To promote understanding of and interest in working with data among diverse student populations, we developed and studied a high school mathematics curriculum module that examines income inequality ...in the United States. Designed as a multi-week set of applied data investigations, the module supports student analyses of income inequality using U.S. Census Bureau microdata and the online data analysis tool the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP). Pre- and post-module data show that use of this module was associated with statistically significant growth in students' understanding of fundamental data concepts and individual interests in statistics and data analysis, with small to moderate effect sizes. Student survey responses and interview data from students and teachers suggest that the topic of income inequality, features within CODAP, the use of person-level data, and opportunities to engage in multivariable thinking helped to support critical data literacy and its foundations among participating students. We describe our definitions of data literacy and critical data literacy and discuss curriculum strategies to develop them.
Engineering Innovation is an overview of the interconnected business and product development techniques needed to nurture the development of raw, emerging technologies into commercially viable ...products. This book relates Funding Strategies, Business Development, and Product Development to one another as an idea is refined to a validated concept, iteratively developed into a product, then produced for commercialization. Engineering Innovation also provides an introduction to business strategies and manufacturing techniques on a technical level designed to encourage passionate clinicians, academics, engineers and savvy entrepreneurs. * Offers a comprehensive overview of the process of bringing new technology to market. * Identifies a variety of technology management skill sets and management tools. * Explores concept generation in conjunction with intellectual property development for early-stage companies. * Explores Quality and Transfer-to-Manufacturing.
Theater and the church have been at odds throughout history. This conflict has led to alienation and judgment of artists by the church and limited creative opportunities for the church to be a public ...witness in culture. Connecting with theater allows the church a chance to engage those most marginalized from church, shape disciples and create a unique public theology to share God’s justice, equity and love. Scripture and theology are inherently dramatic. Sacred text is the progressive, story of a relationship between the Creator and the created. Both Old and New Testament are filled with dramatic moments that testify to God’s story of love. Consider the New Testament gospel stories of Jesus. From the Incarnation, baptism, a public ministry of miracles and preaching, a processional entry into Jerusalem that leads to death on a cross and resurrection, each story is a theatrical moment that reveals the nature of God. Theatrical theology tells the story of God as writer, Son as hero and Holy Spirit as director seeking to partner with the supporting characters of humanity throughout time. This project explores theatrical theology as a vehicle for the church to shape disciples who take their place alongside the Divine Trinity on stage as public theologians and participate in social resistance within a community. This project is written in two acts. Act I is the history of theater and the church, the background of theatrical theology and its praxis. Act II is the case study of a large, mainline denominational church in Florida. ACT II breaks the fourth wall with the spectator (reader) through digital media embedded in the writing. Click on each visual to link to live videos and watch a theatrical theology come to life within a church.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2002.
Adviser: Laurence Senelick. Submitted to the Dept. of Drama. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-265). Access restricted to members of the Tufts ...University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
The violent reactions to the Stage Irishman visible in Dublin during 1907 riots resulting from the premiere of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World prompted the further investigation of two ...important questions: What were the earlier stage depictions of the Irish that the Dubliners were so vehemently reacting against? And, more importantly, if the Stage Irishman of the past could cause such marked anxiety about Irish identity at the beginning of the twentieth century, what were the effects on the Dublin audiences who viewed the Stage Irishmen a hundred years earlier? This dissertation explores the performance of the Stage Irish stereotype on the Dublin stage during the seldom-studied early nineteenth century, specifically focusing on the theatrical seasons from 1799 to 1811. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, complex negotiations were occurring between the three major segments of Ireland's population—the British aristocracy ruling from Dublin Castle, the dominant minority of the Protestant Ascendancy and the Irish Catholic majority of the populace—as efforts were made to determine the final configuration of Ireland's relationship to the British Empire. In first years of a legislative union with Britain, the country thought of itself as a “sister kingdom”, yet the majority of its population was yet to be awarded full suffrage. Still experiencing the civil unrest of a troublesome colony, Ireland was also a major provider of men and materiel for Britain's efforts against Napoleon. This was a country that was in the process of integrating into the larger Empire with its messages of British patriotism, yet was also asserting cultural and political distinctiveness through a form of Irish nationalism. The performance of the Stage Irish stereotype, then, was the embodiment of the period's ideas of Irishness, and through comparison, Britishness. This study uses the Dublin audience's response to the stage depictions of the Irish as a means to further understanding the formation and circulation of ideas of national character, of the ideologies of Irish nationalism and British patriotism.
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