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Rocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy
No full textSince Marx first declared religion to be the opiate of the masses, institutions of religion and spirituality have often been resisted by scholars. The assumption of many seems to always be that religion is either a reactionary response to difficult realities or a mere illusion, delusion, or epiphenomenon of brain/social function. This paper looks at the "authentic core" of religious institutions, religious/mystical experience, and, using biographical examples from the literature, argues that far from being a reactionary holdout of our primitive past, human spirituality is, in fact, essentially revolutionary. It is suggested that, in the context of a growing global ecological, political, and economic crises, the revolutionary authentic core of religion and spirituality has to be examined, recovered, and even embraced as part of any local or global strategy of transformationRocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy is a popular and critical introduction to money, capitalist accumulation, and debt
Persistent Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia: An Overview of Assessment and Treatment Approaches
Full text linkPersistent depressive disorder or dysthymia is a recurrent depressive disorder with no clearly demarcated episodes. Onset is insidious and can occur in adolescence or adulthood. Dysthymia frequently remains unrecognized and undiagnosed for years. Co-morbid major depression, anxiety, personality, somatoform and substance abuse disorders are common. Symptoms center on sad mood, pessimism and hopelessness. Sufferers experience significant functional
impairment and are at risk of death by suicide. Those most at risk are female, unmarried, live in high income countries and have family histories of depression. Screening instruments include the Cornell Dysthymia Rating Scale (CDRS). Typical treatments are antidepressant medications and cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP). This paper provides health professionals with an overview of assessment and treatment approaches in dysthymia
McGreal, R. (2017). Special Report on the Role of Open Educational Resources in Supporting the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education Challenges and Opportunities
No full textOpen Educational Resources (OER) and their offspring, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), are becoming important factors in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education (SDG4). This was recognised early on by UNESCO in 2004 when they first coined the term "Open Educational Resources" and in 2012 with the OER Paris Declaration. UNESCO is continuing its support of OER with the 2nd OER Summit in September 2017. There is recognition that OER and MOOCs, while not being the solution to the world's educational crises, will play an important, if not essential, role. The OER movement is less than 15 years old and is growing rapidly as more and more nations and institutions adopt the view that publicly-funded research and educational content belongs to the people and should therefore be open and accessible to them. Canada can play an important role in supporting SDG4 by increasing its support for OER and open education in general, both in Canada and abroad
AUSpace Rebooted
No full textLearn about Athabasca University's open access institutional repository, what it is, how to use it, and how it will benefit your research
Balancing Reflection and Validity in Health Profession Students‘ Self-Assessment
Full text linkStudents and practitioners in self-regulating health professions are expected to engage in reflective, valid self-assessment activities. However, self-assessment processes can be flawed. People may have a limited understanding of the critical thinking needed to reflect on their performance and they may over-estimate or under-estimate their abilities. This article highlights educational approaches that can help students achieve a balance of reflecting critically and developing more accurate self-assessments. Considerations involved in defining self-assessment are identified. Explanations of how integrating reflection requires critical thinking; information from both internal and external sources; and incidental learning are provided. Suggestions for addressing validity by recognizing that inaccuracies exist; knowing that people‘s history with academic success can impact their self-assessments; and creating links to affective outcomes are offered. Emphasis is placed on viewing self-assessment as a formative learning activity that is introduced early and consistently in health education programs
Stephen Harper as killer robot
Full text linkIn popular culture and public discourse, especially on the Internet, the image of Canada’s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is conspicuously characterized and caricatured as robotic [...] Amidst popular culture’s hordes of anthropomorphized robots, Harper attained a peculiarly converse characterization as a robotized anthropomorph. [...] The image of Stephen Harper as killer robot figures anxieties about the automation of governance and ensuing loss of democracy. The image of Harper as robot provides a suggestive case for analyzing Canadian popular culture and the spectre of an automated body politic. This essay documents and theorizes the pattern of critical representations of the Harper government of 2006 to 2015 in popular culture, especially in digital media
A Close Reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch’s 1977 long poem SEED CATALOGUE
Full text linkA close reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch's 1977 long poem Seed Catalogu
AblePlayer and the Digital Reading Room
No full textAblePlayer is being implemented in the DRR as an accessible way to embed videos across courses using DRRs. This player supports audio and video playback, keyboard controls, closed captioning, live transcripts, adjustable playback speeds and other accessible features. Using the AblePlayer is a good example of universal design. The player’s features will not only be useful to students with accessibility issues, but many students who can take advantage of the advanced control they will have of video playback
Research Ethics Review Processes: Potential Teaching Tools for Health Professions Students
Full text linkThis article highlights how research ethics review processes have
the potential to be used as teaching tools. Health professions students at
the graduate level often conduct research involving human participants
as part of their program requirements. Applying for approval
from a reviewing committee may be one of their first experiences
implementing a research project. Beyond their ethics application,
novice researchers require additional support as they encounter the
challenges of incorporating research ethics principles into practice. We
argue that such support can, and should, be provided through Research
Ethics Board activities such as participating in classroom teaching,
providing support to research supervisors and remaining available to
applicants throughout their research projects