Presentation by Dr. Catherine O'Brien, deaf scholar and researcher
by Maricela Oliva
Colleagues,
Please share information with students and others in the educational community about an upcoming presentation by a scholar/researcher focusing on deaf education and culture. Dr. Catherine O'Brien of Gallaudet University will present on Tuesday, March 24, at 6 pm on behalf of the Consortium for Social Transformation. Dr. Obrien is herself deaf and consequently, her presentation will be a multicultural and inclusive event. Dr. O'Brien will both sign and speak her presentation, supported by translators from the UTSA Office for Students with Disabilities.
Thank you for attention to this and I hope you have a great spring break!
Maricela Oliva
11 years, 5 months
COEHDnews Week of Thu, March 05, 2015
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Faculty and students from the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies presented during the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies’ (NACCS) Tejas Foco Conference Feb. 26-28 at the Lone Star College on Houston.
Anne-Marie Nuñez to speak at SXSWedu Conference<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/anne_marie_nunez_to_speak_at_sxswe...>
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by Jo Ann Jones, COEHDnews Editor | March 02, 2015
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Dr. Anne-Marie Nuñez, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, will participate in the South by Southwest Festival’s education component, SXSWedu Conference, in Austin on Wednesday, March 11.
WSI hosts Women’s History Month March 3-31<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/wsi_hosts_womens_history_month_mar...>
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by Jo Ann Jones, COEHDnews Editor | February 25, 2015
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The UTSA Women’s Studies Institute (WSI) will host more than 25 events in honor of the 2015 Women’s History Month. This is the 12th year WSI has hosted the month-long celebration.
Rethinking Black History Month<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/rethinking_black_history_month>
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by ReAnna S. Roby, Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow, Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching | February 24, 2015
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ILT doctoral student and teaching fellow, ReAnna S. Roby, shares her thoughts on and experiences with Black History Month.
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Recognizing Faculty, Staff & Students
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Faculty Publications
“Keep in mind that I will be improving”: The opening post as a request for absolution
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Dr. Vittorio Marone | Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies
Marone, V. (2015). “Keep in mind that I will be improving”: The opening post as a request for absolution. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 5(1), 136-158. Retrieved from http://www.ojcmt.net/articles/51/518.pdf
>From discussion forum to discursive studio:Learning and creativity in design-oriented affinity space
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Dr. Vittorio Marone | Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
Games and Culture
Marone, V. (2015). From discussion forum to discursive studio: Learning and creativity in design-oriented affinity spaces. Games and Culture, 10(1), 81-105. doi: 10.1177/1555412014557328
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San Antonio Science and Mathematics Collaborative (continuation)
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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An Exploratory Research to Determine Isoflavones Anti-abdominal Obesity Properties Using Menopausal-
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Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
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New approach to treat post-concussion syndrome may help athletes get back in game quicker<http://www.news-medical.net/news/20140128/New-approach-to-treat-post-conc...>
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by Canisius College | March 05, 2015
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Physical and cognitive rest are traditionally what doctors prescribe for patients who suffer sport-related concussions. But a new approach to treating post-concussion syndrome may actually help athletes get back in the game quicker, according to Karl Kozlowski, PhD, assistant professor of kinesiology at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.
Study: New assessment tool can predict successful teachers<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/cu-sna030215.php>
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by News Release | March 05, 2015
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A new video assessment tool that can inform teacher selection and hiring has implications for education reform.
The Legacy Of Booker T. Washington Revisited<http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/03/05/388443431/the-legacy-of-booker-t-w...>
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by ashington Revisited by CANDICE NORWOOD | March 05, 2015
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In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, for our 50 Great Teachers project NPR Ed decided to look back at his leadership.
New Report Calls Texas’ Truancy Policies Flawed And Unfair<http://tpr.org/post/new-report-calls-texas-truancy-policies-flawed-and-un...>
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by EVA RUTH MORAVEC | March 05, 2015
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A new report calls truancy policies in Texas a “flawed and inequitable patchwork” that led to the criminal prosecution of 115,000 children for not going to school in 2013.
How to Easily Transfer Tax Information to Your FAFSA<http://www.ed.gov/blog/2015/02/how-to-easily-transfer-tax-information-to-...>
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by ED.gov Blog | March 05, 2015
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January makes me think of holiday parties, tax returns, and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®). If you are like me, a world-class procrastinator that agonizes every year at the thought of filing a tax return and submitting a FAFSA, then you are not alone. You also know that it can be time consuming. Now imagine a time-saving process where you instantly transfer your tax information directly into your FAFSA. Actually, there’s no need to imagine; this process exists and you can learn more about it below.
5 Lessons Education Research Taught Us In 2014<http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/02/26/387471969/5-lessons-education-rese...>
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by OWEN PHILLIPS | March 05, 2015
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Lessons from a handful of the most-viewed papers from the American Educational Research Association last year.
7 of The Best Chrome Apps for EFL and ESL Students<http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/02/best-chrome-apps-for-efl-and-e...>
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Today we are sharing with you some useful Chrome apps to help your students with their language learning. These apps are particularly helpful for EFL and ESL learners. They (the apps) provide a wide variety of activities, games, flashcards and exercises on language practice. Almost all of them are geared towards solidifying students' vocabulary learning and empowering learners with a rich and diversified lexicon to assist them in their writing and reading comprehension.
How to Stop Worrying & Love Your Tech<http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3758397>
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by Kate Rix | February 25, 2015
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Strategies to get your technology-shy teachers to take a chance on new tools.
Unlocking the digital classroom for kids in lock up<http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education>
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by Adriene Hill | February 25, 2015
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A San Diego juvenile justice facility plans to give every kid a laptop.
Hoops By Day, Hops By Night: This Phys Ed Teacher’s Got A Secret Brew (Secret Lives of Teachers)<http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/02/17/385364692/secret-lives-of-teachers...>
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by Eric Westervelt | February 25, 2015
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"Your friends are gonna tell you, 'Your beer is great.' It's another thing for people in the market to actually buy it and drink it," says gym teacher P.T. Lovern, founder of Line 51 Brewing.
San Antonio Students Keep Promise, Get Letters From Time Capsule<http://tpr.org/post/san-antonio-students-keep-promise-get-letters-time-ca...>
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by San Antonio Express News | February 25, 2015
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San Antonio — A group of South Texas third graders gathered at a community college in 2006 to bury a time capsule, with a promise from the school they’d be offered two-year scholarships if they graduated from high school.
As High-Tech Teaching Catches On, Students With Disabilities Can Be Left Behind<http://chronicle.com/article/As-High-Tech-Teaching-Catches/190341/?cid=at...>
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by Casey Fabris | February 25, 2015
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Educational innovations like the flipped classroom, clickers, and online discussions can present difficulties for students with disabilities. The issue was highlighted this month, when Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were sued for allegedly failing to provide such students with closed captioning for online lectures and course materials.
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11 years, 5 months
World War II in Photographs
by Mercedes Zamudio
Dear COEHD Faculty, Staff and Grad Students;
I will be available to lead a tour of the Subject Exhibit at the McNay Museum of Art on Thursday evening, March 19 at 7:00 pm, Thursday, April 16 (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at 7:00p.m. and Sunday May 3, at 1:30 pm.
This exhibit closes on May 10. I am a volunteer Docent at the McNay so I wanted to share this exhibit with the COEHD and other interested UTSA staff or faculty for anyone who is interested. Entrance to the Museum is free on every Thursday evening from 4:30 -9 p.m. and the first Sunday of each month from 12:30 - 4:30 so there will be no charge on those dates. There are other exhibits and the permanent collection open currently and you are welcome to visit those at your leisure.
Please let me know if you are interested in this guided tour and on what day and time and I will confirm that I will be there. If another date is better for you please let me know and I will adjust if possible. Let me know if you have questions.
Thank you sincerely,
Mercedes Zamudio
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Center for the Well-Being of Military Children and Families
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11 years, 5 months
May 2015 Commencement
by Denise Garcia
COEHD Faculty,
Attached you will find information regarding the UTSA May 2015 Commencement in the Alamodome. The Memo from the Provost, Regalia Rental information and Faculty Response Card are attached for your review and response to the Dean's Office, Attention: Denise Garcia, by Monday, March 30. It is important to return the response card if you will be attending Commencement.
Commencement will be divided into three ceremonies. You will be expected to attend only the ceremony on Saturday, May 9 at 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, May 9
10:00 a.m. College of Education and Human Development
College of Sciences
Saturday, May 9
4:00 p.m. College of Engineering
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
University College
Sunday, May 10
2:00 p.m. College of Architecture, Construction and Planning
College of Business
College of Public Policy
Shuttle service is being provided for all faculty participants. Details regarding the shuttle service will be included in the Faculty Participant Instructions that will be sent out by the Special Events Center.
We have a limited number of Regalia sets in the Dean's Office that can be borrowed by the junior faculty. Please let me know by Friday, April 3, if you would like to borrow regalia. If we still have regalia after this date, the senior faculty can then borrow.
Your assistance in making the May 2015 Commencement a success is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Denise
Denise Garcia
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College of Education and Human Development
Office of the Dean
The University of Texas at San Antonio
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San Antonio, Texas 78249
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11 years, 5 months
Passing of Joshua A. Fishman
by Rosalind Horowitz
2 March 2015
Dear Colleagues in the COEHD,
Language, Culture, and Social Science experts across the world
mourn the loss of Joshua Fishman, Professor Emeritus, Yeshiva University, New York.
He was at the forefront of Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Language Preservation, Minorities and Language Shift and an advocate of Languages and Culture as a mark of Human Values.
The history of Professor Fishman’s life is a history of the Sociology and Psychology of Language and human preservation of tradition and culture.
Rosalind Horowitz
From: Ofelia Garcia [ogarcia(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:ogarcia@gc.cuny.edu>]
Joshua A. Fishman (1926-2015)
A beloved teacher and influential scholar, Joshua A. Fishman passed away peacefully in his Bronx home, on Monday evening, March 1, 2015. He was 88 years old. Joshua A. Fishman leaves behind his devoted wife of over 60 years, Gella Schweid Fishman, three sons and daughters-in-law, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. But he also leaves behind thousands of students throughout the world who have learned much from him about sociology of language, the field he founded, and also about the possibility of being a generous and committed scholar to language minority communities. As he once said, his life was his work and his work was his life.
Joshua A. Fishman, nicknamed Shikl, was born in Philadelphia PA on July 18, 1926. Yiddish was the language of his childhood home, and his father regularly asked his sister, Rukhl, and him: “What did you do for Yiddish today?” The struggle for Yiddish in Jewish life was the impetus for his scholarly work. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters degree in 1947, he collaborated with his good friend, Max Weinreich, the doyen of Yiddish linguistics, on a translation of Weinreich’s history of Yiddish. And it was through Yiddish that he came to another one of his interests ––that of bilingualism. In 1948 he received a prize from the YIVO Institute for Yiddish Research for a monograph on bilingualism. Yiddish and bilingualism were interests he developed throughout his scholarly life.
After earning a PhD in social psychology from Columbia University in 1953, Joshua Fishman worked as a researcher for the College Entrance Examination Board. This experience focused his interest on educational pursuits, which eventually led to another strand of his scholarly work –– that on bilingual education. It was around this time that he taught what came to be the first sociology of language course at The City College of New York. In 1958, he was appointed associate professor of human relations and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and two years later, moved to Yeshiva University. At Yeshiva University he was professor of psychology and sociology, Dean of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Social Science and Humanities, Academic Vice President, and Distinguished University Research Professor of Social sciences. In 1988, he became Professor Emeritus and began to divide the year between New York and California where he became visiting professor of education and linguistics at Stanford University. In the course of his career, Fishman held visiting appointments at over a dozen universities in the USA, Israel, and the Philippines, and fellowships at the Center for Advanced study (Stanford), the East West Center (Hawai’i) the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Study.
Throughout his long career Joshua A. Fishman has published close to one hundred books and over a thousand articles. He has not only been prolific, but his original and complex ideas have been very influential in the academy, as well as extremely useful to language minorities through the world. His first major study of sociology of language, Language Loyalty in the United States, was published in 1964. A year later, he published Yiddish in America. In 1968, he published the earliest major collection dealing with language policy and management, Language problems of developing nations. In the same year, he edited and published Readings in the sociology of language, a first attempt to define the new field.
By the 1970s Joshua Fishman’s scholarship was recognized throughout the world for its importance and its relevance about the language issues prevalent in society. In 1973, he founded, and has since edited, The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, a journal of excellent international reputation. Joshua Fishman has also edited a related book series published by Mouton, Contributions to the Sociology of Language (CSL), with over 200 titles. In both of these endeavors Fishman has encouraged young scholars to research, write and publish, supporting and contributing to the academic careers of many throughout the world, especially in developing countries. For years he replied daily to letters and e-mails from students from all over the world. His greatest motivation has been dialoguing with many about the use of language in society and answering student questions. The world was his classroom.
While conducting an impressive body of research, and being responsive to the many who asked for advice, Fishman traveled extensively, encouraging the activities of those seeking to preserve endangered languages. He will be remembered by the Māoris of New Zealand, the Catalans and Basques of Spain, the Navajo and other Native Americans, the speakers of Quechua and Aymara in South America, and many other minority language groups for his warmth and encouragement. For a quarter-century, he wrote a column on Yiddish sociolinguistics in every issue of the quarterly Afn Shvel. He also wrote regularly on Yiddish and general sociolinguistic topics for the weekly Forverts. Together with his wife Gella Fishman, he established the extensive five-generational "Fishman Family Archives" at Stanford University library. In 2004 he received the prestigious UNESCO Linguapax Award in Barcelona, Spain.
Joshua Fishman’s prolific record of research and publication has continued until today, defining modern scholarship in bilingualism and multilingualism, bilingual and minority education, the relation of language and thought, the sociology and the social history of Yiddish, language policy and planning, language spread, language shift and maintenance, language and nationalism, language and ethnicity, post-imperial English, languages in New York, and ethnic, and national efforts to reverse language shift.
His scholarly work with minority groups and with others engaged in the struggle to preserve their languages, cultures, and traditions has been inspired by a deep and heartfelt compassion that is always sustained by the markedly human tone of his most objective scholarly writing.
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Campus Visit for Third ELPS Chair Finalist
by David Thompson
Hi Everyone,
Happy Monday! Please see below for a friendly reminder :)
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I'm writing to let you know that Dr. Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is a finalist for the position of Chair of the ELPS department, and will be on campus Monday and Tuesday, March 2 - 3, 2015 for her campus interview. I would like to call your attention to two opportunities to meet and interact with Dr. Arnold and to hear of her research. Please see below for the relevant opportunities:
* Monday, March 2, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Open meeting with faculty and graduate students, MB 3.308 (Dean's Lounge)
* Tuesday, March 3, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Research presentation, JPL 4.04.12C (Faculty Center Conference Room); Title of presentation: "Crisis, Critical Incidents and the Cartography of Community: Education after Disaster"
On behalf of the search committee, I encourage as many of you as possible to attend these events!
Kind regards,
David Thompson
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