Education

In this assignment, I will compare and contrast articles from research and the popular media and evaluate their applicability to early childhood practice. ·         Create a 4- to 6-page paper (not including the title and references pages) in a Word document for your response. ·         Use APA format for the title page, references page, and in-text citations. ·         Develop an introduction and conclusion for your paper. Part 1: Dissecting a Research Article Locate a peer-reviewed article related to early childhood development – a topic of interest to you, such as music and cognitive development. The article should be no older than 5 to 7 years. A good place to search is the college database or Google Scholar. Peer-reviewed articles, also called scholarly sources, are written by experts in a field and written to keep others interested in that field up to date on the most recent research, findings, and news (see Module 1 Learning Objects). Dissect the research article, paraphrasing the material found related to: ·         Purpose or hypothesis of the study ·         What the author(s) hoped to find ·         Issue being researched ·         Other research done on the topic ·         Theorists or theories used as a framework for the study ·         How participants were found or recruited ·         Demographics of the participants ·         Summary of the discussion and conclusions (the main points you took away from the reading) ·         Limitations ·         Recommendations for further research Part 2: Dissecting a Popular Article Locate an article in the popular media on the same topic as the research article. A popular media article is not found in a scholarly journal. These are articles you would find in a magazine you can purchase at the book or grocery store; something online at sites such as The Huffington Post, CNN, or a parenting or teacher website. A rule of thumb: if the article does not have scholarly resources, it is considered popular media. Compare and contrast the two articles. In the comparison and contrast, complete the following: ·         Synopsis of each article ·         Explanation of how the articles are the same ·         Explanation of the differences between the two (be specific). (For example, is one article more credible than the other? What makes this so?) ·         How comparing and contrasting the articles affects your feelings about and understanding of the topic ·         How each article applies to work in early childhood education ·         Complete, APA formatted citations for both articles

Research paper. You will write an 8-12-page research paper on your approved topic. In addition to sharing your findings on this topic, your paper should discuss how this project enhances your understanding about the dynamic interplay between schools and society, note any substantive connections between your topic and the materials used in this course, and explain how this project influences your thinking about the future of schooling.

Postmodernism is not easy to define.  It is after the modern period attributed to typically marked by Descartes’s doubt and the cogito. The critiques tend to have something to defend as the as it would appear from the scathing attack by Thomas Nagel (See page 698-699). Indeed there are some who take the postmodern doubt or skepticism to absurd levels. This is not the point. Derrida‘s concern is with logocentrism, which according to Derrida, is the attitude that logos (the Greek term for speech, thought, law, or reason) is the central principle of language and philosophy.  Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) Postmodernism is a subjectivist skeptical infection. A subjectivist virus infecting all languages. Perhaps it after the modern period if we can tell when the modern period ended.  Deconstruction is difference and deferral. presence logocentrism: Since Plato Logocentrism is the view that speech, and not writing, is central to language, the metaphysics of being, that is, “the determination of being as presence in all the senses of this word.”  speaking writing privileged access binary opposition:  In this contrast between speech and writing we have one of a number of binary oppositions that Derrida thinks have dominated the Western philosophical tradition.*  *Others are presence/absence, soul/body, form/ matter, one/many, reality/appearance, literal/metaphorical, nature/culture, male/female, light/darkness, good/evil. Such binary oppositions are among the main things that deconstruction aims to deconstruct. signifIer-see the text signified-see the text Language forms a system of differences. Its signs are not linked directly to immediately present objects—or even to meanings but mean what they do because of the way they are related to and differ from other signs. Let us speak of a term like “goat” as a signi?er. Then we can call both the meaning of that term (the concept) and an actual goat (the referent) the signi?ed. Because language is constituted by a system of differences rather than by direct signi?cation of meanings or objects,  the signi?ed concept is never present in and of itself, in a suf?cient presence that would refer only to itself. Essentially and lawfully, every concept is inscribed in a chain or in a system within which it differences-see the text refers to the other, to concepts, by means of the systematic play of differences. (D, 11) (pg. 701-702). traces:  A word is its traced relationships.  absence:  Différance/“difference”: Difference/Deferral is space and time.—see the text  It signi?es (1) to differ (to be other than) and (2) to defer (to post-pone, to put off). Différance accounts for the fact that a word means what it does in virtue of differing from other words; différance also separates a word from its meaning, assures its difference from that very meaning. Moreover, what a word means is never absolutely present at the time of its use, so its meaning is deferred, delayed, put off to an interpretation—to a different set of words that, of course, don’t present its meaning either. If you long to ?nd what Plato calls “traveller’s rest” and “journey’s end” (see p. 159), you are bound to be disappointed. There is no point at which “the eye of the soul” can stop and behold truth, or beauty, or Being. Every sign is merely the sign of another sign; every sign is a detour on the way to presence. For the “unveiling of truth,” différance substitutes “incessant deciphering” (D, 18). (See the text pg. 703-704) As we move forward to examine the language games of philosophy, we shall see the meaning of consciousness, reality, knowledge, truth, certainty, and other key terms of our history of philosophy investigation reveal that “what a word means is never absolutely present at the time of its use.”  The trace, the difference shows deferral/difference and the meanings. Each use is part of a different language game with different contexts creating a deferral and difference. There is no absolute meaning there is difference. dissemination  margins Prepare fifteen six-word sentences to explain what Différance/“difference” identifies. Also, comment on the SWS posted by at least two students. Michel Foucault (1926–1984) meta-narratives historical a priori archaeological method Madness escaped from the arbitrary only in order to enter a kind of endless trial for which the asylum furnished simultaneously police, magistrates, and torturers; a trial whereby any transgression in life, by a virtue proper to life in the asylum, becomes a social crime, observed, condemned, and punished. . . . The asylum . . . is not a free realm of observation, diagnosis, and therapeutics; it is a juridical space where one is accused, judged, and condemned, and from which one is never released except by the version of this trial in psychological depth—that is, by remorse. . . . For a long time to come, and until our own day at least, [madness] is imprisoned in a moral world. (M&C, 269) (708) genealogy: “The task of genealogy “is to expose a body totally imprinted by history” (NGH, 83) (pg. 709) interpretation “…doesn’t just float free in the speculations of the intellectuals. It structures life” (pg. 709) technology of the body delinquent discipline normalization the examination  carceral society  Prepare fifteen six-word sentences to explain what Foucault has to say about madness. Also, comment on the SWS posted by at least two students. Rorty (1931-2007) No matter whether the tool is a hammer or a gun or a belief or a statement, tool-using is part of the interaction of the organism with its environment. To see the employment of words as the use of tools to deal with the environment, rather than as an attempt to represent the intrinsic nature of that environment, is to repudiate the question of whether human minds are in touch with reality— the question asked by the epistemological sceptic. No organism, human or non-human, is ever more or less in touch with reality than any other organism. The very idea of “being out of touch with reality” presupposes the un-Darwinian, Cartesian picture of a mind which somehow swings free of the causal forces exerted on the body. The Cartesian mind is an entity whose relations with the rest of the universe are representational rather than causal. So to rid our thinking of the vestiges of Cartesianism, to become fully Darwin-ian in our thinking, we need to stop thinking of words as representations and to start thinking of them as nodes in the causal network which binds the organism together with its environment. (PSH, xxiii) (pg. 714) — divinizing contingency “… our language, our conscience, our community—as a product of time and chance” (CIS, 22). It is this determination to see everything about us as subject to this contingency” (pg.723). mind as a mirror Final Vocabulary: Each of us speaks with what Rorty calls a “final vocabulary,” meaning those terms that are basic for us, foundational for the way we look at the world. But if we now understand the language we speak in terms of “time and chance,” it seems radically contingent that we should have just the final vocabulary that we have. (Pg. 714) ironist: An ironist understands three things regrading her final vocabulary, resulting language game, and her view of reality: (1) She has radical and continuing doubts about the final vocabulary she currently uses, because she has been impressed by other vocabularies, vocabularies taken as final by people or books she has encountered; (2) she realizes that argument phrased in her present vocabulary can neither underwrite nor dissolve these doubts; (3) insofar as she philosophizes about her situation, she does not think that her vocabulary is closer to reality than others, that it is in touch with a power not herself.? .? .? . I call people of this sort “ironists” because their realization that anything can be made to look good or bad by being redescribed, and their renunciation of the attempt to formulate criteria of choice between final vocabularies, puts them in the position which Sartre called “metastable”: never quite able to take themselves seriously because always aware that the terms in which they describe themselves are subject to change, always aware of the contingency and fragility of their final vocabularies and thus of their selves. (CIS, 73, 74) (pg. 714-715). liberal hope private/public morality solidarity Relativism  ethnocentrism  Prepare fifteen six-word sentences to explain what Rorty means by liberal ironist concerning consciousness, final vocabulary, language games, and reality. Also, comment on the SWS posted by at least two students.

Prompt In a 3-page essay (double-spaced), please select a course reading from either Week 1, 2 or 3 and identify the reading/articles main findings and or themes. You will also provide an analysis of the ways in which the reading or article connects to the distinct higher education issues/policies that we have covered in class thus far. Connections must be made across two distinct higher education topics introduced in class. Paper must follow APA 7th citation guidelines. Essays must be a minimum of 3 complete pages and should include at least two class readings.  Must use at least 2 sources from attached articles can use additional online scholarly articles, but not required. Higher education topics include:  Access to higher education Inequality Socio Economic Status (SES) Barriers to Entry Social Capital Cost and Student Debt Education Desserts Demographics Lack of partnerships between community colleges and four-year institutions Lack of resources Minority Disadvantage Funding Issues Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and others Lack of competition Lack of enrollment Graduation rates  Rubric: The paper will be graded based on the following rubric: 6 points: Analysis/connection 4 points: Use of at least 2 readings 5 points: Coherence and clarity 2 points: Grammar and spelling  3 points: 1” margins, 12-point font, APA Format, page limit

Instructions Identify a recent case of school violence, and then research the school administrators’ response following the incident. Examples of possible topics include: Columbine, Virginia Tech, and the Phoebe Prince suicide. Then, prepare a final paper that analyzes your selected incident, and the subsequent response from school administrators. Your paper should include, but is not limited to, the following: Introduce and describe your selected incident. Explain the school administrators’ response. Conduct an analysis by addressing the following: Research and explain the policies in place before the incident. Were strategies in place to create a culture of safety? Indicate students’ expectations. Determine their level of awareness of policies related to this incident before it occurred. Identify and explain policy changes that resulted from this incident. Describe educational activities that were implemented to inform and support the student population. Some examples are listed below: Provide guidance. Identify abusive behavior. Determine if any instructional practices changed due to the incident. Summarize how the incident was communicated to the media. Summarize how the incident was communicated to parents or other family members. Summarization: Summarize media action surrounding the violence and what was reported by media outlets. You may select a specific news station, newspaper, or reputable magazine. Summarize and evaluate the response by police, administrators, parents, students, and others directly involved with the incident. How did the local community as a whole react? Create a policy or policies based on your analysis of the response and best practices in school safety to prevent and respond to school violence similar to the case explored in this assignment. As a school leader, what would you have done differently? Support your assignment with at least seven scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included. Length: 12-15 pages, not including title and reference pages Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

Research paper. You will write an 8-12-page research paper on your approved topic. In addition to sharing your findings on this topic, your paper should discuss how this project enhances your understanding about the dynamic interplay between schools and society, note any substantive connections between your topic and the materials used in this course, and explain how this project influences your thinking about the future of schooling

I would like chapter one, by September 14th. About 14 pages. I will show the first chapter to my professor and make sure we are on the right track.  In total it should be around 80 sources used If the writer has a topic within higher education leadership that maybe easier to research and write about, that is fine with me. I am not in love with any topic. I just want to graduate I have also attached a file for the reference, written by me. Maybe it helps.

Dissertation critical analysis Minimum of four typewritten pages.  Provide an APA style reference for the study at the top of page one. The purpose of the evaluation is to comment upon the adequacy of the dissertation as a research report by analyzing each component of the study methodology and statistical design. Point out any errors or poor procedures you detect, as well as strengths or desirable procedures. Use the outline below as a guide in your analysis. Note that for items 2 – 10 you are to state whether the research report provides adequate information or whether the procedure used in the research study was adequate. It is suggested that you use a five-point  Likert rating scale of very good (rating of 5) to very poor (rating of 1) to indicate the overall adequacy of each item. Be sure to support your position on each item. The last two items, 9 and 10, should reflect your overall perspective about the article. Items to Include in the Review 1. APA style reference 2. Title 3. Identify the primary research question(s) being investigated and/or research hypotheses tested. 4. Identify the independent variable(s) (if any). Classify the independent variable according to these criteria: a. active(manipulated) or assigned(attribute). b. quantitative or qualitative. 5. Identify methods by which confounding variables are controlled, i.e. physical, selective, or statistical (if any). 6. Specify the unit of analysis used in the study. Is the unit appropriate? 7. Identify the statistical procedure(s) employed and the null hypotheses tested. Is/are the assumption(s) of the statistical test met or not? Explain. 8. Identify the result(s) of the statistical test(s) (reject or fail-to reject). 9. Briefly state the substantive conclusion supported by the design and analysis. 10. Any suggestion(s) to improve the study design.

Language Policy & Program Models final research paperPoints possible:Assessment: See research rubric in course shellPurpose: We have learned about many topics related to language acquisition and development. Wehave discovered how each topic may help and/ or hinder language acquisition and development. The purpose of this assignment is to identify and better understand the many language policies that shape our daily life. Thus, you must take this learning and apply it to the larger issues of Language Policy & Language Program Models in your specific context.Directions:1. Take your time! This constitutes your final for this course!2. Utilize the APA research essay format linked into the module.3. You may use “I”, but write professionally, not conversationally.a. This is ultimately a research paper, but you must take ownership of this information.b. How does this information impact you and your ability to provide language learning opportunities and/ or to receive language learningopportunities?4. The paper will be 10-12 complete pages; properly formatted APA title page and reference page not included in page count.5. You must have a minimum of 6 evidenced-based/ research- based references. You may use what is in the course shell, but you are not limited to those. They are not exhaustive!! 6. Define what language policies are and aren’t in your specific context.7. Identify who makes the language policies and from whom?a. Something to consider is how much input do you, yourself have in this process?8. Ask and answer in your paper: How do these language policy choices historically, externally, and locally impactthe language program models used or not used in your specific context? You are not limited to these below; they areonly suggestions. If you have an idea and are not sure, post it at the Q & A area for assistance!a. You may want to consider how case law helped shape language policies and language program model development/ implementation positively and negatively.i. In some instances, are we using the best program model out there or does the language policy explicitly and implicitly implemented prohibit it?b. You may want to consider how language policies helped and hinder the development of language development standards that inform language program models which ultimately should develop someone’s language abilities.9. Finally, you need to situate yourself into this research. In other words: what are your take-aways; how does this impact you and your ability help others develop language abilities in and out of classroom environments? Organizing paper considerations:• Do you have a statement of purpose?• Did you review the literature?• Do you have appropriate transitions?• Are your citations & references appropriately formatted in APA?• Is your Style: word choice, sentence structure, appropriate given the directions and expectations?• Content: I do not expect you to regurgitate what others say, but to contrast and compare ideas and information learned to shed new light on the subject.o Is it written in an engaging manner?• Summary: review what you have done; repeat the main conclusion of the paper, and how it impacts your role.

You have read about the unique challenges of those who need to balance work and family life including parenting. As a parent, student, or adult child, reflect on your own challenges and how you find balance. Use the Learning Resources to confirm or question your own experiences. From the readings describe at least one challenge you have successfully met including a specific strategy and one you are working on. In your paper identify how the resources reviewed provided some new ideas regarding how to balance all that you do. Assignment length 500 words minimum, 2 academic references used and MS word or RTF format only.