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  Modeling Deductive Inference: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction to First-Order Logic

  David J. Buller, Department of Philosophy

  This book is a companion text for lectures on first-order logic and its elementary metatheory (used in Intermediate Logic at Northern Illinois University). It covers the basic concepts of set theory necessary for a mathematical development of first-order logic; develops a formal language of first-order logic; presents a classical Tarskian semantics for the language and the “semantic” conception of logical consequence; presents a Gentzenian proof system and the “syntactic” conception of logical consequence; develops a partial decision procedure for logical consequence in the language; demonstrates applications of the formal system to modeling deductive inference expressed in natural language; and extends the system to include identity. Unlike a typical logic textbook, however, these topics are embedded within an overarching historico-philosophical narrative that illuminates (some of) the interaction of rational argument and historical context that led to their development and exhibits their engagement with broader philosophical issues.

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  Designing for Neurodiversity in Web Spaces

  Kelly Getz and Kimberly Shotick, University Libraries

  In this chapter, we share how we carried out library website usability studies with neurodivergent students. The research is situated within the Social Model of Disability and places value on students' experiences challenges. Through usability studies and inclusive web service redesign plans, we center the opinions and expectations of neurodivergent student users in ways neurotypical users have been centered and designed around in the past. The chapter will share methods and best practices for conducting usability studies with neurodivergent individuals as well as findings from our own study.

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  Playing Changes: Music as Mediator between Japanese and Black Americans

  E Taylor Atkins, Department of History

  Since the mid-twentieth century, music has played a central role in encounters and interactions between the people of Japan and those of African descent. It proved far more effective for pro- moting interracial dialogue and understanding than efforts in the early 1900s to foster an alliance against white supremacy and imperialism. This essay unpacks the ways that encounters with Black music transformed Japanese musicking and generated knowledge and empathy for people of African descent among Japanese. Personal interactions between Black and Japanese musicians constituted a process of “grassroots globalization” that circumvented the dominance of American mass media in representing African Americans and their music. Japanese who performed and consumed Black music could understand W. E. B. Du Bois’ concept of “double consciousness,” seeing themselves in the eyes of others and becoming more aware of racial injustice. Afrological music spoke more relevantly to Japanese experience than Eurological music did.

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  Caminatas comunitarias para enseñar matemáticas en la costa caribe colombiana: un enfoque rural

  Ricela Feliciano-Semidei, Kevin A. Palencia Infante, and Jonathan A. Cervantes Barraza, Department of Mathematical Sciences

  Este libro recopila la experiencia vivida por docentes de matemáticas e investigadores que participaron del proyecto Pedagogías basadas en la comunidad rural para la enseñanza de las matemáticas en áreas rurales de la costa caribe colombiana. Los autores contextualizan estas experiencias para que puedan ser replicadas por otros docentes. Para lograrlo, se guía al lector con teorías educativas, políticas educativas, reflexiones y ejemplos alineados al currículo colombiano actual. Los ejemplos sirven de modelo y motivación para crear otras lecciones utilizando estas teorías. Este libro invita a los lectores a transformar las experiencias de los estudiantes de áreas rurales en recursos para crear clases de matemática a nivel secundario y provee herramientas concretas para hacerlo.

  Autores: Jonathan Alberto Cervantes Barraza, Plácido Antonio Díaz Manrique, Ricela Feliciano-Semidei, Kevin Andrés Palencia Infante, Yeris Alfonso Passo Utria, Juan Carlos Polo Mier, Alfredo De Jesús Ruiz Peralta y Ricardo José Sarmiento Angulo

  Ilustraciones por Yesi Feliciano

  This book compiles the experience of mathematics teachers and researchers who participated in the Rural Community-Based Pedagogies for Teaching Mathematics project in rural areas of the Colombian Caribbean coast. The authors contextualize these experiences so that they can be replicated by other teachers. To achieve this, the reader is guided with educational theories, educational policies, reflections and examples aligned with the current Colombian curriculum. The examples serve as a model and motivation to create other lessons using these theories. This book invites readers to transform the experiences of rural students into resources for creating high school mathematics classes and provides concrete tools to do so.
  
  Authors: Jonathan Alberto Cervantes Barraza, Plácido Antonio Díaz Manrique, Ricela Feliciano-Semidei, Kevin Andrés Palencia Infante, Yeris Alfonso Passo Utria, Juan Carlos Polo Mier, Alfredo De Jesús Ruiz Peralta and Ricardo José Sarmiento Angulo
  
  Illustrations by Yesi Feliciano

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  Dodging Truths and Burning Facts: Visual Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Photography Classroom

  Larissa K. Garcia and Jessica Labatte, School of Art and Design| University Libraries

  This chapter describes a collaboration between a librarian and photography professor to integrate visual literacy instruction into two courses of the photography program with activities, connected to specific course assignments, that emphasize an acute understanding of the photographic choices used to create a message as foundational to artistic practice.

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  Fundamentals of Photography and Creative Practice

  Jessica Labatte and Larissa K. Garcia, School of Art and Design| University Libraries

  Photography has long been thought of as an accurate representation of the world. A tension, nonetheless, exists between photography as factual record and as constructed image. In this introductory digital photography text, students explore this tension by learning the basic functions of digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and how to use them to create photographic images.

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  Designing for Everyone: Accessibility, Inclusion, and Equity in Online Instruction

  Kimberly Shotick, University Libraries

  This chapter introduces practices that promote equity and inclusion in online learning spaces through the lens of Universal Design for Learning.

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  Drawing to Conceptualize Research, Reduce Implicit Bias, and Establish Researcher Positionality in the Graduate Classroom

  Alissa A. Droog, Kari D. Weaver, and Frances Brady, University Libraries

  Through reflection, coupled with literature to ground our thinking, this chapter discusses the experiences of three librarians with the use of conceptual drawings about research processes as an equitable pedagogical practice. This drawing technique has pushed each of us to understand research in different ways and reflect on our own positionality as researchers and as teachers in the classroom. First, Kari D. Weaver considers how drawing research shapes an individual’s understanding of themselves as a scholar. Second, Alissa Droog reflects on the use of drawing to understand how research relates to our identities. Finally, Frances Brady connects drawing to further social justice discussions in the classroom. We conclude with instructional materials for others who may wish to adopt such a practice. We also acknowledge that all three of us identify as white, cisgender female librarians in a field where that is the norm. Through the interplay between communal reflection, existing literature, and lived experience, we address how drawing and discussing conceptions of research can support the growth and diversification of the next generation of scholars.

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  Technology in Cognitive Research: Methods to Examine Second Language Processing in Study Abroad Research

  Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg, Irene Finestrat, and Kara Morgan-Short, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literature| Department of World Languages and Cultures

  This chapter provides an overview of research instruments and technologies that can inform questions about language processing among study abroad learners. Specifically, we consider behavioral, eye-tracking, and electrophysiological methods. For each method, we provide a description of the approach, including how data are collected, analyzed, and interpreted. Then, we summarize findings from research employing the method that includes a study abroad context. Finally, we consider the limitations of the method and gaps in the extant literature, and provide guiding principles for researchers interested in utilizing the technique. The chapter concludes with suggestions for future research and a discussion of the utility of including processing measures in study abroad research to gain a more holistic view of second language development.

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  From Rookie to Researcher: Integrating Information Literacy into Undergraduate Research

  Larissa K. Garcia, Dee Anna Phares, and Kimberly Shotick, University Libraries

  Undergraduate research is a specific pedagogical practice with an impact on teaching and learning, and the definition of what counts as research continues to expand to include different types of projects, mentors, and institutions. Diversity, equity, and inclusion in librarians’ work with students and faculty are present and growing. Collaborations between faculty, librarians, and students are furthering student knowledge in new ways. This community and an awareness of students’ non-academic challenges demonstrate the library’s contribution to students’ overall sense of belonging within their institutions. This chapter describes the involvement of an academic library with an undergraduate research program.

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  Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936

  Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, Department of History

  The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their existence in large numbers. Fogleman and Hanserd catalog nearly five hundred discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages. Short biographies of each African, print histories of the complete or partial life story. Five Hundred African Voices an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and others wishing to study transatlantic slavery using African Voices.

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  The Power of Water in Palestinian-Israeli Relations

  Emily McKee, Department of Anthropology

  Despite widespread narratives of water wars, there is no straight line between water scarcity and conflict. Rather, water scarcity is shaped by inequitable distribution, the domination of water by some at the expense of others. This chapter surveys the current situation of water access across Israel and Palestine and addresses key historical and recent developments that have raised the stakes of water within socio-political relations and created wide inequities in water access between Palestinians and Israelis. In this region, power has mediated water access through forms of governance, such as colonialism; through technology, such as diversion canals and desalination plants; and through ideologies, such as arguments for cost recovery and centralized control in the face of scarcity. The chapter gives readers the tools to understand the interconnectedness of water use with political flashpoints in Palestine and Israel in particular, and it offers a rich case study for readers of comparative water-related conflicts around the world.

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  Humanizing My Teaching

  Ricela Feliciano-Semidei, Department of Mathematical Sciences

  Chapter 5 of the book entitled "Practices and Policies: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics".

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  Research in the Studio, Artists in the Stacks: Mapping Information Literacy and the Library in a Studio Arts Program

  Larissa K. Garcia and Jessica Labatte, School of Art and Design| University Libraries

  This chapter describes the collaboration between a studio arts faculty member and an art librarian to integrate information literacy into the photography program through curriculum mapping. What began as a one-shot library session for students soon developed into multiple, scaffolded sessions in several classes and eventually resulted in a formalized information literacy curriculum map. The authors adapted curriculum mapping concepts, first identifying information literacy objectives for students throughout the program and then matching them to specific courses, using the Framework as a guide to develop assignments and lesson plans. Through a fully integrated, disciplinary information literacy program in the photography curriculum, the authors have contextualized information literacy as an important part of the creative process while also underscoring the value of the library and its various resources.

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  Retreating to advance together: communicating through internal and external retreats

  Gwen Gregory, University Libraries

  It can be challenging to step away from our daily work in technical services. There are always invoices to be paid, licenses to be reviewed, and books to be cataloged. However, when we take a deep breath and “escape” together as a group, we can build new bonds and come up with fresh ideas. Leaving the day-to-day behind, spending time together in a different environment, and participating in thought-provoking activities can lead to many positive results. This chapter describes how a library technical services department held several staff retreats over a period of years.

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  Learning to Read English

  Charles A. Perfetti and Lindsay N. Harris, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations (LEPF)

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  Language Modularity

  Lindsay N. Harris and Iwona B. Lech, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations (LEPF)

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  Top Ten Questions and Answers about Digital Preservation for Special Collections and Archives

  Jaime Schumacher and Lynne M. Thomas, University Libraries

  Chapter 14 from New Directions For Special Collections: An Anthology of Practice. The authors take a pragmatic approach to common digital preservation challenges faced by caretakers of unique digital materials in libraries and archives.

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  Mad Men in the Classroom: A Collection of Classroom-Tested Teaching Tools

  Rebecca Johnson and Jimmie Manning, Department of Communication

  This chapter includes classroom materials ranging from detailed lecture notes to assignments and activities to complete syllabi that can be adopted for personal use.

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  Coming Out Conversations and Gay/Bisexual Men’s Sexual Health: A Constitutive Model Study

  Jimmie Manning, Department of Communication

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  Communication and Healthy Sexual Practices: Toward a Holistic Communicology of Sexuality

  Jimmie Manning, Department of Communication

  This essay proposes a holistic communicology of sexuality inclusive of connections between sex, relationships, and health. Noting the rarity of research studies about sexuality in the communication discipline, two approaches to research that have gained traction are explored: medical and critical approaches. An argument is then made for the importance of a relational approach to researching sexual health. Links between existing research involving sex, relationships, and health are offered with a particular focus on interpersonal communication. Three original research studies are offered to extend this approach. The first explores multiadic interview data from families who enacted purity pledges. Results indicate that topics often avoided in parent-child talk about sex, including sexual pleasure, were present in purity pledge conversations. The second study explores data about sexting and reveals that adults use sexting as a way of reducing uncertainty about desired sexual activity. The final study explores interview data from couples who indicated that first sex was their first relational turning point. Discussion of data includes possibilities of reconsidering outliers from cultural narratives about sexuality and considering how those who do not follow those cultural narratives may have to reframe their relational histories. Implications for a constitutive communicology of sexuality are offered

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  Finding Yourself in Mad Men

  Jimmie Manning, Department of Communication

  The author reflects on how he places his father into the character of Don Draper, especially in consideration of Don's and his father's alcoholism.

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  The Face of Victory? A Misidentified Head in Rome and the "Problem" of Charioteer Portraits

  Sinclair Bell, School of Art and Design

  Chapter examines a piece of Roman statuary, arguing that it is not in fact a depiction of a Roman charioteer, but rather an ideal figure, probably a Greek athlete.

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  Popular Culture

  E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History

  Overview of popular culture in Japanese history.

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  Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique

  David J. Buller, Department of Philosophy