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Communities of Practice in Academic Administration : An Example from Managing Undergraduate Research at a Research-Intensive University
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Experiential Learning in Teacher Education : Increasing Awareness of Diversity Through the Immersion Experience
No full textSixty-four years after the landmark Brown vs. Board of Educationdecision, schools, neighborhoods, and communities in the United States re-main largely segregated by race and class. As a result, many incoming studentsarrive on college and university campuses with limited exposure to people froma wide array of backgrounds and identities. In this article, we examine howstudents enrolled in an undergraduate teacher education course, Multicultur-alism and Education, learned from and reflected on an experiential learningassignment. The assignment, called “Immersion Experience,” required them tohave a brief experience in a cultural context that is different from their own.Through the assignment, students reflected on their own identities, values, andupbringing; learned about their stereotypes and beliefs about discrimination;and began to appreciate experience as a way of deepening their understandingof diversity. In an era in which undergraduates spend more of their time on-line, self-segregated and fractured by political beliefs and social identities andexperiences, assignments such as the “Immersion Experience” help to createthe physical, human encounters with difference that are vital for communityand democracy
Fundamentals of Anthropology as Effective Experiential Learning Strategy to Promote Social Justice
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Advocating for Experiential Learning Programs as Change Agents in Higher Education: Imagining a Justice Orientation that Centers Students and Partners while Enriching Practice
No full textExploring Compassion for the Community and Diversity through Nursing Experiential Learning
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Women in Battle: Soldaderas and Soldadas’ roles in the 1910 Mexican Revolution
No full textThe 1910 Mexican Revolution began in protest against Mexican President Porfirio Diaz\u27s dictatorship, unequal land distributions, and economic inequality. Split between the Diaz’s Federal army and the Rebels, led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. Considered to be one of the most important events in modern Mexican history, the war glorified the men that fought for their country. Yet, some of the most important members were the women of the Mexican Revolution. Split into two groups, some women worked as camp-followers, Soldaderas, and others joined their male counterparts in the fight, known as Soldadas. Many of the women joined willingly to be with their husbands or for the opportunity of work and freedom, but many were forcibly taken and made to become soldaderas. The roles of the women of the Mexican Revolution were so prominent that their image was twisted in a way that romanticized and sexualized them to promote Mexican Machismo and Mexican Pride. It is the intention of this paper to explore the significant roles that the soldaderas played during the Revolutionary War
Multimedia Writing Projects for the First-Year Writing Classroom
No full textThe assignments in this collection were designed for ENGL 1005AB: College Writing I and II at California State University, Los Angeles. ENGL 1005AB is a year-long “stretch” composition course. Faculty teaching these courses have access to common syllabi and assignments informed by scholarship on equity-focused writing instruction and assessment (e.g.: Baca, Hinojosa, and Wolff Murphy 2019; Canagarajah 2011; Ehrenworth and Vinton 2005; Frost, Kiernan, and Blum Malley 2020; Horner, Lu, Jones Royster, and Trimbur 2011; Inoue 2015; Young, Barrett, Young-Rivera, and Lovejoy 2014). In both ENGL 1005A and 1005B, three units focusing on narrative writing, persuasive writing, and synthesis writing promote more complex writing proficiencies as students work through the stretch pathway. Multimedia writing projects attached to each unit provide opportunities for students to gain experience composing in several different writing genres and modalities and to explore topics they feel personally invested in. This collection includes assignment guidelines for various projects that can be integrated into a first-year writing course in order to support the development of reading, writing, and research abilities and formalize a curricular focus on issues of access, equity, and inclusion.  
Mountain Counting: On the Enumeration of Three-Dimensional Stacks of Spheres
No full textWe investigate the combinatorial objects of mountains of spheres, which are three-dimensional variants of two-dimensional fountains of coins. A mountain can be decomposed into a sequence of fountains, and this decomposition leads to a recurrence relation. We obtain a closed-form solution for their counts based on this recurrence relation. Lastly, we discuss the computational feasibility of this enumeration