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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Module on Fractions in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis module deals with fractions. This includes how to order and compare fractions and how to perform operations on fractions and apply these basic concepts to problem-solving. This module also includes common errors committed by students in dealing with fractions.
The module is divided into three lessons, namely: Lesson 1 – Rational Numbers w…[Read more]
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Reasons Why Students Dislike Mathematics in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoMathematics is considered a dreaded subject for many students. When talking about Mathematics, any topics under the subject, a lot of students find several excuses on avoiding the talk about numbers. There are three reasons highlighted, to wit: teacher factor, the use of variables in Mathematics to daily life, and “mental culture”.
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Kenneth Mayer deposited The Golden Line: An Exercise that Changed an Academic Discipline in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoWhat happens when an exercise succeeds too well? Could a school exercise designed to teach
a foreign language also influence how a discipline interprets its central literary texts?
For centuries in Britain, Latin versification was the pinnacle of both pedagogy and scholarship,
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Child and Adolescent Development Lecture Notes in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis lecture notes focus on developmental processes that occur from conception through the end of adolescence and also include theories of human development.
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Arantxa Serantes deposited Raciovitalismo poético y filosofía aplicada: El método Canvas (Psicología profunda desde el método filosófico de María Zambrano) in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoMétodo canvas para posibilitar una serie de dinámicas que permitan aplicar el método de María Zambrano desde el estudio homónimo realizado por Mª João Neves.
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Beyond Matchmaking: Peer Mentor Role and Leadership Development in a Student Mentorship Program in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe mentorship programme in the school of education of a South African university shows what is possible in peer mentor leadership development. Through the analysis of first-year student mentees’ perceptions, experiences, and assessment of their peer mentors’ roles, and accounts of the mentors’ review of their role in the mentorship progr…[Read more]
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David Backer deposited History of the Reproduction-Resistance Dichotomy in Critical Education: The Line of Critique Against Louis Althusser, 1974-1985 in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis paper examines one intellectual and historical premise upon which the foundational distinction between reproduction and resistance rests in critical education: the line of critique against the French communist philosopher Louis Althusser’s theory of education. In the paper, I claim that a particular reading of Althusser coming out of B…[Read more]
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Andreas Ferus deposited AT2OA Abschlussbericht in the group
Global Outlook Scholarly Communication on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDas Projekt „Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)“ hat das Ziel, die Transformation von Closed zu Open Access bei wissenschaftlichen Publikationen mitzutragen und konkrete unterstützende Maßnahmen zu setzen. Durch Neugestaltung von Lizenzverträgen mit Verlagen und durch gezielte Publikationsunterstützung der Forschenden sollen eine Steiger…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Reading Folk Horror Through Nostalgia in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis paper considers the use of Boym’s formulations of reflective and restorative nostalgia as a productive lens for viewing the tensions within folk horror texts and their appeals. Considering folk horror texts such as The Wicker Man, Midsommar and The Living and the Dead, the paper will demonstrate that Boym’s two conceptions help to draw out…[Read more]
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Claire Sewell deposited Where Do They Come From? The Educational Background of People Working in Scholarly Communication. in the group
Scholarly Communication on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoAcademic libraries are experiencing yet another period of rapid change as they move from helping researchers to access material and towards supporting them at every stage of the research lifecycle. This is reflected in the nature of the roles being advertised but who is actually filling these vacancies?
This study looks at the roles currently…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Determinants of Work Productivity among Selected Tertiary Education Employees: A PreCOVID-19 Pandemic Analysis in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe work productivity of an individual is an organizational asset that can be equated to progress and success. It provides satisfaction to the employees, the organization, and other stakeholders. This study assessed the work productivity among selected employees from a tertiary education institution before COVID-19 pandemic. To accomplish this…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited A Thousand Tiny Sexes, a Trillion Tiny Jesuses, and the Queer Gospel of Mark in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoQueer theory’s standard origin story centers on Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Teresa de Lauretis. This article proceeds down a less-traveled road, one yet to be explored in biblical studies. Like standard queer theory, this trajectory’s roots are also in French thought—not that of Foucault or Jacques Lacan, howev…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Queerer Meals: Paul and Communal Anti-Norms in Corinth in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis article employs two strategies to understand Paul’s dissatisfaction with the meal practice of the Corinthian assembly in 1 Corinthians 11:17-31. First, it uses a form of queer reading to interrogate the text for its assumptions about normativity and deviance. Second, it puts the Corinthian meals in conversation with modern queer potlucks a…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited “A Big, Fabulous Bible”: The Queen James Bible and Its Queering of Scripture in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoWhile queer biblical translation aims to validate the presence of the LGBTQI community within Christianity, it is often viewed as violating the ethical standards of canonical biblical texts. This paper analyses the Queen James Bible as an activist, queer translation of the Bible that intersects with questions of ethics. Drawing on prefatory…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited A Godly Man and a Manly God: Resolving the Tension of Divine Masculinities in the Bible in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoIn the Hebrew Bible, God epitomises an ideal hegemonic masculinity: sexless but reproductive, in control of his creation, and hypermasculine when engaging with his feminised followers. As such, the Gospel writers depict Jesus as the Son of God with this, as well as the masculine ideals of the Greco-Roman world, in mind. Ultimately, this causes a…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Queering Jesus: LGBTQI Dangerous Remembering and Imaginative Resistance in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoQueering Jesus is a call to remember the danger of the story of Jesus. The primary aim of this article is to offer a comprehensive survey of the representation of queer Jesus. Building upon the deconstructive work of Johannes Baptist Metz and the notion of the dangerous memories of Jesus’s suffering and death (memoria passsionis), this article t…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited “Accused of a Sodomy Act”: Bible, Queer Poetry and African Narrative Hermeneutics in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis article explores the role of poetry and narrative methods in African-centred queer biblical studies and theology. As a case in point, it presents a poem, titled “Accused of a Sodomy Act,” by Tom Muyunga-Mukasa, that was written as part of a queer Bible reading project with Ugandan LGBTQ refugees. The poem is a contemporary re-telling of the…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Harm Principle and Christian Belief in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThe article addresses the question why Christians often fail to achieve even the minimum standard of secular morality. It isolates from a long list of failures the undermining and maltreatment of women and sexual minorities. It describes four types of violence – gender, epistemic, symbolic, and hermeneutic – they are made to endure. It then und…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Editorial: Queer Theory and the Bible in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis special edition is a form of pride. It is a celebration of thirty years since the birth of queer theory. Of course, being queer, this was no normative conception or birth. More of an artificial insemination and fusion of gene pools, characterised by anarchy, activism, subversion, deconstruction, alongside identitarian and non-identitarian…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Submissions: Digital Activism In and Outside the Classroom in the discussion
Global DH on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCall for Papers The Global Digital Humanities Working Group in the Central New York Humanities Corridor seeks graduate students and recent PhDs to participate in a work-in-progress workshop on the theme “Digital Activism in and Outside the Classroom,” to be hosted virtually by the University of Rochester on April 2, 2021. Selected participants wil…[Read more]
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