The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered Civic Identities

Seargent S. Prentiss: Whig Orator of the Old South. By Dallas C. Dickey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945; pp. ix + 422. $4.00.

The English Language in American Education. The Report of a Special Committee. Prepared for the Modern Language Association of America by Thomas Clark Pollock with the cooperation of William Clyde de Vane and Robert E. Spiller. New York: Commission on Trends in Education, Modern Language Association, 1945; pp. 31. $0.25.

Your Voice: Applied Science of Vocal Art, Singing and Speaking. By Douglas Stanley. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1945; pp. xiii + 306. $4.50.

The Complete Acted Play. By Allen Craf ton and Jessica Royer. New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1943; pp. 385.

Selected Speeches and Statements of General of the Army George C. Marshall. Edited by Major H. A. De Weerd. Washington: The Infantry Journal, 1945; pp. xiii + 257. $2.75.

Teacher in America. By Jacques Barzun. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945; pp. 321. $3.00.

General Education in a Free Society. Report of the Harvard Committee. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945; pp. 267. $2.00.

Essentials of English for Latin Americans. By Dominic P. Rotunda, Willard M. Smith, Evaline Uhl Wright of The English Language Institute, Mills College. Berkeley: The Gillick Press, 1945; pp. 247. $2.00.

Jefferson and the Press. By Frank L. Mott. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1943; pp. 65. $1.00.

The Patterning of Listener Attitudes toward Radio Broadcasts. By John Gray Peatman and Tore Hallonquist. Applied Psychology Monographs, No. 4. Stanford University, California; Stanford University Press, 1945; pp. 58. Paper, $1.00; cloth, $1.75.

Studies of Teachers’ Classroom Personalities. I. Dominative and Socially Integrative Behavior of Kindergarten Teachers. By Harold H. Anderson and Helen M; Brewer, with foreword by H. F. Jones. Applied Psychology Monograph, No. 6. Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1945; pp. 157. $2.00.     

A developmental approach to the risk of a first recurrence in child protective services

The objective of this study is to estimate the risk of a first recurrence over a five-year period following initial child protective services (CPS) intervention and identify the characteristics associated with the risk of recurrence for three different age groups. Recurrence is defined as the first substantiated report within the observation period after initial services have ended. The study involved a cohort of 25,897 Quebec children who received postinvestigation services for the first time and whose cases were closed between 2005 and 2009. Survival analysis was used to estimate the five-year risk of recurrence and Cox regression to model the risk of recurrence for three age groups. The covariates introduced into the regression analyses were characteristics of the child and initial services. The risk of recurrence in the five years following termination of initial CPS services was 36% for the entire cohort and varied depending on the child's age at the time of case closure. Children aged 6–11 when their cases were closed had the highest risk of recurrence. Although Aboriginal descent and prior CPS investigations have a consistent effect on the risk of recurrence in all three age groups, the effects of other covariates, such as out-of-home placement and court involvement, vary or are even reversed, depending on the child's age. These findings highlight the need to adopt a differential approach that takes into account the child's age, both in the provision of protective services and in research involving the population receiving such services.     

Public Education Under New Management: A Typology of Educational Privatization Applied to New York City's Restructuring

Educational privatization is rapidly expanding in many urban school districts, altering the social, political, and economic dynamics of educational policy and leadership. Yet many adherents cast privatization primarily as a fiscal or economic alternative to traditional public school management, ignoring these broader alterations. Drawing from a review of the educational privatization literature, as well as an analysis of current privatization reforms, this article offers an original typology of educational privatization and applies the typology to the reforms underway in New York City. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of this typology and privatization reforms for educational leadership practice and policy.     

Virtual K–12 Learning: New Learning Frontiers for State Education Agencies

This article explores the role of state education agencies in three states that have embarked on ambitious kindergarten through Grade 12 (K–12) virtual learning initiatives: Alabama, Florida, and Idaho. Subject to a rapidly changing environment influenced by factors beyond the jurisdiction of many state departments of education, the world of virtual K–12 education is relatively unregulated and fluid. Case studies describing the virtual learning initiatives of several states suggest that few, if any, state education agencies are currently equipped to regulate the rapidly growing number of independent for-profit and nonprofit organizations delivering online learning options.     

Interviewing objects: including educational technologies as qualitative research participants

This article argues the importance of including significant technologies‐in‐use as key qualitative research participants when studying today’s digitally enhanced learning environments. We gather a set of eight heuristics to assist qualitative researchers in ‘interviewing’ technologies‐in‐use (or other relevant objects), drawing on concrete examples from our own qualitative research projects. Our discussion is informed by Actor‐Network Theory and hermeneutic phenomenology, as well as by the literatures of techno‐science, media ecology, and the philosophy of technology.     

Examining what we mean by collaboration in collaborative action research: a cross-case analysis

The purpose of this paper is to report on the nature of collaboration in a multi-year, large-scale collaborative action research project in which a teachers’ federation (in Ontario, Canada), university researchers and teachers partnered to investigate teacher-selected topics for inquiry. Over two years, 14 case studies were generated involving six university researchers and 61 teacher researchers. As teacher researchers collected their topic-specific data, university researchers worked in parallel on case studies at the 14 sites in an attempt to gain insights into the types and value of collaboration in collaborative action research. University researchers gathered 20–30 points of data for each case-study site (including teacher researcher final reports as well as journal entries, focus group interviews, field notes, video footage and questionnaires). Through comprehensive cross-case analysis, researchers were able to examine common traits as well as relationships between the nature of the teams, the nature of the projects and their relative success, to highlight conditions that led to robust collaborations. Through pattern matching, hypothesised events were compared with observations to test the claim that a triad of relationships between the team, the team lead and the researchers functioned as a positive collaborative force that propelled teacher team success in a generative ethos, even when faced with substantial challenges.     

Supervision as mentoring: the role of power and boundary crossing

There is a current consensus in the literature and policy documents on postgraduate supervision that positions mentoring as the most effective supervision strategy. Authors suggest that this approach to supervision overcomes some of the problematic, hierarchical aspects embedded in supervision as a pedagogical practice. They portray supervision as an innocent and collegial pedagogy between autonomous, rational supervisors and students. However, mentoring is a powerful form of normalization and a site of governmentality. Therefore, I argue that rather than removing issues of power from the supervision relationship, describing effective supervision as mentoring only serves to mask the significant role played by power in supervision pedagogy. I have applied Devos’ investigation of mentoring to postgraduate supervision to highlight the work that mentoring does as a form of academic and disciplinary self-reproduction that can have paternalistic impulses located within it. In particular, I argue that supervisors need to be conscious of the operations of power in postgraduate supervision despite their best intentions. I have also begun to explore what implications this more nuanced understanding of supervision might have for people such as me, who are charged with the responsibility of providing academic development programs on supervision.     

Deleuze’s children

Children, the image of the child, and the gendered figures of the girl and the boy are thematics that run through the work of Deleuze and feature prominently in his joint writing with Guattari. However, there are many different children in Deleuze’s writings. Various child figures do distinct things in Deleuze’s work. In this article, I argue that his work on children can be utilized to rethink popular, teleological notions of childhood and ‘growing up’.