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Playing Changes: Music as Mediator between Japanese and Black Americans
E Taylor Atkins
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
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
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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
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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Conceptual Mathematics in Society
Ricela Feliciano-Semidei
This textbook is a compilation of chapters with educational purposes for the course MATH 103 in Spring 2023. The first part (Chapters 1 and 2) includes logic and critical thinking. Understanding the thinking process and strategies for solving problems in an effective way will provide students with skills that will be required to succeed in all college math courses. The second part (Chapters 3 & 4) is an opportunity to develop numbers sense through strengthening conceptual understanding of fractions and algebraic thinking. This will help develop foundational mathematical knowledge for college mathematics courses. The third and fourth parts of this textbook are explicit connections to society through understanding real life mathematical examples connected to finances and statistics.
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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
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
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
Chapter 5 of the book entitled "Practices and Policies: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics".
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Communication and Healthy Sexual Practices: Toward a Holistic Communicology of Sexuality
Jimmie Manning
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
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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Inventing Jazztowns and Internationalizing Local Identities in Japan
E. Taylor Atkins
Describes the respective claims of port cities Yokohama and Kobe to be the points of entry for jazz in Japan.
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