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The Disney Strike of 1941: From the Animators\u27 Perspective
Get PDFIdentifies and explores the tensions that led to the Disney Strike of 1941. Demonstrates that this Strike exhibited different problems from those typical of strikes during the 1930s and early 1940s, especially regarding intellectual property rights, screen credit, and professional differences over standards of excellence
An Investigation of Communication Patterns and Strategies between International Teaching Assistants and Undergraduate Students in University-level Science Labs
Get PDFInvestigates communication between international teaching assistants and their undergraduate students in university-level chemistry labs. Qualitative and quantitative data from observations and interviews with study participants guide the analysis of laboratory interactions, which examines patterns of conversational listening. Results reveal that successful communication depends on teaching assistant listening comprehension skills and on the coordination of verbal and visual (gestural and physical resources) sources of information
What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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Fall 2008
Get PDFInside this issue: -Message from the Director, Hedi BenAicha -President Carriuolo Opens Library Lecture Series by Rachel Carpenter Our Staff: -Kresten Jespersen, Cataloging/Reference Librarian by Rachel Carpenter -Scuffy Wiesman, Access Services Student by Brian Baker Our Collections: -The Browsing Collection at Adams Library by Carla Weiss -Check It Out: The Gargoyle, a book review by Debra Thomson; The Post-American World, a book review by Judith Stokes Thank you, Class of 1958! Then and Now Upcoming Event
Lessons from Curricular Activism on How to Change Your Campus
Get PDFMy discussion here is based on in-depth case studies of six colleges and universities around the United States that vary in terms of size, selectivity, prestige, public or private status, and location. In the period between 1970 and 2005, each campus experienced a campaign for at least one of the three progressive curricular programs I studied: women’s studies, Asian American studies, and queer/LGBT studies, for a total of thirteen curricular change campaigns. Of these, eleven resulted in the establishment of some sort of curricular program, whether a minor, a certificate program, or a major. However, these six campuses varied considerably in terms of how hospitable they were to curricular change efforts; in addition, even those curricular change campaigns that were able to achieve their goal and create a curricular program varied in terms of how long program creation took to achieve and how institutionalized the program ultimately became. I collected data from college and university archives and from interviews with key figures in the curricular change campaigns, including administrators, faculty members, and students. After analyzing the data, I was able to develop a theoretical model that explains how and when curricular change campaigns (and related social movement-like activity inside colleges, universities, and other organizations) are able to have an impact. This model provides administrators who are seeking to create progressive social change on their campuses with five key lessons on how to best organize, mobilize, and make an impact
Eye on Ethics: When Ethics and Law Collide
No full textSocial workers generally agree that they should obey laws that clearly are essential for an orderly society. However, some practitioners argue that in some instances, blind obedience to the law can be shortsighted and harm clients, particularly when laws seem to be unjust
Enculturation Effects in Music Cognition: The Role of Age and Music Complexity
Get PDFThe authors replicate and extend findings from previous studies of music enculturation by comparing music memory performance of children to that of adults when listening to culturally familiar and unfamiliar music. Forty-three children and 50 adults, all born and raised in the United States, completed a music memory test comprising unfamiliar excerpts of Western and Turkish classical music. Examples were selected at two levels of difficulty—simple and complex—based on texture, instrument variety, presence of simultaneous musical lines, and clarity of internal repetition. All participants were significantly better at remembering novel music from their own culture than from an unfamiliar culture. Simple examples from both cultures were remembered significantly better than complex examples. Children performed as well as adults when remembering simple music from both cultures, whereas adults were better at remembering complex Western music. The results provide evidence that enculturation affects one\u27s understanding of music structure before adulthood
Acculturative and psychosocial predictors of academic-related outcomes among Cambodian American high school students.
Get PDFThis study examined the acculturative and psychosocial predictors of academicrelated outcomes among Cambodian American high school students from an urban school district in the state of Massachusetts. Student participants (N = 163) completed an anonymous survey that assessed demographic characteristics, acculturative experiences, intergenerational conflict, depression, and academicrelated outcomes. The main results indicated that acculturative and psychosocial variables were significant predictors of academic-related outcomes. Specifically, students’ Cambodian cultural orientation was positively associated with their beliefs about the utility of education and sense of school membership, while students’ Anglo/White cultural orientation was positively associated with their grade point average, educational aspirations, and sense of school membership. Results also indicated that Cambodian cultural orientation was negatively associated with intergenerational conflict, which in turn was associated with depression. This study provides important information to developers of schoolbased and family-based prevention and intervention programs by highlighting the acculturative challenges and how academic success can be fostered for Cambodian American students
The Rhode Island Foundation Yearbook 2008
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