Rethinking School Curriculum Through Dewey

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Keynote Address | Residential Research and Bilateral Knowledge Translation Supporting Community-based Actions

地域環境知プロジェクト第1回国際シンポジウム，総合地球環境学研究所 講演室，2014-09-13，総合地球環境学研究所 地域環境知プロジェク

Schools for Profit or Schools for Education? A Christian School Principal’s Perspectives

This dissertation is a series of speculative essays (Schubert, 1991) that address the forces of neoliberalism on schools today– both public and private. While there have been studies on the detrimental effects of high-stakes testing on public schools (e.g., Au, 2015; Giroux, 2014; Wacquant, 2000) as well as the associated harmful effects of school to prison pipeline (e.g., Saltman, 2016; Taubman, 2009), there remains little research associated with the damaging impacts of neoliberalism on Christian schools. Building upon the theoretical framework of critical pedagogy (e.g., Friere, 1970; Kincheloe, 2008; McLaren, 2015), I undertake a critical examination of neoliberalism’s calculated efforts on schools (e.g., Gallager, 2007; Giroux, 2008; Kumar,2012; Ryan, 2016) and its dangers to both public and Christian schools--an on-going threat of losing additional Constitutional democratic values that were designed to provide equal treatment for all students. I investigate the damages associated with the one-size-fits-all curriculum implemented initially through the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2002. Through the lenses of my past experiences as a Christian school principal and as an educator, I share with the reader impacts on Christian schools and their primary constituents, middle class families. The dissertation includes my suggestions based upon critical pedagogical research that schools should consider as they move forward in the 21st century. Drawing from Schwab (1978) and the four identified commonplaces of curriculum and more recently, Lake (2014), I examine how each commonplace complements the other in my ideal school. I propose long-term relationships between teachers and students over multiple years. Within such a context, the student and teacher learn from each other beginning at the kindergarten level. Students having opportunities to bond with teachers (e.g., Noddings, 2005) is at the core of such a curriculum where relationships and trust replace the current trend of teaching to the test. I emphasize the need for beginning teachers to practice their skills during an internship period of several years alongside a mentor teacher with reduced class sizes. The dissertation concludes by addressing current inhibiting forces conflicting with implementing this child-centered format for learning

Positive Impacts of TILT: Two Professors’ Journeys in Creating More Student-Centered Teacher Education Courses

As the K-12 classroom changes to support the needs of our every-changing society, so should the teacher education courses change on the university level. Additionally, the focus on higher education has become more student-centered with an emphasis on transparency in teaching and learning (TILT). The purpose of this article is to highlight the positive experiences two teacher education professors had using TILT to examine assignments and course syllabi. The journey of developing transparent assignments and student-centered syllabi is time-consuming, challenging, and on-going, but the benefits of a student-centered classroom are invaluable

Update on Purchasing a Server for Developing a Spatially-Explicit Agent-Based Model of Impacts from Climate Change on Louisiana Agriculture

Michael K. Crosby and Jason Holderieath are Assistant Professors in the School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry at Louisiana Tech University. The abstract for this presentation can be downloaded by clicking on the blue download button

Initial test of a Bayesian approach to solar flare prediction

A test of a new Bayesian approach to solar flare prediction (Wheatland 2004a) is presented. The approach uses the past history of flaring together with phenomenological rules of flare statistics to make a prediction for the probability of occurrence of a large flare within an interval of time, or to refine an initial prediction (which may incorporate other information). The test of the method is based on data from the Geostationary Observational Environmental Satellites (GOES), and involves whole-Sun prediction of soft X-ray flares for 1976-2003. The results show that the method somewhat over-predicts the probability of all events above a moderate size, but performs well in predicting large events.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Astronomical Society of Australia meeting in Brisbane, July 2004; revised versio

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The term aegyo is often defined as a form of performative cuteness comprising a range of linguistic and non-linguistic behaviors (K. Moon, 2013; Puzar & Hong, 2018). Previous anthropological, discursive, and linguistic investigations (K. Moon, 2013; Puzar & Hong, 2018; H. Jang, 2021) identify it as a gendered practice associated with “modern and trendy young women in Korean mainstream culture” (K. Moon, 2017, p. 42), often used for requesting favors, maintaining social harmony, and gaining economic advancement (Manietta 2015; Puzar & Hong 2018). K. Moon (2013) asserts that the features that most prominently index aegyo are: rising-falling intonation (LHL%), the lexical item oppa ‘older male friend of a woman’, nasality, and obstruent fortition (OF). Nasality, in particular, has yet to be systematically investigated as a component of aegyo, despite its frequent association with the speech style. This dissertation closes this gap via an examination of the roles of age and gender on the nasality produced during aegyo. The goals of this dissertation are to: (1) examine what features participants associate with aegyo, (2) examine how participants define, use, and think of aegyo and its users, (3) examine the linguistic, social, and discursive predictors of IP-final nasality in aegyo, (4) more broadly connect aegyo to prior work on style and accordingly use aegyo to further sociolinguistics understanding of style, specifically to use it and nasality to probe the cline of interiority, and (5) investigate the applicability of Stewart & Kohlberger’s (2017) earbud methodology to sociophonetics. To do this, I utilize multiple methods derived from phonetics, lab-phonology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and language-documentation. Data comes from interview data of fifty-five romantic couples living in the Seoul metropolitan area. Couples were asked to fill out a brief survey about aegyo, then to perform three dialogues (date, complaints about work, vacation-planning) and three communicative tasks (requesting, comforting, expressing love) in non-aegyo and aegyo modes, to suggest and then read the ten expressions they most associate with aegyo and to read aloud ten aegyo-ful text messages to their partner. Results reveal that nasality and LHL% tone are the most widely associated features of aegyo, but rates of association are dependent on age with younger speakers more likely to associate phonetic/phonological variants with aegyo. The data also suggest that interactions between nasality, gender and performance of aegyo begin for participants born in the 1970s, suggesting that it was for these and younger speakers that aegyo is enregistered as a performative style (Agha, 2003). Through written survey data and a discursive analysis of the appearance of nasality, I argue that aegyo broadly and nasality specifically are forms of positive politeness (Brown & Levinson, 1987) that also index a whining and caring stance. Finally, I argue that visual cues in language contribute to the cline of interiority (Eckert, 2019) with more visually prominent linguistic features being more exterior on the cline

A Novel Codon-optimized SIV Gag-pol Immunogen for Genebased Vaccination

Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a robust pathogen used in non-human primates to model HIV vaccines. SIV encodes a number of potential vaccine targets. By far the largest and most conserved protein target in SIV is its gag-pol protein that bears many epitopes to drive multivalent immune T cell responses. While gag-pol is an attractive antigen, it is only translated after a frame shift between gag and pol with the effect that gag and pol are expressed at an approximate 10/1 ratio. The codon bias of native lentiviral genes are also mismatched with the abundance of tRNAs in mammalian cells resulting in poor expression of unmodified SIV genes. To provide a better SIV gag-pol immunogen for gene-based vaccination, we codon-optimized the full gag-pol sequence from SIVmac239. To increase pol expression, we artificially moved the pol sequence in frame to gag to bypass the need for a translational frame shift for its expression. Finally, we inserted four self-cleaving picornavirus sequences into gag p24, protease, reverse transcriptase, and into integrase to fragment the proteins for potentially better immune presentation. We demonstrate that these immunogens are well expressed in vitro and drive similar antibody and T cell responses with or without cleavage sequences

A Novel Codon-optimized SIV Gag-pol Immunogen for Genebased Vaccination

Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a robust pathogen used in non-human primates to model HIV vaccines. SIV encodes a number of potential vaccine targets. By far the largest and most conserved protein target in SIV is its gag-pol protein that bears many epitopes to drive multivalent immune T cell responses. While gag-pol is an attractive antigen, it is only translated after a frame shift between gag and pol with the effect that gag and pol are expressed at an approximate 10/1 ratio. The codon bias of native lentiviral genes are also mismatched with the abundance of tRNAs in mammalian cells resulting in poor expression of unmodified SIV genes. To provide a better SIV gag-pol immunogen for gene-based vaccination, we codon-optimized the full gag-pol sequence from SIVmac239. To increase pol expression, we artificially moved the pol sequence in frame to gag to bypass the need for a translational frame shift for its expression. Finally, we inserted four self-cleaving picornavirus sequences into gag p24, protease, reverse transcriptase, and into integrase to fragment the proteins for potentially better immune presentation. We demonstrate that these immunogens are well expressed in vitro and drive similar antibody and T cell responses with or without cleavage sequences