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Metatheme Analysis: A Qualitative Method For Cross-Cultural Research, Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, Cindi Sturtzsreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer, Jessica Hardin

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In recent years, there has been a florescence of cross-cultural research using ethnographic and qualitative data. This cutting-edge work confronts a range of significant methodological challenges, but has not yet addressed how thematic analysis can be modified for use in cross-cultural ethnography. Thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative and mixed-methods research, yet is not currently well-adapted to cross-cultural ethnographic designs. We build on existing thematic analysis techniques to discuss a method to inductively identify metathemes (defined here as themes that occur across cultures). Identifying metathemes in cross-cultural research is important because metathemes enable researchers to use systematic comparisons to …

Our First Century, 1854-1954

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81-page book titled "Our First Century, 1854-1954" published by Temple Israel, Memphis, Tennessee, in 1954.

Atlantis, Memphis, 1:3, 1969

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Vol. 1, No. 3 of "Atlantis", a newspaper published by Love Incorporated, 1665 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, on November 3, 1969. Jim Godown was the publisher. Includes articles on the Beatles and the Family motorcycle club.

Navy Log, Arm, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Millington, 1943?

NATTC, Memphis, documents

Navy Log for the ARM (Aviation Radioman) graduating class R-15 at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Millington, Tennessee, possibly in 1943.

The Naval Reserve Aviation Base was established in June 1942 at the former U.S. Army training ground, Park Field. It became a Naval Training Station for Aviation Maintenance before being designated NATTC in early 1943. As a primary flight training center in World War II, six hundred to eight hundred aviation cadets trained at a time. The ground crew training facility was designed for ten thousand students. The entire complex, which included unpaved satellite fields in a …

Thunderbolt, U.S. Army 83rd Infantry Division, 1945

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Vol. 6, No. 27 of "Thunderbolt: Weekly Newspaper of the 83rd Infantry Division", Linz, Austria, published on November 3, 1945.

High School Bulletin, Memphis, Tennessee, 1908

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Vol. 3, No. 4 of "The High School Bulletin" a monthly magazine published by the students of Memphis High School in Memphis, Tennessee, in January 1908. A Memphis High School had existed since the latter 1870s but when a new building was constructed on the corner of Poplar and Yates in 1898, it became known as the Memphis High School. The school occupied the building until 1911 when Memphis Vocational High School took it over. Central High School became the other public high school in Memphis that year.

Straws, Louisville, 1881

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Vol. 1, No. 5 of "Straws" published in Louisville, Kentucky, in May 1881. Includes an article on James Davis Porter on page 4 along with another on John M. Lea.

The Relationship Between Teacher Preparation And Attrition In The Teaching Field, Gerardo Trujillo

Dissertations

In this study, the researcher investigated the relationship between the preservice preparation and attrition in the field of teachers employed at Chicago Public Schools. The researcher administered a survey to teachers working in Chicago and its neighboring suburbs, and their responses revealed their perceptions about their preparation program and their real-world experiences in the classroom. The results indicated that new teachers need coursework in the areas of classroom management, social-emotional skill integration, and cultural competence. The expectation is that the findings will support the creation of a uniform policy for all universities to implement nationwide. Such a program could result …

"Do Users Need Human-Like Conversational Agents?" - Exploring Conversational System Design Using Framework Of Human Needs, Souvick Ghosh, Satanu Ghosh

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The fascinating story of human evolution can be attributed to our ability to speak, write, and communicate complex thoughts. When researchers envision a perfect, artificially intelligent conversational system, they want the system to be human-like. In other words, the system should converse with the same intellect and cognition as humans. Now, the question which we need to ask is if we need a human-like conversational system? Before we engage in the complex endeavor of implementing human-like characteristics, we should debate if the pursuit of such a system is logical and ethical. We analyze some of the system-level characteristics and discuss …

The Americanization Of Sport For Development And Peace: Examining American Sdp Intern Experiences, Michael S. Dao, Jessica W. Chin

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This study expands the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) research focusing on the impact of national values and ideas on SDP program implementation. As SDP interns are instrumental in implementing many SDP programs, it is important to identify how their national values and ideas affect their work in the field. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the experiences of Americans who had worked as SDP interns. Through the lens of Americanization, we examine the reproduction and distribution of values and ideas of American SDP interns working abroad. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 11 former American SDP …

Narratives Of Disability And Displacement: Oral Histories Of The Lived Experiences Of Disabled Refugees, Jennifer Lynn Ward

Doctoral Dissertations

Disabled refugees are considered as the most marginalized group of all displaced populations. Disabled displaced people are at particular risk of violence, exploitation, and abuse. Additional barriers to accessing humanitarian assistance, education, health care, and other services exist for disabled displaced people. The purpose of this study was to collaborate with disabled refugees who have resettled in the United States and to create a space for their stories to be told. This research project explores the narratives of the lived experiences of disabled displaced people through the lenses of three theoretical frameworks: human rights, disability justice, and Critical Refugee Studies. …

The Effectiveness Of Using Multimedia For Teaching Phrasal Verbs In Community-College Esl Classes, Guohua Fu

Doctoral Dissertations

This mixed-methods study investigated the effectiveness of multimedia instruction for phrasal-verb education with community-college English as a second-language learners (ESL) in Northern California. Previous researchers have found that ESL learners have difficulties and barriers in learning phrasal verbs, and other researchers have found that how using multimedia teaching techniques in different fields of education have been effective, but no studies have investigated using multimedia instruction with community-college ESL students in learning phrasal verbs for second-language acquisition. In this mixed-methods research, there were 35 community-college ESL students, including 22 students in the multimedia-treatment group and 13 students in the text-based-comparison group, …

The Effect Of Teaching And Learning Vocabulary In Lexical Chunks On The Listening Comprehension Of Adult Learners Of Arabic, Bassam Al-Maqtari

Doctoral Dissertations

This study aimed to investigate how teaching and learning Arabic vocabulary items in multiword form (i.e., chunks and phrases), rather than in single form (i.e., one word at a time), affects learners’ ability to comprehend Arabic listening passages and to examine the relationship between students’ auditory knowledge of words, and that of phrases and listening comprehension. Data sources included three types of tests: the Arabic listening comprehension test, the single-word auditory knowledge test, and the multiword auditory knowledge test. The sample consists of 39 students (experimental group=20, control group=19). The study was separated into a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest portion (Phase 1) …

The Role Of Community Building In Second Language Acquisition In The Mainstream Classroom, Alejandro Clemente Fernandez

Doctoral Dissertations

The world is currently suffering from population displacement due to climate change, war, and economic instability which force many people to migrate in search of a better life, and many of these immigrants include school-age children. This mixed-methods research study sought to establish the association between community building, emotion, and second language acquisition by administering a survey to second language learners in the Napa Valley north of San Francisco in the spring of 2020. The participants were fourteen sixth grade students who had been enrolled in the same English and Spanish dual language immersion program since kindergarten.

The theoretical framework …

Teaching Critical Thinking Skills In A Chinese Immersion School, Pui Hung Helen Wong

Doctoral Dissertations

As a frontline teacher and administrator, I received feedback consistently from parents and students asking for a fun and effective method of instruction for Chinese language development in the US. This study explored the micro-level of how teachers in Chinese immersion schools create an environment to support development of students’ critical thinking skills while learning Chinese. I applied a qualitative approach to the research and designed a case study focused on answering the following research questions: How do teachers help their students to develop critical thinking skills when teaching in a Chinese immersion program? What are the challenges teachers have …

A Critical Feminist Case Study Of The Northern California Cherry Blossom Queen Program, Alison Kepola Nishiyama-Young

Doctoral Dissertations

Asian American women are chronically underrepresented in leadership positions in almost every sector including higher education, government, private, and non-profit (Youngberg et al., n.d.). Many researchers have suggested the need for more leadership development programs specifically designed to support the needs of Asian American women (Akutagawa, 2014; Canlas, 2016; Gee & Peck, 2015; Lin, 2007; Youngberg et al., n.d.). Though there are a number of leadership programs geared towards Asian Americans, there are very few that cater to Asian American women explicitly. Historically, cultural pageant programs in the Asian American community have played this role and one such program is …

Ramer High School, The Rambler, 1934

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Vol. 1:5 of the Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee, student newspaper "The Rambler" published in April 1934.

Tri-State Musical Journal, Memphis, 2:4, 1929

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Copy of Vol. 2, No. 4 of "The Tri-State Musical Journal" published by Misha Feibish in Memphis, Tennessee, on February 1, 1929. The magazine was devoted to the music news of Memphis primarily but also included Mississippi.

River City Blues Festival Program, Memphis, 1971

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Program for the River City Blues Festival held at the Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, on December 3, 1971. It featured Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, Sam Clark, Dewey Corley, Mose Vinson, Hammie Nixon and Sleepy John Estes, Willie Morris, Mrs. Van Hunt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Richard "Hacksaw" Harney, Willie "61" Blackwell, Rev. Robert Wilkins, Houston Stackhouse, “Sweet Charlene”, and Bukka White.

Tri-State Musical Journal, Memphis, 1:06, 1928

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Copy of Vol. 1, No. 6 of "The Tri-State Musical Journal" published by Misha Feibish in Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1928. The magazine was devoted to the music news of Memphis primarily but also included Mississippi.

Ramer High School Announcement, 1923

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Announcement for the 1923-1924 school year of Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee.

Ramer High School Announcement, 1920

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Announcement for the 1920-1921 school year of Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee. Includes photograph of the 1920 graduating class.

Barth Hard Times, 1945

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Vol. 1:1 of the newspaper titled "Barth Hard Times" published by the newly liberated prisoners of war of Stalag Luft 1, near Barth, Germany, on May 5, 1945.

Mcnairy County School Journal, 1:2, 1926

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Vol. 1:2 of "The McNairy County School Journal" published in Selmer, Tennessee, in December 1926.

Ramer High School, The Mentor, 1923

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Vol. 2:1 of the Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee, student newspaper "The High School Mentor" published on May 1, 1923. The mailing envelope is included.

Ramer High School, Purple And Gold, 1925

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Vol. 1:4 of the Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee, student newspaper "Purple and Gold" published in March 1925.

Mcnairy County School Journal, 1:4, 1927

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Vol. 1:4 of "The McNairy County School Journal" published in Selmer, Tennessee, in February 1927.

Ramer High School Announcement, 1917

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Announcement for the 1917-1918 school year of Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee.

Mcnairy County School Journal, 1:6, 1927

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Vol. 1:6 of "The McNairy County School Journal" published in Selmer, Tennessee, in April 1927.

Ramer High School Announcement, 1921

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Announcement for the 1921-1922 school year of Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee.