This article considers the literacies of Health and Physical Education in the context of Australian education. It argues that much more than traditional literacy is involved and that emerging literacy theories offer ways of considering a broader range of literacies, including multiliteracies and body-as-text, and their place in the curriculum.
This chapter offers practicing educators' experiences and perspectives of equity in education. The authors explore personal issues within the current realm of education (preschool through graduate levels) in an attempt to offer insight into some of the inequities we experience today in the classroom and beyond. By engaging in this conversation, the authors attempt to learn from prior experience…
In addition to the existing two-semester system, the option of a credit system was for the first time offered to the students of the secondary (high school) education program in Kuwait in 1978. Earlier attempts which aimed at the quantification of the academic effectiveness of the two programs of secondary education have shown contradictory and inconclusive results. This paper reports the findi…
Teachers' responsibilities in the classroom are diverse and include giving instruction, determining how well students are learning, and acting as mentors. They also conduct academic research on organized studies (Boyd, O'Reilly, Bucher, Fisher, and Morton, 2010). New trends and regulations are on the horizon in the field of education. To convey cutting-edge concepts and trends, educators should…
Education is in the core of societal change in all its different forms-from kindergartens to vocational schools and lifelong learning. Education-understood as goal-oriented personal movement-re-structures personal lives both inside school and outside the school. This special issue stems from the Cultural Psychology of Education (Marsico Culture & Psychology, 21(4), 445-454, 2015a (See CR22), b …
This chapter is about bilingual special education. The joining of bilingual education with special education provides an interesting example of what should not happen in terms of educational reform and evolution (Skrtic 1991; Elmore 1996). However, the flawed interface between bilingual and special education in the United States provides the basis for a unique form of critical dialogue between …
Although HBCUs predate the Civil War, Lincoln University in Missouri offered the first journalism major in the 1940s. The number of schools offering majors in journalism and mass communication proliferated after the enactment of the major civil rights legislation in the mid 1960s. Despite low starting salaries for majors, at least 40--approximately 40 percent--HBCUs belong to the Black College …
Children with a cleft palate ([+ or -] cleft lip; CP[+ or -]L) can have difficulties communicating and participating in daily life, yet speech-language pathologists typically focus on speech production during routine assessments. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY; World Health Organization, 2007) provides a framework for h…
The purpose of this study was to determine students' communication in the college classroom through faculty-led methods of enhancing classroom participation. The students in this study perceived that faculty members work to engage them in various classroom activities and enhance their participation through discussions, debates, dialogue, group work, and presentations; students understood these …
Emerson University and the School of Medicine of Tufts University have launched a joint program to create a masteral program in health communication studies. The cooperative effort will link the communications faculty of Emerson with Tufts experienced medical staff, creating a synergistic team that can approach health communication education in an innovative and progressive manner.