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Title: MGF 1106 and MGF 1107 Mathematics for Liberal Arts.
Creator: Lippman, David
Abstract/Description: Open educational resource for Mathematics for Liberal Arts. Florida public university courses MFG 1106 and MFG 1107,
Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauoermgf1106mgf1107
Subject Headings: Mathematics -- Liberal Arts, Open Educational Resources -- Textbooks, Educational resources, Open, OERs (Open educational resources)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Creating Spaces For Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Amid Standards Driven Curriculum In Secondary School English/Language Arts Classes.
Creator: Leichtman, Anala, Schoorman, Dilys, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry
Abstract/Description: This hermeneutic phenomenological study emerged from concerns about the ways teachers’ pedagogical practices are affected by growing diversity in their classrooms and continuous education reform. Drawing on the perspectives of critical pedagogy and postcolonial literary theory, this study also explored the tension that exists between what students ought to learn in schools and what they actually learn. Data was gathered through two interviews and a classroom observation with each of eight...
Show moreThis hermeneutic phenomenological study emerged from concerns about the ways teachers’ pedagogical practices are affected by growing diversity in their classrooms and continuous education reform. Drawing on the perspectives of critical pedagogy and postcolonial literary theory, this study also explored the tension that exists between what students ought to learn in schools and what they actually learn. Data was gathered through two interviews and a classroom observation with each of eight high school language arts teachers in South Florida to gain an understanding of how they use their pedagogical practices to navigate changes that occur in the practice field and create spaces to utilize culturally responsive pedagogy in their implementation of the current secondary school English/Language Arts curriculum. Teachers’ reflections on their experiences, descriptions of the climate of their practice and how teachers create spaces for culturally responsive pedagogy were analyzed to consider how their pedagogical practices conform to or challenge the structural and normative assumptions of the practice field. Findings revealed that despite the constraints imposed on their pedagogy by education reform, including standardization of their practice, all teachers used culturally responsive pedagogy in their classrooms to achieve state mandated goals, albeit at a foundational level. While teachers unencumbered by standardized testing expressed higher levels of freedom to make pedagogical choices in their classrooms, all participants suggested that prescribed curriculum and resources could do more to represent students’ needs and growing diversity in schools rather than standardized assessments. Furthermore in their implementations of culturally responsive pedagogy, teachers continue to use students’ voices to represent standardized curriculum and universal literary themes rather than establishing them as curriculum in their own right. As such, this study’s findings extend discussions by educational and postcolonial literary theorists regarding whose knowledge has legitimacy as a part of curriculum especially in a practice field that emphasizes student performance at state mandated levels above all else.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013084
Subject Headings: Culturally relevant pedagogy., Multicultural education., Language arts (Secondary) Study and teaching
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Flotsam.
Creator: Henson, Jacob., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Flotsam is a collection of writing. Flotsam examines divisions of the self. Flotsam is made of fiction, nonfiction, and visual representations of both. Flotsam is made of the truth. Flotsam is made of lies. Flotsam is pretty. Flotsam is a beast.
Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3338856
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Symbolism in art, Postmodernism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Family constellation and language experience as influences on bilingual first language acquisition.
Creator: Place, Silvia., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: This study investigated the effects of family composition and properties of children's dual language exposure on bilingual first language acquisition. Mothers of 29 toddlers (13 boys and 16 girls, M age = 25.66 months, SD = .44) kept a language diary, providing measures of the amount, the contexts, and the persons with whom the children experienced English and Spanish. Measures of the children's vocabulary balance were obtained from English and Spanish language inventories. Results showed...
Show moreThis study investigated the effects of family composition and properties of children's dual language exposure on bilingual first language acquisition. Mothers of 29 toddlers (13 boys and 16 girls, M age = 25.66 months, SD = .44) kept a language diary, providing measures of the amount, the contexts, and the persons with whom the children experienced English and Spanish. Measures of the children's vocabulary balance were obtained from English and Spanish language inventories. Results showed that only children with two native Spanish-speaking parents had larger Spanish than English vocabularies and experienced more hours of Spanish-only exposure and Spanish-only conversational contexts. Analysis of covariance demonstrated that the effect of family composition on vocabulary balance was completely mediated by the balance of English and Spanish in the children's language exposure. There was no evidence of a unique effect of experiencing Spanish-only conversational contexts or partners on children's acquisition of Spanish.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/246048
Subject Headings: Language acquisition, Parent participation, Language arts (Early childhood), Hispanic American families, Language, Bilingualism in children
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Title: Gesture and learning about objects.
Creator: Freund, Robert R., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: The role of gestures in determining the use of familiar and novel tools was explored. In the first study, participants were shown gestures for tools corresponding either to tool design, or to the physical affordances of a puzzle designed for each tool. In the second study, two additional conditions were added. In the first, gestures were used that did not correspond to tool design or the puzzle affordances. The second was a control condition in which no gestures were shown. Results indicate...
Show moreThe role of gestures in determining the use of familiar and novel tools was explored. In the first study, participants were shown gestures for tools corresponding either to tool design, or to the physical affordances of a puzzle designed for each tool. In the second study, two additional conditions were added. In the first, gestures were used that did not correspond to tool design or the puzzle affordances. The second was a control condition in which no gestures were shown. Results indicate that the demonstration of gestures appropriate to a novel problem situation facilitate creative use of tools. Additionally, attention to tool and puzzle affordances is effective for creative tool use when no gestural input is present. However, knowledge of tool design may interfere with this creative application. Performance is further hindered by the demonstration of gestures consistent with tool design, which may prime individuals to rely on the design stance.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927868
Subject Headings: Gesture, Language and languages, Origin, Mind and body, Social aspects, Performance art, Influence
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Gaze to discover.
Creator: Pennekamp, Tabitha., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: Gaze to discover is the approach a viewer should take as s/he encounters the work within this exhibition. The main idea is that the work should be interactive. Developing this interaction is the objective of each piece. To engage viewers to interact with a piece of art coincides with the ability to acquire their undivided attention. The realization that it is difficult for a viewer to have a tangible interaction with artwork in a gallery setting leads to asking the viewer to interact visually...
Show moreGaze to discover is the approach a viewer should take as s/he encounters the work within this exhibition. The main idea is that the work should be interactive. Developing this interaction is the objective of each piece. To engage viewers to interact with a piece of art coincides with the ability to acquire their undivided attention. The realization that it is difficult for a viewer to have a tangible interaction with artwork in a gallery setting leads to asking the viewer to interact visually, "to look fixedly" - to gaze (Webster's Dictionary). Gazing at the work will direct the viewer to discover; "to gain knowledge through observation, study, or search" (Webster's Dictionary). The desired outcome is a personal relationship with each piece observed. Games, play, and visual interaction are what this installation addresses. The familiar vessel forms chosen draw the attention, but the alliteration imagery keeps the viewer intrigued. With the help of a game card, a viewer is left with a puzzle to solve only obtainable through the gaze to discover.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3352283
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Imagery in literature, Sculpture, Exhibitions, Visual communication, Phenomenology and art, Aesthetics
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Points of Intersection Finding Connections Between Design, Science and Math.
Creator: Kohlhagen, Christopher, Afanador Llach, Camila, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: Contemporary educational trends have created a false dichotomy between the arts and science. The will to make STEM subjects the focus of K-12 education, ignores both a shared history and the potential for greater learning in a shared future.The intention of Points of Intersection is to demonstrate that design, science and math intersect in their concepts, practices and history. In the past, these disciplines were explored and studied together and benefited from each other. By exploring what...
Show moreContemporary educational trends have created a false dichotomy between the arts and science. The will to make STEM subjects the focus of K-12 education, ignores both a shared history and the potential for greater learning in a shared future.The intention of Points of Intersection is to demonstrate that design, science and math intersect in their concepts, practices and history. In the past, these disciplines were explored and studied together and benefited from each other. By exploring what design and science have in common and the points where they intersect, we can see the relevance and importance of art and design in k-12 education and change STEM to STEAM. The exhibition will explore point, line, plane and the “Golden Ratio” demonstrating how these concepts can be understood from the perspectives of physics, math, art and design on a basic level. These basic principles can be used to introduce these fields of study and bring a better understanding of them to students in K-12. Future designers and scientists with this educational underpinning will have a better mutual understanding of one another’s field and the potential for shared research, process and results.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005949
Subject Headings: Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University, Art and science., Science--Study and teaching., Design.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Retro-Respect: a musical tribute to ten of this generation's greatest artists.
Creator: Falk, Kam Allen., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Music
Abstract/Description: The popular culture of the past three decades owes a great deal to the creativity and musical impact of the artists featured in Retro-Respect. The project's objective was to carefully select ten of this generation's most influential recording artists and, as a musical tribute, produce and record unique arrangements of songs by each of them for an audio CD. Each featured artist has at least a 30 year history of influence and recognition as being among the industry's best, and all remain...
Show moreThe popular culture of the past three decades owes a great deal to the creativity and musical impact of the artists featured in Retro-Respect. The project's objective was to carefully select ten of this generation's most influential recording artists and, as a musical tribute, produce and record unique arrangements of songs by each of them for an audio CD. Each featured artist has at least a 30 year history of influence and recognition as being among the industry's best, and all remain musically active today. Included are Aerosmith, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Elton John and David Bowie. Retro-Respect was produced and arranged by Kam Falk. Each of the eight vocal and two instrumental songs features a different ensemble with Falk performing on six-string bass, fretless four-string bass, keyboards, vocals and drum/ percussion programming.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/329843
Subject Headings: Performing arts, Popular music, Writing and publishing, Music appreciation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Linking masks with Majora: The legend of Zelda: Majora’s mask and NOH theater.
Creator: Osborne, Sterling Anderson, Swanstrom, Elizabeth, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The field of video game studies is young and requires innovation in its approach to its object of study. Despite the large number of Japanese games and game developers, most scholars in the West approach video games from a point of view that emphasizes Western thought and that is concerned with either very recent video games or the medium as a whole. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask defies Western interpretations as its inspiration and aesthetics are steeped in a Japanese theatrical...
Show moreThe field of video game studies is young and requires innovation in its approach to its object of study. Despite the large number of Japanese games and game developers, most scholars in the West approach video games from a point of view that emphasizes Western thought and that is concerned with either very recent video games or the medium as a whole. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask defies Western interpretations as its inspiration and aesthetics are steeped in a Japanese theatrical tradition that dates to the early Middle Ages, namely Noh theater. The game’s emphasis on masks and possession provides unique commentary on the experience of playing a video game while the structure of the game harkens back to traditional Noh cycles, tying in pre-modern ideas with a modern medium in order to comment on video games and the people who play them.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004311, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004311
Subject Headings: Aesthetics, Japanese, Legend of Zelda (Game), Nō, Theater -- Japan, Video games -- Philosophy, Video games in art
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE IMPACT OF FEMALE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHERS’ INTERSECTIONALITY ON PEDAGOGY.
Creator: Berson, Jillian, Baxley, Traci P., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry, College of Education
Abstract/Description: This mixed-methods phenomenological bounded case study sought to uncover how who teachers are as people impacts what they do in their classrooms. The study examined how teachers’ personal lives (e.g., backgrounds and prior knowledge), their experiences with intersectionality (e.g., race, class, gender, and sexual orientation), and professional lives (e.g., pedagogical beliefs and curricular choices) influence one another. The sample for this student consisted of seven high school female...
Show moreThis mixed-methods phenomenological bounded case study sought to uncover how who teachers are as people impacts what they do in their classrooms. The study examined how teachers’ personal lives (e.g., backgrounds and prior knowledge), their experiences with intersectionality (e.g., race, class, gender, and sexual orientation), and professional lives (e.g., pedagogical beliefs and curricular choices) influence one another. The sample for this student consisted of seven high school female English Language Arts teachers who were teaching the required text, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Lee (1960). Through the use of survey questionnaires, interviews, document analysis of unit lesson plans, and a focus group, a portrait of the relationship between teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and curriculum design choices emerged. Four key themes emerged in relation to the research questions for this study: (a) whether teachers are teaching with the students in mind, (b) uncovering the power structure of the teaching experience, (c) the role of teaching versus facilitating, and (d) curriculum design focusing on the process of learning versus end products.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013355
Subject Headings: Teaching, Pedagogy, Language arts teachers, Phenomenology, Women teachers, Lee, Harper To kill a mockingbird
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Solace: Intimately Remembered Places.
Creator: Francoeur, Michele, Prusa, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: The culmination of my graduate research and investigations is my thesis exhibition Solace; Intimately Remembered Places. This body of paintings is a visual representation of land, water and flora that focuses on my abstraction of nature to extract essential elements that expresses my deep connection to a specific time and place, layered with associated memories. By revisiting a landscape over a sustained period of time, I developed a personal visual vocabulary to communicate the essential...
Show moreThe culmination of my graduate research and investigations is my thesis exhibition Solace; Intimately Remembered Places. This body of paintings is a visual representation of land, water and flora that focuses on my abstraction of nature to extract essential elements that expresses my deep connection to a specific time and place, layered with associated memories. By revisiting a landscape over a sustained period of time, I developed a personal visual vocabulary to communicate the essential abstract forms of nature and record the subtle nuances of color, light, shape, texture, positive and negative space to evoke a particular time and place. I expanded my painting techniques through the addition of a laser cutter. Rooted in a background of graphic design, my thesis also incorporated and included a book form using similar strategies.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004971, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004961
Subject Headings: Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University, Painting--Exhibitions., Art, Abstract., Artists' books., Etching.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Beyond the Roof.
Creator: Pelosi, Faye., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
Abstract/Description: Ultimately, these verses are reflections of paintings (not necessarily paintings made with brush and oil, but paintings created by Nature, memory, and so forth). Each poem is also a painting and each painting is also a poem in the sense that the poetry should work the way a painting does by presenting a vivid image and idea. In every case, one has stemmed from the other. I want to translate the visual arts into writing, which includes the visual art of imagination because images are my...
Show moreUltimately, these verses are reflections of paintings (not necessarily paintings made with brush and oil, but paintings created by Nature, memory, and so forth). Each poem is also a painting and each painting is also a poem in the sense that the poetry should work the way a painting does by presenting a vivid image and idea. In every case, one has stemmed from the other. I want to translate the visual arts into writing, which includes the visual art of imagination because images are my natural language. These verses are an attempt at intermixing the categories (language and image), transferring one category into the other and vise versa to make the language act as a painting would; a painting with occasional narration.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13304
Subject Headings: Language arts, Visual communication, American poetry--21st century, Creativity in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Concert fee determination: A game-theoretic approach.
Creator: Brooks, Arthur Charles., Florida Atlantic University, Stronge, William B., College of Business, Department of Economics
Abstract/Description: This thesis is in three parts. In the first, the cultural economics literature which concerns the labor market for musicians is reviewed and its major theoretical and empirical points are examined. The second part begins by briefly surveying the history and main topics in game theory, providing sufficient background for an understanding of the simplified Rubinstein-Stahl bargaining model, which is then described. The third part applies this model to the process by which concert fees are...
Show moreThis thesis is in three parts. In the first, the cultural economics literature which concerns the labor market for musicians is reviewed and its major theoretical and empirical points are examined. The second part begins by briefly surveying the history and main topics in game theory, providing sufficient background for an understanding of the simplified Rubinstein-Stahl bargaining model, which is then described. The third part applies this model to the process by which concert fees are settled upon, and leads to a number of conclusions. Among these are that subjective discount rates reflect bargaining power in the situation described, and that these discount rates are affected by the notorieties of the parties involved.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15040
Subject Headings: Game theory, Fees, Professional, Musicians--Fees, Performing arts--United States--Finance
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Title: Recovering Eden: The photographer in the garden.
Creator: Bentley-Kemp, Lynne Austin., Florida Atlantic University, Brown, Susan Love
Abstract/Description: This dissertation explores the intersection of Paradise, art making, concepts of beauty and the social conventions that influence artists. My exploration occurs within the landscape genre, specifically the landscape photograph. For the purpose of contextualizing this analysis the dissertation is designed as an illustrated book where word and image occupy places of equal importance. Photographs are used as primary source material in this investigation. The work of six accomplished American...
Show moreThis dissertation explores the intersection of Paradise, art making, concepts of beauty and the social conventions that influence artists. My exploration occurs within the landscape genre, specifically the landscape photograph. For the purpose of contextualizing this analysis the dissertation is designed as an illustrated book where word and image occupy places of equal importance. Photographs are used as primary source material in this investigation. The work of six accomplished American photographers has been selected so that a lineage may become apparent in the portrayal of a pictorial vision of Eden. All the photographers chosen for the project made/make art that is centered on the paradisiacal landscape, an ideal that is interpreted by each individual photographer according to their gender, socio-political influences, personal spirituality and cultural orientation. The review begins in the 1860's with the work of Carleton Watkins, one of the first photographers of the western American landscape and continues with Timothy O'Sullivan. The review will segue into Modernism with Ansel Adams and Laura Gilpin and ends in latter part of the 20th century with two contemporary American photographers, Linda Connor and Marilyn Bridges. This particular analysis is structured upon a universal image of paradise as a garden and how that image has become culturally imprinted upon humans. The visual manifestations of Eden seen in nineteenth and twentieth century painting and photography are constructed throughout history. They represent use of art as means towards creating utopias. With this impulse to escape or change the status quo I have examined the connection of the appreciation of beauty to ethical transformation.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12038
Subject Headings: Landscape photography--United States, Eden in art, Photographers--United States
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Writing across the curriculum: Implications for preservice teacher education.
Creator: Kamman, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Childrey, John, Arnov, Boris
Abstract/Description: Potentially, the most important response to widespread criticism about the quality of writing and writing instruction is Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). WAC can mean a total immersion in writing, horizontally in all departments and vertically at all grade levels. It can encompass current writing theory, but only if teachers understand such theory and can apply it. WAC theory must be incorporated into the entire process of professional preparation. WAC philosophy believes that (a) writing...
Show morePotentially, the most important response to widespread criticism about the quality of writing and writing instruction is Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). WAC can mean a total immersion in writing, horizontally in all departments and vertically at all grade levels. It can encompass current writing theory, but only if teachers understand such theory and can apply it. WAC theory must be incorporated into the entire process of professional preparation. WAC philosophy believes that (a) writing can be learned and should be taught, (b) writing is a way to clarify thought, (c) writing is a way to learn, and (d) writing is a complex, individualized process. This understanding is required to teach in a successful WAC program. The literature offers little evidence that schools of education feel a responsibility to emphasize writing and writing instruction at the preservice level. Therefore, a study was initiated to survey the eight Florida schools of education that are members of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) for the purpose of determining practices and perceptions regarding WAC. This descriptive research called for two survey questionnaires, which invited responses from 8 administrators and 250 secondary education students and tested 11 hypotheses. These hypotheses related to required courses for writing and writing instruction, student understanding of WAC theory, student perception of WAC status, level of student confidence to write and use writing, student willingness to become writing teachers, and student perception of the importance of writing. The remainder of the study recommends a required preservice course in WAC for all future teachers and suggests some components that course should contain.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12257
Subject Headings: Language arts--Correlation with content subjects, Teachers--Training of--Florida
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Title: An empirical study of Florida nonprofit arts organizations.
Creator: Lu, Yu Hua., Florida Atlantic University, Stronge, William B., College of Business, Department of Economics
Abstract/Description: This thesis contains an empirical study of nonprofit cultural organizations in the state of Florida. Transcendental and Cobb Douglas functions are compared for a sample of 76 organizations. The organizations produce under conditions of decreasing returns to scale and both labor and capital are employed in amounts beyond the point where their marginal revenue products equal their input prices. Labor is disaggregated between artists and adjuvants, with the former functioning as essential to...
Show moreThis thesis contains an empirical study of nonprofit cultural organizations in the state of Florida. Transcendental and Cobb Douglas functions are compared for a sample of 76 organizations. The organizations produce under conditions of decreasing returns to scale and both labor and capital are employed in amounts beyond the point where their marginal revenue products equal their input prices. Labor is disaggregated between artists and adjuvants, with the former functioning as essential to production and the latter not being essential to production.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14753
Subject Headings: Nonprofit organizations--United States, Arts--Economic aspects--United States
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Title: An examination of botanical substructures as symbolic communication: The carved stone monuments of the Cotzumalguapa Nuclear Zone, Guatemala.
Creator: Kerr, Debora Claire., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J.
Abstract/Description: The Cotzumalguapa Nuclear Zone is located on the Pacific slope of Guatemala. A portion of the carved stone monuments associated with this zone exhibits a unique combination of botanical symbols as a concomitant to central portrait figuration. This botanical style, found elsewhere in Mesoamerica, includes leaf, flower, fruit, and complex tabbed speech scroll/vine motifs intertwined with other non-botanical symbols. The resulting style can be interpreted as an "envisioned form" of symbolic...
Show moreThe Cotzumalguapa Nuclear Zone is located on the Pacific slope of Guatemala. A portion of the carved stone monuments associated with this zone exhibits a unique combination of botanical symbols as a concomitant to central portrait figuration. This botanical style, found elsewhere in Mesoamerica, includes leaf, flower, fruit, and complex tabbed speech scroll/vine motifs intertwined with other non-botanical symbols. The resulting style can be interpreted as an "envisioned form" of symbolic communication. This thesis examines, isolates and quantifies the botanical elements, their placement and suggests comparisons with plant species known to facilitate altered state spiritual communication.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15598
Subject Headings: Symbolism of flowers--Guatemala, Symbolism in art, Monuments--Guatemala, Cotzumalguapa Nuclear Zone (Guatemala)
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Title: An exploratory study of the perceptions and experiences of selected educators on the infusion of multicultural education into the language arts curriculum in Broward County, Florida, public schools.
Creator: Lawrence, Audrey Elaine., Florida Atlantic University, Urich, Ted R.
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate and to explore the perceptions and experiences of selected educators on the infusion of multicultural education into the language arts curriculum in Broward County, Florida, Public Schools. This study also sought to discover the best practices of those language arts teachers who did infuse multicultural education into their curriculum. Little empirical data exists which elicits the views of language arts teachers about the infusion of multicultural...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate and to explore the perceptions and experiences of selected educators on the infusion of multicultural education into the language arts curriculum in Broward County, Florida, Public Schools. This study also sought to discover the best practices of those language arts teachers who did infuse multicultural education into their curriculum. Little empirical data exists which elicits the views of language arts teachers about the infusion of multicultural education into the curriculum. Limited research on the middle school level is available. A qualitative single-case study design was used. The study was conducted at multiple sites; and the primary sources of data were interviews, document analyses, and researcher participant and nonparticipant observations. The sample of 48 participants was selected from 9 Broward County, Florida, Public Schools, including 6 middle schools. The sample included middle school language arts teachers, as well as principals, assistant principals, media specialists, teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), directors of multicultural education, and multicultural resource teachers. Based on the analysis of data, the perspectives and experiences of most teachers were multidimensional. Eight categories of findings relating to the perspectives of language arts teachers on the impact of multicultural education into the curriculum emerged: (a) multicultural education implementation; (b) the theoretical approaches used by language arts teachers to infuse multicultural education into the curriculum; (c) the impact of multicultural education on students, teachers, and the instructional process; (d) social and organizational factors that impact the infusion process; (e) the availability of resources, the authenticity of materials, and challenges encountered in the infusion process; (f) teacher needs; (g) the significance of the affective domain factors that teachers bring to the experience; (h) and standards and matrices. Overall, the participants in this study felt that the experience of teaching and learning from a multicultural perspective was enormously valuable to the self-concept, academic achievement, and the cultural appreciation among their students. The findings indicate that the curriculum that is presented or practiced is gradually moving beyond the lowest level of the additive approach toward a multicultural approach to infusion as suggested in the literature. Most practitioners are at Grant and Sleeter's (1999) single-group studies approach to multicultural education infusion which looks at the infusion of a single ethnic group.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12607
Subject Headings: Language arts (Middle school)--Curricula, Multicultural education, Middle school teachers--Florida--Attitudes, Curriculum change
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Title: General education classroom teachers' and music specialists' perceived ability to implement the National Standards for Music Education.
Creator: Byo, Susan June, Florida Atlantic University, Gray, Mary B., Morris, John D.
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to examine teacher perceptions about pertinent factors affecting the successful teaching of the National Standards for Music. Subjects were music specialists and fourth grade generalists from public elementary schools in consenting school districts from throughout the State of Florida. The two groups were administered a survey to glean opinions of the feasibility of implementing each of the nine National Standards for Music by rating seven repeated professional...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine teacher perceptions about pertinent factors affecting the successful teaching of the National Standards for Music. Subjects were music specialists and fourth grade generalists from public elementary schools in consenting school districts from throughout the State of Florida. The two groups were administered a survey to glean opinions of the feasibility of implementing each of the nine National Standards for Music by rating seven repeated professional and resource items (contact time, resources, assistance, ability, training, interest, responsibility, and level of assistance). The summed ratings of the dependent variables (consisting of the seven professional and resources items) for each standard were subjected to a two way analysis of variance with repeated measures to determine that significant differences exist with respect to the independent variable of teacher role, with music specialists and general educators as two levels of this variable; and the independent variable of content standard, variable. Statistical significance and interactions were studied within content standards and between music specialists and fourth grade generalists. Results indicate that significant differences exist between music teachers and fourth grade teachers in their perceptions of the feasibility of delivering effective instruction for each standard. Additionally, a significant difference exists between each standard with respect to the overall perceived viability of effective implementation regardless of teacher role. Further, an interaction was identified that indicated differences by both role and standard. More specifically, this research yielded results which indicate that certain standards (History & Culture, Singing, and Analyzing Music) are more feasible for both roles to teach than other standards (Playing Instruments, Improvising, and Composing). It also verified that music specialists are considerably more amenable to the implementation of the nine content standards than the general educators with respect to all seven professional and resource items. Music teachers feel most effective implementing the Evaluating, Listening & Analyzing, and Singing standards while generalists feel most effective implementing the History & Culture, Other Subjects, and Singing standards. Both groups indicated an overall lack of time and resources to effectively teach most standards. Music teachers were less dependent on the assistance of classroom teachers while classroom teachers agreed that they needed the assistance of music teachers to successfully implement most standards.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12503
Subject Headings: National standards for arts education
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Title: The Effects of a Fluency Intervention on the Oral Reading Fluency of First Grade Students At Risk for Reading Failure.
Creator: Ming, Kavin, Smiley, Lydia R., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Reading is an essential skill necessary for academic success. However, many children experience difficulties in acquirin,g essential reading skills necessary to support and enhance other areas of learning (Nes, 2003). One major area in which students fail to attain proficiency is in the area of reading fluency (Vaughn et al., 2000). Previous research has demonstrated that repeated reading is an effective intervention for increasing fluency in elementary age readers (Keehn, 2003; Rashotte &...
Show moreReading is an essential skill necessary for academic success. However, many children experience difficulties in acquirin,g essential reading skills necessary to support and enhance other areas of learning (Nes, 2003). One major area in which students fail to attain proficiency is in the area of reading fluency (Vaughn et al., 2000). Previous research has demonstrated that repeated reading is an effective intervention for increasing fluency in elementary age readers (Keehn, 2003; Rashotte & Torgesen, 1985). However, little research has specifically addressed the impact of repeated readings on first grade students. In addition, researchers have called for investigations of additional components (sight words and phonics) on repeated reading interventions (Vaughn et al., 2000). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of combining sight words and spelling pattern instruction with timed repeated readings on the word accuracy, words read correctly per minute and prosody of first grade students who are at risk for reading failure. An ANCOVA yielded significant effects on each of the three dependent variables, and these results demonstrated that the addition of components (sight words and spelling patterns) to timed repeated readings improved the oral reading fluency of low level readers, of which students at risk for reading failure are a part. The outcome of this study also confirmed that first grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds can increase their oral reading fluency skills with research-based methods.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000681
Subject Headings: Reading (Elementary)--Ability testing, Reading comprehension, Language arts (Elementary), Literacy--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Format: Document (PDF)

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