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February 6, 2014: Third Coast Writing Project Camp For Young Writers, June 16-27, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, February 6, 2014, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

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Educational Policies Committee Agenda, February 6, 2014, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, February 6, 2014, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• New Course

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• New Course

Department of Accounting

• Grade Mode Change

Department of Economic and Finance

• Prerequisite Change
• Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change
• Course Number Change, Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Psychology

• New Course

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

• Credit Hour Change

Department of Electrical …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, February 6, 2014, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• New Course

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• New Course

Department of Accounting

• Grade Mode Change

Department of Economic and Finance

• Prerequisite Change
• Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change
• Course Number Change, Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Psychology

• New Course

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

• Credit Hour Change

Department …

International Child Adoptions: Who Should Decide What Is In The Best Interests Of The Family, Bridget M. Hubing

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Religious Human Rights And The International Human Rights Community: Finding Common Ground - Without Compromise, Michelle L. Mack

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Orientation-Based Persecution As Grounds For Refugee Status: Policy Implications And Recommendations, Julia Blanche Meister

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Sexuality Injustice, Cheshire Calhoun

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

February 5, 2014: Graduate Student Conference April 2014-Cfp, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Syria And The Olympics: National Identity On An International Stage, Andrea L. Stanton

Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship

Since its 1946 independence, Syria has fielded a team for every summer Olympic competition except 1956, yet has won only three Olympic medals. In contrast with its smaller, higher-powered neighbor Lebanon, its participation at the Olympics has been consistent but limited, with the country making little impact internationally. Yet the history of Syria’s involvement with the Olympics reflects key elements of its political and social history: its ambitious but short-lived partnership with Egypt, the Baathist-supported promotion of women as athletes and head of the National Olympic Committee, and its commitment to participation in the vexed but ideologically important Pan-Arab Games. …

January 2014 Complete Issue

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies

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Discerning Segment Boundaries Within John 1:19-4:54, Joseph R. Dongell

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies

Bible commentators have traditionally supplied hierarchical outlines for the books they interpret under the assumption that texts are semantically structured, and that valid interpretation flows in part from accurately discerning textual structure. The disciplines of narrative criticism and discourse analysis have significantly advanced our understanding of textual structure, and have crossed paths by way of mutual influence with the IBS movement, which has given sustained attention to formalizing the study of textual structure. Against this backdrop, John 1:19-4:54 invites closer scrutiny in terms of the logic of its composition. The nearly universal agreement that 1:1-18 forms a clear literary unit, …

Interpretation And Structure In Joel, Thomas M. Lyons

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies

Despite renewed interest in the book of Joel and its relationship to the “Book of the Twelve,” scholarly opinions still significantly diverge on the structure of the book of Joel itself. This article surveys recent significant and representative proposals for Joel’s structure before arguing for an alternative unified structure based upon grammar, literary markers or “catchwords”, and structural relationships (according to David R. Bauer and Robert A. Traina, Inductive Bible Study).

Twain Heights: Spirit And Word In Biblical Prophesying, Stanley D. Walters

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies

The place-name “Ramathaim,” a noun in the dual number, found in Samuel’s ancestry 1 Sm 1:1 and nowhere else, is an allusion to a pair of narratives each set in Ramah, namely 1 Sm 19:18-24 and Jer 40:1-6, which together show the Spirit and the Word as essential features of biblical prophesying. Elkanah thus appears as part of a transgenerational movement of study and spiritual revitalization, to which the canonical book of Samuel continues to call us.

The Impact Of Agricultural Emergence On The Genetic History Of African Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers And Agriculturalists, Etienne Patin, Katherine J. Siddle, Guillaume Laval, Hélène Quach, Christine Harmant, Noémie Becker, Alain Froment, Béatrice Régnault, Laure Lemée, Simon Gravel, Jean-Marie Hombert, Lolke Van Der Veen, Nathaniel J. Dominy, George H. Perry, Luis B. Barreiro, Paul Verdu, Evelyne Heyer, Lluís Quintana-Murci

Dartmouth Scholarship

The emergence of agriculture in West-Central Africa approximately 5,000 years ago, profoundly modified the cultural landscape and mode of subsistence of most sub-Saharan populations. How this major innovation has had an impact on the genetic history of rainforest hunter-gatherers—historically referred to as ‘pygmies’—and agriculturalists, however, remains poorly understood. Here we report genome-wide SNP data from these populations located west-to-east of the equatorial rainforest. We find that hunter-gathering populations present up to 50% of farmer genomic ancestry, and that substantial admixture began only within the last 1,000 years. Furthermore, we show that the historical population sizes characterizing these communities already differed …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Belly-Button Christianity, Peter Illyn

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Neutral Or Negative, Accuracy Or Appeasement: Nouns Of Choice In The Iraqi Conflict, William J. Drummond

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Five Foot Two With Eyes Of Blue: Physical Profiling And The Prospect Of A Genetics-Based Criminal Justice System, Lindsy A. Elkins

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Paradox Of Freedom: John Dewey On Human Nature, Culture, And Education, Cherilyn Keall

Education and Culture

In this paper, I argue that John Dewey's view of human nature entails that culture is a necessary but not sufficient condition for freedom. A surprising corollary of this argument is that, if left to run its natural course, culture in fact tends not to enable but rather to preclude freedom. Hence, there are specific cultural practices—habits acquired through education—that are required if we are to realize our freedom and thereby also fulfill our nature as human beings.

2012 Dewey Lecture: Making Meaning Together Beyond Theory And Practice, Jim Garrison

Education and Culture

Educators frequently fret over how to bridge the gap between theory and practice. In an important sense, it is a false problem. Theory is simply the thoughtful, reflective phase of good practice. We will approach Dewey’s philosophy as one of continuous creation and re-creation or even more precisely, social co-creation, that requires making meaning, knowledge, and value together. We will look at each one of these three in some detail along with the ways they transact with one another. Fundamentally, we can only distinguish them for some purposes, but never fully separate them. Everywhere we look, we will see we …

2014 February 3

Minutes

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Faculty Senate Monthly Packet February 2014, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The February 2014 Monthly packet includes the February agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held January 2014.

A Computational Approach To Qualitative Analysis In Large Textual Datasets, Michael Evans

Dartmouth Scholarship

In this paper I introduce computational techniques to extend qualitative analysis into the study of large textual datasets. I demonstrate these techniques by using probabilistic topic modeling to analyze a broad sample of 14,952 documents published in major American newspapers from 1980 through 2012. I show how computational data mining techniques can identify and evaluate the significance of qualitatively distinct subjects of discussion across a wide range of public discourse. I also show how examining large textual datasets with computational methods can overcome methodological limitations of conventional qualitative methods, such as how to measure the impact of particular cases on …

Lds Missionary Work In The Basque Language: How The Work Began, And Why It Was Discontinued, Devin Caywood, Dr. Bruce Vanorden

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Basque Country is a relatively small region composed of three (arguably four) provinces in North Central Spain and two in Southern France. Statistics state that there are two million people in Spanish and French Basque provinces that claim Basque as their first language. 70-80 percent of those people also speak Spanish or French, although at varying levels of fluency. That leaves about 400,000 people who speak only Basque. These people can only be taught discussions in Basque, and can only read church literature in Basque. On top of those 400,000, there are many more (around one and a half million …

Teacher Educators Using Encounter Stories, Danne Davis, Janna Jackson Kellinger

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

Many prospective teachers are unaware of the encounters that Black, heterosexual women or White lesbians face. Here, we present encounter stories-individual narratives of poignant encounters and interactions that we have experienced with people unlike us-to identify with and ultimately draw on their experiences. Subsequently, the narratives become data that not only inform our work as teacher educators and scholars but also are used to shape prospective teachers' understanding of inimitable difference. Despite the heralded affirming visibility of Michelle Obama and Ellen Degeneres, oppressive practices and perspectives against Black women and lesbians continue. Our encounter stories are put forward as qualitative …

Culturometrics: A Constructionist Philosophy For Humanistic Inquiry In Qualitative Identity Research, Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick

The Qualitative Report

Culturometrics is a new person-centred research philosophy that has shaped new tools for measuring and revealing the subjectivities of cultural identities. By focusing on tractable processes of identity communication rather than attempting to categorise the infinitely variable forms of identity outcomes it has developed intuitively acceptable computationally simple bridges across the qualitative /quantitative research divide. By reframing social constructs as cultural identities and categorising cultural groups by the fluidity of their membership it has extended the remit of traditional qualitative research. This paper gives a brief overview of the humanistic intentions of Culturometrics that underpin its objective methods for measuring …

Teacher Educators Using Encounter Stories, Danné E. Davis, Janna Jackson Kellinger

The Qualitative Report

Many prospective teachers are unaware of the encounters that Black, heterosexual women or White lesbians face. Here, we present encounter stories—individual narratives of poignant encounters and interactions that we have experienced with people unlike us—to identify with and ultimately draw on their experiences. Subsequently, the narratives become data that not only inform our work as teacher educators and scholars but also are used to shape prospective teachers’ understanding of inimitable difference. Despite the heralded affirming visibility of Michelle Obama and Ellen Degeneres, oppressive practices and perspectives against Black women and lesbians continue. Our encounter stories are put forward as qualitative …