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- Dr. Frank Abrahams, professor and chairperson
of the music education department, taught classes in Critical
Pedagogy for Music Education at University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, in September. He presented a paper titled, “Preparing
Future Music Educators using Critical Pedagogy for Music Education”
at the national conference of the Society for Music Teacher Education
on September 16. From there, he went to Recife, Brazil and spoke
at the Fifth International Colloquium on Multiculturalism and
Education at the Paulo Freire Institute on September 20. His topic
was “Multicultural Music Education from a Freirian Perspective.”
In November, he and Patrick Schmidt, assistant professor
of music education, presented a paper titled, “Critical
Pedagogy for Music Education as a pathway to musical understanding”
at the international conference on Musical Understanding at Oakland
University in Rochester, MI, on November 11. The second edition
of the text, “Case Studies in Music Education” was
published by GIA in August.
- Dr. Myra Gutin, professor of communication,
presented the paper, “…human rights are women’s
rights. And women’s rights are human rights, once and for
all’: Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Fourth Conference
on Women, Beijing, China, 1995” as part of a panel discussion
at the 11th annual Presidential Conference at Hofstra University
on November 11. “William Jefferson Clinton, The ‘New
Democrat’ From Hope” was the theme of the conference.
Gutin participated in the panel, titled “A New Role For
The First Lady: Staffers’ and Scholars’ Assessments.”
The principal respondent was Melanne Verveer, who was Mrs. Clinton's
Chief of Staff from 1997-2001.
- Robert Lackie, an associate professor-librarian,
and Michele D'Angelo-Long, adjunct assistant professor
of English, co-presented the paper, "What to Do and Where to Go:
Strategies and Resources for Combating Plagiarism" at the TYCA/Northeast
Regional Conference on October 21 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in
Princeton, NJ. The conference theme was "Innovate, Collaborate,
Negotiate: Global English in The Twenty-First Century." Lackie
and D'Angelo-Long spoke on various interactive, user-friendly
resources and tutorial Web sites to assist in developing research
and academic writing skills. On October 25, Lackie also presented
the paper, "Google Print versus Google Scholar: What's All the
Fuss?" at the national conference, "Internet Librarian 2005" at
the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, CA. He shared insight
on how to effectively search Google Print & Scholar, compare goals
of each service, and understand what is included. He also provided
quick search tips.
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