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Silent Subversions
Get PDFExplores the concept of spectatorship in relation to gender in the earliest period of film history in the United States known as the silent era. Argues that a new mode of spectatorship emerges for women during the 1920s, which employs to advantage the extra-diegetic components of spectacle in theater design, new customized genres for female filmgoers, fandom, and exotic male film stars, such as Rudolph Valentino. Focuses primarily on feminist film theory and on cultural studies as methodological models
Educating Immigrant and Racial/Ethnic Minority Youth in Special Education Programs
Get PDFIn the United States, our current system of public education is characterized by academic achievement as a function of race, ethnicity, primary language use, and socioeconomic status (Hilliard, 1992). Moreover, in our public school system, 1 in 3 of all students is of an immigrant or racial/ethnic minority background (Agbenyega & Jiggetts, 1999). These students are frequently overrepresented in substantially separate educational settings, especially in special education programs (e.g., Hoover & Patton, 2005). In fact, it has been estimated that up to 40% of all special education students are of a minority background (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). The Office of Civil Rights has found that African American students are overrepresented in services for emotional disturbances, American Indian and immigrant students are overrepresented in services for learning disabilities, and African American, American Indian, and Latino and other immigrant students are all underrepresented in programs for gifted and talented students (Hosp & Reschly, 2004). In addition, students from Spanish-speaking, English Language Learner (ELL) backgrounds tend to be overly referred to specialized programs for students with speech and language learning disabilities (Brantlinger, 2006). The educational discrepancies presented here involving students of immigrant and racial/ethnic minority backgrounds have been of ongoing concern for the past four decades in the U.S
What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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Synthesizing Synthesis: a Unique Step beyond Summary
Get PDFAnalyzes the concept of synthesis, often referred to as a higher order thinking skill or an advanced form of reading comprehension strategy, and how the ability to synthesize can be incorporated into classroom and everyday life. Compares a survey of professionals to a model of how synthesis works to help generate methods for teaching students/thinkers to synthesize
Legacy of Service: 50 Years of Public Service to the Luso-American Community and the State of Rhode Island
No full textInitiated by the research of Former RI General Treasurer Paul J. Tavares, the Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies at Rhode Island College has undertaken this oral history project to document the public service of Luso-Americans in Rhode Island. This project begins with the story of fifty continuous years of service in which Portuguese-Americans have held the Senate District Seat representing all or part of East Providence. The five senators of this district, Associate Justice Gilbert T. Rocha, Senator and President Pro Tempore William A. Castro, Senator and President Pro Tempore John F. Correia, Former General Treasurer Paul J. Tavares and Senator Daniel DaPonte, share with us their insights about the evolution of their community and public service over the last fifty years
Eye on Ethics: The Challenge of Electronic Communication
No full textVirtually no social worker would want to return to the electronically primitive days of the late 19th century despite widespread laments about how oversaturated and overwhelmed contemporary practitioners are by electronic communications. Most social workers have come to accept the trade-offs involved in their dependence on electronic tools, recognizing that, despite the drawbacks, they enhance and facilitate the delivery of services
Open Adoption and Adolescence
Get PDFIn open adoptions, birth and adoptive families exchange identifying information and have contact. Although most adoptions today include some form of openness, much of the public remains wary of this. The purpose of this study was to explore, longitudinally, adoptive parents\u27 perceptions of their children\u27s open adoptions. This article reports the findings of tape-recorded interviews with 31 adoptive parents who were first interviewed when their children were infants and toddlers, again 7 years later, and a third time when their children were adolescents. The study found adoptive parents were committed to maintaining contact with the birth family even when discomforts and challenges in the relationships occurred. These findings can be used to guide agency policies and clinical practices that enable a wide range of open adoption options
Dying Gods and Sacred Prostitutes
Get PDFExplores the ways in which D.H. Lawrence revises and complicates archetypal characters and stories in his fiction. Lawrence\u27s mythic revisions are frequently along gender lines, thus having significant implications for femininst or gendered readings of his works. Focuses mainly on The Rainbow and The Plumed Serpent but also treats some of Lawrence\u27s shorter fiction
A Qualitative Study of the Epistemological Interplay between Teachers and Students in a High Stakes Testing Environment
Get PDFEmploying grounded theory methodology informed by microethnographic discourse analysis, studies the classroom conversations, interviews with students and teachers, and students\u27 written texts in a high stakes test preparation program for tenth graders to determine the effects students and teachers have upon one another\u27s epistemological beliefs concerning the source of knowledge. Students were preparing for the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT)