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Bubbles and Balls in Belize: A New Perspective on Play
Get PDFMargaret Mead, a pioneering American cultural anthropologist of the 20th century and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, once said, “If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.” Her tongue-in-cheek reference to the study of human behavior is a reminder that the familiar aspects of life are often overlooked because they seem unremarkable. In contrast, when placed in a new and unfamiliar environment, we become keenly aware of the behavior, habits, and customs different from our own
Integration of ICT into the higher education process: The case of Colombia
Get PDFThis paper has as its aim to establish a pedagogical strategy aimed at supporting the integration of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) into the higher education process. A survey was carried out aiming focus on the analysis of teachers’ practices so that competences in ICT use at university education in Colombia could be enlarged. 81 universities answered the survey questionnaire: 51 private and 30 public, and a total of 423 lecturers from different academic disciplines. Our findings show the degree of attention paid by teachers to strengthening ICT skills in their training tasks. This research is complemented with Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis performed with 50 professionals experienced in ICT use in higher education
How open innovation strategy and effectuation within platform ecosystem can foster innovation performance: Evidence from digital multi-sided platform startups
Get PDFThis article explores how effectuation approaches – entrepreneurial action that deals with a set of means as given and focuses on selecting between possible effects that can be created with that set of means – contribute to digital Multi-Sided Platform (MSP) startups significant growth. The study integrates effectuation theory with an open innovation strategy within the platform ecosystem to understand the innovation process under resource constraint, limited knowledge, and uncertainty. Our inductive multiple-case study findings from three leading digital MSP startups show how their founding team uses the knowledge, ideas, and resources from external parties within the platform ecosystem, including agents, user communities, and supporting partner firms, along with means from the entrepreneurs’ background, in the beginning to produce high growth innovation outcomes. Platform-based entrepreneurship becomes the integrating point of effectuation theory from entrepreneurship research and open innovation strategy through strategic management research. The bridge for these two areas suggests implications for platform-based entrepreneurship research in strategic entrepreneurship
Introduction
Get PDFThis Fall issue is fully committed to providing readers with information that promotes the holistic learning and development of children. The content provides teachers, parents, and pre-services candidates with several strategies to support a variety learning experiences for students inside and outside of the classroom.
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Page Turners: Books for Children
Get PDFIncludes various books of the following genres: Picture Books and Young Adult Literature
Analyzing Student Achievement Data: Preparing Teacher Training Candidates for Leadership
No full textThe purpose of this article is to share how one teacher education program at a Midwestern university prepares teacher candidates to analyze student achievement data, which is believed essential as one of the roles a teacher candidate needs in order to develop teacher leadership in the classroom. The authors provide the teacher candidates’ relevant assignment and discuss the implications toward developing leadership. In particular, the action research results of two teacher candidates’ writing lesson scores and personal reflections are highlighted. In addition, a former teacher candidate shares how her experience prepared her for the teacher leader role
Humanizing the Dehumanized: The Complex Connections between William Lloyd Garrison’s Preface and Fugitive Slave Advertisements
Get PDFBy connecting nineteenth-century slave advertisements and the preface provided by William Lloyd Garrison to Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, this article argues that Garrison’s preface provides a moment in history when the voice of a specific person, speaking for a group of people who were frequently silenced, is recovered. Examining particular slave advertisements published around the time of Douglass’s 1845 narrative, it is possible to see that these advertisements tend to high-light the lack of voice provided to slaves while being focused on the body and the kinds of work that the slave was capable of doing. Other types of writing, such as the authenticating preface written by Garrison, also serve as advertisement, which recognizes the implicit silencing of Afri-can American humanity while also acknowledging slaves as authorities to tell their own stories
ACEs and Healthcare: Creating a Positive Future
Get PDFThe adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) study represents a landmark in medical research which linked childhood experiences of abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction to future health outcomes. (Cronholm, Forke, Wade, Bair-Merritt, Davis, Harkins-Schwarz, Pachter & Fein, 2015). Felitti and colleagues (1998) conducted the original ACEs study in a primary care setting between 1995-1997 at a Kaiser Permenante clinic where thousands of participants revealed they had adverse childhood experiences (Felitti, Anda, Nordenberg, Willliamson, Spitz, Edwards, Koss, & Marks, 1998). This original study found a strong dose response relationship between the extent of exposure to abuse or household dysfunction during childhood and multiple risk factors for several leading causes of death in adults. These conditions included: ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, fractures, liver disease as well as poor self-rated health (Felitti et al, 1998). Felitti et al, (1998) suggested ACEs and adult health status is strong and cumulative. They further asserted that abuse and other potentially damaging childhood experiences contribute to the development of risk factors leading to health behaviors and lifestyle factors that affect morbidity and mortality. These behaviors they allege are the “actual” cause of death (Felitti et al, 1998)
ECONOMICS, OBJECTIVITY, AND SCIENCE: USEFUL CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS
Get PDFThis paper describes classroom discussions that will help students understand the sense in which economics may be regarded as a science and the role of subjectivity in analyzing economic questions