Faculty Research & Creative Scholarship 2020: E-F

Designer: David Elizalde, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design

Journal Title: Educational Administration Quarterly
Description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how leaders in an Islamic school in the United States engaged in culturally relevant leadership (CRL) within a diverse school community to develop students’ critical social consciousness. Research Design: Data were collected over 4 years at an Islamic K-8 school in the United States and included the following: 12 in-depth semistructured interviews with school and community leaders; 4 phone interviews; 7 focus group interviews with teachers, students, and parents; 5 observations of classroom and school events; and documents from the Islamic center, school, and classrooms. Data specific to the school leaders were analyzed using tenets of CRL. Findings and Conclusions: This article describes how Muslim and non-Muslim leaders in an Islamic school engaged in the tenets of CRL. This study suggests that the tenets of CRL, in this context, were grounded in inter and intrafaith dialogue, cultural syncretism, and a unique focus on the development of an American Muslim identity.
Author: Miriam Ezzani, Assistant Professor, Education

Journal Title: Teaching Exceptional Children
Conclusion: Co-teachers can use the WiS Co-Planning Tool to blend their shared expertise and deliver both high-quality science instruction and high-quality explicit writing instruction. In conjunction with regular progress monitoring, teachers can use the model to address the challenge of preparing students with disabilities to meet national content-area standards. Moreover, as writing is a unifying practice across all science genres, the six steps of the process provide a road map for course planning that embeds necessary writing instruction seamlessly within NGSS units to ensure mastery of writing skills in heterogenous groups while simultaneously supporting knowledge building.
Author: Michael N. Faggella-Luby, Professor, ANSERS Institute Director

Abstract: Although improving students with learning disabilities (LD) still do not experience positive postsecondary outcomes at the same rate as their nondisabled peers. Research indicates that inclusion in the general education classroom for core content courses correlates to better outcomes; however, the large amount of content to be covered in these courses make it difficult to deliver targeted transition services, such as instruction in self-determination skills, in these settings. In this chapter, we briefly summarize the research on transition services for students with LD and then provide examples of opportunities for instruction and practice of self-determination skills in the general education classroom.
Author: Michael Faggella-Luby, Professor, ANSERS Institute Director

Journal Title: Symmetry
Abstract: Experiments have shown that transitions occur between electron neutrino, muon neutrino, and tau neutrino flavors. Some experiments indicate the possible existence of a fourth neutrino known as the sterile neutrino. The question arises: do all neutrino flavors participate in transitions between flavors? These transitions are viewed as mass state transitions in parametrized relativistic dynamics (PRD). PRD frameworks have been developed for neutrino flavor transitions associated with the mixing of two mass states or the mixing of three mass states. This paper presents an extension of the framework to neutrino flavor transitions associated with the mixing of four mass states.
Author: John Fanchi, Ross B. Matthews Professorship in Petroleum Engineering

Description: “Etude”, a screendance, follows the choreographic meditations of three women situated in an isolated and almost mythical world. “Etude” is a study of the shifting viewpoint and context from a macro perspective of a majestic landscape and by extension our world, our environment, our existence to a micro perception of the human element within that environment, where we are just as much a part of “nature” and are as singular and diverse and complex as the landscape itself.
Creator: Roma Flowers, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Classical & Contemporary Dance

Summary: Three women arduously traverse an expanse of white paper with only black charcoal and their bodies which leave a tracing of the passing dance. Drawn from a set of corporeal kinetic investigations, by Nina Martin and the Lower Left Performance Collective, which refer to performance as “that which disappears” and art as “the residual document of its creation,” Secondary Surfaces Retraced reconfigures those investigations in a screen dance by exploiting video mediation to further blur the boundaries between dance and visual art. Created by video artist Roma Flowers and choreographer Nina Martin and informed by Far West Texas landscapes, geological time and human kinetic processes, Secondary Surfaces Retraced presents meditations on durational concepts of time and the human relationship to labor, endurance and survival.
Video Artist: Roma Flowers, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Classical & Contemporary Dance

Journal Title: Journal of Social Work Education
Abstract: We investigated the feasibility of a formative objective structured clinical examination adapted for social work (OSCE-SW) with a parent–bisexual child dyad and evaluated self-efficacy and performance learning outcomes for undergraduate social work students. Eighteen undergraduate students participated in a simulation involving two embedded participants. Participants received an average score of 35.7 out of 50 potential points on the performance rating scale during a 15-min OSCE-SW scenario. We observed no change in self-efficacy before and after the OSCE-SW experience. The authors recommend implementing additional dyadic OSCE-SW scenarios, including scenarios focused on parent–bisexual child relationships and other types of marginalized dyadic relationships.
Author: Ashley E. Franklin, Assistant Professor, Nursing

Journal Title: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Abstract: We provide a generalization of the Deligne sheaf construction of intersection homology theory and a corresponding generalization of Poincaré duality on pseudomanifolds such that the Goresky–MacPherson, Goresky–Siegel, and Cappell–Shaneson duality theorems all arise as particular cases. Unlike classical intersection homology theory, our duality theorem holds with ground coefficients in an arbitrary PID and with no local cohomology conditions on the underlying space. Self-duality does require local conditions, but our perspective leads to a new class of spaces more general than the Goresky–Siegel IP spaces on which upper-middle perversity intersection homology is self-dual. We also examine torsion-sensitive t-structures and categories of perverse sheaves that contain our torsion-sensitive Deligne sheaves as intermediate extensions.
Author: Greg Friedman, Professor and Department Chair, Mathematics

Journal Title: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Introductory Paragraph: Caricature's prominence in the visual culture of France during the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has gained the attention of art historians in the last decade.1 These studies have tended to emphasize publicly circulated social and political caricature. However, by focusing on graphic satire intended for a wide audience, such discussions overlook other uses that the genre had for artists in the eighteenth century, which are inseparable from sociable practices of drawing. This essay considers the caricatures of the French history painter François-André Vincent and others like them produced by his fellow pensionnaires at the French Royal Academy in Rome between 1770 and 1775 as responses to their shared academic training, to eighteenth-century drawing pedagogy, and to the homosocial environment of Rome.
Author: Jessica L. Fripp, Assistant Professor, Art History