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Preparing Teacher-Researchers For Local-Global, Multicultural Classrooms: Prospects For Postcritical And Feminist Qualitative Methodologies, Katharine Sprecher

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

The Echo: September 22, 2017, Taylor University

2017-2018 (Volume 105)

Business is blooming – Accreditation evaluation – Heart and gospel soul – Partners in relief – Bree’s Beat International News – It’s all in the detail – This year’s missionaries in residence – Run! – Bilbo Baggins celebrates 111 years – C.S. Lewis Events – Sign up -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – The bi-weekly bachelor and bachelorette – From the cornfields to the big screen – Flocked to each other – The First Brush of Fall – Don’t forget about Dreamers – Put your money where your mouth is – Where is the milk – Neville heads to Tennessee – …

Re-Envisioning Kindergarten Learning Spaces In The U.S Education System, Suhina Agarwal

Theses

The thesis work aims at improving the learning environments of the Kindergarten classrooms in the United States by taking inspiration from a very simple and popular play element namely the ‘blocks’. The classroom environments and learning methods have not seen a significant change since the time of the Industrial Revolution. The essence of school education remains the same, which is expected to be a closed classroom, conventional furniture and the teacher determining the learning activities. With the changing times, as new studies on multiple styles of learning and brain functions emerge, there is a need to customize education and cater …

Escalating Language At Traffic Stops: Two Case Studies, Jamalieh Haley

Dissertations and Theses

In recent years, the public has seen a rise in recorded footage of violent encounters between police and Black American citizens, partially due to technology such as cell phones, dash-cameras, and body-cameras. This linguistic study examines how these encounters get escalated to the point of violence by asking 1) what kind of directives were used, 2) how were they responded to, 3) how the directives contributed to escalation, and 4) how might power and authority have played a role. I use two case studies to analyze directives and their responses. Findings reveal that repetition of directives on the part of …

Reciprocity In The Practice Of Publicly Engaged Scholarship: Reflections From A Transnational Literacy Project, Kate E. Kedley, Héctor Efrén Flores A.

eJournal of Public Affairs

In this article, the authors examine the concept of “reciprocity” in publicly engaged literacy scholarship. The idea of reciprocity suggests that projects using a publicly engaged research model should comprise two-way partnerships that strive to balance benefits to the researcher and to community partners. The authors (a researcher and a community partner) explore this dynamic by considering their own experiences working on projects with groups of youth in Honduras and in the United States. The groups shared their cultures and experiences through writing and technology, and challenged ideas about security and public space. Given the national, racial, cultural, economic, linguistic, …

Trolling Twitter, Eric Vorst

Dissertations

Political polarization is a defining feature of the contemporary American political landscape. While there is little doubt that elite polarization levels have risen dramatically in recent decades, there is some debate over the existence of a corresponding rise in mass polarization. Recent scholarship on mass polarization has cited evidence related to citizens’ positions on public policy issues, party sorting, and geographic polarization; however, questions remain as to the nature and extent of mass polarization in online spaces. Specifically, more needs to be known regarding how expressions of elite polarization influence the formation of polarized communities within social media.

This dissertation …

Integrating Art Into The Classroom: A Necessary Component Of A Well-Rounded Education, Kate Latham

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis includes a combination of research and visual arts integration lesson plans. Research covers the benefits of exposure to the visual. Lesson plans were specifically designed for the core content area subjects: English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Each of these lessons was designed to meet local and national standards for the core content area and for visual arts. Additionally, each lesson plan includes a component of art production. This thesis can be utilized by a variety of individuals, including educators who strive to incorporate art into their classrooms. The research aspect can be utilized by those struggling …

Leveraging Positive Psychological Capital (Psycap) In Crisis: A Multiphase Framework, Ivana Milosevic, A. Erin Bass, Djordje Milosevic

Marketing and Management Faculty Publications

Despite recent advancements in understanding of leadership in context, there is surprisingly little insight into leadership in crisis – a context that is both pervasive and particularly challenging. To provide insight into how leaders navigate crisis, we utilize historical sources of Sir Winston Churchill’s leadership during World War II (WWII) to analyze 1) which resources may leaders use in crisis and 2) how they leverage these resources to lead through and out of the crisis. We discover that positive psychological capital (PsyCap) is a core strategic resource that leaders leverage in crisis. Our findings suggest that leaders leverage PsyCap as …

A Global View Of Quality Of Life In Lupus: Implications For Nursing, Pamela Coombs Delis

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Living with lupus, a complex and life-threatening disease brings considerable psychological, social, and physical challenges. This study examines the effect lupus has on quality of life in adults in culturally diverse settings. Implications for nursing practice, research, and policy are identified.

Loanwords In Context: Lexical Borrowing From English To Japanese And Its Effects On Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition, Andrew Michael Sowers

Dissertations and Theses

Research has shown that cognates between Japanese and English have the potential to be a valuable learning tool (Daulton, 2008). Yet little is known on how Japanese learners of English produce cognates in context. Recently, studies have argued that cognates can cause a surprisingly high number of syntactic errors in sentence writing activities with Japanese learners (Rogers, Webb, & Nakata, 2014; Masson, 2013). In the present study, I investigated how Japanese learners of English understood and used true cognates (words that have equivalent meanings in both languages) and non-true cognates (words where the Japanese meaning differs in various ways from …

“Can We Just Get Rid Of The Classroom?” Thinking Space, Relationally, Sophia Rodriguez

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Ricanstruction Sites: Race, Space, And Place In The Education Of Diasporican Youth, Jason G. Irizarry, René Antrop-González

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Dreaming And Surviving In Heterotopia: First-Generation Immigrant Girls’ Pursuit Of The American Dream In New York City, Kaoru Miyazawa

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Sonic Cartography: Mapping Space, Place, Race, And Identity In An Urban Middle School, Walter S. Gershon

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Students’ Bodily Carvings In School Spaces Of The Post-Apartheid City, Aslam Fataar

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

The Merchandizing Of Identity: The Cultural Politics Of Representation In The “I Am Canadian” Beer, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Effie Balomenos

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

The Don Of Hockey: Making Comments And Offers We Can’T Refuse, Giuliana Cucinelli, David Pickup

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

What Does Quebec Want? The Hockey Sweater As Canadian Identity: A Contemporary Reading, Sandra Chang-Kredl

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Words + Pictures: A Manifesto, Jean Braithwaite

Creative Writing Faculty Publications

In the second decade of the 21st century, academic comics studies is well established as a serious intellectual subject, but for many non-specialists, including university administrators, a sense of frivolity still attaches to comics. This brief essay braids together personal history and intellectual analysis: 1) it compares the cultural position of comics today to the position of novels in the 19th century; 2) it analyzes the complementary nature of the verbal and visual channels; 3) it argues that neither words nor pictures should be considered primary in a narratology of comics; and 4) that comics are eminently well suited to …

Discourse, Linguistic Production, And Subjectivity: Disney-Fying Language, Joao “Jota” Rosa

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

A Critical Complex Epistemology Of Practice, Joe L. Kincheloe

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

Reconstructing Neo-Confucianism, Linguistics, And Third Spacewith Curriculum Studies: A Critical Discussion Of Hongyu Wang’S The Call From The Stranger On A Journey Home: Curriculum In A Third Space, Yan Cao

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

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Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

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Flyer News, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Sept. 19, 2017), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Motor Learning Guided Treatment For Acquired Apraxia Of Speech, Rachel K. Johnson

Communication Disorders & Special Education Faculty Publications

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to expand the evidence on the effectiveness of motor learning guided approach for the treatment of acquired apraxia of speech. This study investigated the influence of practice frequency and number of targets per practice set on transfer of speech motor learning.

Method: This is a multiple baseline single-case study across two treatment cycles involving two individuals with chronic acquired apraxia of speech. Treatment Cycle 1 investigated the influence of self-controlled practice on speech motor learning through two conditions of practice. Treatment Cycle 2 investigated the influence of number of targets on transfer of …

Am I Who I Say I Am? Unobtrusive Selfrepresentation And Personality Recognition On Facebook, Margeret A. Hall, Simon Caton

Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Publications

Across social media platforms users (sub)consciously represent themselves in a way which is appropriate for their intended audience. This has unknown impacts on studies with unobtrusive designs based on digital (social) platforms, and studies of contemporary social phenomena in online settings. A lack of appropriate methods to identify, control for, and mitigate the effects of self-representation, the propensity to express socially responding characteristics or self-censorship in digital settings, hinders the ability of researchers to confidently interpret and generalize their findings. This article proposes applying boosted regression modelling to fill this research gap. A case study of paid Amazon Mechanical Turk …

Experiencing Difficulties: English Language Issues Among Immersed Third Culture Kids, Marlene E. Schmidt

Journal of Cross-Cultural Family Studies

Third Culture Kids (TCKs) are defined as children who have spent a significant part of their developmental years living in, or interacting with two or more cultural environments. The levels, abilities, and use of the heritage language of TCKs returning to their host country from being immersed in a second language environment can cause difficulties. This case study explored the experiences of immersed TCKs using English upon reentry to the United States. The participants are adult TCKs, have English as their heritage language, and were immersed in a second language environment as a child. This research found the following four …

The Indiana Statesman, September 18, 2017, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

State honored with multiple national rankings; Bat myths busted as festival patrons push conservation efforts; Pi Kappa Alpha holds annual fundraiser; ISU driven to increase student success

Can Squirrel Monkeys Learn An Abna Grammar? A Re-Evaluation Of Ravignani Et Al. (2013), Stefano Ghirlanda

Publications and Research

Ravignani et al. (2013) habituated squirrel monkeys to sound sequences conforming to an ABnA grammar (nD1;2;3), then tested them for their reactions to novel gram- matical and non-grammatical sequences. Although they conclude that the monkeys ``consistently recognized and generalized the sequence ABnA,'' I remark that this conclusion is not robust. The statistical significance of results depends on specific choices of data analysis, namely dichotomization of the response variable and omission of specific data points. Additionally, there is little evidence of generalization to novel patterns (n D 4;5), which is important to conclude that the monkeys recognized the ABnA grammar beyond …

Effects Of Teaching Level, Subject Area, And Degree On Grades 5-12 Educator Learning Modes, Meredith Young (Jones)

College of Education Dissertations

The purposes of this dissertation were two-fold. First, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects by subject area taught between educators in high schools versus educators in middle schools on the Abstract Conceptualization, Active Experimentation, Concrete Experience, and Reflective Observation learning modes measured by Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory in one central Arkansas school district. The independent variables for Hypotheses 1-4 were educator teaching level (high school versus middle school) and subject area taught (mathematics/science, literacy/social studies, and other). Second, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects by degree level between educators in high schools …