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El Poder De Los Padres: Volunteering In A Multicultural Parent-Child Group That Supports Language Development And Literacy Skills, Olivia Musser, Connor P. Stark-Haws, Theresa Estrem Apr 2018

El Poder De Los Padres: Volunteering In A Multicultural Parent-Child Group That Supports Language Development And Literacy Skills, Olivia Musser, Connor P. Stark-Haws, Theresa Estrem

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Award for "Best Our Husky Compact Reflection" Engage as a Member of a Diverse and Multicultural World."

Abstract

The Greater St. Cloud Area Multicultural Parent-Child Group (El Poder de los Padres) provides intensive intervention to parents and children in the greater St. Cloud area through weekly 2-hour sessions during the academic year. Sessions include songs, activities, and crafts that facilitate the development of language and literacy skills in preschool-aged children. In addition, there is a parent education component, in which parents discuss a relevant language and/or literacy topic each week. St. Cloud State University graduate students from the Communication Sciences …


Shaping Student Identities: A Gendered Examination Of The College Chronicle In The 1950s, Blake M. Johnson, Robert W. Galler Apr 2018

Shaping Student Identities: A Gendered Examination Of The College Chronicle In The 1950s, Blake M. Johnson, Robert W. Galler

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Award for "Best Dimension of the Year Reflection: Think Creatively and Critically".

Abstract:

The submission’s goal is to articulate how students in the 1950s shaped their identity in relationship to gender and gendered work in a clear and concise manner. The submission must not only look at the content provided in the sculpting of this identity, but also it must examine exactly how the sculpting of the identity took place, namely, communications in the student newspaper. One cannot prioritize the arguments for or against female industrialized labor and leave out the dimensions of male and female athletics. Likewise, it cannot …