Fortified castles on Okinawa Island during the Gusuku Period, AD 1200-1600.
Introduction Fortified castles on the island of Okinawa, southwestern Japan, date from approximately AD 1200 to 1600. These castles are termed gusuku in Okinawan dialect. The larger of these multifunctional sites usually contained a number of different activity areas (Pearson 1992; 1997; 1999). Katsuren Castle, located on...

The saga of St. Joseph's: a core curriculum that works.
The last day of January, three hours out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, and I am driving across a snowy Indiana landscape under a darkening sky to fulfill a speaking assignment. Having written a book titled The Idea of a Catholic University, I have given several talks sponsored by...

Teaching of international relations in Nepal (1).
Introduction International relations has been taught in Nepal for over the last 40 years, but has never emerged as an independent discipline on its own. There are a number of factors responsible for this situation, among which include the political conditions in the country, the rather slow...

Assessment outcome coherence using LSA scoring.
Abstract This paper adapts latent semantic analysis (LSA) as an automated, statistically reliable metric for comparing desired outcomes or objectives across educational programs. After a general introduction to LSA, demonstrating the ability of LSA to compare texts contexts, an LSA metric will be sketched (assessment outcomes/objectives scoring...

Aiatsis Research Program.
Peter Veth, acting Director of Research, writes: AIATSIS, in collaboration with the Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland, the Menzies School of Health Research, and Flinders University, has had five expressions of interest funded by the Co-operative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health. The titles...

How students characterise the vocational gains from women's studies (or, why we need not be anxious).
Introduction How women's studies programmes relate to students' post-graduation career and employment aspirations has been a largely under-researched issue. While some attention has been given to tracking women's studies graduates, (1) surprisingly little systematic consideration has been given to the specific career and vocational plans of students...

Practicing feminism in South Korea: the issue of sexual violence and the women's movement.
This paper explores feminist practice in South Korea on the basis of a case study on a feminist-run sexual assault centre (SAC). Feminism has been regarded as Western culture' in most parts of Asia. Feminists in Asian countries have been criticised in relation to the introduction of feminism into...

Aronowitz, Stanley. The Last Good Job in America.
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 273 pages. Cloth, $27.95. In a recent editorial in the New York Times entitled "The Last Sociologist," Orlando Patterson takes sociology to task for many reasons, including the failure of sociologists to "think big." The movement of professional and academic sociologists...

Humanities & arts to the rescue of science.
Abstract The future of science may depend on how education responds to the growing negativism that students and the public show towards science. What is the value of our current teaching methods, if in helping students achieve higher test scores, they also generate a life long disdain...

Recommended reference books for small and medium-sized libraries and media centers, 2008 ed.; v.28.
9781591586920 Recommended reference books for small and medium-sized libraries and media centers, 2008 ed.; v.28. Ed. by Shannon Graff Hysell. Libraries Unlimited 2008 343 pages $70.00 Hardcover Z1035 Hysell, part of...