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Engaging Students With College-Level Texts
Get PDFThis is a presentation provided at the Appalachian College Association Summit in October of 2010 in Abingdon, Virginia. A version of it was presented in 2006 to teachers at the NC Dept. of Juvenile Justice, Corrections in Albemarle, NC
Dissertation: Growth of a Teacher Garden: A Research Evaluation Study of the Creative Options Partnership in Education (COPE).
No full textDissertation Submitted to The Faculty of The Graduate School at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy, Greensboro 2004; UMI Number: 3142437 Copyright 2004 by Painter, Janet Fern; available through UNCG catalog at https://uncg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/58731979 and through NC DOCKS , an open-access database for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the scholarly and creative works of UNCG's faculty and students. “Open Access” means that all works in NC DOCKS are freely accessible through the Internet.This qualitative single case study examined a school-university partnership program known as the Creative Options Partnership in Education (COPE). The purpose of the study was to understand the emergent qualities of the partnership during its initial five years. Data, collected through individual interviews with partnership leaders, a focus group interview with stakeholder representatives, and program records, were analyzed to identify emerging themes. The qualitative data yielded five themes, which the study described and examined in relation to the PDS Impact Assessment Model and CIPP evaluation model. The identified themes were (a) connections that enhance practice, (b) relationships and bonding, (c) communication, (d) benefits for partner school children, as well as (e) funding and resource issues. Findings indicated that partnership concerns about communication and resources did not prevent meaningful relationships from developing between and among the stakeholders groups, nor did such concerns prevent the identification of benefits to the children at the partner school. The findings suggest that stakeholder beliefs about the quality of their collaborative relationships (input) and their interpretations of how children are benefiting, relate to their assessment of the effectiveness of practices (process) and desired outcomes (product) of the PDS program. Stakeholder judgments regarding the overall impact of the PDS program, particularly the organizational innovations (context) and adaptions in roles and structures (input) brought on during the initial period of PDS development (context), also show connections to these beliefs
Throwing out a Net over Berlin via Airbnb Bookings: Educators in Search of the Metropole’s Creative Potential
Get PDFThe paper’s first section presents the goal of the documented research: to connect the creative cities discourse with the development of innovative educational cultures, with a spotlight on the city of Berlin. One particular element of this research was to examine the social and cultural worlds which have been accessed through the booking platform Airbnb over a two-year time frame. The paper’s second section indicates which methodology was used and how the data were collected: 27 city-wide randomly booked places were investigated, using cultural mapping, case study, participant observation, unstructured interviewing, and listening. The results are reviewed in the third section in the form of short case descriptions. Section four discusses the findings: While a majority of hosts demonstrated diverse lifestyles and practiced openly communicative and productive economic patterns (which are connected in the literature with the creative class), a particular group also demonstrated limited financial resources and precariousness. In the paper’s final section, the conclusion that the role of Airbnb in the context of urban change is more than ambivalent is discussed. This conclusion is provided despite the fact that Airbnb allows new communicative and economic forms. The Airbnb booking platform implies problematic effects on the social fabric of a city like Berlin. The paper concludes that schools should not only empower the younger generation with regard to their creative potential but that schools should also involve students in a critical analysis of urban change and challenge them to think about really sustainable forms of urban sharing
Measuring Diversity of Opinion in Public Library Collections
Get PDFUniversity of Chicago Press permissions statement here - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/lq/jrnl_rights#faq8This study was intended to develop a method for measuring diversity of opinion in public library collections and to test the method in selected Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) libraries. The method was broadly conceived and included locating an objective index of diversity (Simpson's index), identifying the population of diverse materials available for selection by librarians, and selecting key variables that relate to high or low levels of diversity in individuals libraries. Four potentially controversial subject areas were investigated, namely, abortion, capital punishment, disarmament or arms control, and euthanasia. Testing the method included analyzing questionnaires and library holdings of books and audiovisual materials, publishing and reviewing patterns, checklists from special interest groups, and regression analysis data related to creating models of significant independent variables that affect diversity scores of individual public libraries.Supported by an OCLC Library and Information Science Research Gran
Traces: An Oral History of Lenoir-Rhyne College
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"This oral history study of Lenoir-Rhyne College’s past was the result of a number of fortunate circumstances. First, the History Department, after joining the North Carolina Institute of Applied History, worked to implement courses that would give students practical experience in 'doing history.' Oral history is one of these courses. Second, Associate Academic Dean Grant Hammond made the serendipitous suggestion that the oral history and archaeology classes combine in studying the history of the College.
Third, a very outstanding class of History and American Studies majors, many of whom were seniors, indicated their interest in the applied history idea and subsequently registered for the Oral History class. Finally, the administration of the College gave approval and support to the project.... The thrust of the project was to be first toward preserving the irreplaceable recollections
of the older alumni and second toward organizing chronologically the history of the College. Students spent the first six weeks of the semester learning oral history techniques and studying the available documentary work on the College’s history, then they began interviewing.... TRACES is a beginning of the oral history of Lenoir-Rhyne College.
The History of the Founding of Lenoir College
No full textThis is a handwritten manuscript written by Robert Anderson Yoder, entitled "The History of the Founding of Lenoir College." R.A. Yoder is one of the four founders of Lenoir College and its first president (1891-1901). This item is written in a composition book with the Yoder papers in Lenoir-Rhyne's Archives (folder 5.1.1.20 College, Synod History)
A Statement of the History and Present Financial Conditions of the College
No full textThis is W.P. Cline's brief, hand-written, financial account of the beginnings of Highland/Lenoir College up to 1903 or so. It also includes a history of its predecessor, Highland Academy. The papers are in an archives folder (2.18.2.7 Cline, W.P.: Early History of Highland Academy 1903).
The Rev. William Pinckney Cline was one of the founders of Lenoir College and served as professor of Latin and History from 1891 to 1901. After that he was chairman of the Board of Trustees for an additional five years during which he continued to contribute to the development of the college. He later served churches and church institutions in South Carolina. The Board of Trustees awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1913
Lenoir-Rhyne College catalog
No full textThis college catalogue is one of the earliest--and possibly the very earliest--catalogue for what is now known as Lenoir-Rhyne University (founded 1891). It names the trustees, faculty, and students at "Lenoir College" and also provides a very general description of the curriculum. It also provides information on the origins and aims of the college, the requirements for graduation, and an itemization of anticipated expenses. Source: Rudisill Library Special Collection