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Internationalizing The Curriculum, Isabel Scarborough Ph.D., Sarah Grison

Global Studies Initiatives in Social Sciences Pilot Project

This interactive presentation describes the experiences of faculty in the anthropology and sociology departments, along with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Parkland College, as they redesign courses to incorporate more international research and resources. The slides also discuss approaches to instructional design that are quick and easy and provide practical resources and tools to help design or re-design curriculum.

People Empowerment: An Approach Towards Indigenous Early Child-Hood Curriculum, Geraldine D. Villaluz, Rscj

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

This paper is aimed at presenting an implemented community engagementof the University of San Carlos School of Education with the communities ofAgusan del Sur, Philipines, in closepartnership with the Justice Peace andIntegrity of Creation-IDC, (JPIC-IDC) Incorporated of Agusan del Sur as aresponse to a felt need in the early childhood education program of theprovince. In 2004, JPIC pooled together concerted resources from provincial andlocal government units, non-government organization and academe to create anddevelop a culture-based curriculum guide for early childhood education that isappropriate and responsive to the needs of indigenous groups in Agusan del Sur,Southern Philippines. To address these needs, …

With A Little Help From My Friends: The Contributions Of A Peer Language Network On The Conventionalization Of Space In An Emerging Language, Deanna L. Gagne

Doctoral Dissertations

Individual children regularize inconsistent language input; many consider this the driving force for language change and emergence. Prior work on Nicaraguan Sign Language found that child learners, created morphological structures that had not existed previously. First-Cohort signers produced spatial modulations inconsistently, both within and across individuals. However, younger Second-Cohort signers who received this inconsistent input produced spatial modulations consistently, innovating morphological structure that had not previously existed in the grammar. Second-Cohort signers benefited from both older-to-younger language learning and peer-to-peer interactions, obscuring the contributions of each. This dissertation disentangles these factors by exploring a sociolinguistic context in which children receive …

Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (Copar) In Curriculum Development, Janette H. Malata-Silva

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

Using Community Organizing Participatory Action Research(COPAR) as the main framework for the multiple data-gathering methods utilizedin the study, the researcher addressed the following objectives: (1) to assessthe educational needs of the Lumad and peasant communities in light of theimplementation of Republic Act 10533, and (2) to developa curriculum that addresses the needs of the Lumad and peasant communitiesconsidering the learning competencies stipulated by RA 10533. Freire’s methodof education was maximized as participants in the research included men, women,and children who learned toassess their role in their community as agents of change with the goal ofachieving social transformation through education. Still …

The Revival Of Sang Hyang Dedari Dance: A Phenomenological Approach To Social-Ecological Reconstruction In Bali, Lg. Saraswati Putri

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

This research and community engagementinvestigates an ancient Balinese ritual known as Sang Hyang Dedari. Thedance is interrelated to an agricultural aspect of the traditional Balineseliving. As the Balinese struggle tomaintain their values from the constant threat of modernization andindustrialization, this dance reveals the powerful impact of creating anawareness of socio-ecological equilibrium. The effort made by the villagers ofGeriana Kauh, Karangasem, displays how local community rebuilds its environmentbased on their traditional ecological value. Analyzing Sang Hyang Dedaridance through phenomenological approach, thus, it can be discovered how theritual sustains the social relations. The bodies of the dancers are the centerof an elaborate …

Functionalism And Artificial Intelligence, Kevin Connor

Episteme

The Chinese Room argument shows that the Turing test functions only by syntax, thereby revealing that the notion of meaning is not properly accounted for by the test. Thus, Searle is convincing in his refutation of the Turing test for strong artificial intelligence. Yet, while the mind is not like a program running on certain hardware, the brain is. But thinking, Searle’s real interest, is not simply running the appropriate program! Therefore, rather than providing a solution to the Mind-Body problem, Searle’s conclusion about AI begs the question about what causes semantics. Searle’s logic goes awry somewhere, and, for this …

Historicity Of City And Town Names In The Province Of Cebu, Jiolito Benitez

CNU Journal of Higher Education

Place names are an important part of social life as they signify the collective identity of the inhabitants. Since place names signify social identity, it is important to determine the historicity of the narrative that trace their etymologies and origins. This study examined the historicity of the existing name narratives of the cities and towns of the province of Cebu contained in the fifty-five volumes comprising the histories of Cebu Province, Cebu Provincial Capitol together with 9 cities and 44 towns. The name narratives are categorized as either historical, most likely historical, most likely not historical, and not historical. Since …

Addressing Breast, Cervical, And Colorectal Cancer Screening-Related Health Disparities And Practices In Asian-Indio Women, Sharon K. Byrne, Evelyn Robles-Rodriguez, Yogini Patel

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: This retrospective research project reviews outcomes resultant from the delivery of cancer screening services to women living in the U. S. from an Asain-Indio background witin a clinic setting.

According to the National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship, culturally competent patient education and care is a priority (2015). The Cancer Outreach Project at MD Anderson Cancer Center Cooper provides culturally and linguistically appropriate cancer education and screening to underserved Asian-Indio women through the use of a dedicated outreach worker and Nurse Practitioner run clinic. A collaborative relationship was established in 2007 between the Cancer Outreach Project and National Indio …

College For The Sake Of What? Promoting The Development Of Wholly Educated Students, Michael P. Yoder

Industrial-Organizational Psychology Dissertations

There is increasing pressure on institutions of higher education to accurately measure student success. What was once thought of as a way to develop students holistically via a liberal arts degree, higher education is now often regarded as a means to an end: a well-paying job. Lost in the drive for quantifiable data is the holistic development of individuals who are capable of interacting with and influencing the world around them. Thus, higher education struggles to respond to market pressures while maintaining a focus on wholly developing individuals. In this research study, it is proposed that student “success” should include …

Behavior And Other Minds: A Response To Functionalists, Michael Lockhart

Episteme

Functionalism’s metaphysics is wrongly thought to answer the epistemological question of the existence of the other’s mentality. Contra Elliot Reed, the practical utility of being able to solve the problem of other minds does not make functionalism the best theory of mind, nor does it actually solve the problem of other minds. Reed’s circular argument implicitly relies on abstract behaviorism and the need to solve the problem of other minds. What must come first, however, is a correct ontology of the mind. Functionalism struggles with intentionality, disregards qualia, and, according to Searle’s excellent thought experiments, is incompatible with what we …

Functionalism, Qualia, And Other Minds, Elliot Reed

Episteme

We can solve the problem of other minds by reference to behavior only if we conceive of consciousness in functional terms. Folk psychology, though incomplete, supplies us with mental categories that are useful for prediction and explanation and thus can become functional categories. We need psychology and linguistics to work together to create a substantial body of research. The author spends a great deal of time responding to an objecting interlocutor, out of which comes supplemental details such as a discussion of functional equivalence; a response to the reductio ad absurdum complaint against the liberal intentional stance; an argument about …

Anaphoric Deflationism: Truth And Reference, Lauren Hartzell

Episteme

As a reaction to Dorothy Grover and Robert Brandom, this paper examines semantic concerns about intralinguistic relationships and functions. The author supports Brandom’s interpretation of Grover and argues that the prosentential theory of truth must accept the pronominal theory of reference in order to maintain an anaphoric account of truth. The author uses Brandom’s logic to brand Grover an anaphoric deflationist—whether she intended to be one or not. But Brandom’s appeal to reference only begins the project of extending Grover. What other anaphoric mechanisms still need to be identified, the author asks? How do we account for notions of substantive …

The Hyperphilosophy Of Extraordinary Communication, Theresa Thuline

Episteme

By rejecting orthodoxy, systemization, and objectivity, metaphor allows us to express the extraordinary, contradictory, and paradoxical. Kierkegaard’s Postscript provides a good entry into the concept of metaphor, because it demonstrates the dialectical concepts that give rise to the usefulness of figurative language tools like metaphor and its sidekick, irony. Ricœur extends and elaborates on Kierkegaard’s dialectical philosophy. Together, contrary to Marie I. George’s thoughts on the suitability of metaphors in philosophy, these thinkers speak of the necessarily indirect linguistic means to communicate divine passion and to avoid the pitfalls of standard social meaning-expression. The author concludes by appreciating Pastor Robert …

Escape From Silent Syntax, Yuta Sakamoto

Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-drop languages where null arguments are claimed to be derivable via the process called argument ellipsis, which directly elides arguments. I examine whether null arguments in such languages involve internal structure by testing extraction possibilities out of them on the basis of the hypothesis that the possibility of extraction indicates the presence of internal structure in anaphora sites. Based on novel data from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, and Turkish, I show that elliptic arguments exhibit a hitherto unnoticed pattern of extraction out of ellipsis sites, …

A Novel Surveillance Approach For Disaster Mental Health, Oliver Gruebner, Sarah R. Lowe, Martin Sykora, Karen Shankardass, S V. Subramanian, Sandro Galea

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Background

Disasters have substantial consequences for population mental health. Social media data present an opportunity for mental health surveillance after disasters to help identify areas of mental health needs. We aimed to 1) identify specific basic emotions from Twitter for the greater New York City area during Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall on October 29, 2012, and to 2) detect and map spatial temporal clusters representing excess risk of these emotions.

Methods

We applied an advanced sentiment analysis on 344,957 Twitter tweets in the study area over eleven days, from October 22 to November 1, 2012, to extract basic emotions, …

A Case-Oriented, Cross-Country Comparison Of Three High-Income Countries' Health Systems And Healthcare Accessibility, Sue A. Anderson, Cheryl Zlotnick, Vanessa Heaslip

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Located on different continents, the United Kingdom (UK), Israel and the United States (US) are high income countries differing in size, population size, and type of health care systems; yet, their general population's health outcomes are similar. This study used qualitative and quantitative information to gain insight on the health care systems and health care accessibility of vulnerable groups in the general populations of these three industrialized countries.

Methods: Using a case-oriented, cross-country comparison, this study uses the three factors of the Behavioral Model of Utilization (i.e., health system environments, population characteristics and health behaviors/outcomes) to examine health care …

Startalk Program Gives High School Students Education In Chinese, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Classroom instruction, cultural activities create enjoyable summer learning experience

Volume 54, Number 49: July 19, 2017, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Transnarratives Of Adults Who Undergo Gender Transitioning Later In Life: Implications For Counselors, Nakeshi Lashae Dyer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In this transgender theory life story study, I interviewed male-to-female transgender participants who transitioned between the ages of 40-55, within the last 5 years, and while residing in an urban city in the Mid-South to learn more about the sociocultural and discursive influences of their gendered and embodied experiences. I utilized transgender theory as a lens to view gender transitioning. This theory holds that discourse is contrived and identity is fluid, contextual, and mulifarious and that some voices are silenced because of exclusionary societal practices and systems of belief. The longer that a person is subjected to these oppressive systems …

Measuring Semantic Textual Similarity And Automatic Answer Assessment In Dialogue Based Tutoring Systems, Rajendra Banjade

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation presents methods and resources proposed to improve onmeasuring semantic textual similarity and their applications in student responseunderstanding in dialogue based Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In order to predict the extent of similarity between given pair of sentences,we have proposed machine learning models using dozens of features, such as thescores calculated using optimal multi-level alignment, vector based compositionalsemantics, and machine translation evaluation methods. Furthermore, we haveproposed models towards adding an interpretation layer on top of similaritymeasurement systems. Our models on predicting and interpreting the semanticsimilarity have been the top performing systems in SemEval (a premier venue for thesemantic evaluation) for …

Gonzalez V. Douglas Trial Transcript Of Proceedings, Day 8, Steven A. Reiss, Luna N. Barrington, David Fitzmaurice, Richard M. Martinez, Robert Chang, James W. Quinn

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

Gonzalez v. Douglas

A Research Agenda For The History Of Property Law In Europe, Inspired By And Dedicated To Marc Poirier, Anna Di Robilant

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constructing A Reference Framework For Ecep Evaluation: A Constructive Grounded Theory, Shelina Bhamani, Nasreen Husain

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

The purpose of this research study, which is a thesis investigation, was to develop a reference framework that can help program staff to evaluate quality in Early Childhood Education (ECE) settings. The study was approached with three questions. This paper presents the first question of the study that enables practitioners to understand what are the variables that best define quality in early childhood education. The grounded theory, design was approached to explore the experiences of 20 ECE experts in the field. The data analysis revealed eight main indicators, that are, holistic development, interactive teaching, trained practitioners, conducive learning environment, safe …

Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, Language And 'Truth', Andrew Forney

Episteme

This article takes a look at the place and significance of Rorty’s neo-pragmatism. The author makes an effort to parse out how Rorty fits into the history of pragmatism, philosophies of language, science, and history, and in connection to such explicitly related philosophers as Dewey, James, Davidson, and Kuhn. The author covers a great deal of ground, discussing pragmatist topics such as verification, truth, and culture, as well as Rorty-specific conceptions of semantics, ethnocentrism, post-Kuhn paradigms, and a metaphysics that bears resemblance to Kant’s divided realms.

Integrated Reading-Writing Instruction For Elementary School Emergent Bilingual Students, Irina Malova

Open Access Dissertations

This comparative case study investigated integrated reading-writing instruction (IRWI) as an approach for writing instruction implemented after the adoption of Common Core State Standards (NGA & CCSSO, 2010a). Specifically, I explored the nature of IRWI through video-recorded observations of writing instruction, teachers’ perspectives towards this approach, and features of critical knowledge (Fitzgerald & Shanahan, 2000) utilized by five teachers in five fourth grade English Language Arts classrooms with emergent bilingual students. This study was guided by the following three research questions: 1) What is the nature of integrated reading-writing instruction in 4th grade ELA classrooms with emergent bilingual students? 2) …

Career Corner: Internships Available For Students Interested In Foreign Service Languages, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Writing To It: Creative Engagements With Writing Practice In And With The Not Yet Known In Today’S Academy, Jonathan Wyatt, Ken Gale

Plymouth Institute of Education

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group We have developed an approach to collaborative-writing-as-inquiry that we sometimes refer to as ‘between the twos’. Increasingly, we came to understand that the only way to continue in our process was to ‘write to it’; whatever the question, the query or the problem, it was this inducement – ‘write to it’ – that led to new experimentations and the indeterminate rhythms and refrains of the multiple that were often present in the agonistics of our practice. This is how we have been living intra-actively with desire within and against …

Do The Wj-Iv Tests Of Cognitive Abilities Predict Reading Equally Across Groups?, Isaac L. Woods Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Reading and intelligence tests are commonly used as instruments to decide on special educational services for students. The construct validity and predictive validity of the Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV; Schrank, McGrew, & Mather,2014) has not been examined for bias across racial/ethnic groups. This study extends Keith's (199) examination of bias for general and specific cognitive ability latent variables predicting basic reading skills, reading comprehension, and reading rate using a cognitive model and a reading achievment model adapted from Niileksela, Reynolds, Keith, and McGrew (2016). Using Black, Hispanic, and White samples of 9- to 13-year-olds from …

Comparison Of Methods For Choosing An Appropriate Number Of Topics In An Lda Model, Patricia Jean Goedecke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Topic modeling is a technique for reducing dimensionality of large corpuses of text. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), the most prevalent form of topic modeling, improved upon earlier methods by introducing Bayesian iterative updates, providing a sound theoretical basis for modeling by iteration. Yet a piece of the modeling puzzle remains unsolved; the number of topics to model, K, is an as yet unanswered question. This number of topics may also be called the dimensionality of the model. With this is an integrally related puzzle; how to determine when a model has been best fit. Presented here are a brief history …

The Importance Of Ritual According To Alumni At A Southern Liberal Arts University, Shane C. Pruitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study sought to understand how alumni members from a small, private university in the southern region of the United States experienced campus rituals during their college career as well as currently engage with the institution via rituals post-graduation. The following central research question guided the inquiry in an effort to describe the essence of alumni participation at Southern Liberal Arts University (SLAU): in what ways do alumni perceive the importance of campus rituals in both the student and alumni experience? This study utilized a social constructivist lens adopting a phenomenological approach to qualitative analysis including the use of interviews, …