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Papers by Elsie Szecsy
The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, i... more The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, interaction, and collaboration for educational innovation and professional growth in three contexts where interactive information and communication technology (ICT) was introduced. The study is framed in adult learning theory (Knowles, 1980; Merriam, 2001); face-to-face and virtual collaboration theory as conceptualized by Lawson (2003), Corrigan (2000), and Palloff & Pratt (2005); and team leadership, as reported by Kogler Hill (2004). Observational and archival data were collected and analyzed from a grounded theoretical perspective (Straus & Corbin, 1990). The study derives perspectives on the utilization of ICT to encourage reflection-onpractice, interaction, and collaboration from which cross-institutional, cross-cultural, and binational teams can develop educational innovation and professional growth in higher and adult education.
Western Historical Quarterly
The use of information and communication technology (ICT)
re schools agents of social reproduction, or are they agents of social mobility, change and trans... more re schools agents of social reproduction, or are they agents of social mobility, change and transformation? What purpose does education serve for democracy? Of what value is democratic society? Scholars and practitioners in education have pondered these questions throughout history (Collins, 2009; Cook, 1939), and eachSzecsy: Banks’s International Companion to Multicultural Education attempt at an answer has resulted in a different understanding of what school is about and for, which has led to multiple attempts at reshaping of teaching and learning in school. This grand challenge is not necessarily peculiar to the form of democracy known in the United States. The Routledge international companion to multicultural education provides for consideration of this important challenge through a broader, global lens. This volume is a comprehensive reference work on multicultural education around the world. Its forty chapters are divided into ten parts, each of which focuses on a particular ...
Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation
The purpose of this chapter is to report on the use of information and communication technology (... more The purpose of this chapter is to report on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a “leveling device” between colleagues dispersed across the United States and México, who shared similar education research interests but came from different research traditions. The author reports on the use of various ICT tools in a process that began in 2006 with a small planning group distributed across México and the United States; grew to include additional participants who met face-to-face in Monterrey, México, in 2007; and continued afterward into 2008 through ICT-mediated mechanisms that were structured to maintain purposeful linkages among colleagues dispersed across two countries. Through this slow, deliberate process, the participants increased their capacity for achieving a broader focus on a shared problem as a research community by learning each other’s perspectives. The strategic use of ICT to support collaboration across borders—in real time and asynchronously—as...
The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, i... more The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, interaction, and collaboration for educational innovation and professional growth in three contexts where interactive information and communication technology (ICT) was introduced. The study is framed in adult learning theory (Knowles, 1980; Merriam, 2001); face-to-face and virtual collaboration theory as conceptualized by Lawson (2003), Corrigan (2000), and Palloff & Pratt (2005); and team leadership, as reported by Kogler Hill (2004). Observational and archival data were collected and analyzed from a grounded theoretical perspective (Straus & Corbin, 1990). The study derives perspectives on the utilization of ICT to encourage reflection-onpractice, interaction, and collaboration from which cross-institutional, cross-cultural, and binational teams can develop educational innovation and professional growth in higher and adult education.
This bibliography lists examples of books, dissertations, reports, and articles dealing with the ... more This bibliography lists examples of books, dissertations, reports, and articles dealing with the brciad field of multicultural education. The bibliography's major focus is on materials in English from recent years, especially materials that deal with educational objectives implicitly related to peace education, such as bias awareness, empathy, and tolerance. In the bibliography titles of documents are given in their original language-if the original language is English, French, or German, no translation is proVided; in the case of other original languages, a translation of the title into English is added in square brackets. (BT)
Retrieved August, 2004
Background This brief reviews the current status of minority students in the public schools of Ar... more Background This brief reviews the current status of minority students in the public schools of Arizona. For the purposes of this discussion, minority is defined as anyone other than non-Hispanic White native speakers of English. The discussion includes all varieties of minority (i.e., language minority, ethnic minority, racial minority, recent immigrant). This brief attempts to paint a broad-brush picture of how minority students in Arizona achieve in comparison with majority group students. Federal Laws and Court Rulings The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1 ruling of 1954 determined that racial segregation limited African American student access to a quality education in public schools, and was therefore illegal. This landmark case set the stage for the legal and regulatory framework that developed subsequently and that grew to include other groups experiencing similar educational inequities. Brown v. Board of Education paved 5.2 the way for The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (especially Title VI), 2 and for The Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA) of 1974. 3 Other pertinent U.S. Supreme Court rulings include Lau v. Nichols, 4 in which the Supreme Court declared that equality of educational opportunity is denied to students who do not understand English if schools do not take affirmative steps to differentiate their instructional program from that provided to native speakers of English. Unlike Brown v. Board of Education, which made it necessary for plaintiffs to show a school district's intent to discriminate, Lau's focus is on outcomes. If students do not receive instruction in a language that they can understand, they are receiving disparate services from the school district. The school district has denied the students equal educational opportunity, regardless of the district's intent. The state's data suggest that the absence of such opportunity, owing to the absence of affirmative steps to provide access, is common in Arizona. In Plyler v. Doe, 5 the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying a free public education to immigrant children regardless of the legal status of their parents' residency in the United States. The Federal Court of Appeals' ruling on Castaneda v. Pickard 6 resulted in the formulation of a test to determine school district compliance with the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA): • The school must pursue a program based on an educational theory recognized as sound or, at least, as a legitimate experimental strategy. • The school must actually implement the program with instructional practices, resources, and personnel necessary to transfer theory into reality. • The school must not persist with a program that fails to produce results. In Gomez v. Illinois, 7 the requirements to apply these principles were extended to state education agencies to ensure that English Language Learners' needs are met. Again, no evidence was found that Arizona has responded affirmatively to this requirement of law.
Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2004
The Learner-Centered Leadership program is a new initiative that provides professional developmen... more The Learner-Centered Leadership program is a new initiative that provides professional development opportunities to school administrators through a mentoring model. The focus on learner-centered leadership reflects renewed attention to the primary role of teaching and learning in the ...
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
Journal of Adolescent Research, 2015
Latino adolescents are disproportionately impacted by HIV, but researchers have documented few pr... more Latino adolescents are disproportionately impacted by HIV, but researchers have documented few programs to prevent and reduce HIV risk. The Storytelling for Empowerment (SFE) HIV StoryBook was designed with an innovative ecodevelopment approach combining empowerment, family communication, and positive cultural identity. A mixed method design used both a randomized control group design, as well as grounded theory coding of semi-structured focus group interviews. For the quantitative method, a total of 96 adolescents (85% Latino, M age = 12.2) were randomized to either the SFE HIV StoryBook condition or a control condition and then tested at baseline and at 4 months post-baseline. Study findings indicated that teens who participated in the HIV StoryBook condition maintained sexual abstinence, increased their ability to communicate about sex, increased their intention to stop sexual advances, and increased their HIV prevention knowledge. For the qualitative method, seven focus groups o...
In this article we explain the development of anti-Mexican nationalist ideology among Arizona'... more In this article we explain the development of anti-Mexican nationalist ideology among Arizona's legislative body and the development of counterpoints of action and resistance and the role the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University is playing locally, regionally, nationally, and transnationally in countering this ideology. It considers that such measures as Arizona SB 1070 law passed by the Arizona legislature in 2010 has historical antecedents early in the development of the Arizona territory in the 19th century. Once Mexican-origin populations became demographically and politically subordinated in the region at that time, numerous measures ensued, which attempted to subordinate much of the cultural, linguistic, and spatial heritage of the population since then. However, in spite of these processes that Mexican-origin populations simultaneously created and became a part of, countervailing linguistic, cultural, and public developments and innovations emerged. I...
Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2013
This article presents preliminary data to examine the manner in which the Ford Fellows Program in... more This article presents preliminary data to examine the manner in which the Ford Fellows Program intellectually and academically affects American higher education and especially those awards afforded to individuals of Mexican and Puerto Rican origin (1970-1990). Resumen Este artículo presenta información preliminar para examinar la forma en la que el Programa de Compañeros Ford ha tenido impacto intelectual y académicamente en la educación superior y especialmente en aquellos individuos de origen mexicano y puertorriqueño (1970-1990).
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, 2000
Online Submission, Oct 20, 2005
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, 2008
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, 2008
The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, i... more The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, interaction, and collaboration for educational innovation and professional growth in three contexts where interactive information and communication technology (ICT) was introduced. The study is framed in adult learning theory (Knowles, 1980; Merriam, 2001); face-to-face and virtual collaboration theory as conceptualized by Lawson (2003), Corrigan (2000), and Palloff & Pratt (2005); and team leadership, as reported by Kogler Hill (2004). Observational and archival data were collected and analyzed from a grounded theoretical perspective (Straus & Corbin, 1990). The study derives perspectives on the utilization of ICT to encourage reflection-onpractice, interaction, and collaboration from which cross-institutional, cross-cultural, and binational teams can develop educational innovation and professional growth in higher and adult education.
Western Historical Quarterly
The use of information and communication technology (ICT)
re schools agents of social reproduction, or are they agents of social mobility, change and trans... more re schools agents of social reproduction, or are they agents of social mobility, change and transformation? What purpose does education serve for democracy? Of what value is democratic society? Scholars and practitioners in education have pondered these questions throughout history (Collins, 2009; Cook, 1939), and eachSzecsy: Banks’s International Companion to Multicultural Education attempt at an answer has resulted in a different understanding of what school is about and for, which has led to multiple attempts at reshaping of teaching and learning in school. This grand challenge is not necessarily peculiar to the form of democracy known in the United States. The Routledge international companion to multicultural education provides for consideration of this important challenge through a broader, global lens. This volume is a comprehensive reference work on multicultural education around the world. Its forty chapters are divided into ten parts, each of which focuses on a particular ...
Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation
The purpose of this chapter is to report on the use of information and communication technology (... more The purpose of this chapter is to report on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a “leveling device” between colleagues dispersed across the United States and México, who shared similar education research interests but came from different research traditions. The author reports on the use of various ICT tools in a process that began in 2006 with a small planning group distributed across México and the United States; grew to include additional participants who met face-to-face in Monterrey, México, in 2007; and continued afterward into 2008 through ICT-mediated mechanisms that were structured to maintain purposeful linkages among colleagues dispersed across two countries. Through this slow, deliberate process, the participants increased their capacity for achieving a broader focus on a shared problem as a research community by learning each other’s perspectives. The strategic use of ICT to support collaboration across borders—in real time and asynchronously—as...
The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, i... more The purpose of this exploratory case study is to describe efforts made to encourage reflection, interaction, and collaboration for educational innovation and professional growth in three contexts where interactive information and communication technology (ICT) was introduced. The study is framed in adult learning theory (Knowles, 1980; Merriam, 2001); face-to-face and virtual collaboration theory as conceptualized by Lawson (2003), Corrigan (2000), and Palloff & Pratt (2005); and team leadership, as reported by Kogler Hill (2004). Observational and archival data were collected and analyzed from a grounded theoretical perspective (Straus & Corbin, 1990). The study derives perspectives on the utilization of ICT to encourage reflection-onpractice, interaction, and collaboration from which cross-institutional, cross-cultural, and binational teams can develop educational innovation and professional growth in higher and adult education.
This bibliography lists examples of books, dissertations, reports, and articles dealing with the ... more This bibliography lists examples of books, dissertations, reports, and articles dealing with the brciad field of multicultural education. The bibliography's major focus is on materials in English from recent years, especially materials that deal with educational objectives implicitly related to peace education, such as bias awareness, empathy, and tolerance. In the bibliography titles of documents are given in their original language-if the original language is English, French, or German, no translation is proVided; in the case of other original languages, a translation of the title into English is added in square brackets. (BT)
Retrieved August, 2004
Background This brief reviews the current status of minority students in the public schools of Ar... more Background This brief reviews the current status of minority students in the public schools of Arizona. For the purposes of this discussion, minority is defined as anyone other than non-Hispanic White native speakers of English. The discussion includes all varieties of minority (i.e., language minority, ethnic minority, racial minority, recent immigrant). This brief attempts to paint a broad-brush picture of how minority students in Arizona achieve in comparison with majority group students. Federal Laws and Court Rulings The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1 ruling of 1954 determined that racial segregation limited African American student access to a quality education in public schools, and was therefore illegal. This landmark case set the stage for the legal and regulatory framework that developed subsequently and that grew to include other groups experiencing similar educational inequities. Brown v. Board of Education paved 5.2 the way for The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (especially Title VI), 2 and for The Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA) of 1974. 3 Other pertinent U.S. Supreme Court rulings include Lau v. Nichols, 4 in which the Supreme Court declared that equality of educational opportunity is denied to students who do not understand English if schools do not take affirmative steps to differentiate their instructional program from that provided to native speakers of English. Unlike Brown v. Board of Education, which made it necessary for plaintiffs to show a school district's intent to discriminate, Lau's focus is on outcomes. If students do not receive instruction in a language that they can understand, they are receiving disparate services from the school district. The school district has denied the students equal educational opportunity, regardless of the district's intent. The state's data suggest that the absence of such opportunity, owing to the absence of affirmative steps to provide access, is common in Arizona. In Plyler v. Doe, 5 the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying a free public education to immigrant children regardless of the legal status of their parents' residency in the United States. The Federal Court of Appeals' ruling on Castaneda v. Pickard 6 resulted in the formulation of a test to determine school district compliance with the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA): • The school must pursue a program based on an educational theory recognized as sound or, at least, as a legitimate experimental strategy. • The school must actually implement the program with instructional practices, resources, and personnel necessary to transfer theory into reality. • The school must not persist with a program that fails to produce results. In Gomez v. Illinois, 7 the requirements to apply these principles were extended to state education agencies to ensure that English Language Learners' needs are met. Again, no evidence was found that Arizona has responded affirmatively to this requirement of law.
Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2004
The Learner-Centered Leadership program is a new initiative that provides professional developmen... more The Learner-Centered Leadership program is a new initiative that provides professional development opportunities to school administrators through a mentoring model. The focus on learner-centered leadership reflects renewed attention to the primary role of teaching and learning in the ...
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
Journal of Adolescent Research, 2015
Latino adolescents are disproportionately impacted by HIV, but researchers have documented few pr... more Latino adolescents are disproportionately impacted by HIV, but researchers have documented few programs to prevent and reduce HIV risk. The Storytelling for Empowerment (SFE) HIV StoryBook was designed with an innovative ecodevelopment approach combining empowerment, family communication, and positive cultural identity. A mixed method design used both a randomized control group design, as well as grounded theory coding of semi-structured focus group interviews. For the quantitative method, a total of 96 adolescents (85% Latino, M age = 12.2) were randomized to either the SFE HIV StoryBook condition or a control condition and then tested at baseline and at 4 months post-baseline. Study findings indicated that teens who participated in the HIV StoryBook condition maintained sexual abstinence, increased their ability to communicate about sex, increased their intention to stop sexual advances, and increased their HIV prevention knowledge. For the qualitative method, seven focus groups o...
In this article we explain the development of anti-Mexican nationalist ideology among Arizona'... more In this article we explain the development of anti-Mexican nationalist ideology among Arizona's legislative body and the development of counterpoints of action and resistance and the role the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University is playing locally, regionally, nationally, and transnationally in countering this ideology. It considers that such measures as Arizona SB 1070 law passed by the Arizona legislature in 2010 has historical antecedents early in the development of the Arizona territory in the 19th century. Once Mexican-origin populations became demographically and politically subordinated in the region at that time, numerous measures ensued, which attempted to subordinate much of the cultural, linguistic, and spatial heritage of the population since then. However, in spite of these processes that Mexican-origin populations simultaneously created and became a part of, countervailing linguistic, cultural, and public developments and innovations emerged. I...
Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2013
This article presents preliminary data to examine the manner in which the Ford Fellows Program in... more This article presents preliminary data to examine the manner in which the Ford Fellows Program intellectually and academically affects American higher education and especially those awards afforded to individuals of Mexican and Puerto Rican origin (1970-1990). Resumen Este artículo presenta información preliminar para examinar la forma en la que el Programa de Compañeros Ford ha tenido impacto intelectual y académicamente en la educación superior y especialmente en aquellos individuos de origen mexicano y puertorriqueño (1970-1990).
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, 2000
Online Submission, Oct 20, 2005
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, 2008
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, 2008