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Literacy Skills and Practices in Cambodian-American Families: A Portraiture of Ten Women
Get PDFAbstract:This research article describes the literacy skills and practices in ten Cambodian-American (CA) families within their home environment. It also investigates such contextual problems as CA students not being a part of the Asian model minority and the invisibility that some experience at school.Its literature review addresses the evolving concept of family literacy scholarship, specifically diversity scholarship, with a conceptual framework focusing on Dewey’s (1916) ideas linking family literacy ultimately to human empowerment, hope, progress, growth, and meaning within society. A narrative inquiry technique called portraiture is employed to collect the data of its ten participants’ experiences. This research’s key finding is skewed toward educated women. Recommendations included quantitative methodology, culturally-relevant pedagogy and funds of knowledge be applied for further research
Drivers And Barriers to Financial Transparency in Georgia’s Local Governments
Get PDFThis study investigates the determinants of financial transparency in local governments, specifically measured by the availability of financial documents on official websites. Hypotheses were developed to examine the relationships between financial transparency and three categories of influencing factors: community environmental characteristics, governance structures, and financial conditions. Using empirical analysis on a sample of 159 counties in Georgia, the findings reveal varying levels of support for the proposed hypotheses. Key determinants of financial transparency include population size, median household income, and the size of the board of commissioners. Conversely, financial condition factors were not found to significantly influence financial transparency. These findings provide insights into the drivers of transparency practices in local governance and highlight areas for further research and policy attention
Lowell Hardin: Mentor Extraordinaire
Get PDFLowell Stewart Hardin (1917–2015), an Indiana farm boy who became an enormously influential international agriculturalist, made the world a better place for the poor and the hungry on this earth. For seventeen years he led the Ford Foundation’s agricultural development efforts, contributing to the Green Revolution. He helped to found and guide international agriculture research centers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He inspired others to get involved and opened doors for them. He taught by example, gave others credit, and always stepped back, avoiding the limelight himself. In this volume, twenty-two people who knew him well share stories of Lowell, and lessons they learned from this extraordinary mentor and wonderful human being.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/1077/thumbnail.jp
A Fragment of 50 Misrememberings: A Collection of Poetry
Get PDFThis literary work includes three selected poems from a larger collection of poems
Academic Library Identity and Space Design
Get PDFIn academia, the library can be considered the heart and soul of the campus as well as instrumental to the curricula and course design for teaching and learning. How is the library perceived and identified for all the value created for stakeholders? The modern library is not just about books anymore, it is so much more. How do people identify with the academic library? What can make the most difference to contemporary students/researchers/scholars? How are spaces designed to recognize and enhance, all the multifaceted elements that stakeholders identify with the library
Beyond the Shelves: Exploring The Voices of All Through Podcasting
Get PDFAcademic podcasting provides an innovative platform to capture and communicate the voices of all, disrupting traditional academic publishing models through open and accessible media. But can they serve as a platform to include living indigenous knowledge, decolonise research and liberate the library by capturing and distributing oral narratives within a context relevant to your library community? This workshop will enable IATUL delegates to explore this question and develop the skills to plan an effective podcast. We will explore possibilities and share our experiences of developing the IATUL Beyond the Shelves podcast based on a collaborative IATUL funded International Research and Study Programme project. This will cover the pre-production, production and post-production stages of podcasting. Delegates will then have the opportunity to consider and plan a podcast series focussed on the voices of all, incorporating proposed episodes with indigenous or previously excluded library communities. As Chong (2022) articulates, libraries are still to effectively capture the knowledge systems of First Nations people. Could capturing the oral traditions of indigenous communities be a potential response? Ewing (2022) poses a similar question when articulating the dominant epistemology of universality favoured by Western modernity, calling instead for pluralistic approaches including multiple and diverse voices. How can oral traditions and living knowledge be adopted to capture and distribute the voices of all in our university libraries? What opportunities does the audio medium of podcasting provide
Building Cohesive Classroom Communities
Get PDFResearch shows that a cohesive classroom community, or the relationships built between students within a classroom setting, leads to a long list of positive student outcomes in higher education. This research seeks to better understand how to build cohesion in a classroom community, a goal that has become even more urgent given the student isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses the tool of social network analysis, a tool particularly well suited for studying networks of relationships, to examine how two common collaborative learning techniques—small group discussions and team-based projects—affect the structure and strength of the classroom community networks in two public affairs undergraduate courses. The results show that both collaborative learning techniques created a network of denser, more inclusive relationships between students. Teamwork, in particular, had a large impact on the formation of relationships between students. Further, the collaborative teaching strategies were effective in improving student learning outcomes. Students received higher grades and reported higher satisfaction with the course if they were more embedded in the classroom community network. The results of this research reveal the importance of focusing on relationship-building instructional techniques for student success in higher education
The Need for Quality Course Design in a Post-pandemic World: A Case Study
Get PDFOnline course instruction remains one of the fastest growing sectors in the higher education industry but has been historically stigmatized with poor quality and low standards. Early distance education programs were heavily teacher-centric in design and were used as a means to disseminate information to students at a distance. However, institutions have worked to re-envision distance education through a student-centered learning approach to improve the modality quality. In light of the rapid shift to online teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic response, there is a need to improve practices for preparing quality courses to support student learning in hybrid and online learning formats. There are a variety of quality assurance frameworks and evaluation instruments, such as the Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric, that are utilized to measure the quality of course design. The purpose of this case study is to analyze the faculty and student perceptions of the impact of course design on student learning at a small public college in Central Florida