Collaborative knowledge-making in the everyday practice of youth suicide prevention education

The development and implementation of a new school‐based suicide prevention education programme in one secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, recently provided us with an opportunity to conduct an in‐depth, qualitative case study. The purpose of our study was to deepen our understanding of how school‐based suicide prevention education programmes like this one get planned and enacted in particular, local settings. We argue that the narrow range of methodologies that have traditionally been deployed to study school‐based youth suicide prevention education programmes have hindered our ability to see the complexities and potentialities of this work. Through the presentation of a sub‐set of findings, we aim to show the possibilities for fresh thinking and contextualized understandings that a qualitative case study, informed by a constructionist methodology, invites.     

Social standards in public speaking instruction

EARTHTALK: COMMUNICATION EMPOWERMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION. Edited by Star A. Muir and Thomas L. Veenendall. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996; pp. xviii + 233. $59.00.

ECOSPEAK: RHETORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN AMERICA. By M. Jimmie Kffling‐sworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992; pp. xii + 312. $34.95.

GREEN CULTURE: RHETORICAL ANALYSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE. Edited by Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996; pp. xii + 303. $45.00; paper $21.95.

IN THE NATURE OF THINGS: LANGUAGE, POLITICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. Edited by Jane Bennett and William Chaloupka. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993; pp. xvi + 275. $47.95; paper $18.95.

PLANNING AS PERSUASIVE STORYTELLING: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF CHICAGO'S ELECTRIC FUTURE. By James A. Throgmorton. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996; pp. xxiii + 313. $61.00; paper $19.95.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: THOREAU, NATURE WRITING, AND THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE. By Lawrence Buell. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995; pp. xii + 586. $36.50; paper $ 16.95.     

Motor Behavior: From Telegraph Keys and Twins to Linear Slides and Stepping

Motor behavior is a significant area of scholarship with 64 Fellows from the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education engaged in that work since 1930. This paper provides a brief overview of the history of research in motor development and motor control/learning, particularly noting the contributions to scholarship of Academy Fellows. Specifi cally, Academy Fellows who are frequently cited are highlighted as are the highly cited papers. In addition, significant books authored and edited by Academy Fellows from motor behavior are listed.     

Academic advisement: An untapped resource

A Comparative Study of the Secondary Eduaation of Girls in England, Germany, and the United States. By Yoshi Kasuya. 1933. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University. Pp. x + 211.

Secondary Education. By Thomas H. Briggs. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Pp. x + 577.

Leadership Among High School Pupils. By Marion Brown. New York: Bureau of Publications, Columbia University, 1933. Pp. viii + 166.

Administration of Enrichment to Superior Children in the Typical Classroom. By J. Edgar Dransfield. 1933. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University. Pp. v + 107.

Bible Readings in Character and Citizenship. Compiled by A. L. Morgan. Cokesbury Press.

The Romance Research. By L. V. Redman and A. V. H. Mory. Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1933. Pp. x + 149.

History of the State Teachers College, Radford, Virginia, 1910–1930. By M'Ledge Moffett. Radford, 1932. Pp. xii + 143 + 142A.

My Second Writing Book. By Jennie Wahlert and A. O. Leutheusser. Chicago: Laurel Book Company, 1933. Pp. 64. Nice arrangement. Interesting in formation. Varied content. M. R.

Problems of Education in the United States. By C H. Judd. McGraw‐Hill, 1933. Pp. 214.

The Psychology of Study. By C. A. Mace. R. M. McBride and Company. Pp. 96.

Physiology of Muscular Activity. By E. C. Schneider. W. B. Saunders Company, 1933. Pp. 401.

Basic Units in Mechanical Drawing—Book I. By Hoelscher and Mays. John Wiley and Sons, 1933. Pp. 288.

The Junior Outline of History. By I. O. Evans. D. Appleton and Company, 1933. Pp. 295.

An Introduction to Conrad. By F. W. Cushwa. Doubleday Doran, 1933. Pp. 436.

The Influence of Familiarity Upon Children's Preferences for Pictures and Poems. By James E. Mendenhall and Marcia E. Mendenhaia. 1933. New York: Lincoln School, Columbia University. Pp. x + 75.

The Library in the School. By Lucile Fargo. American Library Association, 1933. Pp. 479.

Then and Now in Dixie. By Rose Mortemer Elizey Macdonald. New York: Ginn and Company, 1933. Pp. vii + 293.

The Dilemma of Democracy. I. L. Kandel. Harvard University Press, 1934. Pp. 79.

Do College Students Choose Vocations Wisely? Edward Sparling. Teachers College Bureau of Publications, 1933. Pp. 110.

Student Aid in the Secondary Schools of the United States. By Verna A. Carley. New York: Columbia University, 1933. Pp. vii + 118.

Responsibility for Rural‐School Administration. By Frank W. Cyr. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University. Pp. vi + 158.

Annual and Semi‐Annual Promotion. By J. Armour Lindsay, 1933. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University. Pp. vii + 170.

The Technique and Administration of Teaching. By Noble Lee Garrison. Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1933. Pp. xiv + 593.

Little Carolina Blue Bonnet. By Mabel Pugh. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1933. Pp. 171. Little girls from eight to twelve will enjoy this simple, charming story. It will be of

Practical Exercises in News Writing. By Douglass Wood Miller. New York: D. C Heath and Company, 1933. Pp. 131.

Heath Readings in the Literature of Europe. By Tom Peete Cross and Clark H. Slover. New York: D. C. Heath and Company, 1933. Pp. xv + 1194.

The Founding of Maryland. By Matthew Page Andrews. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1933. Pp. xii + 367.

The Case Method Technique in Professional Training. By D. Henryetta Sperle. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1933. Pp. vi + 92.

Adult Education and The Social Scene. By Ruth Kotinsky. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1933. Pp. xxi + 208.

Skyscraper. By Elsa H. Naumburg, Clara Lambert, Lucy Sprague Mitchell. New York: The John Day Company, 1933. Pp. 80.

The Community and Society. By Loran D. Osborn and Martin H. Neumeyer. Cincinnati: American Book Company, 1933. Pp. x + 468.     

Renewal of Educational Systems Through Organizational Strategies

In this article, the author examines the role that teachers play in the moral development of American students. Historically, one of public education's purposes in America has been the development of moral citizens. However, educators currently face more academic accountability due to No Child Left Behind. Consequently, teachers must strike a balance between achieving quantifiable academic standards and assisting with students' character development.     

Epistemic trajectories: mentoring in a game design practicum

Innovative professionals rely on a specific ways of thinking to solve the nonstandard problems that come up in practice (Goodwin, Am Anthropol 96(3):606–633, 1994; Schön, The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action, 1983; Educating the reflective practitioner: toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions, 1987; Sullivan, Work and integrity: the crisis and promise of professionalism in America, 1995). The professions have reproductive practices for transmitting these ways of thinking, such as practica (Schön, Educating the reflective practitioner: toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions, 1987). In this paper, we examine the learning relationship between a mentor and team of college students through an ethnographic study of a game design practicum at a European arts school. To examine the role that the mentor played in this practicum, we use two theoretical constructs. Epistemic frames—the configurations of the skills, knowledge, identities, values, and epistemologies that professionals use to think in innovative ways—provide a model for examining professional expertise (Shaffer, Comput Educ, 46(3):223–234, 2006a). Epistemic network analysis (ENA) (Shaffer et al., Int J Learn Media, 1(2):33–53, 2009) is a method for quantifying changes in epistemic frames (Shaffer, The bicycle helmets of “Amsterdam”: computer games and the problem of transfer, 2010). Our results here suggest that the mentor leads the team on a path that illuminates the nature of learning to think professionally, as well the function of a mentor in that process. We argue that the mentor, rather than providing a direct map to a professional vantage point, scaffolds aspects of the epistemic frame of game design that, in turn, aid in the development of a more professional frame. Using ENA to understand the way that mentors help coach learners to develop epistemic frames should be useful for further studies of professional education, as well as for studies of apprenticeship-based programs for youth.     

Education recoded: policy mobilities in the international ‘learning to code’ agenda

Abstract

Education policy increasingly takes place across borders and sectors, involving a variety of both human and nonhuman actors. This comparative policy paper traces the ‘policy mobilities,’ ‘fast policy’ processes and distributed ‘policy assemblages’ that have led to the introduction of new computer programming practices into schools and curricula in England, Sweden and Australia. Across the three contexts, government advisors and ministers, venture capital firms, think tanks and philanthropic foundations, non-profit organizations and commercial companies alike have promoted computer programming in schools according to a variety of purposes, aspirations, and commitments. This paper maps and traces the evolution of the organizational networks in each country in order to provide a comparative analysis of computing in schools as an exemplar of accelerated, transnationalizing policy mobility. The analysis demonstrates how computing in schools policy has been assembled through considerable effort to create alignments between diverse actors, the production and circulation of material objects, significant cross-border movement of ideas, people and devices, and the creation of strategic partnerships between government centres and commercial vendors. Computing in schools exemplifies how modern education policy and governance is accomplished through sprawling assemblages of actors, events, materials, money and technologies that move across social, governmental and geographical boundaries.     

Political aspects of innovation

“Political aspects” that enhance, but also undermine, the positive transformational power of public innovation policies are examined. As such, this paper follows Micha? Kalecki in his 1943 paper that identifies the “political aspects” which enhance and undermine the positive transformational power of Keynesian full employment policies. Similarly, this paper provides a policy framework that identifies what government and business support as innovation policies. The role of innovation stems from Schumpeter's long-run perspective, but incorporates the more dynamic cyclical short-term and trend perspectives of Kalecki. This paper critiques the strategy of public innovation policy in general and derives policy implications.