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First And Fourth Grade Boys' And Girls' Preferences For And Perceptions About Narrative And Expository Text, Lisa L. Repaskey

Open Access Dissertations

This study focused on elementary-aged children’s preferences for and perceptions about narrative and expository text. Preference refers to the children’s choice of reading material for themselves, what they prefer to read. Perception refers to the children’s beliefs about what their same-aged peers would like to read. The current study examined these preferences and perceptions about narrative and expository text through the lens of two distinct frameworks – social constructivism and engaged reading. The current study was a systematic replication and extension of a qualitative study conducted by Chapman, Filipenko, McTavish, and Shapiro (2007). It replicated the original study by conducting …

The Linguists: Film Viewing And Discussion With Director Seth Kramer And Linguist David Harrison, Seth Kramer, David Harrison

Meaningful Work 2010-2011

The Linguists is a hilarious and poignant chronicle of two scientists — David Harrison and Gregory Anderson — racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. Of the world’s 7,000 languages, 40 percent are on their way to extinction, with the last fluent speaker of a language dying once every two weeks. In Siberia, India, and Bolivia, the linguists confront head-on the very forces silencing languages: racism, humiliation, and violent economic unrest.

David and Greg's journey takes them deep into the heart of the cultures, knowledge and communities at risk when a language dies.

Daily Eastern News: March 10, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• SGA Gives $9,800 in 2 Weeks
• Police Beat
• Views News
• Arts
• Weekend Wrap
• Weekly Buzz
• Classifieds
• Sports
• Campus Recreation & Intramurals

Rulemaking In 140 Characters Or Less: Social Networking And Public Participation In Rulemaking, Cynthia R. Farina, Paul Miller, Mary J. Newhart, Claire Cardie, Dan Cosley, Rebecca Vernon

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

Social Media And The Vanishing Points Of Ethical And Constitutional Boundaries, Ken Strutin

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: March 09, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Social Skills Intervention In Improving The Use Of Validating Comments Used By Children With Specific Language Impairments In Peer Group Interactions, Chelsea Pulsipher Mccleve

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the efficacy of a social skills training program on the use of validating comments and negative comments by children with specific language impairment. The present study is an extension of a previous research project. Four children (three female, one male) with specific language impairment, ages 6 to 11, participated in a ten week social skills training program which involved direct instruction of target concepts, peer interactions with classmates, and evaluation of the use of target skills by reviewing videotaped peer interactions. The individual performance of each subject was compared to the age- and gender-matched typical peers with …

Independent - Mar. 8, 2011, Ivan Favelevic

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

Loving The World And Our Children Enough--Nurturing Decidedly Different Scientifc Minds, By Design, Stephanie Pace Marshall

Publications & Research

Wise world-shaping and problem-solving requires that we and our children think in decidedly different, integral and wise ways. This transformation requires a fundamental shift in consciousness and the emergence of global minds that can creatively live into a new worldview of an interconnected planet and a sustainable and interdependent human family. "The fullness of our humanity and the sustainability of our planet rest with the nurturing of decidedly different minds."

Spartan Daily March 7, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 21

World Poetry Day To Be Celebrated At Iwu, Rachel Hatch

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, March 6, 2011, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2011

No abstract provided.

Parent, Child, Husband, Wife: When Recognition Fails, Tragedy Ensues, Scott Fitzgibbon

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Where (In The World) Do Children Belong?, Annette Laquer Estin

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Liberty University V. Geithner - Appelants' Reply Brief, Liberty University

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Litigation

No abstract provided.

Religion, Art And Myth-Making: The Halo As An Aesthetic Expression Of Ultimate Reality, Christopher M. Stratman

JCCC Honors Journal

In recent years there has been an increased interest in questions concerning religion and faith. There have been bestselling books by authors of the so called new-atheist movement, Dawikns, Dennite, Haris and Hitchens, as well as numerous responses given attempting to refute the attacks made on traditional views of religion and faith. Moreover, since September 11th 2001 there has been a heightened awareness of the gulf separating believers and non-believers. Yet, the problem at the heart of this debate often seems to become an inquiry into whether or not religion is good for society rather than a question of the …

Acuril Xli Proceedings From The Annual Conference, Acuril

ACURIL 2011: The Role of Libraries and Archives in Disaster Preparedness, Response and Research

No abstract provided.

Translating The Vernacular: Indigenous And African Knowledge In The Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic, Kathleen S. Murphy

History

Encounters between diverse peoples and knowledges were one of the defining features of the early modern Atlantic world. This article examines some of the implications of these encounters by focusing on the place of indigenous and African knowledge in eighteenth-century natural histories of British plantation societies (from the Chesapeake to the Caribbean). It builds on recent scholarship to argue that while colonials acknowledged the authority of their black and indigenous informants as experts about American nature, they represented such expertise as merely the raw materials out of which they fashioned new natural knowledge. Naturalists credited their informants not as individual …

New Fieldsites, New Methods: New Ethnographic Opportunities, Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz

Sociology

As the rapid rate of the adoption and normative use of information technologies accelerates, sociologists must expand the sociological imagination to explore a host of questions related to mediated communication. From Twitter to YouTube, the media convergence anticipated at the close of the millennium is coming into being. Blogs, vlogs, Web browsing, e-mail, and old time television, radio, and phone are all increasingly accessible via digital technologies. Furthermore, not only can we consume these digital media, but we can now produce them easily and quickly. Yet, sociological methods have not kept pace with the profound changes in communication ensuing from …

The Alestle - Vol. 63 No. 22 - 03/03/2011, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 63 No. 22

Underneath The Radar: The Impact Of Same-Sex Sexuality And Secularism On Education In South Africa, Marius H. Smit

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 2, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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Spectator 2011-03-02, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Formulaic Writing Advice: A False Panacea, James Edward Martin

Research Collection Centre for English Communication

Over the past decade, as the long institutionalized process writing pedagogy has been increasingly questioned, many teachers have found it a challenge to create viable classroom teaching philosophies and practices. As Richard Fulkerson (2005) has noted, there is currently a wide lack of consensus about how to teach writing. In this environment, it is not surprising that teachers sometimes tend to rely on commonsensical formulae to ground their instruction. In fact, this tendency toward formulaic teaching has been common in the field of writing instruction for a very long time, although it may have taken different forms. To give an …

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: March 2011, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - March 2011

Healthy You, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Healthy You

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Statistics - March 2011, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of March 2011, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 14,765 full-text downloads.

Prototyping Self In Silicon Valley, Deep Diversity As A Framework For Anthropological Inquiry, Jan English-Lueck

Faculty Publications, Anthropology

High-technology work fuels a dynamic global exchange from technopoles throughout the world, but especially between East and South Asia and the northern Californian region of Silicon Valley. This migration drives an expanded number of ancestral identities. Professional and activity-based identities flourish as Silicon Valley’s strong narrative of meritocracy loosens the grip of birth ascription on the creation of identities. These achieved identities proliferate as people experiment on their own sense of self. Traditional conceptual tools related to immigration, and even such contemporary approaches as Appadurai’s ethnoscapes, do not adequately illuminate the ethnographic data on Silicon Valley workers, families, and especially …