This collection includes pictures and information on the history of regional schools. It also includes excerpts from interviews by The Appalachian Oral History Project at Alice Lloyd College, Appalachian State University, Emory & Henry College, and Lees Junior College,1977, and transcribed interviews with Dr. Junius Griffin, of Emory, Virginia; Mr. Gayle Henderson of Marion, Virginia, Mr. Herschel Glenwood Williams, of Charleston, South Carolina and formerly of Exeter, Virginia; Ms. Shirley Golding Williams of Galax, Virginia (Carroll County and Grayson County); and Ms. Rozelle Good Cobb, Jonesville, Virginia (Lee County). This is a continuing project in which readers are invited to participate.
Literature and Meaning contains lesson plans using two popular children's (young adult) novels.
You are also invited to visit Literature and Meaning for lesson plans on Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, Harper Trophy, New York, 1985, and Blue Heron by Avi, Avon Books, New York, 1992. Each lesson includes a teaching plan, activities, and suggested learning assessments. Other features of the page include Reasons for Choosing Sarah, Plain and Tall and Blue Heron and Suggestions for adaptation for adult group discussions.
- Three Tasks Preparatory to Multicultural Discourse, is a consideration of the context, issues, and process of multicultural education.
This essay advocates a holistic approach to issues of discrimination and persistent inequality, maintaining that gender, religion, and class must be considered along with race in the multicultural curriculum.
- Late Grades: A Review of Responses to the Registrar's Nightmare, an analysis of the problem of late grade reporting based upon a survey of registrars, literature, and personal experience.
Along with the maintenance of records and supplying of academic transcript data, one of the oldest responsibilities of the college registrar is reporting grades to students, advisors, departments, and deans. Traditionally, the requirement of this process that grade reports from professors must be in the registrar's office at a stated time has been enforced by central administration and deans, and the processes established under this style of management still persist. New paradigms of leadership, such as shared vision and transformational leadership, suggest more autonomy and participation for the individual and less directive authority for administrators.
- Transformational Leadership: A Thesis Against Itself, a discussion of leadership particularly in education.
This discussion attempts to delineate the characteristics of transformational leadership by citing current literature on the subject, while at the same time maintaining that to describe transformational leadership fully and completely, as in a traditional definition, would be as undesirable as it is impossible. The thesis states that transformational leadership theory is a response to a changing consumer base that is culturally defined as rapidly changing and self-actualizing. This new consumer base, frustrated by traditional linear and hierarchical management structures that assume an imposed and stable principle of enduring order, creates both the need for change and the matrix for development of new patterns of leadership.
- On Chaucer's The Parson's Tale
In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale is a handbook on how to avoid the paralyzing effects of despair and how to live with a hope that will encourage the pilgrim in his "wey." This is an undergraduate paper with subject matter that has implications for leadership, particularly in education.
- The Consolation of Philosophy: A Critical Summary
The Consolation of Philosophy is a detailed and logical theodicy, dealing with the problem of reconciling the observed evil of human reality -- harmful intents and outcomes, unfortunate circumstances, and patent injustices -- with the existence of a good, omnipotent, and interested God. The Consolation, written by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius while he was imprisoned prior to his execution as a traitor in 524 CE, is one of the earliest treatments of this problem constructed within the Christian tradition, and it contains both Christian and pagan elements. This is also an undergraduate paper, a companion paper to "On Chaucer's The Parson's Tale."
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