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Title: Bastion of the Dispossessed: The Free People of Color's Fluid Identities Across the Haitian Revolution
Author: Hill, Andrew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: Take a step back in time to the western half of the island named Saint Domingue in the 1780s, a place we now call Haiti. In 1785, the island produced more sugar and coffee than any other colony in the western hemisphere. French colonial administra...

Title: Science as a critical method for deconstructing diversity discourse: Towards an anti-racist teacher education
Author: Ash, Alfred
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Curriculum planning
Description: This study is informed by an understanding of cultural incongruities in the classroom, and a critical postmodern science framework that recognizes the need for an interpretive and incisive approach for teaching about diversity issues in teacher ed...

Title: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
Author: Bickart, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
Description: U.S. schools teach predominately to the analytical, left-brain, which has foundations in behaviorism, and uses a mechanistic paradigm that influences epistemic beliefs of how learning takes place. This result is that learning is impeded. Using dis...