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Alfie Kohn, National Speaker and Author on Education - Students as the Center of Gravity
No full textThis week\u27s Podcast feature Alfie Kohn, national speaker and author of 14 books, and scores of articles, on human behavior, management, and education.
Alfie discusses the inspiration for his books including, No Contest and Punished by Rewards, the divergent thoughts surrounding the history of education in the 20th century, and his views on standardized testing and homework.
Alfie explains how, as a contrarian with a practice of finding issues where logic and research points in one direction and practices move in a different direction, he started thinking and writing about competition. He began debunking the common notion that competition is inevitable because it\u27s just part of human nature .
Next Alfie discusses the different philosophies on education in the early 20th century. As one side supported the experience of the student as the center of gravity , the other focused on rules, curriculum, numbers and behaviors - things outside the classroom that can be measured.
Alfie tells us how standardized testing has undermined education, even when test scores go up, and how much time has been taken away from real learning to teach kids how to be good at taking tests.
Lastly, Alfie shares what he will be talking about on November 8th, at The First Annual Deming in Education Conference in Seattle.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/deming_podcast/1021/thumbnail.jp
Author Rights Workshop
No full textLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
Iconic situations: multimodality, witnessing and collective memory
No full textThis article deals with the multimodal components of televised situations that the author calls ‘iconic’ and that revolve around a dramatic announcement or declaration delivered on camera as part of a television broadcast. She argues that, in contemporary visual culture, iconic still photographs are gradually being replaced by iconic televised situations that become established as units of memory whose repeated airings and viewings ultimately gain an iconic status. Understanding this re-enactment has crucial importance in understanding the process by which the experience of the individual viewer or listener is interwoven with the narrative of the televised situation and in comprehending the role of witnessing. The article focuses on the spoken text, the roles of those who partake in the iconic situation and on the manner in which the fabric of verbal and visual elements helps to establish these situations as memorable. The author addresses three situations that were aired on Israeli television: the official announcement of the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the announcement of the death of Israeli singer Arik Einstein and the video message delivered by the abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from his place of captivity in Gaza.</jats:p
Teaching with Melvin Kohn
No full textMelvin L. Kohn is the author of well-known theory on the relationship between social class, work and personality, supported by sophisticated cross-national research. Kohn’s theory and research make a good example for the sociologists of how sociology should be done and cultivated. Here they are evaluated from the educational perspective
Picture from the rural life of Polish Jews
No full textU priči "Sličica iz seoskog života poljskih Židova" rabin dr Izrael Kohn opisuje jedno selo u Poljskoj 1914. godine koje imenuje kao B. Preko konkretnih opisa poznatih porodica, značajnih, uspešnih i skromnih i običnih stanovnika, tradicije i praznika, autor oslikava celokupan život poljskih Jevreja koji su živeli u ruralnoj sredini.In the story "A picture from the rural life of Polish Jews", Rabbi Dr. Israel Kohn describes a village in Poland in 1914, which he names B. Through concrete descriptions of famous families, significant, successful, and modest, and ordinary inhabitants, traditions, and holidays, the author presents the whole life of Polish Jews who lived in a rural environment.Izrael Kohn (1885-1941) došao je u Kraljevinu SHS iz Poljske kao školovani rabin sa doktoratom. Službovao je u koprivnici od 1924. do 1941. godine. U braku sa Linom rođ. Breier imao je tri kćeri - Fridu, Genu i kćerku nepoznatog imena, i sina Marka. Cela porodica je, sa ostalim koprivničkim Jevrejima, odvedena u noći između 23 i 24. jula 1941. godine u logor Gospić. Otac i sin stradali su u logoru Jasenovac, a ženski deo porodice u Aušvicu.Israel Kohn (1885-1941) came to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from Poland as an educated rabbi with a doctorate. He served in Koprivnica from 1924 to 1941. Married to Lina, born Breier had three daughters - Frida, Gena and a daughter of unknown name, and a son Mark. The whole family, together with other Jews from Koprivnica, were taken to the Gospić camp on the night between July 23 and 24, 1941. The father and son died in the Jasenovac camp and the female part of the family in Auschwitz
Je rêvais aussi en quelque sorte comme la forêt
No full textDans cet entretien inédit, l’anthropologue Eduardo Kohn, auteur de Comment pensent les forêts, revient sur le rôle que le rêve a joué dans l’élaboration de ce qu’il a appelé « l’anthropologie au-delà de l’humain » et du projet qu’il mène actuellement sur le psychédélisme. Il y aborde notamment la place qu’ont tenue les rêves – les siens et ceux de ses hôtes – dans son enquête de terrain, dans son enseignement universitaire et dans ses réflexions éthiques et politiques.In this previously unpublished interview, the anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, author of How Forests Think, looks back at the role that dreams have played in the development of what he has called “the anthropology beyond the human” and his current project on psychedelics. In particular, he discusses the role that dreams―his own and those of his hosts―have played in his fieldwork, in his university teaching, and in his ethical and political reflections
Prime-Time Television 'Fable Families': Political and Social Satire for Segmented Audiences
No full text\u3cem\u3eMehubarot\u3c/em\u3e: A Peep without a Show
No full textThe Israeli television series Mehubarot (Connected, 2009) follows five Israeli women who use their performance before the camera—through both visual and spoken texts—as a means of biographical representation which blends public and private aspects of their daily lives. This article examines the use of spoken language as a central tool for signaling sincerity and closeness on the series’ visual stage, focusing on the unique setting of Israeli society and the exclusive genre of a televised diary in its written and spoken modes. Unlike blogs or videos uploaded to the internet, which are contemporary precedents for this kind of intimate exposure in the public arena, the genre under discussion relies on established conventions of television and cinema to convey intimacy. Mehubarot is inspired by documentaries and films that use voiceover as an established device for informing the viewers of the characters’ thoughts. In its methods of presenting the “diaries,” the series also adopts patterns of confession and exposure commonly used in televised platforms that follow ongoing projects of identity construction, and frequently present them as journeys of self-discovery and personal development. Following a discussion of the series’ unique features, the article’s second part focuses on the journalist Dana Spector and the contradictory readings of her private-public identity, social and family identity, and “celebrity” identity in their transfer from the newspaper column to the television arena
Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg and Sobolev type inequalities on stratified Lie groups
No full textIn this short paper, we establish a range of Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg and weighted Lp-Sobolev type inequalities on stratified Lie groups. All inequalities are obtained with sharp constants. Moreover, the equivalence of the Sobolev type inequality and Hardy inequality is shown in the L2-case. © 2017, The Author(s)
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