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Home-School Relationships: A Qualitative Study With Diverse Families, Betty Cardona, Sachin Jain, Kathy Canfield-Davis

The Qualitative Report

This qualitative case study explored how families from diverse cultural backgrounds understood family involvement in the context of early childhood care and educational settings. Participants in the study included nine members from six families who had children enrolled in three early childhood care and education programs. The primary method of data collection included in-depth interviews with the parents of these children. A second data source was obtained through non-participant observations in each of the three programs. Findings revealed that the way families understand parent involvement is strongly influenced by issues of ethnicity, social class, level of education, and language.

Exploring The Links Between Qualitative Inquiry And Global Crises: Some Answers And More Questions, Izhar Oplatka

The Qualitative Report

Reading an edited book such as Denzin and Giardina’s 2011 Qualitative Inquiry and Global Crisis that comprises different chapters and authorship patterns may be challenging and evocative, let alone a book that focus on qualitative inquiry in an era of globalization, racism, privatization, and social injustice. To make the journey of reviewing this new book enjoyable, I posed a meaningful guiding question to me: what could a book that links between qualitative inquiry and global crisis contribute to our theoretical and practical knowledge about the qualitative paradigm? The answer is not yes or no but rather manifold; some papers shed …

The Unfolding Of Methodological Identity: An Autobiographical Study Using Humor, Competing Voices, And Twists, James A. Bernauer

The Qualitative Report

This article explores my journey from quantitative to qualitative researcher, including the effects this journey has had on my identity as well as on those whom I previously referred to as “subjects”. “Identity” is examined from both an historical as well as from a self-dialogical, autobiographical perspective. Eleven “twists” that mark turning points and detours describe this journey, and this paper employs “voices” that offer contextual background and contradictory advice on the road towards methodological identity. These twists describe experiences as both teacher and student and readers are invited to join in this retrospective reflection in order to experience insights …

Effect Of Halite And Calcite Coatings On Thermal Infrared Spectra Wih Implications For Mars Exploration, Jeffrey A. Berger

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Knowing the occurrence and distribution of soluble ionic salts allows us to model the aqueous history and geochemical conditions of surface solutions on Mars. Salts deposited as coatings are particularly important for attaining this knowledge because the thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing method for determining mineral abundance is limited to the top few hundred micrometers of the surface. To better understand the TIR properties of salt coatings, we investigated the effects of coating thickness and texture on the TIR reflectance spectra of halite- and calcite-coated glasses. We evaluated salt coating textures that could occur on Mars: 1) continuous, uniformly thick …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 26, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Mark Twain as Critic (Sydney J. Krause) (Reviewed by William C. Spengemann, Claremont Graduate School)

Pater's Portraits: Mythic Patterns in the Fiction of Walter Patterns (Gerald C. Monsman) (Reviewed by Jan B. Gordon, State University of New York at Buffalo)

Transcendentalism and Its Legacy (Myron Simon and Thornton H. Parsons) (Reviewed by Alexander C. Kern, University of Iowa)

Restoration Tragedy: Form and the Process of Change (Eric Rothstein) (Reviewed by Michael Porte, University of Cincinnati)

Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers and American Artists, 1807-18SS (James T. Callow) (Reviewed by Clive Bush, University of Warwick, Conventry, England)

The Strategy of Truth, A …

Consumer Perception Of The Efficacy Of Social Media Branding By Non-Profit And For-Profit Organizations, Melissa Novak

Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this exploratory investigation were to (a) examine if organizations using social media maintain relationships with their loyal consumers, and do not direct their marketing toward new consumers, and (b) determine if non-profit organizations use social media more effectively and issue stronger call to actions than for-profit organizations. This study includes a survey of 234 participants, a content analysis of ten organizations, and interviews with eight professionals in the marketing and public relations field who work with social media on a daily basis. This study shows that although industry professionals enjoy the vast reach of social media and …

New Students Urged To Engage, Listen, Learn, Kim Hill

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

The "Get It" Department: Oregon State University's Strategic Realignment Of Collection Services, Faye A. Chadwell, Jane Nichols

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Building Research Collaborations, Athletics, And Research: Kickoff Conversation, August 23, 2012, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Just as Nebraska Athletics has long been regarded as a pioneer in the field of collegiate strength and conditioning programs, was among the first to emphasize the link between health and nutrition and athletic performance and stood in the vanguard in life skills training for student-athletes, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) now is taking the lead by integrating athletics and research and using cutting-edge imaging technology to better elucidate the biological underpinnings of behavior and performance. No other university in the nation is conducting research in this way.

This emerging collaboration between athletics and research at UNL led to allocation …

Ay 12-13 Meeting 2012-08-23, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Art and Experience in Classical Greece (J. J. Pollitt) (Reviewed by Finley Hooper, Wayne State University)

Elder Olson (T. E. Lucas) (Reviewed by Richard E. Amacher, Auburn University)

Enthusiasm: A Study in Semantic Change (Susie I. Tucker) (Reviewed by Paul J. Korshin, University of Pennsylvania)

The Guest Hall of Eden (Alvin A. Lee) (Reviewed by Elizabeth S. Sklar, Wayne State University)

On the Poems of Tennyson (Ward Hellstrom) (Reviewed by Henry Kozicki, The University of Wisconsin-Parkside)

The Endless Fountain: Essays on Classical Humanism (Mark Morford) (Reviewed by John F. Fleischauer, Ohio University)

Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden …

Index, Criticism Editors

Criticism

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost (John F. Lynen) (Reviewed by Hyatt H. Waggoner, Brown University)

Theme and Structure in Swift's "Tale of a Tub" (Ronald Paulson)
Smollett and the Scottish School (M. A. Goldberg)
(Reviewed by S. A. Golden, Wayne State University)

The Idea of Poetry in France (Margaret Gilman)
The Writer's Way in France (Robert Greer Cohn)
(Reviewed by J. L. Salvan, Wayne State University)

Mark Twain and Huck Finn (Walter Blair) (Reviewed by Vivian C. Hopkins, College of Education, Albany, State University of New York)

Myth and Mythmaking (ed. Henry A. Murray) (Reviewed by George Ross Ridge, …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910 (ed. Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson)
Stephen Crane: Letters (ed. R. W. Stallman and Lillian Gilkes)
(Reviewed by Hyatt H. Waggoner, Brown University)

From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad: Essays Collected in Memory of James T. Hillhouse (ed. Robert C. Rathburn and Martin Steinmann, Jr.) (Reviewed by Alex Page, University of Massachusetts)

Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History (ed. Roger S. Loomis) (Reviewed by T. C. Rumble, Wayne State University)

The Cankered Muse: Satire of tbe English Renaissance (Alvin Kernan) (Reviewed …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Soviet Semiotics: An Anthology (Daniel P. Lucid) (Reviewed by Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania)

The Gothic Visionary Perspective (Barbara Nolan) (Reviewed by Donald R. Howard, Stanford University)

Medieval French Literature and Law (R. Howard Bloch) (Reviewed by Robert Edwards, State University of New York at Buffalo)

Home at Grasnzere (William Wordsworth) (Reviewed by Laurence Goldstein, The University of Michigan)

The Victorian Critic and the Idea of History: Carlyle, Arnold, Pater (Peter Allan Dale) (Reviewed by Clyde de L. Ryals, Duke University)

Charles Churchill (Raymond J. Smith) (Reviewed by Alan Fisher, University of Washington)

The Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom: …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Karl Marx and World Literature (S. S. Parwer) (Reviewed by Terry Eagleton, Wadham College, Oxford)

The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century (Robert D. Hume) (Reviewed by David M. Vieth, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Why the Lyrical Ballads? The Background, Writing, and Character of Wordsworth's 1798 Lyrical Ballads (John E. Jordan) (Reviewed by John O. Hayden, University of California, Davis)

Whitman's Journey into Chaos: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Poetic Process (Stephen A. Black) (Reviewed by Artem Lozynsky, Temple University)

Hemingway's First War: The Making of "A Farewell to Arms" (Michael Reynolds) (Reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers, University …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Victorian City: Images and Realities (H. J. Dyos and Michael Wolff) (Reviewed by Robert L. Patten, Rice University)The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance (Rosalie L. Colic) (Reviewed by John Fleischauer, Columbus College)From Concord to Dissent: Major Themes in English Poetic Theory 1640-1700 (Paul J. Korshin) (Reviewed by John Fleischauer, Columbus College)The Search for a Method in American Studies (Cecil F. Tate) (Reviewed by Edward E. Chielens, Detroit College of Business)The Disease of the Soul: Leprosy in Medieval Literature (Saul Nathaniel Brody) (Reviewed by John A. Yunck, Michigan State University)

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Modem Latin American Literature (D. P. Gallagher) (Reviewed by Adriana Garciá de Aldridge, The City College of The City University of New York)

George Bancroft (Robert H. Canary) (Reviewed by John Bassett, Wayne State University)

Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist: His Shifting Stance toward Nature (James McIntosh) (Reviewed by Elizabeth Meese, Douglas College, Rutgers University)

Bruce Jay Friedman (Max F. Schulz) (Reviewed by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina)

The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tenyson's "Idylls of the King" (John D. Rosenberg) (Reviewed by John Pfordresher, Georgetown University)

Into the Demon Universe (Christopher S. Nassaar) (Reviewed by Chris …

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Criticism

Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public Themes (Thomas R. Edwards) (Reviewed by Robert W. Uphaus, Michigan State University (East Lansing))

The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction (Gabriel Josipovici) (Reviewed by Robert W. Uphaus, Michigan State University (East Lansing))

The Drawings of ]ohn Ruskin (Paul H. Walton) (Reviewed by Jan B. Gordon, State University of New York at Buffalo)

Circles Without Center: Paths to the Discovery and Creation of Self in Modern Literature (Enrico Garzilli) (Reviewed by Nilli Diengott, Tel-Aviv University)

Ezra Pound: An Introduction to the Poetry (Sister Bernetta) (Reviewed by Jerome Mazzaro, …

Prospectus, August 22, 2012, Briana Kay Stodden, Thomas Ramage

Prospectus 2012

FALL SEMESTER HAS AN EVENTFUL START, A Letter from President Ramage, Manufacturing's Skills Gap has its Skeptics, 'Hope and Enthusiasm' as Illegal Immigrants Apply to Stay in US, Parents Taking an Active Role in College Choices, Science, Such a Sweet Mystery, U.S. Higher Education System Needs Some Schooling, Paterno Bio is Insightful and Incomplete, What You Post Can Haunt You, The Freshman's Guide to Social Media

The Rattler (Volume 100, Issue 6, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

Reflective Journals Of Students Taking A Positive Youth-Development Course In A University Context In Hong Kong, Daniel T. L. Shek, Florence K. Y. Wu

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

To promote the holistic development of university students, a course entitled "Tomorrow's Leaders" was developed and offered at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Based on a case study approach, reflective journals of five outstanding students of the course are presented and analyzed (i.e., thick description), with several themes emerging from the reflection. First, the students liked the course, and they identified many positive attributes. Second, the students appreciated the instructors. Third, the students viewed that the course contributed to different aspects of their development. Fourth, some areas of improvements were proposed. In conjunction with other evaluation mechanisms, the present findings …

The Tower And The Free Web: The Role Of Reference, John Dove, Phoebe Ayers, Casper Grathwohl, Jason B. Phillips, Michael Sweet, Sam Linthicum

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Charleston Conference Observatory: Are Social Media Impacting In Research?, David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, Deanna Wamae

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Collegiality Matters: How Do We Work With Others?, Shin Freedman

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Unh And Nh Epscor Partner With Portsmouth Brewery For Discussions On Ecosystems And Society In Monthly Science Café, Beth Potier

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Convocation For New Students (2012 Program And Video), Illinois Wesleyan University

Convocation for New Students

No abstract provided.

Franco's Children: Representations Of Franco-Era Childhood In Contemporary Spanish Literature And Cinema, Miaowei Weng

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This study explores the politicization of "Franco's children" in El sur : 1981;1983), El florido pensil : 1994), Habíamos ganado la guerra: 2007), and La gloria de los niños: 2007). The phrase "Franco's children," on the one hand, implies the status of the authors and filmmakers as those who survived the early Franco regime as children and recall their childhood as adults; on the other hand, it refers to the child protagonists in the selected works that are set in wartime and the post-War period. The aim of the present study is to explore different strategies - both rhetorical and …