Making connections: Using skill theory to recognize how students build and rebuild understanding

In this companion to Marc Schwartz and Kurt Fischer's article, Patricia King and JoNes VanHecke describe how student affairs educators can help students become sophisticated thinkers.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50666/1/155_ftp.pd

Secondary Education for Youth Affected by Humanitarian Emergencies and Protracted Crises

This report draws on quantitative and qualitative methods to first examine trends in access to secondary education in CAC, then review policies and practices that can address barriers to access. We use case study methods in Kenya and Uganda to compare and contrast two different approaches to managing refugee education. The cases of Kenya and Uganda offer comparative insights that may inform policy responses for refugees across SSA. Whereas Kenya favors the encampment and separation of refugees from nationals, including through education, Uganda has pursued a policy of refugee inclusion and allows refugees to access its public primary and secondary schools. We consider the policy environment and state of secondary education for refugees in each case. Neither the Kenyan or Ugandan approach offers a clear solution to the lack of access to secondary education for refugees in CAC

e-Books at the University of the Witwatersrand

Paper presented at the 2 day Seminar, 8-9 June 2011 "The e-Learning environment: future trends and impact on library services", Sanlam Auditorium, Conference Centre, Hatfield Campus, Pretoria, South Africa.SWET

The Forgotten Warriors: Keetoowah Abolitionists, Revitalization, the Search for Modernity and the Struggle for Autonomy in the Cherokee Nation, 1800-1866

My research focuses on the revitalization of the Cherokee KeetoowahSociety in 1858 in Indian Territory just twenty years after the tribe's removal from their southeastern homelands. I contend that `Keetoowah' was much more than just a religious organization with political undertones. Keetoowah represented an entire way of life, a way to order society, to provide a cultural backbone for the community, and to give meaning to their rapidly changing world. Rather than escaping modernization by tying themselves to the past, the Keetoowahs used selective adaptation to reconstruct a unique sociopolitical system that allowed them to engage in progressive interaction bothinside and outside their communities. .Even in earliest known times, the Keetoowahs occupied shifting roleswithin Cherokee society, sometimes acting as religious leaders and sometimes as war leaders depending on necessity, as well as their individual level of experience and achievement. This is very much in keeping with the overall nature of the historic Cherokee social structure itself, with its focus on both gadugi (the collective good) and on personal independence. In the antebellum years, the Keetoowahs were deeply engaged in the mainstream socioeconomic trends and debates of the day; education, capitalism, industry, fraternalism, politics, and labor issues, particularly slavery. In their role as religious men, they accepted thefaith and support of the `emancipating Baptist' missionaries around them, and as warriors, they fought tirelessly to abolish slavery in the Cherokee Nation, a struggle that led directly to the Society's revitalization

An (U-Th)/He age for the shallow-marine Wetumpka impact structure, Alabama, USA

Single crystal (U-Th)/He dating was applied to 24 apatite and 23 zircon grains from the Wetumpka impact structure, Alabama, USA. This small approximately 5–7.6 km impact crater was formed in a shallow marine environment, with no known preserved impact melt, thus offering a challenge to common geochronological techniques. A mean (U-Th)/He apatite and zircon age of 84.4 ± 1.4 Ma (2σ) was obtained, which is within error of the previously estimated Late Cretaceous impact age of approximately 83.5 Ma. In addition, helium diffusion modeling of apatite and zircon grains during fireball/contact, shock metamorphism, and hydrothermal events was undertaken, to show the influence of these individual thermal processes on resetting (U-Th)/He ages in the Wetumpka samples. This study has shown that the (U-Th)/He geochronological technique has real potential for dating impact structures, especially smaller and eroded impact structures that lack impact melt lithologies

Infrastructure governance in the post-networked city: state-led, high-tech sanitation in Addis Ababa’s condominium housing

Ethiopia’s mass-scale subsidized housing delivery programme has driven the rapid expansion of middle-income, mid-rise settlements on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, requiring the provision of infrastructure to newly developed areas. In the case of the Kotari housing project, established sanitation systems were deemed inappropriate for the site, resulting in the deployment of novel technology, a Membrane Bioreactor (MBR). Such decentralised technologies contribute to the heterogenous infrastructure configurations which characterise Addis Ababa’s sanitation landscape, reflected not only in material configurations but also in how they are governed. In this paper, we use the concept of ‘infrastructure interfaces’ as an analytical device to identify the key material connection points in the system. Working across scales, we scrutinise the governance arrangements at these critical junctures: the household, the block, the condominium, and the city. Our analysis challenges established understandings of infrastructural heterogeneity driven by the private sector, either through financialized elite infrastructures or informal survivalist practices. In Kotari, the state is the driver and the target is the lower middle class. Centring the state in these infrastructure configurations provides nuance to our understanding of how heterogeneity emerges. Our methodological approach accounts for governance at various scales, providing fresh insights into the relationality of infrastructure, particularly the human/technology interface and infrastructural failures. The case shows the importance of transcending binary readings of infrastructure configurations, such as on/off grid, state/private and formal/informal. Future work on the post-network city must go beyond simply denigrating or valorising alternative modes of service delivery

Healthy Workplace Activities: At a Glance

This four page brochure provides practical suggestions for physical activity and healthy eating activities that can be easily implemented in your workplace to promote a healthy lifestyle for your employees

Healthy Workplace Guide: Ten Steps to Implementing A Workplace Health Program

To assist businesses to improve the health of their employees, the Heart Foundation, Cancer Council NSW and Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Research Group (PANORG) from the School of Public Health at The University of Sydney, collaborated to develop this practical ten step guide. The guide provides easy to follow steps on creating a workplace that supports employees in leading healthy lifestyles, including how to get started, construct, implement and evaluate a workplace health program