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Student Teacher Engagement in Co-Teaching Strategies
Get PDFRecently there has been increasing emphasis on co-teaching experiences for teacher candidates. Despite the significance of collaboration between cooperating teachers and student teachers, limited empirical attention has focused on student teachers\u27 co-teaching experiences. The following study utilized survey data to ascertain if student teachers\u27 use of different co-teaching strategies changed over the course of their student teaching semester, as well as, compared student teacher use of co-teaching strategies in elementary, middle, and secondary program areas. Pilot Study Survey data revealed that approximately one-fourth of the student teacher\u27s time is spent teaching alone. However, the Student Teacher Survey data indicated that the Team Teaching co-teaching strategy increased more than any other co-teaching strategy in all program areas. The study concludes that as teacher education programs seek to maximize the benefits of the co-teaching model, student teachers and cooperating teachers need additional training in ways to utilize all the co-teaching strategies to maximize student learning
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
Get PDFThe second edition of Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap aims to move educators from a deficit view of students experiencing poverty to a structural view by examining the structural inequalities in the United States. This book encourages educators to develop equity literacy and provides twelve principles of equity literacy, supported by historical data and current research, to guide readers in this process. The book also offers actionable strategies to implement at the classroom, school, and district level
Local Entropy and Lq-Dimensions of Measures in Doubling Metric Spaces
Get PDFWe define restricted entropy and Lq-dimensions of measures in doubling metric spaces and show that these definitions are consistent with the monotonicity of Lq-dimensions. This provides a correct proof for a theorem considering the relationships between local entropy and Lq-dimensions in a paper by Käenmäki, Rajala and Suomala, the original proof of which makes use of a slightly erroneous proposition
Taming Human Nature? Reflections on Xunzi and Hobbes
Get PDFIt is a common practice to compare Thomas Hobbes with the ancient Chinese philosopher, Xunzi. Indeed, for the student who is acquainted with Hobbes and Western Philosophy but unfamiliar with Ancient Chinese philosophy, accessing Xunzi through the lens of Hobbes can help provide a tractable entry point into a different philosophical tradition. This is because, like Hobbes, Xunzi takes human nature to be bad and envisions a state of nature that, on account of human badness, is chaotic and violent. And like Hobbes, Xunzi justifies the establishment of political authority because it brings order and peace in place of chaos and violence. But the common starting points of these philosophers should not obscure some very significant differences that come to the fore on further comparison. While Hobbes believes that a powerful political authority with strong laws can maintain a well-ordered society in spite of bad human nature, Xunzi believes that a well-ordered society must also require some reformation of human nature. Thus in addition to effective laws, a truly stable and harmonious political society must also encourage the practice of rituals across the different areas of human life through which human nature is corrected. This difference with Hobbes furthermore invites a more general question with respect to human nature and political society. Is the end of political society that of securing peace and cooperation among people (regardless of their nature), or is it ultimately that of moral self-cultivation?
INTRODUCTION: HERMENEUTICS, HUMANITIES STUDIES, AND LITERATURE CLASSICS
Get PDFIn reading literature masterpieces and classics, not only are texts and cultural traditions understood, but also insights into humanity and human existence acquired and known.1 Every progress in human civilization is made possible by the elevation of the human soul. And every elevation of the human soul is the fruit of education, learning and cultivation, of which reading literature masterpieces and classics, like reading scientific, philosophical, and historical classics, is essential. Thus, Victor Hugo claimed: "What humanity requires, is to be fed with light; such nourishment is found in reading ... Humanity reading is humanity knowing."2 He further claimed, “The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the light. To learn to read is to rekindle a fire: every syllable sparkles.
DIALOGICAL SELF THEORY: AGAINST WEST VERSUS THE REST
Get PDFHuimin Jin’s article on cultural self-confidence is a welcome invitation to deliver a short commentary from a western point of view. My purpose is to show that in Western scientific publications of the past decades, there is an increasing interest in both the necessity and fertility of developing a dialogical self as part of a globalizing world society. In this context, I discuss (a) the dialogical self as an alternative to Western individualism (b) the origin of Dialogical Self Theory and some of its main tenets; and (c) tension between global and local positions; and (d) the necessity of recognizing the otherness and alterity of voices emerging from different cultures and selves. I show that recent developments in Western social sciences are well in agreement with some of Jin’s main arguments on Chinese self-confidence
JUSTITIUM VS. JUSTITIA: A DEBATE BETWEEN RAWLS AND SEN
Get PDFThe concept of justice is a matter of apprehension from the antiquity. It was John Rawls who all the way through his enduring dedication introduced the mainstream theory of justice in a radical manner. He was vocal against the classical utilitarianism. Utilitarianism, Rawls opines, cannot offer a satisfactory account of basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. It allows unacceptable trade-off among persons. With the influence of Kant’s deontological approach, Rawls offers the idea of justice as justitium. Noble-laureate Prof. Amartya Sen is indebted to Rawls while developing his contemporary idea of justice. He brings a new interpretation of justice that goes against Rawls. Rawls’ idea justitium is rule-based and deontological in nature, whereas Sen’s idea of justitia is consequential in nature. Rawls developed his idea of justice by invoking deontological approach of morality whereas Sen develops his idea of justice by invoking consequential approach of morality. Thus, the debate between Rawls and Sen is fascinating. They not only develop two polar concepts of justice but equally take support from two classical theories of morality, such as, deontological and consequential approaches of morality
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT IN COLONIAL INDIA
Get PDFSavitribai Phule, Pandita Ramabai, Tarabai Shinde, Dr Anandibai Joshi, and Ramabai Ranade, the greatest women produced by modern India & one of the greatest Indians in all history, the one who lay the foundation for a movement for women’s liberation in India. Their goal was freedom from Indian tradition, freedom from religious practices and rituals. Despite coming from diver’s diverse social backgrounds they talk about individual development. They wanted to introduce practical philosophy of human being. In their philosophy they are talking about individual growth, care and humanism as virtue, they emphasis on self-reliance and wants to interpret Indian tradition in their own way. They fought against the tradition and fought for human rights, rights of education and rights of human development. They took a very revolutionary stand in their life in the history of India. Like Pandita Ramabai rejected Hinduism on gendered ground. She rejected traditional practice forced by so called traditions. On the other hand Savitribai was the teacher who educates all females and all underprivileged peoples of India. The truly liberating moments for Indian women happened in and through the life of Savitribai, who chose to walk tall, in step with her husband ahead of her time by centuries. The historic disadvantages of caste and gender filed to keep her down in the nineteenth century. In her writings she constantly emphasizes the importance of education and physical work for knowledge and prosperity. She felt that women must receive an education as they were in no way inferior to men; they were not the slaves of men. This paper is an attempt to discuss Savitribai Phule as feminist philosopher in colonial India. She raised the problem of women’s oppression and her thoughts on resolving women’s domination through their own efforts and autonomy makes her join the company of other nineteenth century male feminist Philosophers. In this small work I would like to focus on feminist philosophical aspect of her thought through her writings with special reference to Kavya Phule, moral values given by Savitribai will compare with Aristotle’s moral theory/virtue ethics and will conclude with remark on contemporary relevance of her philosophy of feminism.These fragrant flowers I offer thee. Strung in a garland of rhymes…Each poetic blossom is full of glee. Their fragrance brings peace sublime. Advice that is amusing. Easy to understand and charming ….Simple moral education Knowledge that appeals to emotion….----Savitribai Phule (Kavya Phule