Using Feature Films to Teach Poverty
Abstract College students, who often have little experience with persons living below the poverty line, can ignore or misunderstand the experience of poverty. Feature film is one way to illustrate poverty in educational settings. Through identifying with a character, students may gain insights into the daily issues related to poverty. This article presents a review of the literature of using film to teach social science. Six specific films for teaching poverty are presented.
MENTORSHIP FOR HDFS GRADUATE INSTRUCTORS: A MODEL FOR "TEACHING THE TEACHERS"
The article provides an overview of a graduate teaching assistant/instructor (GI) program in a Human Development and Family Studies department. The program occurs over an academic year (Summer, Fall, Spring) in an effort to transition graduate students into their teaching responsibilities as instructors. The program contains both individual and group training components. The program is designed to integrate the best practices from the 'sink or swim', individualized mentorship, and manual approaches to graduate instructor teaching preparation. More specifically, the program utilizes: (a) a manual and syllabus template to increase consistency in adherence to department/university policy and state/federal law; (b) supervised practicums in which graduate students receive small-group or individual training in teaching skills (e.g., lectures, exam preparation, classroom management) prior to independent teaching; and (c) independent teaching, supplemented with observation from faculty mentors and consultation with the departments' Associate Chair. The program is reviewed and refined annually by the Associate Chair and Department Chair, using a continuous improvement perspective to guide the GI program.
European Consumer Access to Justice Revisited
Part I. Setting the Stage: Access to Justice 2.0: 1. At the very outset 2. Access to justice 2.0: breaking it into pieces Part II. Procedural Law: The Traditional Pillar of Access to Justice 2.0: 3. A brief outline of the developments at the pan-EU level 4. Prime examples 5. Compensatory collective redress: the next step? 6. Where to go from here? Part III. Substantive Law: Complementing Access to Justice 2.0: 7. Widening the scope of the value-oriented justice discussion 8. Substantive consumer law-making in the course of time 9. Recent trends and developments 10. The common European sales law 11. Summarising comments on the defragmentation of substantive consumer laws in the context of the CRD and the CESL Part IV. Consumer Access to Justice 2.0: A Multidimensional Framework: 12. From the current state of consumer law to consumer access to justice 2.0 13. The justice debate and consumer legislation 14. (Responses to) counter-arguments to third-party intervention 15. Consumer empowerment 16. Lessons to be drawn.