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Connecting to History through Service-Learning: A Qualitative Case Study Investigating Student Engagement in Core History Courses
Get PDFSurveys have shown that students are not enthusiastic about taking history in college; some describe the discipline as boring and unnecessary. College is a setting where students are investing in themselves, exploring new knowledge to build a career, and gaining insight into the person they want to become in the future. Learning history through a traditional lecture method where memorization of names, dates, and events seems to be the norm is not appealing to students. Universities, promoting the thought that a well-rounded education is beneficial, commonly add history to the collection of general education core courses that are required for degree completion. With this outlook, students enter history classrooms with a \u27check-box\u27 mentality and do not put much interest into what they may learn from the course. Using an experiential learning theory, this qualitative case study sought to find out to what degree students in a higher education U.S. history core course would be engaged with and learn history content by performing a service-learning project that was linked to the course\u27s objectives. The data consisted of project assignments including participant diaries, auto-photograph presentations, and virtual discussion questions. The results of the study found that through the experience of service-learning students made new discoveries about themselves and what they liked or found useful. Students self-reported a connection to history. Because of their service-learning experience, they reported that the project was useful to their learning of history, with some changing their attitudes about the utility of the discipline. This study serves as a model for history instructors on how using experiential learning strategies in the classroom can motivate student learning. Also, servant leadership professionals can use this study to promote discipline-specific service-learning endeavors
A Comparison Study of Beliefs and Perceptions of Growth Mindsets Between P-12 Teachers and Parents
Get PDFEfforts in educational settings are increasing towards building cultures of growth mindsets that promote positive outcomes for all stakeholders. Nevertheless, a continuous cycle of false growth mindsets continues to spread among educational entities and parenting practices worldwide. Dweck suggests that many educators, students, and parents have been misguided regarding the mindset theory due to the spread of false growth mindsets. The purpose of this explanatory, sequential mixed methods research study was to compare beliefs and perceptions of growth mindset between P-12 teachers and parents. The theoretical framework of this study was the mindset theory, previously termed as the implicit theories of intelligence. In the quantitative phase, all P-12 teachers and parents from a rural, South Georgia school district were invited to complete a survey. Survey data were collected from the 54 teachers and 32 parents and were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings from the quantitative phase were used to select a purposive sample of participants and to develop focus group questions in the qualitative phase. The focus group participants included three teachers from the elementary levels and three parents with students who were enrolled in the elementary and high school levels. After transcribing the data, themes and subthemes were identified using pattern coding. One of the key findings of this study included the high usage of practices that did not foster growth mindsets by teachers and parents. The findings from this study could provide a basis for teacher professional development and parent workshops that are focused on proper growth mindset practices for students at school and at home
Suffragettes Fought for Women\u27s Voting Equality
No full textThis is a poster encouraging the CSU Community to vote in the 2020 election. Using the theme of how women fought for their right to vote in the United States, this poster features photos of Suffragettes marching.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/marketing/1005/thumbnail.jp
African American Read-In
No full textOn February 20, 2020, Columbus State University Libraries celebrated its annual African American Read-In. During this celebration, CSU students, faculty and staff read excerpts from their favorite books written by African American writers.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/marketing/1041/thumbnail.jp
Impact of politics on emotional exhaustion, satisfaction and turnover intention
No full text© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Hospitality employees are subject to emotional exhaustion (EE), yet relatively little is known about how organizational politics (OP) is related to EE and job satisfaction (JS). This study examines how hospitality employees’ experience of OP, EE, JS, and turnover intention (TI) are linked. Using structural equation modelling, results showed a complex link between the antecedents of TI. Each of the studied variables is impacted differently by OP, analysed for individual-level and group-level politics. Group-level politics was positively linked to EE, but it was found to be an insignificant predictor of JS. Individual-level politics was not significantly linked to EE but was significantly negatively linked to JS. Implications for future research and for management are included
Kristeva\u27s Thought Specular: Aesthetic Disobedience as a New Form of Revolt
No full text© 2020 The University of Memphis In Revolt, She Said, Julia Kristeva makes the intriguing suggestion that contemporary art may serve (or provoke) a benevolent form of experimental psychosis. Expanding on this idea in a recent essay, she argues that such art-induced psychosis becomes distinct in its capacity for triggering wholesome impulses toward social reform broadly conceived, that is, impulses which carry a political as well as a moral charge, but fall outside the domain of professional politics and ethical theory proper. To make this case and to emphasize the significance of Kristeva\u27s work for exploring the contested territory of the politics of aesthetics (in Jacques Rancière\u27s phrase), the present discussion brings Kristeva\u27s important but under-researched notion of the “thought specular” to bear on Jonathan Neufeld\u27s conception of “aesthetic disobedience.” By co-engaging these authors, one can extrapolate a model for participatory art that is not framed by rationalist standards of author intentionality or by communication-theoretical approaches, which cast the spectators as impassive recipients of the artwork\u27s presumed political message. Rather, witnessed by Tania Bruguera\u27s long-term work entitled Immigrant Movement International, participation in aesthetic disobedience can deliver on Kristeva\u27s promise of intimate revolt in the context of artistic activism or “artivism.”
Misconceptions on COVID-19 Risk Among Ugandan Men: Results From a Rapid Exploratory Survey, April 2020
No full text© Copyright © 2020 Kasozi, MacLeod, Ssempijja, Mahero, Matama, Musoke, Bardosh, Ssebuufu, Wakoko-Studstil, Echoru, Ayikobua, Mujinya, Nambuya, Onohuean, Zirintunda, Ekou and Welburn. Background: Transmission of COVID-19 in developing countries is expected to surpass that in developed countries; however, information on community perceptions of this new disease is scarce. The aim of the study was to identify possible misconceptions among males and females toward COVID-19 in Uganda using a rapid online survey distributed via social media. Methods: A cross-sectional survey carried out in early April 2020 was conducted with 161 Ugandans, who purposively participated in the online questionnaire that assessed understandings of COVID-19 risk and infection. Sixty-four percent of respondents were male and 36% were female. Results: We found significant divergences of opinion on gendered susceptibility to COVID-19. Most female respondents considered infection risk, symptoms, severe signs, and death to be equally distributed between genders. In contrast, male respondents believed they were more at risk of infection, severe symptoms, severe signs, and death (52.7 vs. 30.6%, RR = 1.79, 95% CI: 1.14–2.8). Most women did not share this perception and disagreed that males were at higher risk of infection (by a factor of three), symptoms (79% disagree), severe signs (71%, disagree), and death (70.2% disagree). Overall, most respondents considered children less vulnerable (OR = 1.12, 95% CI: 0.55–2.2) to COVID-19 than adults, that children present with less symptoms (OR = 1.57, 95% CI: 0.77–3.19), and that there would be less mortality in children (OR = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.41–1.88). Of female respondents, 76.4% considered mortality from COVID-19 to be different between the young and the elderly (RR = 1.7, 95% CI: 1.01–2.92) and 92.7% believed young adults would show fewer signs than the elderly, and 71.4% agreed that elderly COVID-19 patients would show more severe signs than the young (OR = 2.2, 95% CI: 1.4, 4.8). While respondents considered that all races were susceptible to the signs and symptoms of infection as well as death from COVID-19, they considered mortality would be highest among white people from Europe and the USA. Some respondents (mostly male 33/102, 32.4%) considered COVID-19 to be a “disease of whites” (30.2%). Conclusion: The WHO has identified women and children in rural communities as vulnerable persons who should be given more attention in the COVID-19 national response programs across Africa; however, our study has found that men in Uganda perceive themselves to be at greater risk and that these contradictory perceptions (including the association of COVID-19 with “the white” race) suggest an important discrepancy in the communication of who is most vulnerable and why. Further research is urgently needed to validate and expand the results of this small exploratory study
Entrepreneurship as a career choice: intentions, attitudes, and outcome expectations
No full text© 2019, © 2019 Journal of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Conseil de la PME et de l’entrepreneuriat. This manuscript presents an empirically tested model of entrepreneurial intentions based upon social cognitive career theory (SCCT). Our study consisted of 320 undergraduate business students at a large U.S. university and emphasizes the important influences of prior exposure to entrepreneurship, as well as social support mechanisms on formation of entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial outcome expectations. We offer strong theoretical support to the entrepreneurial intentions literature through the lens of SCCT. Additionally, our manuscript highlights the important role of entrepreneurial attitude in mediating the relationship between entrepreneurial motivation and intention. SCCT offers additional explanation to the existing underspecified model and complexity of entrepreneurial intentions. In this manuscript the authors identify attitude as an important precursor to entrepreneurial intent
Sound production of the banded Sculpin, Cottus carolinae
No full text© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. The use of sound in social interactions has been documented in several species of sculpin and may be used to convey information concerning species identity, intent, or fitness. Sound production may be a particularly important mode of communication in sculpin due to their nocturnal behavior and construction of nests in rock cavities where the efficacy of visual cues may be diminished. In this study, we describe acoustic signals produced during conspecific behavioral interactions in Cottus carolinae, and compare signal characteristics to the only other known sounds producers in the genus Cottus including C. gobio, C. rhenanus, C. perifretum, C. bairdii, and C. paulus. Sounds were produced during nocturnal encounters between cavity residents and intruders, and consisted of pulsatile signals that were arranged into pulse trains with remarkably long pulse intervals of approximately 1 s, as well as tonal sounds in which the periodicity was increased to approximately 60 Hz. We found no relationship between fish standard length and pulse instantaneous frequency or total pulse train duration, but did find a positive correlation between fish standard length and pulse duration, as well as position of pulse interval within the pulse train. We found that C. carolinae pulse train structure differed significantly from that of other published sculpin species, and that C. carolinae produce tonal sounds; a characteristic unique within the genus Cottus
Consideration of Future Consequences Influences Involvement in Romantic Partners’ Health
No full text© 2020, © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This study examined the influence of people’s short-term (e.g., convenience) and long-term (e.g., maintain weight) motives toward their romantic partner’s health on their provision of health-related social control and autonomy support for their partner’s health behaviors, as well as their indifference toward their romantic partner’s health. Data from a sample of cohabiting couples (N = 212) were analyzed using multilevel path models. Results showed having more long-term motives for a partner’s health lead to increased provisions of autonomy support and social control, and less indifference toward the partner’s health, especially when the partner had lower long-term health motives themselves. In contrast, having more short-term motives for a partner’s health was associated with providing less social control and autonomy support and showing more indifference toward the partner’s health. Thus, people motivated to improve their partner’s long-term health engage in more behaviors meant to improve their romantic partner’s health choices, particularly when the partner has low motivation to regulate their own health behaviors