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1	A Conceptual Framework for Assessment Literacy: Opportunities for Physical Education Teacher Education Starck, Jenna R., Richards, K. Andrew R., O’Neil, Kason M. 02 October 2018 (has links) Although more nuanced understandings of assessment have been proposed in the physical education literature, assessment practices remain relatively underdeveloped, and when used, tend to focus on traditional, summative evaluations of learning. However, physical education teacher education programs can be used as an intervention to help pre-service teachers develop assessment knowledge and skill. Toward this end, the purpose of this article is to propose an evidence-based framework for helping pre-service teachers develop assessment literacy that is rooted in occupational socialization theory. The framework provides a four-phase approach to integrating assessment into teacher education, and includes suggestions for how physical education teacher educators can progressively help build pre-service teachers’ assessment knowledge in line with the focus given to instruction and planning. These suggestions acknowledge the technical and sociocultural aspects of learning to use assessment. Implications are discussed along with the need to help graduating pre-service teachers transfer lessons learned into the workplace. physical education occupational socialization theory pre-service training school sociopolitics Teaching-learning process Health and Physical Education
2	Language, Power, and Race: A Comparative Approach to the Sociopolitics of English Jaimungal, Cristina S. 26 November 2013 (has links) This thesis highlights the sociopolitics of English as a dominant/colonial language by focusing on the linkage between language, power, and race. Grounded in critical language theory, comparative education theory, and anti-racism research methodology, this research examines the inextricable relationship between language, power, and race. With this in mind, this thesis argues that language, specifically English, is not a neutral tool of communication but a highly contentious issue that is deeply embedded in sociopolitical ideologies and practices. The contexts of Japan and Trinidad and Tobago are used to illustrate how colonialism continues to impact English language policy, practice, and perceptions. In sum, this research aims to bridge the gap between critical language theory, comparative education theory, and anti-racism studies in a way that (1) highlights the complexity of language politics, (2) explores ideological assumptions inherent in the discourse of the "native" language, and (3) underscores the overlooked ubiquity of race. Politics of Language Race Language Policy Power Japan Trinidad and Tobago Language Education Education Anti-racism research methodology Language Politics Language Production Commodification of Language Racialized Bodies and Language Colonialism English International Communication Education Policy Language Ideology Critical Language Theory Comparative Theory Sociopolitics of English Auto-ethnography Linguicide Post-Colonialism Indigenous Research Methodology 0534 0631 0282 0700 0344 0279 0340 0530
3	Language, Power, and Race: A Comparative Approach to the Sociopolitics of English Jaimungal, Cristina S. 26 November 2013 (has links) This thesis highlights the sociopolitics of English as a dominant/colonial language by focusing on the linkage between language, power, and race. Grounded in critical language theory, comparative education theory, and anti-racism research methodology, this research examines the inextricable relationship between language, power, and race. With this in mind, this thesis argues that language, specifically English, is not a neutral tool of communication but a highly contentious issue that is deeply embedded in sociopolitical ideologies and practices. The contexts of Japan and Trinidad and Tobago are used to illustrate how colonialism continues to impact English language policy, practice, and perceptions. In sum, this research aims to bridge the gap between critical language theory, comparative education theory, and anti-racism studies in a way that (1) highlights the complexity of language politics, (2) explores ideological assumptions inherent in the discourse of the "native" language, and (3) underscores the overlooked ubiquity of race. Politics of Language Race Language Policy Power Japan Trinidad and Tobago Language Education Education Anti-racism research methodology Language Politics Language Production Commodification of Language Racialized Bodies and Language Colonialism English International Communication Education Policy Language Ideology Critical Language Theory Comparative Theory Sociopolitics of English Auto-ethnography Linguicide Post-Colonialism Indigenous Research Methodology 0534 0631 0282 0700 0344 0279 0340 0530
4	“To shape God, Shape Self”: The Political Manipulation of the Human Body and Reclamation of Space in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower James, Lisa January 2018 (has links) This paper considers the role of the human body in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of theSower and the way it interacts with defined space to stage expressive forms of politicalopposition. Understanding the relationship between physical or metaphorical space and thecontradictions of the societies they encompass is crucial to deciphering Butler’s near-futuredystopia; a world where the problems of real-life Los Angeles and Southern California aredistorted into a gross carnivalesque of gender stereotypes, sociopolitical tensions, and vigilante warfare. This paper places a special emphasis on the areas of social and political stagnation found in Butler’s vision of near-future L.A., and analyses the dangers of clinging to archaic, patriarchal systems that no longer resonate with contemporary audiences. Focus is also placed on potential methods of resistance against oppressive social institutions, particularly exploring the limitations met by protagonist, Lauren Oya Olamina, in her attempts to voice concerns in a society where language is so nuanced by “traditional” gendered qualities that the female voice carries no political value. This papers also questions theories which promote violent confrontation as a means to social reform, disregarding collateral damage and victims of war in favour of insurgency. By exploring the movement of the human body away from defined space, this paper supports Butler’s notion of alternative prosocial action which celebrates the margins of society, positing a nurturing, constructive means to resist political opposition. Butler human body space society Contemporary America literature dystopia Los Angeles Southern California ecology global warming sociopolitics gender stereotypes race ethnicity stagnation patriarchy female voice hysteria feminist studies social reform movement migration nomadology Octavia Butler empathy sympathy Parable of the Sower hyperempathy Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst

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