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Alien Registration- Smith, Edwin (Calais, Washington County)
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Education and the public good: Foregrounding education in history
Full text linkHistorians can contribute significantly to education historiography to bolster education
transformation. Contemporary scholarship in education, in the main, mostly wrestles
with the current dispensation’s transformation of education policy endeavours in the
post-apartheid era. While there is no substantial or insurmountable disagreement on the
education policy objectives in post-apartheid South Africa, much of the contestations seem
to arise from how these objectives should be realised to achieve their lofty ideals. This is
where learning from history is important. History is not merely concerned with constructing
knowledge through relooking the past but also attending to the “selection” and “silences”
over time. Among other things, South Africa’s history also provides significant insights into
how education contributed to developing a first-world economy in the country. This article
argues that, because of education’s ability to enable social and economic mobility to affect
families, communities, and society in general positively, education is a public good that
requires historians’ involvement and attention. The article also considers the significance
of funding education as a public good. Consequently, the paper argues that historians can
make a significant contribution to transforming education in their continuous rewriting of
history to learn from the past and foreground education as a public good in the past and
present for the future
Nobel Prize-winning Author Derek Walcott to Speak March 28
No full textOXFORD, Miss. - Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott is a featured lecturer March 28 at the University of Mississippi
Author, Editor David Baker is Grisham Visiting Writer Feb. 6
No full textOXFORD, Miss. - Author and editor David Baker is the John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writer Feb. 6 at the University of Mississippi
Alfalfa: its place among Kansas crops
No full textCitation: Smith, Edwin Lee. Alfalfa: its place among Kansas crops. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1898.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: Kansas is preeminently an agricultural state. Its soil is rich in the natural elements, and ever ready to write with the efforts of the farmer to make mother earth yield bountifully from her great natural storehouse. The farmer plows and sows, the rains descend, and the seed sprouts. He looks out over his beautiful broad fields and smiles on his prospects for a plentiful harvest. What is there that the Kansas Farmer could not raise on his rectangular fields had he the showers when needed? The population of Kansas is made up of an agricultural people. They have come from all parts of the world; bringing with them their ideas of husbandry. They came here in the early days of the state, when the buffalo roamed over the plains, and have since battled against poverty, hard-times, and Kansas grass-hoppers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Award-winning Faculty Author to Read from Latest Book April 18
No full textOXFORD, Miss. - An award-winning University of Mississippi faculty author has scheduled a promotional appearance to celebrate her fourth and latest book
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