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Understanding the Liberal Arts Experience: Developing Leadership Skills from Classical Education
No full textThis descriptive case study seeks to determine how public high school students perceive the value of participating in liberal arts activities and how they believe these activities influence their academic success and future choices after their high school graduation. Participants were selected from students who participated in both a liberal arts and leadership activity at the research site during the 2018 spring semester. The eight selected participants were asked to complete an initial interview and a member checking interview. The researcher also observed each participant’s leadership activities twice. Themes emerging from the collected data included participant’s access to leadership development opportunities, enhanced self-confidence, increased self-efficacy, and improved interpersonal communication skills. The results of this qualitative research will add to the academic literature concerning the benefits of liberal arts participation. The implications of this research suggest that high schools need to include a variety of liberal arts programs in their curriculum and that liberal arts teachers can use the results of academic research to serve as stronger advocates for the inclusion of liberal arts programs in their schools
The Water, the Words, and a Little Bit More: An In-Depth Look at Christian and Mormon Baptism for the Purpose of Pastoral Care
No full textThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints practices baptism in a very similar way to Christian traditions. They use water, just like Christianity, and they use the same words as Christian baptisms—both traditions will recite the phrase, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” However, as a pastor in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, I will baptize any LDS convert that joins my congregation. I will do this because the LDS Church, despite its similarities to Christianity, is not considered a Christian body.
Major key terms that need definition are: LDS Church, Mormon Church, vicarious baptism, liturgy, orthodoxy, denominations, traditions. The LDS Church and the Mormon Church are synonymous and are used interchangeably. Vicarious baptism is a practice in the LDS Church in which someone volunteers are baptized for a deceased person. Liturgy is the structure and organizational pattern for a church service. Canon is defined as the authoritative texts used by a religious group. A denomination is a recognized independent branch of the Christian Church. “Traditions” and “denominations” are used synonymously in this thesis
Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries: Highlights from Hangzhou
No full textThe Fifth Biennial Conference of the Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL) was held in Hangzhou, China, June 1-2, 2017. More than sixty law school deans, law librarians, and law professors from more than fifty law schools in China attended the conference. Overseas attendees included more than twenty-five law librarians and library directors from Germany, Canada, as well as the presidents of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and International Association of Law Libraries (IALL)