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Combining Historical Research And Narrative Inquiry To Create Chronicles And Narratives, Richard A. Wilson

The Qualitative Report

Stories about the Idaho State Library, chronicles and narratives, are reported in my doctoral dissertation (Wilson, 2005). The chronicles, reconstructed from documents and records, provided a presentation of the people, events, and activities to frame the stories. The narratives, excerpted from interviews, provided the rich description and unique perspectives of the two living State Librarians who directed the agency between 1962 and 2005. The focus of this paper is a presentation and discussion of the use of historical research and narrative inquiry to create chronicles and narratives.

Usd Magazine Spring 2007, University Of San Diego

University of San Diego Magazine (1992- )

Contents; Editorial License; Letters to the Editor; Around the Park; Torero Athletics; Point of View; Why is There War? Blessed are the Peacemakers; Greeting the Tense New Dawn; Back from the Brink; The Defense Never Rests; Campaign Corner; Alumni Update; Class Notes; USD Reflection

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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University’S Transformations: Episteme, Mission And Ethos In The Contemporary World, Martha Abrahão Saad Lucchesi, Eliana Branco Malanga

Essays in Education

The Cartesian principle was put forward by the philosopher as a strategy for research in greater depth. However, it turned out to be a way of understanding reality as if it were actually divided into disciplines. This segmented view of scientific knowledge clashes with the needs of today’s world, where communication is fast and allows for a quick exchange of information between producers of knowledge, making collaborative work easier, even at a distance. A significant increase in the production of scientific knowledge leads to a demand of new paradigms to understand reality. Transdisciplinarity does not invalidate disciplines, rather, by surpassing …

Inside The Law School Classroom: Toward A New Legal Realist Pedagogy, Elizabeth Mertz

Vanderbilt Law Review

In recent years, the legal academy has been experiencing a strong renewed interest in empirical legal research. Referred to by various analysts as a "new legal realism" or as "empirical legal studies," this restored focus on the social sciences in many ways echoes an earlier era of legal realism in American law, with some important differences.' . . .

This Article combines these two themes: empirical research on law and careful examination of legal education. It reports on an empirical study of legal education, which I have been conducting under the auspices of the American Bar Foundation (a research institute …

Histoire(S) De Catherine M.: Echoes Of “O” And The Difference Of “I” In La Vie Sexuelle De Catherine M., Adrienne Angelo

The Coastal Review

This article compares Catherine Millet’s La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (2001) to another work of erotic “fiction:” Pauline Réage’s Histoire d’O (1954). The scandal surrounding the publication of both works focused on the taboo subject of sexuality, and more significantly, on the role of the female author in writing such a graphic work. While Réage’s fictional account of one woman’s sexual experiences is told through a third-person narrator, Millet describes her own experiences in the first-person. However, the continual multiplication of this first-person narrator complicates a reading of her work that would presuppose that one is reading an autobiographical …

Washington University Record, March 1, 2007

Washington University Record

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On Logic In The Law: Something, But Not All, Susan Haack

Articles

In 1880, when Oliver Wendell Holmes (later to be a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) criticized the "logical theology" of law articulated by Christopher Columbus Langdell (the first Dean of Harvard Law School), neither Holmes nor Langdell was aware of the revolution in logic that had begun, the year before, with Frege's Begriffsschrift. But there is an important element of truth in Holmes's insistence that a legal system cannot be adequately understood as a system of "axioms and corollaries"; and this element of truth is not obviated by the more powerful logical techniques that are now available.

The Effects Of Life Skills Instruction On The Personal-Social Skills Scores Of Rural High School Students With Mental Retardation, Mary K. Quigley

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The Effects of Life Skills Instruction on the Personal-Social Skills Scores of Rural High School Students with Mental Retardation. (Under the direction of Dr. Margaret Ackerman) School of Education, March, 2007. The current legislation No Child Left Behind mandates that students with mental retardation have access to core curriculum courses. A comprehensive life skills program, Life Centered Career Education (LCCE), was integrated into the curriculum of high school students with mental retardation. The LCCE program was utilized to educate students on Personal-Social, Daily Life skills, and Occupational lessons with an academic emphasis. The study measured improvements made in the personal-social …

An Approach To Preventing Coparenting Conflict And Divorce In Low-Income Families: Strengthening Couple Relationships And Fostering Fathers' Involvement, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Philip A. Cowan, Marsha Kline Pruett, Kyle Pruett

School for Social Work: Faculty Publications

In the context of current concern about levels of marital distress, family violence, and divorce, the SFI study is evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention to facilitate the positive involvement of low-income Mexican American and European American fathers with their children, in part by strengthening the men's relationships with their children's mothers. The study design involves a randomized clinical trial that includes assignment to a 16-week couples group, a 16-week fathers group, or a single-session control group. Couples in both group interventions and the control condition include partners who are married, cohabiting, and living separately but raising a young child …

Digital Support For Abductive Learning In Introductory Computing Courses, Atanas Radenski

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Students who grew up browsing the Web are skilled in what is usually referred to as abduction, a reasoning process that starts with a set of specific observations and then generates the best possible explanation of those observations. In order to exploit the abduction skills of contemporary students, we have developed digital CS1/2 study packs that promote and support active learning through abduction, i.e., abductive learning. The study packs integrate a variety of digital resources: online self-guided labs, e-texts, tutorial links, sample programs, quizzes, and slides. These online packs stimulate students to learn abductively by browsing, searching, and performing self-guided …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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2007 February 26 - Graduate Council Minutes, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

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A 2007 Model Curriculum For A Liberal Arts Degree In Computer Science, P. Takis Metaxas

Computer Science Faculty Scholarship

In 1986, guidelines for a computer science major degree program offered in the context of the liberal arts were developed by the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium (LACS) [4]. In 1996 the same group offered a revised curriculum reflecting advances in the discipline, the accompanying technology, and teaching pedagogy [6]. In each case, the LACS models represented, at least in part, a response to the recommendations of the ACM/IEEE-CS [1][2]. Continuing change in the discipline, technology, and pedagogy coupled with the appearance of Computing Curriculum 2001 [3] have led to the 2007 Model Curriculum described here. This report begins by …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, February 25, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2007

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A 2007 Model Curriculum For A Liberal Arts Degree In Computer Science, Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium, Charles F. Kelemen

Computer Science Faculty Works

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Situating Accountability: Seeking Salvation For The Core Concept Of Modern Governance, Melvin J. Dubnick

Faculty Publications

The obsessive and extensive attention given to “accountability” over the past several years has not been matched by sufficient attention to the concept’s place and role in modern governance. Its undisciplined application in rhetorical, critical and analytic contexts has reduced the concept to a pointless and free-floating label that has lost its value as a meaningful term of art in the study of government and political life. This paper is an effort to remedy that circumstance – to seek a form of “salvation” for the idea of accountability by engaging in an effort to “situate” the concept linguistically, functionally, historically …

The Bison, February 23, 2007

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Ucc Minutes February 22, 2007, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

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The Statesman, V. 50, I. 34, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 50, i. 34

Concatenative Text-To-Speech Synthesis: A Study On Standard Colloquial Bengali., Soumen Chowdhury Dr.

Doctoral Theses

The primary communication process between human beings is Speech. Speech synthesis is the automatic and artificial generation of the speech signal by a machine. A TTS (Text-To-Speech) synthesis system is one which can generate speech signal from a string of text in a given language. The development in the speech synthesis systems in various languages has been going on for several decades. With the unprecedented expansion of IT (Information Technology) invading the life of the common man it is highly desirable that at least the information dissemination be made via the speech mode which is the most natural mode of …

The Daily Egyptian, February 22, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2007

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Kibinda V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Unh Welcomes Scholar's Discussion On Women's Movement In Islamic State, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Volume 6, Issue 4, St. Norbert College

Assessment News (campus only)

Assessment News was a newsletter out of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness from 2002 to 2013. Almost all are archived here as open access, but some are designated campus only.

The Impact Of Ethnic Identity On Student Achievement In China: A Meta Analysis, Xinyi Wu

Theses and Dissertations

There have been concerns about low educational achievement of ethnic minority students in China. Previous studies have explored this area, especially in regard to the relationship between economic backwardness and achievement. However, a new field of study examines ethnic identity being considered as a cause of low achievement. This study is to use meta-analysis to determine the aggregate results of current research on the effects of self-identity on ethnic minority students and their achievement in China. The literature has been collected through searching library holdings, and online electronic resource search. Different levels of identity construction are discussed. This thesis concludes …

Crusader, February, 16, 2007, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

Soundings 2007-02-16, N/A N/A

Soundings

No abstract provided.