Using Blackboard in Library Instruction: Addressing the Learning Styles of Generations X and Y

Studies show that recent generations of college students have a learning style with identifiable characteristics. Library instruction efforts must adapt to these learning styles. Course management software (CMS), such as Blackboard, is one resource available to academic librarians to meet the challenges posed by the "Net Generation." At Stetson University, the use of Blackboard courseware in library instruction sessions successfully addressed the unique learning styles of students.     

试论“五四”女性新诗的书写特征

中国第一代女性新诗的作者诞生于"五四"启蒙时期,此时的女性自我一般都深受传统文化熏染,同时也接受新思想文化影响,开始与男性共同成为社会活动的积极参与者。同时,初涉于世的稚嫩、现实的复杂、以及对于白话语言的生疏,对其诗歌创作水平产生了较大限制,使这一时期的女性诗歌书写显示出较明显的过渡性特征。     

Obesity and minority—changing meanings of big bodies among young Pakistani obesity patients in Norway

Globally, paediatric obesity causes widespread concern, and the role of ethnicity is an important focus. Investigating how culture can mediate health-related behaviour through ideas about bodies, food and physical activity, while addressing a notion that the Pakistani community in Norway is particularly conservative and slow to change, this article points to the centrality of health as a cultural concept and the state of efficacy of public health promotion in contemporary Norwegian society. A Foucauldian perspective lends itself to this approach and the concepts of bio-power, bio-pedagogy and proper citizenship inform the analysis. Specifically, this article examines the obesity and weight loss experiences of Pakistani youth undergoing treatment for paediatric obesity in Norway and the ways in which they negotiate and position themselves amongst competing discourses of weight, health and weight loss.