The “Ideal Professor” and Gender Effects in Christian Higher Education

Readers theater productions are meaningful expressions of creative pedagogy in higher education. This article presents the script of a readers theater called Identify This… A Readers Theater of Women's Voices, which was researched, written, and produced by undergraduate and graduate students in a women's studies class called Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender. Section one of the article reproduces the script of Identify This that was based on life history interviews with a diverse selection of women to illustrate intersectional identities. Section two briefly describes the essential elements of the process we used to create and perform Identify This.

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Student Perceptions of Face-to-Face and Online Discussions: The Advantage Goes To . . .

Online Learning ◽

10.24059/olj.v11i4.10 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Katrina A. Meyer

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Affirmative Action ◽

Student Perceptions ◽

Online Discussions ◽

Political Tolerance ◽

Self Assessment ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Face ◽

Online Setting ◽

And Gender

Thirteen students in a graduate-level course on Historical and Policy Perspectives in Higher Education held face-to-face and online discussions on five controversial topics: Diversity, Academic Freedom, Political Tolerance, Affirmative Action, and Gender. Students read materials on each topic and generated questions for discussion that were categorized by Bloom’s taxonomy so that the level of questions in the two discussion settings would be closely parallel. Upon completion of each discussion, they answered questions that addressed depth and length of the discussion, ability to remember, and a self-assessment of how the student learned. Students’ assessments show a consistent preference for the face-to-face discussion but a small number of students preferred the online setting. However, what is perhaps more interesting is a minority of approximately one-third of the students who perceived no difference between the settings, or that the two settings were perhaps complementary.

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Shalom: The Role Of Truth Telling In Creating Communities Of Racial Reconciliation Within Institutions Of Christian Higher Education

10.2986/tren.033-0830 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

James J. PUGLISI

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Christian Higher Education ◽

Racial Reconciliation ◽

Truth Telling

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Reasons for Student Behavior Codes: A Qualitative Study at Two Christian Liberal Arts Institutions

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1540 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Brad A. Lau

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Liberal Arts ◽

Student Behavior ◽

Codes Of Conduct ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Christian Higher Education ◽

Liberal Arts Institutions ◽

Institutional Values

One of the great challenges facing Christian higher education is the role and impact of student behavior codes in furthering institutional values and inculcating those values in the students served by such institutions. The perspectives of administrators, faculty members, and students regarding the rationale for codes of conduct at their institution are examined. To obtain data, administrators, faculty members, and students at two Christian liberal arts institutions completed questionnaires and participated in follow-up interviews based on individual responses to the questionnaire. The views of all three groups are described as they see behavior codes relating to institutional purpose and the development and implementation of such codes.

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The Governance of Global Agri-food Value Chains, Standards, and Development

The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic Governance and Market Regulation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190900571.013.33 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Johan Swinnen ◽

Rob Kuijpers

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Value Chain ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Global Value Chains ◽

Gender Effects ◽

Growth Potential ◽

Value Chains ◽

Food Standards ◽

Institutional Spillovers ◽

And Gender

Understanding the development implications of agri-food standards and global value chains is crucial, as they are a fundamental component of developing countries’ growth potential and could increase rural incomes and reduce poverty, but at the same time they present serious challenges and could lead to further marginalization of the poor. This chapter reviews some of the implications of the spread of stringent standards associated with global value chains for developing countries and global poverty reduction. The chapter focuses on five aspects: the interaction between standards and value chain governance; the effects on agricultural productivity and smallholder welfare; farm-level and institutional spillovers; labor market and gender effects; and the interaction between liberalization policies and value chains.

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Data on Orientation to Happiness in Higher Education Institutions from Mexico and El Salvador

Data ◽

10.3390/data5010027 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 27

Author(s):

Domingo Villavicencio-Aguilar ◽

Edgardo René Chacón-Andrade ◽

Maria Fernanda Durón-Ramos

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

El Salvador ◽

Latin American ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽

Teacher Student ◽

And Gender ◽

Student’S T

Happiness-oriented people are vital in every society; this is a construct formed by three different types of happiness: pleasure, meaning, and engagement, and it is considered as an indicator of mental health. This study aims to provide data on the levels of orientation to happiness in higher-education teachers and students. The present paper contains data about the perception of this positive aspect in two Latin American countries, Mexico and El Salvador. Structure instruments to measure the orientation to happiness were administrated to 397 teachers and 260 students. This data descriptor presents descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation), internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha), and differences (Student’s t-test) presented by country, population (teacher/student), and gender of their orientation to happiness and its three dimensions: meaning, pleasure, and engagement. Stepwise-multiple-regression-analysis results are also presented. Results indicated that participants from both countries reported medium–high levels of meaning and engagement happiness; teachers reported higher levels than those of students in these two dimensions. Happiness resulting from pleasure activities was the least reported in general. Males and females presented very similar levels of orientation to happiness. Only the population (teacher/student) showed a predictive relationship with orientation to happiness; however, the model explained a small portion of variance in this variable, which indicated that other factors are more critical when promoting orientation to happiness in higher-education institutions.

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