Carol Rutz's Books

Faculty Development and Student Learning

Assessing the Connections

By: William Condon,Ellen R. Iverson,Cathryn A. Manduca,Carol Rutz,Gudrun Willett

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Faculty Development and Student Learning

Assessing the Connections

By: William Condon,Ellen R. Iverson,Cathryn A. Manduca,Carol Rutz,Gudrun Willett

Colleges and universities across the US have created special initiatives to promote faculty development, but to date there has been little research to determine whether such programs have an impact on students' learning. Faculty Development and Student Learning reports the results of a multi-year study undertaken by faculty at Carleton College and Washington State University to assess how students' learning is affected by faculty members' efforts to become better teachers. Extending recent research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) to assessment of faculty development and its effectiveness, the authors show that faculty participation in professional development activities positively affects classroom pedagogy, student learning, and the overall culture of teaching and learning in a college or university.

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172

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Indiana University Press

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0253018862

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9780253018861

The Creative Lives of Animals

By: Carol Gigliotti

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The Creative Lives of Animals

By: Carol Gigliotti

Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Animals & Nature The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitats Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals’ creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpacks examples of creativity demonstrated by animals through the lens of the creative process, an important component of creative behavior, and offers new thinking on animal intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness. With examples of the elaborate dams built by beavers or the lavishly decorated bowers of bowerbirds, Gigliotti provides a new perspective on animals as agents in their own lives, as valuable contributors to their world and ours, and as guides in understanding how creativity may contribute to conserving the natural world. Presenting a powerful argument for the importance of recognizing animals as individuals and as creators of a healthy, biodiverse world, this book offers insights into both the established and emerging questions about the creativity of animals.

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369

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NYU Press

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1479815462

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9781479815463

Golden-Silk Smoke

A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010

By: Carol Benedict

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Golden-Silk Smoke

A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010

By: Carol Benedict

From the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the fascinating story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. Carol Benedict follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to China from the New World, through the development of commercialized tobacco cultivation, and to the present day. Along the way, she analyzes the factors that have shaped China’s highly gendered tobacco cultures, and shows how they have evolved within a broad, comparative world-historical framework. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources—gazetteers, literati jottings (biji), Chinese materia medica, Qing poetry, modern short stories, late Qing and early Republican newspapers, travel memoirs, social surveys, advertisements, and more—Golden-Silk Smoke not only uncovers the long and dynamic history of tobacco in China but also sheds new light on global histories of fashion and consumption.

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352

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Univ of California Press

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0520948564

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9780520948563

A Moment's Notice

Time Politics across Culture

By: Carol J. Greenhouse

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A Moment's Notice

Time Politics across Culture

By: Carol J. Greenhouse

Focusing on the problem of time—the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity—Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. A Moment's Notice suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.

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334

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Cornell University Press

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1501725025

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9781501725029

Global Health Care: Issues and Policies

Issues and Policies

By: Carol Holtz

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Global Health Care: Issues and Policies

Issues and Policies

By: Carol Holtz

In a healthcare system that is rapidly changing, Global Healthcare Issues and Policies presents students with up-to-date information on topics such as culture, religion and health; health research; ethics and health; reproductive health; infectious diseases; chronic diseases; nutrition; mental health; environmental health; aging; ambulatory care; economics and health care; health care insurance; and more. Each chapter includes objectives, key terms, cultural, religious, economic and political influences on chapter topics, case studies, review questions, and current research.

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669

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449666450

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9781449666453

Rachel Carson

Friend of Nature

By: Carol Greene

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Rachel Carson

Friend of Nature

By: Carol Greene

A biography of the biologist whose writings helped initiate the environmental movement.

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Children's Press

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0516042297

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9780516042299

Book's by Carol Rutz

Faculty Development and Student Learning

Faculty Development and Student Learning

The Creative Lives of Animals

The Creative Lives of Animals

Golden-Silk Smoke

Golden-Silk Smoke

A Moment's Notice

A Moment's Notice

Global Health Care: Issues and Policies

Global Health Care: Issues and Policies

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

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