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Internationalizing Community Colleges To Inspire Globally Competent Leaders, Miranda Morgan

MA IDS Thesis Projects

All industries are becoming ever more intertwined with the global market, which means that the need for workers with a more globalized mental framework has become much more important. Unfortunately, in higher education institutions, there is a gap between students who have the ability to be in a school with comprehensive internationalized programs (internationalized curriculum, established international partnerships between schools, mission statement with internationalization emphasis, professor exchanges, and study abroad programs) and students who do not. Students who have limited access to internationalized programs are often low-income, first-generation, or returning community college students. This study proposes a comprehensive internationalized program …

Comparative Analysis Of The Rohingya Stateless And Refugee Populations In Myanmar And Bangladesh, Lauren C. Morrow

MA IDS Thesis Projects

This research attempts to compare and analyze the situation of the Rohingya refugee and stateless populations in Myanmar and Bangladesh. It considers the quality of life indicators (health, security, infrastructure, economy, identity, and education) of the Rohingya in both Bangladesh and Myanmar. Additionally, it compares how the identification as “stateless” or “refugee” benefit and disadvantage the populations based on the quality of life indicators. Furthermore, it takes into consideration the different barriers that the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have created to prevent repatriation and the allowance of other official statuses. Based on this information, a toolkit was created that …

National Assessment Program: Sample Assessment: Civics And Citizenship Report: Years 6 And 10: 2016, Julian Fraillon, Eveline Gebhardt, Judy Nixon, Louise Ockwell, Tim Friedman, Michelle Robins, Mark Mcandrew

Civics and Citizenship Assessment

Under the National Assessment Program, the Civics and Citizenship sample assessment is administered to a representative sample of Year 6 and Year 10 students every three years. It is conducted under the auspices of the Education Council. The National Assessment Program – Civics and Citizenship assesses students’ skills, knowledge and understandings of Australia’s system of government, civic institutions and the values which underpin Australia’s democracy. It also provides an indication of student attitudes and their engagement in civic-related activities at school and in the community. This report presents the findings of the fifth National Assessment Program – Civics and Citizenship …

Epistemology Personalized, Matthew A. Benton

SPU Works

Recent epistemology has focused almost exclusively on propositional knowledge. This paper considers an underexplored area of epistemology, namely knowledge of persons: if propositional knowledge is a state of mind, consisting in a subject's attitude to a (true) proposition, the account developed here thinks of interpersonal knowledge as a state of minds, involving a subject's attitude to another (existing) subject. This kind of knowledge is distinct from propositional knowledge, but it exhibits a gradability characteristic of context-sensitivity, and admits of shifty thresholds. It is supported by a wide range of unexplored linguistic data and intuitive cases; and it promises to illuminate …

Western Michigan University Graduate Catalog 2017-2018, Western Michigan University

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Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion And The Global Health Campaign For Medical Male Circumcision In Swaziland, Casey Golomski, Sonene Nyawo

Anthropology

Swaziland faces one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world and is a site for the current global health campaign in sub-Saharan Africa to medically circumcise the majority of the male population. Given that Swaziland is also majority Christian, how does the most popular religion influence acceptance, rejection or understandings of medical male circumcision? This article considers interpretive differences by Christians across the Kingdom’s three ecumenical organisations, showing how a diverse group people singly glossed as ‘Christian’ in most public health acceptability studies critically rejected the procedure in unity, but not uniformly. Participants saw medical male circumcision’s promotion and …

Divergent Human Cortical Regions For Processing Distinct Acoustic-Semantic Categories Of Natural Sounds: Animal Action Sounds Vs. Vocalizations, Paula J. Webster, Laura M. Skipper-Kallal, Chris A. Frum, Hayley N. Still, B Douglas Ward, James W. Lewis

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

A major gap in our understanding of natural sound processing is knowledge of where or how in a cortical hierarchy differential processing leads to categorical perception at a semantic level. Here, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) we sought to determine if and where cortical pathways in humans might diverge for processing action sounds vs. vocalizations as distinct acoustic-semantic categories of real-world sound when matched for duration and intensity. This was tested by using relatively less semantically complex natural sounds produced by non-conspecific animals rather than humans. Our results revealed a striking double-dissociation of activated networks bilaterally. This included a …

Purpose And Resilience: The Experience Of Burmese Refugees In U.S. Higher Education, Rebecca Tervo

Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) Theses

From 2005 to 2016, over 12,000 students from Burma have pursued higher education in the US, and the numbers have risen each year (Institute of International Education, 2016). Due to the ongoing civil war in Burma, many of these students come to the US as refugees. This qualitative phenomenological study examined the experiences of Burmese refugees in U.S. higher education to understand better their daily challenges and motivations. The participants in this study were six Burmese refugees enrolled in undergraduate programs at U.S. higher education institutions and one program director at a community organization that serves and empowers the local …

Adulting Is Hard: Anxiety And Insecurity In The Millennial Generation’S Coming Of Age Process, Amy Johnson

Honors Thesis Collection

Although ubiquitous in the media, sociological analyses of the Millennial generation are sparse. This thesis places Millennials at the intersection of modernity and generational theories by analyzing the generational identity and coming of age processes of modern young adults in conjunction with the anxieties, insecurities, and existential concerns that accompany their transition into adulthood. Data was collected in Northern California using in-depth interviews with 25 young adults between the ages of 17 and 27. Despite being members of the same generation, their experiences are not easily generalizable due to the increasing importance of identity factors such as race, gender, and …

A Community Of Capital: Leveraging Peer Networks At Community Colleges, Christina Phelps

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis uses theories of social and cultural capital to explain how community college students are capital-rich individuals who navigate their community colleges with strategies that reflect and build on their class habitus. In depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 46 traditional-aged college students at Midwestern Community College. Qualitative analysis revealed that students’ social and cultural capital allows them to experience the community college in four distinct ways: as an Involved Student Leader, a Visiting Collegian, a Free Rider, or a Determined but Disconnected student. Involved Student Leaders and Visiting Collegians, with institution-valued forms of capital, have socially and academically …

The “Little Red Book”: The Dissemination, Influence, And Impact Of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung In The United States, 1967-1980, Annie Wang

Honors Thesis Collection

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is one of the most prolifically printed books in modern history, allegedly rivaling the print numbers of the Bible. A complication of over 300 quotes from the late Chinese Communist Party leader that was first published in 1964, this book was soon translated and distributed worldwide with the intention of swaying foreign hearts and minds in favor of Maoism. One such target was the United States. Americans from a variety of different social and political backgrounds were exposed to and drew influence from the "Little Red Book," including academics who struggled to comprehend China's new …

"In Nova Fert Animus Mutatas Dicere Formas Corpora": A Comparison Of Three Themes In Ovid And Ancient Near Eastern Mythology, Austen Aquino

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis will attempt to demonstrate the merits of structuralist, text-focused analysis, as opposed to historicist models of hypothetical cross-cultural contact. This thesis will present three comparative case studies—hospitality narratives, flood narratives, and creation narratives—each of which will utilize a structuralist methodology. In each chapter, the structure of each version of the umbrella myth will be diagrammed in relation to each other. The diagrams are tabular, and schematize the individual narrative functions that comprise each umbrella myth-type in a highly abstracted form. This visualization allows the reader to clearly see the role each function plays within its respective narrative context, …

Electronic On The Ground: Imagining Community And Crafting Culture In Beijing’S Electronic Music Scene, Juliet Liu

Honors Thesis Collection

Electronic music, an art form that has existed in dynamic forms since the 1970s, is rapidly moving from the underground to the mainstream all across the globe. It is therefore a phenomenon that deserves significant cultural analysis in various global contexts. Still, there is a dearth of ethnographic explorations of electronic music and art in China. Over the course of three weeks, I conducted anthropological fieldwork in China to better understand the social worlds, aesthetic impulses, and musical philosophies of electronic producers in Beijing to better understand global circuits of cultural exchange, concepts of cultural authenticity, and the fluid concept …

A Lover Is Never A Sceptic: Five Fragments On The Volcano Lover, Victoria Uren

Honors Thesis Collection

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is mostly known as a 20^th Century New York intellectual, as a political activist, and – to both her benefit and her disadvantage – as an emblem of a certain avant-garde “cool.” In part due to the overwhelming status of her early essays, most notably “Against Interpretation” (1966) and “Notes on Camp” (1964), her work as a fiction writer – which she herself always maintained was her first life, her primary intellectual activity – has not received significant attention in the critical discourse. These fragments engage with various questions incited by her 1992 novel, The Volcano …

School Choice In Bangladesh: Language And Imperial Legacy, Lamisa Hossain

Honors Thesis Collection

There are a wide variety of schooling options available to parents in Dhaka city. Classes are primarily taught in two languages: Bengali and English. Public schools provide only Bengali medium education. Choosing to enroll your child in a public school is associated with a range of sociocultural benefits and economic incentives, such as free textbooks and network externalities. Nevertheless, there is a persistent demand for English medium education as well. Unfortunately, high-quality English medium education is accessible only to the elite classes. This thesis aims to understand how parents make choices about their child’s education. Key factors include the impact …

Analysis Of The Effects Of First Year Advisors And First Year Mentors On A Wellesley Student’S Choice Of Stem Vs. Non Stem Major, Kelly Kung

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis focuses on the effects of a Wellesley student’s First Year Mentor’s major and First Year advisor’s department on the student’s choice of major. The Rubin Causal framework was used to draw causal inferences instead of just correlation. Doing so, it is possible to attribute any effect to the type of First Year Mentor or First Year advisor assigned to the student. In the mentoring component, the data was analyzed using Fisher’s Test and the Separate Regressions Method. Each method gave some statistically significant results; however they were not practically significant due to their small effect sizes. Our approach …

Honor And Power In Shakespeare's Rome: A Close Reading Of Julius Caesar And Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Bailey Lee

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

The Power And Meaning Of Religion In The Sun Also Rises, Connie Chen

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Everyone Has A Monkey In Her Heart: A Cross-Cultural Study Of Conceptual Metaphors In Literary Narrative And Film, Emily Jin

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Wellesley Magazine Winter 2017, Wellesley College Alumnae Association

Wellesley Magazine (Alumnae Association)

Featured in this issue:

Women Who Run / by Amy Mayer ’94 and Amita Parashar Kelly ’06, with additional reporting by Liz Johnson ’01

After the Election / by Yolette García ’77

Raising Our Voices / by Jennifer Vanasco ’94

The Writing Center: Fifteen Years Of Transforming Writers At The University Of Montana, Kelly Webster, Demetra Perros, Eli Redeker

The Writing Center: Reports

This milestone [publication] invites a retrospective look at the impact and scope of our services. The many evolutions of the UM Writing Center—from a small “lab” for struggling writers in 2002 to a robust communication center for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff in 2017—have consistently embodied education at its best: communities of practice at the intersection of students, faculty, staff, and tutors.

Growing Bonds With Nature: Transformation Of An Outdoor Childcare Environment, Bonna Lake

Integrated Studies

Children’s disconnection with nature has become increasingly clear over the last few decades throughout the world due to a number of factors, including technological and societal shifts. Reconnection with nature is proposed as a solution, demonstrating countless benefits in physical, mental, emotional, and social domains. Using an approach influenced by STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) frameworks, I proposed to redesign and renovate my early childhood program’s outdoor environment. The goal was to not only achieve a positive, natural environment for preschoolers to encourage core concepts like science, mathematics, and engineering, but also to develop and strengthen the relationship …

Pblcloud Virtual Patient Simulator: Enhancing Immersion Through Natural Language Processing, Pierre Rodricus Martin

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

PBLCLOUD VIRTUAL PATIENT SIMULATOR: ENHANCING IMMERSION THROUGH NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Pierre Martin M.Ed.(1), Lisa DelSignore M.D.(2), and Traci A. Wolbrink M.D. M.P.H.(2)

(1)Yale School of Medicine (2)From the Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Management, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. (Sponsored by JH, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine)

Virtual patient simulation has been utilized to teach interviewing skills, often employing selection-based methods (e.g., multiple-choice lists and menu-based prompts) to simulate doctor-patient conversations. Users have evaluated these systems as inauthentic, which can diminish user immersion …

Pirandello And Satire. The Imaginary Journey Of Four Authors In Search Of A Character According To Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930), Stefano Giannini

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

Drawing on a little-known work by Scott-Moncrieff, this article investigates Luigi Pirandello’s intellectual and literary reach across genres and space, from theater to pamphlets, from Italy to the English-speaking world. A talented writer and translator, Charles K. Scott-Moncrieff published “The Strange & Striking Adventures of Four Authors in Search of a Character” by P. G. Lear & L. O in 1926. The title of the pamphlet, and the acronym of the fictional author are references to Pirandello and to his Six Characters in Search of an Author. Scott-Moncrieff had all the documents in order to write about, or in …

Preface, Libertad Garzón

Corresponding Voices

No abstract provided.

The Postposition 'Bok' In The Arara Language, Shirley De Souza

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

In languages, the category of adpositions typically comprises a small class of morphemes that serve to locate one entity, the 'trajector', with reference to another entity, the 'landmark' within three-dimensional space. Adpositions tend to be highly polysemous. In this paper I consider the postposition bok in the Arara language. This postposition has a variety of disparate usages. My goal is to show how the meanings illustrated by these usages are related within a network.

Art Integration In Urban Elementary Schools: Can It Improve Student Learning Outcomes In Other Subject Areas?, Julie Flynn

Journal of Applied and Educational Research (2017-2019)

Teachers and students nationwide are struggling to address the disparity in academic achievement between students in urban, socioeconomically underprivileged and racially segregated school districts, and their more affluent, white, suburban counterparts. Poorer urban schools are also less likely to have adequate funding and support for arts programs. Educators must thus look outside of traditional learning models and explore all opportunities to engage their students and create learning opportunities. Arts integration has been shown to improve student attitudes and engagement, along with a potential to “transfer” skills and knowledge to other subject areas. This study sought to examine whether the integration …

Haitian History And Culture: A Selection Of Online Resources, Marjorie Charlot

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author describes several useful internet resources for researching Haitian history and culture.

Differentiation And Technology: A Study Of An Elementary School’S Use Of Technology In Differentiated Lessons, Kelly Dawn Nelson

Education Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this study was to examine teacher reports and use of differentiation and to examine the use of technology in differentiated lessons. The researcher posed two questions: (a) What is the association between teacher reports of differentiation use and observed differentiation strategies used; and (b) How are teachers using the differentiation strategies of which they are aware when planning and implementing lessons that involve technology in the areas of content, process, product, and learning environment? This mixed-method study used three tools for data collection: a questionnaire, structured observation protocol, and a focus group. The questionnaire and observation protocol …

Case Study Of The Classroom Culture That Impacts Teacher Efficacy Of Secondary Level Teachers Of English Language Learners, Connie Marie Davis Banks

Education Dissertations and Projects

Throughout the United States a dramatic shift in demographics is taking place, similar to the changes of the early 20th century, as thousands of immigrants cross the threshold of Ellis Island (Karathanos, 2009). Undergoing a greater makeover is the culture of classrooms and American teachers who have seen, firsthand, an increase of more than 60% of English language learner (ELL) students over the past decade (Ballantyne, Sanderman, & Levy, 2008). The purpose of this study was to develop a more in-depth understanding as to whether mainstream teachers from a school district located in upstate South Carolina perceived themselves to be …