MU 504 Private Piano

TEXTS: Texts will be chosen based on the level and desired focus of each student. Students are encouraged to bring any piano books to the first music lesson. Recommended text for the Contemporary Worship Tract: The Essential Modern Worship Fakebook: 220 of Your Favorite Worship Songs in Singable Keys. Worship Together: www.worshiptogether.com.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2979/thumbnail.jp

Dance Movement Therapy Interventions to Build Coping Skills and Identity in Adolescent Patients Dealing with a Cancer Diagnosis: Development of a Method

Adolescents are a special category in pediatric oncology because of their unique physical and mental development. This patient population has needs specific to both their development and cancer diagnosis. Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) focuses on building awareness of inner sensations so that the patient can then connect those observations with felt emotions and thoughts. Connecting the physical experience with the emotional experience can provide helpful information for the patient as a tool for change. Building and strengthening relationships with family members also strengthens the critical support system for the patient. Dance Movement Therapy interventions may be effective in working with adolescent cancer patients, by exploring my created goals of building a connection to the body; creating rituals of expression for self, family, and community; and exploring shifting identity. This treatment method focused on adolescent patients, ages 12-18, with cancer diagnoses at a children’s hospital. Three different DMT interventions were offered and implemented based on observed needs and patients\u27 choice and control. Learnings emphasized that adolescent identity is connected to the body. These opportunities for art and movement were shown to be effective tools for expression and communication for patients and their families. These treatment methods and learnings can also be applied to other areas of mental health working with adolescents; from additional areas of medical trauma to other experiences that include trauma or life-changing events

Behavior of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles in Soil Pore Waters as Influenced by Soil Characteristics, Bacteria, and Wheat Roots

The goal of this project was to study the behavior of copper oxide nanoparticles in soil environments. Copper oxide nanoparticles have antimicrobial properties and may also be used in agricultural settings to provide a source of copper for plant health, but accidental or misapplication of these nanoparticles to soil may be damaging to the plant and its associated bacteria. Dissolved soil organic matter that is present in soil pore waters dissolved nanoparticles, but did not dissolve the expected amounts from a geochemical model because the geochemical model did not take into account surface chemistry or coating of the nanoparticles by dissolved organic matter. Wheat grown in soil pore water increased the solubility of the nanoparticles. The nanoparticles and dissolved copper were harmful to wheat, but dissolved soil organic matter remediated a portion of the damage. These studies were conducted with Utah soils and wheat, a highly valuable Utah crop. These results suggest that contamination of soils by copper oxide nanoparticles will be partially mitigated by the organic matter content of the soil. Producers of fertilizers and fungicides may use various forms of organic matter to deliver products that are targeted to specific plants or pathogens and avoid damage to non-target organisms

How Doubt Built the Foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Dr. Gregory A. Prince at this year’s annual Arrington Lecture gave an intriguing biography of Leonard J. Arrington, focusing particularly on Arrington’s own interplay between faith and doubt. Arrington’s intellectual journey was sparked as he entered the world of academia and had his beliefs on evolution directly challenged. Having been raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-­‐ day Saints (LDS or Mormon), he struggled with reconciling a Creationist viewpoint to that taught by the secular world. Eventually, he came to a harmony where both Mormonism and the theory of evolution could coexist in his worldview. Arrington’s open mind continued to shape his investigations of history. His two most influential works, according to Prince, were his financial history of the LDS church Great Basin Kingdom and his research on the origins of the Word of Wisdom. In both of these, Arrington concluded that factors more diverse than solely inspiration influenced various aspects of Mormon history. To Arrington, it appeared that the sweeping temperance movement of the 1830’s was the spark of inspiration that ignited the Word of Wisdom; it also seemed to him that, despite a cultural trend towards a belief in prophetic inerrancy during Arrington’s time (Mauss, 1994), church leaders could be less than inspired in economic matters. His conclusion, as summarized by Prince, was that not all institutions need to be under priesthood direction (Prince, 2013; Arrington, 1966). At other times, Arrington let his doubts lie and let others do the research. He never really researched his questions about the priesthood ban for African descendants or the historicity of the Book of Mormon. However, Arrington reacted with joy when the priesthood ban was overturned and when a publication supporting the Book of Mormon, “An Ancient American Setting of the Book of Mormon” by John L. Sorenson, was published. The theme of Arrington’s life just might be best summed in his own words as quoted by Prince (2013): “It [doubt] might be the avenue to renewed faith, deeper faith, greater understanding.” Because of his ability to doubt the generally-­‐accepted assumptions and investigate which facts were truly valid, he revolutionized our understanding of many aspects of church history. One can hardly view Arrington’s influential and revolutionizing work without recalling similar traits exemplified in Mormon history. The foremost example among these may be Joseph Smith, Jr., for in the words of one unnamed internet commentator, “If Joseph Smith hadn’t doubted a whole bunch of things would we even have the LDS Church?” (“Faith vs. Doubt”, 2009). In this essay, it is argued that the same type of doubt which helped Leonard J. Arrington to discover new truths also had to be present in Joseph Smith, Jr. and his associates in order to have formed the beliefs of the LDS church we know today. This implication shows that doubt can be healthy, rather than detrimental, as (in the author’s experience) today’s culturally-­‐influenced negative perception might indicate. The backgrounds to sections in the Doctrine and Covenants as well as other records of prominent events in Mormon history are used to chronicle the extent to which doubt played a key role in the LDS church’s development

Employing visual literacy techniques

Teachers and administrators must recognize its importance

Involving students in the instructional design process

Why not allow students to organize, design, draw, script, produce and present instructional materials for their peers

The Effects of Cognitive and Affective Persuasion on Supporting the Death Penalty

This thesis examined how participants with cognitively based favorable attitudes toward the death penalty were influenced by cognitive or affective arguments that criticized the death penalty. College students\u27 general attitudes toward the death penalty were measured using a Likert-type scale. They were then asked to write out their thoughts and/or feelings about the death penalty. Some of the participants received two cognitive arguments while others received two affective arguments against the death penalty. After reading these counterarguments, the participants\u27 positions and thoughts/feelings were once again measured. Only participants with cognitively based attitudes that were supportive of the death penalty were included in the data analysis. Their positions before and after reading the counterarguments were compared. The same was done on the amount of statements the participants generated in support of the death penalty. Regardless of whether they received a cognitive or affective counterargument, the participants\u27 positions after reading the counterarguments were significantly less supportive of the death penalty. However, there were no significant reductions in the amount of statements generated in support of the death penalty. Although the type of counterargument had no significant influence on the positions taken, there was a non-significant trend that suggested that affective counterarguments seemed to be more effective than cognitive counterarguments in reducing support toward the death penalty

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1983

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 198

Educational Considerations, vol. 10(2) Full Issue

Educational Considerations, vol. 10(2) Spring 1983 - Full issu

Viewpoint: Thoughts from the field of education technology

The field of educational technology is experiencing such rapid change that even the literature of the field my be dated by the time of its publication