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“Imagine”: Radical Love Abides in Cruel Unforgiving Times
Get PDFThis essay discusses how, in this current historical conjuncture of cruelty, insensitivity, greed and technological obsessiveness, radical love, and listening can abide in education and in the global society. It engages these issues in three sections. First, the essay describes and explicates the current milieu in terms of the adoration of money, the paradox between the lack of community and the virtual communication obsession. It also delves into what can be considered the central political issue of our time, that of voluntary subservience. That is, why current corporate neoliberalism and microfascism continue despite efforts to contest them. Second, the essay discusses notions of hope from a critical autobiographical context and the ways in which hope is necessary for a pedagogy of radical love and listening. Third, the essay discusses education within the current context described and the ways in which radical hope, listening and love in critical pedagogy can abide in education and society despite the tremendous forces working against such education and thinking. The essay claims finally that commitment and abiding with criticality is radical love
Mapping the Hot Spots: A Zoning Approach to Space Analysis and Design
Get PDFThis article examines a preliminary approach to space design developed and implemented in Eastern Kentucky University’s Noel Studio for Academic Creativity. The approach discussed here is entitled “hot spots,” which has allowed the research team to observe trends in space usage and composing activities among students. Although provisional, this approach has yielded valuable insights into the design of flexible learning spaces that provide a point of reflection for the future.
Engaging in social partnerships: Democratic practices for campus-community partnerships
Get PDFThe best elements of Novella Zett Keith’s Engaging in Social Partnerships: Democratic Practices for Campus-Community Partnerships are deeply insightful, offering powerful ways of conceiving of the role of democratic practitioners and their public work. There are, however, elements that challenge the reader to gain access to, and focus sufficiently, on these insights
Exploring the Community Impact of Service-Learning Project Teams
Get PDFThe purpose of this project was to study community partners' perceptions of the impact of service-learning projects, by studying the ways in which ‘service-learning project teams’ (SLPT) impacted the communities and organizations where they worked. Researchers purposefully selected 16 community partners (CP) who had direct experience working with and supervising service-learning project teams to take part in semi-structured interviews regarding their experiences. Analysis of the transcribed interviews resulted in fifteen themes that were divided into two categories. These findings are intended to be a starting point for further research regarding the community impact of service-learning
Understanding extreme stock trading volume by generalized Pareto distribution
No full textThe extreme value theory (EVT) is used to assess the risk caused by extreme natural and man made events. These events exhibit clusters of outlying observations that cannot be modeled by a Gaussian distribution. The generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) have proved useful in modeling such events, in particular, it is widely used in modeling the distribution exceeding a high threshold. The GPD has uniform, triangular, exponential, and Pareto distribution as special cases. Estimating parameters of the GPD has become an important task in EVT. There are several methods for estimating parameters of the GPD such as method of moments, method of maximum likelihood, probability weighted moments, maximum Penalized Likelihood, etc. and all estimation techniques have some limitations. Even though EVT is a well-established discipline, no attempt has been made to compare all these estimation techniques together. In particular, studying an appropriate method for modeling GPD in the light of stock trading volume data has not been seen. The aim of the study is manifold: first, to discuss and compare several estimation methods and their limitations; second, to investigate whether GPD can be used to model stock trading volume data; third, to compare the volatility of two stock market indexes in the light of EVT; fourth, to test the efficiency of several estimation methods for different threshold values; and finally, to obtain a required design value with a given return period of exceedance and probability of occurring extreme events. Simulated data and real financial data are considered for our study
Why College? Using Community Engaged Research to Explore the Perspectives of Students with Intellectual Disabilities on the Importance of Access to Higher Education
Get PDFStudents with intellectual disabilities have historically been written “about” in research and scholarly literature with little emphasis on what they have to say about the research process. In this project, PSE One, a postsecondary education program for students with Intellectual Disabilities at the university level challenges this “exclusion” in its use of community engaged research as a part of its program evaluation. This paper highlights the initial stages of this ongoing research process, preliminary discussion of results, and a discussion about how community engaged research reflects the concept of visionary pragmatism
The 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing: What Teachers Initially Need to Know
Get PDFThe Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (2014) were redesigned with test developers as the intended audience. Such a target audience excludes classroom teachers, who make up a significant portion of the workforce administering tests and interpreting test data to make meaningful inferences about student abilities. Although the primary audience identified in the new Standards is the test development community, a secondary audience – teachers – would benefit from familiarizing themselves with the current guidelines to be able to be able to guard against test misuse. The ability for teachers to interpret, articulate, and cite the Standards can improve teacher experiences in circumstances in which test data might be misused and negatively impact teachers, students, and families. The goal of this paper is to provide teachers with a brief overview of three issues in current educational practices related to the use of test data in high stakes decision-making, and to contextualize each issue using the Standards. Given that the target audience for the Standards excludes classroom teachers, the paper will focus on sections that are aligned with impacts on teacher practices, and only briefly mention issues related to classroom teaching practices.
Nobuo Uematsu: The Man behind the Music of Final Fantasy
No full textNobuo Uematsu is the original composer of the music and game sound in the Final Fantasy series. Known to be one of the most famous composers within this industry, his direction of sound in games has branched out vigorously in many directions since the first game of the series. Uematsu heavily influenced the direction of game sound history through his innovative works that make video game music stand up to par with even classical music, and through analysis, one may even find characteristics of classical composition styles in his works. His milestones were the very product of his own work, and left a big set of footprints for everyone else to follow within the game industry. Uematsu’s compositions in game sound were so impactful to his audience that to this day, decades later, people still talk about the immense feeling of nostalgia from those sounds
Introduction to Teaching Teachers: Critical Social Justice in Teacher Education Programs
No full textIntroduction to Teaching Teachers: Critical Social Justice in Teacher Education Program
Radical Listening and Dialogue in Educational Research
Get PDFWe seek to trouble the construct of radical listening through an interpretive analysis of our work in a collaborative research project with primary school teachers. At the heart of this project is a focus on researching together with the study participants. During two years, we worked with a group of teachers in a "teacher inquiry group", which sought to shed light on the possibilities of using narrative assessment approaches as an inclusive tool for teaching and learning science. The original goal of the study was to empower teachers to utilize a variety of dialogic assessment tools as tools for learning with their students. Through a guiding focus on radical listening and dialogue, the design of this overall study shifted and changed over time to fit the needs of the different stakeholders, and our focus on narrative assessment approaches also evolved over time. We will use different examples to illustrate the interactions of the teacher inquiry group, and also draw on our own work within our research group to complexify what it means to "listen", learn from, and "dialogue" with the Other.