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Research & Action Fall/Winter 2012, Wellesley Centers For Women, Jean Hardisty

Research & Action Report

In this issue:

Q&A with Jean Hardisty, Ph.D.: Women's Lives and U.S. Public Policy - Where We Are Now

Commentary: Putting Children First - "Innocence" in Childhood & the Risk for Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation in the U.S.

Relational-Cultural Approach to Addressing Sex Slavery & Human Trafficking

Characteristics Of At-Risk Students, Michael Sollitto, Robert K. Gable

K-12 Education

This study focused on a major problem facing today’s educators: high school dropouts. Research questions addressed differences in teacher perspectives of the characteristics of struggling students. Differences in teachers’ perspectives based on teaching level (elementary & secondary) were examined. The researcher conducted focus groups with a total of 12 teachers. The research was conducted in two suburban districts. Focus group questions were designed following a survey administered to 108 suburban public school teachers. The survey responses reported previously identified four dimensions of characteristics of at-risk students: behavior, achievement, family involvement, and family background. The data from the focus groups can …

Former Juvenile Offenders Re-Enrolling Into Mainstream Public Schools, Thomas Richardson, Thomas Dipaola, Robert K. Gable

K-12 Education

This study examined school re-enrollment procedures employed by two school systems for N=578 former juvenile offenders re-enrolling from secured supervised settings to urban mainstream secondary public schools and alternative schools and programs in New England. Quantitative data regarding student demographics and qualitative data from interviews with 19 support personnel and selected documents were used to evaluate which program elements enhanced or disengaged former offenders from secondary urban schools. The characteristics of former juvenile offenders’ lack of school involvement with respect to truancy, school suspension and expulsion, learning, behavior, and emotional disabilities, as well as family, economic, and social disadvantages were …

Wellness During Midlife And Older Adulthood: A Different Perception, Thomas W. Foster, Justin E. Levitov

Adultspan Journal

No abstract provided.

Ethical Guidelines For Counselors When Working With Clients With Terminal Illness Requesting Physician Aid In Dying, Layla J. Kurt, Nick J. Piazza

Adultspan Journal

No abstract provided.

Counselor Demographics, Ageist Attitudes, And Multicultural Counseling Competence Among Counselors And Counselor Trainees, Rebecca G. Mcbride, Danica G. Hays

Adultspan Journal

No abstract provided.

Generational Differences As A Determinant Of Women’S Perspectives On Commitment, Marcella D. Stark, Amy Manning Kirk, Rick Bruhn

Adultspan Journal

No abstract provided.

Marshall Magazine Autumn 2012, Marshall University

Marshall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Forensic Science Forum, San Jose State University

Forensic Science Forum (Justice Studies)

No abstract provided.

Perception Of Space In Topological Forms, Dincer Savaskan

Architecture Thesis Prep

"With recent development of computer technologies there has been change in our notion of materiality. We can define our age as flow of information and architecture capture this flow and creates more complex conceptions and interactions through the space. Recent researches on materialism, typological forms, field gradients and diagramming define a new methodology in design approach, which can respond the dynamism and flow. However architectural form is still inseparable from the way we experience the world, which involves our senses and perceptions. It is possible to adopt cinematic techniques of collage and sequencing in computer-generated forms to create continuous references …

Representing The Experiential, The Anticipatory, And The Unreal, Laya Pattana

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The methodology will be tested in the cinema type because of its promise of escapist hyperreality. It is spatial, highly personal and privatized, and firmly anti-architecture. Because the film is self-contained, its space is irrelevant. The representation of experience can be reclaimed as a design strategy to activate the movie theatre typology--a typology that architecture has long since lost."

Surpassing Spectacle: Architectual Representation & Image-Based Society, Patrick Ruggerio

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The project will critique current modes of operation by a linear problem-solving design process. By acting through representation as both a vehicle for developing design and as a means of communicating and experiencing it, the project will engage the design of a tactile deployment of architecture and effective means of communicating its intent. The architecture will function in the way that the visual arts do in terms of their scale and engagement in cultural issues. Research into tangible artifacts of the site will yield a combination of image, drawing and model forms of representation. Through this analysis, a strategy of …

School As Community Center: Redefining The Relationship Between The Community And The School In Minsk, Belarus, Kate Talkachova

Architecture Thesis Prep

"A society that values education should place emphasis on the facilities and incorporate in them the values and progress, not blindly stick to the traditional. For a country fighting to regain its identity, it is important that the divisions between the neighborhoods are blurred and a sense of a whole is created. With the school as community center, education remains the central focus, as well as provides the necessary link to the surrounding neighborhoods, becoming more than just a physical center, but an activity center as well."

Beyond The Object: The Phenomenon Of Memory In Architecture, Greg Bencivengo

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The goal is not to replace our understanding of collective memory, but through fostering an awareness of self and one’s relationship to the past and site, to distinguish memory as an entity distinct from representation and objectification."

Waiting And The Architecture Of Pre-Occupation, Grant Davis Foster

Architecture Thesis Prep

"Architecture can accommodate the condition of queuing by spatially translating the factors that make it a positive experience, ultimately increasing human psychology and curing the city of toxic waiting space."

Health Law Outlook - Volume 6, Issue 1 (Fall 2012)

Health Law Outlook (archive)

Inside this issue:

• Multi Drug-Resistant TB and Extensive Drug-Resistant TB: Regulating the Growing Crisis, Phil DeFedele
• From School to the 'Real World': Transition Rights for Students with Special Needs, Kristine Kodytek
• Government Tokophobia: Unjustly Denying Pregnant Women Access to Research, Joel Silver
• Criminalizing Prenatal Substance Abuse: Hurting Women and Their Unborn Children, Sara Smith
• Everyone Wants a Piece of Me: The Evolution of Biospecimen Research and the Regulatory World's Attempt to Keep Up, Isabel Heine
• Complications of Globalization: FDA Cracks Down on Fraud in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Clarissa Gomez
• Medical Malpractice Apology Law: "Don't …

Dipl 6129 Preventing Humanitarian Crisis, Li-Wen Zhang Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

The term "humanitarian crisis" is understood to mean any situation in which there is an exceptional and widespread threat to human life, health or subsistence. In such humanitarian crisis people are killed, or suffer from violence, displacement, hunger and disease.

With the increase in intrastate conflict, the growth of international civil society, the increased recognition of human rights, and the growing appreciation of global interconnectivity and the responsibility of governments to their citizens, states are facing a pressure to protect the civilians in countries other than their own.

At the 2005 World Summit, the world's leaders committed themselves to the …

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 2012 Revised, Governors State University

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic Majors (PAM) provides a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of selected enrollment (e.g., headcounts) and demographic (e.g., age) statistics arranged by fall term, fiscal year, or academic year as appropriate

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 2012, Governors State University

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic Majors (PAM) provides a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of selected enrollment (e.g., headcounts) and demographic (e.g., age) statistics arranged by fall term, fiscal year, or academic year as appropriate

Voices Raised, Issue 37, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Included in this issue: Title IX: Liberty and Justice for All; Inspirational Idol Barbara Palmer; Magical Mentoring; Kickin’ it with Kristen Altenau; Give Me Your Hand; Vegetarian Society of Greater Dayton; Songs to Signs; Me, Homesick?; Political Prominence of Women; Dimensions of Wellness.

Faculty Scholarship Showcase 2008-2012, Saint Mary's College Of California

Saint Mary's Scholarship Reports

No abstract provided.

Faculty Scholarship Bibliography 2008-2012, Saint Mary's College Of California

Saint Mary's Scholarship Reports

No abstract provided.

Dialectic And Dialogue In Plato: Revisiting The Image Of "Socrates-As-Teacher" In The Hermeneutic Pursuit Of Authentic Paideia, James Magrini

Philosophy Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Virginia Woolf And British Russophilia, Michael Lackey

English Publications

Roberta Rubenstein convincingly demonstrates that England was infatuated with all things Russian between the years 1912 and 1922. These were some of the most formative years in the development of Woolf ’s writing and thinking, and consequently, Rubenstein argues that prominent Russian writers heavily influenced Woolf the writer and Woolf the critic. Given the degree to which Russian writers influenced Woolf in particular and England more generally, Rubenstein suggests that the Russian influence had a decisive impact in determining the shape of British Modernism.

Research Developments (No. 28) -- Summer 2012-2013 (Complete Issue)

Research Developments

Table of contents for this issue: (a) The 'digital natives' and ICT literacy; (b)Reading in online environments; (c) Digital assessments of early learning; (d) School improvement.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 037, Number 06, October 1, 2012, Grand Valley State University

2012-2013, Volume 37

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

01: Voices: Usu’S Latino/A Voices Project, Randy Williams

Latino Voices in Cache Valley

Utah State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Division (SCA) is home to rich oral history collections. SCA endeavors to preserve Northern Utah history and heritage by collecting the voices of everyday men and women. Our collections range from the poignant reminiscences of those who survived Idaho’s Teton Dam disaster to the recollections of modern-day cowboys.

Our oral history efforts serve to enhance SCA’s other documentary sources, such as manuscript, folklore and photograph collections. At times, oral history may be a first effort of discovering the history of some segments of our community. One such segment is Northern Utah’s Latino …

“Latino/Latina Voices In Cache Valley: Insights And Opportunities,” 21 February 2013, Kiger Hour (College Of Humanities And Social Sciences)., Randy Williams, Eduardo Ortiz, Maria Luisa Spicer-Escalante

Latino Voices in Cache Valley

A Powerpoint Presentation given by the authors during the February 2013 Kiger Hour (College of Humanities and Social Sciences).

Please click here to explore the components of this work.

"They Are Destroying Our Futures": Sexual Violence Against Girls In Zambia's Schools, Women And Law In Southern Africa Trust-Zambia, Cornell Law School. Avon Global Center For Women And Justice, Cornell Law School. International Human Rights Clinic

Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence

This report examines the problem of sexual violence against girls in Zambian schools. In Zambia, many girls are raped, sexually abused, harassed, and assaulted by teachers and male classmates. They are also subjected to sexual harassment and attack while travelling to and from school. Such abuse is a devastating and often overlooked manifestation of the gender-based violence that occurs in numerous settings in Zambia and other countries throughout the world.

This report explores these issues from an international human rights perspective, drawing upon extensive desk research and interviews with 105 schoolgirls and many other stakeholders in Zambia’s Lusaka Province. The …

Did The Arctic Ice Recover? Demographics Of True And False Climate Facts, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Sociology

Abstract

Beliefs about climate change divide the U.S. public along party lines more distinctly than hot social issues. Research finds that better-educated orinformed respondents are more likelytoalign with their partiesonclimate change. This information-elite polarization resembles a process of biased assimilation first described in psychological experiments. In nonexperimental settings, college graduates could be prone to biased assimilation if they more effectively acquire information that supports their beliefs. Recent national and statewide survey data show response patterns consistent with biased assimilation (and biased guessing) contributing to the correlation observed between climate beliefs and knowledge. The survey knowledge questions involve key, uncontroversial observations …