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The Resolute Student, Wipa Khampook
The Resolute Student, Wipa Khampook
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
This synthesis paper presents an autobiographical narrative of my journey as a learner from a poor rural background in Thailand to completing a Masters program in the USA. I describe obstacles and problems at different times in my life — elementary school, high school, college, work, coming over to America, attending an ESL school, earning an Early Childhood Education certificate, and studying in the Critical and Creative Thinking Program. In overcoming obstacles I show myself to be a resolute person. Lessons that I share with readers include grades are not everything, memorizing is not an effective way to learn, meditation …
The Relative Effects Of Meditation And Prayer On Test Performance, Bridges Sayers, Katherine Gauntner
The Relative Effects Of Meditation And Prayer On Test Performance, Bridges Sayers, Katherine Gauntner
Celebration of Scholarship 2012-2017
An entry into the Celebration of Scholarship, this work examines the test performance of individuals after meditating or praying. Analysis indicated that neither meditation nor prayer had a significant impact on test performance.
Listening To The Divine Song Within The Greater Song Of Life, E. James Baesler
Listening To The Divine Song Within The Greater Song Of Life, E. James Baesler
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
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Why I Teach Listening to the Divine Song
This autoethnography narrates how I came to teach listening to the divine song as part of an undergraduate listening course called Listening to the SONG of Life.1 Before I describe two personal stories that explain why I teach listening to the divine, a brief introduction to my interpretation of the autoethnographic method is in order.
Autoethnography, as used in this story, is grounded in the assumptions that language is a primary medium by which we are conscious, understand the world, and communicate our learnings to others in stories,2 …