Article Written By: Daisy CulkinsSkidmore College Abstract: Care is essential to the healthy development of children. If care is not provided within the child’s home, the second most influential sphere within a child’s life where care can be enacted is the school. Community psychology and motivational psychology shed light into how teachers can use care…
Join us for the Swarthmore Education Policy Podcast Premiere Thursday, December 13, 201812:30-2:00pPearson 006 The Educational Studies department and the students of Education Policy: A Site of Struggle (EDUC 41) invite you to the premiere of our Education Policy Podcasts, where students are in the process of creating 5-7 minute podcasts and a complimentary visualization…
Isn’t She Lovely? Antiblackness and the (Im)possibility of Black Childhoods Michael J. Dumas, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley March 1, 2017 4-6 (Start time 4:15) Swarthmore College, Science Center 101 (Chang Hon Hall) Stevie Wonder’s (1976) song to his newborn baby girl, Aisha, offers a departure for this discussion on the (im)possibility of Black childhoods…
Call for Papers/Projects (UPDATED 12-6-2016) Care as a Humanizing Act in Education #CritEdPol, Swarthmore College’s Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, announces an open call for undergraduate papers/projects for our next issue. The theme for the issue is: care mobilized as a necessary and humanizing act within education policy. In popular discourse on education, care…
The recently established Wrench in the Gears blog provides some critical perspective on the drive to digitally-focused personalized learning within the context of ESSA: Schools in every state are buzzing this year with talk of “personalized” learning and 21st century assessments for kids as young as kindergarten. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and…
We, the Critical Education Policies Studies (CEPS) group at Swarthmore College are delighted to share the first issue of #CritEdPol, A Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College. #CritEdPol is a space for critical discussions of education policies and education-related issues, and their relationships to various communities and educational practice. Doing critical education policy…
#CritEdPol, A Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College is an open access journal published by the Critical Education Policies Studies (CEPS) group at Swarthmore College. #CritEdPol is a space for critical discussions of education policies and education-related issues, and their relationships to various communities and educational practice. Doing critical education…
The Critical Education Policy Studies group at Swarthmore College is delighted to announce the publication of our first first issue of #CritEdPol About #CritEdPol #CritEdPol, A Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College is an open access journal published by the Critical Education Policies Studies (CEPS) group at Swarthmore College. #CritEdPol is a…
As part of Native Heritage Month at Swarthmore College 2015, the Native American Students Association and the Department of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College hosted a discussion between Dr. Sandy Grande and Edwin Mayorga on the role of education in colonialism and the process of decolonizing the education system. Sandy Grande is an Associate professor and Chair…