Joyce Hubbard Davis

University of NC Asheville · Education

Nurture groups originated in East London, in the 1960s. The first nurture groups provided education for multicultural migrant children, whose schools and parents were under enormous stress. Today, there are more than 1000 nurture groups in the UK across primary, secondary, and specialized schools. A key figure in the development of the model is Mar...

In this poster presentation, an auto/biographical study will be described by a team of international researchers that sought to provide participants who lived in a local village community, in South Westphalia, Germany, born between 1930 and 1945, during the Third Reich an opportunity to share their stories in the hope that those narratives might he...

Ten-day workshops and field trips had a key role in the partnership between a university of applied sciences in East Germany and a small private liberal arts college in North Carolina. This case study evaluates activities and programs from the involved faculty´s perspective. The authors look at the underlying institutional process, they discuss org...

Using qualitative interviews, focus groups, storytelling and collective journaling, the life experiences of people in a local village community, in South Westphalia, Germany, born between 1930 and 1945, were analysed collaboratively. The research intention was to give the younger generations in that region access to these experiences and insights,...

Inspired through the reading of Walter Benjamin´s “Arcades Project” about Paris, and Alfred Kerr´s Berlin diaries and letters, also guided by a growing literature about the “Creative City” in the social sciences, Dr. Broecher began extensive field studies in Berlin, in October 2015. The driving motivation behind this endeavor is an educational one...

Inspiriert durch die Lektüre von Walter Benjamins Pariser Passagenwerk und Alfred Kerrs Berliner Tagebüchern und Briefen, ebenso angeregt durch die anwachsende Literatur zur Creative City in den Sozialwissenschaften begann Dr. Bröcher im Oktober 2015 mit ausgedehnten Feldstudien in Berlin. Das treibende Erkenntnisinteresse war und ist dabei ein päd...

Using qualitative documentation and analysis methods this case study explores the endeavor to support a student in pre-service teacher education who failed his first attempt to write a master´s thesis on the theories of experiential education. Because he had not assimilated recollections from his own problematic family life, he was overwhelmed. Whe...

Ten-day workshops and field trips had a key role in the partnership between a university of applied sciences in East Germany and a small private liberal arts college in North Carolina. This case study evaluates activities and programs from the involved faculty´s perspective. The authors look at the underlying institutional process, they discuss org...