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The Limits Of Service-Learning In Higher Education, Dan W. Butin

Education Faculty Publications

This article takes a critical look at the attempted institutionalization of service-learning in higher education. It asks whether service-learning can become deeply embedded within the academy; and if so, what exactly is becoming embedded. Specifically, this article suggests that there are substantial pedagogical, political, and institutional limits to service-learning across the academy. These limits, moreover, are shown to be inherent to the service-learning movement as contemporarily theorized and enacted. The article concludes by reframing some of the grounding assumptions of service-learning to position it as a disciplinary field more suited for becoming genuinely embedded within higher education.

Theorizing The Diaspora, John C. Hawley

English

In his provocative essay on the place of the committed writer in contemporary western society (“Inside the Whale”), George Orwell makes a passing observation about the effects of exile, self-imposed or otherwise, on the scope of a writer’s subject and purpose: “[L]eaving your native land,” he suggests, “[. . .] means transferring your roots into shallower soil. Exile is probably more damaging to a novelist than to a painter or even a poet, because its effect is to take him out of contact with working life and narrow down his range to the street, the cafJ, the church, the brothel …

Harmonizing Unfair Commercial Practices Law: The Cultural And Social Dimensions, Thomas Wilhelmsson

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article discusses, in light of the European experience concerning harmonization of unfair commercial practices law, the impact of social, cultural, and linguistic variations on the possibility of harmonizing or transplanting rules on commercial communications to consumers. Empirical research on national variations in consumers' responses to advertising and other marketing is used to create a typology of cases in which cultural factors should be taken into account when assessing a commercial practice from a consumer point of view. Differences between countries with regard to consumers' trust, understandings, rationality patterns, decision-making behaviour, values, and preferences are discussed as relevant cases. The …

Digging A Little Deeper: Coverage Of Archaeology From The U.S. From 1950 To 2000+ In Discipline-Specific And Subject-Oriented Online Indexes, David C. Tyler, Katharine C. Potter, Susan M. Leach, Jennifer M. Kreifels

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Librarians, faculty and professional researchers, and students often encounter difficulties in locating pertinent journal articles for the field of archaeology. This article examines the coverage given to ninety-three archaeology journals originating in the United States over a fifty-year interval by twelve discipline-specific and subject-oriented indexes available online. The coverage provided by the individual indexes and some of the larger issues surrounding the coverage of the field itself are discussed, and several recommendations are offered.

Books Received, Natural Resources Journal

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Cultural Study Of Epistemological Beliefs And Moral Reasoning Between American And Chinese College Students, Zhongtang Ren

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Studies

This study investigated the cultural differences of epistemological beliefs and moral reasoning between American and Chinese college students (N=452) recruited from three universities, Old Dominion University in the eastern United States, Luoyang Normal University in the central China and Central University for Nationalities in northern China. A series of factorial MANOVA was conducted to explore the influence of gender, ethnicity and nationality as the independent variables on epistemological beliefs measured with five EBI (Epistemological Beliefs Inventory) scores and moral reasoning measured with two DIT (Defining Issues Test) scores as dependent variables.

No effects were found for gender and …

Catalog 2006-2007, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Gender Differences In Perceived Work Demands, Family Demands, And Life Stress Among Married Chinese Employees, Jaepil Choi, Chao C. Chen

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Although gender-based division of labour and the identity theory of stress suggest that the relationship between work and family demands and life stress may vary as a function of gender, it is largely unknown whether these arguments are also valid in China. To address this gap in the existing literature, the current study investigates the gender differences in perceived work and family demands, and the effects of these perceived demands on the life stress of Chinese male and female employees. The study of 153 married Chinese employees found that Chinese women perceived a higher level of family demands than did …

June 23, 2006, Ohio University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ohio University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees.

Simulation Of Socio-Economic Impacts Due To Seismic Damage Of Tehran Water Network, Reza Rasti, Farshad Vazinram

Geohazards

In recent years, the massive losses caused due to big earthquakes in urban areas. These cause significant casualties and losses. The economic losses exceed several billions dollars per year. The loss may be categorized in two types of direct and indirect loss. Direct economic losses occur just during the earthquakes or immediately after them. Indirect losses are resulted from direct losses. These losses are obtained in Tehran due to damage of Water Network. A scenario earthquake that would severely damage the city is assumed. The acceleration and velocities are determined in Tehran GIS map. The vulnerability coefficient for pipe via …

Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2006, Eastern Washington University

Commencement Programs

Program for Eastern Washington University's spring commencement in 2006

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For June 09, 2006, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the June 09, 2006 Board of Regents Meeting

S, George, Fcrh Honors Program

FCRH Honors Program Oral History Project

Dr. George S., a Fordham Classics professor and Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center during its crucial years of early formation, was an important and highly respected pioneer of cultural studies in academia. His tenure at Fordham spanned over four decades, and he took an active role in the formation of the Lincoln Center Honors Program in the likeness of his alma mater: FCRH Honors.

Dr. George recalls in his interview the fun, often difficult, but ultimately incredibly formative experience of Fordham Honors. He made lifelong friends with honors students, especially those with whom he traveled to Paris, France, …

How John Dewey’S Theories Underpin Art And Art Education, Patricia Goldblatt

Education and Culture

John Dewey believed every person is capable of being an artist, living an artful life of social interaction that benefits and thereby beautifies the world. In Art as Experience, Dewey reminds his readers that the second Council of Nicea censored the church’s use of statutes and incense that distracted from prayer. Dewey, in an interesting turnabout, removes dogma from the church, but lauds the sensory details that enable higher understanding of human experience. Dewey evokes a paradox: the appreciation and need for the “experiential” artifact, but art as catalyst to realms beyond the physical. For Dewey, art functions as experience. …

Ke Alakai, Vol. 75, No. 03 (2006-06-07), Brigham Young University Hawaii

Ke Alaka'i

No abstract provided.

On The Green Vol. 36 No. 15 June 2, 2006, Gallaudet University

2001-2010

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” And Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay Of Provocation., Curdella Forbes

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

No abstract provided.

Monsters In Motion: Tracing The Silences In John Gabriel Stedman And William Blake, Esther M. Lezra

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

No abstract provided.

Response Of Human Osteoblasts To Novel Silk-Based Biomaterials, Jahanzeb Chaudhry

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Osteoblast Proliferation, Differentiation And Apoptosis In Co13,6-P20c/Ebpbeta Transgenic Mice, Piero Palacios

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Ceal Activities, Joy Kim, Sarah Elman, Su Chen, Chengzhi Wang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Katrina, The Constitution, And The Legal Question Doctrine, Robin West

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The article argues that the non-existence of welfare rights in American Constitutional law, and the non-existence of a widely shared sense of moral obligation to attend to poverty through the use of law, cannot be explained by reference to the Constitutional text or history. Rather, it is a function of the over-identification of ordinary morality with Constitutionalism, of the Constitution with law, and of law, with adjudicative law—what the article calls "the legal question doctrine." As courts cannot, will not, and possibly should not enforce "welfare rights," as a matter of adjudicated Constitutional law, so, we conclude, neither the Constitution, …

Reflections On A Fulbright Year In Bahrain, Philip Tabakow

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Web-Opac And Selected Databases: A Comparative Study Of The Searching Effectiveness And Efficiency, Eugenie Ng, Patrick Lo, Owen Tam

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Literary Emergence As A Case Study Of Theory In Comparative Literature, César Domínguez

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Literary Emergence as a Case Study of Theory in Comparative Literature," César Domínguez constructs an interdisciplinary theoretical model which sheds new light on literary emergence, a phenomenon that defies literary, artistic, and cultural boundaries. Domínguez opens his discussion with a synthesis regarding the state of the question, paying particular attention to the contradictions provoked when an inventory of emerging literatures is attempted and goes on to develop a theoretical framework in which the dynamic processes which define emerging literature are seen relative to world literature. He understands world literature as a mega-system in which emergence finds itself …

A Comparative Analysis Of Website Expressions Of National Culture And Mediation, Paule Salerno-O'Shea

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "A Comparative Analysis of Website Expressions of National Culture and Mediation," Paule Salerno-O'Shea identifies what the official websites of the National Ombudsman in Ireland and France reveal about mediation in those national cultures. The way both national mediators are portrayed indicates how mediation is represented at the national level: 1) these institutions were created by acts emanating from national representative assemblies; 2) the ombudspersons are nominated by representatives of the nation (in Ireland, the appointment is made by the president upon resolution passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas [Parliament] and in France by a presidential decree …

Pompa Banerjee, Burning Women: Widows, Witches And Early Modern European Travellers In India. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Palgrave, 2003, Andrea Major

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Aarp Online Portrayal Of Social Security: Engaging Aging Baby Boomers Through Interaction, Michael L. Hilt, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

Communication Faculty Publications

Although baby boomers were not the sole focus of the American Association of Retired Persons' (AARP) website content on the issue of Social Security reform, their interests were addressed in a variety of ways. AARP provided information, position statements, a live chat forum, and message boards. Additionally, AARP had a partnership with the Rock the Vote website. It was unexpected that AARP would be so interested in younger people and in convincing them about their generation's need to support Social Security as it currently exists. It may be that as the baby boom generation enters retirement, AARP will become increasingly …

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, June 2006

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

University Reporter - Volume 10, Number 10 - June 2006

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about the 2006 commencement ceremony and commencement speaker Senator Barack Obama, the recipient of the first annual Empower Disabled Fund Award, the appointment of Steve Crosby as founding dean of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, and other news from UMass Boston.