Cambridge Scholars Publishing Transforming Students into Leaders through the Literary Arts and the Social Sciences

This book offers college professors and college students, as well as the general reader, a variety of ideas for developing techniques for creative and critical thinking and strategic writing and reading skills. Additionally, some of the contributions here present strategies to help students cultivate effective interpersonal skills, and foster a greater understanding of cultural diversity and skills for collaboration in a culturally inclusive workplace. Along with this, the book also utilizes technology in innovative ways across the curriculum. In teaching language courses, literature courses, psychology courses, or education courses, each contributor cultivates, through teaching and mentoring, the transformation of a student into a 21st century leader. About the Author Dr Mary Alice Trent is currently Professor of English and former Division Chair at Indiana Wesleyan University, USA. She is the editor of Ethics in the 21st Century (2005), and co-editor of The Language of Diversity (2007), Religion, Culture, Curriculum, and Diversity in America (2007), and Cultivating Visionary Leadership by Learning for Global Success (Beyond the Language and Literature Classroom) (2015). Dr Don Pardlow was an Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, USA. He is the author of Flight from Flatland: A Descriptive Study of Using Creative-Writing Pedagogy to Improve the Teaching of First-Year Composition (2009) and the fiction and poetry collection Field Notes of a Gypsy Scholar (2014). He is also co-editor of Cultivating Visionary Leadership by Learning for Global Success (Beyond the Language and Literature Classroom) (2015). Dr Maeghan Peggy Stevenson Ratliff is a current Tenured Professor of English and project manager for a grant from the Mellon Foundation, entitled “Internationalizing the Humanities,” at Claflin University, USA. She has also served as editor for three textbooks and as assistant editor of The International Short Story.