Augustana College (Illinois)

About: Augustana College (Illinois) is a education organization based out in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Higher education & Population. The organization has 491 authors who have published 763 publications receiving 14274 citations. The organization is also known as: Augustana College and Theological Seminary.

Software On Demand: An Early Childhood Numeracy Partnership

Abstract: In collaboration with preservice elementary teachers and in-service kindergarten teachers, the authors engaged in small-scale, demand-side production of educational software focused on numeracy skills. That is, the authors built applications designed to address children’s specific learning needs as they surfaced in the classroom and were identified by the teachers. Details about the design and rationale of the software, the collaborative development process, indications about its impact on teachers’ practice, and discussion about the potential of this approach to educational software production are shared.

Representing diasporic masculinities in post-9/11 era: the tragedy versus the comedy

Abstract: In the post-9/11 era, North American mainstream writers, critics, artists, and scholars while trying to understand the complexities of Islam, Muslim men, and their relationship to North America have created hegemonic discourses about Islam and Muslim masculinity. Diasporic writers such as Zarqa Nawaz, in her sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Mohsin Hamid, in his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, however, offer representations of masculinity that contest such hegemonic discourses about Muslims and reconstruct the Muslim man’s identity. Hamid and Nawaz each represent masculinities differently. Hamid’s tragic approach in his novel alienates readers because it has branded messages that create fear of the homegrown terrorists. The sitcom, on the other hand, provides laughter and has the power to deflect that fear. Humour works as a powerful strategy here for nonviolent resistance to oppression. It also breaks down cultural barriers and promotes interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Through her us...

You are not a man, none of you are men! Early Christian masculinity and Lucian's the Passing of Peregrinus

Abstract: Much recent work on the masculinities enacted by early Christians has focused upon Christian texts and claims about their heroes and practices among elite Christians. Lucian’s Passing of Peregrinus offers another avenue for thinking about early Christian masculinity. Lucian denies Peregrinus’ claim to masculinity on the basis of his over-concern for honour, especially from the masses, his inability to control his appetites regarding food and sex, his being a parricide, his enacting ‘strange’ ascetic practices and his lack of courage in the face of death. By tying Peregrinus to a Christian community in Judea, Lucian both demonstrates the lack of manliness in the Christian movement, which he suggests is populated mostly by gullible women and children, and further ‘unmans’ Peregrinus by linking him to a community of easily duped people whose praise is not worthy of a philosopher. By presenting this Christian community as a group that not only accepts Peregrinus as a member but also quickly establishes him as their leader, almost at par with Jesus himself, according to Lucian’s account, these early Christians show their lack of self-control by being deceived by a charlatan. Early Christian writers who claimed that their heroes were manly, even more manly than the Greek or Roman heroes, were writing in part to rebut the types of claims made by writers like Lucian.

People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942

Abstract: Review of: "People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879–1942," by Tom Jones, Michael Schmudlach, Matthew Daniel Mason, Amy Lonetree and George A. Greendeer.