296 research outputs found
Alisa Hill Interview, March 05, 2013
No full textSUMMARY: In this interview, Washington, D.C. native Alisa Hill speaks about the phenomenon of homelessness in the city. Alisa shares her personal experiences with homelessness, including her efforts to find shelter and how being homeless has affected her relationships with others. Alisa also discusses her advocacy efforts to bring attention to the issue of homelessness and her outreach with homeless children. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts
A “very decent nick”: ethical treatment in prison-based democratic therapeutic communities
No full textThe penal system of England and Wales has been greatly influenced in the past two decades by the emergence of a moral framework or ‘decency agenda’. What decency means to prisoners and how decency can be embodied into daily prison life, however, remains underexplored. Drawing from her original research in prison-based democratic therapeutic communities (TCs), the author argues that decency is experienced in TCs through an ethic of care and an ethos of change. TC residents benefit from atypical institutional practices which encourage the formation of supportive relationships with prison staff and facilitate meaningful opportunities for personal change
My ‘Hair’itage
No full textAuthor: Garland McKinney | Designer: John Saenz | Illustrator: Alisa Jones | Editor: Kristy MastenIt is a girl’s first day at her new school, and she is challenged to fit in because of her unique appearance
Barriers and supports to nontraditional-aged adults student's success in community college
No full textABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Title By Melissa Edwards Dissertation Director: Dr. Alisa Belzer Problem Statement In spite of the many support structures that attract nontraditional-aged adult students to community colleges, research suggests that participation in community college programs still presents barriers to the success of nontraditional-aged adult students that may ultimately affect retention. A study that seeks descriptions of those barriers and supports from nontraditional-aged adults’ perspectives as they work to complete a semester adds valuable information about how to effectively help the growing number of nontraditional-aged adult students in community colleges. Research Questions How do nontraditional-aged adult students in community college describe the barriers and supports to the completion of an associate’s degree and persistence in community college? Subquestions 1. How do nontraditional-aged adult students describe their experiences with faculty in the classroom, their experiences with the registration process, and their interaction with the college administration for purposes of information, guidance, and other college-level issues? 2. How do nontraditional-aged adult students describe the experiences they have outside of college that affect their college experiences? Method To answer these questions, a multi-case study approach was conducted. Eleven nontraditional-aged adult students on campus served as focal students for the case study, which took place in the bounds of 1 semester. More than 800 nontraditional-aged adult students answered surveys about their experiences, 11 students participated in two face-to-face interviews during the semester, and participated in 4 telephone interviews. Eighteen nontraditional-aged adult student volunteers participated in focus-group sessions. Seventeen nontraditional-aged adult students posted their experiences on a private message board. Additional interviews and focus groups were conducted with faculty and staff to augment data. Significance Nontraditional-aged adult students are a unique and growing set of students in the community college sector. The characteristics of adults as learners are distinct enough to suggest the importance of a study such as the one conducted here. This study was a qualitative, multiple-case study that sought to provide an in-depth, detailed picture of the barriers and supports for nontraditional-aged adult students from their multiple perspectives and realities. This adds to the knowledge about barriers to success for a subgroup of community college students as well as identifies how nontraditional-aged adult students describe supports that can lead to success in community colleges. The study found that nontraditional-aged adult students at the college in the study faced a plethora of obstacles that were institutional, situational, and dispositional. The institutional issues could be further subdivided between classroom issues and service access issues. I found that the college had multiple exemplary programs in place to support all of the students and in some cases, those exemplary programs successfully helped nontraditional-aged adults students to persist and be satisfied. However, the nontraditional-aged adult students at the college were diverse and therefore the programs in place did not serve and satisfy all of the nontraditional-aged adult students. Nontraditional-aged adult students, those who were satisfied and those who were dissatisfied with the college, shared many of the same obstacles. However, the adults were still different enough from each other to call for the institution to use various methods to help the adult students to overcome the obstacles they had in common.Ed. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Melissa Edward
Project in author photography: the tradition of writing paper letters.
No full textFotogrāfijaInformācijas un komunikācijas zinātnesPhotographyInformation and Communication SciencesBakalaura darba autore: Alisa Ustinova
Bakalaura darba tēma: “Projekts autorfotogrāfijā: papīra vēstuļu rakstīšanas tradīcija”
Bakalaura darba vadītājs: Doc. Dr. paed. Alnis Stakle
Bakalaura darba apjoms ir 66 lpp., 41 informatīvie avoti, 1 pielikums, 22 fotogrāfijas. Bakalaura darbs uzrakstīts latviešu valodā.
Bakalaura darba mērķis bija izveidot autorfotogrāfijas projektu par papīra vēstuļu rakstīšanas tradīciju, lai pievērstu sabiedrības uzmanību pie mūsdienu komunikācijas veida trūkumiem, kā arī popularizēt tādu tradīciju kā papīra vēstules rakstīšana.
Bakalaura darbs sastāv no teorētiskās daļas un koncepcijas daļas. Lai sasniegtu gala darba mērķi tika izvirzīti sekojoši uzdevumi. Darba teorētiskajā daļā tika apskatīts fotogrāfijas un autorfotogrāfijas jēdziens, kā arī tika veikta papīra vēstuļu vizuālā atainojuma izpēte. Tika apskatīti komunikācijas un verbālās komunikācijas jēdzieni, papīra vēstules jēdziens un to īpašības, kā arī īpašības komunikācijā ar papīra vēstulēm un tika veikta izpēte par tradīcijas jēdzienu. Darba koncepcijas daļā tika veikts radošā darba koncepcijas dizaina izstrādes apraksts, kurš ietver fotosērijas gaitu, fotogrāfiju uzņemšanas procesu un to pēcapstrādes aprakstu. Darba noslēgumā tika izvirzīti secinājumi.
Atslēgas vārdi: fotogrāfija, komunikācija, papīra vēstule, tradīcija, vizuālais atainojums, autorfotogrāfija.Author of the bachelor's thesis: Alisa Ustinova
Bachelor's thesis topic: "Project in author photography: the tradition of writing letter letters"
Supervisor of the bachelor's thesis: Asst. Prof. Dr. paed. Alnis Stakle
The volume of the bachelor's thesis is 66 pages, 41 informative sources, 1 appendix, 22 photos. The bachelor's thesis is written in Latvian.
The aim of the bachelor's thesis was to create an author's photography project on the tradition of writing paper letters in order to draw the public's attention to the shortcomings of modern forms of communication, as well as to popularize such a tradition as writing a paper letter.
The bachelor's thesis consists of a theoretical part and a conceptual part. In order to achieve the goal of the final work, the following tasks were set. The theoretical part of the work deals with the concept of photography and self-photography, as well as the study of the visual representation of paper letters. The concepts of communication and verbal communication, the concept of a paper letter and their properties, as well as the properties of communication with paper letters were examined and a study of the concept of tradition was carried out. In the part of the work concept, a description of the creative work concept design development was made, which includes the course of the photo series, the process of taking photos and a description of their post-processing. Conclusions were drawn at the end of the work.
Keywords: photography, communication, paper letter, tradition, visual representation, author photography
Practice makes Perfect: Shaping Influences on Informal Reading Among Adult Developing Readers
No full textThis study of 3 adult literacy learners’ outside class text interactions, indicate that quantity and quality of reading practice may be influenced by the ways prior experiences have helped shape their beliefs and understandings about reading development, access to text, and the nature of family relationships related to learning and literacy
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