Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future: A Conversation between Pamela Tate and Robert Deahl about the Past 35 Years in Adult Learning

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Little Rebecca

Santiago de Compostela, a city in Galicia, Spain, has been said since the 8th century to hold the remains of St. James, an apostle and the patron saint of Spain. Old walking routes, still in use, fork all throughout the European continent toward this singular destination, with the collective label of the “Way of St. James,” (the Camino de Santiago in Spanish, Le Chemin du St. Jacques in French). For nine months of this past year, the Camino de Santiago and the study of pilgrimage was my singular destination as well. I studied the history of pilgrimage, European pilgrimage literature, and travel- and spirituality-based nature writing. I then left my books and completed the pilgrimage myself, starting about a thousand miles away in the town of Le Puy outside of Lyon, France. The nature writing I will present is my attempt to synthesize my research and experience into an account of my pilgrimage. I have reworked my notes from journals on the pilgrimage, pieces of the studies I completed in the summer, and tales and histories that I learned on the Camino route into my essays, works of creative scholarship, which use my personal experience as a medium to speak of essential themes in pilgrimage—rites of passage, burdens, creating new temporary communities, walking through a blend of myth and history, and searching for a great mystery

The Influence of Intimate Partner Violence Public Service Announcements on Help Seeking, Attitudes, and Bystanders

The current study used the IPVAS-R, CTS2S, Bystander Efficacy Scale, Bystander Intentions to Help Scale, Bystander Behaviors Scale, and the MHSS to test the hypothesis that the IPV PSA would produce greater intentions to seek help in the event of victimization, lower minimization scores, and increased confidence and intentions to help. The current study also examined the influence of victimization on intentions to seek help, as well as the influence of previous bystander experience on bystander efficacy and intentions to help. Two MANOVAs indicated support for the two latter hypotheses and only partial support for the influence of the IPV PSA. Bystander efficacy was the only variable that suggested a significant influence of the IPV PSA. Additional research is needed to determine what aspects of the IPV PSA were effective in influencing outcome variables and to determine the influence of the type of abuse experienced (e.g., physical, sexual, psychological) on intentions to seek help. Limitations and implications are discussed

Examining Coaching Models, Relationships, Roles, and Effects

This literature review looks at the different coaching models, how relationships effect successful coaching, the different roles a coach may experience, and the effects coaching can have on teachers and students. Over the past 10-15 years coaching in education has become a hot topic (Heineke, 2013). However, there is not much research or studies on the actual implementation of a coaching program and how it affects the students and the teachers. In this paper coaching roles takes on two meanings: what the coach does during a coaching session/meeting and what type of “hats” the coach wears during the time they are in the coaching position or career (Kane & Rosenquist, 2018; Wang, 2017; Heineke, 2013). The effects of coaching were classified into two categories: effects on teachers and effects on student achievement. Future research is needed to continue to close gaps

A Framework for Downloading Wide-Area Files

The challenge of efficiently retrieving files that are broken into segments and replicated across the widearea is of prime importance to wide-area, peer-to-peer, and Grid file systems. Two different algorithms addressing this challenge have been proposed and evaluated. While both have been successful in different performance scenarios, there has been no unifying work that can view both algorithms under a single framework. In this thesis, we define such a framework, where download algorithms are defined in terms of the four dimensions that the client always controls: the number of simultaneous downloads, the degree of work replication, the failover strategy, and the server selection algorithm. We then explore the impact of varying parameters along each of these dimensions, testing the framework over several types of file distributions. In addition, the additional dependencies and trends that arise when files are augmented with erasure codes rather than replication are examined

There's No Place Like Home: A Look at Local Support Models for Workforce Intermediaries

Outlines the range of innovations that city and county governments have been using in recent years to support the activities of workforce intermediaries