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The Rising Tide Of Child Poverty, Jane Beese, Melissa Mlakar

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

Poverty is not a new struggle for families and students. Urban school districts have been plagued with high poverty rates for years, but now poverty is growing at substantial rates in suburban schools. Chronic absenteeism is one recurring problem that high poverty schools, of every typology, face on a regular basis. The case study presented here highlights the work of one urban principal in combating chronic absenteeism in her school. The purpose of this paper is to explore attendance problems in a high-poverty school. While this case study depicts a principal in a high-poverty school in an urban area, the …

Leadership Performance Of Dale Carnegie, Nelson Mandela And Lee Kwan Yew: Applications For Educators, Jean-Pierre Bongila

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

A biographical comparison or prosopography of three leaders Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) (Bacila, 2013), Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) (Kendall, 2014), and Lee Kwan Yew (1923-2015) (Kwang et al., 2015) might seem postmodern because of the divergence of times and cultures where they lived and the social statuses from which they performed their leadership. While Dale Carnegie was born to a poor farming family in Maryville, Missouri at the end of the 19th century America, Nelson Mandela’s family had aristocratic origins since his great-grand father was a tribal chief in South Africa (Lodge, 2006), and Lee Kwan Yew was a well to do …

Life-Writing In An Age Of Postmodernism: A Corderian Rhetoric Of Creative Nonfiction, James S. Baumlin

College of Arts and Letters

In the lifeworld that we experience from within and share with others, there are some things that we don’t know, some things that we can’t know, some things that we don’t need to know, and some things that we don’t want to know (or, perhaps, to admit). Parsing these differences marks the delicate artistry of creative nonfiction (CNF). Whereas fiction (as figured in the contemporary novel) has less need to censor its depictions of character, creative nonfiction must balance honesty (toward one’s subject) with authenticity (toward oneself), intimacy (toward one’s reader), and privacy (toward details of one’s lifeworld). Embracing an …

Crisis, Rupture And Structural Change: Re-Imagining Global Learning And Engagement While Staying In Place During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Shruti Rana, Hamid Ekbia

Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented closures of national borders and the withdrawal of much of the social and cultural activities of society into the walls of the home. For us, educators focused on global engagement and analyzing international law and society, the abrupt retreat into the shelter of domestic walls disrupted the very subjects we were studying-inside and outside the classroom. In the pandemic 's first wave, most study abroad and international experiential programs were cancelled indefinitely, and the programs that continued had to operate in an environment of social distancing and uncertainty. We were forced to scramble to …

Texas Hospitality: Pro-Refugee Activism, Volunteerism, And Coalition-Building In Xenophobic Times, Sara Mosher

Anthropology Theses and Dissertations

This project employs ethnographic methods to explore the experiences of forty ordinary Texans of different social and religious backgrounds who were active in pro-refugee volunteer and advocacy work during the four chaotic years of the Trump administration. The goal of this research is to better understand people’s reasons for volunteering and advocating on behalf of refugees during a time of political upheaval, when prominent public figures in positions of leadership around the country have repeatedly framed refugees as a threat to American security and cultural identity. Despite the crucial roles that local volunteers typically play in the process of refugee …

(Ex)Citation: Citational Eros In Academic Texts, Chase Gregory

Faculty Journal Articles

Introduction: Love at First Cite

Citation can be sexy. Anyone who has experienced a hit of dopamine or a lurch of the stomach upon seeing their name in print in an acknowledgement section or footnote would have to agree. I suspect that this thrill is produced, at least in part, by the unique structures of power and desire that constitute academic sociality: the bonds of oppression, affection, affiliation, or intrigue that continue to shape who counts, and who is counted in academic circles. If each particular idea or set of ideas is a strand in a network of thinkers, then …

Declaring, Exploring, Instructing, And (Wait For It) Joking: Tonal Variation In Majority Opinions, Lisa A. Eichhorn

Faculty Publications

British literary critic I.A. Richards once defined “tone” as a literary speaker’s attitude toward his or her listener. Borrowing that definition, this article posits that the genre of the majority judicial opinion leaves more room for tonal variation than many scholars have previously theorized. The article first elaborates on the concept of “tone,” distinguishing it from “voice” and “style.” It then reviews the existing scholarship on tone in legal writing and describes the specific dynamics of tone in majority opinions. At that point, the article closely analyzes tonal variation in two 2020 Supreme Court opinions: the majority opinion in Chiafalo …

Vol. 44 No. 1/2 (2021): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

2021-October-01-Going Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Dr. Stephanie Layne is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Before coming to ETSU, she was a general pediatrician in Asheville, North Carolina. She holds a D.O. degree from the University of Pikeville, Kentucky.

Dr. Kelsey Lee Lloyd is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She holds an M.D. degree from ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine.

Dr. Jennifer Locander is an assistant professor in the Department of Management and Marketing after earning her Ph.D. in marketing at the University of Mississippi.

Madison Lowe is a secretary in Learning Services, Center for Academic Achievement. She holds …

Que Ondee Sola - Fall 2021, Crystal Lynn Perez

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: URO Organization, Profile of Luvia Moreno, Suicide: How Can We Help?, The Modern, Kristen Robinson, Women of Gaming, Frida Kahlo, National Museum of Mexican Arts, The Beginning of the Union for Puerto Rican Students and Que Ondee Sola, Dia de los Muertos, Poetry

Diversifying The Classroom: Masculinity And Intersectionality In (Teacher) Education: A Review Of Literature, Scott V. Gealy

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

While much has been written about the gender and demographic divide in the U.S. between the population of students and their teachers, complex gendered, cultural, and socioeconomic forces appear to be widening it. In an effort to reveal the many ways that teacher education programs can attract and retain a more diverse body of candidates, this literature review lays out a general overview of masculinity’s work as it pertains to the socialization of boys and young men in K-12 schools; it examines the influence of gendered, racial, and socio-economic assumptions on both teachers and learners; it looks at the experience …

Exploration Of Lived Experiences Of Science Teachers Of English Language Learners: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study, Uma Ganesan

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

English language learners (ELLs) are a talented pool of culturally and linguistically diverse students who are persistently increasing both in absolute size and percentage in the U.S. school population; however, they are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in college as well as in the workforce (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). Education and scientific communities have found it challenging to improve students’ participation in STEM fields (Martinez et al., 2011). Exploring science teachers’ experiences could aid in improving academic achievement of ELLs and promoting educational equity. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study is …

Thrive: Undergraduate Research Journal [Fall 2021, Volume 1, Number 1], Anjun Hu, Mikael Michalik

Thrive: Undergraduate Research Journal

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA'S STUDENT ORGANIZATION URJ VOLUME 1 | FALL 2021

Experiences In Archaeology, Social Justice, And Democratic Principles: The 2016-2019 Archaeological Field School At The University Of Hawai'i West O'Ahu, William Belcher, Suzanne Falgout, Joyce Chinen, Robert Kalani Carriera, Johanna Fuller

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

From 2016 to 2019, the University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu conducted archaeological field schools at Honouliuli National Historic Site to teach our students basic archaeological skills. Because the site was the largest Japanese and Japanese American concentration camp on O‘ahu, the field school initiated a program related to social justice and democratic principles for the imprisonment of US citizens and legal residents based on racial and national profiling. The demography of O‘ahu created a special bond to the incarcerees’ stories and the students of Asian and Hawaiian descent. Through field trips, student discussion, and curriculum development, we focused on the …

The Development And Outlook Of Computing Humanities, Shuiqing Huang, Liu Liu, Dongbo Wang

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The humanities computing shows a promising future after more than half a century.New features have appeared from data resource construction to data analysis due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence,This brings new technical tools and research ideas to humanities computing.It is necessary to analyze the current situation of humanities computing and look forward to the new trends of its future development.[Method/process]We study and review recent literatures of humanities computing or digital humanities to verify the new phase of the research area including data resource construction,quantitative analysis,text content mining and domestic research progress.The future implications of computing humanities are also …

Think In The Domain And Scope Of Information Application In The New Era, Mingwei Tang, Ruijuan Jiang, Xiaorong He, Xingshan Yao

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]Provide ideas and references for the application study of information science in the new era.[Method/process]The paper makes a literal reviews on information science application studies from development changes,influence domains and scopes and changes of analysis methods to analyze changes of information science in the new era.According to these changes,it analyzes the impact and influence scopes of information application from the six domains which are scientific research,military affairs, public safety, science and technology,economics and decision support.And six related cases are used to explain the application methods and process of information application on the relevant domains.[Result/conclusion]The cases study shows that the domains …

An Ecological And Holistic Analysis Of The Epistemic Value Of Law Libraries, Paul D. Callister, Dana Neacsu

Faculty Works

We examine the libraries' roles within the "epistemic foundation of society.” Our analysis is in response to the omission of Yale Law Dean Gerken of the role of libraries in her recent article about legal education's new focus and to remarks by AALS President Vicki Jackson that suggest an uncertain role for libraries. We have adapted holistic ecological media theory, as developed by Ronald Deibert, to reject a technologically deterministic view of libraries as having no future. We have considered the role of law libraries in the social epistemology or cognitive authority of the legal community, the role of law …

Purple Shadows In Catalonia: Josep Pla, Great Questions Of Literature, And The Bid For Catalan Independence, Caya Greenspan-Layman

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

No abstract provided.

The Disputed Nation: Catalan And Spanish Nationalism Through The Lens Of Documentaries, Mary Black

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Cultural Capital And Argumentative Writing In English: Challenges And Strategies Used By Efl Student Teachers, Nunung Fajaryani, Amirul Mukminin, Marzul Hidayat, Muhaimin Muhaimin, Eddy Haryanto, Nazurty Nazurty, Lenny Marzulina, Kasinyo Harto, Akhmad Habibi

The Qualitative Report

Writing is one of the most difficult skills in language learning, particularly in learning English as a foreign language. The purposes of this qualitative study were to describe student teachers’ challenges in composing argumentative writing and to explain how they encountered those challenges at one public university teacher-training program in Jambi, Indonesia. The theoretical framework of cultural capital was used to guide the study while the data were collected through demographic profiles and semi-structured in-depth interviews with student teachers. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we only had access to invite 12 students to participate in our study—they were six male …

Disability And Healthcare Access In Morocco: Social And Cultural Influences, Christa Shipman

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

I stepped into the SIT Multiculturalism and Human Rights program as a pre-physical therapy student with experience working and volunteering in the disability rights arena. Striking personal encounters with Moroccans combined with these past experiences drew me to investigate how social and cultural factors influence access to healthcare for people with disabilities. I hypothesized that access to medical care is limited by social or cultural mindsets, perceptions, or beliefs for those in my target population. This subject is relevant to Morocco as a developing country and as a society with, in some cases, fixed social dynamics, while in other areas …

Active Learning With Silent Participation, A.E. Dreyfuss

Publications and Research

Silence by participants in peer-led learning sessions is often viewed as lack of engagement and interpreted as lack of participation or interest. This paper addresses facets of silence, suggesting linguistic, cultural, and other reasons for quietude, and provides methods of facilitation that incorporate silence to give voice to noiseless participation as a bridge to learning.

The Pragma-Dialectics Of Dispassionate Discourse: Early Nyāya Argumentation Theory, Malcolm Keating

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

Analytic philosophers have, since the pioneering work of B.K. Matilal, emphasized the contributions of Nyāya philosophers to what contemporary philosophy considers epistemology. More recently, scholarly work demonstrates the relevance of their ideas to argumentation theory, an interdisciplinary area of study drawing on epistemology as well as logic, rhetoric, and linguistics. This paper shows how early Nyāya theorizing about argumentation, from Vātsyāyana to Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, can fruitfully be juxtaposed with the pragma-dialectic approach to argumentation pioneered by Frans van Eemeren. I illustrate the implications of this analysis with a case study from Jayanta Bhaṭṭa’s satirical play, Much Ado about Religion (Āgamaḍambara).

Enhance Representation Learning Of Clinical Narrative With Neural Networks For Clinical Predictive Modeling, Yuqi Si

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Medicine is undergoing a technological revolution. Understanding human health from clinical data has major challenges from technical and practical perspectives, thus prompting methods that understand large, complex, and noisy data. These methods are particularly necessary for natural language data from clinical narratives/notes, which contain some of the richest information on a patient. Meanwhile, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks because of their capacity to encode meaningful but abstract representations and learn the entire task end-to-end. In this thesis, I investigate representation learning of clinical narratives with deep neural networks …

Predict And Suspect: The Emergence Of Artificial Legal Meaning, Daniel Maggen

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Using Differentiated Spelling Groups And Word Sorts To Authentically Teach Spelling, Grace Finnegan

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Finding a purposeful way to teach spelling can be challenging. There are different strategies, interventions, and opinions about spelling instruction. Teachers often struggle with confidence and knowledge about metalinguistics and therefore stick to traditional ways of teaching spelling. This study uses the spelling inventory from Words Their Way spelling curriculum to develop differentiated spelling groups. Students used word sorting strategies to learn spelling patterns and transfer spelling to their writing. Students were able to transfer their orthographic knowledge and spelling patterns to their everyday writing. The purpose of this action research project is to prove Word Their Way is an …

Helping Teachers See The Beauty In Black Language, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University Magazine, Fall Winter 2021-2022, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

No abstract provided.

Transnational Japanese Literature: Diversity And Diaspora In Modern Japanese Literature (Jpns 073) Syllabus, William O. Gardner

Japanese Faculty Works

Transnational Japanese Literature: Diversity And Diaspora In Modern Japanese Literature course description:
This course will challenge the myths of Japanese ethnic homogeneity and cultural isolation and explore how modern “Japanese” literature crosses national and cultural borders. Topics to be examined include Japanese writers writing from abroad, colonial and postcolonial literatures, migration and writing in the Japanese diaspora, and the writings of ethnic minorities in Japan, including writers from Okinawa and Japan’s resident Korean community.

When The Fire Nation Attacked: A View Of The Colonialism And Imperialism Within Avatar: The Last Airbender, Jared M. Christian

Honors Theses

Within this project, the thematic representations of colonialism and imperialism within Avatar: The Last Airbender are explored through the topics of genocide, environmental imperialism, propaganda, and imprisonment. Through primary source analysis and literature review, events from the series are compared to historical examples during expansion such as Manifest Destiny, the Scramble for Africa, and apartheid. Similarities are cast between the Fire Nation and different imperialistic governments to determine whether Avatar is a good representation of these themes and how its portrayal could impact children’s media when displaying historical concepts.