. Gender differences are shown in relation to English, mathematics and science, but the pattern is not consistent across year levels in the senior school. The relative achievements of girls in single-sex and coeducational schools are explored in detail, with careful controls for the student population differences at the two types of school. When such controls are exercised, the apparent differences between the two types of school reduce to non-significance. Data from a longitudinal study of 37 schools and from the Ministry of Education national database are used.
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On Reproduction, habitus and education
This paper sets out to demonstrate that Bourdieu's critics who claim that his theory is structurally frozen', with no room for human agency misperceive the basis of the theory. The relationships between his theory and education are summarised and the concept of habitus explicated. Then drawing on Outline of a Theory of Practice, the determinants of practice are shown to incorporate change and human agency. This is then related to an examination of education as cultural practice, and some comments made in that light on a recent paper by Willis, and 'Origins and Destinations'.
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