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Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Vol. 14, No. 1, Kansas State University. Architecture Department Dec 2002

Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Vol. 14, No. 1, Kansas State University. Architecture Department

Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology

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Using Cross-Cultural Focus Groups As A Tool For Communication Campaign Design: An Example From Russia’S Forest Project, Eric A. Abbott, Kate Gouverniuk, Ludmila Liamets, Tatyana Ukhanova Dec 2002

Using Cross-Cultural Focus Groups As A Tool For Communication Campaign Design: An Example From Russia’S Forest Project, Eric A. Abbott, Kate Gouverniuk, Ludmila Liamets, Tatyana Ukhanova

Journal of Applied Communications

Focus groups can be a useful tool when working on a cross-cultural communication project in which the communication specialist may have a very different cultural background than that of the target audience. Ten focus groups were used as a part of a large crosscultural project to design a forest fire public awareness campaign for Russia’s Far East and Siberia. Three of the focus groups were used to gain an in-depth understanding of forest behaviors that might pose a risk for forest fires. These groups also probed what members of the target audience believe would be reasonably safe behaviors. The remaining …

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An Emerging Model For A Farmer Information And Advisory Service For Russia, I. M. Mikhailenko Dec 2002

An Emerging Model For A Farmer Information And Advisory Service For Russia, I. M. Mikhailenko

Journal of Applied Communications

The breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in the collapse of the centralized “command and control” agricultural information system that told farmers what to plant, when to plant it, and where to deliver the harvest. During the 1990s, a new “Farmer Information and Advisory Service” was launched as part of World Bank and other donor projects. This resulted in the creation of a number of different regional services, some connected with universities, some with agricultural administrations, and some with training institutes. These really constitute “fragments” created to suit regional needs rather than potential models for a future national …

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The Ambushed Spirit: Perspective, Violence And Downsizing, Daniela Truty Oct 2002

The Ambushed Spirit: Perspective, Violence And Downsizing, Daniela Truty

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study was to investigate downsizing from the perspective of the person who was separated from the job, and to explore its connection to violence and peace studies. Findings suggest that experiences varied according to context and point of view and that downsizing was often a violative.

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Social Capital Influences On Lifelong Learning Among Adults Who Didn’T Finish High School, Clare Strawn Oct 2002

Social Capital Influences On Lifelong Learning Among Adults Who Didn’T Finish High School, Clare Strawn

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning to investigate how discursive and structural dimensions of social capital influence engagement in learning. The primary finding is that social capital influences formal and informal learning in opposite directions.

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Market Women: Lessons Learned From Successful Black Women Entrepreneurs, Cheryl A. Smith Oct 2002

Market Women: Lessons Learned From Successful Black Women Entrepreneurs, Cheryl A. Smith

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this research was to explore the learning and business strategies of successful Black women entrepreneurs. The fundamental assumption of the study was that the life experiences of this underresearched group has value and worth and can provide useful lessons for adult learners, educators and entrepreneurs regardless of race, ethnicity or gender.

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Marketing God: A Critical Inquiry Into Spirituality In The Workplace, Fred Milacci, Sharon L. Howell Sep 2002

Marketing God: A Critical Inquiry Into Spirituality In The Workplace, Fred Milacci, Sharon L. Howell

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper examines the way spirituality is co-opted and commodified to serve the interests of the marketplace from a faith-based perspective.

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We Make Spirit By Walking: An Application Of Kovel’S Spirituality To The Life And Work Of Committed Environmentalists, Barbara Mcdonald Sep 2002

We Make Spirit By Walking: An Application Of Kovel’S Spirituality To The Life And Work Of Committed Environmentalists, Barbara Mcdonald

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper employs Kovel’s (1991) five meditations on spirit as an analytical framework for exploring the spirituality of committed environmental activists. These meditations explicitly present spirituality as the making of spirit, that is, as bringing spirit power into one’s life through learning and doing.

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Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Vol. 13, No. 3, Kansas State University. Architecture Department Sep 2002

Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Vol. 13, No. 3, Kansas State University. Architecture Department

Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology

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Casting A Wider Net: A Critique Of The Boundaries Imposed By White Privilege In Adult Education, Elaine Manglitz, Lisa Merriweather Sep 2002

Casting A Wider Net: A Critique Of The Boundaries Imposed By White Privilege In Adult Education, Elaine Manglitz, Lisa Merriweather

Adult Education Research Conference

In this paper, we review and critique the literature on white privilege to identify ways the Eurocentric culture undergirds our social practices in adult education. Africentrism, an alternative to Eurocentrism, will be used as an example of how the discourse can be expanded. Finally, we will offer recommendations for the field.

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Trigger Event Meets Culture Shock: Linking The Literature Of Transformative Learning Theory And Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Carol R. Lyon Sep 2002

Trigger Event Meets Culture Shock: Linking The Literature Of Transformative Learning Theory And Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Carol R. Lyon

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this exploration was to identify the links between the literature bases of transformative learning theory and cross cultural adaptation. Eight extant studies combining these two areas of literature were examined to find similarities and differences.

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A Journey Of Transformation: A Model Of Educators' Learning Experiences In Educational Technology, Kathleen P. King Sep 2002

A Journey Of Transformation: A Model Of Educators' Learning Experiences In Educational Technology, Kathleen P. King

Adult Education Research Conference

Based on research among 205 educators, it is indicated that learning educational technology has the potential to deeply impact educators’ perspectives and practice. This paper extends the findings of previous work to provide a research-driven model of transformational learning to guide professional development in educational technology.

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Rising Political Consciousness: Transformational Learning In Malaysia, Mazalan Kamis, Mazanah Muhamad Sep 2002

Rising Political Consciousness: Transformational Learning In Malaysia, Mazalan Kamis, Mazanah Muhamad

Adult Education Research Conference

The qualitative study on ten educated Malays with regard to the rising political consciousness indicated their transformation is influenced by their culture. Political event can trigger a perspective transformation if it was perceived as threatening to ones communal cultural identity. The findings suggest that cultural values and religious beliefs facilitate the perspective transformation.

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Fungal Genetics Stock Center Catalogue Of Strains, 9th Edition, Kevin Mccluskey, John A. Kinsey Sep 2002

Fungal Genetics Stock Center Catalogue Of Strains, 9th Edition, Kevin Mccluskey, John A. Kinsey

Fungal Genetics Reports

Catalogue of Strains, 9th edition, 2002, supplement to Fungal Genetics Newsletter No. 49. This catalogue contains lists of materials held by the Fungal Genetics Stock Center.

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The African American Sermon As An Exemplar Of Culturally Relevant Adult Education, E. Paulette Issac, Michael L. Rowland Sep 2002

The African American Sermon As An Exemplar Of Culturally Relevant Adult Education, E. Paulette Issac, Michael L. Rowland

Adult Education Research Conference

Historically, through different avenues, the Black Church has been culturally responsive to the needs of African American learners. One such avenue has been the African American sermon. The purpose of this study was to conduct a contextual analysis of African American sermons to identify culturally relevant themes and their applicability for use in adult education classrooms.

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Life Since Then: Reconstructing Korean Women’S Educational Experiences And Their Lives, Kyungmi Hyun Sep 2002

Life Since Then: Reconstructing Korean Women’S Educational Experiences And Their Lives, Kyungmi Hyun

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examines Korean women’s educational experiences during the Japanese colonial period in Korea (1910-1945). The primary research approach is discourse analysis of the language used in interview data and written documents.

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Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells Sep 2002

Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

This issue of Networks is the last in a year that has seen a tightening of constraints, both political and educational, in response to the increasing violence that has characterized relationships between nations, cultures, religions and economic classes. In education, in almost all the richer countries, there has been a tighter focus on "basic skills" and the memorization of an increasingly large body of "core knowledge", assessed through standardized tests, and a concomitant narrowing of the opportunities for student initiative, choice, and sustained investigation of questions and issues that they find personally significant. Teachers feel harried and hurried, with little …

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Learning From Others: Literacy Perspectives Of Middle-School English Teachers, Cynthia A. Lassonde Sep 2002

Learning From Others: Literacy Perspectives Of Middle-School English Teachers, Cynthia A. Lassonde

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

At the center of this interview-based study, middle-school English teachers talk and write about their literacy development, their teaching philosophies, and their curriculum, as they reflect upon their teaching. Portraits of their perspectives of literacy emerge. Using these portraits to reflect upon teaching practices, the author suggests we can effectively examine our own educational philosophies, contributing to our efforts to become increasingly competent educators.

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Challenges Confronting Small, Private Liberal Arts Colleges: The Historic Context, Stephen P. Wanger Sep 2002

Challenges Confronting Small, Private Liberal Arts Colleges: The Historic Context, Stephen P. Wanger

Educational Considerations

The history of American higher education is a story of adaptation and change. Since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, higher education in the American colonies and the republic has responded to a multitude of challenges and pressures.

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Renewing Higher Education's Social Contracts: Transparency Out Of Chaos, David W. Leslie Sep 2002

Renewing Higher Education's Social Contracts: Transparency Out Of Chaos, David W. Leslie

Educational Considerations

A contract is an agreement between two or more parties. It takes a meeting of the minds and mutual concurrence on terms before a “contract” exists in legal terms.

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Long-Term Debt At Public Four-Year Colleges And Universities, Michael Stump Sep 2002

Long-Term Debt At Public Four-Year Colleges And Universities, Michael Stump

Educational Considerations

Revenues, expenditures, debt, and endowments are the basic components of finance in public, four-year higher education institutions. Revenues and expenditures measure short-term institutional financial health while debt and endowments address the long-term. Most measures and analyses of financial performance involve these components.

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College And University Long-Term Financing In Context: Implications For Institutional Strategy, James A. Shultz Sep 2002

College And University Long-Term Financing In Context: Implications For Institutional Strategy, James A. Shultz

Educational Considerations

The American college and university is a sophisticated, complex, challenging business operation. Typically it engages in varied lines of business serving multiple markets.

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The Human Resources Function In Education: 2010, Scott Norton Sep 2002

The Human Resources Function In Education: 2010, Scott Norton

Educational Considerations

The foregoing statement was asserted by Tead and Metcalf over 80 years ago in their text, Personnel Administration, one of the very first completed works in the field of personnel administration.

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Educational Considerations, Vol. 30 (1) Full Issue, Marilyn A. Hirth Sep 2002

Educational Considerations, Vol. 30 (1) Full Issue, Marilyn A. Hirth

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 30 (1) Fall 2002 - Full issue

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Foreword, Matthew S. Sachs Sep 2002

Foreword, Matthew S. Sachs

Fungal Genetics Reports

Editorial board, publisher, and contact information.

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Neurospora Chronology 1843-2002, D D. Perkins, R H. Davis Sep 2002

Neurospora Chronology 1843-2002, D D. Perkins, R H. Davis

Fungal Genetics Reports

Our recent review included a timeline showing 30 significant events in the history of Neurospora (Davis and Perkins 2002, Nature Reviews Genetics 3:397-403). Many important contributions could not be included in that brief chronology because of space limitations. We present here a somewhat more complete and better documented list of noteworthy developments.

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Neurospora Perithecia: The First Sighting, D D. Perkins Sep 2002

Neurospora Perithecia: The First Sighting, D D. Perkins

Fungal Genetics Reports

When Shear and Dodge (1927) observed perithecia in laboratory cultures of Monilia sitophila, they concluded on the basis of ascospore ornamentation that the fungus merited diagnosis as a new genus, Neurospora. Prior to this, there had been reports of perithecia and ascospores formed in nature by orange fungi that must have been Neurospora. Neurospora perithecia were not found again in nature until 1996.

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Corrections To The Neurospora Compendium, David D. Perkins Sep 2002

Corrections To The Neurospora Compendium, David D. Perkins

Fungal Genetics Reports

Corrections to the Neurospora Compendium

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Neurospora Heterokaryons Involving A Thymidine Kinase-Positive "Helper": Use In Storing Poorly Viable Strains Or Crossing Strains Of Limited Fertility, R L. Metzenberg, M Sachs Sep 2002

Neurospora Heterokaryons Involving A Thymidine Kinase-Positive "Helper": Use In Storing Poorly Viable Strains Or Crossing Strains Of Limited Fertility, R L. Metzenberg, M Sachs

Fungal Genetics Reports

Many of the most interesting and useful strains encountered in research readily die in storage and/or are semi-sterile. If such strains are Oak Ridge-compatible, they can be carried and even crossed as heterokaryons with the sterile but vigorous strain from the Griffiths lab, am1 ad-3B cyh-1 (FGSC #4564 - Perkins, Neurospora Newsl. 31: 41-42, 1984).

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Improved Selection For Inositol-Utilization Following Transformation Of Neurospora Crassa, Robert L. Metzenberg Sep 2002

Improved Selection For Inositol-Utilization Following Transformation Of Neurospora Crassa, Robert L. Metzenberg

Fungal Genetics Reports

Plasmids based on the cloned inositol gene of Neurospora crassa are potentially very useful as a transformation marker, or for techniques like insertional mutagenesis.

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