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2017

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Interview Protocol Design Project Using A Video Interview Platform, Jennifer Dose Dec 2017

Interview Protocol Design Project Using A Video Interview Platform, Jennifer Dose

Business Educator Scholarship

This exercise allows students to develop an interview protocol in which they apply best practices for effective interview techniques including job-related behavioral and situational questions, consideration of what constitutes effective responses, and attention to the candidate perspective on experience as well as that of the organization. Students make these choices in the context of an online video interviewing platform.

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The Limited Campus Garden: A Response To "Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens", Brandon Hoover Jul 2017

The Limited Campus Garden: A Response To "Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens", Brandon Hoover

Sociology Educator Scholarship

The purpose of higher education has been argued for centuries, and is cur­rently on the hot seat in public discourse for its high costs and debt in the midst of wage stagnation and reduced upward mobility. The response to this hot seat has been for increased attention to the role of higher education in job training to better help increase economic mobility. Jack R. Baker and Jeffery Bilbro in their article "Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens" join many other scholars by adding an alternative voice to the conversation, a voice rooted in place homemaking and redemption, rather than …

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Campus Agriculture Education: Educating Food Citizens Or Producers?, Brandon Hoover, Lindsey Macdonald May 2017

Campus Agriculture Education: Educating Food Citizens Or Producers?, Brandon Hoover, Lindsey Macdonald

Sociology Educator Scholarship

Colleges and Universities around the U.S. have quietly invested in campus agricultural projects (CAPs) as interdisciplinary space for sustainability and food system education. In 2009, the College Sustainability Report Card showed that 29 percent of college campuses had some sort of campus farm or garden (Sustainable Endowments Institute, 2009). Agricultural education is no longer limited to traditional land grant research farms. CAPs have emerged in small and large, vocational and liberal arts institutions; but what role do these programs truly play in educating future farmers and food system professionals? Is preparing students for a career in the food system a …

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2017 Spring Humanities Symposium: Slavery And Justice, Messiah College Feb 2017

2017 Spring Humanities Symposium: Slavery And Justice, Messiah College

Humanities Symposium

Keynote address: Kelly Brown Douglas

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Love Is The Foundation Of Knowledge - Education That Promotes Civic Engagement, Kim S. Phipps Jan 2017

Love Is The Foundation Of Knowledge - Education That Promotes Civic Engagement, Kim S. Phipps

State of the College/University Addresses

At the beginning of each academic year, Messiah College held Community Day, a time for the University's Community of Educators (CoE) to gather, reflect, and prepare for the upcoming year. As part of Community Day, President Phipps presented her State of College Address, introducing the theme for that academic year.

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Playing In Literary Landscapes: Considering Children’S Need For Fantasy Literature In The Place-Based Classroom, Sarah Fischer Jan 2017

Playing In Literary Landscapes: Considering Children’S Need For Fantasy Literature In The Place-Based Classroom, Sarah Fischer

Faculty Educator Scholarship

While all of children’s lived experiences are essentially rooted in place, Louise Chawla (1992) has noted that children “need to be brought from rootedness to a sense of place through education, which creates enough separation between the self and its surroundings to allow conscious appreciation” (p. 83). The efforts of place-based educators have been grounded in this premise, as well as in the belief that an appreciation for place developed in childhood influences the way those children care for the places they dwell when they move into adulthood (Sobel, 1993, p. 78). Laurie Lane-Zucker, in her foreword to David Sobel’s …

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“We Don't Talk About That Here": Teachers, Religion, Public Elementary Schools And The Embodiment Of Silence, A Binational United States And Israel Study, Tina Keller, Amy Camardese, Randa Abbas Jan 2017

“We Don't Talk About That Here": Teachers, Religion, Public Elementary Schools And The Embodiment Of Silence, A Binational United States And Israel Study, Tina Keller, Amy Camardese, Randa Abbas

Faculty Educator Scholarship

Globally religious diversity is on the rise yet the place of religion in public schools is often heatedly debated. This study examined the experiences of fifth graders in regards to religion in public schools in the United States and Israel. The juxtaposition of diverse countries and school settings opens the dialogue to examine how children and their teachers perceive the impact of religion while in school. The findings suggest that the impact of minority status, school curriculum, and the political and geographical contexts of schools impact the ways that religion is conceptualized in public elementary schools. In addition, the uniquenesses …

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Interactions Between Teachers’ Attribution For Student Learning And Implementation Of Evidence-Based Practices, Melinda S. Burchard, Jennifer L. Fisler, Jan Dormer Jan 2017

Interactions Between Teachers’ Attribution For Student Learning And Implementation Of Evidence-Based Practices, Melinda S. Burchard, Jennifer L. Fisler, Jan Dormer

Faculty Educator Scholarship

This study investigated interactions between evidence-based practices implemented and attributions of factors contributing to achievement of student learning objectives. Conducted in three school districts in a mid-Atlantic state, 78 teachers completed an end-of-year survey. Internal attributions were significantly correlated with implementation of evidence-based teaching practices in general and in teaching students with disabilities. External attributions were statistically correlated to implementation of evidence- based practices in both reading and teaching students with disabilities. Perceptions of school support were significantly correlated with implementation of evidence-based teaching practices for teaching both reading and writing.

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Readers As Place-Makers: The Experience Of Place In The Literacy Life-Worlds Of Middle Childhood, Sarah Fischer Jan 2017

Readers As Place-Makers: The Experience Of Place In The Literacy Life-Worlds Of Middle Childhood, Sarah Fischer

Faculty Educator Scholarship

This study explored five adults experiences of place within their middle childhood literacy life-worlds. Middle childhood, the stage of development in which children often acquire reading independence, is also characterized by significant increases in children's geographic accessibility and independence. The findings propose that in the literacy life-worlds of middle childhood, reader's experiences of place can be characterized as Repositioning (instances in which participants saw themselves differently in relation to their physical or conceptual environments), Transportation (participant's sense of being imaginatively transported to a literary landscape where they could engage in new experiences), Nesting (the way participants manipulated their physical environment …

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Constructing A Prototype: Realizing A Scholarship Of Practice In General Education, Cynthia Wells Jan 2017

Constructing A Prototype: Realizing A Scholarship Of Practice In General Education, Cynthia Wells

Higher Education Faculty Scholarship

Why a scholarship of practice? Toward what end do we assess the merits of such a concept? John Braxton (2003) recommends a scholarship of practice as a means to enhance the utility of empirical research by developing and refining knowledge that improves institutional policy and practice in higher education. In essence, a scholarship of practice turns the scholarly assets of the academy on the work of the academy itself.

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