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Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
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Text and Context of the Blaan’s Folk Literature

JPAIR, 2020
Blaans are one of the tribes that reside in the Mindanao archipelago in the Philippines. This study collected, transcribed, classified, and analyzed Blaan folk literature in the barangays of Sinapulan and Eday in the municipality of Columbio, Sultan ...
Neva Benito
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Folk Narrative Techniques in the Alexander Romance

Mnemosyne, 2012
AbstractA structurally-oriented analysis of theAlexander Romancedemonstrates that the work is not a mere random conglomeration drawn from various sources. The author is attempting to create a work possessing unity and cohesion and to this end he employs basic motifs associated with the hero, such as the motif of world-conqueror, of the φρενήρης ...
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The Role of the Aspire Alliance's Regional Collaboratives (RCs) in STEM Faculty Pathways

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical challenge in postsecondary education: the persistent lack of diversity and limited pathways into STEM faculty roles, particularly at community colleges. We examine how the Aspire Alliance's Regional Collaboratives (RCs) model works to create sustainable two‐year and four‐year partnerships to advance and ...
Lorenzo Baber, Karla Velasco, Jeongsan Hwang, Gianina Baker, Jess Gregg, Chandra Turpen, Craig Ogilvie   +6 more
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Folk narrative of Mo Yan’s magical realism works - Taking Red Sorghum as an example [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
As the first Chinese Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Mo Yan’s works provide a unique solution for the localization and internationalization of Chinese literature by integrating magical realism with Chinese folk narrative traditions. This article takes
Hu Kexin
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Exploring West African Folk Narrative Texts Using Machine Learning

Information, 2020
This paper examines how machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) can be used to identify, analyze, and generate West African folk tales.
Gossa Lô, Victor de Boer, Chris J. van Aart   +2 more
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Future Directions Toward Sustainable and Equitable STEM Faculty Pathways

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article synthesizes the major themes explored throughout the special issue, highlighting the transformative power of regional collaborations, place‐based innovation, systemic change through collective tools, and reciprocal partnerships in advancing equitable and sustainable STEM faculty pathways.
Lorenzo Baber, Karla Velasco, Jeongsan Hwang, Gianina Baker   +3 more
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Analyzing the Archetype of Hero's Journey in Kurdish Folk Tales: A Case Study of the Haft Baradar Story

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The archetypal notion of the hero's journey, one of the most pervasive archetypes, has consistently guided the interpretation and reception of the intratextual and extratextual elements within traditional narratives. The present study explores the hero's
Mansour Rahimi
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Civic Development of Latine Students: The Role of Equity‐Minded Community College Leaders

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how equity‐minded educators at Hispanic Serving community colleges (HSCCs) foster the civic development of Latine students, emphasizing leadership, civic engagement, and agency beyond academic success. Using a multi‐case study design, we analyzed interviews with 29 educators from two HSCCs in Southern California to ...
Cynthia M. Alcantar, Edwin Hernandez, Carlos A. Galan, Jossie Muñoz, Melissa Jauregui‐Gomez   +4 more
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Memoraat ja muistend. Mõned metodoloogilised vaatepunktid [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2003
The article analyses the differences between a legend and a memorate. A legend is a short narrative of one episode that can have a background partially based on experience and observation but that has not emerged directly from these but instead from ...
Gunnar Granberg
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