Going Out and About: Activating children as citizens of the now

2020 ◽  
pp. 204361062096919
Author(s):  
Jeanne Marie Iorio ◽  
Catherine Hamm ◽  
Mara Krechevsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Living Well ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaningful Relationships

This article shares two research projects in the United States and Australia where children and teachers lead their local communities towards living well in precarious times. Rooted in the image of ‘children as citizens of the now’, the research projects offer innovative pedagogies as a way for children to generate meaningful relationships with community and local places. Specifically, children, families, teachers and researchers bring questions and curiosities from their everyday lives that activate teaching and learning with and from the world through the concepts of slowing down, noticing and engaging with multiple perspectives.

Assessment and Critical Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
pp. 306-324
Author(s):  
Frank Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Performance ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The United States ◽  
Summative Assessments ◽  
The World ◽  
Integrative Assessment

This chapter aligns the tenets of critical pedagogy with current practices of assessment in the United States. The author posits that critical pedagogy is an appropriate lens through which to view assessment, and argues against the hegemonic practices that support marginalization of students. Grounded in critical theory and based on Marxist ideals, the content supports the notion of teaching and learning as a partnership where the desire to empower and transform the learner, and open possibilities for the learner to view the world and themselves in that world, are primary goals. Political mandates to evaluate teacher performance and student learning are presented and discussed. In addition to the formative and summative assessments that teachers routinely do to students, the author suggests integrative assessment, where students with the teacher reflect together on the learning experience and its outcomes. The chapter includes specific examples from the author’s own teaching that operationalize the ideas presented.

scholarly journals Bridging Countries and Cultures through Accessible Global Collaborations

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Duranczyk ◽  
Elena Pishcherskaia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Projects ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Global Project

This paper discusses and provides two case studies on a postsecondary, accessible, global project among students in Russia, China, and the United States. The project design was to engage diverse students in an international conversation to explore their place in the world and envision their future as individuals, innovators, workers, and/or leaders in this globalized world. The three countries chosen, Russia, China, and the United States, are world powers and are pivotal countries for building international bridges. This paper highlights the evolution of the project and students’ vision for developing ongoing student-centered international research projects. It is the hope of the authors that educators reading this article will be inspired to embark on other accessible global projects designed to enhance language and cultural competence with and among all college students.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1971 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 22-35
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Growth

Developments in the world economy have on the whole been much as we predicted in February. It is becoming increasingly clear that renewed expansion is under way in the United States at a pace which, even if it falls short of the Administration's hopes, is more than compensating for the slowing down in industrial countries outside North America. This deceleration has become quite marked in Japan as well as Western Europe, but we expect a faster pace to be resumed before the end of the year. We still put real growth in OECD countries at around 4 per cent in 1971, unless there is a prolonged steel strike in the United States. This compares with about 2½ per cent last year, and we expect the rising trend to continue into 1972.

Chapter III. The World Economy

1980 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 36-48
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Similar Magnitude ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Significant Fall ◽  
The World

The growth of output in OECD member countries has been abruptly checked. Helped perhaps by relatively favourable weather, industrial production appears to have increased by 1-1½ per cent in the first quarter. In the second, however, there seems to have been quite a significant fall in Western Europe as well as in the United States, and a marked slowing down of growth in Japan (table 1). We no longer expect the aggregate rise for the year in member countries to be any more than ½ per cent (implying a drop of similar magnitude from the first quarter's rate), and the OECD secretariat has been forecasting a marginal fall. In terms of GDP the change of trend has been less pronounced but may well have been equally general. Though both we and OECD are expecting a rise of a little more than 1 per cent for the whole of 1980, some fall seems likely in the second half of the year.

The World Overseas

1965 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 19-29
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

Between the end of 1964 and the middle of 1965 there was some increase in the rate of growth of world industrial production, entirely due to the rapid expansion in the United States and Canada. The rate of growth in Europe apparently fell slightly partly owing to the relative stagnation in the United Kingdom, but also because of some slowing down in West Germany and the Netherlands and slight falls in Belgium and France which were not, taken together, fully offset by the upswing in Italy. Japanese production has remained virtually unchanged for a year (table 10).

The Communications Revolution and Evangelical Internationalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-71
Author(s):  
Lauren Frances Turek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Evangelical Christianity ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The World

This chapter explains the practical mechanisms by which evangelical organizations expanded their reach. It talks about many scholars of Christianity that have attributed the global expansion of evangelicalism to “new technology” without adequately demonstrating how technological innovations made evangelical Christianity appealing to its new adherents throughout the world. The chapter also illuminates the strategic approach of U.S. evangelical organizations in using electronic communications to spread the gospel. It shows how individuals and local communities abroad interacted with Christian media and details how evangelicals throughout the world came to view themselves as members of a transnational community of believers by the early 1980s. It examines the interplay of religious and political beliefs that underpinned the push for overseas evangelism, the technological mechanisms that fostered evangelical internationalism, and the scriptural interpretations that informed evangelical notions about human rights and the role that the United States should play in the world.

Research, Reflection, Practice: Look Who's Talking: Differences in Math Talk between U.S. and Chinese Classrooms

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-124
Author(s):  
Linda Sims
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Math Talk ◽  
The World ◽  
Mathematics Teaching And Learning

After twenty-three years of teaching, I stepped out of the classroom and into the world of education research. As part of a team of researchers comparing mathematics teaching and learning in the United States and China, I spent many hours watching videotaped mathematics lessons from fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms in both countries. It was fascinating. (To be honest, it was luxurious, since I was not also trying to grade spelling tests while I watched.) After I got past my initial reactions to the foreign setting—including bare walls, desks in rows, and over forty students per class—more substantive features of the differences between Chinese classrooms and what I was accustomed to seeing in U.S. classrooms began to capture my attention.

Civilization at the Crossroads - II

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-478
Author(s):  
John U. Nef
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The World

The last four or five decades have been a period of increasing tension and insecurity throughout the world, especially among the Western peoples. Pessimism, cynicism, and despair have gained the ascendancy over most of Europe; uncertainty and lack of confidence over much of the United States. It would be natural for businessmen and for social scientists, who measure civilization mainly in terms of real income or the volume of industrial production, to attribute this tension and discouragement to the slowing down in the rate of industrial progress, to the material crisis of the twentieth century.

The World Overseas

1965 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 22-32
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors

During the last twelve months there was some slowing down in the growth of industrial production in the main industrial countries as compared with the previous twelve months, but this occurred for the most part during the second half of 1964, with France and Italy registering actual falls in production, and output in the United States being adversely affected by the motor car strike in October. The first half of 1965 has seen a sharp acceleration of the rate of expansion overall, but this has by no means been the universal experience. French production has ceased to fall but remains stagnant and output in Italy is showing only a modest rise. One of the main factors in the high rate of expansion this year has been the exceptional rise in the United States, partly due to abnormal stockbuilding of motor cars and steel. Growth in Germany has been somewhat slower during 1965 as it has also in this country, and production in Japan, which increased by over 30 per cent during the last two years, has been completely stagnant this year (table 12).

Chapter II. The World Economy

1973 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Investment ◽  
Housing Investment ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The World

Later information confirms our February estimate that real economic growth in the OECD area last year was around 5 3/4 per cent. Our figure for 1973 has, however, been raised further and now stands at 7 per cent. Consumer demand should again be very strong and though housing investment is likely to increase more slowly, and even to flatten out in the United States, business investment in Western Europe has become much more buoyant in the last six months or so. Some slowing down still seems probable in 1974.

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