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Pushout : the criminalization of Black girls in schools
\"Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout [explores] a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Supplemental online resources improve data literacy education: Evidence from a social science methods course
Despite the importance of data literacy skills for academic and professional careers, learning these skills is a source of stress and difficulty for undergraduate students. This study first introduces an online supplemental instruction resource to support student learning in an introductory data analysis course at a large public university. To evaluate its impact, we conduct a pre-registered double-blind within-subject experiment. Each student is randomly assigned to a subset of the online supplemental instruction modules and takes an exam assessing concepts covered by the course material and supplemented by the modules. Access to the online supplemental instruction modules improves student performance on exam questions, and students who engage with the modules improve exam scores even more. We find no differential impacts based on pre-treatment GPA or underrepresented status, and a post-experiment survey suggests that the online supplemental instruction modules are also well-received by students. This study shows that asynchronous online supplemental instruction resources are a promising way to support student learning in data literacy.
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Boys adrift : the five factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men
In this updated version of his bestseller, Sax delves into scientific literature and draws on his clinical experience to propose an entirely original view of why boys and young men are continuing to fail in school and at home. He argues that a combination of social, cultural, and biological factors is creating an environment that is literally toxic to boys, ranging from environmental estrogens to the over-prescription of ADHD drugs.
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Class and Campus Life
In 2015, theNew York Timesreported, \"The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for elite campuses.\" What happens to academically talented but economically challenged \"first-gen\" students when they arrive on campus? Class markers aren't always visible from a distance, but socioeconomic differences permeate campus life-and the inner experiences of students-in real and sometimes unexpected ways. InClass and Campus Life, Elizabeth M. Lee shows how class differences are enacted and negotiated by students, faculty, and administrators at an elite liberal arts college for women located in the Northeast.
Using material from two years of fieldwork and more than 140 interviews with students, faculty, administrators, and alumnae at the pseudonymous Linden College, Lee adds depth to our understanding of inequality in higher education. An essential part of her analysis is to illuminate the ways in which the students' and the college's practices interact, rather than evaluating them separately, as seemingly unrelated spheres. She also analyzes underlying moral judgments brought to light through cultural connotations of merit, hard work by individuals, and making it on your own that permeate American higher education. Using students' own descriptions and understandings of their experiences to illustrate the complexity of these issues, Lee shows how the lived experience of socioeconomic difference is often defined in moral, as well as economic, terms, and that tensions, often unspoken, undermine students' senses of belonging.
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Inhabiting 'childhood' : children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India
\"Although 'multiple childhoods' recognizes children's lives as heterogeneous and culturally inscribed, the figure of the 'victimized' child continues to test the limits of this framework. Inhabiting 'Childhood' ambitiously redresses these limits by drawing on the everyday experiences of street children and child labourers in Calcutta to introduce the postcolony as a critical, and thus far absent, lens in theorizing the 'child'. Through capturing a moment in which global, national and local efforts combined to improve and transform these children's lives through school enrolment and new discourses of 'children's rights', this ethnography makes a vital point about the complexity and contemporaneity of their extensive practices of dwelling generated by the exigencies of survival within postcolonial 'development'. These modes of living labour are central to comprehending why these children though desirous of the transition from labour to school, find this difficult to inhabit. This book argues that this difficulty, which can be neither dissolved through a 'cultural' understanding of these lives nor resolved within a more technocratic policy norm, is in fact a very productive opening to re-thinking 'childhood'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Samhällskunskap (social science education) in Sweden
Highlights:* Social science education is the core subject assigned responsibility for citizenship education and holds a strong position in Swedish schools (policy and teaching).* Two reforms of curricula and syllabi through years 1–9 and 10–12 are upcoming.* There is a growing community of researchers investigating the purpose, design and conditions of social science education.* Research is mainly small-scale and qualitative and there is a lack of large-scale and/or quantitative studies.Purpose:This report provides an overview of social science education in primary and secondary education in Sweden with the purpose of introducing the international research community to policy-related issues concerning citizenship education, educational institutions and the scholarly state of the art. The principal topics are: a context of Sweden and its educational setting, the current policy documents and upcoming reforms, the state of teaching and teacher education, and the state of the art of Swedish social science education theory and research.Findings:Social science education holds a strong position as the main agent of citizenship education in Swedish schools and is a mandatory subject in every school year. The current and upcoming syllabi both emphasise disciplinary knowledge as well as citizenship education. Sweden has a growing community of researchers, but this community is somewhat fragmented because researchers originate from different disciplines.
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Ideas for intercultural education
\"Written by a cross-cultural pair of authors, Ideas for Intercultural Education takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying premise of this profound, engaging book is that international education can be a transforming intercultural experience for hosts as well as visitors. Drawing on a review of the worldwide literature, especially studies from the United States, and two large interview programs with international students, the book dissects the obstacles and points the way to solutions in the classroom and beyond\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Multidimensional factors contributing to the dynamics of ethnic conflict in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, ethnic federalism was implemented in the 1990s with the intention of redressing past marginalization, in which certain groups were excluded from political participation, economic prospects, and cultural acknowledgement. Here Ethnic conflict refers to a form of conflict in which the objectives of at least one party are defined in ethnic terms. However, it's essential to note that the conflict itself is usually not about ethnic differences per se. Instead, it revolves around political, economic, social, cultural, or territorial matters. There are conflicts over political and territorial authority among Ethiopian ethnic groups, despite the fact that these conflicts are the result of disputed histories and feelings of marginalization. This study aims to investigate the dynamics of political tensions among Ethiopian regions. A qualitative research methodology is used. Both primary and secondary data sources were used. The findings show that Ethiopia's 1991 transition to ethnic federalism was a drastic attempt to balance the country's ethnic diversity within its political system. Nevertheless, this system has also been criticized for escalating ethnic conflicts and fostering a politicized environment where ethnicity plays a big role in resource distribution and government.
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White guys on campus : racism, white immunity, and the myth of \post-racial\ higher education
\"White Men on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race on campus, especially among white men, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism found within this group of students. Within the context of Trump's presidential win in the November 2016 election, and in the wake of various racial incidents on American college campuses, this book offers the views, experiences, and development of white male undergraduates at two universities with regard to race. In doing so, it details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of white students to engage in anti-racist actions. Cabrera moves beyond the \"few bad apples\" frame of contemporary racism explanation, and explores the structures, policies, ideologies, and experiences that allow racism to flourish. Ultimately, White Men on Campus takes seriously the narratives of white men on the subject of race, in particular how these views are formed. It calls upon institutions of higher education to be sites of social transformation instead of reinforcing systemic racism, while concurrently creating a platform to engage and challenge the public discourse of post-racialism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Between the lifeworld and academia: Defining political issues in social science education
Highlights:* We identified four aspects for defining political issues.* Political issues are collective.* Political issues are conflictual in nature.* Political issues are contemporary issues.* Issues are political due to contextual factors.Purpose:The purpose of this study is to discuss mutual understandings of political issues among students and academics. The aim is to suggest a framework that teachers can use to address politics from both the discipline’s and the students’ perspectives.Design/methodology/approach:This study is based on semi-structured interviews with twelve students in six upper secondary schools and eight social science academics in Norway and Sweden.Findings:We identified four guiding aspects for defining political issues in social science education to connect disciplinary thinking with students’ views of the political. These aspects are: 1) collective, 2) contemporary, 3) conflictual, and 4) contextual.Limitations:This study relied on interviews with a selection of students and academics and what they chose to express. The results may not be applicable to other samples.Implications: The framework presented can be used in social science education to understand and discuss the nature of political issues.
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