Teaching Ethnographic Methods Through a Study of Transportation Choices on a California Campus

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Jayne Howell ◽  
Kassandra Chhay
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
California State University ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
State University ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Working Students ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Research Findings

Acquiring knowledge of and using methodology is a critical facet of ethnographers' training. For working students and those with families who cannot leave home for extended periods, class-based projects provide an important alternative to the field school experience. These projects may also have practical dimensions that can be shared with members of the local community. California State University Long Beach students enrolled in an ethnographic methods course used the participation observation and interviewing skills they learned in class to explore commuting habits and shared these results with the campus. This discussion summarizes the course structure, projects, and research findings and analyzes students' perceptions of ways that this hands-on research project allowed them to feel more connected to the campus and discipline.

scholarly journals STRENGTHENING TEACHER PREPARATION THROUGH A LIBRARY PROGRAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D'Amicantonio ◽  
Jordan M. Scepanski
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
California State University ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
State University ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Many ◽  
Support Teacher ◽  
The University

The following paper, which was originally presented at the annual conference of the International Council on Education for Teaching in July 1994, focuses on the importance of the academic library in preparing future teachers. As noted in this article, librarians and libraries, although omitted from the original discussion in Nation at a Risk, received full attention in the publications that responded to this seminal work. Drawing on the many documents that followed publication of Nation at a Risk the authors highlight the value of strong library programs, specifically those that support Teacher Education Departments. In particular, the experience of future teachers attending California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the University Library at CSULB are presented here. 

Prelude to “Prologue to Ask the Dust”

2020 ◽  
pp. 281-289
Author(s):  
Stephen Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
75Th Anniversary ◽  
Italian American ◽  
John Fante ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

In this talk, delivered at the 2014 California State University, Long Beach, symposium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of Ask the Dust, Cooper recounts the story of how he came to discover a remarkable letter, to that point unknown, written by John Fante in 1933. Addressed to fellow Italian American writer Jo Pagano, who like Fante had ventured west from Colorado to seek writing success in Los Angeles, the letter provides insight into the crippling doubts and frustrations that burdened the young Fante even as it reveals his deep-seated confidence that he would one day write a great novel. Published here for the first time, this letter prefigures another remarkable Fante letter, the one written in 1938 that is now known as the Prologue to Ask the Dust.

Analysis of Acculturation, Sex, and Heavy Alcohol use in Latino College Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Safer ◽  
Gina Piane
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
California State University ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Latino College Students ◽  
State University ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Heavy Alcohol Use

24% of 917 students at California State University Long Beach who completed an alcohol use survey in 2002 (73% response) identified themselves as Latino. Because measures of acculturation reported in most adult studies positively correlated with alcohol use and sex, it was hypothesized that these associations might also apply to Latino college students. With increasing levels of acculturation, women but not men in this Latino college sample reported significantly greater occurrence of heavy drinking, positive attitudes about drinking, and perception that most of their friends use alcoholic beverages.

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