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Attributes Of A Mestizo Democracy, John Francis Burke

Political Science Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Singapore Management University Report To Stakeholders 2002 - 2003, Singapore Management University

Report to Stakeholders

From a start-up institution with great expectations just three years ago, SMU has grown leaps and bounds. This past year was no exception, as we reached new heights while reaffirming the foundational vision of what we are – and want to be. A university with a rigorous curriculum and the right kind of academic and cultural environment for research, exploration and experimentation – where calculated risks can lead to ultimate success. A university full of dynamically talented students and academically outstanding faculty – interactive players in the process of education who make up SMU’s rich intellectual and personally diverse fabric. …

Reviews And End Matter

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Amulets and Pendants in Ancient Maharashtra, by Jyotsna Maurya (2000), reviewed by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

South East African Beadwork, 1850-1910: From Adornment to Artefact to Art, by Michael Stevenson and Michael Graham-Stewart (2000), reviewed by Margret Carey

Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: Beads and Other Small Objects, by Maud Spaer et al. (2001), reviewed by Peter Francis, Jr.

Asia's Maritime Bead Trade: 300 B.C. to the Present, by Peter Francis, Jr. (2002), reviewed by James W. Lankton

Ethnographic Beadwork: Aspects of Manufacture, Use and Conservation, Margot M. Wright (ed.) (2001), reviewed by Alice Scherer.

Corresponding Voices Volume 1 (Complete)

Corresponding Voices

The full issue of Corresponding Voices volume 1, featuring Michael Jennings, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Suzanne Shane, Kerry Shawn Keys, Lila Zemborain, and edited by Pedro Cuperman.

Fall 2002

University of Richmond Magazine

No abstract provided.

Reclaiming An Ethic Of Corporate Responsibility, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

The Social Responsibility Of Corporate Law Professors, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

Scholarly Articles

Most statements of corporate social responsibility focus on the responsibilities of corporate decision makers or their advisors Professor Johnson argues that corporate law professors-the persons who educate the students who will become lawyers counseling corporate decision makers-also have a social responsibility. He believes that professors should find various ways to raise the subject of corporate social responsibility in the basic corporations course, and he advocates rejecting a classroom approach that addresses only shareholder-manager relations After describing several possible ways to do this, Professor Johnson spotlights fiduciary laws as a fruitful area to enrich student understandings of director duties in a …

Neiu Magazine- Winter 2002, Neiu Magazine Staff

NEIU Magazine

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Dysgraphia On Teachers' Perceptions Of A Student's Capabilities, Intelligence, And School Performance, Cathy R. Bussey

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Masters

The focus of this study will explore how the dysgraphic disability of one child affects teachers' perceptions of that child's capabilities, intelligence, and performance of daily tasks associated with school and schoolwork. The child will use the Tablet PC's handwriting recognition technology to determine if the assistive technology tool improves the child's school performance and his ability to produce legible notes and papers. Worksheets were downloaded into the Tablet PC prior to use in school so that the child could complete all classroom work on the Tablet PC. [This student benefited from being able to tum hand written notes into …

The Total Talent Portfolio: Using Different Data To Gain A More Holistic View Of Our Learners, Steven M. Lysenko

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Masters

This study determined how the collection of student data could help a team of teachers learn more about their pupils and increase instructional efficacy. 121 students of 8th grade white house team at Spry Middle School in Webster, NY were selected to pilot this study. Student inventories measured 4MAT Thinking Styles, Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences, and Interest. Student cumulative file information, eg. past years' grades and standardized test scores, was combined with the inventory results to form the Total Talent Portfolio, or TTP. The team then used this data to aid in classroom grouping. The teachers found that the TTP …

“The Chinese Believe In Spirits”: Belief And Believing In The Study Of Religion, Catherine M. Bell

Religious Studies

A recent round of books, both popular and scholarly, reveal that as a society we are, once again, fascinated with the issue of belief. While the more popular books tend to adopt a fairly straightforward and uncomplicated notion of believing and then find major problems of rationality, the more scholarly books readily accept a type of rationality to beliefs while problematizing the act of believing in other, more involuted ways. Both types of argument remind the scholar of religion that the academic discipline of religious studies has not contributed much to this discussion for quite a while. As described in …

The Apc Summer Institute, 2002 : Reconfiguring Schooling For The 21st Century, Brian Caldwell, Bruce Wilson, Bert Van Halen, Gabrielle Leigh

APC Monographs

The APC Summer held in January 2001 aimed to provide: a two-day intensive program that linked theory and practice in a chosen area relevant to school leaders in their day to day work; an opportunity for practising school leaders to develop an operational framework to be applied to strategy planning or to the management of key projects in their school; a big picture framework in which school leaders can contextualise their work; and a series of exemplary practices whose underlying principles can be adapted for use in other settings.

Retrieving Information, Interpreting, Reflecting, And Then... : Using The Result Of Pisa Reading Literacy., Juliette Mendelovits

2002 - Providing World-Class School Education

This paper discusses the results achieved by Australia in the initial report on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The German reaction to a low score for German students is described. Three responses to PISA reading literacy results in Australia are described. These include: pragmatic use of the PISA reading literacy results at a national level; retrieving information from the international study and using it to create a benchmark for reading literacy for fifteen year-olds in Australia; and, using what has been learnt about reading literacy to question, evaluate and perhaps modify the way that reading literacy is taught …

Swenson Center News, 2002, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College

Newsletter: Swenson Center News

No abstract provided.

The Gap Between "There" And "Here": Internationalizing Gvsu Courses And Americanizing Overseas Courses, Mark Schaub

Grand Valley Review

No abstract provided.

A Field Of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs And The Future Of Composition Studies, Peggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, Larry W. Burton

All USU Press Publications

One of the first collections to focus on independent writing programs, A Field of Dreams offers a complex picture of the experience of the stand-alone. Included here are narratives of individual programs from a wide range of institutions, exploring such issues as what institutional issues led to their independence, how independence solved or created administrative problems, how it changed the culture of the writing program and faculty sense of purpose, success, or failure.

Focus Group Study On Minority Women's Access To Prenatal Health Care In The City Of Manchester, New Hampshire: Executive Summary, The Bureau Of Maternal And Child Health Of The Department Of Health And Human Services (Nhdhhs) And The City Of Manchester Department Of Helath

Manchester Research Group

Study on minority women's access to prenatal care in Manchester, N.H.

Menorah Review (No. 54, Winter, 2002)

Menorah Review

Halakha, Hermeneutics and History -- Go -- Dialogue in Pursuit of Social Action -- Dream Joggings -- Rabbis, Society and Historiography -- Was Herod a Jew? -- Noteworthy Books

Changes In The 17th Edition Of Sears List Of Subject Headings, Dorothy N. Bowen

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Users coming to our library catalogs are more often looking for materials dealing with particular subjects rather than seeking specific titles or authors. Therefore, when we prepare our catalogs we must take special care to use terminology which will best retrieve this material. We must pay special attention to the "aboutness" of each item in order to select the most precise term.

Annual Report Of The Selectmen, Auditors, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Tax Collector, Budget Committee, Road Agent, Trustees Of The Trust Funds, Trustees Of The Library, Planning Board, Police, Health And Fire Departments, Board Of Education, Town Of Hampstead, Hampstead, New Hampshire, For The Year Ending December 31, 2001, Together With The Vital Statistics For The Year, As Prepared By The Town Clerk, 2001., Hampstead Town Representatives

Hampstead, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Becoming Visible. A Biography Of Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-1796) During Her Formative Years, Catherine M. Sama

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Human Exposure To Toxic Chemicals Through Subsistence Shellfishing In Casco Bay, Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc., Charles Consulting

Publications

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Corresponding Voices

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Learning The Chinese Language In An Australian School, Ruilan Yuan

Shannon Research Press

This study deals with the learning of Chinese as a foreign language across school grades in South Australia. The purposes of the study are briefly to measure student achievement in learning the Chinese language across grade levels from Year 4 to Year 12 over a period of 12 months; investigate the factors that influence learners' continuing with the study of the Chinese language; and identify the factors that influence student achievement in learning the Chinese language within and between school grades. The term 'Chinese language' in this study refers to the Mandarin Chinese language, rather than the many other dialects …

Insights- August 2002, Erika Malek

Insights

No abstract provided.

Preservice Teachers' Perceptions Of Cultural Competency, N. Diana Ross

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine preservice teachers' perceptions of cultural competence during the student teaching experience as the result of participating in a diversity and poverty simulation. The results of this study were consistent with present research on developing cultural competencies and the use of simulations in teacher preparation programs. This qualitative research utilized data gathered through interviews with preservice teachers from a private university, citations from expert sources, and insights from the researcher's twenty-five years of teaching experience. The voices of the preservice teachers in this study evidenced increased cultural awareness as a result of their …

Historical Paradigms In Conflict: The Nauvoo Period Revisited, Glen M. Cooper

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois (1995), edited by John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius

Representing Rape: Language And Sexual Consent By Susan Ehrlich, Kimberly Wolf

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Writing Gojri: Linguistic And Sociolinguistic Constraints On A Standardized Orthography For The Gujars Of South Asia, Wayne E. Losey

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

This study presents descriptions of the phonology and morphology of the two major dialects of Gojri spoken in Pakistan, and compares them with the Gojri spoken in Punch District of Indian-administered Kashmir. In light of this comparative data and the implications for Gojri-to- Urdu literacy, it evaluates various orthographic conventions currently used by leading writers and institutions. It explores Urdu-based spellings which are linguistically sound and otherwise conducive to transitional literacy, and which lend themselves to orthographic standardization across the east-west dialect continuum. It also includes an extended treatment of the challenge of representing Gojri tone.

This study will provide …

A Preferred Vision For Administering Secondary Schools : A Reflective Essay, Maria Trese Cashman

Graduate Research Papers

Monroe (1997) said, "School should not reflect what society is, but rather school should model what society should be" (p. 193). This statement summarizes my reasons for becoming an administrator. Iowa's public schools are some of the finest learning institutions in the nation. These same schools, however, frequently reflect the negative characteristics of society. Lack of respect, segregation of students, and elitist attitudes are prevalent characteristics of today's society and today's schools. I want to be a leader who will make the necessary changes to maintain our high academic standards for all students and make our schools a welcoming place …