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2008 - 2009 Undergraduate Catalog, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Academic catalog for Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Nyar Savannah Program 2008, National Youth-At-Risk Conference, Savannah

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

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Identification Of Teacher Interpersonal Relationship Behaviors Related To High School Hispanic Student Success, Iris Torres Crews

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated high school Hispanic students' perceptions of their mathematics or science teachers' interpersonal relationship behaviors. The Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) was completed by 572 high school Hispanic students in Georgia. Of these, 259 high school Hispanic students identified the teacher interpersonal relationships behaviors of their mathematics teacher and 313 students identified the behaviors of their science teacher. Ratings obtained from high school Hispanic students in a district with a large percentage of high school Hispanic students whose scores on the Georgia High School Graduation Tests (GHSGT) exceeded the reported state pass/pass plus percentage, and ratings from high …

Self, Other, And Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs Of African American Women, Wynnetta Ann Scott-Simmons

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Using Critical Race Theory, Critical Literacy, Black Feminist Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the codes of power and registers of language in all-White, all-girl, elite private schools during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In capturing the memories, perceptions, and lived experiences of these women over thirty years later, the journey into a world of divergences was explored--divergent language codes, divergent social, cultural, and economic stratifications, and divergent linguistic expectations, …

Poiesis, Susan Lee Harmon

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines mark-making techniques in my art and surveys the literary and musical works that inspired it. An historical examination of the role of mark-making in art will be undertaken, beginning with Paleolithic cave art, continuing with Native American petroglyphs and pictographs, and concluding with three contemporary visual artists whose marks have influenced my work: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, and Susan Rothenberg. Finally, my artistic process is explained through references to the materials and rituals used to create a body of art. This thesis researches the meaning behind artistic marks, and how marks are made in my paintings and …

Cultivating Passion In Teaching English Language Learners: A Critical Analytical Inquiry, Victoria Vazquez Webbert

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In this theoretical dissertation my aim is to research the academic literature in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), compare it to the life experiences of past and/or present students, colleagues, children and myself to reflect and summarize my learning in the form of a conceptual framework that I have named, Framework for Understanding the Teaching and Learning of English Language Learners. The ever increasing number of diverse students in US schools along with the demand for standardized learning and assessments has created a range of challenges for educators that I seek to attend to with the writing of …

African American Caregivers Of Children Affected By Hiv/Aids, Doris Cooper Wilbon

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The Human Immunodeficiency Disease (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have reached an epidemic proportion in many African American communities. There is a significant amount of stigma and denial associated with HIV/AIDS in these communities, leaving people with minimal knowledge about this disease. Caretakers such as grandparents, other relatives, and foster parents take on the role of surrogate parents to these children who have lost one or both of their parents to HIV/AIDS. When family members, especially women, die from this disease leaving their offspring behind these children often experience various emotional and behavioral problems. A few of the children …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• GSU Sets Campus Aglow for the Holidays
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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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• Alcoholics Anonymous Group Comes to GSU
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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Jack Averitt, GSU Dean Emeritus dies at 85
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Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

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• Brannon will deliver keynote address at annual composition conference

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Possible Bed Shortages Highlight Issues of New Dorm
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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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• REINVENTING GEORGIA AVENUE
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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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• The Long Road Home
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The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• GSU Remembers Professor Peter Smith
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Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern University biology professor named Fulbright Scholar
• Averitt Lecture Series opens Oct. 16

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Georgia Southern Application for Admission
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Newsroom (2006-2023)

• “Southeast Georgia on our Minds” continues Sept. 25 in Millen with detective fiction writers
• Inaugural “Walk for Wishes” to benefit MakeA-Wish

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Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Panel of experts will discuss “Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century”
• Annual conference for composition teachers set for Feb. 1
• Eagle Entertainment sponsors trip to Appalachian State game

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• USG creates Need-Based Scholarship
• Irish variety concert Sept. 18
• Unity Fest to be held Sept. 13
• AJC Editor Bert Roughton Jr. to present Fries Lecture Sept. 26
• Planetarium will have four presentations this fall
• New season at Performing Arts Center will open with Roy Clark concert on Sept. 28
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure in Statesboro Sept. 27
• Community banks in southeast Georgia compare favorably to state and nation
• Community members present bronze bust of Coach Erk Russell
• Poetry reading to feature Georgia Southern student writer

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Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Soweto Street Beat Dance Theatre performs Sept. 18
• Acclaimed Writer Peter Meinke to read at Georgia Southern
• See life “From a Positive View” Sept. 12
• Haywood Family Foundation scholarships will benefit children of U.S. Army Rangers

The Learning Quest [Volume 2, Number 1], Georgia Southern University

Faculty Center: News & Publications

Excerpt: "How many academicians does it take to change a light bulb? One to get the funding for the bulb, one to observe and record the changing of the bulb, one to consider the theoretical implications of the change, and one to write it all in understandable prose; one to edit the journal to which the first four send their manuscript, and two more to review the manuscript; no more than half a dozen to read the paper after it's published, and one more to teach about the change to the next generation of students… but the light bulb will …

The Banyan Tree [Volume 2, Number 1], Alan Altany

Faculty Center: News & Publications

Excerpt: "I started college teaching without really knowing how people learn or how to teach so that my students would learn in effective, enduring ways. I simply starting talking about my discipline, with some class discussions thrown in. I had no apprenticeship, no internship or mentoring to help me learn to teach. It was individual trial and error. I now know it doesn’t have to be that way. What if there were ways to glean from among the hundreds of faculty at Georgia Southern and their thousands of years of teaching experience some of their knowledge, understanding, even wisdom, about …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Coca-Cola Foundation Scholars from China welcomed at Georgia Southern
• Student leadership conference Sept. 15
• Leadership Workshop Series underway

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Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Cinema Arts presents fall movie schedule

Activating A Research Context In Art And Design Practice, Nancy De Freitas

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Practice-based research in art and design is the focus of postgraduate programmes at many universities. The term is useful when practice constitutes a critical part of the research methodology resulting in a form of research through practice. This study uses one such postgraduate programme to examine student researchers’ understanding of their practice-based research methods, organisation of their studio processes and awareness of learning. A structured interview was used to investigate: 1) how artists and designers use documentation as part of their creative practice; 2) what forms and processes constitute this activity; 3) what the artist’s or designer’s perception is of …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Understanding The Multicultural Experience Of Lep Adolescents, Sharlene Snead Monahan

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This inquiry is a qualitative study of the multicultural experience of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students who are learning a second language in an inner-city high school in southeastern Georgia. The LEP students are enrolled or have been enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. Using three strands of inquiry, critical phenomenological, narrative, and anthropological, I addressed three major issues. One, I examined the struggle of LEP students to learn English at a proficiency level to pass the state-mandated test for graduation and receive a high-school diploma. Not only must the LEP students learn a new …

New Voices In The Old South: Latino Immigrant Students' Experiences At One Georgia Middle School, Lucy Joanna Bush

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This research study investigated the experiences of Latino immigrant students as they negotiated and developed their academic identities at one Georgia middle school in Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. Seventy-five students took part in the survey portion of the research study, while six students participated in in-depth interviews that formed the ethnographic case studies of this research. I utilized an ethnographic case study approach (Stake, 1995; 1998) in order to explore how these students' academic experiences influenced the negotiation and development of their academic identities into three distinct forms: cholo or low-performing, medio or average-performing, and cabezon or highperforming. Each of the …