Scholarly Commons at Miami University: Recent submissions
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Pragmatist Thinking for a Populist Moment: Democratic Contingency and Racial Re-Valuing in Education Governance
We examine school governance in populist era, using contemporary readings of pragmatist philosophy. We are in a “populist moment,” a time of uprisings and movements of the demos making political claims (Mouffe, 2018). ... -
A non-trivial pursuit: Library Game Nights as a place to destress with campus partners. [Poster presentation]
Academic libraries work to not only provide access to information and support of scholarly pursuits, we also seek to provide a welcoming atmosphere for all campus constituents. One way MU Libraries does this is through our ... -
Data: Real-Time Bio-Layer Interferometry Ubiquitination Assays as Alternatives to Western Blotting
Ubiquitination is a crucial cellular pathway enabling normal cellular functions such as cell cycle regulation, DNA damage repair, cell signaling, and maintenance of protein homeostasis. However, abnormalities or failures ... -
Lifting the Veil: How Networks Form, Operate, Struggle, and Succeed
Organizational networks have become an increasingly prominent approach to the provision of services for complex, multi-dimensional needs such as behavioral and mental health needs, HIV/AIDS, substance use disorders, and ... -
“The Forms of Things Unknown:” Insights from a Librarian-designed Shakespeare Course
A Shakespeare and Film course taught by a librarian at Miami University was designed as a test bed for new models for supporting multimodal inforamtion creativity in academic libraries. This interactive panel conversation ... -
Tokyo voids: Extending Tokyo's public realm through it's forgotten voids
Despite global population growth, Japan's population is experiencing a decrease in population, contractions in part due to low birth rates, aging majority, and high life expectancy. As such, 10% of homes in Japan lay ... -
Riverscape metropark: Educating the public about the aquatic environment
Most of the buildings people encounter simply reside in their environment with no way of being able to tell its story. They are placed in a complex landscape to fulfill a role for humanity-a passive state of being at ... -
Changing views: Exploring pathways in the Motor City
Pathways have informed movement and experience for a hundred years. Those pathways implied how we live, travel and the establishment of place. New modes of transportation shifted how people move, creating the need for ... -
Designing for and from digital narratives
What would it look like if architecture more deeply valued the perspectives of the average people whose lives unfold upon it every day? Architecture exists within a public environment and in urban areas, the effect of both ... -
Regenerating the "Model City"
The post World War II era is famous for the Baby Boomer generation and the birth of suburbia, both of which caused a major demographic shift at the time. The impact of these shifts is still felt today as the population ... -
Outward bound: developing strategies for the future of spaceports
Human desires to reach the cosmos stretch back to prehistory. Only in modern times has this become possible With the advent of an emerging private sector oriented toward space exploration and travel, it is essential to ... -
Neighborhood rebuilding centers: imagining a more cooperative future for urban rust belt neighborhoods
Cohousing and coliving are two housing forms that aim to address loneliness and encourage better social connection through shared common spaces and intentional community design. These housing concepts have not yet taken ... -
Resurrecting Abandoned Inner City Religious Buildings and Campuses as Community Amenities
Once prevalent across the United States, churches acted as community anchors in the homogenized communities situated in cities across the country, providing a communal space for prayer, schooling and social services. ... -
Social Foundations, Disciplinarity, and Democracy.
This article was originally conceived for a paper session at the 2000 American Educational Studies Association conference in Vancouver, a session designed as a “multilogue” on teaching the foundations. In the article we ... -
Publics for public schools: Legitimacy, democracy and leadership
This book articulates a path for a renewed conception of-and commitment to-the public dimensions of schooling. It is an interdisciplinary book of philosophy and politics, written for educational leaders working in or on ... -
Engaging Youth in Leadership for Social and Political Change
Youth leadership initiatives can help young people engage in democratic life, participatory governance, and social and political change. Leadership education oriented towards political and social change must continue to ... -
Black Bodies in Schools: Dewey’s Democratic Provision for Participation Confronts the Challenges of ‘Fundamental Plunder’
In this chapter, we read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me (2015) against Dewey’s Democracy and Education (1916) to glean insight into how Deweyan transactionalism can help theorize greater democratic participation ... -
"On Parents and Schooling," Podcast Episode, Thinking in the Midst
Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Amy Shuffelton talk with hosts Derek Gottleib and Cara Furman about the sharing of authority in education, the recourse to rights language and discourses of expertise in the context of our ... -
Achieving a Pakistani public: The problem of Privatization in Educational Policy-making
In many nations around the globe, including Pakistan, education is losing ground as a public good to become another market-based commodity as the state shrinks its responsibility to schooling. This presents challenges to ... -
The Contestation of History in Schools in the United States
This short article seeks to understand and explain current efforts to restrict historical teaching in US schools, and describes their ongoing effects. It also includes consideration in the concluding section of what might ...