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How to Use “Refresher” Activities to Promote Positive Learning
No full textThis workshop will address the need for English language teachers to include “refresher” activities in their lessons to ensure learners reach the best mindset for learning. Teach- ers can actively promote positive group dynamics through group “refresher” activities. Participants will collaborate to compile a list of accessible resources
How to Step Away from the Lesson Plan
No full textThis workshop will walk participants through group activities where they will consider how they would make in the moment changes to their lesson plans should it not be applicable to the students at hand, or should the students at hand not be engaged in the lesson
The Manipulation of Language and Distortion of Realities
No full textLanguage is a powerful tool. It can shape how we perceive the reality of an individual or a group. This presentation is a personal account of how a second language learner sees himself caught in a web of misunderstanding. It explores how the realities of specific groups are shaped by the way the media manipulates language
Reflect & Connect- Helping Students Make the Most of Their Study Abroad Experience
Get PDFIn our world of internationalization and global networking, students that study abroad have a definite advantage when transitioning into the professional world after graduating college. However, when asked, many have a difficult time articulating and marketing their international experience. When transitioning back to the United States and campus culture, students also go through varying degrees of reverse culture shock. They want to talk about their experience and share their newfound love of another culture, however many run into disinterested friends and glossy eyes.
The Education Abroad office at Central Palm International University is looking to expand their outreach and commitment to returning study abroad students. Beyond a photo contest and volunteering at the study abroad fair, students need opportunities and resources for making the most of their study abroad experience. Therefore, this capstone is a proposal to make a course focused on successful re-entry for past participants. “Reflect & Connect - Make the Most of Your Study Abroad Experience” course curriculum provides reflective opportunities and professional development with structured activities and guest speakers. The course aims to provide a safe and constructive space for activities to help students grow and excel in this global environment through reflection
My Neighborhood Is Changing: Positive Youth Development in the Historic Near East Side
Get PDFIn this paper, I consider the impact of positive youth development in the lives of Black youth, in the Historic Near East Side of Columbus, OH. More specifically, I examine initiatives centered in cultural arts, holistic support, and African centered education in order to identify positive trends impacting urban Black youth. My research is guided by the question: How are Black youth impacted by urban development in a historic African-American neighborhood?
The Near East Side(NES) is a distinguished neighborhood, and in the past laid the foundation for some of the most prominent and successful African American owned businesses in Columbus, Ohio. In the present, it still holds onto its historical and cultural significance, it is home to one of oldest National Urban League affiliates and continues to host multicultural and renowned artists from all over the world at the Lincoln Theater. Similar to other historic African American neighborhoods across the country, the Near East Side was subjected to both racial and social exclusion in order to promote urban renewal projects, which played a large role in the destruction of the community (Columbus Urban League).
This research aims to provide examples of theories and practices grounded in cultural and historical preservation pedagogy by linking them to positive youth development trends impacting Black youth. The literature review is comprised of case studies, annual reports, community observations and an in-depth interview, as well as my personal experience working and serving as both a Program Coordinator at the Columbus Urban League and a community organizer
Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment in Iceland: A STEM-Focused Program for the Experiment in International Living
Get PDFSince 1932, The Experiment in International Living (The Experiment or EIL) has been one of the most respected front-runners for providing high school educational programs that strengthen cultural awareness and engage and empower participants to think critically about global issues. Since its inception, over 70,000 students have participated in an Experiment program (World Learning, 2016a). Experience gained working as a group leader for The Experiment in summer 2015 helped in the development of a needs assessment that uncovered a significant gap in thematic offerings. Examining the STEM trends in the international education field and interviewing staff on requirements and issues in programming and curriculum, the following proposal strongly demonstrates the need for a new hard science-focused program for The Experiment in International Living.
This proposal focuses on the development of a new STEM-focused outbound summer program to Iceland with an excursion to Greenland. Iceland’s location in the Arctic Circle and proximity to Greenland make it an excellent location for students to learn about climate change, geology, and sustainability. Following The Experiment structure, this proposal outlines the curriculum, goals and objectives, itinerary, and budget for the Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment in Iceland program. This is a four-week outbound summer high school program that offers students a unique opportunity to explore Iceland’s diverse geology, topography and unique historic use of geothermal energy and hydropower
Comprehensive Internationalization Strategy for the Boston Architectural College: Building the Foundation for Action and Assessment
No full textThe purpose of this study is to build the foundation of a comprehensive internationalization (CIZN) strategy plan within the constructs of the Boston Architectural College (BAC). In an effort to incorporate international policies within the institutional strategic plan, this research prioritizes international student services, due to its growing population. The BAC recently began admitting international students onto its small, private campus, and many international students are motivated to study at the BAC for its integrated path towards architectural licensure. The research utilizes a comparative analysis in order to explore the best practices in international student services with the intentions of building a more holistic CIZN strategy. Data was collected by surveying 68 international students and interviewing 9 faculty and staff members on the strengths and weaknesses of the BAC. The data revealed that though many international students enjoy the idea of concurrently working in the field and attending classes, they also face many unexpected challenges with regards to cultural norms, religious beliefs, time management, and language barriers. Their feedback was triangulated with a survey previously collected by the BAC’s president, as he formulates an institutional strategic plan to improve enrollment and retention numbers. The objective is not merely to create a CIZN strategy for the BAC; rather, to spread awareness on how internationalization is applicable to and imperative for the growth of the institution. Utilizing grounded theoretical frameworks from the American Council on Education (ACE, 2012) and Jane Knight (2000), the recommendations were compiled from the collected data and presented within an assessment tool to monitor and evaluate the progress of the BAC’s CIZN efforts
Changing Advocacy Practices in a Changing World: an Evaluation of Oxfam America’s Influencing Work in a Shifting International NGO Culture
Get PDFFrom hunger and forced displacement to climate change and global economic inequality, society today must contend with the compounding impacts of manmade crises threatening and reshaping our planet and livelihoods in real time. As states and transnational actors approach a new era of development, the role of civil society remains critical to push decision makers and governing bodies to be accountable, inclusive, just, progressive and rights focused.
Toward this end, a growing number of civil society organizations are acknowledging that states, citizens and civil society in the Global South must lead their own development path. This is catalyzing a significant shift among Northern based INGOs to become more geographically balanced. Oxfam is a global development and influencing network of organizations with a collective agenda to end poverty, inequality and injustice by speaking truth to power and empowering active citizens and effective states. The new One Oxfam model seeks to decenter the confederation’s leadership from the Global North to the Global South, consequently shifting the role of Northern affiliates.
The core of this capstone paper is a Meta Review of the evaluations for six of Oxfam’s policy advocacy and campaigning initiatives in 2015. The review frames nine key and common lessons and best practices. Through this capstone, the lessons are placed within the evolving global, development and new One Oxfam contexts, as well as emerging literature and core advocacy frameworks. The aim is to take stock of how Oxfam’s culture of learning can help inform a new approach to influencing within this new organizational model. Ultimately, the paper highlights the strengths and potential in Oxfam’s current ways of working and theories of change, while underpinning the need to address the organization’s historically Northern roots in order to become even more inclusive, upstream, impact-focused and strategic, and infuse even greater intentionality into doing that which is most effective and sustainable
Sex and Sexual Education in China: Traditional Values and Social Implications
Get PDFIn China, the differing views of sex between younger and older generations is the clearest indicator ofthe division of modern and traditional thought in societyand their resulting repercussions. The paper examineswhat specific traditional Chinese norms and values spark many social issues in China, how those traditional values are reflected in the lack of sexual education, and then analyzes how the lack of sexual education impacts those social issues.Formal interviews were conducted in Kunming with seven college students (aged 18-23) from Yunnan Finance and Economics University and other universities, while more casual conversations were held with people of other ages in an English practice corner, as well as an informant who educates middle school students on human trafficking prevention. These interviews sought to explore and distinguish traditional Chinese norms and values, current views of sex and sexually related issues, sexual education, and government policies. Social issues concerning homosexuality, the HIV epidemic, condom use and birth control, abortion, sexual abuse and rape, and human trafficking and prostitution were also examined through these interviews and extended research. In order to alleviate and prevent further severity of these social issues, Chinese youth must be educated on the consequences of risky sexual behavior and other dangerous sexually related situations, and how to prevent them
Flip Cup: Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption in Modern China
Get PDFThe habits and attitudes surrounding the consumption of alcohol, in any culture, are just another lens through which we can look to better understand social life. The hierarchical social systems in China, which dictate common behavior, are unique. Much work has been written on the topic of guanxiand face: the defining factors for China’s ubiquitous, self-affirming system of relationships. Drinking culture is perhaps more interesting to travel bloggers than academics, but I believe that China’s drinking culture is a direct practice in guanxi production. The darker side of China’s drinking culture is anexercise in preserving face.
The gap in the literature is somewhere between editorial pieces aimed at businessmen, advising them the develop an iron liver before opening up shop in the Middle Kingdom, and broader studies in health, where authors are frustrated by a lack of reliable information. My procedures included active participant observation in alcohol-infused social settings, guided and unguided interviews of people of many age, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds, and the analysis of several books and studies about the purpose of drinking alcohol in modern China.
My results are that the extravagance and extremity of Chinese drinking culture both come from and are reinforced by the cultural practice of preserving face and guanxi. This project became a critique of systematic inefficiency. I conclude that the system perpetuates willful ignorance over problem solving in areas ranging from mental health to corruption. However, there is hope for change in the younger generations