Investigates the ways that backlash pedagogy, a centerpiece of educational reform, accepts substantial inequality as a neutral baseline for educational practice and reform and, simultaneously, enshrines the status quo. The analysis draws on several theoretical lenses (cultural-historical activity theory, critical race theory, and ethnographic…

Examines the film, "The Harder They Come," asserting that narratives constituting the supposedly subversive representation of Jamaican society contribute to mis-recognition of the white Jamaican ruling class and its dominating role that the film portrays. This movie helped mobilize a nationalist political process that included black, working…

Investigated Israeli 9th-graders' perceptions about messages conveyed by counselors while guiding them into a rigid high school track system. Student surveys indicated that while counselors were somewhat hesitant about giving very definitive messages, they still differentiated their messages by academic status and gender. Low achievers and girls,…

Explains how four women teacher educators determined changes to make when co-teaching a secondary education course emphasizing interdisciplinary curriculum. They designed the model to guide students into identifying themselves as educators rather than purely content area specialists. The article narrates their experiences crossing disciplines,…

In a world rich with people, places, things and ideas, all inter-engaged in impossibly complex ways, the question of where individuals direct their attention, and how they organize themselves to understand what they are experiencing is a question that is difficult to answer. In this article, the author suggests that the openings arts-based…

This essay focuses on a 4th year course, titled "Search/Research/Resolution," that the author has developed at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Toronto. First taught in 2002, the course is held over a fourteen week semester each fall, with one three hour class per week. It is offered within the photography area at OCAD in recognition…

In this article, the author tells the story of a continuing body of work that she began in 2001, titled "Navigate." The author relates that she sees this extended project as a case study of her working habits and ideas bridging the moment when she began to think of her practice as research. Through the story telling and writing this article, the…

For the past seven years, the author has been researching the representations of women who were engaged in a range of espionage activities during World War II. It seems much of people's knowledge about women spies is formed by popular representations, which are often, and intriguingly, full of stereotypes and half-truths. The skilled and heroic…

In this article, the author shares the idea behind his photography exhibition called "Verbatim." "Verbatim" is comprised of digital images made with a flatbed scanner. The prints are "contact images" that remember and forget the earlier technological processes of photography and typewriting. Photography, typing, and phonographic writing…

In this article, the author talks about "Folds" and "Etudes" which are images derived from anonymous typing exercises that he found in a used copy of "Touch Typing Made Simple". "Etudes" refers to the musical tradition of studies for a solo instrument, which is a typewriter. Typing exercises are repetitive attempts to type words and phrases…

In this research, the author focuses on the contemporary culture of obsolescence. The topic has a specific relevance to recent transformations in photographic education as well as the emerging research environment in art production. Language and technology, cognition and consciousness and the sense of experience that is constituted by subjects and…

The author's enduring curiosity as an artist, researcher, and educator focuses on how people generate the myriad of artistic practices that enliven their cultures and how and what they learn from those creative engagements. While the author's personal experience and point of view are involved in pursuing these roles, the broader ideas and…

The author's autobiographical poem [inspired by George Ella Lyon (1999)], marked the beginning of an arts-based inquiry into a question of identity that took further shape through a video-artwork, "The Evolution of an Art Teacher: Where I'm From." Arts-based research is a methodology that uses a myriad of forms and combinations of creative arts…

At the time of the development of the new curriculum in Slovenia, international comparative data providing information on the performance of Slovene students as compared to other relevant countries were available from a limited number of assessments. For this reason, it was even more important that additional international comparisons were…

The purpose of this article is twofold. The first is to introduce the theme: "Responding to the educational needs of the young to bring about globalization with a human face," which formed part of the discussions at the 47th session of the International Conference on Education, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-11 September 2004. The second is to provide a…