Dealing with Challenges

Hallie Garrison

Empowering Learners

This student reflects on the entires she wrote in her agency journal for the Empowering Learners course.

Hallie Garrison

Empowering Learners

 As the subtitle of this essay says, "Can college students effectively navigate the intricacies of mentoring high-risk youth?

Amanda Fernandez

Empowering Learners

Fernandez shows deep thinking in her piece about how to appropriately convey disapproval to students.

Riley Diffenderfer

Empowering Learners

 The author responds to an earlier paper in this handbook, focused on transcending cross-cultural barriers in mentorship and teaching.

 Apocalipsis Rosario, ENGL 257: Gender & Technology, WebPaper 1, February 11, 2011

 David Harris

This paper takes on the idea of boundaries in education, and why they should be viewed as fences rather than walls.

    Oliver Sacks’ novel, An Anthropologist on Mars, contains seven fascinating and strange neurobiological stories that explore unique perceptions and experiences of both the world and oneself in the world. The first tale, “The Colorblind Painter”, is about Jonathan I., a painter who, after an accident, lost his ability to perceive color in the world, his memories, and even his dreams. He could not remember what color ever looked like (the entire concept was obliterated from his brain), yet, intriguingly, it was determined that he could discriminate wavelengths of light.

Brielle C. Stark, December 11, 2009

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