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Approaches To Teaching Through Digital Reference, Lisa A. Ellis

Publications and Research

As “teaching libraries,” many academic libraries are committed to teaching not only in classrooms but also at the reference desk. As reference has expanded to include digital modes of e-mail and chat, reference librarians are prompted to consider approaches to teaching in these new reference venues in ways that are meaningful to the user. A promising approach to teaching through digital reference is the application of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards. This paper presents some challenges and benefits of teaching via digital reference. Practical methods for promoting self-directed learning by examining online instruction, and suggestions for effectively advancing a …

Cho Yonggi’S Charismatic Leadership And Church Growth, David S. Lim

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

As the founding and senior pastor of the largest megachurch in the world so far, it is quite obvious that Rev. Dr. Cho Yonggi (hereafter, Cho) has been an effective leader of church growth (CG) in Korea and the world. How was he able to lead the Yoido Full Gospel Church (YFGC) to achieve such phenomenal growth? I am greatly honored to have been invited to present this paper that will focus on his personal charisma as one of the key factors that brought about such a development in church history.

Using The Trees To Understand The Forest: Evaluating The Risks Of The Panama Canal Amplification Project, Caroline Gross

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

For over a decade, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and its United States predecessor have contemplated a Canal Amplification Project to allow larger boats to pass through the Panama Canal. This project, as it is currently understood, would involve the construction of a new, “third” set of locks with greater capacity, the widening of channels within the Canal, and the flooding of approximately 45,000 hectares of land currently occupied by campesinos/as. Since the passage of a 1999 law that expanded the definition of the Panama Canal Watershed by 63 percent, some campesinos/as have united to oppose the flooding of their …

Land Conflict Resolution Within An Autonomous Space, John Cheney

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

No abstract provided.

La Lucha Del Mocase Para Desarrollo Y Autonomía, Katie Metcalf

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study is an analysis of the current situation of the small producers of the Movimiento Campesino del Santiago del Estero (MOCASE) to determine the extent they are obtaining a sustainable and autonomous existence by means of rural development projects, with a specific focus on MOCASE from the region of Bandera Bajada, department Figueroa, and their interaction with the Programa Social Agropecuario (PSA). The history of repression and social exclusion of the small producers, both on a provincial and national scale, through the implementation of neoliberal macroeconomic policies, massive land sales to large enterprises, and corrupt government policies have severely …

Race, Class, And Sexual Harassment In The 1970s, Carrie N. Baker

Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Recent Evaluative Research On Jury Trial Innovations, B. Michael Dann, Valerie P. Hans

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

During the past decade, state jury reform commissions, many individual federal and state judges, and jury scholars have advocated the adoption of a variety of innovative trial procedures to assist jurors in trials. Many jury trial reforms reflect growing awareness of best practices in education and communication as well as research documenting that jurors take an active rather than a passive approach to their decision-making task. Traditional adversary jury trial procedures often appear to assume that jurors are blank slates, who will passively wait until the end of the trial and the start of jury deliberations to form opinions about …

Of Heroines And Victims: Women And Economic Development In Medellín, Colombia, Donna F. Murdock

Southern Anthropologist

Under circumstances where women are increasingly relied upon for development work, some important questions need answering. Are women victimized or empowered by their participation in development? Through the examination of three case studies from Colombia, I will argue that the shift toward neoliberal development policies creates conditions under which women’s participation in development is both more necessary for survival, and more difficult to maintain. These policies, slashing state budgets for social services, increasing unemployment rates, and exacerbating social conflict, make demands of women that ate perhaps both unreasonable and unfair.

Reveille For Congress: A Challenge To Revise Rape Law In The Military, Alexander N. Pickands

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Culture Of Growth: Teacher Collaboration For The Empowerment Of All Students, Kamilla Bahbahani

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Studies

This dissertation documents an in-depth year long qualitative case study of three elementary school teachers to address the following research question: what characterizes, and what are the major influences on, an integrated, constructivist-oriented approach to elementary math instruction? The researcher, working collaboratively with the teachers, used a combination of interviews, observations, journaling, and informal discourse to learn about what they want to do in their classes, the various pressures they feel for performance and student learning, the forces they balance in making their instructional choices, and the ways in which they make instructional choices and change their approaches over time. …

Fly, Bob Kunzinger

English Theses & Dissertations

In February of 1980, Joe Kohn arrived in my dorm room at Saint Bonaventure University where I was then a freshman. For the next several months we talked about my planned bicycle trip across the United States, recounted his own ride to Brazil, and uncovered dark stories from his three years in Zaire. One night he told me of an idea he had: He planned to canoe the entire length of the Congo River alone. For the following year or so, we mapped routes and studied the dangers. He left in the late fall of 1980, but his anticipated completion …

Sexual Semiosis, Jane M. Gaines

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing The Way Work Works, By Ricardo Semler (Book Review), Peter A. Maresco

WCBT Faculty Publications

According to Semler: We have to find a better way for work to work.

Cross Burning, Cockfighting, And Symbolic Meaning: Toward A First Amendment Ethnography, Timothy Zick

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cultural Literacy And The Field Of The Media, Tony Schirato, Jen Webb

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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This paper is concerned with the notion of cultural literacy, specifically with regard to the media, and focuses on two interrelated questions. First, what do we mean by the term cultural literacy, and how can this term be extended and applied to the field, texts and practices of the media? Second, what is it about the place and function of the media in the contemporary world that requires us (as citizens, educators or audiences) to be culturally and media literate?

Interpretive Holism And The Structural Method, Or How Charles Black Might Have Thought About Campaign Finance Reform And Congressional Timidity, Michael C. Dorf

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Evangelicals And Politics In Asia, Africa And Latin America By Paul Freston, Henri Gooren

BYU Studies

Paul Freston, Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

The Classic, Spring 2004, Public Relations

The Classic, 2000-2009

Soulful Excellence, Faculty appointed to interim leadership roles; Recruiting publications win top honor; NWC participates in short-term missions standards effort; Theatre’s summer tour includes performance at Crystal Cathedral; Students perform in honor band; Tuition plan receives award; Business department offers human resource option; Sociology seniors’ scores soar; Performing groups tour; Faculty lead summer study abroad trips; Vocare activities are a compass for students seeking their place; Students serve over spring break; New major added in computer information systems; NWC photographs receive recognition; Faculty/staff news; Students study off campus; Guidebook recommends NWC programs; Auction donations are second highest; Recipe for Community: …

Temporary Protection As An Instrument For Implementing The Right Of Return For Palestinian Refugees, Susan M. Akram, Terry Rempel

Faculty Scholarship

The article argues for an internationally harmonized approach to temporary protection for Palestinian refugees and stateless persons. Temporary protection offers protection rights to this huge population of refugees that they lack in any of the main regions in which they have sought refuge. The article establishes the legal framework for temporary protection in the particular historical, legal and political context of the Palestinian refugee situation. It argues for the urgency of a harmonized rights-based protection regime.

Impact Of Service Learning On Physical Therapist Students' Knowledge Of And Attitudes Toward Older Adults And On Their Critical Thinking Ability, Janna Beling

Service Learning, General

As the number and proportion of elderly people rapidly increase in the next few decades, there will be increased demands for physical therapists to work with older clients. Although the availability of physical therapists to work with elderly people will be determined, in part, by their personal preferences,¹ most physical therapists will be routinely required to work with elderly clients and clients' aging family members.² In order to provide effective services, it is imperative that physical therapist students possess adequate knowledge about the aging process and recognize the individuality of older clients, as well as their capacity for …

Service-Learning Projects Enhance Student Learning In Strategic Management Courses, John Angelidis, Igor Tomic, Nabil A. Ibrahim

Service Learning, General

Academia has been criticized for Its supposed isolation from society and its lack of emphasis on practical applications and hands-on experience. Institutions of higher education are responding to this criticism by incorporating experiential service-learning in their curricula. One business course which is particularly appropriate for integrating service-learning into the curriculum is Strategic Management.

D.Z. Phillips, Religion And The Hermeneutics Of Contemplation, Anthony Rudd

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

"Breaking Down The Walls That Divide": Virtue And Warrant, Belief And Nonbelief, J.L. Schellenberg

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Steve Wilkens And Alan G. Padgett, Christianity And Western Thought. Volume Ii: Faith And Reason In The 19th Century, Robert Roberts

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Class Schedule - Spring 2004, Office Of Registrar

Semester Schedules and Information

No abstract provided.

Point Allocation History For Spring Semester 2004, Office Of Registrar

Semester Schedules and Information

No abstract provided.

Church In Democractic Transition Between The State And The Civil Society, Vedran Horvat

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Narrating The Middle Ground : B The Examination Of Objects In The Modern Genre Of Immigrant Fiction, Meagna A. Patinella

Honors Theses

Dislocated objects tell stories about the places they come from, their migration, and their new surroundings. More importantly, they disclose the narratives of people that possess or interact with them. In this paper I examine objects present in novels ofimmigration and transnational movement, for objects in such fictions are most noticeably dislodged from their original or expected context. Their relocation allows me to interpret them and their narratives, which in turn, allows me to think about the genre of immigrant fiction in a new light.

Signs & Symbols, Vol. 4, Spring 2004, Illinois State University, Department Of Sociology And Anthropology

Signs & Symbols

Newsletter of the Illinois State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology

United States' Use Of The Doctrine Of Anticipatory Self-Defense In Iraqi Conflicts, Donald Nungesser

Pace International Law Review

No abstract provided.