2,272 research outputs found
Podcast: Towards a Tranformative Epistemology of Technology Education
No full textThis podcast, recorded by the author of the paper, discusses some of the key thinking and ideas in: Morrison-Love, D. (2016) Towards a transformative epistemology of technology education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol 50, Issue 4 (In Press). Core ideas include the relationship between technical activity, materials and the metaphorical paradigm of technology as an enhancement to human capability. Ultimately, it is argued that pupils’ technological knowledge arises in no small part, from their navigation of an ontological pathway through which they realise solutions to problems in a physical form
Charter school update & observations regarding initial trends and impacts
No full textAs the charter school movement continues to gain momentum, initial impacts and trends are becoming visible. The briefing builds upon previous work by the Morrison Institute, updating activities across the 12 initial charter states and offering observations on some initial trends and impacts.Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
Toni Morrison reads her work
No full textRecorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Speaker(s): Author, professor at Howard University, Cornell alumnus., Reading and Lecture.Toni Morrison gives a talk entitled, A Matter of Fiction, which discusses why people write and read fiction, specifically relating her own motivations. Morrison focuses on the preservation of the oral tradition as her primary motivation.1_xgip1xp
Morrison R. Waite High School; a celebration of 100 years
No full textA celebratory look at the administration, faculty, students and athletes involved in the first 100 years of Morrison R. Waite High School in the East Side of Toledo, Ohio. The school building, designed by architect David L. Stine, opened it's doors in 1914. The authors cover the changes in the physical building as well as changes in the people who worked and learned there. Book scanned is a gift from author Larry Michaels
Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition
No full textThis thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's
work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight
novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece
and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic
America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its
identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary
classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study
examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes
mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's
history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists
tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward
mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek
choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels'
rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing
the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that
Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic,
pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant
culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her
reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery
and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how
the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge
Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices
of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in
the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying
force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus
on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the
transformation of America that her novels envision
Affirmative action in Arizona
No full textabstract: The purpose of this brief report is to present a balanced look at current issues surrounding the education reform known as "academic standards." Prepared by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at the request of Greater Phoenix Leadership, the information contained in this report is intended for a business audience. It does not advocate any particular stance or make policy recommendations, but rather presents a platform from which the business community might choose a position. The report is organized around four areas of interest: (1) the national context for academic standards, (2) facts regarding Arizona's standards, (3) the pros and cons of academic standards, and (4) specific issues and positions in the national business community related to academic standards.Includes bibliographical references (p. 4).Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
Arizona's workforce development system : update and impact of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
No full textabstract: The purpose of this brief report is to provide information about Arizona’s system of workforce development, the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), how the Act has been implemented in the greater Phoenix area and the program’s relevance to business. It is an update of a previous brief on the subject from February 2000. Prepared by Morrison Institute for Public Policy at the request of Greater Phoenix Leadership, the information contained in this report is intended for a business audience.Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
Charter schools : the reform and the research
No full textabstract: With so much new school reform activity within the United States centering on charter schools, a fresh appraisal of the situation is in order. This briefing summarizes the history of charter school laws and updates their current status across the country. Although this is not intended to be a comprehensive review, several charter school research projects are described: some that have revealed lessons learned in the implementation of charter school laws, and others, more national in scope, that were designed to systematically describe existing charter schools and document their impacts.Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
Proposition 301 : promises, progress, and prospects
No full textabstract: The purpose of this brief report is to provide information about the past, present, and future of a very significant education reform program and tax increase, commonly known as Proposition 301. Coverage includes the history leading up to the ballot measure approved by Arizona voters in November 2000, its status approximately one year after it went into effect, and its prospects over a 20-year life span.Includes bibliographical references (p. 6).Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
A system-wide approach for analyzing Japanese wheat import allocation decisions
No full textabstract: This paper develops and implements an import allocation model based on Theil's system-wide approach to demand and tests the assumptions of blockwise dependence and uniform substitutability among different sources and types of wheat imported by Japan.Faculty working paper series (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 98-07Includes bibliographical references (p. 16)
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