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 Pathways to Knowledge: A Lecture Series for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Fall 2003
Thursday, September 25, 2003
7:15-8:15 P.M.
Stolkin Aud., Physics Building
Grandma Goes Grocery
Shopping: Experience, Strategy, and Age Differences in the
Recall and Recognition of Everyday Items
David Steitz
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Psychology
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The field of everyday cognition explores how an individual's cognitive processes influence activities of daily living (ADLs). Traditional methods of studying memory typically use abstract laboratory-based experiments. In contrast, my research is put into an everyday setting--a grocery store--to see how memory is related to familiarity. Specifically, this includes the use of mental maps (your memory of a store's layout) as well as experience and strategies developed through years of grocery shopping. This research looks at both the qualitative aspects of shopping behavior as well as a quantitative analysis of how everyday memory changes with age.
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Thursday, October 9, 2003
7:15-8:15P.M.
Stolkin Aud., Physics Building
The Effects of the European
Security and Defense Policy Process on Militarily
Non-Allied Member States
Johan Eliasson
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
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Since 1998 the non-allied (or neutral) members of the European Union--Austria, Finland, Ireland and Sweden--have undergone rapid and extensive changes in security policies, changing the content, and relevance, of neutrality. Previous research focuses on non-allied states and the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) or relations to NATO. I argue that changes cannot be considered apart from the development of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). Examples of various security political changes and adjustments in response to the ESDP, as well as to NATO, are provided.
Distinguishing between predominantly pragmatic neutrality in Finland and Austria and ideologically grounded neutrality in Ireland and Sweden, this work focuses on one state from each group (Finland and Sweden), with a control case: Switzerland.
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Thursday, November 6, 2003
7:15-8:15 P.M.
Stolkin Aud., Physics Building
Special Education Instruction for
Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities:
Ready or Not?
Teresa MacDonald
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Education
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While much of the current educational research points to a need to change preservice teacher education programs to better prepare teachers to teach students with special needs, very little attention has been paid to the unique issues of the secondary special education teacher of students with learning disabilities (LD) and their specific preservice needs. In addition, as of 2004, New York State (NYS) will change teacher certification requirements to require special education teachers specifically for secondary special education certification.
The purpose of this study is to explore the current instructional practices of secondary special education teachers of students with LD, the practices they believe they should employ, the instructional support activities and the non-instructional activities they provide, and the extent to which they perceive themselves prepared to teach secondary students with LD.
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