LINDA HEUSER
Biographic Data
| ID | 6302407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | LINDA HEUSER |
| GIVEN NAMES | LINDA |
| FAMILY NAME | HEUSER |
| SIGNATURE | HEUSER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Willamette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We’re not too old to play sports
Contributing to the growing body of literature about older women’s participation in sports, this ethnographic study of lawn bowlers in Perth, Western Australia, revealed a five‐stage career path characterizing club members’ involvement in this leisure activity. After first being introduced to bowls through other people and/or changing life circumstances, getting hooked on bowls represented the second stage in which women found themselves irresist…
Using Service Learning in Death Education
The authors describe the integration of service learning into 2 upper-division general education death-related courses. An overview of these courses, 1 in sociology and 1 in political science, is followed by an explanation of the rationale and the specific ways in which service learning infused these educational offerings. The discussion then proceeds by outlining the preparation, action, reflection, and evaluation involved in making service lear…
Death education
This article describes a student-participatory death education course offered at a small private liberal arts university. As active participants, students collaborated in the design of course content and requirements that reflected their interests and concerns. The first three sections of this paper outline course background, content, and requirements. The remaining two sections summarize students' evaluations of their experience along with the a…
Next-of-kin attitudes regarding participation in an epidemiologic case-control study
We assessed next-of-kin's attitudes about participating in an epidemiologic case-control study of adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. Responses from a mailed questionnaire indicated that 95 per cent were glad they participated. While 74 per cent benefited, 18.5 per cent were bothered in some way. Results concerning the need to obtain physician permission before contacting next-of-kin were inconclusive; however, 8 of 10 females contacted by the c…
We’re not too old to play sports
Contributing to the growing body of literature about older women’s participation in sports, this ethnographic study of lawn bowlers in Perth, Western Australia, revealed a five‐stage career path characterizing club members’ involvement in this leisure activity. After first being introduced to bowls through other people and/or changing life circumstances, getting hooked on bowls represented the second stage in which women found themselves irresist…
Death education
This article describes a student-participatory death education course offered at a small private liberal arts university. As active participants, students collaborated in the design of course content and requirements that reflected their interests and concerns. The first three sections of this paper outline course background, content, and requirements. The remaining two sections summarize students' evaluations of their experience along with the a…
Next-of-kin attitudes regarding participation in an epidemiologic case-control study
We assessed next-of-kin's attitudes about participating in an epidemiologic case-control study of adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. Responses from a mailed questionnaire indicated that 95 per cent were glad they participated. While 74 per cent benefited, 18.5 per cent were bothered in some way. Results concerning the need to obtain physician permission before contacting next-of-kin were inconclusive; however, 8 of 10 females contacted by the c…
Death education
This article describes a student-participatory death education course offered at a small private liberal arts university. As active participants, students collaborated in the design of course content and requirements that reflected their interests and concerns. The first three sections of this paper outline course background, content, and requirements. The remaining two sections summarize students' evaluations of their experience along with the a…
Using Service Learning in Death Education
The authors describe the integration of service learning into 2 upper-division general education death-related courses. An overview of these courses, 1 in sociology and 1 in political science, is followed by an explanation of the rationale and the specific ways in which service learning infused these educational offerings. The discussion then proceeds by outlining the preparation, action, reflection, and evaluation involved in making service lear…
We’re not too old to play sports
Contributing to the growing body of literature about older women’s participation in sports, this ethnographic study of lawn bowlers in Perth, Western Australia, revealed a five‐stage career path characterizing club members’ involvement in this leisure activity. After first being introduced to bowls through other people and/or changing life circumstances, getting hooked on bowls represented the second stage in which women found themselves irresist…
Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work) · Club (1 work)