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David M. Donahue is Director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Services and the Common Good, and a professor of education at the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Star Plaxton-Moore is the Director of Community-Engaged Learning at the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at University of San Francisco. Star directs institutional support for community-engaged courses and oversees public service programs for undergraduates, including the Public Service and Community Engagement Minor. She designed and implements an annual Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching Fellowship program for USF faculty, and other professional development offerings that bring together faculty and community partners as co-learners. Her scholarship focuses on faculty development for community-engaged teaching and scholarship, student preparation for community engagement, assessment of civic learning outcomes, and community engagement in institutional culture and practice. Star holds an MEd from George Washington University and is currently completing course work for an EdD in organizational leadership at USF. Tania D. Mitchell
"Engaging students in a familiar voice and pulling them into deeper conversation through embedded digital content, The Student Companion walks students through decades of wisdom and insight about community engagement. For students, the book can be a macro-reflection - encouraging careful critical examination of engagement while honoring the challenging emotional terrain and power dynamics embedded, yet often ignored, in community engagement. Most importantly the volume honors the beauty, complexity, and strength of communities as rich resources for the world, and for students. The Companion is a key resource for students and higher education."
"If Thich Nhat Hanh, Parker Palmer, adrienne maree brown, and Nadinne Cruz had a dinner party about community engagement and higher education, this book might be a map of that imagined conversation. This book provides an important container for students, faculty, and community partners to grapple with the complexities and promise of community-engaged learning: intellectual rigor, ethical relationships, different kinds of knowledges, and the unfolding process of learning with and across differences.
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Students and general readers alike will find this new series of titles both useful and stimulating in their search for a better understanding of the writers who have shaped the literary canon over the centuries. Readers will find many merits and attributes in this series, including:
- Accessible literary criticism on the classic writers
- Covers major writers most frequently read in the secondary schools and lower-level college curriculum
- Follows a proven format to examine each writer's major works fully and systematically
- Well researched biographical chapter relates writer's life to his or her work
- Examines place of writer within his/her literary heritage
- Separate sections on plot development, character development, and major themes
- Alternate critical perspective for each work
- Written to appeal to a general audience
- Enables reader to gain a deeper appreciation of the subject's works
- Written by subject specialists who understand student's needs for lucid analysis of important literary works
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Just show your MavCARD at the Box Office to receive a free ticket. On Hockey gamedays, the Box Office has a student admission table set up in the main lobby to check your MavCARD and issue your ticket. Once you have your ticket you will be able to attend the game with dedicated seating in one of our dedicated student sections so you can sit with your fellow Mavericks!
To access your compaion ticket, students will need to go to the Baxter Arena Box Office window, no earlier than one hour prior to gametime, and show your MavCARD to request a student companion ticket.
The goal is to keep the students engaged with the text, and so the writing style is very informal, with attempts at humor along the way. The target audience is STEM students including those in engineering and meteorology programs.
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- Student Companion to John Steinbeck Kathleen Hicks (bio)
The volume's structured approach to Steinbeck's work is one of its most appealing features. It begins with a brief biography and a chapter detailing Steinbeck's lasting contributions to American literature. The next six chapters cover the novels that students would most likely be assigned: Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, The Pearl, and East of Eden. The final chapter discusses Steinbeck's most frequently anthologized short stories: "The Gift," "The Leader of the People," "The Chrysanthemums," and "Flight." Each chapter includes sections that analyze various literary features of Steinbeck's texts including setting, plot, and structure; characters; themes; symbols; and alternative reading.
In each chapter, setting, plot, and structure is the strongest section. Besides providing plot summaries, these sections show how setting and careful narrative design drive both action and character development in Steinbeck's fiction. Burkhead pays particular attention to the influence of setting, encouraging students to think critically about the role of physical place in each of the texts. Whether Burkhead sees settings as merely backdrop, as in Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl, or vivid and dynamic, as in The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, and East of Eden, she examines how Steinbeck's main characters are products of their physical locations and how action is driven by characters' responses to stimuli in [End Page 158] their surrounding environments. She demonstrates that Steinbeck's often meticulous attention to physical location is one of the defining features of his fiction.
She also analyzes recurring themes throughout the text, thus providing students with a helpful introduction to Steinbeck's most significant ideas. For example, she introduces Steinbeck's phalanx theory early on and shows how he explored its implications for human behavior in nearly all of the works that she includes. Likewise, she defines and discusses literary Naturalism as an important controlling feature in the development of Steinbeck's themes. One drawback in her discussion of both setting and theme, however, is the significant lack of textual support. Because the volume is primarily an overview, many of Burkhead's points are simply assertions. Though a knowledgeable reader or Steinbeck critic may agree with the validity of those assertions, the volume does little to encourage novice students to think critically about how to support major assertions about Steinbeck's work with evidence from his texts.
The lack of supporting evidence is a particular problem in the alternative reading sections and the biography. The alternative reading sections are intended to offer "an alternative critical perspective" from which students can explore each text, such as a Marxist or feminist perspective (viii). These brief sections, though admirable in their attempt to introduce students to more advanced concepts in literary criticism, merely provide oversimplified, one-paragraph definitions of very complex critical phenomenon, like feminism. They then provide very general, undeveloped overviews of how a particular Steinbeck text may be read in relation to one specific critical phenomenon. Some sections are better than others. For example, she shows how a consideration of literary archetypes, like good versus evil and the evil mother figure, provides useful insights into East of Eden. The psychological critique of Cannery Row though, with its two-paragraph explanation of Freud and undeveloped assertions about Mack and the boys' and Doc's Oedipal problems, could easily lure inexperienced students into making arguments that would be very difficult to support without sufficient textual evidence.
Student Companion is an occasional supplement issue aimed at fourth and fifth year veterinary student and features expert advice and insight into the veterinary world, with interviews, articles and details of forthcoming events.
We report on an extension of a cross-cultural collaborative project between students and faculty at DePauw University in the United States and Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan. The ongoing project uses cross-cultural teams to design and evaluate virtual companion robots for university students with the goal of gaining a deeper understanding of the role that kawaii (Japanese cuteness) plays in fostering positive human response to, and acceptance of, robots across cultures. Members of two cross-cultural teams designed virtual companion robots with specific kawaii attributes. Using these robots, we conducted the first phase of a two-phase user study to understand perceptions of these companion robots. The findings demonstrate that participants judge round companion robots to be more kawaii than angular ones and they also judge colorful robots to be more kawaii than greyscale robots. The phase one study identified pairs of robots that are the most appropriate candidates for conducting further investigations. The appropriateness of these pairs holds across male and female participates as well as across participants whose primary culture is American and those whose primary culture is Japanese. This work prepares us to perform a more detailed study across genders and cultures using both survey results and biosensors. In turn, this will inform our long-term goal of designing robots that are appealing across gender and culture.
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