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Bringing The Past To The Public, Ghazala Janmohamed

Collection of Engaged Learning

Basics of Native American archaeology to help general audiences better appreciate Native American history and archaelogy.

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Charting Undergraduate Research: A Review Of The Ura Program, Ricky Mouser

Collection of Engaged Learning

To help automate analysis and visualization of undergraduate research outcomes. I produced two easy-to-use Excel sheets that automatically read in each program's yearly rosters an output presentation-quality reports and charts that smmarize and display both yearly and longitudinal information. This is a report incorporating such output that examines the URA Program.

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Tomorrow’S Song, Alexandria Stinger

Collection of Engaged Learning

No abstract provided.

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“Une Nouvelle Vie”: Health Care And Identity Of Congolese Immigrants In Texas, Hayley Wagner

Collection of Engaged Learning

Im/migration discourses, particularly those that emphasize migrants’ pursuit of a higher standard of living, bear upon the provision and/or denial of human rights while tending to oversimplify migrants’ arrival as the end of the struggle. In receiving countries, the availability of and proper access to health care become contentious because immigrants are often denied a status—whether that of citizenship, legality, or asylum—that denotes not only their ability to participate within a political system, but also their “deservingness” of state health services. Citing my ethnographic research with a population of francophone Congolese immigrants in Hurst, Texas, this paper argues that anthropology …

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Backyard Archaeology: Informing The Southwest Michigan Community About Local Archaeological Sites And Research Through The “Evidence Found” Exhibit, Tabitha Hubbard

Honors Theses

This paper is a report of my involvement with and background research for an upcoming exhibit called “Evidence Found.” The project is a collaboration between the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project and the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. In this report, I provide a description of the exhibit and my involvement in preparing the exhibit. I also present the research I conducted for use in the exhibit. Joseph Hines, a designer with Project Arts & Ideas, and Dr. Michael Nassaney, a Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University and the principal investigator of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project, are creating the …

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Alternative Spring Breakers Lend A Helping Hand, Hannah Dhue

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Daily Eastern News: April 15, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

April

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The Advocate, April 15, 2014, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

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Subverting Mythopoeic Fantasy: Miyuki Miyabe's The Book Of Heroes, Grzegorz Trebicki

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Introduces us to Miyuki Miyabe, who deliberately rings changes on Tolkien’s concept of sub-creation in his thought-provoking The Book of Heroes, a story that turns the virtues of storytelling itself on their heads.

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The End Of Alzheimer's Disease - From Biochemical Pharmacology To Ecopsychosociology: A Personal Perspective, Peter J. Whitehouse

Faculty Scholarship

The future of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) field involves a more complete understanding not only the state of current scientific approaches, but also the linguistic and cultural context of preclinical and clinical research and policy activities. The challenges surrounding dementia are large and growing but are only part of broader social and health concerns. In this latter context, the current state of research in the AD area is reviewed together with necessary priorities in moving forward. Creating a more optimistic future will depend less on genetic and reductionist approaches and more on environmental and intergenerative approaches that will aid in …

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2013 Annual Report, Joseph A. Cook

Annual Reports

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Discussion, Critical Reflection, Knowledge Construction In Experiential Education. A Response To "Taking People's History Back To The People: An Approach To Making History Popular, Relevant, And Intellectual", Michael Kopish

Democracy & Education

This response offers cross-disciplinary pedagogical insights and conceptual considerations as a supplement to the democratic experiential history project described by Lempert (2013). The intent of the project is ambitious and worthwhile; however, without emphasis on the critical process of sense-making through discussion, reflection, and collaborative knowledge construction the project falls short of its potential impact. In the paper I offer suggestions and recommendations for practitioners who might consider enacting the project.

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We Were There Too: Learning From Black Male Teachers In Mississippi About Successful Teaching Of Black Students, Cleveland Hayes, Brenda Juarez, Veronica Escoffery-Runnels

Democracy & Education

Applying culturally relevant and social justice–oriented notions of teaching and learning and a critical race theory (CRT) analysis of teacher preparation in the United States, this study examines the oral life histories of two Black male teachers recognized for their successful teaching of Black students. These histories provide us with a venue for identifying thematic patterns across the two teachers' educational philosophies and pedagogical practices and for analyzing how these teachers' respective personal and professional experiences have influenced their individual and collective approaches to teaching and learning.

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