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Michael Buratovich

By on December 1, 2013 in Faculty Publications

Auday, Bryan C., Michael A., Buratovich, Geraldine F. Marrocco, and Paul Moglia. Magill’s Medical Guide 7th edition. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2013.

Magill's Medical Guide 7th editionNow in its seventh edition, Magill’s Medical Guide contains 1,200 entries in five volumes. Many essay topics are completely new to this edition, and all entries from the previous edition have been evaluated and updated by a panel of Medical Editors to ensure their currency and accuracy, as needed. All cross-references to other relevant entries in Magill’s Medical Guide have been revised. Every bibliography has been updated with the latest editions and sources, including Web sites for relevant organizations. All appendixes from the previous edition have been updated and checked for accuracy, and the “Medical Journals” list has been expanded to include standard title abbreviations, now serving as a key for users.

Thomas Kuntzleman & Bruce Baldwin

By on October 8, 2013 in Faculty Publications

Kuntzleman, Thomas S., Kristen N. Rohrer, Bruce W. Baldwin, Jennifer Kingsley, Charles L. Schaerer, Deborah K. Sayers, and Vivian B. West. “Constructing an Annotated Periodic Table Created with Interlocking Building Blocks: A National Chemistry Week Outreach Activity for all Ages.” Journal of Chemical Education 90, no. 10 (Oct 08, 2013): 1346.

Abstract: An activity for a National Chemistry Week outreach event has been designed in which children construct a periodic table out of LEGO building bricks. During the activity, children followed simple instructions to build the symbol of a particular element onto a 5.25 in. x 5.25 in. LEGO base plate. Squares for all elements were constructed in this manner, resulting in a periodic table composed of over 6000 LEGO pieces. The finished product has been hung on a wall in the science center at Spring Arbor University. The table has unexpectedly become a unique conversation piece that allows for informal chemical education. In addition, high school students and others have added to the charm of the table by designing LEGO creations to place on the squares of certain elements. These LEGO creations are built so as to represent the element on the square on which it is placed. How the table was built, how the construction of the table was used as a hands-on activity at an outreach event, and how people were invited to build LEGO creations to donate to the table are described.

Charles White

By on October 3, 2013 in Faculty Publications

White, Charles Edward. “Charles Wesley and the Making of the English Working Class.” Journal of Markets and Morality 16, no. 2 (2013): 603-614.

Although their workload varied from place to place and from time to time, Europeans in the Middle Ages worked roughly two-thirds of the year, with about 80 full days and 70 partial days off. The leading theologian before the Reformation, Thomas Aquinas, had taught them that work, while not a curse, was a necessary evil to be avoided when possible. When not faced with hunger, often they did avoid it. Max Weber twice cites seventeenth-century Dutch economist Pieter de la Court saying that people only work because, and so long as, they are poor.8 How could workers such as these be induced to work long hours more than 300 days a year in the factories of the industrial revolution? They sang the hymns of Charles Wesley.

Lori Ann McVay

By on September 13, 2013 in Faculty Publications

McVay, Lori Ann. Rural women in leadership: positive factors in leadership development. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI, 2013.

The Making of an Ordinary Saint Rural women and leadership have, in recent years, come to be the focus of development initiatives in many countries. To date, however, much of the writing on this topic has leaned more heavily on structure than agency as influencing attainment of leadership. Citing examples from a case study in Northern Ireland, this book gives agency an equal voice to structure, and pursues both as vital, positive elements in leadership development.

Naaman Wood

By on September 4, 2013 in Faculty Publications

Wood, Naaman. “Uncle Toms, Massas, and Symbolic Violence: Miles Davis’s Rhetoric of Moral Reconstitution.” Jazz Perspectives 7, no. 1 (2013): 57–75. doi:10.1080/17494060.2013.824645

Abstract: Extending Albert Murray’s presupposition that “performing artists are rhetoricians,” this study applies a rhetorical approach to Miles: the Autobiography. Davis’s rhetoric of moral reconstitutionutilizes the classical means of persuasion—ethos, pathos, and logos—within the epideictic, or ceremonial, genre. As such, Davis focuses his logos of invection on the Uncle Tom insult, where he displays his own, and incites in others, a pathos of insolence. Davis used these discourses to first, explain norms and introduce instability in the jazz community; second, create moral distance from particular figures and elevate himself; and finally, reconstitute the true jazz community around his own ethos of detachment. Based on Christopher Small’s notion of musicking and Phillip Bohlman’s ontological argument of “music as process,” this rhetorical approach extends Murray’s “all performers are rhetoricians” presupposition suggesting, first, that jazz performers can use their musical performances as social criticism and social idealization. And second, the jazz community’s use of logos reveals that musical performances are sites of ongoing struggle over the community’s identity and values. Furthermore, Davis’ rhetoric of moral reconstitution confirms that Miles: the Autobiography is a morally obsessed document but one that condones violent authoritarian rather than dialogic rhetorical strategies. These extensions suggest that jazz is a phenomenon where a rhetorical invention plays a pivotal role and where a rhetorical approach can offer productive insights for further research.

Dale Linton

By on September 4, 2013 in Faculty Publications, General

Linton, Dale. “Ineffective Teachers: A View from the Desk.” Christian School Education 17, no. 1 (2013): 10-12.

Abstract: I have a saying: “Good teaching is good teaching is good teaching.” Essentially, this means that it is rather easy to identify a good teacher from an ineffective one. Effective teachers seamlessly blend together positive personality traits, content knowledge, and pedagogical skillfulness coupled with an in-depth understanding of their students and their learning needs. This entire package is evidenced in the consistent performance of the teachers and the learning achievement of their students. Conversely, ineffective teachers struggle on multiple fronts, typically with glaring deficiencies.

Sally Ingles

By on September 4, 2013 in Faculty Publications

Ingles, Sally. “The Group Assessment Procedure: Predicting Student Teaching Performance.” Journal of Scholastic Inquiry: Education 1, no. 1 (2013): 120-133.

Abstract: many educational reformers presume that teacher quality will improve if teacher preparation programs simply raise standards of academic selection criteria. However, these traditional criteria are poor predictors of student teaching performance. Instead, teacher preparation programs are in need of admission criteria that will identify candidates who are most likely to succeed in student teaching. The Group Assessment Procedure, which measures soft skills, may fulfill that need. As an alternative to the individual interview and a derivative of the assessment center method for selecting managers in the field of business, the Group Assessment Procedure is a 90-minute, simultaneous interview of numerous candidates. Evidence of the Group Assessment Procedure’s validity as a selection tool was limited to teacher candidates attending large public institutions of higher education in both Israel and Utah. The purpose of this study was to validate the Group Assessment Procedure as a viable teacher candidate selection tool at a small, private university in the Midwest. This nonexperimental, predictive validity study examined the relationship between teacher education candidates’ Group Assessment scores and grade point average (GPA) with student teaching performance scores. Findings of this study suggest that Group Assessment Procedure scores are better predictors of student teaching performance scores than GPA at the time of admission. If implemented, these findings will empower teacher education programs to efficiently select teacher education candidates who are most likely to succeed in student teaching.

Jeffrey Bilbro

By on September 3, 2013 in Faculty Publications

Bilbro, Jeffrey. “Lahiri’s Hawthornian Roots: Art and Tradition in “Hema and Kaushik”.” Critique 54, no. 4 (September 2013): 380-394.

Abstract: Hawthorne explores—in “The House of Seven Gables” and particularly “The Marble Faun”—how some artistic methods attempt to fix the past and escape tradition’s grip while others participate in the reformation and revitalization of tradition. Lahiri draws on Hawthorne’s ideas and characters as she probes—in “Hema and Kaushik” and especially its final story, “Going Ashore”—how one’s relation to the past affects and even determines one’s ability to live out a hybrid, postnational identity.