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The Politics of Culture
Get PDFUsing Van Dijk’s sociocognitive theory as a framework for discourse analysis, the state-mandated standards were examined to determine how the educational culture is impacted by the social studies curriculum. The process to revise the curriculum in Texas is highly politicized and outside interest groups, such as Mel and Norma Gabler’s Educational Research Analysts, have inserted their own cultural perspective over the last 50 years. The article considers the impact of this influence and discusses the norms and power structures produced.
 
Editorial: Are They Listening? Policymakers and Their Role in Public Education
Get PDFIn the United States the policy making process claims to be a cyclical process which drives politicians, dictates policies drafted, and legislation ultimately passed. The process begins with the people bringing issues, ideas, and concerns to the attention of the news media, advocacy groups, grassroots organizations, or interest groups. Ideally these groups connect the concerns of the people to elected officials and/ or courts who respond by creating policies which address these concerns. This is an over-simplified ideal. The reality of policymaking is messy, partisan, and the results frequently fail to address the concerns of the public, or create more unintended consequences than solve problems. Public education is an area of concern most familiar with unintended consequences
EMPOWERING BLACK GIRLS THROUGH HIP HOP PEDAGOGY IN SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW TO SUPPORT CULTURALLY RELEVANT AND INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
No full textThis systematic literature review provides a critical examination of the role of Hip Hop and Hip Hop Pedagogy (HHP) in shaping the educational experiences of African American female students within secondary social studies classrooms (grades 6-12). Drawing from an extensive body of qualitative research spanning 1999 to 2024, this study applies the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework to identify, analyze, and synthesize scholarly insights on the subject. The findings underscore the pedagogical efficacy of HHP in cultivating student engagement, fostering critical consciousness, and affirming cultural identity. Additionally, this review highlights HHP’s potential as a transformative and emancipatory educational tool that empowers students to navigate and critique systemic inequities. The study also looks into institutional barriers to the integration of HHP, identifying gaps in educator training and resistance within traditional curricular structures. Ultimately, the review advocates for the strategic incorporation of HHP into secondary social studies instruction as a means of fostering culturally sustaining pedagogies and enhancing educational equity
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Texas Politics in Citizenship Education: a Critical Discourse Analysis of the Texas Government Curriculum
Get PDFThis study used a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for government. These are the learning standards that public schools are required to use as the curriculum in Texas. Additionally, the study critically examined the Texas State Board of Education meeting minutes from the spring of 2010, when the board revised all social studies TEKS. James Gee’s framework for conducting CDA was used to analyze the government TEKS and meeting minutes to uncover the ways in which the language in the documents defines democratic and citizenship education in Texas, determine if the language creates an imbalance of power among participants in education, and do these documents agree with educational philosophers’ construct of citizenship and democratic education? The results of the CDA concluded that the Texas learning standards, and the words of many SBOE members reveal a preference toward right-wing, conservative beliefs. The construct of citizenship and democratic education created by the Texas government TEKS and SBOE meeting minutes contradicts these notions, as defined by educational theorists, and excludes those participants who do not embrace these beliefs
DISTRICT LEADER PERCEPTIONS OF PAID TEACHER RESIDENCIES
Get PDFTeacher residency programs have gained national attention as a promising strategy to recruit, prepare, and retain high-quality educators. These programs provide intensive clinical experiences that align educator preparation with school district instructional and staffing needs while also reducing financial barriers for teacher residents. There remains limited research of how district leaders perceive the value, challenges, and sustainability of paid teacher residencies. The purpose of this comparative case study was to explore district leader perceptions of paid teacher residencies in Texas. The study findings indicated that paid teacher residency programs in Texas offered an innovative approach to educator preparation and were viewed as successful program models for recruiting, hiring, and retaining certified educators, many of whom fill high demand positions. Findings aligned with areas of prior research, further supporting the success of these programs. Results and recommendations from the study can help other residency partnership stakeholders understand challenges and opportunities related to paid teacher residencies. District leaders perceived that residency programs were premier pipelines to fill teacher vacancies and that residency pipelines produced teachers who remained in the district longer compared to teachers prepared through traditional and alternative pathways. Finally, district leaders stressed the importance of adequate funding to sustain these valuable teacher pipelines. Scaling and sustaining paid teacher residency programs were contingent on aggressive recruitment, strong program design, stakeholder buy-in, and adequate funding for residents, mentors, and district personnel. Amidst challenges associated with maintaining and sustaining these programs, all five district leaders in this study advocated for sustaining these district programs as “premier pipelines” for recruitment. District leaders perceived paid teacher residency programs in Texas as a worthwhile return on investment for the district, the EPP, and ultimately the K-12 students in the classroom
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Politics and the Citizenship Curriculum: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Texas Government Standards
No full textThis analysis examined the Texas government standards after their revision in the spring of 2010. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, are the learning standards Texas public schools are required to use as the curriculum. James Gee’s framework for critical discourse analysis was used to 1. uncover the ways in which the language in the document defines citizenship education in Texas, 2. determine if the language creates an imbalance of power among participants in education, and 3. determine if the learning standards agree with educational philosophers’ construct of citizenship and democratic education. The critical discourse analysis revealed a heavily biased set of learning standards. The implications of this bias is discussed and suggestions are offered for ways in which teachers and teacher education programs might address the government standards.
Key words: citizenship education, critical discourse analysis, Texas, governmen
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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