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Connections For Change, Shirley Simon
Connections For Change, Shirley Simon
Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works
The author, a social work educator, describes how a light bulb moment led her to recognize that professional associations need the youth, energy and enthusiasm of student involvement, and that social work students need the mentoring, networking, professionalism and purpose of the professional community. Recognizing that students need to find their voice and their passion, she made it her mission, through involvement in the International Association for Social Work with Groups, to ignite a sense of empowerment in these budding professionals and encourage their engagement with the hard work of this profession.
An Education In Sexuality & Sociality: Reflections & Critiques, Frank Karioris
An Education In Sexuality & Sociality: Reflections & Critiques, Frank Karioris
Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs
The opening editorial of this volume speaks to Dr. Frank Karioris's recently released book, An Education on Sexuality and Sociality: Heteronormativity on Campus. The outline of this piece is in conversation with the complementary book review in this volume, highlighting the strengths, areas for growth, and future implications for research and practice in higher education.
Pilot Study Of Teacher Preparedness For Mandated Civics Education In Illinois, Zoe Michelle Prevatt
Pilot Study Of Teacher Preparedness For Mandated Civics Education In Illinois, Zoe Michelle Prevatt
Master's Theses
Zoe M. Prevatt Loyola University Chicago PILOT STUDY OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS FOR MANDATED CIVICS EDUCATION IN ILLINOIS Following thirty-nine states, Illinois became the 40th state to make Civic Education a mandatory class for students to graduate high school in 2015. The mandated class is a semester long and usually occurs in the students Junior or Senior year of high school. The Illinois General Assembly then passed a separate bill that indicated that the 2016-17 school year would be when the mandated class would be fully implemented. Throughout my piece I look to this implementation plan as well as the original …