Reconfiguring the borderlands of identity: Preparing social justice educators

This article offers multiple pedagogical approaches for mobilizing Gloria Anzaldúa\u27s metaphor of borderlands to prepare social justice educators to address issues of justice and equity in increasingly diverse classroom settings. It describes an experiential course in multicultural education, including innovative processes through which Education students analyze the borderlands of identity, society, and geography through critical self-analysis, fieldwork, and social action. By investigating the intersectionality of social justice issues and the social construction of identity, students attempt to transform the borders of their own identities and engage in action projects to begin a process of bridging the edges of cultural inequity

FundHer Brief 2008: Money Watch for Women's Rights Movements and Organizations

This Fundher brief is divided into 4 sections. Section 1 looks at the organizational profiles of survey respondents: their scope, size, priorities and other core characteristics. The second section presents the funding landscape for these organizations, exploring some of the existing challenges for accessing funds and advances that have been made in recent years. Section 3 shares the self-analysis done by participants in the research on the state of their organizing, in particular related to fundraising, introducing interesting experiences in collaborative resource mobilization. Finally, the section entitled "What's next" summarizes implications of all the above for women's rights organizations and donors. At the end of the document there are 5 thematic overviews of important funding trends and opportunities for organizations working on those issues

Self-awareness review Part 1: Do you “self-reflect” or “self-ruminate”?

We all spend time analyzing our inner thoughts and feelings; past research looked at this activity as being unitary in nature (i.e., simply focusing on the self), examined how frequently people introspect, and identified the effects of self-focus on behavior. Current studies indicate that people actually engage in two different types of self-analysis: self-reflection (enjoying analyzing the self) and self-rumination (not being able to shut off thoughts about the self), each leading to opposite consequences

Predicting a Gapless Spin-1 Neutral Collective Mode branch for Graphite

Using the standard tight binding model of 2d graphite with short range electron repulsion, we find a gapless spin-1, neutral collective mode branch {\em below the particle-hole continuum} with energy vanishing linearly with momenta at the $\Gamma$ and $K$ points in the BZ. This spin-1 mode has a wide energy dispersion, 0 to $\sim 2 eV$ and is not Landau damped. The `Dirac cone spectrum' of electrons at the chemical potential of graphite generates our collective mode; so we call this `spin-1 zero sound' of the `Dirac sea'. Epithermal neutron scattering experiments, where graphite single crystals are often used as analyzers (an opportunity for `self-analysis'!), and spin polarized electron energy loss spectroscopy (SPEELS) can be used to confirm and study our collective mode.Comment: 4 pages of LaTex file, 3 eps figure file

A Memoir of No Memory: Rethinking Self Analysis and Navigating Medical Narratives

Faculty Research Day 2018: Faculty Competitive Poster WinnerMy sabbatical project explores the themes of health, wellness, identity, and creative voice. In a series of essays, I am investigating and writing about life events—both traumatic and ordinary—and their effects on memory, personal psychology, and the choices I make as a writer. The first of these essays describes and analyzes an illness I endured in 1992. I spent over three months in a "prolonged coma," and an additional six months in rehabilitation. This research project brought me back into that world of hospitals, tests, diagnoses, and jargon. Having no concrete recollection of those summer months, I began with one central question: How can I write a memoir about something I can’t remember? My explorations became the focus of The Comet's Tail: A Memoir of No Memory (Homebound Publications, 2018). The challenges of subjectivity forced me to question my duty as a memoirist and whether impartiality is ever really possible. I had to piece together three threads—journal entries written before I got sick, medical notes transcribed at the time, and emerging memories after the event. Examining these various accounts forced me to confront new questions of perspective and documentation. How much was true record and how much was inaccurate recollection of witnesses or imaginative invention? How is memory formed, and what is the role of trauma in our ability to reconstruct and understand the past

Malaysian PBL Approaches: Shaping World-Class TVET Skills towards IR 4.0

An Industrial Revolution 4.0 promoted by Malaysian government entitles the rapid growth of manufacturing sector thus promotes a multi-level of workforce and skilled work force needed to satisfy the rapid technological development application. The challenges arise on preparing the individuals to meet with the current business at adequate skills level and the student need to be prepared in such way satisfied the business expectations. Looking into this situation, this paper aims to study the concept of correlation between active learning method known as Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Method and required employability skills in TVET. As an initiative to enrich the future opportunity on empowering TVET skills, this study assumes that there is positive relationship between employability skills and PBL approaches in improving student’s quality and skills. The method of study involves documentation analysis on previous research to proves the importance of employability skills in enhancing student’s competencies and the effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning Method in preparing the students to meet the expectations. The main findings of this study claimed that there was a positive relationship between employability skills and PBL learning method. Result acknowledge that PBL has the ingredients to help develop employability skills and student’s behavior. Through PBL, students learn to become more associates in the teaching and learning processes as they take responsibility throughout the learning process. It would suggest that the educational institution should emphasize the needs of the industry and students by creating awareness and guiding the students in self-analysis and in acquisition of skills

Editorial. Gender and education

The present issue of the CEPS Journal is the first edition of a scientific journal completely dedicated to the question of gender and education, and is an important element in the mosaic of scientific production on the theme in Central- East Europe. Moreover, this issue brings six articles all dealing with specific gender-related issues in the field of education. (DIPF/Orig.

Organizational learning activities in high hazard industries : the logics underlying self-analysis

Cover title. "A version of this paper was presented under the title "Failures to Learn from Experience: An Analysis of Incident Reviews in Nuclear Power Plants and Chemical Process Plants" in the Symposium "High States Learning: Making Sense of Unusual, High-Hazard Events" at the Academy of Management meetings, Cincinnati, August, 1996."--p. 33.Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).Supported by the International Center for Research on the Management of Technology (ICRMOT).John S. Carroll