Papers by Timothy Cashman
The following study details the collaboration of a university’s secondary education faculty on th... more The following study details the collaboration of a university’s secondary education faculty on the United States and Mexico border. Calls for improved test scores, better preparation and retention of teachers, and improved graduation rates of teacher candidates were imminent concerns. The faculty responded to these demands by developing an integrated teacher preparation program based on shared activities, readings, technology, electronic journals, and shared epistemological values. The context for the reform efforts included a consideration for learning theory. Furthermore, secondary education faculty facilitated constructivist, collaborative pedagogies as integral to teacher preparation. A new focus was placed on learner-centered praxis rather than on teacher-centered performance. This article presents the transformative process of teacher preparation from the perspective of two participant professors.
Issues in Teacher Education, 2013
A recently constructed border wall stands within walking distance of Border High School (BHS) and... more A recently constructed border wall stands within walking distance of Border High School (BHS) and was created to impede the flow of people, goods, fauna, and contraband from Mexico into the United States (U.S.). The reality, however, is that this geopolitical border is fluid, allowing connections between sociopolitical zones (Romo & Chavez, 2006). As posited by Romo and Chavez, “The geopolitical border between Mexico and the United States represents the beginnings, endings, and blending of languages, cultures, communities, and countries. It also reflects the complexity, juxtaposition, and intersection of identities, economies, and social and educational issues” (p. 142). Gruenewald (2003) noted an intimate connection between individuals and their inhabited space and that pedagogy of place can be a means of examining this relationship. Pedagogy of place, in turn, is linked to critical theory and considers borders as dynamic inhabited regions rather than divided, disparate locales div...
The Journal of Social Studies Research, 2006
Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
This study considers the teaching of historical and territorial issues between Japan and China fo... more This study considers the teaching of historical and territorial issues between Japan and China for the current Japanese social studies curriculum. For research purposes, a lesson plan was designed and facilitated in Japanese elementary and junior high schools. This lesson addressed ongoing tensions between Japan and China over the sovereignty of the Diaoyu (China)/Senkaku (Japan) islands. Pre-tests and post-tests were administered, and results were analyzed through the lenses of border pedagogy and place-based pedagogies. Students’ transformative understandings of their roles as global citizens and students’ attitudes toward problem solving were considered. Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE
Journal of International Social Studies, 2013
This study provides an analysis of data collected from Chihuahua, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada, ed... more This study provides an analysis of data collected from Chihuahua, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada, educators on how United States (U. S.) policies are taught and discussed in their classrooms. Teachers and administrators were interviewed with regard to their respective curricula and classroom discussions. The researcher sought to gain insight on how historical and current U. S. policies are addressed. Participants responded to questions regarding how much time was devoted to U. S. policies in classroom discussions, how much open discourse exists in classrooms, what ideological differences are evident, and why Americans should be informed of perspectives in another country’s social studies classrooms. The researcher uses border pedagogy and meliorism to analyze how educators present geographic, historic, socioeconomic, and political issues as they relate to U. S. classrooms. Addressed are implications for integrating perspectives in U. S. classroom discussions and, in turn, broadening t...
Critical Education, 2016
This work examines the intersection of place-based and border pedagogies, including the concepts ... more This work examines the intersection of place-based and border pedagogies, including the concepts of heteroglossia, meliorism, critical cosmopolitanism, nepantla, dialogic feminism, and pragmatic hope that form the basis of a new critical border dialogic . Critical border dialogic (Cashman, 2015, in press) resituates teachers, students, cultural workers, decision makers, policymakers, and the larger community. A critical border dialogic draws upon a critical pedagogy of place and border pedagogy. Gruenewald’s (2003) critical, place-based pedagogy influences assumptions, practices, and outcomes. Border pedagogy (Giroux, 2005), in turn, engages a critical pedagogy of place and involves a recognition and understanding of margins as affected by history, power, and difference. A critical border dialogic positions us, as educators, students, cultural workers, and members of the larger community, on the course to critical border praxis . Critical border praxis actively engages us as cross b...
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In Sri Lanka life is divided into pre-tsunami and post-tsunami after the events of December 26th,... more In Sri Lanka life is divided into pre-tsunami and post-tsunami after the events of December 26th, 2004. The rebuilding continues, life proceeds, but living will be forever affected by the events of that day. This paper discusses the development of a website designed to keep others ...
This study considers the teaching of historical and territorial issues between Japan and China fo... more This study considers the teaching of historical and territorial issues between Japan and China for the current Japanese social studies curriculum. For research purposes, a lesson plan was designed and facilitated in Japanese elementary and junior high schools. This lesson addressed ongoing tensions between Japan and China over the sovereignty of the Diaoyu (China)/Senkaku (Japan) islands. Pre-tests and post-tests were administered, and results were analyzed through the lenses of border pedagogy and place-based pedagogies. Students' transformative understandings of their roles as global citizens and students' attitudes toward problem solving were considered.
Issues in Teacher Education, 2013
This study explicates the collaborative efforts of university preservice educators from a social ... more This study explicates the collaborative efforts of university preservice educators from a social studies methods course and middle school students from a local public magnet school in a project entitled the Borderlands Issue Project. Pre-service teachers and middle school students co-planned, co-designed, and co-presented issues-centered projects that examined local issues on the United States and Mexico border. The goals of the issues-centered projects were to develop well-reasoned responses based on disciplined inquiry, on thoughtful, in-depth study, and to move beyond relativistic notions of truth. Teams of university and middle school students copresented their projects during the local school site's Parent Night. Examples of learning outcomes of the Borderlands Issues Project are the following: how university faculty and school site administrators and faculty worked together to overcome logistical concerns for Parent Night project presentations, how participants learned to co-plan, co-design, and co-teach an issue with others, how middle school students exceeded performance expectations of pre-service educators, and how participants learned from collaboratively researching and presenting on complex issues. Participants presented on topics such as the local history of the KKK, indigenous American struggles in the Borderlands region, non-Mexican immigration and its impact locally, and the environmental and community impact of pollution from a copper smelter.
The Contested Role of Education in Conflict and Fragility, 2015
This qualitative study strives to provide a greater understanding of the past, current, and futur... more This qualitative study strives to provide a greater understanding of the past, current, and future state of education in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami. The researchers' key objectives are to provide additional insight to educators of the far-reaching impact of the tsunami via a website they created. Rather than concentrate on the same sort of information that media have provided, the researchers seek to inform participants from the perspective of first hand accounts of life after the tsunami, with special attention paid to successes and obstacles that have yet to be faced by survivors in affected regions.
Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
This case study provides perspectives on the War in Iraq with information collected from Sabah, M... more This case study provides perspectives on the War in Iraq with information collected from Sabah, Malaysia, educators. The author has analyzed input from Sabahan teachers regarding their discussions of United States-led war efforts in Iraq. The implications for ...
The following study details the collaboration of a university's secondary education faculty o... more The following study details the collaboration of a university's secondary education faculty on the United States and Mexico border. Calls for improved test scores, better preparation and retention of teachers, and improved graduation rates of teacher candidates were imminent concerns. The faculty responded to these demands by developing an integrated teacher preparation program based on shared activities, readings, technology, electronic
Research in Comparative and International Education, 2008
Researchers analyzed the perceptions and pedagogies of educators in two Chihuahua, Mexico, public... more Researchers analyzed the perceptions and pedagogies of educators in two Chihuahua, Mexico, public schools with regard to United States foreign policies. The key objective of the research was to provide additional insight into the impact of recent actions taken by the ...
Research in Comparative and International Education, 2011
The key objective of this investigation was to uncover attitudes and pedagogical comparisons of a... more The key objective of this investigation was to uncover attitudes and pedagogical comparisons of a sampling of secondary social studies teachers in three schools in eastern Ontario, Canada. The researchers sought to gain insight into how historical and current ...
Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2011
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