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Host Community Voices and Community Experiences: Tanzanian Perspectives on a Teacher Education International Service-Learning Project
Get PDFTeacher education programs are increasing integrating aspects of international service learning (ISL) into student experience. While studies have about teacher-candidate experiences are published, less is known about the affect of these ISL initiatives on the host communities. There is a need to hear from and integrate host community voices into all dimensions of the ISL experiences. We honor the voices of ISL host participants by turning our attention to those involved in an ongoing ISL project in Tanzania. Our analysis is grounded in our experiences as ISL practitioners and teacher educators. We utilize Freire and Dewey’s concepts to provide an understanding of ISL in teacher education that emphasizes how dialogue with host participants increases understanding of local contexts and promotes reciprocity as a form of learning from one another. This study concludes with the implications, both negative and positive, associated with integrating ISL into teacher education programs.
Publicly engaged scholars: Next generation engagement and the future of higher education
Get PDFIt is a new day in academia, and Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education is here to tell the story. An outgrowth of the New Generation Engagement Project, a working group organized under the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, the book presents a diverse cadre of individuals who are upsetting the proverbial applecart (a.k.a. the academy) and transforming – as Nadinne Cruz notes on the back cover – long-held conceptions of what we call “the work.
Space and consequences: The influence of the roundtable classroom design on student dialogue
Get PDFThis study sought to explore how the design of both physical and virtual learning spaces influence student dialogue in a modern university. Qualitative analysis of the learning spaces in an undergraduate liberal arts program was conducted. Interview and focus group data from students and faculty, in addition to classroom observations, resulted in the finding that the program’s learning spaces empowered students to engage in dialogue, so much so that they occasionally wished to disengage. While this study found support for the idea that both physical and virtual learning spaces can positively influence student dialogue, findings also suggest that the role and purpose of virtual learning spaces (e.g., use of educational technologies) needs to be more intentionally designed and communicated to students. Recommendations and suggestions for future research are provided
Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, & The Future of Colleges and Universities
Get PDFThis collection of essays about higher education reform has drawn the interest of a wide public. Author of eight other books on citizenship, Dr. Harry Boyte argues that higher education reform can be fueled by institutional and individual practices of citizenship and public work. The book features the perspectives and recommendations of policy makers, university presidents, faculty, students, alumni, and community organizers. Democracy's Education issues an instructive and inspiring call to civic action
A University-Community Partnership to Combat Food Insecurity among College Students
Get PDFThis paper describes a university-community partnership focused on alleviating food insecurity among college students. The on-campus food pantry served over 800 student clients during its first academic year. The pantry is run by a large group of student, faculty, and staff volunteers, and receives food and volunteer support from community partners and student organizations. Results of an analysis of pantry intake data revealed that during its first year of operation, the pantry served a student population that is majority graduate and international, who live with two or fewer persons per household, and whose food insecurity was reported as occasional. The discussion describes how the results of the study are guiding efforts to better serve students facing food insecurity and to strengthen internal and external partnerships necessary for the long-term success and sustainability of the pantry. Directions for future research are also discussed
Equivalent Formulations of the Bunk Bed Conjecture
No full textA bunk bed graph consists of two isomorphic graphs, called the upper and lower bunks, and some additional edges, called posts; each post connects a vertex in the upper bunk with the corresponding isomorphic vertex in the lower bunk. We assign a probability to each edge with each edge in the upper bunk assigned the same probability as the corresponding isomorphic edge in the lower bunk. The probabilities on the posts are arbitrary. We then form a random spanning subgraph of the bunk bed graph by deleting each edge independently with the prescribed probability. The Bunk Bed Conjecture states that in the random subgraph the probability that a vertex x in the upper bunk is connected to some vertex y in the upper bunk is greater than or equal to the probability that x is connected to z, the isomorphic copy of y in the lower bunk. We show that for each p in (0,1) the special case of the Bunk Bed Conjecture in which all edge probabilities are p is equivalent to the full conjecture
Migrant Farmworker Student’s Counterstories: Contradicting Immigration Myths and Stereotypes
Get PDFAbstractMany events happened across the United States due to recent immigration reform policies. Different reactions resulted from these policies such as massive immigrant rallies, speeches, and demonstrations. Numerous anti-immigrant and xenophobic stories were also been published through different media outlets. At this same time, the participants in this study, eight Latino migrant farmworker students, were sharing with me several counterstories that were contradicting myths and stereotypes about immigrants. The article will focus on the counterstories that will contradict the myths that immigrants don’t want to learn English, that they are taking away jobs from Americans, and that they are getting a free ride in the United States
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Radical Love in Teacher Education Praxis: Imagining the Real through Listening to Diverse Student Voices
Get PDFThrough Freire’s notion of praxis (1985, p.119) which gives centrality to critical self reflection in teaching toward social justice, in this paper I reflect on recently collected narratives gleaned from working with pre-service teachers. These stories reveal the unexpected rewards of seeking to create a prevailing culture of listening and respect for students’ unique perspectives. They also illustrate the challenges involved, in maintaining my own inward consciousness of self and place while cultivating this kind of milieu in the classroom. Within this dynamic tension in which both teacher and students learn from each other, there are tremendous possibilities to accept, affirm and confirm emerging teacher identities with the kind of sensibilities that are critically awakened to injustice and empowered as “beings of praxis” (Freire, 1985, p.112) in their own write
