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A glimpse of a professional and a genuine human being.
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Me First
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Yolantha Harrison-Pace
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Service-learning is entering a post-initiatory phase. At tertiary
institutions of all types and sizes, service-learning programs are
common and service-learning requirements for graduation are growing
in popularity. Taken together -- alongside continued faculty
interest in effective teaching these factors have raised the
visibility and popularity of service-learning. Now the greater need
in service-learning is not to prove the need for, or efficacy of,
service-learning, but to turn the focus squarely back on practice.
Following established best practice is not enough; instructors also
need to reflect on how this fits within the specific context and
application of each unique course and service-learning partnership.
While there are many excellent resources that detail best practice
and showcase exemplary service-learning courses, faculty reflection
and course revision often goes unmentioned. In response to the lack
of attention on the role of reflection and course revision, we
convened groups of faculty from a variety of disciplines to reflect
deeply on their courses, paying specific attention to obstacles and
challenges. These conversations were converted to articles for this
edited collection, each chapter representing the process of
reflection and revision and serving as a guide to develop effective
practice in varied curricular contexts. This text contributes to
the body of literature on service-learning in a unique and
practical manner. Faculty teaching or interested in teaching
service-learning classes would benefit from this text as well as
university administrators and community service directors involved
in service-learning at a programmatic and institutional level. This
book should be marketed to faculty teaching disciplinary
service-learning classes and service-learning pedagogy classes and
administrative offices involved in service-learning. This could be
a supplementary text for graduate-level pedagogy courses. Higher
education institutional libraries would benefit from this text, as
well as the national and state campus compact offices.
Making the Connection: Data-Informed Practices in Academic Support
Centers for College Athletes is practical and ideal for those who
seek to use research to inform their individual and organizational
practices. This volume is primarily intended for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students, though scholars, researchers,
teachers, practitioners, coaches, athletics administrators, and
advocates of intercollegiate athletics will also find it useful. It
comprises a series of chapters that cover a wide range of
evidence-based approaches designed to enhance the practices of
those who work closely with college athletes. Given the breadth of
the field overall, this single volume is not exhaustive, but the
current concerns, challenges, and themes of relevance to higher
education researchers, practitioners, and others are well
addressed. The intent of the text is to spark conversation about
how college and university constituents can reframe their thinking
about the importance of innovative research to careful, informed
practice. Likewise, the contributors hope that it will inspire
greater awareness and action among practitioners, as well as
advance scholarship in the area of athletics. Each chapter includes
current research, and in some cases theoretical perspectives, which
should assist practitioners enhance the well-being of college
athletes. Each chapter also offers guided discussion questions that
are ideal for use as the basis of further conversation in the
classroom setting. Adopters of this text will benefit from leading
voices in the field who delve into complex issues, shedding new
light and presenting unique opportunities for understanding a
diversity of perspectives on evidence-based practices in support
centers for athletes. In all, this volume provides a rich portrait
of data-driven practices designed to assist practitioners and
others who work closely with college athletes, and lays the
groundwork for an ambitious and long overdue agenda to further
develop innovative research that informs the practices of athletics
stakeholders and improves the quality of experiences for college
athletes.
Making the Connection: Data-Informed Practices in Academic Support
Centers for College Athletes is practical and ideal for those who
seek to use research to inform their individual and organizational
practices. This volume is primarily intended for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students, though scholars, researchers,
teachers, practitioners, coaches, athletics administrators, and
advocates of intercollegiate athletics will also find it useful. It
comprises a series of chapters that cover a wide range of
evidence-based approaches designed to enhance the practices of
those who work closely with college athletes. Given the breadth of
the field overall, this single volume is not exhaustive, but the
current concerns, challenges, and themes of relevance to higher
education researchers, practitioners, and others are well
addressed. The intent of the text is to spark conversation about
how college and university constituents can reframe their thinking
about the importance of innovative research to careful, informed
practice. Likewise, the contributors hope that it will inspire
greater awareness and action among practitioners, as well as
advance scholarship in the area of athletics. Each chapter includes
current research, and in some cases theoretical perspectives, which
should assist practitioners enhance the well-being of college
athletes. Each chapter also offers guided discussion questions that
are ideal for use as the basis of further conversation in the
classroom setting. Adopters of this text will benefit from leading
voices in the field who delve into complex issues, shedding new
light and presenting unique opportunities for understanding a
diversity of perspectives on evidence-based practices in support
centers for athletes. In all, this volume provides a rich portrait
of data-driven practices designed to assist practitioners and
others who work closely with college athletes, and lays the
groundwork for an ambitious and long overdue agenda to further
develop innovative research that informs the practices of athletics
stakeholders and improves the quality of experiences for college
athletes.
This guide was created for young teenage girls. Too often, we
struggle with self-image, self-love, and low self-esteem. This
guide will give you daily affirmations to keep you encouraged. It
also allows you to journal your thoughts and ideas to discover
something GREAT in you. For your enjoyment, there are activities in
the back of the book to reinforce daily affirmations and
educational material that supports Reading, Language Arts, and
History.
The Discussion is distorting today. Within schools, social
movements, and firms, there has been an increasing tendency for
teachers and facilitators to announce that there will be a
discussion while the interaction which follows this announcement is
not a discussion, but something else??likely a recitation and
lecture. This distortion of discussion promises democracy,
equality, and participation during a meeting or class, but delivers
inequality, prohibition, and dominance. Now is the time to begin
changing these practices which ultimately create and support a
neoliberal society that promises democracy but practices oligarchy.
One way to change this neoliberal social world is by intervening in
the distortion of discussion, by facilitating interaction so that
discussion's promise of equality and participation is fulfilled
rather than negated. Elements of Discussion is a resource for this
intervention. It is a political, poetic, and practical handbook for
facilitating discussion. Discussions happen everywhere, and if
society itself is composed of relationships between people then
creating more participation and equality during discussions can
help create the conditions for social change. Elements of
Discussion therefore includes practical tips, techniques, and
reflective questions through which it firmly and sensitively
suggests to readers how to facilitate discussions across contexts.
Beginning with the ways chairs and tables are set up, continuing
through the kinds of questions a facilitator can ask, and including
sample activities facilitators can use, the book expounds a
philosophy of facilitating discussion, emphasizing the political
and poetic significance of the tactics it recommends.
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