Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Resena de la obra de Don A. Dillman, Jolene D. Smyth y Leah Melani Christian: Internet, Phone, Mail and Mixed-Mode Surveys. The Tailored Design Method. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/7287796.pdf

Internet, phone, mail and mixed-mode surveys: the tailored design method: reseña

The Future of the Capitalist State

by Linda Darling-Hammond, New York, NY, Teacher’s College Press, 2010, 394 pp., £20.91 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8077-4962-3 In The flat world and education: how America’s commitment to equity will d...

The flat world and education: how America’s commitment to equity will determine our future

“One warm day in the spring of 2006, I visited a U.S. History class at a public charter school in a large Midwestern city …” (p. 1) This is the beginning of Diana Hess’ book about the methods of democratic discussion in classroom and it indicates its strong narrative quality including several teacher portraits and scenic vignettes. The book is winner of the 2009 “Exemplary Research in Social Studies” award from the National Council for the Social Studies. In an interview with Kerry G. Hill for the campus journal (School of Education, University of Wisconsin http://campusconnections.education.wisc.edu/post/LEARNING-Diana-Hess.aspx) the author roots the book’s content back to her own biography and socialization: While growing up in northern Illinois, Diana Hess recalls members of her family engaging in lively, raucous political discussions. “Disagreement wasn’t a negative thing,” she remembers.

Controversy in the Classroom. The Democratic Power of Discussion

A growing literature has discussed multiple complexities of various researcher stances and the place of reflexivity in qualitative research. This article contributes to the literature by illuminati...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1609406917703539

Incorporating Perspective Taking in Reflexivity: A Method to Enhance Insider Qualitative Research Processes

Behind the scenes of reflective practice in professional development: A glance into the ethical predicaments of secondary school teachers

Administrators often struggle in getting teachers to trust their school’s evaluation practices – a necessity if teachers are to learn from the feedback they receive. We attempted to bolster teacher...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01443410.2017.1349876

Questionnaires as interventions: can taking a survey increase teachers’ openness to student feedback surveys?

Widespread neoliberal approaches to education consider schools increasingly accountable for self-management and ‘client’ recruitment, encapsulating economic ideologies that assume privatisation is 

Discipline lessons from American faith-based autonomous schools: a narrative of power and ‘mini-public’ ideology

Grade inflation is a global phenomenon that has garnered widespread condemnation among educators, researchers, and the public. Yet, few have deliberated over the ethics of grading, let alone the ethics of grade inflation.  The purpose of this paper is to map out and examine the ethics of grade inflation. By way of beginning, we clarify why grade inflation is a problem of practical ethics embedded in contemporary social practice. Then, we illuminate three different aspects of grade inflation—longitudinal, compressed, and comparative—and explore the ethical dilemmas that each one raises.  We demonstrate how these three aspects may be seen as corresponding to three different victims of grade inflation—individuals, institutions, and society—and hence also to three potential agents of harm—teachers, schools, and educational systems. Next, we reflect upon various compelling reasons that these agents inflate grades, whether from an ethic of care, fiduciary responsibility, or simple self-preservation. Subsequently, we consider a variety of means of combatting grade inflation, and invite more educators and philosophers to delve into the complex practical ethics of grade inflation.

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Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh

Papers

Incorporating Perspective Taking in Reflexivity: A Method to Enhance Insider Qualitative Research Processes

Behind the scenes of reflective practice in professional development: A glance into the ethical predicaments of secondary school teachers

Questionnaires as interventions: can taking a survey increase teachers’ openness to student feedback surveys?

Discipline lessons from American faith-based autonomous schools: a narrative of power and ‘mini-public’ ideology

What is wrong with grade inflation (if anything)