This presentation will address the reality of increasing stigma and inequalities among diverse groups (racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minorities, among others) at this point in time in the United States. In uncovering the psychological underpinnings of stigma and inequalities, the presentation will identify how stigma and inequalities impact psychologists’ work with clients. Workshop participants will actively learn and integrate the language of privilege, implicit bias, and intersectionality into their theoretical perspectives and practices in order to best assist diverse clients in navigating increasingly uncertain times.

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Book Summary: The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication offers a comprehensive exploration and discussion of current research and theory on family interaction. Integrating the varying perspectives and issues addressed by family researchers, theorists, and practitioners, this volume offers a unique and timely view of family interaction and family relationships. With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, Family Communication serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones.The contents are comprised of chapters covering:-Theoretical and methodological issues influencing current conceptions of family-Research and theory centering around the family life course-Communication occurring in a variety of family forms-Individual family members and their relationships-Dynamic communication processes taking place in families-Family communication embedded in social, cultural, and physical contextsHighlighting the work of scholars across disciplines--communication, social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology, family studies, and others--this volume captures the breadth and depth of research on family communication and family relationships. It will be of great value to researchers, theorists, and practitioners focusing on family interaction and family relationships, and also serve as a text for graduate-level coursework in family studies, family communication, relational communication, and related areas.

The traditional style of teaching (teachers solely in charge of the classroom) seems to be a thing of the past, due in part, to the increasing diversity of students in the classroom. How can teachers abandon their traditional roles and adapt to the trends of teaching to promote more meaningful learning for students? To respond to the above question, the researcher investigated the degree of readiness of selected foreign language teachers teaching in culturally diverse classrooms at the secondary level in central Mississippi. All participants were purposefully selected. Methods and procedures employed were limited to observations of teachers, teacher-student interaction in the classroom, face-toace interviews, telephone interviews, transcribed audio taped interviews of the participants and classroom artifacts. Results indicated that all of the teachers interviewed were sensitive to the needs of their students; had traveled to the country where their foreign language was the official language; and indicated that they frequently used a variety of instructional methods including cooperative learning, peer tutoring, integrated technology, and direct instruction. Therefore, it was concluded that teachers such as the ones involved in this study could serve as excellent role models and mentors for novice teachers in secondary schools.

Using Nacon & Cole’s (2009) three ideologies of diversity, I look closely at how teachers’ beliefs and attitudes about language and culture influence learning. Through reviewing the research collected over the past eleven years, I seek to answer the following questions: What have researchers found and concluded about how teachers should approach language instruction in linguistically diverse classrooms? What is the relationship between language instruction and the language ideologies of the classroom teacher, and how do these ideologies impact the learning that occurs? / text

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2 pp. / Diabetes, Meal Planning-The 1st Step / An overview of diabetes, signs and symptoms, risk factors, major types of diabetes and treatment are discussed.

The influence of social constructs on the moral fibre and the nature of interactions within a community can never be over emphasized. Social constructs being tangible and intangible elements which form spaces within which communities interact with one another. Where social constructs are chaotic, conflicts within those communities are bound to follow. This has been observed in countries like Rwanda where inequalities among the different communities within the country led to genocide. This dissertation aims to investigate possibilities of using architecture as a tool to create opportunities for cultural and social integration thus encouraging a people to foster values of ‘otherness’ ‘selflessness’ and community. This will be achieved by constructing strong social networks (tangible and intangible) throughout an ethnically, and culturally diverse landscape, with an aim to contribute towards the upliftment of the immediate community. It is hoped that lessons learnt from this study could be of benefit to the South African society at large since the phenomenon observed within the communities being studied presents itself in other communities within the country as well. The anger so thick in the atmosphere, tension bound up into (the site) pockets, slowly strangle and suffocate her pillars, breaking them, forcing them into the ground, causing them to disappear in their turmoil, misunderstandings, and continuous drift and neglect. Tightening the bonds of individualistic interactions ignorance and “disconnectedness” forged by man’s forgetful nature of social ills he exists within. (a poem by the author, inspired by the site chosen for the dissertation) / Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012 / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted

This study was conducted to obtain information about a mentoring program through the eyes of eleventh and twelfth grade student mentors. These students were able to tell what needed to be known about the strengths and weaknesses of this mentoring program and what they felt needed to be done to make the program more effective and meaningful. This study will serve to inform school leaders who may be planning a peer mentoring program at an educational institution.

The diminution of the fuel consumption during the flight trajectory has an impact on the cost of the travel and answers to the ecologic challenge “Green Sky”. The analysis has for objective to optimize the flight trajectory of the aircraft in order to reduce the fuel consumption. The flight trajectory is defined by a simplified description and depends on some parameters which affect the different phases of the trajectory. The flight description is introduced in a computer code and the different parameters vary in order to define their influence on the fuel consumption. The results which are obtained show the influence of the times of climb and descent and the cruise altitude on the fuel consumption. The variation according to the defined configuration is in the order of few percent. Today, all the few kilograms of fuel which are saved are important. The different phases of the flight trajectory have to be optimized to reduce the fuel consumption.