Barbara Keating
Biographic Data
| ID | 651955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Keating |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Keating |
| SIGNATURE | KEATING B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Minnesota State University, Mankato |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Truth through Fiction
This qualitative analysis describes the parallels between Carolyn Heilbrun’s nonfiction writing, her Amanda Cross novels, and Heilbrun’s real-life experiences as the first woman tenured at Columbia University amid the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Heilbrun’s nonfiction insightfully deconstructs gender issues in society. She turned to fiction as Amanda Cross, however, to expose the unrelenting differential privilege in the academy. Conf…
Violence against Women
Forty years of research, theory, legislation, and programming have not reduced the high rates of either violence against women or intimate partner violence. Social science researchers, polarized into Family Violence and Feminist perspectives, are mired in the debate over gender symmetry and its implications. Recommendations include (1) integrating the two perspectives, (2) incorporating the work on family strengths, youth resilience and developme…
Using Staged Assignments as Student Spotters
Learning gymnastics that way is too dangerous. Instead, when a gymnast is learning or practicing, spotters go through the routine with her. They make sure her body is in the right place at the right time. In fact, they put her there physically until she attains an accurate perception of her body's relationship to the apparatus at all times. Even experienced gymnasts doing familiar routines have spotters only inches away in practice. It is only in…
Women
Gay and Lesbian Parents
Reducing Classroom Alienation
Faculty with poor student evaluations quickly accuse the measuring instrument of not being valid. Professors with better evaluations generally agree, either out of a sense of loyalty or the fear that we truly cannot control the evaluation scores ourselves. Colleges and universities, however, require greater accountability of classroom competence than ever, and student evaluations play a major role in promotion and tenure decisions. Course evaluat…
Using Staged Assignments as Student Spotters
Learning gymnastics that way is too dangerous. Instead, when a gymnast is learning or practicing, spotters go through the routine with her. They make sure her body is in the right place at the right time. In fact, they put her there physically until she attains an accurate perception of her body's relationship to the apparatus at all times. Even experienced gymnasts doing familiar routines have spotters only inches away in practice. It is only in…
Reducing Classroom Alienation
Faculty with poor student evaluations quickly accuse the measuring instrument of not being valid. Professors with better evaluations generally agree, either out of a sense of loyalty or the fear that we truly cannot control the evaluation scores ourselves. Colleges and universities, however, require greater accountability of classroom competence than ever, and student evaluations play a major role in promotion and tenure decisions. Course evaluat…
Gay and Lesbian Parents
Women
Using Staged Assignments as Student Spotters
Learning gymnastics that way is too dangerous. Instead, when a gymnast is learning or practicing, spotters go through the routine with her. They make sure her body is in the right place at the right time. In fact, they put her there physically until she attains an accurate perception of her body's relationship to the apparatus at all times. Even experienced gymnasts doing familiar routines have spotters only inches away in practice. It is only in…
Violence against Women
Forty years of research, theory, legislation, and programming have not reduced the high rates of either violence against women or intimate partner violence. Social science researchers, polarized into Family Violence and Feminist perspectives, are mired in the debate over gender symmetry and its implications. Recommendations include (1) integrating the two perspectives, (2) incorporating the work on family strengths, youth resilience and developme…
Truth through Fiction
This qualitative analysis describes the parallels between Carolyn Heilbrun’s nonfiction writing, her Amanda Cross novels, and Heilbrun’s real-life experiences as the first woman tenured at Columbia University amid the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Heilbrun’s nonfiction insightfully deconstructs gender issues in society. She turned to fiction as Amanda Cross, however, to expose the unrelenting differential privilege in the academy. Conf…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Alienation (1 work)