Research in the Teaching of Developmental Education最新文献

{"title":"Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America","authors":"L. Black","doi":"10.5860/choice.43-4166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.43-4166","url":null,"abstract":"Kozol, Jonathan, (2005). The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. New York: Crown Publishers. In Jonathan Kozol's book, The Shame of the Nation, the author writes that \"it is harder to convince young people that they 'can learn' when they are cordoned off by a society that isn't really sure they can\" (37). The book examines what Kozol terms \"the resegregation of public schools\" in America. To conduct his research, Kozol visited 60 public schools in 11 different states over a five year period (2000-2005). He found the worst segregation rates since Brown v. Board of Education: nationwide, nearly three quarters of black and Latino students attend schools where their fellow classmates are predominantly minority students, more than two million black students attend schools that are 99-100% non-white, and in numerous citiesChicago, Washington D.C., and Detroit, for instance-minorities constitute between 90 and 95% of all public school students ( 19, 8). Because racially isolated schools tend to appear in pockets of concentrated poverty, the students this book focuses on also fall far below federal poverty guidelines. This is an issue with clear implications for developmental educators. As Kozol points out, the achievement gap between minority and white students, which had narrowed in the decades following Brown v. Board of Education, has become a chasm over the past fifteen years. Kozol points to figures from the nonprofit group Education Trust indicating that the math and reading skills of black and Hispanic twelfth-graders fall below the level of proficiency achieved by seventh grade white children (281). This has coincided with a sharp decline in the enrollment of minority students in post-secondary education; of those students who do persevere and gain admittance to colleges and universities, a significant percentage will be in need of developmental coursework. While none of this comes as a surprise to developmental educators, Kozol's book is useful for its unique and comprehensive overview of the scholastic backgrounds of many of the students we serve, delineating the causes and consequences of segregated education in the 21st century. Although The Shame of the Nation is data-rich with nearly 50 pages of annotations, it does not rely on statistics alone to make its case; one of the most compelling features of the book is its incorporation of student narratives. Of his decision to include the voices of children in the book, Kozol states that unlike the \"adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies...children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure\" (12). In other words, they are \"pure witnesses.\" It is a testament to Kozol's talent as a writer and scholar that this technique comes across as neither saccharine nor sensationalistic; rather, the result reads like a more complete accoun","PeriodicalId":294543,"journal":{"name":"Research in the Teaching of Developmental Education","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127924252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales","authors":"S. Behrens","doi":"10.5860/choice.42-6322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-6322","url":null,"abstract":"Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales Paradiz V. (2005). Clever Maids: The Secret of the Grimm Fairy Tales. New York: Basic Books. The Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, are best known for their volumes of fairy tales such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin. To a smaller group of scholars, they are also known as early linguists, and memorialized in Grimm's Law, a description of predictable consonant shifts in human language over time. In her new book, Clever Maids, Valerie Paradiz (VP) combines these two facets of the Grimm brothers and adds a third: the true source of their tales and goal in collecting oral folk tradition for publication. The brothers seemed to always love both language and their German heritage. In addition, they were sent to Marburg to attend university, where they could formalize their interests into acceptable scholarly projects. They studied German literature and history, searching for what VP terms the Volk Spirit. Their first project was an attempt to document all the stories ever told in German. To do so required fieldwork; fieldwork required research assistants, and this is where the clever maids make their appearance. VP likens the suppliers of the brothers' stories to \"fairy tale think tanks\" (xii), usually daughters of neighboring families who were familiar with the stories passed along from generation to generation. While the type of scholarship afforded men through university training and publication was not accessible to women, women nonetheless passed along in their hours of work and leisure stories of the VoIk, that is, fairy tales. Many of these stories, retold by VP in her book, focus on common life and often give morality tales on the correct behavior enforced on women, such as obedience, chastity, and diligence. Still, while the stories reflected those sad realities, they left room for a more constructive mission of airing the female plight and sometimes even altering plot lines to offer hope and subversion to the status quo. In simply telling their stories to Jacob and Wilhelm, women were contributing to the preservation of the Volk Spirit. As you can guess, however, they were never directly given written credit for their work. Just as the brothers hoped to preserve the German soul through documenting oral tradition, they credited their sources as such entities as the folk spirits of the country, past and present. The brothers converted an oral tradition into a written one, a medium given less academic validation into one of scholarship. Ironically, they favored story tellers who could accurately recount tales verbatim for the brothers to transcribe. Here, says VP, the brothers perpetuated the myth that the German soul and its past are best preserved if the written form captures the rhythms and phrasing of oral tales. …","PeriodicalId":294543,"journal":{"name":"Research in the Teaching of Developmental Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120837702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching on Television","authors":"Anne Koehler","doi":"10.1016/s0140-6736(63)92318-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(63)92318-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294543,"journal":{"name":"Research in the Teaching of Developmental Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130360306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}