Month: September 2014
The Educator Fraud Paradigm and Implications for Educators and Academia
In response to the USA Today and Atlanta Journal Constitution articles indicating massive educator cheating, states have been under intense …
Minimizing Perceptual Mismatches – Re-Arranging the Lens
Miscommunication or being misconstrued is indeed an old story of the English language classrooms. Chances of miscommunication further escalate when …
Using Dna Barcoding as a Pedagogical Tool to Teach Genetics to Undergraduates at Queensborough Community College
Over the past five years, the author has noticed that students who take the Biotechnology (lecture/lab) first, do better in …
Transformative Education: A Tool for Sustainable Educational Development in Nigeria
Education is the key to human development and progress; an indispensable tool for a nations’ growth and overall development. In …
Dancing with the Trees: A New Way to Learn Science with Classical Values
Science education has undergone a sea of change with different approaches and methodologies. But value oriented science education has not …
Impacts of Educational Macro-Policies on Developing Creativity in Iran
Many educational and training approaches aim at improving creativity in students. In today’s world, tremendous need for individuals who can …
Storytelling As a Form of Academic Discourse Engaging English Language Learners in the United States Standards-Based Classroom
Academic discourse is the pattern of speech and writing that exists in academic settings. In the American school system, academic …
A Goals-Based Evaluation Regarding a Contrasting Analysis of Profession Growth and Evaluation Programs
This goals-based evaluation analyzes and compares several professional growth and evaluation programs among selected states in the United States and …
Sustainability in the Curriculum and Teaching of Economics: Transforming Introductory Macroeconomics
Sustainability is arguably the outcome of a holistically integrated economic system. However, when the marketplace fails to assess the “true” …
Concept Deficiency: Remediation for Masters’ Theses and Dissertations
Throughout graduate departments in the United States, students and teachers report significant difficulty in forming concepts and framing subjects chosen …
Is it Cheating If Nobody’s Watching? Conflicting Beliefs about Dishonesty in Online Learning
This paper addresses part of an extensive study investigating faculty and student perceptions of academic integrity in online courses. This …
Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency: A New Paradigm for Language Education and Cross-Cultural Communication
A complexity-accuracy-fluency triad has emerged as a dynamic L2 proficiency assessment tool in TESL/TEFL. This paper takes the position that …
International Service-Learning in Nicaragua for Japanese Medical Students.
Service-learning aims to match subject content with social need to give practical meaning to student learning. This international service-learning trip …
When an Adjective Behaves like a Verb: Adjectival Verbs in Mandarin Chinese Maternal Input
The distinction between adjectives and verbs in Mandarin Chinese is not as clear as that in English. Adjectives in Mandarin …
Supervision as an Educational Activity in Clinical Psychology Training Programs: Conceptions on Its Core Characteristics and Implementation
During the first stage of a broader educational evaluation study, a qualitative exploration has been conducted on conceptions that clinical …
Experiencing the Perspective of the Other: Stanley Milgrams Cyranic Method as a Means of Exploring Alternative Identities
Barriers to understanding and cooperation arise when we fail to take the perspective of the other people in our lives. …
Understanding Antisocial Behaviors: The Roles of Sensation Seeking and Subtypes of Empathy
There is limited research on how subtypes of empathy predict subtypes of antisocial behaviors and the role of sensation seeking …
The effect of social exclusion on color preference
The current study examined the effects of social exclusion on color preference. Previous researches have suggested that people are more …
Influence of Normative Models on Social Representations
Our research fit into social representations’ framework (Moscovici, 1961), defined by Jodelet (1997) as “modalities of practical thought orientated towards …
The Influence of Affordance on Cognitive Workload
In the study, it was demonstrated that whether there was a difference between an affordance condition and a no-affordance condition …
Teacher Factors in Enhancing Quality Assurance in Physics Education: A Panacea for Transforming Physics Education for Sustainable Development
The study employed a descriptive survey to investigate Senior Secondary Three ( SSS3) Physics students' perception of the teacher factor …
Assessing the Effectiveness of Applying a Tailored Time Management Course in Reducing Wasting-Time Attitude of University Students in the Field of Clothing Technology
The purpose of the present study was to apply a tailored time management course on fourth year students at the …
Malcolm Lowry the Russian Connection
In Under the Volcano (1947) Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) presents us with a Faustian image of a British ex-Consul tormented by …
The Individual and the Arts in a Globalised Society
The topic for this presentation would be to make use of the social and political agendas in the Arts in …
Rape Culture in Music: Lyrics that Provide a Step-by-step Guide to Sexual Assault
The evolution of gender relations has brought women to the forefront of social functions. However, these roles have come with …
Effects of Cinema Sounds on the Perception of the Motion Picture
A big number of studies have investigated the mechanisms of the human nervous system that receive environmental stimuli in order …
The Representation of Ethnic Youth Gangs in “The Combination”
In December 2005, Sydney was subject to one of its worst racial riots in history. Thousands of White-Anglo Australians lined …
Multiplicity and Difference: Pluralities of Identity
The main objective of this paper is to discuss the idea of cultural identity its tendency become the overriding or …
The Concept of Ghostwriting from Literature to Film Music: The Moacir Santos Case of Study
In most cases, the concept of ghostwriting in film music is related to bigger budget industrial movies. It happens mainly …
1+1=1; An Exploration of Bakhtinian Minimum for Existence in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia
Mikhail Bakhtin's emphasis upon the constructedness of language and consciousness, the essential connectedness of individuals to each other, and the …
The Power of Pretty: Re-Appropriating the Gaze and Feminine Agency in “Spring Breakers”
When Mulvey (1975) posited the marginalization of female characters in film as passive, powerless figures that advance the narrative only …
Okinawa: “The Land of Courtesy” in a Conflict of Linguistic Interests
UNESCO has listed Ryukuan, the language of the ancient Ryukyu Kingdom, now Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, as severely endangered. That means …
Interpreting Poems, Interpreting Worlds – on Poetry Translation
Li Bai’s poems are appreciated and enjoyed by people all over the world, which shows the universal aspect of language …
Socio-Philosophical Evaluation of Conflict Resolution and Synergy: A Path to History
In the enlarged human society, the human person has always emerged out of struggle and conflict. Conflict and struggle are …
An African Theory of Moral Conflict Resolution: A Kwesi Wiredu’s Paradigmatic Model
This paper interrogates Kwesi Wiredu's theory of "Ethical Consensus" as a method of moral conflict resolution in indigenous African societies. …
An Architectural Reading of Islamic Virtue
O children of Adam, We have bestowed upon you clothing to cover your private parts and as an adornment, but …
Christian Conservatives and the LGBTQ Community in a Pluralistic World
Conservative Christians and the LGBTQ community are seldom bedfellows with a common cause. The former often lashes out publicly against …
The Use of Teaching Aids in the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language in Nigeria
Language is said to be the fulcrum of human development as well as instruments for unification of people and nations. …
Eliot’s Notion of Tradition and Its Significance in the Age of Multimedia
Our world today is being remade through the continuous spread of multimedia. We are actually living in what is called …
Hello Kitty’s Popularity and Its Change of Representation
Since it was introduced in the market in 1974, Hello Kitty, a fictional white cat, became a Japanese cultural icon …
Pakistan, Its Youth and Social Media
Pakistan has faced some serious problems in recent years. It has a tarnished international image, but there is optimism in …
Israel through the Lenses of Oscar-Nominated Documentary Film ‘Promises’
Film is a significant tool of (re)shaping, (re)constructing, (re)presenting and (re)structuring realities. According to Edelman (1993) the social world is …
The Learning of the Photograph in the Young People
In this paper we will explain how a group of young people of three communities in Lisbon (Bairro Padre Cruz, …
Models of European Integration Enlargement or Neighbourhood
MODELS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: ENLARGEMENT OR NEIGHBOURHOOD The European Union is set up with the purpose of ending the wars …