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- Abstract: This module is designed to introduce educational leaders to an organizational assessment tool called a "culture audit." Literature on organizational cultural competence suggests that culture audits are a valuable tool for determining how well school policies, programs, and practices respond to the needs of diverse groups and prepare students to interact globally. Data gathered from culture audits can guide school and community-wide strategic planning efforts to close achievement gaps, promote prosocial behaviors, and develop global competencies.
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Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: Presentations from the 2007 Rice University NSF Advance Conference entitled "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" and held March 14-16 are herein made available to the public. This workshop provided a unique opportunity for prospective women faculty to learn from established faculty leaders across all science and engineering disciplines.
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Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: Presentations from the 2008 Rice University NSF Advance Conference entitled "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" are herein made available to the public. This workshop provided a unique opportunity for prospective women faculty to learn from established faculty leaders across all science and engineering disciplines.
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Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: This Gulf of Maine educational website takes students aboard the submersible Alvin. Classroom activities explore nautical and mythical names, such as the Titanic, instruct students how to make a model of the ocean floor in a shoebox, and introduce topics such as deep sea vents and plate tectonics.
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- Abstract: This is a conversion of a presentation given at the Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position Workshop given on October 14-16, 2007. This presentation was compiled by Anthony M. Johnson.
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Business, Science and Technology, Humanities
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Post-secondary
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- Abstract: Leadership programs routinely offer candidates self-assessment instruments such as the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator to help them identify their probable leadership traits, leadership styles and other personality constructs. One routinely overlooked yet crucial component of school leadership programs is self examination that includes the development of intellectual and ethical attributes that transcend administrative tasks, namely their social attitudes. Professors of educational leadership are compelled to offer students perspective-taking opportunities that unearth weighty and influential dispositions and attitudes that are not consonant with 21st century school leadership. This manuscript offers an internship activity that helps programs to meet NCATE Standard 4 but also affords students an opportunity to delve into their interior life to assess whether their inner realities are based on truth or socialization.
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Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: In this lab activity, students will observe the minute animals that live between sand grains. The activity includes a list of materials, procedures, and discussion question. It is supplemented with reference images and a list of species and their phyla, including Gastrotrichicha, Crustacea/Ostracoda, Crustacea/Copepoda/Harpacticoidea, Nematoda, Turbellaria, Nemertina, Archiannelida, Polychaeta, and Oligochaeta.
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- Abstract: This educational web site features life forms of deep sea hydrothermal systems. Hosted by the American Museum of Natural History, this site offers a brief introduction of the community and then focuses on Vestimentiferan tube worms, Vescomyid clams, and Bathymodiolid mussels. The site includes interactive games, teacher resources, a glossary, and more.
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- Abstract: In this paper we analysis the channel capacity of wireless communication systems and to define the Shanon capacity is limitation and this capacity can be improved by using the number of transmitter and receiver antennas and it exploit the advantages and also increased throughoutput, broad range in multipath fading environment and is capable to provide highest data capacity and also established a reliable wireless systems over the multipath fading channel like Rayleigh or additive white Gaussian (AWGN). In our observation , we have to implementation of different capacity i.e. outage and ergotic for different number of multi antenna systems in the terms of channel is known and unknown for transmitter as well as receiver. Furthermore, it takes the advantage of space time coding (STC) and provides coding and diversity gain and also support to MIMO log det formula.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: We analyze the channel capacity of wireless communication systems and to define the Shanon capacity is limitation and this capacity can be improved by using the number of transmitter and receiver antennas and it exploit the advantages and also increased throughoutput, broad range in multipath fading environment and is capable to provide highest data capacity and also established a reliable wireless systems over the multipath fading channel like Rayleigh or additive white Gaussian (AWGN). In our observation , we have to implementation of different capacity i.e. outage and ergotic for different number of multi antenna systems in the terms of channel is known and unknown for transmitter as well as receiver. Furthermore, it takes the advantage of space time coding (STC) and provides coding and diversity gain and also support to MIMO log det formula.
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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Connexions
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- Abstract: In this paper we analysis the channel capacity of wireless communication systems and to define the Shanon capacity is limitation and this capacity can be improved by using the number of transmitter and receiver antennas and it exploit the advantages and a
- Subject:
Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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Connexions
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- Abstract: Mission Statement
Changing the Culture of the Academy explores ways that the academy might incorporate the challenge of diversity as it pertains to its core mission and practice. Participants will consider new paradigms for rethinking the academy that are inclusive of various cultural and disciplinary traditions, learning styles and identities. This will include opening a dialogue about these issues across all disciplines, from the social sciences and humanities to the physical and life sciences, public policy, law and engineering.
This conference offers a venue for discussing the role of our public institution in connecting diversity with institutional excellence. In what ways does the University of California reflect the needs and concerns of the diverse community in the local and the global arena? How does embracing equity and inclusion affect our pedagogy and research interests? How do intramural and extramural funding priorities dovetail with or divert from these missions? We welcome your participation in any of the preconstituted panels below or you may propose additional papers, presentations, panels and workshops consonant with the conference theme.
The primary goal of the conference is to create a working model for change within the University of California system, developing concrete steps which move beyond tolerance towards a self-reflexive and truly inclusive university system rooted in excellence.
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- Abstract: This course's aims are two-fold: 1) to offer students the theoretical and practical tools to understand how and why cities become torn by ethnic, religious, racial, nationalist, and/or other forms of identity that end up leading to conflict, violence, inequality, and social injustice; and 2) to use this knowledge and insight in the search for solutions. As preparation, students will be required to become familiar with social and political theories of the city and the nation and their relationship to each other. They also will focus on the ways that racial, ethnic, religious, nationalist or other identities grow and manifest themselves in cities or other territorial levels of determination (including the regional or transnational). In the search for remedies, students will be encouraged to consider a variety of policymaking or design points of entry, ranging from the political- institutional (e.g. forms of democratic participation and citizenship) to spatial, infrastructural, and technological interventions.
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- Abstract: This course will serve as both an introduction to contemporary political philosophy and a way to explore issues of pluralism and multiculturalism. Racial and ethnic groups, national minorities, aboriginals, women, sexual minorities, and other groups have organized to highlight injustice and demand recognition and accommodation on the basis of their differences. In practice, democratic states have granted a variety of group-differentiated rights, such as exemptions from generally applicable laws, special representation rights, language rights, or limited self-government rights, to different types of groups. This course will examine how different theories of citizenship address the challenges raised by different forms of pluralism. We will focus in particular on the following questions: - Does justice require granting group-differentiated rights? - Do group-differentiated rights conflict with liberal and democratic commitments to equality and justice for all citizens? - What, if anything, can hold a multi-religious, multicultural society together? Why should the citizens of such a society want to hold together?
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- Abstract: A course designed to help teachers reach all students and to depend upon diverse cultures as a source of strength for curriculum and for classroom development.
- Subject:
Humanities
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
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- Abstract: This paper focuses on how learner’s cultural backgrounds influence learning with computer-based technologies. It begins by noting the lack of research in this area and than looks at the importance of understanding the cultural backgrounds of learners in designing computer based learning experiences for them. After this it reviews the current debates, research and thinking in the literature relating to cultural differences and learning with computer based technologies. This paper also highlights the different nature of computer-based learning environments of public schools in NSW and the need for future research to address such learning contexts and the differences, which abound within them.
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- Abstract: This case study covers a wide variety of challenges facing administrators as they make an effort to improve the learning environments of impoverished communities. It may be used in an introductory course for aspiring school leaders and practitioners in th
- Subject:
Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Post-secondary
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- Abstract: This set of lessons can be used with "Differences Across the Curriculum: Parts 2, 3, and 4" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 1, is meant to serve as a pre-reading activity to the reading of the play form of "The Diary of Anne Frank." See attachment created on Inspiration software to gain insight to the organization of the entire unit.
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- Abstract: This set of lessons can be used with "Differences Across the Curriculum: Parts 1, 3, and 4" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias, which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 2, is meant to augment the pre-reading activities completed in Part 1 in a Social Sciences class.
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- Abstract: Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication - whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service - means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This unit explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
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