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This case study investigated how the use of mindfulness affected college English as a foreign language (EFL) students' learning and how mindful learning strategies supported their learning of English. Mindful learning considers the students' abilities to be aware, perceive and conceive. Mindfulness results in an increase in competence, memory, creativity, and positive affect based on the previous studies. In this study, 24 undergraduate freshmen participated at a Northeastern University in China. The data collection included those undergraduates' pre-surveys, post-surveys, work samples, the instructor's observation notes and the researcher's reflective journal entries. This practice found that by engaging in mindful strategies, EFL students took ownership of their learning in the following ways: students built and became aware of a comfortable learning environment in their classroom through mindfulness; mindful writing helped students generate new thoughts and become aware of their thinking; mindfulness facilitated their learning process, and cultivated creativity and intelligence; mindful cooperative learning provided students with an opportunity to discover their awareness, learn from others, reflect and think critically.

This case study investigated how the use of mindfulness affected college English as a foreign language (EFL) students' learning and how mindful learning strategies supported their learning of English. Mindful learning considers the students' abilities to be aware, perceive and conceive. Mindfulness results in an increase in competence, memory, creativity, and positive affect based on the previous studies. In this study, 24 undergraduate freshmen participated at a Northeastern University in China. The data collection included those undergraduates' pre-surveys, post-surveys, work samples, the instructor's observation notes and the researcher's reflective journal entries. This practice found that by engaging in mindful strategies, EFL students took ownership of their learning in the following ways: students built and became aware of a comfortable learning environment in their classroom through mindfulness; mindful writing helped students generate new thoughts and become aware of their thinking; mindfulness facilitated their learning process, and cultivated creativity and intelligence; mindful cooperative learning provided students with an opportunity to discover their awareness, learn from others, reflect and think critically.

This research develops a narrative of incidents of intentional learning by students studying undergraduate economics as represented in their written reflective journals. The deliberate integration of learner reflection, reflective practice and reflective writing into the pedagogy may facilitate transfer learning (Sousa, 2006). Transfer has been identified as an important factor for how the brain learns. The more connections that learners can make in their learning the more likely it is that the sense and meaning of learning will be appreciated and the more likely it is that new learning will be retained (Sousa, 2006). By supporting an autobiographical approach to learning in economics wherein learners individualise learning, connecting their experiences (past and present, academic and non-academic) a pedagogy that advances self-authorship on the part of the learner is encouraged and facilitated. Self-authorship is a central goal of higher education (Baxter Magolda and King, 2004). Students find associative learning in a manner that supports full transfer quite difficult. It is thus important for educators to bridge students' learning from one learning situation to another (Blanchette and Dunbar, 2002). Reflective journaling is introduced as a performance of understanding to scaffold this learning. Student reflective journaling can establish the sense of new learning for them, connect this learning to their existing learning networks and find the meaning in this learning for them. This research describes the design, enactment and results of the development of reflective journaling as an assessment strategy in an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts module in economics in University College, Cork. An appendix presents The Reflective Prompts Used in the Research. (Contains 2 figures and 2 footnotes.) [For the full proceedings, "Research-Teaching Linkages: Practice and Policy. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (3rd, Dublin, Ireland, November 11-12, 2009)," see ED539248.]

This research develops a narrative of incidents of intentional learning by students studying undergraduate economics as represented in their written reflective journals. The deliberate integration of learner reflection, reflective practice and reflective writing into the pedagogy may facilitate transfer learning (Sousa, 2006). Transfer has been identified as an important factor for how the brain learns. The more connections that learners can make in their learning the more likely it is that the sense and meaning of learning will be appreciated and the more likely it is that new learning will be retained (Sousa, 2006). By supporting an autobiographical approach to learning in economics wherein learners individualise learning, connecting their experiences (past and present, academic and non-academic) a pedagogy that advances self-authorship on the part of the learner is encouraged and facilitated. Self-authorship is a central goal of higher education (Baxter Magolda and King, 2004). Students find associative learning in a manner that supports full transfer quite difficult. It is thus important for educators to bridge students' learning from one learning situation to another (Blanchette and Dunbar, 2002). Reflective journaling is introduced as a performance of understanding to scaffold this learning. Student reflective journaling can establish the sense of new learning for them, connect this learning to their existing learning networks and find the meaning in this learning for them. This research describes the design, enactment and results of the development of reflective journaling as an assessment strategy in an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts module in economics in University College, Cork. An appendix presents The Reflective Prompts Used in the Research. (Contains 2 figures and 2 footnotes.) [For the full proceedings, "Research-Teaching Linkages: Practice and Policy. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (3rd, Dublin, Ireland, November 11-12, 2009)," see ED539248.]

Academic artist Enrique Legaspi grew up singing, skateboarding, and creating. As a teacher, one day he realized, "I'm doing everything I can, I'm staying up late, but I'm producing the same results. What's going on?" Now that he's begun to modify and adapt his teaching to his students' interests, Enrique's students are creating, curating and sharing their work using video and social media -- and it's made all the difference. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

The purpose of this study is to understand how much distractions influence online test performance and whether this influence is less for some students and more for others.

A mathematical metaphor for the power teaching prototype, P=fm expresses interactive factors that might characterize 21st Education given President Obama's "Blueprint for Reform: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act." That is the more global perspective taken in this occasional paper. The factors become Ellen Langer's mindfulness theory, Harvard Project Zero Research Center's teaching for understanding framework, information literacy, and Howard Gardner's MI approach as well as his quintet of minds for the future. These factors interact to design and deliver student-centered instruction now and in the decade to come. On the local side, an ethnographic story explores the inquiry what counts as mindful learning? The story takes readers inside a future bent, writing/thinking intensive "Theories of Learning" seminar at Edward Waters College. Factors of the power-teaching prototype, thus, become contextualized in an exploration of mindful learning with students in real time. Based results from the Langer Mindfulness Scale, research papers on new paradigm perspectives about learning and GRE-like final written examinations, most students demonstrated mindful learning. (Contains 2 figures.)

A mathematical metaphor for the power teaching prototype, P=fm expresses interactive factors that might characterize 21st Education given President Obama's "Blueprint for Reform: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act." That is the more global perspective taken in this occasional paper. The factors become Ellen Langer's mindfulness theory, Harvard Project Zero Research Center's teaching for understanding framework, information literacy, and Howard Gardner's MI approach as well as his quintet of minds for the future. These factors interact to design and deliver student-centered instruction now and in the decade to come. On the local side, an ethnographic story explores the inquiry what counts as mindful learning? The story takes readers inside a future bent, writing/thinking intensive "Theories of Learning" seminar at Edward Waters College. Factors of the power-teaching prototype, thus, become contextualized in an exploration of mindful learning with students in real time. Based results from the Langer Mindfulness Scale, research papers on new paradigm perspectives about learning and GRE-like final written examinations, most students demonstrated mindful learning. (Contains 2 figures.)

When critical thinking is conceptualized as mindful learning, the focus is on the educational experiences or actual academic tasks designed to engage students in active learning. Academic tasks are sets of specifications for learning activities that provide the framework for curricular content. The academic tasks are designed by teachers and shared with students, or designed by teachers and students together. Academic tasks differ from conventional curriculum guides that focus on subject matter scope and sequence. They also differ from conventional behavioral objectives in that academic tasks focus on the work of the student rather than on the results of teacher work. When academic tasks are associated with critical thinking, students have opportunities for critical thinking as part of the learning experience itself. Conventional conceptions of academic tasks include routine or recall tasks, opinion, formal, and skilled performance tasks. Tasks and subtasks that incorporate critical thinking as a mindful learning concept include strategic, probablistic reasoning, creative, and collaborative tasks or subtasks. Mindful learning tasks involve higher degrees of ambiguity, or uncertainty, and higher degrees of perceived risk than most conventional academic tasks. Conceptualizing critical thinking as mindful learning involves fundamental changes in the role of the teacher and in the student-teacher relationship. (IAH)

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artykuł w: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae Vol. 41 (2023), 2, strony 195-216 ; tytuł równoległy: Rozwijanie uważnych zachowań u studentówprzekładoznawstwa. Od praktyki do usposobienia ; streszczenia w językach angielskim, polskim

artykuł w: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae Vol. 41 (2023), 2, strony 195-216 ; tytuł równoległy: Rozwijanie uważnych zachowań u studentówprzekładoznawstwa. Od praktyki do usposobienia ; streszczenia w językach angielskim, polskim

artykuł w: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae Vol. 41 (2023), 2, strony 195-216 ; tytuł równoległy: Rozwijanie uważnych zachowań u studentówprzekładoznawstwa. Od praktyki do usposobienia ; streszczenia w językach angielskim, polskim

artykuł w: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae Vol. 41 (2023), 2, strony 195-216 ; tytuł równoległy: Rozwijanie uważnych zachowań u studentówprzekładoznawstwa. Od praktyki do usposobienia ; streszczenia w językach angielskim, polskim

artykuł w: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae Vol. 41 (2023), 2, strony 195-216 ; tytuł równoległy: Rozwijanie uważnych zachowań u studentówprzekładoznawstwa. Od praktyki do usposobienia ; streszczenia w językach angielskim, polskim

artykuł w: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae Vol. 41 (2023), 2, strony 195-216 ; tytuł równoległy: Rozwijanie uważnych zachowań u studentówprzekładoznawstwa. Od praktyki do usposobienia ; streszczenia w językach angielskim, polskim

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of <em>A Canadian Folk-Song</em> by William Wilfred Campbell. This was the weekly poetry project for January 4th, 2009.

The 18th century book A Treatise on Modern Falconry is still one of the most quoted books in today's falconry community. <br><br>The preface was possibly written by a Rev. A. Willis, ridicules "The Origin and Progress of Language," a publication shortly before his writing this book. The introduction to this book gives a historical account of the development of falconry from its beginnings long before the 9th century in the middle East to its apparent decline at the invention of the hunting gun. It also includes interesting facts about the practice of falconry in Persia and Hindostan, where falconry became (and in some parts of the Middle East still is) a sport and pastime of the upper classes. <br><br>In the second and main part, the book talks about the falconer and his instruments as well as how to treat and train his birds. The book introduces methods of training and handling falcons, hawks and other birds of prey, and also includes sections about their diseases and possible injuries.(Summary by Curt Walton.)

3Mystery of the Iron Box

By Bruce Campbell

When Ken Holt's father, the famous newspaper writer, comes home for a Christmas visit, one of the gifts he brings is an antique iron box. Soon after he arrives a serious of unexplained events occur, including an attempted burglary. A hunch that the iron box is at the center of these occurrences sends Ken Holt and his friend Sandy Allen on an exciting adventure to solve the mystery! <br><br> Ken Holt was the central characters in a series of 18 mystery stories for boys written by Sam and Beryl Epstein under the pseudonym Bruce Campbell. (Summary by Maria Therese)

4Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories

By Cliff Campbell, J. Lloyd Conrich, T. W. Ford, Roy Giles, David Goodis, Wilbur S. Peacock, Matt Rand and Harry Stein

Evil lurks in the hearts and minds of men and many nefarious schemes are hatched by these gangsters, mob bosses and super villains. But thankfully, equally brave, talented detectives (some of them hooded) are there to track them down and thwart their twisted plans. These six stories, along with two "true fact detective shorts" were in the magazine Hooded Detective, January 1942. Are they well written? well, no, but they are fun. Here are a few of the blurbs: "They had expected spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, but were served instead, hot lead, with a little bit of blood on the side...." (A Dinner Date with Murder) "Wilson Lamb cuddled his automatic to play "Mr. Death" and fingered little Louis Engel for coffin cargo. But when he pulled the trigger, Whisper the gun-cobra from Chi spilled out of Doom's deck.." (Candidate for a Coffin). How can you top that last sentence? - Summary by Phil chenevert

5Beyond the Hills of Dream

By William Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell was a Canadian author and poet. Some of his poems are among the most famous Canadian poems of all time, and many contemporary Canadians interested in poetry may be familiar with one or two of his poems. The rest of his work is not very well-known today - a pitiful oversight. This collection contains 36 of his poems, and may serve as a good reintroduction into Campbell's poetry. - Summary by Carolin

6Niagara

By John Campbell

John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He is now remembered primarily for the place names bestowed on Canadian geography in honour of his wife. For ten years before coming to Canada. Lorne traveled throughout North and Central America, writing travel literature and poetry. - Summary by Wikipedia

7Book of American Negro Poetry

By Otto Leland Bohanan, William Stanley Braithwaite, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, James Edwin Campbell, Waverly Turner Carmichael, James David Corrothers, Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., Ray G. Dandridge, Daniel Webster Davis, R. Nathaniel Dett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Jessie R. Fauset, Leslie Pinckney Hill, John Wesley Holloway, Roscoe C. Jamison, Charles Bertram Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Edward Smyth Jones, Joshua Henry Jones, Jr., George Reginald Margetson, George Marion McClellan, Claude McKay, William H. A. Moore, Alex Rogers, Theodore Henry Shackelford, Anne Spencer and Lucian B. Watkins

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers. This is the first edition of this long-republished anthology and collects seminal works by Paul Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Leslie Hill, James Corrothers, and many more. - Summary by ChuckW

8Song—''When Love came first to Earth.''

By Thomas Campbell

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Song—'' When Love came first to Earth.'' by Thomas Campbell.<br> This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 12, 2020. <br> ------<br> Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs—"Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and in 1801, "The Battle of Mad and Strange Turkish Princes". ( Wikipedia)

A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from the bright and shady sides of the great under world of New York. By Mrs. Helen Campbell, City Missionary and Philanthropist; Col. Thomas W. Knox, Author and Journalist; and Supt. Thomas Byrnes, Chief of NY Police and Detectives. With highly interesting descriptions of little known phases of New York life; and an account of Detective Byrnes' thirty years' experiences and reminiscences written by himself from his private diary. With an introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Pastor of Plymouth Church.<br><br> This volume aims to give scrupulously exact descriptions of life and scenes in the great metropolis under three different aspects: 1st, "As Seen by a Woman;" 2d, "As Seen by a Journalist;" 3d, "As Seen and Known by a Chief of the New York Detective Bureau." - Summary by Book title and preface <br><br> Published in 1897. The source text contains over 250 sketches and illustrations, which the listener is encouraged to enjoy along with the audio.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Indian Summer by William Wilfred Campbell.<br> This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3, 2021. <br> ------<br> This wonderful poem by William Wilfred Campbell captures the essence of a Canadian Autumn - its sights, smells and sounds - and brings to life the beauty of a land displaying unsurpassed splendor while facing the inevitability of the first of many blankets of snow. - Summary by BruceK

A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of Ontario. These poems reflect Campbell's deep love of Nature as God's Creation. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

A collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell addressing themes of National Identity, Imperialism and the Divinity of Man. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), made up the Niger Valley Exploring Party of 1859-60 (Library of Congress), sharing his impressions & observations as a first time visitor to areas of modern day Nigeria. This work is a forerunner of "Back to Africa" movements later spearheaded by Jamaican compatriot, Marcus Garvey Jr (who was born two years after Campbell's death). - Summary by Faith Abiola-Ellison