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Changes In The 17th Edition Of Sears List Of Subject Headings, Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

Users coming to our library catalogs are more often looking for materials dealing with particular subjects rather than seeking specific titles or authors. Therefore, when we prepareour catalogs we must take special care to use terminology which will best retrieve this material. We must pay special attention to the "aboutness" of each item in order to select themost precise term.

Scholar Or Baller In American Higher Education? A Visual Elicitation And Qualitative Assessment Of The Studentathlete's Mindset, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

Eminent scholar Harry Edwards (2000) has articulated three major realities of African American males in sports: a) The presumption of innate, race-linked black athletic superiority and intellectual deficiency; b) media propaganda portraying sports as a broadly accessible route to African American social and economic mobility; and c) a lack of comparably visible, high-prestige African American role models beyond the sports arena. Driven by labeling theory (Becker, 1963; Goffman, 1959), eight African American male student athletes were surveyed and interviewed. The last two points of Edwards' scholarship were investigated. "We have pretty good historical data and quantitative data about African American …

African American Racial Identity And Sport, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to synthesize and apply African American racial identity theory and related research to the development of sport and physical activity patterns and preferences in African American youth. Historically the African American over-representation in particular sports phenomena has been examined genetically, anthropocentrically, physiologically, sociologically, and psychologically. The profusion of explanations is a testimony to the complexity of this phenomena. This manuscript provides yet another compelling perspective. Cross [(1995) The psychology of Nigrescence: revising the Cross Model, in: J.G. PONTEROTTO et al. (Eds) Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage)] outlines the metamorphic …

Students In The Field: Linking Service-Learning And Undergraduate Research, Carolyn Behrman

Carolyn Behrman

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Who Can A Baller Trust? Analyzing Public University Response To Alleged Student-Athlete Misconduct In A Commercial And Confusing Environment, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

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La Reforma Del Sistema De Educación Superior En México. Políticas, Estrategias Y Nueva Agenda, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

se presentan y analizan las principales tendencias de cambio del sistema de educación superior en México a lo largo de la década de los noventa. En el primer apartado se ofrece una caracterización general del sistema especificando los tipos y las modalidades institucionales que lo componen, así como los datos que describen sus dimensiones y su distribución por subsistemas. En el segundo apartado se establecen las líneas de desarrollo del sistema en términos de su crecimiento y diversificación durante el período referencia. En el tercero, se aborda el tema de las políticas de educación superior en los noventa. El último …

Planning And Assessing A Short-Term Study Abroad Program For Undergraduate Students Of Marketing And Business, Ronald Paugh, Amy Kruse, Oscar T. Mcknight

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

Faced with intense global competition, marketing practitioners are requiring business schools to equip students with the requisite international skills and competencies. The authors describe a short-term study abroad program rooted in an experimental learning context using outcomes-based education as a method of assessment for continuous improvement initiatives

A Social Constructivist Approach To Computer-Mediated Instruction, Joseph J. Pear, Darlene E. Crone-Todd

Darlene Crone-Todd