Faculty in the NDSU College of Human Development and Education recently published a variety of articles or made presentations.
Brad Strand, professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, and Gary Liguori of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga presented a paper titled “Leading Fast and Slow” at the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education 2014 Collaborative Congress held in San Diego.
Several education faculty and doctoral students gave presentations at the recent American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conference in Lexington, Ky. Claudette Peterson, assistant professor in the School of Education, gave a roundtable presentation that shared preliminary results of a research study with the title “Long-Term Survivors’ Incorporation of HIV/AIDS Identity into the Self: What Now?” In addition, several education doctoral programs students also gave presentations:
- Sarah Alajlan and Obaidalah Aljohani presented a paper with Peterson, their adviser. The title of the paper was “Obstacles Facing Adult Education in Saudi Arabia.”
- Brian Rook presented a roundtable session titled “Polychronicity and Online Meetings” along with Peterson, his adviser.
- Becky Lyons presented a session titled “Using Chautauqua in the Classroom” with Peterson, her adviser.
- Dina Zavala-Petherbridge presented “Negotiating Identity: Autoethnography and Mindmapping as Tools for Adult Learners.”
- Barbara Hutchison along with her adviser, Peterson, and Brent Hill, Janet Bogus and Eleanor Covan, had a poster accepted for the conference. The poster was titled “Presbycusis: Can You Hear the Music of Life?”
Hutchison along with Peterson, Covan and Bogus also had a paper accepted for the conference titled “Aging Male Combat Veterans: Learning Coping Skills for PTSD through Audiology, Metagogy and Musicology.”
Several education faculty and students have recent publications:
- Assistant professors Claudette Peterson and Chris Ray had an article, “Andragogy and metagogy: The evolution of neologisms,” published in the Journal of Adult Education.
- Doctoral student Lindsie Schoenack had an article, “A new framework for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs),” published in the Journal of Adult Education.
- Doctoral student Brian Rook had an article, “LULAC: Mexican-American adult learning, collectivism and social movement,” published in the Journal of Adult Education.
- Peterson and doctoral students S. Alajlan and O. Aljohani had an article, “Obstacles Facing Adult Education in Saudi Arabia,” published in the Proceedings of the Commission for International Adult Education Pre-Conference of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education in Las Vegas.
Denise Lajimodiere, assistant professor of practice in the School of Education, received word her essay, “America Indian Boarding Schools in the United States: A Brief History and their Current Legacy” will be published in the book “Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Justice,” a publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. In addition, Lajimodiere recently had an interview titled “Healing from Boarding School Trauma,” which is being released by the “American Indian Living” broadcast through LifeTalk Radio and Native Voice One networks. About 100 stations across the country carry “American Indian Living,” and it also can be heard on Internet live streams hosted by LifeTalk Radio and Native Voice One.
Former health, nutrition and exercise science graduate students Kerrie Hert and Paul Fisk II have published with Yeong Rhee and Ardith Brunt, both associate professors of health, nutrition and exercise science, in Nutrition Research. Using data from NHANES 1999-2010, the article reports the decreasing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and the concurrent decrease in chronic disease risk factors. The Stone Hearth Newsletter picked up the research article.
Health, nutrition and exercise science graduate students Angela Geraci and Cindy Marihart published a qualitative study in ISRN Obesity. The manuscript is titled “The work behind weight-loss surgery: A qualitative analysis of food intake after the first two years post-op.”
Kara Wolfe, former faculty member in apparel, design and hospitality management and the hospitality leadership director at Bradley University, WooMi Jo Phillips and Amelia Asperin, both assistant professors of apparel, design and hospitality management, had a manuscript titled “Using hotel supervisors’ emotional intelligence as a benchmark for hospitality students” accepted for publication in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education.
Health, nutrition and exercise science graduate student Larry Anenson, with Ardith Brunt, and Bryan Christensen, both associate professors of health, nutrition and exercise science, and Donna Terbizan, professor, published a paper titled “Participation rates in a worksite wellness program using e-mail wellness messages” in the Journal of Education and Training Studies.
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