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Fragmented Memories: The Archival Turn In Contemporary Caribbean Literature And Visual Culture, Marta Fernandez Campa Jun 2013

Fragmented Memories: The Archival Turn In Contemporary Caribbean Literature And Visual Culture, Marta Fernandez Campa

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary Caribbean visual artists and writers are creating archives of memory that address the erasures of subaltern perspectives characteristic of colonial, and postcolonial, archives. From an interdisciplinary perspective this project looks at the artwork of visual artists Christopher Cozier and Roshini Kempadoo, Dorothea Smartt’s and M. NourbeSe Philip’s poetry and the fiction of Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz. Their creative work configures modes of archiving ‘counter-memory’, that is, memory that contradicts or revises official history. By looking at different forms of counter-memory across genres and geographies I aim to demonstrate common aesthetic concerns …

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Chronic Kidney Disease As A Modifier Of The Periodontitis-Associated Microbiome And The Response To Periodontal Therapy, Michel Araujo Jun 2013

Chronic Kidney Disease As A Modifier Of The Periodontitis-Associated Microbiome And The Response To Periodontal Therapy, Michel Araujo

Master's Theses

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Don't Ask, Do Tell: Queering The Cold War South, Nathan Glen Tipton Jun 2013

Don't Ask, Do Tell: Queering The Cold War South, Nathan Glen Tipton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

During the American Cold War period, a relatively small set of narratives were generated, disseminated, and rigidly enforced. These narratives included national unity, heteronormativity, and conformity. Yet in spite of insistent conformist pressures (and intimidating threats of blacklisting for failing to conform), Cold War-era Southern writers nevertheless flouted these national narratives by insistently foregrounding their own narratives, defending their own cultural and literary traditions, and generating a panoply of wonderfully--if surreptitiously--queer presences. In so doing, these writers at once successfully evinced surface obedience to Cold War sociocultural and political normative dictates while also offering subversive critiques of these same norms. …

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The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein Jun 2013

The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

The words “knowledge” and “information” are sometimes used interchangeably, but the connection between them is complex and problematic. Knowledge is a mental product gained from engaging with information. All educational subjects, scholarly disciplines, occupations, and activities produce knowledge as well as information. Because libraries encompass potentially all subjects, professional vision in librarianship would benefit from an examination of knowledge that transcends the methods and topical concerns of individual disciplines. An interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) framework in which to view knowledge was pioneered in the post-Sputnik age by Fritz Machlup and Michael Polanyi. Their insights have stimulated scholars to develop research, publications, …

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Exploring 'Reflective' Design: An Approach To Digital Archives, Reuben Stanton, Laurene Vaughan, Jeremy Yuille Jun 2013

Exploring 'Reflective' Design: An Approach To Digital Archives, Reuben Stanton, Laurene Vaughan, Jeremy Yuille

Nordes Conference Series

In this short paper we discuss our explorations with adopting reflective design as an approach to designing a digital archive for the performing arts. The stakeholders in this project are diverse, comprised of members of the partner organisation, the public, the design team and government funding agencies. Each stakeholder has different expectations and skills to bring to the project. It is proposed that reflective design with its mix of critical reflection with a human centred design and prototyping approach provides a methodological framework that enables the complexities of the project to be integrated into an action orientated design exploration.

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Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher Jun 2013

Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher

Nordes Conference Series

This exploratory paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the use of design experimentation to augment students’ approaches to speculative projects within the context of professional interior design education. By analysing student-based research as integrated into final comprehensive graduate-level design projects at a major North American university, the potential for experimentation to inform design process is articulated. Although the results of such acts are not always easily assessed within the constraints of real-life criteria, it is optimum for generating innovations in design process and hybrid theoretical frameworks that ultimately challenge the profession to define its boundaries in new ways.

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Towards A Manifesto For Methodological Experimentation In Design Research, Henry Mainsah, Andrew Morrison Jun 2013

Towards A Manifesto For Methodological Experimentation In Design Research, Henry Mainsah, Andrew Morrison

Nordes Conference Series

This paper argues that design research may benefit from investigations, explorations and innovations in the means of conducting and of conveying design research from qualitative methods in the social sciences. The paper examines how inter-disciplinary and intermethodological experimentation as a mode of knowledge building. At the end of the paper we draw out a manifesto that proposes potential actions concerning design research methods which ought to be applicable for designers and design researchers, but also for social scientists engaging with the changing nature of production-related inquiry and critique in which design increasingly features.

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Teachers As Actors? Lecturing Theory Classes, Yuk Kwan, Ricky Ng, Po San, Cecilia Leung, Kit Man, Gloria Chung, Lai Fong, Annie Lau Jun 2013

Teachers As Actors? Lecturing Theory Classes, Yuk Kwan, Ricky Ng, Po San, Cecilia Leung, Kit Man, Gloria Chung, Lai Fong, Annie Lau

Practical Social and Industrial Research Symposium

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Community Empowerment Through Integration Of Service, Learning, And Research : City-Youth Empowerment Project, Suk Ching, Elaine Liu, Constance Ching Jun 2013

Community Empowerment Through Integration Of Service, Learning, And Research : City-Youth Empowerment Project, Suk Ching, Elaine Liu, Constance Ching

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

City-Youth Empowerment Project (CYEP) was established in 2005 as a non-credit bearing service-learning project open to all students at the City University of Hong Kong, with a mission to mobilize students to serve the underprivileged, to enhance civic and global social commitment, and to integrate community practice-oriented knowledge to the academic field. With over 30 community organization partnerships, CYEP provides ongoing services for underprivileged children and youth affected by poverty, new arrivals status, minor crime, and disabilities; as well as hidden elderly, mental health consumers, while actively involved in environmental protection and disability rights. As part of the transformative pedagogical …

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Students’ Reflection On Their Sl Experience As A Way Of Fostering Critical Thinking And Peace Building Initiative, Esther Kuntjara Jun 2013

Students’ Reflection On Their Sl Experience As A Way Of Fostering Critical Thinking And Peace Building Initiative, Esther Kuntjara

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

Thirty eight students of my cultural studies research class were participating Service Learning activities as one of the requirements of the course in applying what they had learned in class to the real situation. They were divided into six groups. Each group got involved with a group of approximately 15 to 30 young elementary school children once every week at the designated time in the local marginal neighborhood where they did the SL activities. They helped the children do their schoolwork, teach them English or play games. In order to deepen their understanding about the children’s lives and the culture …

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Pedagogy For Teaching Design – With An Emphasis On Sustainable Design, Stephanie Carleklev, Marie Sterte Jun 2013

Pedagogy For Teaching Design – With An Emphasis On Sustainable Design, Stephanie Carleklev, Marie Sterte

Learn X Design Conference Series

Teaching sustainability is not solely a question of providing relevant information; it is foremost about training students to meet the challenges of tomorrow. In design this can mean to shift the focus from material, form and function towards systems, correlation and time – a process supported both by how we teach as well as what we teach. But pedagogy still seems to be treated like a poor cousin to the more important design knowledge. This made us curious about the correlation between pedagogy and teaching design for sustainable change. By applying a study of Eilam and Trop (2011) onto the …

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Vara’S Orphans: How Indigenous Artists Can Still Look For Hope In The Moral Rights Regime, Amy Skelton Jun 2013

Vara’S Orphans: How Indigenous Artists Can Still Look For Hope In The Moral Rights Regime, Amy Skelton

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

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The Role Of Psycho-Sociocultural Factors In Suicide Risk Among Mong/Hmong Youth, Tangjudy Vang Jun 2013

The Role Of Psycho-Sociocultural Factors In Suicide Risk Among Mong/Hmong Youth, Tangjudy Vang

Dissertations and Theses

This study examined psychological, social, and cultural factors that can affect suicide risk among Mong/Hmong youth between the ages of 18 and 25. Emerging evidence suggests that Mong/Hmong youth are at an increased risk for suicide (Huang, Lee, & Arganza, 2004; Jesilow & Xiong, 2007). Additionally, initial findings and theories have suggested potential associations between Mong/Hmong youth suicide risk and intergenerational family conflict, ethnic identity, acculturation, depression, and spirituality. The seriousness of suicide risk among Mong/Hmong youth in this country has been overlooked for decades; therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine these associations with the hope that …

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Developing The Instructional Leadership Skills Of High School Principals In Tanzania: A Problem-Based Learning Approach, Peter N. Siamoo Jun 2013

Developing The Instructional Leadership Skills Of High School Principals In Tanzania: A Problem-Based Learning Approach, Peter N. Siamoo

Dissertations and Theses

Underachievement among secondary students in Tanzania is tragic: the failure rate on the national exams after the fourth year is between 65 to 100 percent (Mushi, 2011). The literature affirms that student learning is primarily improved by enhancing quality classroom instruction while the second most impactful strategy is consistent school leadership to ensure that effective practices are utilized in the classroom (Blase & Blase, 2004; Chenoweth & Everhart, 2002; Fink & Markholt, 2011; Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004; Leithwood, Harris, & Strauss, 2010; Marzano, Waters, & McNulty, 2005). Despite the research, the researcher's pilot study revealed that there is …

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Design Education And Non-Eu Students: Shifts In Teaching Practice, Karen Bull, Jane Osmond Jun 2013

Design Education And Non-Eu Students: Shifts In Teaching Practice, Karen Bull, Jane Osmond

Learn X Design Conference Series

The number of UK international HE students has gradually increased over the last decade, in particular the number of non-EU Chinese and Indian students. This influx has resulted in the recognition that exposure to an unfamiliar pedagogical cultural habitus can cause problems, often compounded by language problems. This paper outlines the response of an MA teaching team at Coventry University to misconceptions that a cohort of Chinese and Indian students expressed during a research methods module. This was evidenced by uncertainty as to what they were expected to produce in terms of a research proposal, as the extension of the …

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Cultural Appeal: The Hard Attribute Of A Soft Trans-Ideology, Viorella Manolache, Henrieta A. Serban Jun 2013

Cultural Appeal: The Hard Attribute Of A Soft Trans-Ideology, Viorella Manolache, Henrieta A. Serban

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The study investigates feminism, still based both on the arguments of socialism and liberalism, but also maintained as an alternative-cultural realm. This working hypothesis is tested from a philosophical perspective, in relation to several authors and theoretical frames, situating specificity and the threat of marginalization in the light of modernism, postmodernism and trans-modernism. If, ideologically, the terrain of feminisms seems mined by the theory of the control of the intervention spaces, recognizing only the victory of passing from episodic to structural importance, the cultural place of the feminisms remains a strongly individualized manifestation. Only in solidarity and within a cultural …

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An Assessment Of Future Trends In Wedding Planning, Avery Ruonala Jun 2013

An Assessment Of Future Trends In Wedding Planning, Avery Ruonala

Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration

Weddings are significant life events. It has become essential for brides to stand out with unique weddings. These brides turn to popular trends to create the best weddings. The purpose of this study was to assess the future trends in wedding planning among selected California wedding planners. Fifty planners were sent an email with a link to a questionnaire regarding future wedding trends in California. Out of the 50 planners contacted, 10 responses were received. It was found that all regions in California had similar future wedding trend responses related to “glamorous”, “1920s”, or “vintage” themes. The responses from the …

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Vision For 2020, Teresa Fishel Jun 2013

Vision For 2020, Teresa Fishel

DeWitt Wallace Library Reports

Our vision for the DeWitt Wallace Library of 2020 is to expand and build up our current vibrant and active space for engaging scholars. We want a library that contributes to the transformative experience for all students as well as a space that will attract faculty to utilize our space, resources, and expertise for collaborating on digital projects. We want to continue to be a community gathering space where all points of view can be shared and civil discussions can take place. We want to be a welcoming center of learning and understanding.

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Examining Nervios Among Immigrant Male Farmworkers In The Micasa Study: Sociodemographics, Housing Conditions And Psychosocial Factors, Maria Stoecklin-Marois, Marc Schenker, Kathleen A. O'Connor Jun 2013

Examining Nervios Among Immigrant Male Farmworkers In The Micasa Study: Sociodemographics, Housing Conditions And Psychosocial Factors, Maria Stoecklin-Marois, Marc Schenker, Kathleen A. O'Connor

Nursing Faculty Publications

Nervios is a culturally defined condition of psychological stress with important implications for Latino health. Using epidemiological research methods, we examined the prevalence of nerviosand associated risk factors, including drug and alcohol use, acculturation, and housing conditions in a population-based study of farm worker families in Mendota, CA (the MICASA Study). A household enumeration procedure was used for sampling, and 843 individuals were interviewed in 2006–2007. In this analysis, we present data on 422 men, 381 accompanied (family) males and 41 unaccompanied males. The prevalence of nervios was 22 %, with no difference in prevalence by household status. Low …

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Rethinking Theatrical Images Of The New Woman In China's Republian Era, Li Guo Jun 2013

Rethinking Theatrical Images Of The New Woman In China's Republian Era, Li Guo

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

In her article "Rethinking Theatrical Images of the New Woman in China's Republican Era" Li Guo analyses the multivalent representations of the New Woman and posits that they encompass a broad array of blended feminine identities following the introduction of Western literary and cultural trends into Chinese culture. The tensions between ideological discourses about nation, gender, and politics as revealed in the plays of the republican period reveal the many underlying cultural paradigms and the processes in which dramatists Sinicized foreign models of the New Woman to appeal to their domestic audiences. Guo explores how the playwrights' gendered viewpoints contribute …

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Bibliography For The Study Of Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, Chien-Hang Lu, Li Guo, I-Chun Wang Jun 2013

Bibliography For The Study Of Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, Chien-Hang Lu, Li Guo, I-Chun Wang

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

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Annual Report, 2013, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. J. William Fulbright College Of Arts And Sciences. King Fahd Center For Middle East Studies Jun 2013

Annual Report, 2013, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. J. William Fulbright College Of Arts And Sciences. King Fahd Center For Middle East Studies

King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies Annual Report

Program Director: Tom Paradise, 2005-2009; Joel Gordon, 2009-

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Clash Of Civilization Or Clash Of Newspaper Ideologies? An Analysis Of The Ideological Split In British Newspaper Commentaries On The 2002 Miss World Riots In Nigeria, Farooq Kperogi Jun 2013

Clash Of Civilization Or Clash Of Newspaper Ideologies? An Analysis Of The Ideological Split In British Newspaper Commentaries On The 2002 Miss World Riots In Nigeria, Farooq Kperogi

Faculty Articles

Riots that erupted in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna over a newspaper article that some Muslims interpreted as blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad on account of Nigeria’s decision to host the 2002 edition of the Miss World beauty pageant captured the attention of the media around the world. This article investigates how the British press framed the riots in their opinion columns and editorials. Through an interpretive textual analysis of the opinion pages, the study shows that while the ideological persuasions of left-leaning British press predisposed them to express opinions on the Miss World riots that resonated with what might …

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From Initiate To Insider: Renegotiating Workplace Roles And Relations Using Staged Humorous Events, Kirrilly Thompson Jun 2013

From Initiate To Insider: Renegotiating Workplace Roles And Relations Using Staged Humorous Events, Kirrilly Thompson

Organization Management Journal

Like anthropologists entering the field as “outsiders,” initiates to organizations need to learn new cultures as they transition to “insiders” or veterans. Organizational research has identified the role that spontaneous humor plays in this transition. However, there has been little research into “staged” humorous events. At the same time, anthropological practice has identified various ethnographic research techniques designed to expedite entrée to a social group or organization. However, there has been no research on the implications of a colleague delivering an ethnography of a group back to itself. In this article, I detail a strategy that combined humor and the …

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Pcc Quarterly For June 2013, Office Of The President, Rollins College Jun 2013

Pcc Quarterly For June 2013, Office Of The President, Rollins College

PCC Quarterly

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Annual Report, 2012, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. J. William Fulbright College Of Arts And Sciences. King Fahd Center For Middle East Studies Jun 2013

Annual Report, 2012, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. J. William Fulbright College Of Arts And Sciences. King Fahd Center For Middle East Studies

King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies Annual Report

Program Director: Tom Paradise, 2005-2009; Joel Gordon, 2009-

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Introduction To Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, I-Chun Wang, Li Guo Jun 2013

Introduction To Asian Culture(S) And Globalization, I-Chun Wang, Li Guo

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Marshall McLuhan coined the term "the global village" associating globalized human experiences in an electronic age (4). Although transnational relations existed for many centuries, McLuhan predicted in the 1960s that new technologies not only facilitate the growth of international interconnectedness, cross-border exchanges, as well as trans-cultural phenomena, but also help foster cultural transactions. Referring to the dramatic and unprecedented break between the past and the present, tradition and modernity, Arjun Appadurai argues that media and migration have been two major forces impelling the circulation of world cultures (3). In the phenomenon of globalization, people from every part of the world …

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“You Got To Know Us”: A Hopeful Model For Music Education In Urban Schools, Frank Martignetti, Brent C. Talbot, Matthew Clauhs, Timothy Hawkins, Nasim Niknafs Jun 2013

“You Got To Know Us”: A Hopeful Model For Music Education In Urban Schools, Frank Martignetti, Brent C. Talbot, Matthew Clauhs, Timothy Hawkins, Nasim Niknafs

Sunderman Conservatory of Music Faculty Publications

Urban schools, and the students and teachers within, are often characterized by a metanarrative of deficit and crisis, causing the complex realities of urban education to remain unclear behind a wall of assumptions and stereotypes. Within music education, urban schools have received limited but increasing attention from researchers. However, voices from practitioners are often missing from this dialogue, and the extant scholarly dialogue has had a very limited effect on music teacher education. In this article, five music educators with a combined thirty years of experience in urban schools examine aspects of their experiences in the light of critical pedagogy …

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Entre Expatriation Et Apatridie : Les Romans De Gaston-Paul Effa Et Henri Lopes, Yves Abel Feze Jun 2013

Entre Expatriation Et Apatridie : Les Romans De Gaston-Paul Effa Et Henri Lopes, Yves Abel Feze

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The stories of exile and return from exile of novelists Gaston-Paul Effa and Henri Lopes give themselves to read on how to register a double “desappartenance” and focuses in the heart of their narratives the figure of a now be stateless, alien to itself and to the Other. We propose, therefore, to study the reconstruction of identity as it is the result of emigration and return on the homeland. This leads thus to the conclusion that the stateless defies the nation in order to situate itself and his stories in a transnational space.

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The "Violence" Of The Canon: Revisiting Contemporary Notions Of Canonical Forms, Colby Dickinson Jun 2013

The "Violence" Of The Canon: Revisiting Contemporary Notions Of Canonical Forms, Colby Dickinson

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The historical conditions surrounding the processes of forming a canon are rarely examined directly, yet it is these processes which govern over the realm of religious representations and identity constructions. In light of recent critical scholarship, it is imperative to address theologically the role that the canon plays within a religious tradition. This essay demonstrates the cultural necessity of canonical forms despite their “monotheistic tendency” to subdivide the world into binary oppositions. By utilizing a scale of violence to determine the impact of the canonical form upon culture this essay offers an account of canons and their role in forming …

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