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Constructing Meaning In The Face Of Suffering: Theodicy In Lamentations, Elizabeth Boase

Theology Papers and Journal Articles

This article explores the existence of theodic elements within the book of Lamentations. Drawing on the typology outlined by A. Laato and J. C. de Moor (Th eodicy in the World of the Bible [Leiden, 2003]) it is identified that Lamentations explores both retributive and educative theodicy within its poems. Other theodic solutions are not, however, present. Although these theodic solutions are present, it cannot be argued that Lamentations constitutes a theodicy as such. Rather, the poems raise and in turn subvert a range of possible theodic assertions in response to the existential crisis which emerged in the wake of …

The Perceptions Of Recently Assigned Secondary Religious Education Teachers, Chris Hackett

Education Papers and Journal Articles

This article focuses on survey responses from newly appointed secondary Religious Education teachers from the first phase of a longitudinal study. The study was conducted in Catholic schools in three dioceses of Western Australia over two school years, from 1998 to 1999. The study focused on the teachers’ perceptions of implementing the Perth Archdiocesan Religious Education Units of Work. The article outlines briefly the demographic and professional backgrounds of recently appointed RE (RARE) teachers. Next, it reports upon how these teachers perceived their use of the instructional resources and teaching approach in the RE Units. The article then describes what …

Who Tolls The Bells For Firms? Tales From Transition Economies, Katharina Pistor

Faculty Scholarship

Bankruptcy law is regarded as an important mechanism for protecting creditor rights. Much of the current debate about bankruptcy law focuses exclusively on private creditors, ignoring the role of tax authorities as creditor in insolvent firms. Based on data from several transition economies, this essay documents the important, if not dominant, role tax authorities play as initiator of bankruptcy in these countries. While improved tax enforcement is crucial for tackling the problem of tax arrears and hardening the "soft budget-constraint" in former socialist countries, this essay suggests that the presence of the tax authorities as creditor may also affect the …

Preparing Nebraska Teachers To See Demographic Change As An Opportunity, Jenelle Reeves, Edmund T. Hamann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This paper reflects on an effort to support Nebraska teachers, both practicing and preservice, to become more ready for the state‘s changing demographics, notably for the growth in Latino and Spanish-speaking populations. To that end, it describes an effort funded by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln‘s Initiative on Teaching and Learning Excellence called, ―Schooling in Nebraska‘s Demographically Transitioning Communities.‖ That initiative makes mentors of practicing teachers who have enrolled in summer courses in second language acquisition. In the fall of 2006, ten such teachers mentored 44 undergraduates enrolled in TEAC 331 ―Cultural Foundation of American Education‖ or TEAC 413A ―Second Language …

Discourse In Inquiry Science Classrooms (Diisc): Reference Manual, Dale R. Baker, Rachelle Beard, Nievita Bueno-Watts, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Gokhan Özdemir, Giota Perkins, Sissy Wong, Senay Yaşar-Purzer

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

One of the greatest challenges facing scholars and funding agencies interested in reform is determining the impact of classroom practice on student achievement. The degree to which this effect can be determined is contingent upon instruments that measure teachers’ ability to enact specific instructional strategies. Frequently, a general instrument will not do because it was not designed to measure the unique focus of a professional development program or a set of variables of interest to researchers.

Consequently, specific instruments should be developed to allow researchers to measure fidelity of classroom implementation. Fidelity of implementation is always the first step in …

Turning Today’S Students Into Tomorrow’S Stars, Aleidine Kramer Moeller, Janine Theiler, Silvia Betta

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Selected Papers from the 2008 Central States Conference

Adeiline J. Moeller, Editor

Janine Theiler, Assistant Editor

Silvia Betta, Assistant Editor

1 The Important Work of Engaging Our 21st Century Learners — Toni Theisen

2 A Model for Teaching Cross-Cultural Perspectives — Susan M. Knight

3 The Stealth Approach to Critical Thinking in Beginning Spanish Classes — Deanna H. Mihaly

4 Teaching About the French Heritage of the Midwest — Randa Duvick

5 Integrating Russian Cuisine with Russian Language and Culture Classes — Marat Sanatullov

6 Preparing a Fotonovela in the Foreign Language Classroom — Carol Eiber

7 Engaging Students through …

A Multi-Year Program Developing An Explicit Reflective Pedagogy For Teaching Pre-Service Teachers The Nature Of Science By Ostention, Mike U. Smith, Lawrence C. Scharmann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This investigation delineates a multi-year action research agenda designed to develop an instructional model for teaching the nature of science (NOS) to preservice science teachers. Our past research strongly supports the use of explicit reflective instructional methods, which includes Thomas Kuhn’s notion of learning by ostention and treating science as a continuum (i.e., comparing fields of study to one another for relative placement as less to more scientific). Instruction based on conceptual change precepts, however, also exhibits promise. Thus, the investigators sought to ascertain the degree to which conceptual change took place among students (n=15) participating in the NOS instructional …

Questioning "The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction": A Stroll Around The Louvre After Reading Benjamin0, Jonathan Davis

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this article I claim that Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" merits renewed critical attention. Just as Dada had confronted art with anti-art, so Benjamin hoped his essay would confront aesthetics with an anti-aesthetic. I examine Benjamin's capsule history of the aura and show it to be misleading, criticize the essay's underdeveloped ontology of painting and sketch an alternative, and draw attention to the surprising proximity of Benjamin's notion of value to that of neoliberal thought. I conclude with a critique of Benjamin's cultural politics.

Antidiscrimination Law In The European Community, Erica Szyszczak

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article examines how an economic international Treaty arrangement in 1957, which was openly and unapologetically aimed at trade liberalization, arrived at including such fundamental social constitutional values in the Treaty of Lisbon 2007. This Treaty facilitates the constitutional framework for political and economic co-operation in the newly enlarged Union of twenty-seven Member States, setting the agenda for the next fifty years of European integration. In making this journey we will not be taking a nostalgic look backwards at the achievements of the Community, but we will examine how the groundwork was laid to lead what became the Union to …

Regulation Of Civil Society In China: Necessary Changes After The Olympic Games And The Sichuan Earthquake, Karla W. Simon

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article will address the following topics with regard to the regulation of civil society in China: (1)Making the existing regulations for social organizations (shehui tuanti, “SOs”), nonprofit non-commercial entities (minban fei qiye danwe, “NCEs”),and foundations (jijin hui) more user-friendly, including making it possible for de facto networks that provide and coordinate disaster relief to be recognized, perhaps as semi-legal entities for a short period of time. The liberalization of the SO regulations should permit mutual benefit organizations to be established in order to fully implement the freedom of association guaranteed by Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution. (2) Making …

Soft Law As Delegation, Timothy Meyer

Fordham International Law Journal

This article examines one of the most important trends in international legal governance since the end of the Cold War: the rise of “soft law,” or legally non-binding instruments that are given legal effect through domestic law or internationally binding agreements such as treaties. Scholars studying the design of international agreements have long puzzled over why states use soft law. The decision to make an agreement or obligation legally binding is within the control of the states negotiating the content of the legal obligations. Basic contract theory predicts that parties to a contract would want their agreement to be as …

Filling Some Of The Gaps: The International Law Association (American Branch) Law Of The Sea Definitions Project, George K. Walker

Fordham International Law Journal

The Law of the Sea Committee (“LOS Committee” or “Committee”) of the International Law Association's American Branch (“ABILA”) will complete its project, Terms in the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea or in Convention Analysis that the Convention Does Not Define (“Report”), in 2009. If the U.S. Senate gives advice and consent, and President Barack Obama exchanges ratifications, the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (“UNCLOS” or “Convention”) and its 1994 protocol will, belatedly in the view of many, become law for the United States, as they already are for much of the world. It …

Congress, The Supremacy Clause, And The Implementation Of Treaties, John T. Parry

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article intervenes in the self-execution debate by revisiting the early American understandings of treaty implementation in the decades before Foster. I first assess the significant materials from the founding era, some of which have never before been discussed in this context. I also critique the interpretations of other commentators who have been too quick to find support for a broad notion of self-execution in the historical materials. Although I conclude the founding generation generally assumed treaties would be law without congressional intervention, I emphasize that the ordinary story of consensus on these issues is inaccurate. Second, I analyze post-ratification …

Joseph Sweeney: Scholar, Teacher, Pillar Of The Fordham Law School Community, Roger J. Goebel

Fordham International Law Journal

This issue of the Fordham International Law Journal is dedicated to Professor Joseph Sweeney on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday.

Poking The Russian Bear: The European Missile Defense Shield, Jeremy Anderson

Pepperdine Policy Review

Russian/U.S. relations have declined during the past two years, to the point that some scholars, such as Ariel Cohen, have labeled the current situation a “cool war.”1 Both leaders predictably point the finger at the other for this “cooling.” In truth, both leaders are to blame. The Bush Administration’s dogged insistence on the European Missile Shield, a costly program of marginal operational ability and marginal necessity, provokes Russia, and is reminiscent of the Cold War mindset.

The Honeymoon Is Over: Evaluating The U.S.-China Wto Intellectual Property Complaint, Donald P. Harris

Fordham International Law Journal

Over the last two decades, the United States and the People’s Republic of China have engaged in extensive negotiations regarding China’s protection of intellectual property rights. To date, the countries have entered into at least four substantive agreements detailing China’s commitments and obligations to enforce intellectual property rights (IPRs). Unfortunately, these commitments have not led to significant improvement in China’s enforcement of rampant piracy. When, in 2001, China finally acceded to the World Trade Organization, which included the Agreement on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), many hoped that China would effectively finally fulfill its international obligations to …

Silencing The Ethiopian Courts: Non-Judicial Constitutional Review And Its Impact On Human Rights, Chi Mgbako, Sarah Braasch, Aron Degol, Melisa Morgan, Felice Segura, Teramed Tezera

Fordham International Law Journal

Part I traces the evolution of Ethiopia's constitutional human rights guarantees in each of the country's constitutional manifestations from the period of Emperor Haile Selassie's reign to the present. Part II explores the status of fundamental rights and freedoms in Ethiopia's 1995 FDRE Constitution. Part III describes the players and processes of Ethiopia's complex system of non-judicial constitutional review, including the dominant role played by the HOF and Council of Constitutional Inquiry and the marginalized role of the courts. Part IV presents a comparative analysis of countries engaged in non-judicial constitutional review, including China, the former Soviet Union, and Finland. …

Indigenous Land Rights And The Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: Implications For Maori Land Claims In New Zealand, Sarah M. Stevenson

Fordham International Law Journal

This Comment argues that Maori land claims will be bolstered through the use of existing and emerging customary international law, including principles in the Declaration. Part I discusses land issues in New Zealand, beginning by providing an overview of developments since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (“Treaty”), the founding document of New Zealand. It then discusses Maori customary title, the foreshore and seabed controversy, and the first settlement under the F.S.A., and concludes with the reasons for New Zealand's vote against the Declaration. Part II reviews indigenous rights in international law and the role of international law in …

Legal Case For Russian Intervention In Georgia, Nicolai N. Petro

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article examines the legal argument for Russia's military intervention in Georgia. Russia's emphasis on the legal justification for intervention should be viewed as a significant step to the adaptation of Russian foreign policy to post-Soviet norms. Finally, having weathered this crisis, Russia will increasingly construct its foreign policy arguments with an eye toward both following and shaping international law. Part I discusses the various legal documents Russia used in order to justify its intervention in Georgia. Part II gives a critique of the Russian intervention as a peace keeping operation to protect citizens. The article concludes questioning the circumstances …

"For These Reasons, The Chamber: Denies The Prosecutor's Request For Referral": The False Hope Of Rule 11 Bis, Amelia S. Canter

Fordham International Law Journal

This Note will examine decisions from two of the potential transfer cases, Prosecutor v. Gaspard Kanyarukiga and Prosecutor v.YussufMunyakazi, and discuss their implications for the ICTR." Part I addresses the early history of the ICTR, including the initial criticisms leveled against it and its rocky relationship with Rwanda. It also examines the introduction of 11 bis and the changes made by Rwanda to come into compliance with the Rule's requirements. Part II discusses the referral decisions themselves. Finally, Part III assesses the different approaches taken by the two chambers within their respective denials. Through an examination of the reasons given …

The Ethnomedical Context Of Tuberculosis In A Northern Ecuadorian Province, Yamira Alejandra Araujo

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Background. Tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control remains a major global public health challenge. Ecuador has among the highest estimated population prevalence rates for TB, TB-mortality, and multidrug resistant TB in the Americas (WHO, 2007; PAHO, 2004). However, with the exception of one prior study of a high-risk group of suspected cases and household contacts referred for TB testing (Armijos et al., 2008), very little is known about the disease and treatment knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and practices of Ecuadorian groups and the various socio-cultural and other factors (e.g., rurality, education, gender, disease experience) that shape these. The improved understanding of …

Regional Real Property Valuation Forecast Accuracy, Katherine Nicole Cote

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to identify, evaluate, and critique four econometric and statistical alternatives to present forecasting practices for property valuation forecasts: (1) a traditional income elasticity method, (2) a regional structural econometric model, (3) a statistical ARIMA method, and (4) trend analysis. Forecast evaluation for 2001-2007 will be conducted for the property valuations of Single and Multi-Family residences and Commercial and Industrial properties in El Paso, Texas (MSA).

Cervical Cancer Risk Behaviors In Women Attending A Dysplasia Clinic In Chihuahua City, Cynthia Guerrero

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Cervical cancer mortality rates are 3.5 times higher in Chihuahua State than in Texas. Identifying risk behaviors in women living in the state of Chihuahua is important to understand what behaviors might need to be addressed through cultural relevant educational programs. My study uses a dataset collected in the summer of 2007 in a Dysplasia clinic located in Chihuahua City. This dataset provides information on six risk behaviors, two diagnostic methods of detecting cervical cancer, and women's residency by municipios. The number of live births was statistically significant in predicting cervical cancer diagnosis by Pap smear and Colposcopy. There were …

Shakespeare And The Interhuman: The Mimetic Chrysalis Of Buber's Between, Elizabeth Burford Lang

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Shakespeare's plays survive and thrive from age to age in large part due to the incomparably mimetic "rightness" of his characters. However, the various schools of post-modern literary criticism - New Historicist, Cultural Materialist, most variations of cultural theory as applied to literature - definitively deny the possibility of an essential humanity, the very concept on which discussions of character and mimesis must stand.

The work of Martin Buber contributes a means of moderating that conversation. Buber, a self-described "believing" humanist, sought and achieved a semantic framework capable of describing the intersection of man, fellow man, and spirit while obviating …

Communicative Feedback And Its Influence On Leadership In A Rural School Setting, Debora Zamorano

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Bulach, Boothe, and Pickett (1998), identified that most of the shortcomings educational administrators make fall into the category of poor human relations, and one of the categories of mistakes identified by the researchers is poor-interpersonal communication skills. Bulack and colleagues found that ineffective principals had interpersonal communication problems in the areas of providing and receiving feedback. Cannon and Witherspoon (2005) point out that providing feedback involves describing observed behaviors, as well as the reactions created.

Reeves (2004) also suggests that poor communication and ineffective feedback is relatively constant within the realm of educational leadership. Reeves notes that in terms of …

Dissonance-Based Interventions For The Prevention Of Eating Disorders: Using Persuasion Principles To Promote Health, Eric Stice, H. Shaw, Carolyn Becker, P. Rohde

Psychology Faculty Research

The limited efficacy of prior eating disorder (ED) prevention programs led to the development of dissonance-based interventions (DBI) that utilize dissonance-based persuasion principles from social psychology. Although DBIs have been used to change other attitudes and behaviors, only recently have they been applied to ED prevention. This article reviews the theoretical rationale and empirical support for this type of prevention program. Relative to assessment-only controls, DBIs have produced greater reductions in ED risk factors, ED symptoms, future risk for onset of threshold or subthreshold EDs, future risk for obesity onset, and mental health utilization, with some effects persisting through 3-year …

Biases In Interpretation And Memory In Generalized Social Phobia, Paula T. Hertel, F. Brozovich, Jutta Joormann, Ian Henry Gotlib

Psychology Faculty Research

Two experiments examined the link between interpretation and memory in individuals diagnosed with Generalized Social Phobia (GSP). In Experiment 1, GSP and control participants generated continuations for nonsocial and ambiguous social scenarios. GSP participants produced more socially anxious and negative continuations for the social scenarios than did the controls. On the subsequent test of recalling the social scenarios, intrusion errors that shared meaning with the original continuations were made more frequently by the GSP group, producing false recall with emotionally negative features. To examine whether nonanxious individuals would also produce such errors if given emotional interpretations, in Experiment 2 the …

Depression-Related Differences In Learning And Forgetting Responses To Unrelated Cues, Paula T. Hertel, A. Mahan

Psychology Faculty Research

Using the think/no-think paradigm, we examined the effect of a meaningful connection between emotionally neutral cues and targets on initial learning and later recall by students in dysphoric or nondysphoric mood states. Compared to meaningfully connected cue-target pairs, unrelated pairs were less easily learned and more easily forgotten, even when initial learning was controlled. Depressive deficits were obtained in initial learning (only marginally) and final recall. When examined separately within each cuing condition, the recall deficit associated with depressed mood was restricted to the unrelated condition, but when initial learning differences were controlled this deficit was only marginally significant. Results …

The Report: Winter 2008, Recreation, Parks, & Tourism Administration; California Polytechnic University - San Luis Obispo

The Report

No abstract provided.

Staff Council Meeting Minutes, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.