| Faculty/Staff Leader |
Nature of the Experience |
| Dr. Shana Harrington |
This TLO is for UNF DPT students to provide rehabilitation and assistance services to U.S. military Veterans with disabilities through an adaptive sports program. This sports camp program is available at no charge to the Veterans it serves. In order to meet the needs of participants in this very specialized growing program, the directors have expressed an interest in creating a service-learning project with the UNF DPT program for the upcoming 2012 camp and competition. The skills and experience the students would gain from this service-learning project could also be utilized after returning to Jacksonville to enhance the adaptive sports program for the local community.Categories:
Service Learning
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| Dr. Caroline Guardino |
This TLO is for graduate pre-service teachers in COEHS to work with teachers and attend cultural events in both Hawaii and the Philippines (PI). Provided this opportunity, students will be expected to both assist and lead lessons within school settings. By assisting the Filipino and Hawaiian teachers, UNF students will learn differentiated instruction in classrooms exclusive to students with disabilities and in classrooms exclusive to students who are English Language Learners. By leading lessons, UNF pre-service teachers will demonstrate strategies for students with disabilities learned within the American school system.Categories:
Service Learning
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| Dr. C. Dominik Guess |
This TLO is for three graduate students seeking a Master in General Psychology to accompany Dr. Dominik Guess, the mentor and instructor, in a study abroad for 28 days in Bamberg, Germany. After the time in Germany, Smit will travel to India, and Junior to Kenya, and the third student to either one of the countries. In each country, the three students will conduct and carry out the experiment on creativity with a comparable sample of undergraduate students for their Masters theses. Cross-cultural research on creativity is highly important yet relatively rare and a 4-country comparison will be published in top journals. Students will present the results at international conferences. Categories:
Graduate Research
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| Dr. Ashley Batts Allen |
This TLO is designed to focus on community service and research. As a researcher on self-compassion, I am an advocate for teaching people to show compassion to themselves and others. Self-compassion is the ability to treat oneself kindly in the midst of negative life circumstances. Self-compassion is composed of self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness; and research shows that it is most helpful in the midst of difficult life circumstances. This TLO will place graduate and undergraduate students in a local nonprofit organization where they will serve as both volunteers and researchers. By serving alongside people who are suffering, I expect the students to develop a heightened sense of compassion for people in Jacksonville who are experiencing extreme poverty or domestic abuse. In addition to volunteering at the organization, students will also be actively involved in implementing a self-compassion intervention at the site. In partnership with the organization, students will be trained to teach residents about self-compassion and provide them with strategies on how to be more self-compassionate. Each graduate student will lead an undergraduate research team, and each team will focus on one outcome of the self-compassion training program. Upon completion of the program, each team will analyze the data and put together a poster to be presented at a regional conference.Categories:
Graduate Research
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| Dr. Mei Zhao |
This TLO will provide a unique opportunity for UNF students to experience the history, culture, and health care system of two interesting and influential areas in Asia-- Hong Kong and Macau. This experience includes visits to the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the University of Macau (UM) during spring break 2013. Students will also visit the administrators of the local hospitals and tour their facilities. In addition, UNF students will gain the rare opportunity to study the financing and delivery of the Hong Kong and Macau health care systems while also understanding the patient's point of view the care and financing of their healthcare services. Finally, students will visit with government officials to gain their personal perspectives on the health care systems of Hong Kong and Macau.Categories:
International
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| Dr. Marsha Lupi |
This TLO is for funding to support an international short-term site-based experience for graduate students at highly successful multicultural secondary and primary schools in London, England. This opportunity is in conjunction with Kingston University, a top-ranked London university for teacher education. This project will allow both our advanced (masters) and doctoral students in school leadership, school counseling, educational technology and professional studies to either observe and participate in classrooms, or shadow a school counselor or head teacher (principal) to gain new and increased understanding of the skills needed to be an efficient and effective school practitioner.Categories:
International
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| Dr. Sherry Shaw |
This TLO is for UNF’s American Sign Language/English Interpreting graduate students to study abroad for 10 days in Austria and Slovenia, where there are exemplary Interpreter Education Programs at the local universities of Graz and Ljubljana. The primary purposes of the TLO are to introduce signed language interpreting students to spoken language interpreter education, conduct a literature review accessing the specialized databases at a translation library, and experience the cultural and linguistic differences of the local deaf communities, spoken language interpreting students, and faculty members. Students will participate in translation and interpreting classes with the local students who have English as one of their three working languages. They will participate in an Austrian Sign Language class, which is taught without voice, and will interact with Austrian Deaf professors for a cultural immersion into a visual language that is very different from American Sign Language.Categories:
International
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