Graduation Ceremony Research Articles

Navigating doctoral socialisation in Anthropology

Ethnographers have constructed contradicting assertions, and indeed assumptions,about the nature of learning, how it is best accomplished, andhow students internalise this learning in order to form both individualisedand collective identities. Are the rites of passage, so often described in analysesof postgraduate socialisation – the oral examinations, the viva voce, thedepartmental seminar, or graduation ceremony – the only routes availablefor understanding how anthropological culture is inculcated into students?Is the role of the supervisor as mentor pivotal in the successful completionof a Ph.D? Or is this more of a master/apprentice relationship? Does thisproc ess maintain its relevance in a globalised field and with instant virtualaccess to experts from other institutions anywhere in the world? Such issueshave been of interest to both students and faculty within the anthropologydiscipline, in particular, and the social sciences more generally.

High School Graduation Ceremonies: Intergenerational Relations and Models of Social Order

High School Graduation Ceremonies: Intergenerational Relations and Models of Social Order

H.E. Wiegand Receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch

On 20 April 2006, the degree Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, was conferred on H.E. Wiegand by the University of Stellenbosch. The decision by the Council and the Senate to award him this degree has been taken on the grounds of the following considerations stated in the commendatio read at the graduation ceremony

B.T. Sue Atkins Receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Pretoria

On 5 September 2008, the degree of Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, was conferred on B.T. Sue Atkins by the University of Pretoria. The decision by the Council and the Senate to award her this degree was taken on the grounds of the following considerations as stated in the following commendatio read at the graduation ceremony.

Autobiographical memories of specific social events for older and younger adults: Context dependency of the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire on recollection of 1970 and 2005 Japan World Expositions1

To clarify the characteristics of autobiographical memories of personally experienced social events, we examined visitors' long-term memories of the 1970 Japan World Exposition Osaka (Expo 1970) for 47 older adults and of Expo 2005 Aichi Japan (Expo 2005) for 42 older and 40 younger adults using the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire (MCQ). The factor structure of the MCQ was compared with that of a previous study on long-term memories of the graduation ceremonies of junior high-school students, which employed the MCQ and itself was used as a comparative data set (N = 1183). Thus, the long-term memory characteristics of four independent groups were considered for comparative analysis: Expo 1970-Older, Expo 2005-Older, Expo 2005-Younger, and Graduation-Younger. The mean scores for each of eight MCQ factors were calculated in each of the four groups. Significant differences of scores between the four independent groups were found on several factors of the MCQ. Based on these data, some issues of the context dependency of MCQ including the influence of retention interval, participant age, and the nature of experience are discussed.

Reaching across the disability divide: The case for collaboration with the disability community to construct a robust informed consent process around prenatal screening and diagnosis

Reaching across the disability divide: The case for collaboration with the disability community to construct a robust informed consent process around prenatal screening and diagnosis

Quantifying School Officials’ Exposure to Bacterial Pathogens at Graduation Ceremonies Using Repeated Observational Measures

The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk of acquiring pathogenic bacteria as a result of shaking hands at graduation ceremonies. School officials participating in graduation ceremonies at elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools were recruited. Specimens were collected before and immediately following graduation. Cultures identified any pathogenic bacteria in each specimen. Subjects shook a total of 5,209 hands. Staphylococcus aureus was separately detected on one pregraduation right hand, one postgraduation right hand, and one postgraduation left hand. Nonpathogenic bacteria were collected in 93% of specimens. Pregraduation and postgraduation specimens were of different strains. We measured a risk of one new bacterial acquisition in a sample exposed to 5,209 handshakes yielding an overall estimate of 0.019 pathogens acquired per handshake. We conclude that a single handshake at a graduation offers only a small risk of bacterial pathogen acquisition.

Examination of Practicability of Communication Robot-Assisted Activity Program for Elderly People

We have developed a Robot Assisted Activity (RAA) program for recreational use in health care facilities for elderly people. The RAA program has been evaluated in such a facility to assess its usefulness. The program applies a standard classroom model, starting with homeroom and including lessons in the Japanese language, music, gymnastics, arithmetic, and other subjects. At the end of the program, there is a graduation ceremony. We use a video camera to record each scene. Each behavior and utterance of the participants is then analyzed. In addition, immediately upon completion of the RAA program, specialists conduct a Focus Group Interview (FGI) in which they collect comments, opinions, and requests from the participants. Ten elderly people participate in the program, two men and eight women (81.0±3.7 years old). All are residents at a health care facility in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. TheMMSE (MiniMental State Examination) score indicating the level of dementia is 24.1±3.0 points. Two participants are judged to be in a moderate stage of cognitive decline (21 points or less), six are in a mild stage (22-26 points), and the remaining two are normal. On the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), in which a score of 13.3±4.2 points indicates a state of depression, seven participants are judged to be depressive (11 points or more). The results of our study show that all participants have a favorable impression of the robot and nearly all have a positive opinion of the RAA program. This suggests that the program can be used for emotional and recreational therapy at health care facilities for the elderly. However, in spite of the overall success of the RAA program, we seldom observe interaction between participants and the robot.

Conditions of a successful status graduation ceremony: Formerly incarcerated urban youth and their tenuous grip on success

This article offers an ethnographic examination of a graduation ceremony from ‘Santana School’, a reform school targeting youthful drug offenders. After returning to the facility with five former residents, I contend that ceremony was a rare opportunity for these young men to reclaim the carceral experience on their own terms. Wearing their own clothing, using their own language, and playing their own music, they affirmed both their personal choices and the legitimacy of their cultural identities as Black men and its compatibility with success. Returning to the place where they had been held against their will offered them the chance to actively shape the staff’s collective memories of them and who they could become, as well as transforming their own narratives of the place and their time there. However, unlike most status passages, Santana’s graduation ceremony failed to confer the concrete privileges of a truly new status. I analyze the meaning of the experience for the young men in my study in light of Maruna’s call in this issue for the provision of redemption rituals which could strip the stigma from incarceration and restore the offender’s status in the community.

茨城県北茨城市のある中学校を発端とした麻疹アウトブレイク事例での実地疫学調査について

We studied measles outbreak in Ibaraki Prefecture in spring 2002 as members of Field Epidemiology Training Program Japan (FETPJ). Of 84 cases diagnosed by not laboratory test but clinically, 67 (79.8%) were junior high school students, 9 (10.7%) were other students, and 8 (9.5%) were ordinary adult and infant citizens. Of the 84, 46 (54.8%) had been vaccinated. Most did not show typical Koplik spots. The city in which the school was located promoted vaccinations for infants and children aged 7.5 years old to grade 1 in High school. Questionnaire given to junior high students were detected 86 cases, of whom 57 (66.3%) were male. Overall, 4 peaks of clusters were observed in an epidemic curve, among which graduates' farewell parties and graduation ceremonies were the most common opportunities for measles virus exposure. The overall vaccination rate at school was 82.2%, vaccine efficacy extremely low at 72.5%, and vaccine failure high at 15.2%. Symptoms among those vaccinated were significantly milder than those not vaccinated. Immunity of those vaccinated as infants may have been decreased due to scarcity of measles cases in the last 10 years. In such situations--much less in typical measles among susceptible non affected and non vaccinated subjects--atypical or mild measles may be difficult to diagnose. These findings may keep clarify the need to introduce two-dose measles immunization in Japan.

Graduation ceremony at JRC-IRMM of the first graduates of the Euromaster Measurement Science in Chemistry

Graduation ceremony at JRC-IRMM of the first graduates of the Euromaster Measurement Science in Chemistry

Rush Medical College

Rush Medical College

GRADUATION CEREMONY

Australian Occupational Therapy JournalVolume 1, Issue 2 p. 50-50 GRADUATION CEREMONY First published: October 1952 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1630.1952.tb00005.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume1, Issue2October 1952Pages 50-50 RelatedInformation

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY ON 17th MARCH, 1972, TO THE 1971 GRADUATES OF THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SCHOOL OF VICTORIA

Australian Occupational Therapy JournalVolume 19, Issue 4 p. 156-158 ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY ON 17th MARCH, 1972, TO THE 1971 GRADUATES OF THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SCHOOL OF VICTORIA Betty Cameron Dip.O.T. (Vic.), Betty Cameron Dip.O.T. (Vic.)Search for more papers by this author Betty Cameron Dip.O.T. (Vic.), Betty Cameron Dip.O.T. (Vic.)Search for more papers by this author First published: October‐December 1972 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1630.1972.tb00571.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume19, Issue4October‐December 1972Pages 156-158 RelatedInformation

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRAINING CENTRE SYDNEY: GRADUATION CEREMONY, 1957 DIRECTOR'S REPORT

Australian Occupational Therapy JournalVolume 4, Issue 5 p. 12-16 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRAINING CENTRE SYDNEY: GRADUATION CEREMONY, 1957 DIRECTOR'S REPORT First published: January‐March 1958 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1630.1958.tb01285.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume4, Issue5January‐March 1958Pages 12-16 RelatedInformation

Mother Cabrini and the Anatomy of an Illness

Mother Cabrini and the Anatomy of an Illness

Graduates Employment: Valuable of Curtin University of Technology Sarawak Graduates

The main objective of this research is to study the valuable of Curtin University of Technology Sarawak’s graduates in 2006, as well as to study graduates’ perception and recommendation on programs offered. Questionnaires were distributed to School of Business and School of Engineering’s graduates before the Graduation Ceremony held on 11th May 2006 at the Imperial Hall, Mega Hotel. The study found that the employment rate is 64.9% in 2006. Unemployment rate dropped from 36% in 2004 to 25.3% in 2005 and then increased to 35.1% in 2006, however, from this unemployment group, it is found that 58.5% was ‘Still seeking for work’ scenario, while 32.3% took a break, 6.2% further studies, 1.5% choose not to work and 1.5% find difficult in getting a suitable job. The study also shows that around 69.17% of the Curtin’s graduate salary ranges are between RM1000 – RM1500 and RM1500 – RM1800. Related to graduates’ perception on the university, majority of students are very satisfied with the program offered by the school and even like to recommend their family members to study in this institution. However, number of recommendations was provided by the graduates to improve the quality of the programs. The program to be more relevant to the needs of the industry, especially industry training and practical work experiences, constant visitation to industry workplaces for better learning, applications towards theoretical components and increased contemporary knowledge currently practiced at the workplace to be brought into the classroom.

教育実践としてのパフォーマンスに関する一考察 -兵庫教育大学学校教育学部附属小学校の総合単元「卒業式」と「ミュージカル」を対象にして-

教育実践としてのパフォーマンスに関する一考察 -兵庫教育大学学校教育学部附属小学校の総合単元「卒業式」と「ミュージカル」を対象にして-

A Proposal of an Interactive Broadcasting System for Audience-driven Live TV on the Internet

Traditional video services on the Internet are of a broadcasting service nature such as streaming and video-on-demand (VoD). Recent services incorporate more of the interactive nature of network applications such as easy video sharing and those with a chat function. Meanwhile, we have been conducting experimental Internet broadcasting in practice and found it difficult for non-professional broadcasters to provide audiences with satisfactory contents since they do not have a large budget or the technical knowledge to produce broadcasting contents compared to the professional ones. In this paper, we propose an audience-driven broadcast service model in which audiences can send their wish to a broadcaster such that they would like to see some specific objects while broadcasting; the broadcaster can reply back to the request as well. We implemented a prototype system for audience-driven live broadcasting and studied its effects and problems based on the results from the experimental broadcast at our university graduation ceremony and our campus festival. This paper reports our experiments and findings of the audience-driven live broadcasting.

Un système rituel ?

One of the main innovations of the western teaching system in the Middle Ages was a mechanism of social advancement based on the acquisition of knowledge. The university degree system thus served as a certification of acquired skills as well as a means of social differentiation that conferred status. Between the 13th and 15th centuries, the universities would include and exclude, classify and rank, though not exclusively according to intellectual criteria. The graduation ceremonies, with their precise ritual, in which gesture, word and object combined to legitimize an institution, was an act of integration as well as a clear claim to the monopoly of scientific mastery. Thus the comparative study of the genesis and the ritual forms of the graduation ceremonies allows us emphasize the changes in the social function of university degrees in the course of the 14th century.