Instruments and Scoring Guide of the Experiential Education Evaluation Project

The Experiential Education Evaluation Project was Undertaken to assess the impact of experience-based programs on student participants in secondary schools. For purposes of this research effort, experiential programs are defined as “educational programs offered as an integral part of the general school curriculum, but taking place outside of the conventional classroom, where students are in new roles featuring significant tasks with real consequences, and where the emphasis is on learning by doing with associated reflection.

Bleak prospects : young men , sexuality and HIV/AIDS in an Ethiopian town

The study of sexuality in Ethiopia has until now remained largely the domain of medical scientists, public health professionals and epidemiologists; barely touched upon by sociologists, anthropologists and other social scientists. To the author's knowledge, no study has been carried out about the perceptions of different sexual practices in Ethiopia. This book is therefore a pioneering work that explores how young people in the Ethiopian town of Dessie express their sexuality and are experiencing HIV/AIDS in their daily lives. It also considers how poverty and other related structural factors are linked to HIV/AIDS infection and other processes affecting the sexuality of young people, how young people and key informants receive, interpret and evaluate ongoing interventions, and what can be done to reduce infection rates. The book provides insights into the role and interrelationship of the underlying structural, social and cultural factors in the context of HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention.ASC – Publicaties niet-programma gebonde

Uncorking the Speaking Skill: Wine and Prosody in Conversation

Although the skill of speaking is necessary for attaining basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS), most traditional second language acquisition programs base their pedagogy and curriculums on lexis and grammar of the written form and phonology/phonetics. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how to effectively adapt content-specific material for developing the speaking skill at community colleges with adult students who are interested in pursuing a career in the wine industry as a sommelier. Courses for becoming a sommelier or a server in the wine industry are traditionally offered at community colleges under the culinary arts and hospitality management programs, but not typically in conjunction with ESL department course offerings. A document analysis on tasks in language teaching, the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach, and grammar of the spoken language was conducted in order to identify ways to adapt appropriate materials. This field project was informed by the works of Carter and McCarthy on grammar of the spoken language, corpora of spoken English, and the seminal works of Rebecca Hughes on teaching and researching speaking. It was grounded in the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics, prosody in conversation, the communicative language teaching approach, and by the works of Zoltán Dörnyei and Sarah Thurrell on communication and dialogues in action. This project demonstrates prosody in communication by turning authentic dialogues in action from adapted readings of a sommelier prep course into videos of the dialogues in unscripted real communicative interaction. The videos showed prosody in communication, suggesting that the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach could benefit from this kind of material for developing the speaking skill

PORTUGUÊS AO PÉ DO BERIMBAU: SOBRE A CAPOEIRA COMO UMA LÍNGUA ADICIONAL

From its historical origins as a resistant and violently repressed bundle of music, dance and martial arts practices of the African diaspora in Brazil, capoeira has travelled, becoming a global phenomenon with groups and networks in diverse sites around the world, including London, Cape Town and Hong Kong and indeed Leeds where this research was based. We focus on the linguistic, cultural and embodied ensemble of capoeira, researching a capoeira group with diverse participants led by Sandro, a Brazilian contramestre, providing a rich laboratory for what has been called language learning “in the wild”, specifically of the Afro-Brazilian linguistic and cultural practices (music, movement, lyric, voice) that are a crucial element of the capoeira ensemble. These linguistic and cultural practices contingently bring together, in rehearsal and performance, the characteristic capoeira dance/ martial arts movements, the pervasive regulation of rhythm and the apprenticeship of the body into its rhythm and movement. Seen from the perspective of informal language learning the capoeira group seems to constitute a near optimal context. We will explore the affordances of the capoeira group for linguistic/cultural/embodied learning of Afro-Brazilian Portuguese, drawing on the “maximalist” framework for translanguaging (BAYNHAM; LEE, 2019), which we extend to encompass the pervasive musical aspect of capoeira, linking these to contemporary perspectives on language learning, particularly informal language learning and language learning “in the wild”.A partir de suas origens históricas, como um agregado de música, dança e artes marciais de resistência da diáspora africana no Brasil que chegou a ser violentamente reprimida, a capoeira tem viajado o mundo, tornando-se um fenômeno global com grupos e redes espalhadas em diversos locais como Londres, a Cidade do Cabo, Hong Kong e também Leeds, onde esta pesquisa foi realizada. Enfocamos neste artigo o agregado linguístico, cultural e corporificado da capoeira, pesquisando um grupo de capoeira com diversos participantes, liderado por Sandro, um contramestre brasileiro, que fornece um rico laboratório para o que tem sido chamado de aprendizagem de línguas “na natureza selvagem”, neste caso envolvendo mais especificamente práticas linguísticas e culturais afro-brasileiras (voz, letra, música e movimento) que são elementos cruciais do agregado da capoeira. Essas práticas linguísticas e culturais reúnem, de forma contingente, nos treinos e nas apresentações, os movimentos característicos da dança/ artes marciais da capoeira, o ritmo regulado e omnipresente e o aprendizado do corpo nestes movimentos e neste ritmo. Dessa forma, visto da perspectiva da aprendizagem informal de línguas, o grupo de capoeira parece fornecer um contexto praticamente perfeito. Exploraremos então as possibilidades do grupo de capoeira para a aprendizagem linguística/cultural/corporal do português afro-brasileiro, com base em um enquadramento “maximalista” para as translinguagens (BAYNHAM;LEE, 2019), o qual ampliamos para abranger o aspecto musical omnipresente da capoeira, vinculando-os a perspectivas contemporâneas sobre a aprendizagem de línguas, particularmente, a aprendizagem informal de línguas e a aprendizagem de línguas “na natureza selvagem”

A parent education curriculum for families with an autism spectrum disorders child

This project provides a comprehensive, parenting education program that focuses on educating parents of young newly-diagnosed ASD children about coordinated services, supporting the family to promote the ASD child\u27s growth and development, and supporting the family system during critical early years

Volume 75, Number 04 (April 1957)

Folk Music and Art Music Playing with Orchestra (interview with Alec Templeton) Community Solves its Music Crisis: The Inspiring Story of The Bronx Symphony Orchestra Genius Lies in the Individual Miniature Opera from Salzburg Kostelanetz on Conducting, Conductors and Batons Drama in Song: A Discussion of the Importance of Clear Enunciation on the Part of Singers A Glimpse of the Inner Workings of One of the Largest Summer Music Camps is Gained from These Day to Day Entries . . . From the Music Camp Office Henry Cowell—Musician and Citizen, Part 3 Richard Rodgers on Current Trends in Popular Musichttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/1076/thumbnail.jp

Some multifaceted aspects of mathematical physics, our common denominator with Elliott Lieb

Mathematical physics has many facets, of which we shall briefly give a (very partial) description, centered around those of main interest for Elliott and us (Moshe Flato and I). In our case these aspects had as a corollary a variety of "parascientific activities", in particular the foundation of IAMP (the International Association of Mathematical Physics) and of the journal LMP (Letters in Mathematical Physics), both of which were strongly impacted by Elliott, and Elliott's long insistence that publishers do not demand "copyright transfer" as a precondition for publication but are satisfied with "consent to publish", which is increasingly becoming standard. Since this article is testimony to the huge scientific impact of Elliott, the latter intertwined aspects constitute the core of the present contribution.Comment: 12 pages, dedicated to our friend Elliott Lieb on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of his birt

On the Origin of Ethics

This essay will be an exploration of Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the implications that the theory holds for the field of ethics. It will investigate the intellectual climate of Darwin’s day and discuss how his theory was received both by his fellow scientists and by the general public. It will provide a brief background of Darwin’s life leading up to his famous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, as well as relevant biographical details from his later life. It will provide a brief history of the gene and the science of genetics and how this science has changed Darwin’s theory. The essay will also delve into the attempts of others to apply the theory of evolution to ethics and try to decide whether or not these views have any merit. It will look at examples of animal altruism and will also explore the society of the Ik (a tribe of people in northern Uganda). Finally, this essay will attempt to determine whether or not further study of biological and social evolution can be helpful to the field of ethics