This study was aimed at addressing the adolescent learners’ writing needs by assessing teachers’ needs on writing instruction across the disciplines in Grades 9 and 10 in one school in Southwestern Ontario. The research employed a mixed-methods approach using qualitative data from focus group and one-on-one interviews, and quantitative data collected through document analysis. The data revealed that there is a range of beliefs about writing instruction and that participating teachers offer many valuable writing opportunities to their students; however, there is a reluctance to provide more instructional time on writing according to the content area. The findings also pointed to the influence school administrators have in leading the instructional program. These findings concur with existing literature on writing instruction and the role principals play in literacy instruction.

Some dairy breeds have too few animals genotyped for within breed genomic selection to be carried out with sufficient accuracy. As such, the level of linkage disequilibrium within each breed as well as consistency of gametic phase across breeds was studied. High correlations of phase (>0.9) were found between all breed pairs at this same SNP density. The efficacy of imputing animals genotyped on lower density (6k and 50k) panels was then explored in order to increase the size of the reference population with 777k genotypes in a cost-effective manner. These results showed high accuracies (>0.92) in all imputation scenarios studies, using both a within breed and a multi-breed reference population for imputation. It was concluded that given the results of both of these studies, pooling breeds into a common reference population for genomic selection should be a viable option for accurate genomic selection in breeds with few genotyped individuals. / NSERC, USDA, CDN, DairyGen, Ayrshire Canada, Guernsey Canada, Semex, L'Alliance Boviteq Inc.

This study was aimed at addressing the adolescent learners’ writing needs by assessing teachers’ needs on writing instruction across the disciplines in Grades 9 and 10 in one school in Southwestern Ontario. The research employed a mixed-methods approach using qualitative data from focus group and one-on-one interviews, and quantitative data collected through document analysis. The data revealed that there is a range of beliefs about writing instruction and that participating teachers offer many valuable writing opportunities to their students; however, there is a reluctance to provide more instructional time on writing according to the content area. The findings also pointed to the influence school administrators have in leading the instructional program. These findings concur with existing literature on writing instruction and the role principals play in literacy instruction.

Communication across the curriculum (CXC) programs are becoming increasingly common as institutions of higher learning recognize the need for improving communication skills in college students. Consequently, the University of Kentucky (UK) is piloting Presentation U, a multimodal communication across the curriculum (MCXC) program. This study examines the degree to which the Faculty Fellows program succeeds in helping faculty across the university integrate effective communication instruction and assignments into their courses. For this study, all faculty members participating in cohort #2 of the program responded to surveys and wrote reflection papers regarding their experiences. Their responses were analyzed and conclusions drawn. The study, grounded in the adult theory of transformative learning, found evidence of worldview transformation among faculty fellows as a result of their participation in the program.

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[pt] Como explicar a contradição das sociedades plurais em lidar com a diferença? Por que a diversidade cultural é tão celebrada e ao mesmo tempo negada na sociedade brasileira? Qual o papel do espaço geográfico nessas temáticas? Formas de desvalorização social são criadas a cada dia, toda a vez que se tenta desqualificar as diferenças que dignamente constituem pessoas e grupos. A geografia cultural se interessa particularmente pela consciência sobre os lugares e pelos papéis que eles desempenham na formação de identidades individuais e coletivas. Nesta abordagem teórica, observam-se como os sujeitos, em interação com o meio geográfico, percebem e questionam suas identidades, sejam elas construídas ou cristalizadas nas representações sobre os lugares e as relações espaciais. Esta pesquisa parte do pressuposto de que toda identidade territorial é uma identidade cultural, definida através do território, ou seja, dentro de uma relação de apropriação que se dá tanto no campo simbólico quanto no espaço físico. Assim, o espaço geográfico constitui parte fundamental dos processos de identificação social. Nesta perspectiva, ao entendermos a escola como espaço de construção das representações, visões de mundo e valores dos educandos/as, as questões sobre identidade e diferença tornam-se fundamentais. Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo central analisar a interação entre a identidade territorial, a origem geográfica, o nosso contexto social pluralista e o cotidiano escolar, na tentativa de contribuir para uma prática pedagógica na perspectiva intercultural. Para tanto foi realizado um diálogo entre diferentes autores, tanto do campo da geografia quanto da educação, acerca do tema pesquisado. Foi realizada ainda uma pesquisa de campo com educandos/as do primeiro e segundo anos do ensino médio noturno de uma escola pública localizada na zona sul do Rio de Janeiro, a fim de compreender a representação desses sujeitos sobre o papel da identidade territorial no cotidiano escolar. / [en] How can we explain the contradictions inside plural societies regarding their way with dealing with differences? Why cultural diversity can be so celebrated at the same time that it can be denied by Brazilian society? What is the role of the geographic space among those themes? Social ways of diminishing different people are created every day, every time someone tries to disqualify the differences that constitute people and their groups. Cultural geography is particularly interested in the conscientiousness about places and about the roles that they perform in the formation of individual and collectives identities. In this theoretical approach, it is observed how do individuals acknowledge and question their own identities, which may be built or crystallized among their representations of places and spatial relations, as they interact with the geographic space. In this work it is defended the idea that territorial identity is a cultural identity, defined through the territory, as it creates an association between both the symbolic field and the geographic space. Therefore, the geographic space constitutes a fundamental part of the social identification processes. With this perspective, as we comprehend that schools are places where representations, world views and values of the students are constructed, the issues related to identities and differences become essential. This work presents a research which has seek to analyze how does the interaction among territorial identity, geographic origin, the plurality presented inside our social context and the school routine take place, as an attempt to contribute to the development of an intercultural pedagogical practice. For this purpose it has been established a dialog between different authors from both the geography and the education fields. It was also been developed a field research with students from the first and second grades of High School of a night course at a public school located at the south district of Rio de Janeiro, in order to comprehend the representations of those individuals regarding the role of territorial identity inside the school routine.