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Five Challenges And Solutions In Online Music Teacher Education, David Hebert

Research & Issues in Music Education

“Nearly 600 graduate students?”1 As remarkable as it may sound, that is the projected student population for the online graduate programs in music education at Boston University School of Music by the end of 2007. With the rapid proliferation of online courses among mainstream universities in recent years, it is likely that more online music education programs will continue to emerge in the near future, which begs the question of what effects this new development will have on the profession. Can online education truly be of the same quality as a traditional face-to-face program? How is it possible to effectively …

What Boys And Girls Learn Through Song: A Content Analysis Of Gender Traits And Sex Bias In Two Choral Classroom Textbooks, Patrick J. Hawkins

Research & Issues in Music Education

In an effort to further the understanding of gender traits or sexual bias that high school-aged choral music students might be exposed to in their curricular materials, two choral textbooks Choral Connections Beginning Level 1 Treble Voices and Choral Connections Beginning Level 1 Tenor-Bass Voices published by Glencoe MacGraw-Hill in 1999 were analyzed using a modified Bem Sex Role Inventory Model. The results found that significantly more songs were about men than were about women. The songs selected for the treble voices were more androgynous, while the secular music presented to the boys was significantly more masculine in the traits: …

The Effects Of Technology-Based Conducting Practice On Skill Achievement In Novice Conductors, Diana Hollinger, Dr. Jill M. Sullivan

Research & Issues in Music Education

The purpose of this study was to compare technology-based practice (Radio Baton and Digital Conducting System) to self-practice (recorded music) on the skill achievement of beginning conductors. Participants (N = 33) were undergraduate music majors—education and performance—from two beginning conducting classes randomly assigned to either the technology-based group or the self-practice group. Subjects worked for three, 15-minute sessions on the following skills: staccato conducting, legato conducting, and steadiness of tempo. The experimental design was a pretest-posttest using two conducting etudes to measure six dependent variables: staccato conducting, staccato presence, staccato steadiness of tempo, legato conducting, legato presence, and legato steadiness …

The Effect Of Band Director Leadership Style And Student Leadership Ability On Band Festival Ratings, P. Dru Davison

Research & Issues in Music Education

This study examined the relationship between band director leadership styles and the strength of student leadership within the bands. This study also examined the differences between leadership styles, student leadership strength, and band festival ratings (marching and concert). Subjects (N = 42) were band directors from Texas and Arkansas who participated in marching and concert band festivals. The Leadership Measurement Instrument (LMI) was designed to ascertain the strength of student leadership within the band programs, the type of leadership practiced by the directors (autocratic/facilitative), and the marching and concert festival band scores attained by the participants of this study. The …

An Exploration Of Personality Traits In Older Adult Amateur Musicians, Don Coffman

Research & Issues in Music Education

The primary research question for the study was, “Will older adult amateur musicians’ personality profiles reflect the traits found in professional musicians?” Participants (N = 58, ages 52 to 79) recruited from a New Horizons Institute “band camp” for older adult amateur musicians completed a musical background questionnaire and the Cattell (1993) Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Fifth Edition (16PF) on their own time during the five-day camp. Group scores for all the 16PF primary and global factor scores were within expected ranges for a normal population of adults, although Factor B (Reasoning) was noticeably higher and Factors E (Dominance), F …

Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, No. 108, Paul Anderson

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Friends And The Sacraments; Emerging Consensus And Ongoing Questions, Corey Beals

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Dinah: A Novel, Andrea Dinah Harris

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Three years after her rape, Dinah begins to have visions of other rapes. Her visions are prompted by physical contact with the rapist or his victim. She decides that the visions are being sent to her so that she can stop the rapists. Although questioning her sanity and the morality of her actions, she begins killing the rapists. When Dinah later decides that the killings are futile, the ghosts of women who have been killed begin to haunt her. However, as Dinah begins to understand how the killing of rapists by a woman helps dismantle the social construction of women …

Thank God For Rosie Roth: A Novel, William Bicknell

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Rosie Roth is an elderly Christian widow with a heart of gold who, one summer, encounters supernatural forces when her new neighbors, one of whom is a demon-possessed ten-year-old, move into the neighborhood. Rosie, by unwittingly exorcising the demon, finds herself thrust into a tangled web of secrets, conspiracies, and plots. Out to stop these plots is Atlas, a recovering amnesiac who is sent to exorcise the demon, only to find that Rosie has already done the job. While Rosie attempts to reconcile these supernatural forces with her own faith in God, Atlas struggles to live up to his own …

An Augustinian Perspective On The Philosophy Of Mathematics, James Bradley

ACMS Journal 2007

From a Christian perspective, both modern and post-modern approaches to the philosophy of mathematics have significant shortcomings. This paper explores an alternative. It summarizes Augustine of Hippo’s views on the four classical themes of the philosophy of mathematics-the ontology of mathematical objects, their epistemology, the nature of truth in mathematics, and how we account for the effectiveness of mathematics in describing the natural world. It then traces what has happened to Augustine’s perspective in the roughly 1600 years since it was written concluding with a discussion of some spiritual and intellectual problems with the currently dominant secular perspective.

Becoming A Nun, Becoming A Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation, Hillary Crane

Faculty Publications

This paper explores apparent contradictions in the gender identifications of Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. Because the texts and teachings of their tradition provide conflicting messages about women's spiritual abilities, the nuns create a complex gender cosmology as a means to accommodate textual contradictions without rejecting any textual statements. This strategy allows the nuns to assert that they have spiritual abilities equal to those of men without rejecting or contradicting textual statements that they do not. Without denying that they are women (and that they are therefore threatening to men) the nuns primarily identify with the male gender. Compartmentalizing and contextualizing gender …

Gloves, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Rattle. It was also featured in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry Project (Column 196); Kooser served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

Dickens's Hamlet Burlesque, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

Faculty Publications

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner considers what an interlude in Great Expectations involving a spectacularly bad production of Hamlet can do for Hamlet. Specifically, Pollack-Pelzner looks at what Dickens's rendering of Mr. Wopsle's travesty reveals about Hamlet's openness to an audience's derisive laughter. Wopsle’s production may be a travesty, but Dickens’s narrative of that production is a burlesque, with Hamlet as much its target as Wopsle.

Praying The Gospels, Elmer L. Towns

Books

No abstract provided.

Politics, Social Change And The Church In Nigeria, Sist .

Spiritan Books

Table of Contents

General Introduction (p. v)

One: A welcome address (p. 1)

Two: Keynote address (p. 5)

Three: Fully Catholic, Fully Political: Exploring the Biblical Grounds for active Christian participation in politics (p. 15)

Four: Factors that Militate against the active involvement of Christians in politics and societal transformation in Nigeria (p. 61)

Five: The Church and the State in Nigeria: Partners in Dialogue towards a better Nation (p. 75)

Six: Elections of Selection, Ethnic and Money Politics in Nigeria: Lessons from the past towards a better tomorrow (p. 101)

Seven: Art, Media and Lterature as Catalyst of Socio-Political …

The Youngsters' Best Friend: Fifteen Days Of Prayer With Blessed Daniel Brottier, Cssp., Alphonse Gilbert C.S.Sp

Spiritan Books

Table of Contents

Introduction (p. 9)

Day One: The Offering of His Life (p. 15)

Day Two: An Effective Commitment (p. 21)

Day Three: Obstacles (p. 27)

Day Four: Love in Action (p. 33)

Day Five: Purification of Spirit (p. 39)

Day Six: Uniting Contemplation and Action (p. 45)

Day Seven: Be All Things to All People (p. 51)

Day Eight: For the Glory of the Master (p. 57)

Day Nine: Spiritual Poverty (p. 63)

Day Ten: Teamwork (p. 69)

Day Eleven: Trust in Providence (p. 75)

Day Twelve: Loving Service (p. 81)

Day Thirteen: Docility to the Spirit (p. …

Timeline Of Fr. Bruno Primavera, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Timelines

No abstract provided.

"Truth, Power, And Christ", Paul Anderson

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

The Epistemology Of Esoteric Culture: Spiritual Claim-Making Within The American Neopagan Community, Marty Laubach

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Research

Non-institutionalised religious communities within western esotericism, such as New Age or Neopagan subcultures, are dynamic marketplaces for knowledge construction that may appear to be chaotic and governed only by the rule of caveat emptor. However, a close examination reveals authorization processes developing along similar lines as those followed by scientific empiricism during the seventeenth century. Claims of esoteric knowledge are developed from psychism experiences, and are authenticated by examining the claimant’s social standing, the narrative structure of the claim and the interests of the claimant and the judge. Such claims are authorized by incorporation into collective action, publications, workshops and …

Intercultural Music Education: The Moral Ethics Of Cultural Educational Exchange, Mary Cummings

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

It is important when considering a position as a music educator within a non-Western society to examine the political, social and religious influences that are present in music in order to assist in alleviating the tensions and dangers that such an introduction may create within a culture. Once these issues are understood, it is clear to see that a system of intercultural exchange instead of Western globalization would benefit both teacher and student while still maintaining cultural integrity. The advantage of such an approach would break down cultural barriers, preserve the existing culture, and provide a Christian educator with a …

White County Heritage 2007, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by Tony Young
White County Publications
Strawberry Heyday by Paul E. Miller
Strawberry Boom, Box Bonanza by Paul E. Miller
Strawberry Growers by Paul E. Miller
Where the Strawberry Went by Paul E. Miller
150 Years of Newspapers by Michael Bruce Dougan
1929 White County Citizen
The Great Train Robbery of 1893 by Ray Rains
Only 25 Witness Triple Hanging
Civil War Train Wreck by Norman L. Ezell
The M&NA Moving Van by Leon Van Patten
Railroad Ransom: History of Searcy RR by Bill Pollard
Back To Pearl Harbor by Linda S. Caillouett
1875 Sliter …

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Diplomatic Gifts On Henri Iii's Visit To Venice In 1574, Evelyn Korsch, Nicola Imrie, Pamela J. Warner

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

Appendix 1 (pp. 101-6) translated from the French by Pamela J. Warner.

Documents Of Court Gifts Collected By Johann Von Besser (1654-1729), Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Jochen Vötsch, Nicola Imrie, Pamela J. Warner, Frederick J. Mcguinness

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

Appendix (pp. 121-73) translated from the German by Nicola Imrie, from the French by Pamela J. Warner, and from the Latin by Frederick J. McGuinness.

Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb

Male immigrant from India who immigrated to America for college. He begins his interview describing the social and cultural differences he had to deal with in America. Then he relates his first experiences in Dallas with discrimination and being mistaken for a Mexican. He also discusses his career in the technology field in America. Lastly he discusses bring his family to America and the issues he and they faced in assimilating into American culture.

Interview With A First Generation Female Egyptian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb

Female immigrant from Egypt discusses her experience immigrating to America. She tells about her early life in Egypt and moving to America. She also relates her experiences raising Islamic children in America.

Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb

Male immigrant from South Africa who immigrated to America for college. He relates his experience of growing up in South Africa during apartheid. Later he also discusses his feeling on the Vietnam War and other personal changes he experience in the seventies. He ends the interview discussing his opinions on modern American issues such as Political Correctness and his feeling on his national identity.

Interview With A First Generation Female Argentinean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb

Female immigrant from Argentina discusses her immigrant experience including her life in Argentina, meeting her husband, working for Texas Instruments, and difficulties obtaining her work Visa.

Interview With A Third Generation Male Italian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb

Male immigrant from Italy discusses his experience growing up in an Italian family. He relates the attitudes and traditions of his Italian family. Furthermore, he discusses the changes in attitudes towards these attitudes and traditions over four different generations of his family. He also discusses his experiences facing racism in his life.

Interview With A Third Generation Female Polish Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb

Female Polish and Irish immigrant discusses her personal history and involvement in the polish community as well as her mother and grandmothers. She also discusses introducing Polish culture to her children through food and cultural events. She relates her grandparents immigrating to the United States in order to escape Nazi occupation.