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Full-Text Articles in Education
The Faculty Writing Place: A Room Of Our Own, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Peter Elbow
The Faculty Writing Place: A Room Of Our Own, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Peter Elbow
Mary Deane Sorcinelli
The article presents information about the program called "Professors as Writers" at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. The objective of the program is to provide a quiet and comfortable working place for faculty to write. This program was started 15 year back to help the faculty members to write more productively. The organizers of the program invite all college teachers to sign up for the dates and times that suit them at the beginning of the semester. The program sets aside structured time and space for the faculty to write.
What Keeps Teachers Going? What Keeps Teachers Developing?, Susan Barduhn
What Keeps Teachers Going? What Keeps Teachers Developing?, Susan Barduhn
Susan Barduhn
No abstract provided.
The Clil Symposium: Content And Language Integrated Learning, Susan Barduhn
The Clil Symposium: Content And Language Integrated Learning, Susan Barduhn
Susan Barduhn
No abstract provided.
La&S Team Gives Kenyan Youth A New Way To Combat Hiv/Aids, Leah Christina Neubauer
La&S Team Gives Kenyan Youth A New Way To Combat Hiv/Aids, Leah Christina Neubauer
Leah C. Neubauer
No abstract provided.
Kenneth A. Mchugh Quality Staff Service Award: Past Award Recipients, Leah Neubauer
Kenneth A. Mchugh Quality Staff Service Award: Past Award Recipients, Leah Neubauer
Leah C. Neubauer
No abstract provided.
Self Reports Of First And Second Language Ability By Academically Inclined And Challenged Students, Arshad Abd Samad
Self Reports Of First And Second Language Ability By Academically Inclined And Challenged Students, Arshad Abd Samad
Arshad Abd Samad
Becoming proficient in a second language may involve several factors that are different from those involved in the first language. One factor that may influence performance in either language is academic aptitude. In this study, responses to statements regarding language abilities in Bahasa Malaysia and English by academically inclined and challenged students were analysed using the Chi-Square technique. The results indicate that while the academically inclined students do not have major difficulties in performance in either of the two languages, the academically challenged students report problems in basic linguistic abilities in the English language but not in Bahasa Malaysia. Several …
God's Gon' Trouble The Water: An American Academic's Retrospective On Hurricane Katrina, Fred A. Bonner Ii
God's Gon' Trouble The Water: An American Academic's Retrospective On Hurricane Katrina, Fred A. Bonner Ii
Fred A Bonner II
No abstract provided.
Leaving Black Males Behind: Debunking The Myths Of Meritocratic Education, R Hughes, Fred A. Bonner Ii
Leaving Black Males Behind: Debunking The Myths Of Meritocratic Education, R Hughes, Fred A. Bonner Ii
Fred A Bonner II
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A Study Of Women Empowerment Programmes Of The Agency For, Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu
A Study Of Women Empowerment Programmes Of The Agency For, Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu
Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu
This paper examines the concept of empowerment. It also discusses some of the income generating activities of the Agency for Adult and Non-formal Education (AANFE), Oyo State. This was with the view to determining how income-generating activities have helped adult women to develop skills in their different vocations and how these programmes have made participants to become self-reliant and improved their standard of living. Two hypotheses were postulated and tested at 0.05 significant levels. The survey research design was adopted for the study. A total number of 1,500 women were randomly selected from those who had graduated from AANFE vocational …
Harnessing Innovative Technologies In Higher Education, Kathleen P. King, Joan K. Griggs
Harnessing Innovative Technologies In Higher Education, Kathleen P. King, Joan K. Griggs
Kathleen P King
This publication is an attempt to capture the evolution of distributed higher education over the last decade by tracing the applications of new technologies funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). As FIPSE surveyed the current state of distance/distributed education, there existed an opportunity to help post econdary education make the transition to this new generation of distance education made possible by the explosive growth of the Internet and other new technologies. These technologies created the potential for students to access learning that was interactive, customized, and self-paced; to more easily merge lifelong learning with the …