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Morning meeting and closing circles: a sense of community, positive learning environment, and increased social interactions in an elementary classroom
Get PDFThis action research study was implemented over a three-week period in a first-grade classroom, collecting qualitative and quantitative data. The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of Morning Meetings and Closing Circles on a sense of community in an elementary classroom. Preliminary findings show an increase in student social interactions, positive learning environment, and a climate of belonging. This presentation will also provide information on Morning Meetings and Closing Circles as an intervention to combat social and emotional competencies lost during the COVID-19 pandemic
A pandemic of greed and a disease of poverty in Edgar Allan Poe\u27s The Masque of the Red Death
Get PDFThe breakers tripped. Again. The breakers, a mandatory halt to trading on the floor of the stock exchange in response to the S&P falling more than 7% from the previous close. This was instituted after the Crash of 1987 to calm the markets before trading is allowed to resume. They are supposed to mitigate a drastic crash. They have only ever triggered once before, in 1997. Not for the tech bubble. Not even in the crash of 2008. All trading stops for fifteen minutes when the Level One breaker trips. If it drops further in the same day, the Level Two breaker trips. Fortunately, a Level Two breaker has never tripped. However, this was the fourth time the Level One breakers tripped since the beginning of March alone. Clients panic was palpable. What little money some of them had was quickly evaporating.
The drive home felt almost apocalyptic; the streets barren. State and local governments mandated shutdowns, so aside from police cars aggressively patrolling the streets, the drive was more reminiscent of a drive home at 3AM after a night shift than a bright and sunny afternoon. What would normally be a quick stop to the grocery store to pick up a few staples became an excursion that lasted several hours with no guarantee you would come home with what you needed. The shelves in many stores were bare. Stores were rationing what was left. Panic induced buying led to toilet paper, paper towels, and spray cleaners being snatched up in bulk, and some being resold online. One man bought, and attempted to sell, 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer for up to 1 a piece. A novel virus emerged. No one knew how it was transmitted. No one knew what the symptoms were, only that it was moving swiftly, debilitating those infected, and killing scores of people. News outlets Herrick 2 reported mass graves where coroners were interring bodies wearing hazmat suits. Only select industries were considered essential: retail, energy, emergency services, to name a few, and mine: finance
The Fundamentalist Nexus of Neoliberalism, Rentier Capitalism, Religious and Secular Patriarchies, and South Asian Feminist Resistances
Get PDFIn two case studies from Pakistan, which I then link to Afghanistan (under the Taliban before and after the Soviet/ US proxy war there) as well as the Farmer’s Movement in India—I wish to proffer an intersectional analysis of debates around the issue of women’s rights in the global south. Feminist artivism (art-as-activism), can help build solidarities to mount resistances against globally-inflected state repression in our age of neoliberal economic and religious fundamentalisms, which, working in tandem, seek to roll back the rights of women and minorities in and across South Asia, as elsewhere
“Fiery Sparks of Change”: A Comparison between First Wave Feminists of India and the U.S.
Get PDFThe celebration of the centenary of the 19th Amendment in 2020 has seen the resurgence of interest in the struggles of the Suffragette/Suffragist movement. This article examines the representation of first wave feminism in the developing world, with a focus on the Indian Subcontinent, from a postcolonial feminist perspective. As such, it critiques the colonialist perspective regarding women\u27s movements of resistance in the developing world and links it to the critique of racism within the women\u27s movements in the West. It discusses early feminists from India such as Tarabai Shinde whose spirited exposé of the double standards women were subjected to appeared almost a century before Simone De Beauvoir\u27s landmark analysis and compares their movement to that of the suffragettes in the West. It argues too that, contrary to much of mainstream representation, Dalit feminism is a part not just of the current era of feminism but also of the first wave in India
Reflections on Queer Literary Representations in Contemporary Indian Writing in English
Get PDFThis reflection piece explores the importance of thinking beyond labels and categories for queer desires and queer expressions of love. Knowability and visibility of these desires through labels and categories has the potential and indeed does create awareness. This visibility, however, can inadvertently also create borders and perpetuate rigidity about queer desires, confining them to certain norms and limitations. The piece then reflects on mass media\u27s role in creating these borders, particularly through the coverage of Pride Parades in India. Then by examining contemporary texts such as Amruta Patil\u27s Kari (2008), Himanjali Sankar\u27s Talking of Muskaan (2015) and Parvati Sharma\u27s short story, “The Quilt,” (2010) the piece argues how nuanced literary representations in contemporary Indian writing can allow readers to look beyond those labels and imagine myriad possibilities, leading to what Spivak calls, “sustained uncoercive rearrangement of desires”. However, the article then concludes that existence of a body of literary work mustn\u27t lead to complacency but to broadening of horizons and forging avenues for formation of queer literary writing in India through diverse forms: one example of this is bringing intersectional queer political themes within the ambit of literature as well
Women\u27s Agency and Pastoral Livelihoods in India: A Review
Get PDFThe role of women in promoting and sustaining pastoral livelihoods remains an under-researched area across the world. Often, studies discuss pastoralism as a male-oriented enterprise, thus overshadowing or ignoring the part played by women in such livelihood practices. In India, where pastoralism itself is essentially a neglected area of research, such discussions remain even sparse. Pastoral communities depending on migratory livestock rearing practices for their livelihoods exhibit gender-based differences in their everyday life in terms of division of labour, mobility patterns, and rights over resources. Women play different roles and responsibilities at the household and community levels that remain intertwined with their pastoral livelihoods. Drawing from the available literature, we aim to synthesize the situated agency of these pastoral women in their everyday lives and their collective activism in the face of mainstream models of development. We engage in a thorough analysis from a gender perspective in this paper to discuss specific cases of Indian women and their influence on pastoral livelihoods and interests. We aim to reframe and undo the invisibility women in pastoralism have faced thus far by re-telling their stories from a gendered perspective
City of Cortland
Get PDFExploring the city of Cortlandhttps://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1035/thumbnail.jp
Taking Care of Yourself on Campus: Self-Care and Stress Management
Get PDFThis is my COR300 Poster Symposium submission. This poster explores the lesson that I conducted as a student facilitator in my COR101 section. I taught about stress management and self-care. During my lesson, I taught about stress management techniques and the various methods of self-care. We learned about the mind, body, and soul and how their are different ways to nurture each area of the self. My poster will demonstrate what I have learned, as well as what my students experienced during the lesson.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1052/thumbnail.jp
Nurturing Mentorship Relationships Through Inquiry-Based Dialogue
Get PDFMentorship is an established practice supporting learning in applied and experiential education. Although scholarship acknowledges that effective mentorship involves both process and relationship (Kwan & Lopez-Real, 2005), little is known about what allows for the development of positive and productive relationships between mentees and their mentors. This essay looks specifically at the mentorship of preservice teachers, and posits that at the heart of developing productive mentorship relationships is inquiry-based dialogue, an interpersonal method of fostering critical reflective dialogue through nurturing, thoughtful, inquisitive and non-hierarchical communication. The authors, who were partnered as mentor-mentee in a preservice teacher in-school immersion experience fifteen years ago, draw upon practitioner inquiry and oral history approaches to reflect upon their own mentor-mentee relationship. This article models the narrative nature of inquiry-based dialogue, while arguing that this form of dialogue can support strengthened mentor-mentee relationship through providing space for horizontal mutual engagement in core critical reflective questions about practice
IPO Newsletter, May 2022
Get PDFNewsletter of the International Programs Office including information for study abroad, international students at SUNY Cortland, and contact information.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/intlprograms/1016/thumbnail.jp