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Using Self-Disclosure to Manage Student Misconceptions in a Human Sexuality Classroom
Get PDFThis paper explores how three Human Development graduate student instructors of human sexuality have utilized student perception and instructor disclosure to challenge assumptions and misconceptions about sexuality. Three modes of pedagogy, culturally responsive pedagogy, experiential learning theory, and queer pedagogy, are discussed in order to illustrate the interplay of perception and disclosure when teaching. The authors provide a list of questions for instructors to be reflective as well as strategies to respond to student misconceptions about sexuality topics in the classroom.Keywords: culturally responsive pedagogy, disclosure, experiential learning theory, queer pedagogy, sexualit
Knowledge for Social Change: Bacon, Dewey, and the Revolutionary Transformation of Research Universities in the Twenty-First Century
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Resistance versus Transformation: Exploring the Transformative Potential of High-Impact Service-Learning Experiences
Get PDFGuided by the Social Change Paradigm of Service (Morton, 1995), this case study focuses on the service-learning experience emerging out of the partnership between the Community Development Program at Brescia University College and the Regional HIV/AIDS Connection (RHAC) in London, Ontario, Canada. Critical to the experience is a relationship based on trust and mutual learning between the professor and community partner. Service-learning is conceptualized as a transformational learning model that has as its foundation, Cranton’s (2002) facets of transformative learning. Particularly important to this model are activating events. When an activating event occurs that does not fit with a student’s expectation of how things should be, two outcomes are possible: resistance or transformation. When combined with personal reflection and dialogue, the sharing of lived experience by a person connected to RHAC has been a powerful activator for moving students from being resistant towards personal transformation
An Interview with University of San Francisco Professor, Dr. Stephen Zunes
Get PDFThe decision by the American Academy of Religion (AAR) to cancel a panel at its November 2017 Annual Meeting spurred a conversation with Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies and coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies program at the University of San Francisco. The AAR’s Annual Meeting brings together the foremost scholars of religion to engage in a variety of events where ideas are shared and debated. Dr. Zunes had planned to attend as part of a panel discussion that was intended to explore the role of religion and religious actors in movements like the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Dr. Zunes expertise on the Israel-Palestine conflict and his background in studying political and social movements made him particularly well suited for covering this topic. AAR ultimately decided to cancel this BDS panel, which shows just how sensitive this topic is, even within the academic world.The following special feature piece stems from a recent interview in which Dr. Zunes discussed his experience as one of the scheduled panelists at the annual AAR meeting. This interview, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro graduate student Kylie Stephens, also delves into how BDS fits into the larger picture of academic freedom and the overall American discourse regarding the recently reignited debate over Jerusalem and the future of Israel-Palestine
STUCK BETWEEN WAR AND EUROPE: SYRIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY
Get PDFThe disasters of the Syrian civil war that started in 2011 as a result of the Arab Spring have not been limited to Syria alone; rather they have affected many other countries both in the region and beyond. One of those most impacted in the region is Turkey, an immediate neighbor of Syria, which hosts over three million refugees from the latter. In addition to harming the civilians of the country, the civil war in Syria has caused numerous political, economic, and social problems for other states. It has ruined the everyday lives of the majority of Syria’s citizens, including a substantial number of children, who are innocent victims of this human tragedy. The war has exposed the incompetence and seeming helplessness of the international and regional organizations such as the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation, which claims to be the voice of all the Muslims in the world, to aid in the peace process. The ambitions of the regional and remote states on the ground in Syria attempting to meet their own national interests at the expense of civilian casualties and the greed of the illegal organizations attempting to establish and maintain their own power have also been revealed. This paper will discuss the impact of the war in Syria on its displaced civilians, especially focusing on children, who have sought refuge in Turkey. It will explore political, economic, social, and security effects the war in Syria has had in Turkey, the region, and the World highlighting critical discussion of the policies the Turkish government has implemented to address the refugee crisis. The data used to put this paper together were collected primarily through interviewing, observation, and news from everyday regional media
Analysis of a Vector-Borne Diseases Model with a Two-Lag Delay Differential Equation
Get PDFWe are concerned with the stability analysis of equilibrium solutions for a two-lag delay differential equation which models the spread of vector-borne diseases, where the lags are incubation periods in humans and vectors. We show that there are some values of transmission and recovery rates for which the disease dies out and others for which the disease spreads into an endemic. The proofs of the main stability results are based on the linearization method and the analysis of roots of transcendental equations. We then simulate numerical solutions using MATLAB. We observe that the solution could possess chaotic and sometimes unbounded behaviors
Subfields of Solvable Sextic Field Extensions
Get PDFLet F be a field, f(x) in F[x] an irreducible polynomial of degree six, K the stem field of f, and G the Galois group of f over F. We show G is solvable if and only if K/F has either a quadratic or cubic subfield. We also show that G can be determined by: the size of the automorphism group of K/F, the discriminant of f, and the discriminants of polynomials defining intermediate fields. Since most methods for computing polynomials defining intermediate subfields require factoring f over its stem, we include a method that does not require factorization over K, but rather only relies factoring two linear resolvent polynomials over F
Book Review: Writing Studio Pedagogy
No full textThis article reviews Matthew Kim and Russell Carpenter’s edited collection Writing studio pedagogy: Space, place, and rhetoric in collaborative environments
Stronger together: Nonsummativity and the Grand Valley State University Team
Get PDFThis article discusses the history, purpose, and services that make up the Grand Valley State University Knowledge Market. The Knowledge Market is made up of faculty and staff directors leading four unique groups of specialized student-consultants who collaborate with their peers. While each service has a unique specialty, The Knowledge Market unites to guide students through the collective academic processes of researching, writing, speaking, and developing visual aids. The Knowledge Market is partnered with the university library in mission, service, and location. It provides a unique and replicable model that can be applied at avariety of campuses who have a need and desire for the communication center to synergize with the similar campus services and the bedrock of campus communities—the university library