2022 Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education

PROCEEDINGS

Barclay, Allen¹, Barclay, Heidi², & Barclay, Rachel³

University/Organization
¹School of Business
Flagler College
St. Augustine, Florida

²College of Management
Metropolitan State University
St. Paul, Minnesota

³Sam M Walton College of Business
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Title
Business Education: Confusing Difficulty with Rigor; the Idea of Adding Difficulty without Educational Benefits

Synopsis
There is a lot of research about course rigor, grade inflation, and students earning higher grades than necessary in higher education. Courses should be designed to challenge students to grow by using critical thinking skills that include content identification, research, bias identification, inference, relevance and curiosity. This paper intends to provide guidance for instructors on how to provide quality knowledge transfer through the use of critical thinking skills.

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Daly, Diana

University/Organization
School of Information
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Title
Open Textbook Production as Participatory Education

Synopsis
In the 2020-22 academic year, a student media lab was launched at a large southwestern
university, with the purpose of integrating student stories into curricula and scholarship
around technologies. In this article, this project is presented as a case and model of participatory education, with examples and links, description of steps taken to implement the project, discussion of resources that contributed to the project’s intended and beneficial outcomes, and best practices for implementation.

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Greenan, Katie A.

University/Organization
Department of Communication
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Title
The Influence of Prayer on Leaders

Synopsis
Research has reported the positive impact of prayer on creating centered, balanced leaders. Leaders of organizations, who are considered to handle stress well, have reported using prayer as a major coping mechanism. Additionally, there is a positive correlation between prayer and motivation and goal setting in the workplace. The objective is to provide literature regarding the efficacy of prayer on local, national, and international leaders by synthesizing scholarly research up to 2021.

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Higa, Paula

University/Organization
Department of Theatre and Dance
The University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

Title
The Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Dance

Synopsis
The purpose of my presentation is to discuss the insertion of Artificial Intelligence in the field of Performing Arts. Through the examination of the award-winning dance film Aquela Que Eu Queria Ser (The One I Wanted To Be – USA version), produced by Higa and Karson, I will present how technology and dance can enact side by side without overshadowing one another. I will address the question how much technology is too much when creating in this capacity?

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Innes, Christopher M.

University/Organization
Department of Philosophy
Boise State University
Boise, Idaho

Title
Philosophy and Popular Culture – a Need for Justification

Synopsis
The study of philosophy and popular culture is complex and difficult. It requires a philosophical discipline and a commitment to the belief that popular culture has philosophical content. The content might be fleeting or extensive philosophical dialogue, scenes, or images. It might even be examples of situations that disserve philosophical investigation that have no philosophical intention. Matching the two and justifying philosophical relevance to popular culture is not easy.

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Kusumaningsih, Sisilia¹, Skoog, Rebekah² & Sun, Jingjing³

University/Organization
¹Department of Teaching and Learning
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

²Department of Anthropology
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

³Department of Teaching and Learning
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

Title
Building Integrative Arguments: Student Immediacy and Collaborative Reasoning Discussions

Synopsis
Despite the research and need for dialogic learning in classrooms, teachers still hesitate to implement this method. As many of the studies done on collaborative discussions, focus on pre-and post-discussion essays, there is still a need to understand the interactive processes that take place during these discussions that have led to promising outcomes. This paper aimed at exploring the relationship between student dialogic moves and the arguments proposed in the discussions.

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Ostaszewski, Krzysztof

University/Organization
Department of Mathematics
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Title
Insurance as a Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons

Synopsis
Tragedy of the commons is an old, yet important problem in economic theory. It refers to the process of depletion of a shared resource by people who act independently and rationally according to their own self-interest, but with possible detrimental effects on other people, and most importantly, depletion of common resource. This depletion happens even with participants’ understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group’s long-term best interests.
There exist three main proposed solutions to this very important problem:

  • Arthur Pigou’s tax on activities causing harm to others or depletion of common
    resources,
  • Ronald Coase’s proposal for property rights as a market solution of the problem,
  • Elinor Ostrom’s research on community management of common resources.

In this paper, we propose insurance as a solution to the tragedy of the commons.
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Pippin, Robert

University/Organization
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, Missouri

Title
Are High School Band Programs Missing The Mark? An Analysis of Band Repertoire in Relation to the National Core Arts Standards

Synopsis
The current practice of high school band programs favoring music selected from the “core repertoire” of modern compositions is not representative of a “…varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, genres and historical periods” (NCAS, – standard MU:Pr6.1.E.IIa), creating a deficiency in opportunities for students to engage in the continuum of music in a historical and cultural context, which could be addressed by the creation of a Historical Band Repertoire resource.

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Rhoads, Matthew A.¹ & Williams, Robert W.²

University/Organization
¹ Department of Educational Leadership
Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas

²Curriculum, and Special Education Department
Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas

Title
A Taxonomy of Math Instructor Behaviors That Contribute to Math Anxiety as Perceived by Students

Synopsis
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to identify and classify those math instructors’ behaviors that are contributors to math anxiety as perceived by students identified with math anxiety. Identifying and classifying potential math instructor behaviors which contribute to students’ math anxiety is paramount as universities prepare math teachers as well as for school administrators to address potential issues within the math classrooms.

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Robeson, Richard¹ & King, Nancy M. P.²

University/Organization
¹Department of Communication
Graduate Program in Bioethics
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

² Social Sciences & Health Policy
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Title
When Creative Dialogue is Not a Script: Plato as Inspiration for Bioethics Pedagogy

Synopsis
A discussion of the creation of graduate-level bioethics case studies in dialogic form, after the example of the Dialogues of Plato; including the scholarly, ethical and creative imperatives of case study construction, dialogic or otherwise.

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Scheopner, Cynthia

University/Organization
Director of Research Compliance & Scholarship
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Hawaii, Honolulu

Title
Inverting Inclusion: A Case Study from the College of Social Sciences
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Synopsis
In this case study from the College of Social Sciences at UHM, we challenged the presumption that individuals from historically underrepresented groups are to be invited, rather than to be the ones issuing the invitation.

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Wei, William Wei¹, & Wong, Edgar²

University/Organization
¹History Department University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

²Independent Scholar

Title
On Hong Kong Identity

Synopsis
This paper discusses the evolution of a Hong Kong identity. It focuses mainly on the emergence of a discernible Hong Kong consciousness during the Sixties and the 1967 Riots in particular, and a distinct Hong Kong identity during the recurring protest movements following the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. By 2019, a Hong Kongese identity had developed that is defined by its opposition to Chinese domination of Hong Kong.

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Zhong, Alina

University/Organization
Stanford Online High School
Redwood City, California

Title
Causation as an Indispensable Aspect of Science

Synopsis
This paper considers the question of whether the concept of causation can be removed from sciences. First, causation and its current scientific role are explained. Then, different views on causation are laid out. Finally, the paper refutes arguments in favor of eliminativism to show that causation is necessary in science. The argument is followed by a brief overview of Aristotle’s four causes to demonstrate that causation cannot be replaced with other adjacent concepts.

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