Service Learning: An Agent for Social Change discusses personal, social, academic, and career-related impact of service-learning as an instructional method is well documented. This book contributes to the literature by providing access to examples of the service-learning process; the nuances of its implementation; and qualitative evaluation of ......
Building, Leveraging, and Sustaining Capacity in Historically Black College and Universities
This work uses current research data and interviews to present a cogent discussion of strategies and tactics needed to keep the HBCU community a healthy vital component of American educational life. The threats and problems of intuitional life are not glossed over rather they are discussed within the parameters of successful planning and ......
Investigative Nuances, Questions, and Understandings in Educational Research Yield
The authors of this book workbook precis or primer are senior professors, dissertation advisors, and seasoned administrators for a research university in the Deep South. Our title INQUIRY reflects the books aim to help readers with the principles of research scope concerning investigative (examination); nuances (meaning); questions (evoke); in ......
A Closer Look at Formation of Subjectivity in Lacanian Epistemology
Lacan builds all his theories on the central assumption that language is inherently bound up with the privilege of access to the discourse and has its own processes that any speaking being needs to undergo in order to position himself/herself as a member of the Symbolic Order. These processes are not easy as they have lots of multiple dimensions ......
Dr Al-Zubeidy brings an insider's knowledge and an outsider's eye to one of the key issues in Anglo-American poetry: the transformative aspects of change based on science and technology, its relentlessness and its disruptive tendencies. As a poet and a survivor of an ongoing conflict that has seen the death of hundreds of thousands of his fellow ......
Optimizing Higher Learning and Maximizing Investment in Today's Economy
How many times have you heard a potential college bound student say, Sure, I want to go to college, but right now, I have to make a living for myself and help my family? Or, I want to go to college, but I don t know what I want to study. On one hand, I love to read and write about literature; on the other, I also like doing physical things ......
Classroom Analytics for Teaching about Social Justice with Action Research in Higher Learning
CATALYSTICS: Classroom Analytics for Teaching about Social Justice in Higher Learning can serve as the genesis for moving the usual mission statements promulgated by so many universities and colleges from the maintained pontification to the movement of proof. We use the word, CATALYSTICS to create a confluence between the terms catalytical and ......
This book is a meditation on isolation and community through the study of literary treatments of the theme. The treatments are fanciful rather than literal or clinical accounts of exile from society, myths, fables, tales of men without women on desert islands. Even Thoreau's Walden is something of a lark, a wilfully eccentric experiment. Most of ......
Celtic Mythology, The Irish Revival and The Californian Avant-Garde
Ella Young (1867-1956) the Irish poet, Celtic mythologist and author presents a number of problems to any researcher- she not only lived an Irish life of almost 60 years but she went on to have a dramatically different life in California that lasted over 30 years until her death. She also managed to write an autobiography that labelled her in many ......
