Becoming a Better American through Study Abroad

Postcard from Riley Brown, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the Institut Américain Universitaire in Aix-en-Provence, Franc

Outside Ourselves: Becoming Better Teachers Through Ethnographic Fieldwork

Two questions students often ask me are: “why do you travel so much?” and “why do you engage in so much research?” My answer to both is relatively simple, “to become a more informed person and teacher.” [excerpt

Research in Action: Becoming a Better Teacher

Greg Marchant, a past editor of MWER, and now an Associate Editor of the Newsletter for Educational Psychologists posed the following question to anyone who cared to answer: Why are research results in educational psychology seldom reflected in educational policies, and what can be done to improve the application of research findings to practice? . Several respondents noted that while there are numerous examples of research findings that can easily be turned into useful classroom applications, many of them languish in our academic journals because they are written by researchers, for researchers, and in the language of researchers. This column has attempted to address this problem

Becoming a Better Therapist: Eight Lessons from Running

This paper seeks to identify lessons that can be taken from the sport of running to serve as a map for learning skills needed to become a better therapist. The practice of running mirrors the practice of learning therapy skills. This paper takes the lens of how to practice to become a better runner and applies it as a new approach to skill development for therapists. Additionally, this paper incorporates self-reflection and disclosure as I myself identify as a female runner and therapist. I will use personal examples to highlight the ways that lessons from running have served as a map for learning therapeutic skills

Genre as a Lens to Becoming Better Leaders

When most people think of genre, they think of works that fall into categories such as fiction, nonfiction, etc. Genre typically is understood as the way in which a reader can recognize a specific text as falling into a category of similar texts, such as a plotline that focuses solely on the main character falling for a romantic interest being considered a romance novel. However, genre does not strictly have to pertain to physical text such as romance novels and does more work than simply categorizing a type of text. In simple terms, genre is a set of guidelines used by individual to explain, interpret, and negotiate interaction (Devitt, 576-577). As a collection of interactions involving communication between individuals, leadership, then, can be analyzed using the lens of genre. Through this perspective, leadership can be broken down into a system of genres – unique situations in which the conventions and characteristics of leadership must be applied to interactions, both in written and spoken forms. How might the theoretical concept of “genre” help us better understand leadership and help leaders interact more effectively

A hundred visions and revisions : becoming a better actor.

This thesis considers my preparation for and performance in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. Through four themed chapters (ego, intellect, energy, and fear), I explore strengths of my acting that have become weaknesses. I consider their sources and how they have become liabilities to me as an actor. After examining these in detail, I use the conclusion of the thesis to propose ways to maintain these strengths as strengths by using them to counteract and support each other, thus allowing me to move toward a greater goal - that of transforming more thoroughly into markedly different characters onstage. The epilogue describes my first attempt to apply the proposals made in my conclusion to my acting

Becoming Visible: Why We Should be Better Communicators Now

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Letter from Julia to family May 26, 1947

This letter mentions the roads becoming better with repairs and that the Pearsons have still not gotten some of their baggage back from a tri