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Child Soldiers And The Architecture Of Post Bellum Settlements, Mark A. Drumbl Feb 2012

Child Soldiers And The Architecture Of Post Bellum Settlements, Mark A. Drumbl

Emerging Issues in International Humanitarian Law

At the very least, world-wide, tens of thousands of persons below the age of eighteen currently are associated with armed forces or armed groups. Adults who serve in such forces or groups, moreover, may have joined while younger than eighteen. In addition, the past decade has seen the demobilization of many tens of thousands more child soldiers. Although joyful, their return journey to civilian life also is bittersweet. They come back home to the communities where they initially had been recruited – at times, forcibly – and where, in some instances, they had committed terrible atrocities. While associated with armed …


Reporter - February 3rd 2012, Rit Reporter Staff Feb 2012

Reporter - February 3rd 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.


Agency Through Ambiguity: Women Ngo Workers In Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Melissa S. Kerr Chiovenda Feb 2012

Agency Through Ambiguity: Women Ngo Workers In Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Melissa S. Kerr Chiovenda

Master's Theses

Pashtun women working for international NGOs and development organizations in Jalalabad Afghanistan balance the requirements of their employment with a set values, known as doing pashto, that guide their behavior as Pashtuns. These two influences on their lives are often contradictory. Based on fieldwork in Jalalabad, this study suggests that Pashtun women working for such organizations do not overtly resist Pashtun norms that often enforce a strict segregation of women. Rather, they use strategic ambiguity, maintaining that they are performing pashto well while at the same time taking part in some work activities that on the surface appear contrary to …


Schools/Citizen Science. A Response To "The Future Of Citizen Science", Matthew Weinstein Feb 2012

Schools/Citizen Science. A Response To "The Future Of Citizen Science", Matthew Weinstein

Democracy & Education

This paper builds on Mueller, Tippins, and Bryan's paper to ask how neoliberal restructuring impacts the form of appropriate and possible democratic science/education. It examines the compatibilities between antidemocratic tendencies of current schooling and common forms citizen science. It also clarifies several details regarding the street-medic movement. The paper suggests that distinguishing between democracy as participation and democracy as opposition would help clarify the appropriate forms, limits, and possibilities of democratic forms of science in schooling.


Moving Beyond Seeing With Our Eyes Wide Shut. A Response To “There Is No Culturally Responsive Teaching Spoken Here”, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Vanessa Dodo Seriki Feb 2012

Moving Beyond Seeing With Our Eyes Wide Shut. A Response To “There Is No Culturally Responsive Teaching Spoken Here”, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Vanessa Dodo Seriki

Democracy & Education

A struggle exists to engage in culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) that authentically represents the voices and interests of all across the K–20 spectrum, from higher education institutions, to teacher preparation programs, and into U.S. classrooms. This article responds to Hayes and Juárez's piece “There Is No Culturally Responsive Teaching Spoken Here” by extending the conversation with the suggestion that one of the major problems in speaking CRP has to do with a disconnect between articulated commitments and actual practices. This response article takes a critical look at the landscape in which educators work to reveal the nature of overrepresentation of …


The Future Of Citizen Science, Michael P. Mueller, Deborah Tippins, Lynn A. Bryan Ph. D. Feb 2012

The Future Of Citizen Science, Michael P. Mueller, Deborah Tippins, Lynn A. Bryan Ph. D.

Democracy & Education

There is an emerging trend of democratizing science and schooling within science education that can be characterized as citizen science. We explore the roots of this movement and some current projects to underscore the meaning of citizen science in science and schooling. We show that citizen science, as it is currently conceptualized, does not go far enough to resolve the concerns of communities and environments when considered holistically and when compared with more dynamic and multidimensional ideas for characterizing science. We use the examples of colony collapse disorder (CCD) and emerging trends of nanotechnology as cases in point. Then we …


Beeckler, Diane M. (Fa 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Beeckler, Diane M. (Fa 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 65. [Folk medicine] Collection contains correspondence, magazine entries, and a book concerning traditional cures and preventions for the common cold, flu and other illnesses. There are several responses from Kentuckians from across the state. These cures were collected by Diane Beeckler for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


The Montclarion, February 02, 2012, The Montclarion Feb 2012

The Montclarion, February 02, 2012, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University


The Pan American (2012-02-02), Reynaldo Leal, Nadia Tamez-Robledo Feb 2012

The Pan American (2012-02-02), Reynaldo Leal, Nadia Tamez-Robledo

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 68, No. 16


Davis, Courtney Hogan (Fa 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Davis, Courtney Hogan (Fa 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 64. [Lone Oak Restaurant] This collection documents the building, food, and owners of the Lone Oak Restaurant found on Old Scottsville Road in southern Warren County. The informant also describes the establishment’s history and future. This project was completed by Courtney Hogan Davis for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Cox, Linda Walker (Fa 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Cox, Linda Walker (Fa 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 63. “Is This A Playback?” A project documenting bluegrass, country, and gospel music being performed at Ray Walker’s Allen County home. Music was collected during a session with several participating musicians. The items were collected by Linda Cox for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Kelly, Rita Helen Roberts (Fa 46), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Kelly, Rita Helen Roberts (Fa 46), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 46. [A and G Specialty] Collection of typescripts, photographs and cassette tapes concerning the family/personal history and current occupation (flea market seller) of Vernon Anderson. Collection also contains information pertaining to Vernon’s childhood in Richmond County Georgia, career as a military M.P. and his various other occupations. The collection also contains interview typescripts, cassettes and photographs of Grace Little, who is an itinerant seller herself. Grace Little is interviewed concerning her childhood, family, and current occupation.


Quisenberry, Susan (Fa 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Quisenberry, Susan (Fa 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 57. Paper: "Urban Legends," wirtten by Susan Quisenberry for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Soules, Tenoah Cassandre (Fa 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Soules, Tenoah Cassandre (Fa 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 58. Paper: "Urban Legends," written by Tenoah Cassandre Soules for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Welch, Johnny Earl (Fa 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Welch, Johnny Earl (Fa 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 60. Paper: “The Mysterious Death of Jack Brown,” written by Johnny Earl Welch for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Effective Leadership To Alter School Food Environments And Improve Public Health, Philip R. Mcnab Feb 2012

Effective Leadership To Alter School Food Environments And Improve Public Health, Philip R. Mcnab

Florida Public Health Review

Multiple studies show that many children and adolescents in the United States are overweight or at risk for overweight; moreover, the numbers are still rising. Contributing to the problem is the fact that schoolchildren, on average, are eating too much fast food and well below the recommended amounts offruits and vegetables. From a public health perspective, these are severe problems, as they have been associated with diseases such as heart stroke and heart disease. Not surprisingly, school food environments, which are often saturated with low-nutrient energy-dense foods, are not helping matters and need to be altered. Interventions involving nutrition education …


Not Just A Mother’S Decision: A Multifactorial Exploration Of Low Breastfeeding Rates In African American Women, Mackenzie R. Tewell Feb 2012

Not Just A Mother’S Decision: A Multifactorial Exploration Of Low Breastfeeding Rates In African American Women, Mackenzie R. Tewell

Florida Public Health Review

The benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and newborns are well established. Yet, black women in the U.S. consistently have the lowest rates ofbreastfeeding initiation and duration. Utilizing the various levels ofthe Social Ecological Model, this paper explores the factors that are thought to be responsible for this disparity. Poverty, a lack of resources, and societal disapproval weigh heavily upon already strained intrapersonal relationships where social support is severely lacking. Familial influence proves pivotal in a mother’s decision ofwhether or not to breastfeed. The role ofWIC clinics are also examined as a source of intervention, though literature demonstrates women receive …


The Observer, Central Washington University Feb 2012

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for February 2-8, 2012. Vol. 90, No. 4.


The Montclarion, February 02, 2012, The Montclarion Feb 2012

The Montclarion, February 02, 2012, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University


The Eastern Echo, February 2, 2012, Eastern Michigan University Feb 2012

The Eastern Echo, February 2, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.


Agency, Structures And Peru: Action And In-Action During 1980-2000, Kimberly A. Protzel Feb 2012

Agency, Structures And Peru: Action And In-Action During 1980-2000, Kimberly A. Protzel

Master's Theses

The Shining Path along with Alberto Fujimori's presidency in Peru (encompassing the years 1980-2000) created a terrifying chaos that was wound up in both state and insurgent terrorism, corruption, and massacres. While this chaos is inextricably linked to Peru's history, I fear is being all too quickly forgotten. My main motivation behind this research has been to take a step towards increasing awareness of these events and the many reasons behind them: the agenic nature of some versus the lack of it in others, structures developed by colonialism, and most terrifyingly of all - willful ignorance. By understanding these reasons, …


The Eastern Echo, February 2, 2012, Eastern Michigan University Feb 2012

The Eastern Echo, February 2, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.


The Eastern Echo, February 2, 2012, Eastern Michigan University Feb 2012

The Eastern Echo, February 2, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.


Kenyon Collegian - February 2, 2012 Feb 2012

Kenyon Collegian - February 2, 2012

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.


After Gender The Destruction Of Man? The Vatican’S Nightmare Vision Of The “Gender Agenda” For Law, Mary Anne Case Feb 2012

After Gender The Destruction Of Man? The Vatican’S Nightmare Vision Of The “Gender Agenda” For Law, Mary Anne Case

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ethnocentrism And The Holy Spirit, Chris Dewelt Feb 2012

Ethnocentrism And The Holy Spirit, Chris Dewelt

Leaven

No abstract provided.


Ciis Alumni Newsletter, Ciis Feb 2012

Ciis Alumni Newsletter, Ciis

Alumni Association Newsletter

This is the February 2012 Issue of the CIIS Alumni Newsletter


Actions Memo February 2012, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee Feb 2012

Actions Memo February 2012, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.


Gsu View, 2012-02, Office Of Marketing And Communications Feb 2012

Gsu View, 2012-02, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.


Book Review: Reproduction And Adaptation: Topics In Human Reproductive Ecology, Geoff Kushnick Phd Feb 2012

Book Review: Reproduction And Adaptation: Topics In Human Reproductive Ecology, Geoff Kushnick Phd

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Reproduction and Adaptation: Topics in Human Reproductive Ecology. Edited by C.G. Mascie-Taylor and Lyliane Rosetta. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Vol. 59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011. 282 pp. $99.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-50963-3.