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Editorial: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Refocus on Military and Veterans within Academic Communities
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Mast v. Fillmore: A Perfect 50th Birthday Present for Yoder
No full textThe 1972 decision in Wisconsin v. Yoder is among the significant U.S. Supreme Court rulings adjudicating and establishing precedents around conflicts between religious beliefs and state interest. That Yoder has endured a half century is a testament not to its reasoning, but rather to a continuation of the sociological jurisprudential underpinnings that provided the defendants with the justice that others sought for them. This essay argues that the 2021 ruling in Mast v. Fillmore County, Minnesota, which vacated and remanded for further consideration a Minnesota state court ruling, could not have come at a better time for the fifty-year-old Yoder decision because Mast situates questions of Amish religious liberty squarely in the arena of strict scrutiny (in this case, of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000) rather than by invoking any sociological exceptionalism
Challenging and Reinforcing the Ability/Disability System through Advocacy for Disabled Dogs
No full textThis paper illuminates how volunteers and animal rescuers who assist dogs from a high-intake public shelter in the Los Angeles metropolitan area simultaneously resist the devaluation of the lives of disabled dogs while sensationalizing and fetishizing disability through their discursive and representational practices. Drawing on observations from three years of ethnographic fieldwork in an animal shelter and with animal rescues, as well as from public media volunteers and rescuers post online, I adopt an intersectional analysis that attends to inequalities of species, ability/disability, and gender in the context of contemporary American capitalism. I show how members of the animal rescue community—who are all women, almost all white, and none of whom identified themselves as disabled—reject the shelter's practice of fast-tracking some types of disabled dogs for shelter killing and assert instead the right of disabled dogs to live. At the same time, rescuers talk about and represent disabled dogs as infantile, remarkable, and in need of saviors to help them. Ultimately, rescuers' representations of disabled dogs work to expand capitalist beliefs of companion animals as lively capital by showing that disabled dogs have value as companions, in large part through an assertion of dogs as family members
“Checking a Box Isn’t Exactly Helpful”: Interpretations of the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form During the Job Application Process
No full textThe United States Department of Labor created the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability (VSD) form in 2014 to improve the employment rate for people with disabilities. As part of this initiative, federal contractors with 50 or more employees are expected to have at least 7% of their workforce identify as having a disability. Unfortunately, only 13% of organizations met this goal in 2015. By conducting a survey of 472 individuals, the present study examined how people with and without disabilities interpret the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability (VSD) form during the job application process. Specifically, respondents inferred positive (e.g., accommodations), negative (e.g., discrimination), neutral (e.g., person-job fit), and conflicting interpretations (e.g., a mix of positive and negative interpretations) of the VSD form.
Further, nearly 60 percent of applicants perceived the VSD form as a strategy to decrease the number of people with disabilities rather than increase. With insight on organizational signals, employers and policymakers can better design and develop recruitment materials to improve the application process for people with disabilities
‘A consciousness of unknown things – of reason overthrown’: Epilepsy and the Unreasoning Body in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Poetry
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A Laboratory for Secondary Math
Get PDFStudents should have opportunities to learn in representative formats for which they will eventually have to apply their knowledge. That is the premise of various curricular innovations over the past 30 years, including authentic learning, problem solving, rich problems/tasks, collaborative learning, modeling, numerical/quantitative literacy, technology, cooperative projects, or STEM-related learning. It also includes tasks related to traditional learning presented in an investigate and discovery format. This article argues for “a place” in the curriculum wherein students and teachers assume a virtual laboratory approach, at times, for learning across the secondary level as an organizational feature, and as an incentive for publishers to provide the activities and tools required to support application of learning for each secondary subject
Bridging Math Content and Teaching through Pre-Service Undergraduate Apprenticeship
Get PDFWe describe activities used to learn mathematics teaching during an undergraduate mathematics apprenticeship for preparing single-subject mathematics teaching credential seeking students. During the semester-long experience set in an undergraduate mathematics course for future elementary teachers, two apprentices and one university faculty attended weekly class sessions and meetings to deepen their knowledge for teaching mathematics. Six activities for supporting teacher training apprenticeships are shared and exemplified
Where do they all belong? Teaching math for belonging
Get PDFThis paper presents an inquiry project by Danny, a high school mathematics teacher from Israel, who aimed to build a sense of belonging in at-risk youth by connecting the mathematics curriculum to the students’ lives and interests. The project focused on improving students’ performance on the matriculation exam through the three types of belonging: formal, social, and cognitive. An example of a Desmos activity is presented to illustrate the potential of inquiry projects to build cognitive belonging in at-risk youth