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2024-06-01

Miller-Young, J.

In “Complex Journeys and Theory as Scaffolding: An Illustrated Guide to the SoTLscape,” Janice Miller-Young experiments with how illustration can contribute to the SoTL discourse. In a graphic essay consisting of four illustrations, she encourages readers to think meta about SoTL in order to...

2007

Pelletier, Francis J., Pagin, Peter

Introduction: It is traditional, at least since Grice, to make a distinction between what is called the literal meaning of an utterance and what is meant by that utterance. The former notion is sometimes thought of as ‘‘the dictionary meanings of words plus standard semantic effects of the...

2013

Pelletier, Francis J.

Because of ‘arguments from the infinity of language’, compositionality is often seen as a ‘non-negotiable’ feature of any theory of the semantics of natural language. But there are a number of features of ‘ordinary language discourse’ that make it seem that compositionality is not true of natural...

2016

Polkinghorne, Sarah

This chapter describes a visualization of the main elements in play when we search for information. The chapter describes how this visualization can be used to start classroom conversations around how social, political, and economic systems influence how people create, organize, find, and gain...

2012-01-01

Rockwell, Geoffrey

The phrase “Web 2.0” is supposed to have been coined at a conference brainstorming session about the new types of websites emerging after the dot.com collapse.1 Web 2.0 sites, like the Wikipedia and Flickr, are often characterized by broad participation in content creation. They leverage the web...

2022-01-01

Sulz, David

This is chapter 20 from Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America (2 volumes). "As a branch of International and Area Studies Librarianship (IASL), East Asian Librarianship has become increasingly important in an age of globalization as scholars engage in interdisciplinary...

2020-09-01

Shields, Rob

Decolonizing Suburban Research1 Rob Shields, Human Geography EAS and Sociology, University of Alberta. North American Suburbs have been treated as sites of a collective amnesia concerning previous patterns of occupation and occupants. As ‘Greenfield sites’ they often either lack history or local...

2022-04-01

Rob Shields

North American Suburbs have been treated as sites of a collective amnesia concerning previous patterns of occupation and occupants. As ‘Greenfield sites’ they often either lack history or local history is shallow, rarely extending back before the agricultural tenants of the last century. A number...

2018-01-01

Engel, Maureen

Maps are everywhere. They are the most significant contemporary mediator between people and the spaces we inhabit. Importantly though, they no longer get folded up and placed in glove boxes, waiting for the next road trip, nor are they consigned to those quaint old volumes called “atlases.” Now,...

2024-06-01

Miller-Young, J. and Chick, N.L.

In “Developing Sustained SoTL Journeys and Identities,” Janice Miller-Young and Nancy L. Chick argue that SoTL is no longer just a grassroots movement of individual faculty committed to taking teaching and learning seriously; it has become professionalized as a field of study as more of us seek...