114 research outputs found
Table of Contents
Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . 5
Submission Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dedication to Donzell Lee . . . . . . . . . . 7
Editorâs Introduction (Ada Long) . . . . . . . . . . 9
Research Matters
Conducting Research in Honors (Emily C. Walshe) . . . . . . . . . . 17
Is Originality an Appropriate Requirement for Undergraduate Publication? (Nathan Hilberg) . . . . . . . . . . 57
Individual Achievement in an Honors Research Community: Teaching Vygotskyâs Zone of Proximal Development (Kaitlin A. Briggs) . . . . . . . . . . 61
Student-Guided Thesis Support Groups (Jennifer Beard, Ryan D. Shelton, Amanda Stevens, George H. Swindell IV, and Raymond J. Green) . . . . . . . . . . 69
Curriculum Matters
More than a COIN Flip: Improving Honors Education with Real Time Simulations Based on Contemporary Events (Kurt Hackemer) . . . . . . . . . . 75
To Discuss or Not to Discuss: Integrating Pedagogies for Honors and Mathematics (William Griffiths, Nancy Reichert, and L.R. Ritter) . . . . . . . . . . 85
French Ă la carte: Maintaining a Language Program on a Shoestring (Sheilagh Margaret Riordan) . . . . . . . . . . 101
The Value of Extending the Honors Contract Beyond One Semester: A Case Study with Smithsonian Dinosaurs (Alyce DiLauro, Teron Meyers, and Laura Guertin) . . . . . . . . . . 109
Service Learning and Skunkworks in a Senior Honors Colloquium (Michael Cundall) . . . . . . . . . . 117
Beyond the Great Books: Increasing the Flexibility, Scope, and Appeal of an Honors Curriculum (Matthew C. Altman) . . . . . . . . . . 125
Programmatic Matters
Students Engaging Students in the Honors Experience (Sara Brady, Hesham Elnagar, and Shane Miller) . . . . . . . . . . 143
Ad Tracking, Brand Equity Research, and . . . Your Honors Program? (William A. Ashton, Barbara Ashton, Renny Eapen, and Erzulie Mars) . . . . . . . . . . 163
From the White House to Our House: The Story of an Honors College Vegetable Garden (Michael Lund and Geoffrey Orth) . . . . . . . . . . 177
Studies in Cyberspace: Honors, Professional Teacher Development, Curricular Development, and Systemic Change in Louisiana (Brian C. Etheridge, Galen Turner, Heath Tims, and Christian A. Duncan) . . . . . . . . . . 189
Fertile Ground: Reflections on Collaborative Student-Faculty Research in the Arts (Mimi Killinger and Aya Mares) . . . . . . . . . . 203
Looking Back Matters
Teamwork for NCHC (Lydia Lyons) . . . . . . . . . . 209
When It Comes Time Not to âJump the Sharkâ: Stepping Down as Director (Nick Flynn) . . . . . . . . . . 215
Celebrating Twenty Years of Honors through Oral History: Making an Honors Program Video Documentary (Catherine Irwin) . . . . . . . . . . 221
Becoming Part of a Story (Ted L. Estess) . . . . . . . . . . 235
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . 243
NCHC Publication Order Forms . . . . . . . . . . 25
Les conseils de prud'hommes entre défense syndicale et action publique
A la diffĂ©rence des travaux qui nâapprĂ©hendent les prudâhommes quâĂ travers les dĂ©cisions rendues ou les rĂ©sultats des Ă©lections prudâhomales, lâambition de cette recherche Ă©tait de remettre au cĆur de lâanalyse les conseillers eux-mĂȘmes pour comprendre Ă la fois les logiques Ă lâĆuvre dans le travail de cette institution et les Ă©valuations, souvent controversĂ©es, de cette juridiction dâexception. Ce faisant, il sâagissait non seulement de contribuer Ă une sociologie de la justice et de ses acteurs mais aussi de rendre compte des spĂ©cificitĂ© des conseils de prudâhommes, Ă la fois juridiction oĂč siĂšgent des juges non professionnels, Ă©lus par leurs pairs, et institution sociale, largement investie par les organisations syndicales et professionnelles qui prĂ©sentent les listes de candidats et forment les Ă©lus au droit du travail. Deux axes problĂ©matiques ont guidĂ© cette recherche. Le premier visait Ă saisir ces juges du travail dans leurs relations avec la justice et ses professionnels, rĂ©els ou stylisĂ©s, et Ă rendre compte de leurs trajectoires, de leur socialisation au droit (en particulier au droit du travail), et de la distance sociale et symbolique qui les sĂ©pare du champ judiciaire. Le second visait Ă replacer les conseils de prudâhommes dans les stratĂ©gies judiciaires des organisations syndicales et professionnelles pour comprendre comment sâarticulaient action prudâhomale et action de dĂ©fense des intĂ©rĂȘts des salariĂ©s ou des employeurs. Le projet sâinscrivait donc Ă©galement dans une perspective de sociologie des groupes dâintĂ©rĂȘt et des pratiques syndicales de dĂ©fense, avec lâoriginalitĂ© dâouvrir une voie de recherche sur les organisations patronales
Ălire des juges et reprĂ©senter le monde du travail
Alors que lâĂ©lection comme mode de dĂ©signation des conseillers prudâhommes a Ă©tĂ© supprimĂ©e par le Parlement, lâarticle revient sur la maniĂšre dont les Ă©lections prudâhomales ont articulĂ© trois lĂ©gitimitĂ©s distinctes, qui construisaient lâidentitĂ© sociale des conseillers : lĂ©gitimitĂ© syndicale, lĂ©gitimitĂ© juridique et lĂ©gitimitĂ© professionnelle. Pour ce faire, il montre, dans une perspective sociohistorique, comment les dĂ©bats, et tout particuliĂšrement les dĂ©bats parlementaires qui ont conduit au vote des deux rĂ©formes de 1907 et de 1979, se sont organisĂ©s autour de controverses sur les diffĂ©rentes maniĂšres de reprĂ©senter le monde du travail. Il permet ainsi de rĂ©interroger Ă la fois le concept de « dĂ©mocratie sociale » et la place occupĂ©e par le fait Ă©lectoral dans le monde du travail.As the election of labour courtsâ lay judges (conseillers prudâhommes) has been very recently suppressed by the French Parliament, the aim of the paper is to study the way such elections produced a very peculiar form of labour representation. Indeed, they articulated three sorts of legitimation: a trade-unionist one, a legal one and a professional one. Based on a socio-historical study of debates, and principally parliamentary debates, the paper shows how they led to the major reforms of prudâhommes in 1907 and 1979, which induces us to analyze the concept of French social democracy
Des mondes ordonnés ? Professionnels du droit et militants dans la diffusion de la raison juridique
This dissertation synthetizes 15 years of sociological research about the links between law and politics. Its aim is to ask new questions to the researches I conducted since the beginning of my PhD, about lay judges in labour law, reforms of French justice, cause lawyers or the historical development of labour law. All these researches take place in different fields : socio-legal studies, political sociology, sociology of professions, industrial relations. All of them deal with the process of judicialization of the different social worlds (especially the political field and the realm of labour).SynthĂ©tisant prĂšs de quinze annĂ©es de recherches, ce mĂ©moire dâhabilitation propose une nouvelle synthĂšse de lâensemble de mes travaux de recherche, depuis la thĂšse jusquâĂ lâenquĂȘte collective sur les prudâhommes en passant par les recherche consacrĂ©e aux rĂ©formes de la justice, les avocats militants dans la France contemporaine ou lâanalyse de lâĂ©mergence et de lâinstitutionnalisation du droit du travail. Toutes ces recherches ont un objet commun : Ă©tudier les rapports entre le droit et la politique. Ă mi-chemin de la sociologie du droit et de la justice, de la sociologie politique, de la sociologie des professions et de la sociologie des relations professionnelles et du syndicalisme, un retour sur mon parcours de recherche permet de montrer de quelle maniĂšre le droit et la justice ont Ă©tĂ© et sont encore lâobjet de processus de politisation, mais aussi comment les diffĂ©rents mondes sociaux ont Ă©tĂ© gagnĂ©s par des formes de rĂ©gulation fondĂ©es sur des catĂ©gories juridiques et judiciaires
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The roles, resources and competencies of employee lay judges: A cross-national study of Germany, France and Great Britain
This research project analysed and compared the roles, resources and competencies of lay judges in Germany, France and Great Britain, where lay judges take up their role through nationally distinctive routes: nomination essentially by the social partners in Germany, self-nomination in Great Britain and election in France. The primary research consisted of qualitative data collected through interviews, set against contextual information on national institutional arrangements, industrial relations, This research project analysed and compared the roles, resources and competencies of lay judges in Germany, France and Great Britain, where lay judges take up their role through nationally distinctive routes: nomination essentially by the social partners in Germany, self-nomination in Great Britain and election in France. The primary research consisted of qualitative data collected through interviews, set against contextual information on national institutional arrangements, industrial relations, and court procedures. The key findings are as follows:
âą The dominant influence on lay judgeâs reported perception of their role is their experience of the prevailing industrial relations system in each country, mediated by the labour court structure. Routes to nomination not only reflect national systems but may reinforce them and have a bearing on employee lay judgesâ sense of organisational allegiance.
âą While acknowledging distinct employer and employee perspectives, there was an aspiration to be impartial and a commitment to fairness. This was most unambiguously expressed in Germany and Great Britain. In France, deliberations were sometimes reported as resembling a negotiation between employee and employer lay judges, but one that had to culminate in a legally correct judgment. Very few employee lay judge interviewees reported that they experienced enduring dissonance between sitting on the employee side in the court and their role as a lay judge, although this was noted by several at the outset.
âą Our interview findings from lay and professional judges indicated that lay judges bring distinctive knowledge. Some of this knowledge is explicit and often specific. Lay knowledge is often tacit, however, and acquired through long exposure to workplace events. Such knowledge was valued by many professional judge interviewees as adding an extra dimension to decision-making and was seen by near-ly all our interviewees as the main contribution of lay judges to the judicial process. Crucially tacit knowledge is a form of understanding that needs to be elicited in the process of deliberations, rather than as evidence provided by an expert witness. As well as bringing knowledge to the court, lay judges also reported that they could enhance their representational and personal-professional skills by transferring knowledge and experience acquired in court back to the work-place.
âą Gender played some role in the motivation to become a lay judge in Great Britain and in how lay judges assessed their contribution in Germany. Some female interviewees in Britain reported that work-place problems they had personally experienced had contributed to their motivation to become a lay judge. In Germany, there were some differences between men and women in their views of the nature of their contribution: whereas men tended to emphasise the specialist knowledge they could bring to bear in deliberations, women highlighted a âsocial perspectiveâ
O trzech rĂłĆŒnorodnych, ale zapomnianych dramatach K.H. Rostworowskiego
Numer wydany w 2017 r.This artice presents three dramas by Karol Hubert Rostworowski (1877-1938). The text concerns the problem of variety his dramas and values in: Judasz z Kariothu (1913), MiĆosierdzie (1920) and Niespodzianka (1929). Talented Rostworowski was also an psychologist of
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Les temporalités de la démocratie : institutions, acteurs, pratiques et enjeux.
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Lay and professional judges in Europeâs labour courts: does the professional judge dominate?
Several European countries have a first instance âmixedâ labour court, that is a judicial panel comprising a professional judge and two or more lay judges, the latter with experience as employees or employers/managers. The lay judgesâ main contribution is their workplace knowledge, but they act in a juridical setting where legal norms prevail, so does the professional judge, despite being in a minority, dominate? This article seeks to address this question by focusing on first instance labour courts in Great Britain, Germany and France. Theories of differential power, particularly status characteristics theory, and previous empirical research indicate that professional judges dominate, but our findings are more nuanced. Based on 177 interviews in three countries, we find that professional judge dominance varies according to the countryâs institutional context and the salience of lay judgesâ workplace knowledge. These institutional differences, however, are mediated by the attitudes of the judicial actors. Many interviewees noted that some lay judges were more prepared to challenge the professional judge than others, while others observed that some professional judges were more inclusive than others
Le droit dans l'Ă©lection. Avocats et contestations Ă©lectorales dans la France de la fin du Second Empire
International audienceLâanalyse dâune contestation Ă©lectorale singuliĂšre dans la France de la fin du Second Empire permet de revenir sur les usages politiques du droit dans lâespace politique. Lâutilisation de ces ressources juridiques, notamment par des avocats, spĂ©cialistes de la manipulation des catĂ©gories juridiques et porteurs principaux de la croyance dans la nĂ©cessitĂ© et lâefficacitĂ© du droit, a pour consĂ©quence de transformer les rĂšgles de la compĂ©tition Ă©lectorale et se rĂ©vĂšle un facteur de nationalisation, de rĂ©publicanisation et de collectivisation de la vie politiqu
Sustainable exploitation of marine energy and mineral resources : legal aspects
L'exploitation des ressources Ă©nergĂ©tiques et minĂ©rales terrestres rencontre des limites face Ă l'augmentation rapide de la population mondiale. Ce n'est qu'aprĂšs la seconde guerre mondiale que les Ătats ont compris qu'ils devaient maĂźtriser l'ocĂ©an pour pouvoir en extraire ses ressources. 1982 marque l'adoption de la Convention des Nations-Unies sur le droit de la mer. L'espace maritime fut alors dĂ©coupĂ© en zones, sur lesquelles les Ătats cĂŽtiers avaient le plus souvent des droits. Ce dĂ©coupage permettait une meilleure exploitation des ressources maritimes. Ainsi, en mer territoriale, les Ătats pouvaient mettre en place des systĂšmes de production d'Ă©lectricitĂ© Ă partir de sources renouvelables. Plus loin, dans la zone Ă©conomique exclusive, les Ătats peuvent autoriser l'exploration et l'exploitation des hydrocarbures. Enfin, sur le plateau continental, l'Ă©volution de la technologie nous permettra bientĂŽt d'aller exploiter les ressources minĂ©rales marines. La question centrale qui se pose est de savoir s'il est possible d'exploiter ces ressources de façon durable sans dĂ©truire l'environnement marin. La protection de l'environnement ne peut exister sans un droit fort et appliquĂ©. Il doit constituer un rempart contre les agissements d'entreprises ou dâĂtats peu soucieux de l'impact Ă long terme de leurs actions. L'OcĂ©an, immense, aux fonds invisibles et mystĂ©rieux, est vulnĂ©rable. Sa protection ne pourra avoir lieu que lorsque le grand public, les Ătats et les entreprises, auront compris son importance pour la survie de l'HumanitĂ©. C'est le devoir des hommes et des femmes de droit de rendre cette protection effective.The exploitation of terrestrial energy and mineral resources is limited by the rapid increase of the world's population. It was only after the Second World War that States realised that they had to control the ocean in order to extract its resources. 1982 marks the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The maritime are: was then divided into zones, over which coastal States most often had rights. This division allowed for a better exploitation of maritime resources. In the territorial sea, for example, States could set up electricity production systems from renewable sources. Further, in the exclusive economic zone, States could allow the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. Finally, on the continental shelf, the evolution of technology will soon allow us to exploit marine mineral resources. The central question is whether it is possible to exploit these resources in a sustainable way without destroying the marine environment. The protection of the environment cannot exist without a strong and applied legislation. It must be a bulwark against the actions of companies or States that have little regard for the long-term impact of their actions. The ocean, immense, with invisible and mysterious bottoms, is vulnerable. Its protection can only take place when the general public, States and companies understand its importance for the survival of Humanity. It is the duty of the men and women of law to render this protection effective
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