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‘‘The Map Proves It’’: Map Use By The American Woman Suffrage Movement, Christina E. Dando
‘‘The Map Proves It’’: Map Use By The American Woman Suffrage Movement, Christina E. Dando
Geography and Geology Faculty Publications
In the early twentieth century, American suffragists used ‘‘a suffrage map’’ showing the spread of women’s suffrage on posters, pamphlets, and broadsides. The map was part of a shift in tactics used by the suffrage movement: leaving the parlours and taking to the streets, the suffragettes were claiming public space. This article explores the verbal and graphic rhetoric of these persuasive maps, as well as the politics of their placement, exploring how suffragettes moulded and used these traditionally masculinist ways of knowing to advance their cause while simultaneously marginalizing women of colour. Their adoption of maps represents an early example …
Overcoming Msw Students’ Reluctance To Engage In Research, Jeanette Harder
Overcoming Msw Students’ Reluctance To Engage In Research, Jeanette Harder
Social Work Faculty Publications
Social work students are typically reluctant to engage in research. The Research Partnership model takes a service-learning approach, allowing students to work with data from a community agency and resulting in a final paper with all the sections of an empirical journal article. Use of this model in teaching social work research enhances student motivation, learning, and skills through hands-on activities within an authentic context, and by using group support with individual accountability, structured and incremental learning opportunities, and teaching from a strengths-based perspective.