Making Visible the People Who Feed Us: Educating for Critical Food Literacy Through Multicultural Texts

Protecting the people who feed us.

Is it good medical practice for physicians to " eyeball " a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race? This question was captured in a 2005 episode of " House M.D., " Fox television's medical drama. In the episode, a black patient with heart disease refuses a hospital physician's prescription for what is clearly supposed to be BiDil, the drug ...

People who don't use eye services: 'making the invisible visible'.

Representative sampling for food and feed materials: a critical need for food/feed safety.

Educating Students’ Privacy Decision Making through Information Ethics Curriculum

Increasingly sophisticated technologies nowadays have equipped powerful capabilities to obtain and exploit consumers’ information privacy on the Internet. The contemporary privacy protection techniques seem fail to guard information privacy. Besides of the technological protections, information ethics education is described as the ideal way to increase people’s consciousness. This study propose...

Critical Literacy: Changing the World Through the Word

This study analyzes the role that children’s literature plays in acquiring critical tools and deconstructing the internalized sense of worthlessness and oppression that Latinos living in poverty might experience. The goal is to provide literacy spaces and critical tools for both, teachers and students from marginalized and oppressed backgrounds, as Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo suggest, to be...