The Challenge of Integrating Faith-Learning-Living in Teacher Education

Teacher educators from member institutions of the Coalition for Christian Colleges and Universities are currently challenged in an unprecedented way. The challenge is to satisfy increasingly rigorous state and national teacher education standards and to fulfill the commonly held mission of Coalition institutions to integrate faith-learning-living. The research presented in this article traces the long history of integration and presents various theoretical integration models commonly supported by educators at Christian colleges and universities. This article suggests meeting the challenge in part through an original six component integration model with potential value for Christian educators representing various academic disciplines

Content Analysis of the Holtzman Inkblot Test with Regard to the Projection of Hostility

This investigation is a study of hostility using the hostility scoring system of the Holtzman Inkblot Technique, a new projective technique that became available to psychologists in May of 1961 when it was released by the Psychological Corporation. Its development is the result of several years work by Wayne H. Holtzman and his associates. The Holtzman Inkblot Technique will hereafter be referred to as the HIT

Strengthening confluent education through a philosophical analysis of the concept of dialogue : an examination of the writings of Martin Buber, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Karl Jaspers.

This dissertation is a study of the implications for education of the concept of dialogue as it is analyzed in the philosophical writings of Martin Buber, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Karl Jaspers. In Part I of the study, the philosophical writings on the concept of dialogue are analyzed to provide a set of guidelines for thinking about dialogue. The premise on which this work is based is that philosophical analysis of the concept of dialogue can enhance the effectiveness of confluent education, which attempts to integrate affect and cognition in the educative process. Part II of the dissertation attempts to demonstrate that an understanding of dialogue can provide both a general philosophical grounding for confluent education and specific implications pertaining to pedagogical obligations, teacher-student relationships, content selection, and teaching methodology. The premise on which this work is based is that education is most effective if it is ontologically rooted. From the philosophical perspective used in this study, human beings self-actualize through and in dialogical relationships. To be ontologically rooted, education must include dialogue as a central dynamic. Three pedagogical obligations that follow from this perspective are: first, education should heighten students\u27 awareness of themselves as unique, emergent, self-actualizing persons; second, education should enhance students\u27 understanding of the human tradition; third, education should enhance students\u27 ability to participate in dialogical relationships. The teacher-student relationship described models a dialogical relationship in an education setting. Content selection is discussed from the perspective that content is a tool for self-actualization and, as such, should help the student understand the human tradition in a personally meaningful way. The possibility of implementing a variety of teaching methods from a dialogical orientation is discussed. A specifically dialectical-dialogical teaching approach predicated on Gadamer\u27s philosophical hermeneutics is described

Encore Implementation: team results

In 2008, Syracuse University Library, in conjunction with Moon Library (SUNY Environmental Science of Forestry) and the Barclay Law Library, searched for a Next Generation Online Patron Access Catalog (OPAC) that would work with the current Voyager OPAC. In this current phase of library automation, all eyes are focused on developing and deploying Web-based interfaces better suited to meet the expectations of the current generation of Web-savvy users, notes Marshall Breeding in the Introduction to Next-Generation Library Catalogs, the fourth issue of Library Technology Reports in 2007. After doing an extensive search, the Syracuse team found that Innovative Interfaces had the product of choice. The Innovative Interfaces product, ENCORE, met most of the requirements and was within budget. It was anticipated that implementation could be done with local resources. Innovative Interfaces presented as a vendor who could do much of the work and would be willing to work in collaboration with the Library on the aspects unique to SU to ensure that our service goals would be met with this product. March 31st, 2009 the contract was signed by both parties. Innovative assigned Luis Cosmes as vendor team Project Manager with Terriruth Carrier was assigned as Project Manager from Syracuse University

Exercise and Training to Optimize Functional Motor Performance in Stroke: Driving Neural Reorganization?

Neurorehabilitation is increasingly taking account of scientific findings. Research areas directing stroke rehabilitation are neurophysiology; adaptability to use and activity; biomechanics; skill learning; and exercise science (task, context specificity). Understanding impairments and adaptations enables a reappraisal of interventions—for example,changes in motor control resulting from impairments (decreased descending inputs, reduced motor unit synchronization), secondary soft tissue changes (muscle length and stiffness changes) are adaptations to lesion and disuse. Changes in interventions include increasing emphasis on active exercise and task-specific training, active and passive methods of preserving muscle extensibility. Training has the potential to drive brain reorganization and to optimize functional performance. Research drives the development of training programs, and therapists are relying less on one-to-one, hands-on service delivery, making use of circuit training and group exercise and of technological advances (interactive computerized systems, treadmills) which increase time spent in active practice, Emphasis is on skill training, stressing cognitive engagement and practice, aiming to increase strength, control, skill, endurance, fitness, and social readjustment. Rehabilitation services remain slow to make the changes necessary to upgrade environments, attitudes, and rehabilitation methodologies to those shown to be more scientifically rational and for which there is evidence of effectiveness

Glass Ceiling Commission - The Impact of the Glass Ceiling and Structural Change on Minorities and Women

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Regional study of the Archean to Proterozoic crust at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO+), Ontario: Predicting the geoneutrino flux

The SNO+ detector, a new kiloton scale liquid scintillator detector capable of recording geoneutrino events, will define the strength of the Earth radiogenic heat. A detailed 3-D model of the regional crust, centered at SNO+ and based on compiled geological, geophysical and geochemical information, was used to characterize the physical and chemical attributes of crust and assign uncertainties to its structure. Monte Carlo simulations were used to predict the U and Th abundances and uncertainties in crustal lithologies and to model the regional crustal geoneutrino signal originating from the at SNO+