Title of dissertation: THE CULTURAL PRODUCTON OF CONTROVERSY: FEMINISM, WOMEN AUTHORS, AND THE MAPPING OF CHINA Aijun Zhu, Ph.D., 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jianmei Liu, Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures This project deconstructs the controversy of globally located Chinese women authors trapped in a dilemma between feminism, nationalism and neocolonialis...

Two lines of thinking are becoming increasingly important in higher educational practice. The first derives from constructivist learning theory, and the second from the instructional design literature. Constructivism comprises a family of theories but all have in common the centrality of the learner's activities in creating meaning. These and related ideas have important implications for teachi...

Medical education of today continues to evolve to meet the challenges of the stakeholders. Medical professionals today are expected to play multiple roles besides being experts. Thus, the curriculum has to be developed in a manner that facilitates learners to achieve the intended goal of becoming a medical professional with multiple competencies. The understanding of learning theories will be h...

The topic of this essay is the metaethics of practical reasons, with special focus on a view I call " constructivism ". Because this term is rather promiscuous , it seems best for me to characterize the view I'm talking about right off the bat. As I understand it, constructivism is characterized by three central tenets. The first of which runs as follows: Truth-Apt: normative judgments are trut...

Feminism is the fire that melts, but does not destroy.

There are at least two broad perspectives from which the status of our scientific knowledge claims can be understood. The first is a purely realist view of scientific knowledge, referred to as scientific realism. According to this view the “theoretical entities that are characterized by a true theory do actually exist even though they cannot be directly observed. Alternatively, the evidence tha...

Although women who highly identify with other women are more susceptible to stereotype threat effects, women's identification might associate with greater leadership aspirations contingent on (1) counter-stereotype salience and (2) feminist identification. When gender counter-stereotypes are salient, women's identification should associate with greater leadership aspiration regardless of femini...

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creatin...

Feminism in Australia is a political movement and a published discourse. Its activities range from Equal Employment Opportunity practices in the public service to 'cultural' production in such forms as academic literature and documentary film-making. For most immigrant women of non-English speaking background, the cultural arena of feminism is foreign, in many more ways than one. Feminism repre...

After the first wave of feminist geographical research, which focused on the spatiality of women’s lives, feminist geography began to concern itself with issues of equity in the discipline, the ways in which geographical knowledge is conceptualized, and how gender and other social differences interrelate. In this paper I consider how the current generation of women graduate students, students w...