Valerie Hobbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 4539318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Hobbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobbs |
| SIGNATURE | HOBBS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8892-2779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From there everything changed
An increasingly influential approach to solving human ecological problems is an innovative design practice known as biomimicry.The Biomimicry Institute, a major stakeholder in the Biomimicry Movement, promotes biomimicry as a practice that mimics nature's genius to solve human challenges and provides hope of sustainable futures.Despite increasing global interest in the practice, so far little is known about the value placed on biomimicry within p…
An Introduction to Religious Language
Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about the sacred and about religion itself, it considers why people make certain linguistic choices and what they accomplish. Introducing the key methods required for examining religious language, Valerie H…
The discourse of divorce in conservative Christian sermons
Work on religious discourse is still limited and linguistic research on preaching scarce. The present study makes explicit the ways that pastors in the conservative Protestant Christian church preach about divorce. Relying on a corpus of sermons on divorce from SermonAudio, this study employs theoretical and methodological principles derived from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. In so doing, it explores in what terms pastors fr…
Disability, the ‘good family’ and discrimination in the dismissal of a Presbyterian seminary professor
Religious institutions in the USA, under the First Amendment, exhibit great strength in employment termination, given freedom by the Supreme Court to conduct their labour and employment practices with limited scrutiny. This article examines ways in which a Presbyterian seminary board report, justifying its decision not to renew a professor's contract, demonstrates discrimination in its use of the ‘good family’ ideal prominent within conservative …
Use of a post-asynchronous online discussion assessment to enhance student critical thinking
Asynchronous online discussion (AOD) is used in many tertiary education courses, and assessing it has been shown to enhance critical thinking outcomes. There has, however, been debate on what should be assessed and how the assessment should be implemented. The most common form of assessment involves grading the individual discussion contributions, but it has been suggested that employing a culminating task based on the AOD may be effective. This …
The effect of assessment on the outcomes of asynchronous online discussion as perceived by instructors
Asynchronous online discussion is used in a variety of ways, both in online learning environments and in traditional teaching environments where, increasingly frequently, a blended approach is adopted. However the anticipated benefits of this tool in improving student learning outcomes are still being debated. One of the many factors affecting the outcomes of asynchronous online discussion is that of assessment. This study investigated the influe…
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The effect of assessment on the outcomes of asynchronous online discussion as perceived by instructors
Asynchronous online discussion is used in a variety of ways, both in online learning environments and in traditional teaching environments where, increasingly frequently, a blended approach is adopted. However the anticipated benefits of this tool in improving student learning outcomes are still being debated. One of the many factors affecting the outcomes of asynchronous online discussion is that of assessment. This study investigated the influe…
Use of a post-asynchronous online discussion assessment to enhance student critical thinking
Asynchronous online discussion (AOD) is used in many tertiary education courses, and assessing it has been shown to enhance critical thinking outcomes. There has, however, been debate on what should be assessed and how the assessment should be implemented. The most common form of assessment involves grading the individual discussion contributions, but it has been suggested that employing a culminating task based on the AOD may be effective. This …
Disability, the ‘good family’ and discrimination in the dismissal of a Presbyterian seminary professor
Religious institutions in the USA, under the First Amendment, exhibit great strength in employment termination, given freedom by the Supreme Court to conduct their labour and employment practices with limited scrutiny. This article examines ways in which a Presbyterian seminary board report, justifying its decision not to renew a professor's contract, demonstrates discrimination in its use of the ‘good family’ ideal prominent within conservative …
The discourse of divorce in conservative Christian sermons
Work on religious discourse is still limited and linguistic research on preaching scarce. The present study makes explicit the ways that pastors in the conservative Protestant Christian church preach about divorce. Relying on a corpus of sermons on divorce from SermonAudio, this study employs theoretical and methodological principles derived from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. In so doing, it explores in what terms pastors fr…
An Introduction to Religious Language
Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about the sacred and about religion itself, it considers why people make certain linguistic choices and what they accomplish. Introducing the key methods required for examining religious language, Valerie H…
From there everything changed
An increasingly influential approach to solving human ecological problems is an innovative design practice known as biomimicry.The Biomimicry Institute, a major stakeholder in the Biomimicry Movement, promotes biomimicry as a practice that mimics nature's genius to solve human challenges and provides hope of sustainable futures.Despite increasing global interest in the practice, so far little is known about the value placed on biomimicry within p…
Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Asynchronous communication (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Formative assessment (2 works)