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[No abstract available] / Arts, Faculty of / Philosophy, Department of / Graduate

[No abstract available] / Arts, Faculty of / Philosophy, Department of / Graduate

[No abstract available] / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

[No abstract available] / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

The public schools of British Columbia are required to evaluate and report work habits on the Pupil Report Cards. The schools have been left to devise their own methods. This thesis is a study of how the schools carry out this requirement. Its particular concern is to determine whether the schools are reporting work habits, what they believe they are assessing as work habits, what evaluating methods they are using and how much time and energy is devoted to this task. The study includes an outline of the development of work habit reporting in the U. S. as part of a trend towards more comprehensive reporting. Such reporting was found to be widespread and reasons for this are offered. Significant features in the development of such reporting in B.C. are noted. Some conclusions relating to this trend include the fact that most B.C. schools are attempting to report work habits, they are seeking to develop methods of assessment and there is need for them to be guided in these efforts for much of it is wasted. How B. C. schools define work habits is reported and each definition is examined. The study suggests a definition that might be acceptable to all schools. Responding principals found the task of defining work habits to be difficult. The items found in these definitions are studied and a list that might be used by all schools is suggested. How U.S. schools have selected work habit items and some reasons for t heir selection are reported. It was found that many B.C. schools are reporting items that cannot be considered as work habits. The evaluating methods used by schools are examined. These included! the method of comparing scholastic ability and present subject achievement; the method of comparing present subject achievement and past subject achievement; the method of comparing present subject achievement and subject ability as shown by standardized achievement tests; the method of using a check list; and the method of subjective evaluation. The merit of each is examined. Because the first three of these methods fail to reveal the work habits that could affect achievement and should be reported to parents, and because schools reported using these in unnecessary combinations with other methods, the study concludes that much time and energy now being expended in this direction is of doubtful value. The check list was found to be the most popular method. Its adoption by all s chools is suggested. The study examines the provisions for nark habit reporting on the B.C. Pupil Report Cards. Each card is criticized as an instrument for reporting these habits. The conclusion is that the present intermediate and secondary cards should be amended in order that work habit reporting may be properly done. The study suggests that the academic achievement of B.C. school children might be improved if actual work habits could be reported, and that they could be reported if a check list of habits was a part of the report. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

The relative rates of acquisition of three study methods taught college-level students were investigated. The term "rate of acquisition" was defined as the ease with which facility was achieved by students in the use of study methods. The study methods were: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review (SQ3R), Non-linear Outlining (NLO) and Three-Level Outlining (3L0). The primary research questions raised were whether the relative rates of acquisition among the study methods would be the same at two different times during the study, and after the period of instruction. In addition, the question was asked if the relative rates of acquisition among the study methods would depend upon the readability levels of the instructional material which was drawn from a commercial reading and study manual (Miller, 1964). The research design involved manipulating three independent variables: (1) the Treatments of SQ3R, NLO, and 3L0; (2) the Difficulty levels of instructional material as determined by the Flesch (1951) readability formula and designated EASY, MEDIUM, DIFFICULT; (3) the Time of assessment over the period of instruction which had two levels, Time 1 and Time 2. The criterion measure for each reading exercise was a rate-of-gain score termed an Effective Reading Rate (ERR) which was the product of the student's comprehension score and his study reading time for any given article. The results of the study indicated that no one study method appeared to be advantageous in terms of its rate of acquisition over the period of the study. The NLO method did show a significantly higher ERR by the seventh week of instruction. An analysis of the data revealed that the variability of this finding was due to performance by students taught NLO on material of an EASY classification (low readability level). The implication is that NLO may be advantageous in terms of its rate of acquisition when paired with material of a low readability level. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

This thesis explores the relationship of the confrontation at Ocean Hill-Brownsville and the change away from New Deal liberalism and toward separatism. Through historicizing this issue, I also critiquethe changing nature of professionalism, the push for community control and decentralization of schools, and how these ideas influence democracy in education. Various people involved in the confrontation during the summer and fall of 1968 represent the particular positions of each side of the issue. Further, these two sides are also personified in the AFT (American Federatino of Teachers)and the advocates of community control and decentralization. Through my examination, I attemtp to locate the importance of the experiment in community control in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district under the greater context of American liberalism. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Humanities in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. / Fall Semester, 2008. / August 21, 2008. / Professionalism, Liberalism, Decentralization, Democracy, Community Control, Neoliberalism / Includes bibliographical references. / Dennis Moore, Professor Directing Thesis; Susan Wood, Committee Member; Neil Jumonville, Committee Member.

When Sherman Dudley's black barber character, Raspberry Snow, took to the stage in 1910, his pre-promoted "shiftless" personality fulfilled American audiences' conditioned, pejorative expectations for blackness. A closer look at the storyline, however, suggests Dudley fashioned Snow's predictability to be an example of the opportunity for subversion of power that exists for stereotyped individuals. Embodying the surface attributes of the stereotype designed to confine them, a number of American performing personae escape persecution, and even profit by lulling their "audiences" (read: adversaries) into believing all is well. Quite often, performing the stereotype is as simple as donning a notably "black" hairstyle, or presuming the supposedly docile attributes associated with black barbers. Moreover, there is strong evidence to suggest that since at least the early nineteenth century, storytellers both black and white have contributed to the promotion of this powerful secret. Black hairstyles and barbers that subvert racist intentions are a recurring theme throughout American lore, and their inclusion in tales by Dan Emmett and Herman Melville resurface in later works by Charles Chesnutt and Sherman Dudley. This paper traces a lineage of characters who successfully subvert an imposed power structure, and whose messages continue to recycle themselves in modern-day performances that suggest black and white are not as far apart as conventional wisdom would have us believe. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of American and Florida Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. / Spring Semester, 2005. / February 28, 2005. / Sherman Dudley, Barbershop, Passing, Benito Cereno, Shine, Toba, Toasts, Hip Hop, Shock Wig, Minstrelsy, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Topsy, Babo, Chesnutt, T.D. Rice, Jim Crow, Espn, Ada Walker, Melville, Dan Emmett, Stereotypes, Barbers, Hairstyles / Includes bibliographical references. / William T. Lhamon, Professor Directing Thesis; Leon Anderson, Committee Member; Sally Sommer, Committee Member.

The history of music scenes is a topic that has been misunderstood. Scholarship has tended to focus on sociological theory as a basis for understanding how and why music scenes exist and motivate youth. While accomplishing important work and connecting the study of scenes to academia, theory has left uncovered the narrative history of music scenes. Setting scenes in their specific historical, social and cultural context allows them to be examined by a different set of research goals and methods. In this paper, I outline a historiography of music scenes, from the original implications of subcultural research to ethnography in the early 1990s. Tracing the literature on scenes, I argue that studying scenes from my position in 2009 must be accomplished with a historical point of view, not ignoring theory, but placing narrative history as the primary methodology. The growth of post-punk music scenes in America throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s had extensive effects on popular culture, and through understanding the history first, I propose researchers will have a better grasp on what a scene is, why it functions in society, and how it has affected regional and national subcultural identity. I used Gainesville, Florida as an example of this method. The social characteristics of Florida and the shifts in the national subculture throughout the 1990s are two essential points I bring to bear in the case study of Gainesville. Overall, I hope to introduce Florida's scenes as anomalous instances of subcultural activity and to spur further inquiry on the topic of (re)writing music scenes into the history of youth culture, especially in the 1990s. / A Thesis submitted to the Program in American and Florida Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. / Summer Semester, 2009. / April 28, 2009. / Subculture, Scene, Florida, Gainesville, Punk, Music, No Idea Records, The Fest / Includes bibliographical references. / Neil Jumonville, Professor Directing Thesis; Frank Gunderson, Committee Member; Barry Faulk, Committee Member.