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Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Get PDFPowerpoint on many aspects of healthy that may be impacted during the first year transition of college.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1015/thumbnail.jp
What is DEI?
Get PDFThe topic I have chosen to present is called, What is DEI? . The presentation explores first year\u27s own biases and definitions of diversity, equity and inclusion. Throughout the presentation students are challenged and participate in an activity where they will be more informed about the world and use the definition to learn how to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1020/thumbnail.jp
How to Maximize your College Experience
Get PDFMy poster targets to aid students maximize their college experience and help them find the sweet balance of focusing on academics while still finding things outside of class to do as well. Help find clubs to join or programs to try. Overall, provide the students the information needed for them to capitalize on any opportunity are college offers to students, as we pay to be here. Let\u27s get every penny we can out our time here and make your experience worthwhile.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1054/thumbnail.jp
Review of Saida Hodzic. The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs. Oakland: Univeristy of California Press, 2017.
Get PDFWith considerable fanfare, in Adieu !\u27Excision. Histoire et fin d\u27une tradition (Raymond Hounsa, 2009), Christa Muller rejoices in having saved Benin from FGM, the French text lauding eradication. The effort instigated by a Saarbrucken-based NGO, it has banned blades from the vicinity of vulvae. In 1996, on a state visit, Muller, then married to Saarland\u27s governor Oscar Lafontaine, was asked by Benin\u27s First Lady Rosine Vieyra Soglo1 to assist her Inter-African Committee (IAC) chapter by creating an association. This she did, launching I(N)TACT, e.V. and securing 300,000 Euros for the movement, a sum with strings, however. Berlin insisted on success -- an excision-free Benin. Hence, to close its three-year contract, the project staged a spectacle and published a book. But one unintended consequence emerged. Other sources of funding dried up despite the IAC\u27s managing director showing that it continued, albeit less than before
Review of Walaa Alqaisiya. Decolonial Queering in Palestine. London: Routledge, 2023
Get PDFDecolonial Queering in Palestine by WalaaAlqaisiya offers an in-depth study of the conquest of Palestine with respect to the variegated power structures of settler colonialism and underscores the political significance of a reformulated mode of decolonization. It argues for the need to interweave queer into the native Palestinian positionality termed as \u27decolonial queering\u27, so as to challenge the (hetero) sexualizing and gendered discourses embedded within both the Israeli/Zionist settler colonial regime and the Palestinian Nationalist visions of liberation. By the \u27ethnographic\u27 engagement with the works of Palestinian artists and activists from one of the prominent queer groups, alQaws, the book foregrounds voices, strategies, and imaginings of a decolonial future that is primarily rooted in socio-political history and localized, embodied experiences of the Palestinian queers. In particular, it reinforces the standpoint of the native/ queer in shaping the struggle for freedom to resist the systematic structural elimination of Palestine
ACE Newsletter January 2022
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ACE Newsletter November 2022
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Teaching Social-Emotional Learning to Preschoolers: Strategies for Teachers
No full textSocial Emotional Learning (SEL) is defined as a method in which children are able to acknowledge and manage their emotions, recognize the emotions of others, develop empathy, make good decisions, establish positive friendships, and handle challenges and situations effectively (Gunter et al., 2012, p. 151). At the preschool age, when children are just learning how to manage their own emotions, a SEL curriculum can help them learn effective strategies to manage their emotions early on. Creating a safe environment for students to learn and freely express their feelings can lead to optimal growth. Incorporating SEL into preschool classrooms will promote positive behaviors such as success, kindness, and caring and to prevent bullying, violence, and later emotional and behavior problems (Gunter et al., 2012, p. 152).https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/posters/1038/thumbnail.jp
Ankle dorsiflexion range of motion, dynamic balance, and static balance in Division III collegiate gymnasts
Get PDFIntroduction: Artistic gymnastics is a demanding sport composed of high intensity activities. Decreased range of motion can increase the risk of lower extremity injury due to the inability to disperse forces properly upon landing. Landing from a height demands dynamic balance, which may be influenced by ankle range of motion. Due to the complexity of the sport, identifying potential deficits at the ankle could lead to the development of injury prevention programs. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate if correlations exist between active ankle dorsiflexion range of motion (AROM) and static balance and/or AROM and dynamic balance in artistic gymnastics. Methods: A quasi-experimental study examined AROM and dynamic balance utilizing the Weight-Bearing Lunge Test (WBLT) and Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT), respectively. Lunge distance and reach distance from each test was recorded in centimeters. A force plate was used to provide an addition objective measure on single limb balance. This study took place in a laboratory setting on the SUNY Cortland campus. Conclusions: This study provides evidence to a unique population in sport. Division III collegiate artistic gymnastics is underrepresented in the literature and this study may be able to guide preventative programs created by medical personnel. Although this study looks at a unique population, no significant correlations were found between measures. A moderate correlation was found between the WBLT and the posteromedial direction of the SEBT
An exploration of postural control in young adults
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to identify any differences in time to boundary (TTB) among collegiate baseball players and a control group during quiet standing. Participants were 64 apparently healthy men, including 23 position players, 22 pitchers, and 19 control subjects. Testing consisted of two, individually randomized 3-minute quiet standing trials on a force plate, one with eyes open, and one with eyes closed. Average time to boundary values in anteroposterior (AP) and mediolateral (ML) directions were calculated and a series of 2x3 (vision, group) repeated measures ANOVA were performed. Results include a difference in TTB in all groups between the eyes open and eyes closed conditions for both AP (F1,61=293.182, p \u3c.001) and ML (F1,61=120.501, p\u3c.001). There was a difference in TTB between the position players and the control group, (t = -2.749, ptukey= 0.021), and a difference in TTB between the position players and the pitchers, (t= 3.001, ptukey= 0.011), when looking at the Romberg ratio for the AP TTB data. The major conclusion drawn from these data is that balance is negatively affected by the absence of vision. Additionally, it appears that the members of the control group and the pitchers relied more on vison to balance than the position players as evidenced by their lower Romberg quotients compared to the position players. Implications regarding baseball may be that players who hit rely more on proprioception to balance, and vision is used primarily to aid bat to ball contact. However, vision aids pitchers more in their ability to balance, illustrating that pitchers need to keep their eye on their target to deliver an effective pitch