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Europe and North America Regional GCED Network - Research Report
No full textGlobal citizenship education (GCED), perhaps more than any other
educational issue, is the result of conceptual, political, and even pedagogical
negotiations. It follows non-linear processes of policy implementation, the
contextual development of innovative educational practices, the circulation
of information among key institutions, and the conceptual co-construction of
GCED ideas through networks. GCED is shaped both through global policy
and according to local needs, moving across geographic scales, through
various systems, and according to the work of diverse actors.
Studying GCED as a Social Network
Due to these elements, GCED research requires the use of relational data. It
is not sufficient to understand educational phenomena as isolated from social
relations. This study addresses an important gap in GCED research by exploring
how GCED is constructed and moves across networks of actors, including
governments, NGOs, researchers, and educational institutions, among others.
While in recent years, some research has explored the role of both offline and
digital networks (Twitter in particular) in shaping educational policy, this is the first
study to apply social network analysis to GCED educational policy and practice.
Social network analysis (SNA) appears to be one of the most appropriate
methods for analyzing the structural and functional effects of those phenomena,
where social relationships prevail over organizational characteristics
Carrie Fountain, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textCarrie Fountain\u27s poems have appeared in Tin House, Poetry, and The New Yorker, among others. She is the author of the collections Burn Lake (Penguin, 2010) and Instant Winner (Penguin, 2014), and a recipient of the National Poetry Series Award. Her first novel, I\u27m Not Missing, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books (Macmillan) in 2018
Beyond the digital diva: women on the World Wide Web
Get PDFIn the year 2000, American researchers reported that women constituted 51 percent of Internet users. This was a significant discovery, as throughout the medium's history, women were outnumbered by men as both users and builders of sites. This thesis probes not only this historical moment of change, but how women are mobilising the World Wide Web in their work, leisure and lives.
Not considered in the '51% of American women now online' headline is the lack of women engaged in Web building rather than Web shopping. In technical fields relating to the Web, women are outnumbered and marginalized, being poorly represented in computer-related college and university courses, in careers in computer science and computer programming, and also in digital policy. This thesis identifies the causes for the low number of women in these spheres. I consider the social and cultural reasons for their exclusion and explore the discourses which operate to discourage women's participation.
My original contribution to knowledge is forged as much through how this thesis is written as by the words and footnotes that graze these pages. With strong attention to methodology in Web-based research, I gather a plurality of women's voices and experiences of under-confidence, humiliation and fear. Continuing the initiatives of Dale Spender's Nattering on the Net, I research women's use of the Web in placing a voice behind the statistics. I also offer strategies for digital intervention, without easy platitudes to the 'potential' for women in the knowledge economy or through Creative Industries strategies.
The chapters of this thesis examine the contexts in which exclusionary attitudes are created and perpetuated. No technology is self-standing: we gain information about 'new' technologies from the old. I investigate representations and mediations of women's relationship to the Web in fields including the media, the workplace, fiction, the Creative Industries and educational institutions. For example, the media is complicit in causing women to doubt their technological capabilities. The images and ideologies of women in film, newspapers and magazines that present computer and Web usage are often discriminatory and derogatory. I also found in educational institutions that patriarchal attitudes privilege men, and discourage female students' interest in digital technologies. I interviewed high school and university students and found that the cultural values embedded within curricula discriminate against women. Limitations in Web-based learning were also discovered.
In discussing the cultural and social foundations for women's absence or under-confidence in technological fields, I engage with many theories from a prominent digital academic: Dale Spender. In her book Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace, Spender's outlook is admonitory. She believes that unless women acquire a level of technological capital equal to their male counterparts, women will continue to be marginalised as new political and social ideologies develop. She believes women's digital education must occur as soon as possible. While I welcome her arguments, I also found that Spender did not address the confluence between the analogue and the digital. She did not explore how the old media is shaping the new. While Spender's research focused on the Internet, I ponder her theses in the context of the World Wide Web.
In order to intervene in the patriarchal paradigm, to move women beyond digital shoppers and into builders of the digital world, I have created a website (included on CD-ROM) to accompany this thesis's arguments. It presents links to many sites on the Web to demonstrate how women are challenging the masculine inscriptions of digital technology. Although the website is created to interact directly with Chapter Three, its content is applicable to all parts of the thesis.
This thesis is situated between cultural studies and internet studies. This interdisciplinary dialogue has proved beneficial, allowing socio-technical research to resonate with wider political applications. The importance of intervention - and the need for change - has guided my words. Throughout the research and writing process of this thesis, organisations have released reports claiming gender equity on the Web. My task is to capture the voice, views and fears of the women behind these statistics
Alienable rights: negative figures of U.S. citizenship, 1787-1868
No full textPh. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Carrie Hyd
Why Look at Animals in Landscapes?
No full textThis book was published on the occasion of the two-person exhibition Reflexive Animals with work by Heather Passmore and Carrie Walker. The exhibition was held at SFU Gallery from September 8 to October 20, 2012. It includes written contributions by artist Julie Andreyev, poet Peter Culley and Bill Jeffries.final article publishe
Rethinking and Reinventing Intercultural Education in Post-Secondary Institutions: A Critical, Anti-Colonial Approach
No full textCritical and anti-colonial scholarship helps us imagine how intercultural education might begin to address the power imbalances inherent to issues of culture and epistemology. This paper reflexively dialogues anti-colonial theory with my own experiments of practically implementing these theories within the Intercultural Program (IP), an extracurricular program at a Canadian postsecondary institution, to demonstrate possibilities for shaping intercultural education towards ethical ends. Through curriculum, programming, and community-building that is cocreated with students, the IP aspires to shape intercultural education towards social justice and equity, opening spaces for engagement with nondominant epistemologies, and promoting the critical thinking necessary for evaluating the historical, economic, political, social, and ethical implications of students’ own and others’ positions. At the same time, the IP provides a helpful site for exploring the challenges of doing critical work in an internationalizing institution, and the need, perhaps, to move intercultural education away from internationalization within higher education
Boomerang Ethics: How Racism Affects Us All
No full textReview of Joseph Mensah and Christopher J. Williams’ 2017 publication analyzing the dynamics of racism in Canada
Revising Writing Assignments in Response to Generative AI
Get PDFThe author describes how she revised writing assessments in the university’s first-year writing sequence to emphasize rhetorical analysis of multimodal texts, prompts to which generative AI and ChatGPT struggle to respond
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