Timely and Compelling Research for the Field of Learning Disabilities: Implications for the Future

Educators attempting to keep up with the most recent research readily acknowledge that there is too much to read and too little time for reading. Each fall, the Research Committee of the Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) sponsors a Research Symposium Panel in which panelists, after reviewing recent literature pertinent to the field of learning disabilities (LD), prioritize selections of “must reads” for educators (see Table 1). Symposium panelists apply individualized criteria in selecting their readings, and intentionally no attempt is made to influence perspectives or parameters to ensure autonomy for each panelist’s recommendations

Introduction

Aloha and Welcome The Hawai‘i Organizing Committee for the11th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America and the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel extend Hawai‘i’s fabled aloha to scholars, artists, museum and gallery professionals, educators, and textile enthusiasts from around the world. Honolulu, the cosmopolitan capital of the state of Hawai‘i, is a meeting place of Western, Asian, and Pacific cultures, languages, and arts. Hawai‘i’s rich international diversity provides an appropriate site for discourse on the symposium theme Textiles as Cultural Expressions. We are delighted that the symposium program is strongly international with presenters from East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific region, Europe, and the Americas. The collective expertise of TSA members informs the entire program of the symposium and provides the opportunity to gain inspiration from the knowledge and research of our colleagues. Site seminars, exhibitions, and tours focusing on Asian and Pacific textiles are offered throughout Honolulu at major museums, galleries, and art institutions. Local researchers, artists, and teachers look forward to sharing our abundant textile resources, particularly of Hawaiian, Pacific, and Asian textile traditions, many of which are rarely available or known outside of Hawai‘i

Press Release for annual symposium on GLBTIQQ issues, April 5-10 Narrating Equality: Speaking Our Truths 2010

This is the press release for the annual symposium on GLBTIQQ issues, April 5-10 Narrating Equality: Speaking Our Truths. Press release; KINGSTON, R.I. –March 26, 2010--The University of Rhode Island will host its 16th annual symposium on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, intersex, queer, and questioning issues Monday, April 5 through Saturday, April 10. The symposium has been an annual highlight for the URI campus, as well as for GLBTIQQ communities throughout Rhode Island and the Northeast. All programs will be held at URI’s Kingston Campus. “Our committee has an ongoing commitment to present a free, public conference that embraces diverse perspectives and discussions of importance to GLBTIQQ people and their supporters,’ says Andrew Winters, assistant to the URI vice president of Student Affairs, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Programs and Services.; This year’s symposium titled “Narrating Equality: Speaking Our Truths,” encourages sharing personal narratives through writing and/or speaking as meaningful vehicles that promote awareness, sensitivity, and progress. All programs are intended to be interactive to afford maximum exchange and an enhanced community spirit. As always, the schedule is infused with various forms of expression and substantial opportunity for networking and socializing. Consistent with the program selection throughout the past 15 years, this symposium will feature writers, community activists, educators, films, and exhibits that focus upon and celebrate GLBTIQQ people and issues. Topics will cover a broad range to include racial, gender, and sexual identities, marriage equality, spirituality, GLBTIQQ history, health issues, coming out, and more.; Each year the Symposium Committee seeks to identify diverse voices that have not been previously heard. This year, University of Vermont Professor Brian Joseph Gilley, author of Becoming Two-Spirit: The Search for Self and Social Acceptance in Indian Country, University of Nebraska Press, will present sessions dealing with GLBTQ identities and issues among Native American communities. He will also lead a discussion about the University of Vermont ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies Program, which he chairs.; COMPLETE PROGRAM SCHEDULE: http://www.uri.edu/glbt/symposium/2010/symp2010.htm. DIRECTIONS: To find symposium locations, go to URI’s interactive map at http://www.uri.edu/home/visitors/finder/index.php

Introduction to special edition.

This special issue of the Waikato Journal of Education arose from a symposium held at The University of Waikato in June, 2009. The symposium, Initial Teacher Education and the New Zealand Curriculum–Te Marautanga o Aotearoa Symposium, was attended by delegates from all major initial teacher education (ITE) providers in New Zealand. ITE refers to pre-service teacher education, that is, programmes that prepare student teachers to become beginning teachers. Curriculum includes the school and the ITE curriculum

ACM Curriculum Reports: A Pedagogic Perspective

In this paper, we illuminate themes that emerged in interviews with participants in the major curriculum recommendation efforts: we characterize the way the computing community interacts with and influences these reports and introduce the term “pedagogic projection” to describe implicit assumptions of how these reports will be used in practice. We then illuminate how this perceived use has changed over time and may affect future reports

12th Biennial Symposium Program, Part 1, Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space

As President of TSA, I am delighted to welcome you to the 12th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America. This gathering brings together an impressive number of scholars, artists, museum and gallery professionals, educators, and textile enthusiasts from around the world.As an organization, TSA selects Symposium venues which through their unique site specific offerings broaden our understanding of diverse museum collections and institutions in different geographic settings, encouraging new and old members to discover what yet another location holds of serious interest to specialists. Each gathering has its own flavor and distinct sense of place. For this event in Lincoln, Nebraska, our deep appreciation goes to the inspired and dedicated leadership of Wendy Weiss and Diane Vigna, co-chairs of Symposium 2010, and to the careful, collaborative planning by the local steering committee. Many people have worked so hard to make available Nebraska’s offerings to those of us who have traveled great or small distances to be here, focused on the theme, Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space. This Symposium has scheduled a generous and professional program of organized sessions, panels and discussions, the keynote address and plenary presentations, site seminars, tours, workshops, and the many excellent exhibitions. I look forward to seeing you at the International Textile Marketplace, the Book Fair, at the opening reception, the gallery hop, and at the Banquet and Awards Ceremony.This is a time when we as colleagues can meet new colleagues, enjoy networking with others in the field and connect across our diverse interests, learning from each other. Thank you for coming to this Symposium and for your interest and support of TSA. You are an important part of this international organization.Pat Hickman, President of TSA, 2008-201

Extending Invitations, Becoming Messmates

As music educators we can model proactive advocacy among community members to prevent individuals\u27 reactive violence in response to intolerance for differences. We can offer music-learning tables as safe spaces in which community members openly and collaboratively learn to know each other as individuals with diverse identities and interests. As messmates around the table, we can identify ways that researching, questioning, and being musical together can eradicate fears and the damaging effects of homophobia

Some considerations on research dissemination with particular reference to the audience and the authorship of papers.

Original article can be found at : http://www.informaworld.com/This paper suggests that some refinements might need to be considered to current codes of ethics for dissemination of research. The growth of research in music education over the last decade is reviewed, with examples from new journals, conferences and professional associations. It is argued that nowadays researchers have to address a multidisciplinary number of audiences and this should be taken into account in the regulations for conferences and publications with the incorporation of guidelines for contributors to address their specific audience and to explain any previous dissemination. The authorship of papers is also considered, in particular issues arising from multiple authorship, as well as the research participants' contribution to the final report. Some of these issues are discussed with reference to studies focussed on a particular topic (creativity in music education) within the context of music education research, but it is acknowledged that the discussion also applies to other fields of the humanities and social sciences.Peer reviewe

Digital communities: context for leading learning into the future?

In 2011, a robust, on-campus, three-element Community of Practice model consisting of growing community, sharing of practice and building domain knowledge was piloted in a digital learning environment. An interim evaluation of the pilot study revealed that the three-element framework, when used in a digital environment, required a fourth element. This element, which appears to happen incidentally in the face-to-face context, is that of reflecting, reporting and revising. This paper outlines the extension of the pilot study to the national tertiary education context in order to explore the implications for the design, leadership roles, and selection of appropriate technologies to support and sustain digital communities using the four-element model