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May 13
The variances of College Access
The Contributions of Economics to the Study of College Access and Success http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=12582 Economics: The primary framework in economics of education is the human capital model developed by Gary Becker in his seminal 1964 work.2 Education is thought to increase human capital, a set of skills that can be “rented out” to employers for income. …
May 13
Appropriating the Internet for Social Change: Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies by Transnational Civil Society Organizations
Appropriating the Internet for Social Change: Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies by Transnational Civil Society Organizations Prepared by Mark Surman and Katherine Reilly The goal of this report is to explore the question of how civil society can use – and is using – networked technologies strategically. More specifically, the report reviews a …
May 13
Structures of Participation in Digital Culture by Karaganis, Joe, ed. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007.
“Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, edited by SSRC Program Director Joe Karaganis, explores digital technologies that are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia to YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of …
May 12
why should we care about college access
College access is fundamentally a question of social opportunity – a question of democracy: who gets to participate, how, when, where and under what conditions…. College access == macro college choice == micro higher education opportunity educational opportunity == operationalized in a lot of different ways — K-12 framework without an end game — to …
May 12
College Access
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May 12
Budget Reduction at University of Florida
http://www.president.ufl.edu/budget-reduction/proposal.html
May 01
Final Project for Pedagogy & Dissent by Laura Bestler-Wilcox
The Final Piece: Searching: Online Identity Work http://bestlerwilcox.com/Final_Project/ Searching: Online Identity Work Laura Bestler-Wilcox 615C HGED: Annotated Bibliography Iowa State University May 1, 2008 Project Summary My final project will be a computer graphic piece which explores my personal transformation. This transformation occurred while discovering how traditional aged undergraduate students search to express the intersections …
Apr 29
Who participates and what are they doing?
Retrieved on April 29, 2008 from http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm.
Apr 24
04-24-08
Two dimensions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y Distributive Justice Equality of Opportunity (Lynch) Equality of Outcome (Lynch) Justice from Freedom of Oppressive Relations (Young) – pulled both together – five faces of oppression Relationship Justice – nature of relationships in a structured society Neo-Fabian and Post-Mod of Neutrality Freedom from Oppression (being oppressed doesn’t rule out the opportunity of …