Research on Korean Traditional Puppet Theatre and Its Implications
(For a panel) With the support of Presidential Semester and Summer Awards, I was fortunate enough to conduct my research on Korean traditional puppet theatre (aka “deolmi” or “kkokdugeuk”), which is...
View ArticleRaising Our Voices, Breaking the Chain: Community-Based Scholarship Across...
In this paper or poster presentation, I will discuss my recent book, Raising Our Voices, Breaking the Chain: The Imperial Hotel Occupation as Prophetic Politics. This book, published in July 2016,...
View ArticleThe Power of Critique
The Power of Critique Research on how students learn most effectively has repeatedly pointed to feedback as one of the best and most powerful tools used in education. Whether it is through peer...
View ArticleIncorporating Diversity Training into Journalism and Public Relations Curriculum
Diversity education deepens undergraduate students’ experiences, enhances personal growth, and fortifies communities (McLaughlin, McLaughlin & McLaughlin, 2015). While there have been notable...
View ArticleEngaging Students Through Building Community in the College Classroom
Engaging Students Through Building Community in the College Classroom discusses innovative and creative best practices, techniques, activities, and policies that can be used by college instructors to...
View ArticleVisual Literacy: Using images for Global Awareness and Student Engagement
We are researching the effect of using high-impact educational practices to introduce global awareness and cultural diversity, while teaching research skills and information literary in Freshman...
View ArticleThe University of North Georgia and Organizational Identity: The
In the field of Public Relations, the notion of what defines the "identity" of an Organization is topic of increased discussion. (Balmer, 2001). Over the past few decades, the disciplines of...
View ArticleTrans-Atlantic Shell Shock: British and American Literatures of World War One...
During the summer of 2016, I used my Presidential Summer Award to conduct research at the National World War I Museum and draft a book proposal for the University of North Georgia Press. The proposed...
View ArticleFalse Assumptions: the challenges and politics of teaching in China
Teachers in American study-abroad programs usually receive little, if any, training before the trip, since “teaching is teaching.” The cultural differences between Chinese and American university...
View ArticleMapping Matthew Arnold's First North American Lecture Tour
This project digitally renders, in an interactive map, Victorian poet and essayist Matthew Arnold's first lecture tour of North America. In addition to accurately plotting the locations Arnold...
View ArticleArchaeological Testing at the Head's/Healan's Mill Site (9HL607) in Lula,...
Archaeological testing at the Head’s/Healan’s Mill site (9HL607), located in Lula, Georgia, explored several portions of the site, including the remains of a raised millrace that supplied water to an...
View ArticleExploring the Yahoola High Trestle: Industrial Archaeology in Dahlonega, Georgia
Archaeological exploration at the Yahoola High Trestle site in Dahlonega Georgia explored the construction, use, and abandonment of an important component of America’s first gold rush. This trestle...
View ArticleThe Impact of Reason on Faith, Ethics and Belief
The following abstract references my book published May 2016: The Impact of Reason on Faith, Ethics and Belief. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2016. It is available at Vernon Press:...
View ArticleBrass Fireworks - A Performance Presentation of Music for Brass and Piano
This presentation will feature a lecture recital educating and enlightening the participants about the wide range and scope of music for brass instruments, specifically the euphonium. The presentation...
View ArticleDetection of visuomotor loss of control
When people manipulate moving objects such as motor vehicles or video game avatars, the sense of being "in control" depends on monitoring the predicted and actually perceived consequences of their...
View ArticleUsing the Oddball Paradigm to Find the Neural Correlates of Prediction Error
Surprise, or prediction error, occurs whenever a person experiences a stimulus that was not expected. The oddball paradigm is one of the most common tasks for examining the neural correlates of...
View ArticleArts Based Research in Appalachian Studies: Exploring Community Discourse...
This exhibition features artistic objects that resulted from an undergraduate research and service-learning project established on a methodology of arts based inquiry. Creative exploration is the...
View ArticleProfessional Perspectives of Mentally Healthy Alternative Schools
Alternative schools are often a school system's major defense against dropout (Souza, 1999). Today, close to 11,000 public alternative schools or programs are believed to exist in the United States...
View ArticleProposing a research-based, comprehensive framework to teach English...
Vocabulary learning significantly and substantially contributes to students’ reading comprehension and ultimately to their expressive functions such as writing and speaking. Children’s vocabulary...
View ArticleAdvocating for Field-Based Learning in a Literacy Assessment Course
In this poster presentation, literacy educators will share their experiences and the results from a qualitative study focused on several unique instructional methods utilized with undergraduate...
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