Archive | Faculty Publications

This portion of the White Library site is dedicated to documenting the scholarly output of our faculty. This is by no means an all-inclusive list and there are many citations yet to be added. Clicking the title will either take you to the item’s location in the library catalog or database, or to an outside link where you can purchase it. If would like to suggest a faculty publication to be included, please send link to the source and a Chicago Style citation to facultypublications@arbor.edu.

Wally Metts

By Robbie Bolton on May 7, 1996 in Faculty Publications

Metts, Wallis C. Jr. “Home sweet hassle.” Educational Leadership 54, (October 1996): 72-73.

Abstract: Part of a special section on school choice and charter schools. The writer discusses his own and his partner’s experiences as home schoolers. They have no delusions that home schooling was easy. It became a political decision, as they had to lobby for the right to do it. They have also had to defend their decision to school officials, in-laws, close friends, and even total strangers, all of whom believed that their children would become social misfits. However, their children are socialized, civilized, and sensitive. The writer states that home schooling is a labor of love and contends that no child will be the worse for having experienced the focused attention of a caring adult, particularly the child’s own parent.

Charles White

By Robbie Bolton on May 7, 1993 in Faculty Publications

White, Charles Edward. “Teaching Mark’s gospel to Muslims: lessons from an African university.”Christianity Today 37, no. 2 (1993): 39.

Abstract: A Spring Arbor College professor found teaching Christian studies to Muslim students rewarding. Mark’s gospel was used as a means of clearing up some linguistic, cultural and religious differences that caused confusion.

Richard Wallace

By Robbie Bolton on May 7, 1993 in Faculty Publications

Wallace, Richard Cheever. “Exploring Norms and Moral Authority through Content Analysis of Classic Texts.” Teaching Sociology 21, no. 1 (January 1993): 90-94.

Abstract: This article presents an assignment which can help solve some problems related to teaching. These problems include :how one can teach students to grasp clearly the concepts of norms and sanctions in relation to the more nebulous notions of values and morality; how one can give students practice in the often challenging area of content analysis; how one can bring classical writings from various cultures into sociological curriculum; how one can deal with the realm of ethics in classes without straying toward a parochial ethnocentrism or an “anything goes” cultural relativism.

Wally Metts

By Robbie Bolton on May 7, 1991 in Faculty Publications

Metts, Wally. “Carving out a niche: small presses are developing innovative – and often local – strategies for reaching young readers.” Publishers Weekly 238, no. 50 (Nov 15, 1991): 36.

Abstract: Many small presses are expanding into the children’s literature market and are emphasizing niche publishing. The niche is often regional, but can also include specific areas of interest. A look at the market is presented.

Daniel Runyon

By Robbie Bolton on March 26, 1981 in Faculty Publications

Runyon, Daniel. “A Buttleman Portrait.” Music Educators Journal 67, no. 7 (1981): 45-47. doi: 10.2307/3400653

Abstract: Sixty-nine years ago, Eulalia S. Snyder met a dashing twenty-five-year-old printer in Jackson, Michigan. He was Clifford V. Buttleman, the man who would become the longest-reigning editor of Music Educators Journal and would serve from 1930 to 1955 as executive secretary of Music Educators National Conference. At that time he had printer’s ink under his nails and was working on the side producing direct mail advertising for the Gibson Musical Instrument Company in Kalamazoo.