Publication Type: Research Reports
Abstract: An examination of the relationships between preservice teachers' exposure to the practices of teaching ELLs and culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy beliefs. Implications for preparing teachers to teach ELLs are discussed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper contributes to research efforts exploring the impact of varied civic education approaches on students. A one-credit oral discourse course, designed as the intervention in a pre-experimental design, underscored the importance of collective political participation and attempted to strengthen the skills needed to engage in populist democratic politics. These included the communication skills of negotiation, compromise and persuasion. Findings from pre and post semester questionnaires indicate the course had limited effects on traditional measures of students’ internal and external political efficacy. Yet they also reveal improvements in assessments of social trust, the perceived effectiveness of collective political acts and the projected likelihood of participating in political activities.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: It is anticipated that recent developments in English law relating to the doctrine of vicarious liability will result in a dramatic expansion of the tortious liability of public bodies. However an analysis of the case law effecting these developments reveals considerable judicial confusion as to the nature of the distinction between direct and vicarious liability. This has resulted in the creation of a new hybrid form of no-fault liability for the acts of others that not only has a much wider remit than the traditional doctrine of vicarious liability but is also much easier to establish in practice. These developments have been judicially justified by reference to the notions of loss distribution and enterprise risk. However, the English courts have failed to acknowledge that, as ‘not-for-profit’ organisations, public authorities are unable to undertake the kind of convenient and efficient loss distribution envisaged by them in this respect. To the extent that the new and enlarged doctrine of vicarious liability may thus be said to rest upon theoretically unsound legal foundations, its current role within the tort system must be called seriously into question.

Publication Type: POSTER
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The goal of this poster is twofold. First an examination of the causes of burn out and vicarious traumatization and a review of self-care strategies that assist in preventing burn out is presented. Second, a qualitative investigation examining therapist’s experience of burnout at a small mental health agency is explored.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study explores the association between time spent reading romance novels and female sexuality. The respondents were 436 white female college students, age 18–47. Several variables of interest are used to indicate sexuality. The variables of interest include: (1) age when thoughts of sex first occurred, (2) age at first intercourse, (3) strength of sex drive, (4) sex addiction, (5) number of orgasms, (6) number of sex partners, and (7) femininity. Our results show that readers of romance novels self-reported greater sex addiction, greater sex drive, and greater number or orgasms required for sexual satisfaction than non-readers. However, contrary to expectations, readers had fewer sex partners and were older when they had their first thoughts about sex and had their first sexual intercourse. This pattern fits the Harlequin romance stereotype of nourishing a satisfying sex life in the context of romantic monogamous fidelity while at the same time vicariously fulfilling desires through fictitious characters.

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