An editorial in Science by Leonard Rubenstein and Mona Younis.
The “On-call” Scientists AAAS program.
White Victim Mentality
The new study by Michael Norton (Harvard) and Samuel Sommers (Tufts) is filling up pages and pages of news”papers” and bringing up many ideas around affirmative action.
Is Anti-White Bias a Problem? room for debate on The New York Times
I’m afraid the best I have found is in Spanish: “Aún hacen falta cuotas raciales” at elpais.com
Some things mentioned in the more extensive analysis (note: yes, some of them are scary):
Grutter v. Bollinger (wiki summary)
Ricci v. DeStefano (wiki summary)
The Negro Family by Mr. Moynihan (a comment on it)
Biopolitics of Race
Dorothy E. Roberts talks about the biopolitics of race in her new book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century (a short article about it here) and her article What’s Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?: Genes, Drugs and Health Disparities
Stages of Change model for attitude and behavior change
Something to think about when we try to implement any changes, at institutional level or with the students' learning habits:
The development of the model
Precontemplation> Contemplation> Preparation (planning)> Action> Maintenance>Termination
The development of the model
- The initial paper, around self-change of smoking: Prochaska and DiClemente, 1983.
- In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behavior; Prochaska, DiClemente and Norcross 1992.
- The transtheoretical model of health behavior change; Prochaska and Velicer, 1997.
- An analysis of the model by a graduate student of Applied Psychology; Lenio 2006.
- A nice collection of references at the Motivation at a Glance site.
- Changing people's traveling behaviours (TravelSmart) and Reducing Alcohol harm (HAMS) have some cartoons that helped me understanding the concept. I add them in case there are more visual learners out there.
- Trying to forget that the World Bank is behind this analysis of the Theories of Behavior Change, I have to admit that this brief report on Communication for Governance and the references therein were useful to me.
Support
The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education has:
- some grants
- plenty of publications including a series of Essays on Teaching Excellence and A Guide to Faculty Development (book reference)
- and many more things I suggest you to check at some point
Designing learning experiences
Ernest Becker's Beyond Alienation: A Philosophy of Education for the Crisis of Democracy
Dee Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences (2003) and his full-of-resources website
Dee Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences (2003) and his full-of-resources website
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