A lens on the week in Ed: June 2011, iss. 3 -
Another week's re-cap of ed-related content via symphily:
2nd academic arrested in 'prostitution ring' - t.co/DF3WOt1 [ #loveHE #academe #highered #sex #lawfare ] Wis. Gov. signs budget cutting education $1.85B - t.co/ktAXpaT [ #edchat #classism #austerity ] Conflating college achievement with sexual prowess - t.co/Mt4H2x5 [ #sociology #culture #loveHE #highered #sex ] Should teachers & students be Facebook 'friends'? - t.co/ESAu0aJ [ #edtech #edchat #educhat ] You're not shy, you're evolved! - t.co/DUrD6mV [ #sociology #culture #edchat #biophilia #anthropos ] BC: Debunking @FraserInstitute's latest crusade: Teacher merit pay - t.co/naWjFMY [ #edchat #BCed #BCpoli ] Childhood & violence: Children & war, focusing on 'child soldiers' - t.co/VmLQRRq [ #sociology #culture ] Women's-education advocates rally behind UBC scholar blinded in #Bangladesh - t.co/rECAJIF [ #loveHE #highered #BCed ] North Korea recruits hackers at school - t.co/GR3klQ6 [ #korea #tech #edchat ] Neoliberal politics as failed sociality: Youth & the crisis of higher education - t.co/RBaIG8m [ #loveHE #highered {via @gfbertini}] Rhizomatic learning - t.co/IKwUsdm [ #edchat #pedagogy #Deleuze #PhilEd {via @gfbertini}] On the inconvenience of cognitive dissonance - t.co/CQfEuC2 [ #sociology #culture #edchat {via @joe_bower}] 'Bad Teacher' movie boasts bad taste - t.co/G9MY5lU [ #edchat #education #culture ] 30 technology tools in 30 minutes - t.co/UnGYsUB [ #edchat #edtech #BCed {via @davidwees}] Detroit public schools announce 10% pay cuts, massive layoffs - t.co/MJDZly4 [ #edchat #classism #austerity ] Education reform: Tragedy & farce - t.co/ktWIctY [ #edchat #edreform ]
[ #edresearch ] "Militarized education in the United States needs to be understood in relation to the (cont) tl.gd/babk8t [ #edresearch ] "Like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, military education turns hierarchical organization, (cont) tl.gd/babknc [ #edresearch ] "The real triumph of market-based rhetoric was to shift discussion away from political concerns (cont) tl.gd/babl0j [ #edresearch ] "Globalization gets enforced through: (A) privatization schemes, such as vouchers, charters, (cont) tl.gd/bablkk "[T]he federal government wants soldiers rather than unemployed Ph.Ds in the classrooms." - Kenneth Saltman [ #edresearch ] [ #edresearch ] "Considering the ways that the global financial system maintains poverty and the military system (cont) tl.gd/babm94 "School violence is an extension of social violence, which is taught in programs like JROTC [& team sports]." - K. Saltman [ #edresearch ] [ #edresearch ] "[M]ilitarized education in the United States needs to be understood in relation to the (cont) tl.gd/babn37 [ #anthropos ] "A pedagogy of inquiry is hierarchical and mutually formative. As it is hierarchical, it requires (cont) tl.gd/babnsv [ #anthropos ] "It would be unfair to hold the personal inferiority of faculty members or educational ministries (cont) tl.gd/baboai [ #anthropos ] "Science is not wisdom, science is specialized knowledge ... A successful scientist can only (cont) tl.gd/babokd [ #anthropos ] "[Do] we, today, for instance, [...] have a greater knowledge of the conditions of life under (cont) tl.gd/babpm3 [ #anthropos ] "Men (sic) have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help (cont) tl.gd/babq2g [ #anthropos ] "From all appearances the revolutionaries in the life sciences (from James Watson and Francis (cont) tl.gd/babqcm [ #anthropos ] "[It takes] a good deal of intellectual and poetic labour to imagine that the early stages of (cont) tl.gd/babqsd [ #anthropos ] "The impulse lingers to invent a comprehensive metaphorics to link diverse domains once again (cont) tl.gd/babr7j Chicago school officials rescind pay raises for teachers - t.co/V8DwXzO [ #Chicago #edchat #austerity #neoliberalism ] Detroit public schools budget: Cuts, cuts, cuts - t.co/q8TLAzL [ #Detroit #classism #neoliberalism #edchat ] Autopoiesis, structural coupling & cognition: History of these & other notions in biology of cognition - t.co/N8sjST9 [ #edresearch ] Living in a city, or growing up in one, is associated with heightened brain sensitivity to local stress - t.co/QaGel9E [ #sociology ] 'I'm @ the #Riot!': Educating 'Generation Me' - t.co/vWVGdDg
Professor accused of running prostitution website - t.co/703CxdE [ #loveHE #highered #lawfare #sex ] Detroit announces new 'authority' for 'failing' schools - t.co/iJmJrO1 [ #edchat #neoliberalism #hegemony ] Florida: Teachers' union leads lawsuit challenging pension deductions - t.co/DmPmhPg [ #Florida #edchat #lawfare #neoliberalism ] Stop blaming teachers for poor student performance - t.co/wRqyBd3 [ #edchat #educhat #p2 #topprogs #news #tlot #rebelleft #tcot ] Head of US teachers' union decries danger of 'revolution' - t.co/prSp1cs [ #edchat #unions #complicity #educhat #Detroit ] BC: Burnaby parents urged to remove students from 'gay-friendly' lessons - t.co/jSb9nVR [ #BCnews #BCed #bigotry #queer #Burnaby ] Is 'our' k-12 education system 'successful'? - t.co/xN0bm62 [ #CanEd #BCed #edchat #educhat #elemchat #sociology {via @davidwees}] Germany: Conservatives seek to abandon three-tier high school system - t.co/vSneLra [ #euro #edchat ] #Michigan: Groups sue Gov. over 'Emergency Manager' Law, call it a 'power grab' - t.co/ZCG6mBC [ #lawfare #edchat #neoliberalism ] What to do when America gets an F on its history report card? - t.co/aNRixdG [ #edchat #sociology #sschat #p2 #topprogs #history ] Teaching to the test & calling it 'success' is like landscaping ghettos & calling them 'condos' - t.co/5FtYE2x [ #edchat #pedagogy ] Refusing to be 'normal': A homeschooler's take on 'mainstreaming' alternative education - t.co/13qf6td [ #edchat #educhat ] #Chicago: After rejecting raises for teachers, public schools' set to approve pay hikes for executives - t.co/KNs9ngD [ #edchat ] Measuring a teacher's effectiveness goes beyond test scores - t.co/Awbl65s [ #edchat #educhat #loveHE #assessment #education ] Considering the future of the library - t.co/03RGqU3 [ #libraries #books #bibliophilia #sociology #culture {via @gfbertini}]
Pink slips a daily concern for US educators - t.co/TEsSaVB [ #edchat #educhat #unions #sociology #education #p2 #topprogs ] What does Lacan say about ... resistance? - t.co/E96seHb [ #Lacan #academe #solidarity ] BC: History of rock-and-roll to be taught at Coquitlam secondary school - t.co/D8GDGV9 [ #BCed #sschat #culture #BCnews ] Does addictive Internet use restructure the brain? Do fish swim? - t.co/URlo696 [ #cogsci #neuro #edtech #sociology #culture #tech ] Are 'brain gyms' The Next Big Thing™? - t.co/iJuFwma [ #cogsci #neuro #edchat #sociology #capitalism #edtech ] Fla. Gov. Scott is sued by teachers' union - t.co/skOwz1n [ #lawfare #edchat #solidarity #educhat ] Florida: Unions sue Gov. Rick Scott over pension overhaul, employee pay cut - t.co/X7CvnLv [ #lawfare #unions #edchat ] Surveillance: From the cloud(s) to the fog - t.co/R4dMaEy [ #panopticon #sociology ] Adolescence and shyness - t.co/Zn0iH9W [ #sociology #parenting #edchat ] Nuances of 'brain drain' - t.co/WYAJazx [ #loveHE #sociology #academe #highered ] Getting a job in philosophy - t.co/SzCjeUk [ #jobs #philosophy #academe #loveHE #highered ] Assessment? Standardization? On finding what we look for - t.co/SIPwMsX [ #edchat #educhat #assessment {via @joe_bower}] Stagnant 'middle class' [aka 'the working poor'] feeling the pressure of rising tuition costs - t.co/MBTzgqJ [ #loveHE #highered ] Fostering student creativity & responsibility with blogging - t.co/a5Vi91N [ #edchat #edtech #educhat ] Detroit's Catherine Ferguson Academy to become for-profit charter school - t.co/pLgAqug [ #edchat #neoliberalism #classism ] Chicago teachers vow renewed activism over revoked raises - t.co/vgEan3a [ #edchat #unions #solidarity #educhat ]