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Teaching Self: The Ambiguity Of Lived Experience In Classroom Discourse, Scott V. Gealy Dec 2013

Teaching Self: The Ambiguity Of Lived Experience In Classroom Discourse, Scott V. Gealy

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Inspired by Paul Heilker’s notion of the essay as a form of exploration over argument, embodying an anti-scholastic and chrono-logical approach, and Candace Spigelman’s endorsement of experience as evidence in academic discourse, this thesis weaves memoir into more traditional scholarship in an effort to complicate the archetype of the effective teacher. Furthermore, the essay seeks to deconstruct conventional student, teacher, and cultural binaries with the help of the theoretical work of Deborah Britzman, Parker Palmer, Mikhail Bakhtin, Joy Ritchie and David Wilson and others, while using Scott Russell Sanders’ narrative essay “Under the Influence” as a mentor text for …


Solomon Islands Standardised Tests Of Achievement (Sista). English And Mathematics. Year 4 And Year 6. Report 1 Main Study 2013, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Dec 2013

Solomon Islands Standardised Tests Of Achievement (Sista). English And Mathematics. Year 4 And Year 6. Report 1 Main Study 2013, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Assessment and Reporting

The SISTA program is a key monitoring tool of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development and has the capacity to serve multiple functions to a wide range of educational stakeholders. This report provides analysis of year 4 and year 6 Literacy and Numeracy of SISTA 2013. The SISTA results contain a wealth of data about how well students have responded to items that are indicators of curriculum attainment. The observed improvements in overall performances may be attributed to: a. Better tests and improved alignment of the tests with the target population; and b. In the case …


Dexia – Rise & Fall Of A Banking Giant, Nicholas Whitbeck Dec 2013

Dexia – Rise & Fall Of A Banking Giant, Nicholas Whitbeck

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The Impact Of Pre-School On Adolescents' Outcomes: Evidence From A Recent English Cohort, Patricia Apps, Silvia Mendolia, Ian Walker Nov 2013

The Impact Of Pre-School On Adolescents' Outcomes: Evidence From A Recent English Cohort, Patricia Apps, Silvia Mendolia, Ian Walker

Silvia Mendolia

This paper investigates the relationship between attendance at pre-school school and children's outcomes into early adulthood. In particular, we are interested in: child cognitive development at ages 11, 14 and 16; intentions towards tertiary education; economic activity in early adulthood; a group of non-cognitive outcomes such as risky health behaviour; and personality traits. Using matching methods to control for a very rich set of child and family characteristics, we find evidence that pre-school childcare moderately improves results in cognitive tests at age 11 and 14, and 16. Positive effects are especially noticeable for girls and children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. …


An Awareness Of What Is Missing: Four Views On The Consequences Of Secularism, Rachel E. Hunt Steenblik, Heidi Zameni, Debbie Ostorga, Nathan Greeley Nov 2013

An Awareness Of What Is Missing: Four Views On The Consequences Of Secularism, Rachel E. Hunt Steenblik, Heidi Zameni, Debbie Ostorga, Nathan Greeley

LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University

While the issues regarding widespread secularization in contemporary Western culture are difficult to properly assess, it can be argued that certain prerequisites are necessary for the well-being of any society and, furthermore, that certain of these necessary conditions are only provided by a given civilization's major religious tradition. All societies need to perpetually engage in collective action and decision making, and as any given community faces the challenges of the future, its governing religious worldview is an indispensable source of guidance and time-honored wisdom. With this in mind, it will be argued that Western civilization is dependent upon a Judeo-Christian …


Bilingual Language Switching And Selection At The Phonetic Level: Asymmetrical Transfer In Vot Production, Daniel J. Olson Nov 2013

Bilingual Language Switching And Selection At The Phonetic Level: Asymmetrical Transfer In Vot Production, Daniel J. Olson

School of Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

The present study examines the effect of language switching on phonetic production, contributing to an understanding of the underlying interaction between a bilingual’s two phonetic systems. While phonetic interaction has been studied in non-switched and codeswitched paradigms, effects of connected speech (e.g. speech planning, pragmatics, etc.) may obscure underlying phonetic interaction. To investigate the impact of language switching, a cued picture-naming task was employed, with Spanish-English bilinguals of differing dominance profiles naming pictures in English and Spanish. Stimuli were produced both as switched and non-switched tokens. Addressing the impact of context, stimuli were presented in three contexts varying in quantity …


The Molloy Student Literary Magazine Volume 10, Damian Hey Ph.D., Stefanie Melling, Joseph Ostapiuk, Kaitlin Duignan, Amanda Ammirati, Sarah Bipath, Kenneth Bornholdt, John Bruno, Shenequa Bucknor, Kristin Cardino, Ashley Geyer, Ugoma Konkwo, Ryan Roberts, Marilena Rocco, Roger Smith, Lauren Spotkov, Alexa Sussman, Caitlin Breen, Katie Killman, Lauren Trogele, Kristy Petrizzo Oct 2013

The Molloy Student Literary Magazine Volume 10, Damian Hey Ph.D., Stefanie Melling, Joseph Ostapiuk, Kaitlin Duignan, Amanda Ammirati, Sarah Bipath, Kenneth Bornholdt, John Bruno, Shenequa Bucknor, Kristin Cardino, Ashley Geyer, Ugoma Konkwo, Ryan Roberts, Marilena Rocco, Roger Smith, Lauren Spotkov, Alexa Sussman, Caitlin Breen, Katie Killman, Lauren Trogele, Kristy Petrizzo

The Molloy Student Literary Magazine

The Molloy Student Literary Magazine, sponsored by Molloy College’s Office of Student Affairs, is devoted to publishing the best previously unpublished works of prose, poetry, drama, literary review, criticism, and other literary genres, that the Molloy student community has to offer. The journal welcomes submissions, for possible publication, from currently enrolled Molloy students at all levels. All submitted work will undergo a review process initiated by the Managing Editor prior to a decision being made regarding publication of said work. Given sufficient content, The Molloy Student Literary Magazine is published twice annually in Spring and Fall. Interested contributors from the …


English Discipline Assessment Plan 2013/2014, English Discipline Oct 2013

English Discipline Assessment Plan 2013/2014, English Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.


Borrowing The Essentials: A Diachronic Study Of The Semantic Primes Of Modern English, Karen Esther Swan Oct 2013

Borrowing The Essentials: A Diachronic Study Of The Semantic Primes Of Modern English, Karen Esther Swan

Theses and Dissertations

In order for communication to take place, there must be a set of core concepts that are universal to all speakers. Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) has proposed an inventory of these concepts, called semantic primes, and uses them as universal concepts in the explication and exploration of cultural values. The English semantic primes, while the majority are Anglo-Saxon, contain words that have been borrowed from Latin, Old Norse, and French. Borrowing lexical items into core vocabulary has many implications. First, the primes are not entirely stable or immune to foreign influence, even the Anglo-Saxon primes have been susceptible to the …


Design English Collaboration And Presentation: Developing International Designers At A Japanese University, Mark D. Sheehan, Jack Ryan, Yasuko Takayama, Ikuro Mine, Satoshi Kose Sep 2013

Design English Collaboration And Presentation: Developing International Designers At A Japanese University, Mark D. Sheehan, Jack Ryan, Yasuko Takayama, Ikuro Mine, Satoshi Kose

Learn X Design Conference Series

This study reports on a long-term project to improve the English presentation skills of students in the Faculty of Design at a Japanese university. The first two years of a collaborative effort to pair Industrial Design majors with advanced students in the Department of International Culture to collaborate on a product or product concept and present their work in English will be described. Recent measures to improve English education in Japan include the introduction of English study in elementary school, and adopting communicative-based learning in high schools. At the university level, content-based English education, or English for Specific Purposes (ESP), …


Collaborating, Literature And Composition: An Anthology Of Essays For Teachers And Writers Of English, Lisa Eck Sep 2013

Collaborating, Literature And Composition: An Anthology Of Essays For Teachers And Writers Of English, Lisa Eck

Lisa Eck

The disciplines of English and composition seem particularly prone to crisis-driven proclamations: our kids don't read the great works of they don't read at all or they can't write. Crisis talk notwithstanding, educators are left to theorize and practice ways to teach reading and writing with intelligence, compassion, and integrity. However, it often seems that theoretical formulations do not sufficiently explain their practicable applications; and practicable discussions too rarely rise above the level of swapping recipes--sharing assignments that work well in one context but may not in another. Therefore, the editors of this volume submit this collection of essays that …


Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally, The Nervous Conditions Of Cross-Cultural Literacy, Lisa Eck Sep 2013

Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally, The Nervous Conditions Of Cross-Cultural Literacy, Lisa Eck

Lisa Eck

No abstract provided.


Human Rights Pedagogy, Lisa Eck, Benjamin Alberti Sep 2013

Human Rights Pedagogy, Lisa Eck, Benjamin Alberti

Lisa Eck

No abstract provided.


Individualism: The Cultural Logic Of Modernity, Lisa Eck Sep 2013

Individualism: The Cultural Logic Of Modernity, Lisa Eck

Lisa Eck

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century.
These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkably tenacious narrative on "the rise of the individual." Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance …


Interim Financial Report 2013, Hypo Alpe Adria Aug 2013

Interim Financial Report 2013, Hypo Alpe Adria

Documents

No abstract provided.


Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1112. Transcript of an interview with Mary Julia Neal, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Gina Claywell. Claywell was interested chiefly in Neal’s experiences as a student at Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and as a teacher at Western Kentucky University in the 1930s and 1940s.


Eng 1001g-040: Composition And Language, Leann Akins Aug 2013

Eng 1001g-040: Composition And Language, Leann Akins

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 2091g-099, Olga Abella Aug 2013

Eng 2091g-099, Olga Abella

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 3009g-002: Myth And Culture, M Leddy Aug 2013

Eng 3009g-002: Myth And Culture, M Leddy

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 5003-001: The Ethics Of Pleasure In The Renaissance, M Caldwell Aug 2013

Eng 5003-001: The Ethics Of Pleasure In The Renaissance, M Caldwell

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Course Schedule, English Department Aug 2013

Course Schedule, English Department

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 1001g-043: Composition And Language, Emily Bowers Aug 2013

Eng 1001g-043: Composition And Language, Emily Bowers

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 3704-001: American Literature: 1950-Present, Melissa Ames Aug 2013

Eng 3704-001: American Literature: 1950-Present, Melissa Ames

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 1001g-017-023-032, Michael Kuo Aug 2013

Eng 1001g-017-023-032, Michael Kuo

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 1001g-033: Composition I, Aaron White Aug 2013

Eng 1001g-033: Composition I, Aaron White

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 1002g-004: Composition And Literature, Leann Akins Aug 2013

Eng 1002g-004: Composition And Literature, Leann Akins

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 2011g-003: Literature, The Self, And The World: Poetry, Ruben Quesada Aug 2013

Eng 2011g-003: Literature, The Self, And The World: Poetry, Ruben Quesada

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 2901-002: Structure Of English, Duangrudi Suksang Aug 2013

Eng 2901-002: Structure Of English, Duangrudi Suksang

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Donna Binns Aug 2013

Eng 4801-001: Integrating The English Language Arts, Donna Binns

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.


Eng 4903-001: Young Adult Literature, Fern Kory Aug 2013

Eng 4903-001: Young Adult Literature, Fern Kory

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.