Assessing the Impact of Holocaust Education on Adolescents’ Civic Values: Experimental Evidence from Arkansas

Background American adults overwhelmingly agree that the Holocaust should be taught in schools, yet few studies investigate the potential benefits of Holocaust education. Objectives We evaluate the impact of a Holocaust education conference on knowledge of the Holocaust and several civic outcomes, including “upstander” efficacy (willingness to intervene on behalf of others), likelihood of exercising civil disobedience, empathy for the suffering of others, and tolerance of others with different values and lifestyles. Research Design We recruit two cohorts of students from three local high schools and randomize access to the Arkansas Holocaust Education Conference, where students have the chance to hear from a Holocaust survivor and to participate in breakout sessions led by Holocaust experts. Results We find evidence that the conference increased participants’ upstander efficacy, but fail to reject the null hypothesis that the conference would increase participants’ knowledge or other civic attitudes.

Introduction to the Special Issue

Self-Directed Learning and Advising in Language Education Conference organized by IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group (LASIG) and Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University School of Foreign Languages, Turkey (AYBU SFL) took place online on 24 April 2021. It was originally planned as a face-to-face event in 2019, yet it was postponed to a later date due to the global outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Through an English Teacher’s Eyes: Self-Directed Learning and Advising in Language Education E-Conference

In this review, I aim to convey my ideas on the Self-Directed and Advising in Language Education Conference from an English teacher’s point of view. I watched both plenary sessions and some of the concurrent sessions in which I learned a lot. I will briefly mention the topics in the plenary sessions and concurrent sessions, my related ideas, and the implications I drew. I attended the conference as an English teacher seeking solutions for learners’ language learning issues and the specific problems that I personally faced during distance education times. This event encouraged me to reflect more deeply about education during post-COVID times, which, I believe, underlines the importance of self-directed learning and advising in language learning.

A Review of The Plenary Talks on Advising and Self-Directed Learning: Two Important Systems for Learner Autonomy

This paper presents a review of the plenary talks at the Self-Directed Learning and Advising in Language Education Conference, one primarily on advising by Jo Mynard of Kanda University of International Studies and the other on self-directed learning by Lawrie Moore-Walter and Christian Ludwig of IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group. It offers a brief overview of both sessions as well as underlining the highlights and the takeaways.

Unfettering discussions about social justice: the role of conversational prompts in discussions about mathematics education for Indigenous students

To increase possibilities for listening respectfully to Indigenous educators, there is a need to identify conversational prompts which are used to raise alternative views of social justice about mathematics education for Indigenous students. Using Nancy Fraser’s description of abnormal social justice, an analysis was made of transcripts from round table sessions, at an Indigenous mathematics education conference. This analysis identified a number of conversational prompts that enabled shifts from normal to abnormal discussions about social justice. Normal discussions exhibited assumptions in which mathematics was valued as a Western domain of knowledge; cultural examples could be used as vehicles to teach mathematics; and decisions about education for Indigenous students should be made by external authorities. In abnormal discussions, these assumptions were queried and alternative possibilities arose. The conversational prompts, which initiated this querying, occurred in a number of ways, including the telling of stories and the asking of questions that either directly or indirectly challenged normal justice discourses about Indigenous students’ learning of mathematics. Identifying conversational prompts can assist non-Indigenous mathematics educators, who wish to be allies, to challenge their own and others’ assumptions about normal social justice issues related to mathematics education for Indigenous students.

PARTNERSHIPS WITH PATIENTS: THE CONCEPT OF SHARED CARE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE OF CARDIOLOGISTS

Целью данной статьи являлось ознакомить кардиологическое сообщество страны с результатами работы ESC Education Conference (2020), которая была посвящена обсуждению проблем и возможности интеграции участия пациентов в совместном ведении их с врачами. ESC создан специальный форум по вовлечению уже пролеченных «старых» пациентов в программу совместного ведения «новых» пациентов, а также привлечению их в программы образования и науки. Конференция подтвердила единодушие участников в том, что интеграция пациентов в разработку их диагностических и лечебных планов требует выделения большего количества времени для обучения пациентов во время каждой встречи, а также сделала акцент о необходимости введения в учебные программы разделов по обучению медицинских работников совместному ведению. Вывод: Таким образом, концепция тесного сотрудничества пациентов и медицинских работников предоставляет огромную возможность для развития программы совместного ведения больных в области медицинского образования. The aim of article was to familiarize the cardiology community of the country with the results of the ESC Education Conference (2020), which was devoted to discussing the problems and the possibility of integrating patient participation in joint management with doctors. ESC created a special forum for the involvement of already treated "old" patients in the program of shared care of "new" patients, as well as their involvement in education and science programs. The Conference confirmed the consensus of the participants that the patients integration in the development of their diagnostic and treatment plans requires more time to train patients during each meeting, and also emphasized the need to introduce sections on training programs of medical professionals in the field of enabling shared care. Conclusion: Thus, the concept of close cooperation between patients and medical professionals provides a huge opportunity for the development of an enabling shared care in medical education.

The wonders of the Planetarium: intents and pitfalls for the implementation of a scientific facility in the midst of educational debates in Brazil in the 1930s

This study aims to highlight some articulations the intent of which was to set up Brazil’s first Planetarium in Rio de Janeiro during the organization of the 4th National Education Conference and pedagogy exposition in 1931. The Conferences, promoted by the Brazilian Education Association (ABE), were founded on strategies for disseminating educational practices and producing material for Brazilian schools. This mechanism was a tool not only to provide visibility but also to promote the debate on the material conditions needed for public education. ABE developed actions aimed at directing and political organizing of the school education system in Brazil. Its work was marked by the holding of debates, surveys, research, exhibitions, libraries, publications, conferences and courses that contributed to the entire education process. However, its national prominence occurred through its organization of the National Education Conferences with effect from 1927. The Conferences were not only a way of giving visibility to modern and up to data schooling but also for fuelling the debate on material conditions needed for public education. The ABE Conferences served as a link between the federal government, the state government and civil society, as well as being an important strategy for disseminating ideas. They gave rise to a variety of themes, actions and proposals capable of disseminating educational causes on a national level, addressed at the Conferences and publicized by the press of that time. Among them, this text highlights the debate and the attempt to acquire Brazil’s first Planetarium which could have been part of the activities of the 4th National Education Conference scheduled for 1931. In addition, the debate could put the subject of planetariums into circulation – as a modern mechanism, a powerful instrument used not only by the population but also by science and education in other countries. This article addresses aspects of material school culture by exploring sources derived from the archives of the Brazilian Education Association and from the Brazilian periodical press, proposing relationships and analyses of the use of narrative of the rhetoric of modernity in education. The theoretical references to assist with analysis are linked to the perspective of studies on material school culture and cultural history.

On the Necessity of Curriculumization of Labor Education in Primary and Middle Schools

Following the call of General Secretary Xi at the National Education Conference in September 2018, labor education has set off an upsurge in the country. From kindergartens to primary and secondary schools, and even higher education institutions have established labor education-related courses in the field of education. Experts and scholars in China have also paid enough attention to the issue of labor education. In fact, labor education is not a new term in the field of education in the new era. For labor education to truly land, labor education must be curriculumized in primary and secondary schools. The curriculumization of labor education not only reflects the country’s policy orientation towards labor education, At the same time, it is also a powerful guarantee for the scientific, standardized and effective labor education.