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Tukisiven: Nunatsiavummiut Share Their Experience of Participating in a Nova Scotia Community College Child and Youth Care Diploma
Get PDFIt is well documented that there are gaps in the research related to Inuit education and to Child and Youth Care (CYC) pre-service education. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore the experience of 4 Nunatsiavummiut who graduated from a Nova Scotia Community College with a diploma in CYC. Three superordinate themes and seven subordinate themes were interpreted with the Nunatsivummiut participating as co-inquirers.
The first superordinate theme was powerful emotions; subordinate themes were identified as passion, doubt, and balance/unbalance. It was clear through the analysis of the interviews that the Nunatsiavummiut stayed engaged in a two-year college diploma because they were passionate about working with young people and they wanted to know more about how to do this better. They did find the programme overwhelming at times and doubted if they could stay and complete it. For a variety of reasons, throughout the diploma, the co-inquirers all experienced a sense of shifting between a need for balance and yet feeling unbalance.
The second superordinate theme was Our Land, Our People. The subordinate themes were shared purpose, and what I knew, I knew. It was interpreted that their knowing of Nunatsiavut and Nunatsiavummiut was shared collectively and supported them to know what they knew. They experienced having a shared purpose through the course work and the goal to support Nunatsiavummiut children, youth, and families. They were inspired and motivated by each other and learned together towards a common goal.
The third superordinate theme was empowered to advocate, I have voice. With subordinate themes identified as heard and supported, and transformed. They felt that they were heard and supported and experienced this as being empowered to have voice; they perceived that their responsibility with this voice was to advocate for themselves; their communities; children, youth, and families from Nunatsiavut; other Nunatsiavummiut; and for the profession of CYC.
A deepened understanding of the experience of Nunatsiavummiut participating in CYC pre-service education in a post-secondary environment will enhance confidence for educators and policy makers that their decisions are supporting student engagement and success. This information may assist potential students in making increasingly informed decisions about post-secondary education programmes
Understanding Explicit and Implicit U SPORTS Brand Associations Among Ontario University Student Sport Fans
Get PDFThe purpose of this research was to generate insight to better understand how explicit and implicit associations of the U SPORTS brand affects the brand’s meaning among Ontario university students who identify as sport fans. This research employed an interpretivist research paradigm, as well as a research lens emphasizing Verstehen. Seventeen semi-structured interviews were conducted with university-aged student sport fans. To analyze the data, Tracy’s (2013) typology approach was utilized to create conceptual ‘bins’ for the emergent themes to be placed in. From there, findings were parsed into explicit and implicit associations of the U SPORTS brand and subsequently incorporated into a U SPORTS brand meaning model inspired by Batey (2008) and Chard’s (2013) brand meaning frameworks
Emotions, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation for Academic Writing: A Collective Case Study with Doctoral Students
Get PDFDealing with feedback, managing uncertainty regarding writing expectations, and juggling multiple demands are all part of making progress with academic writing. Emotion regulation can enable an academic writer to manage these emotion-related experiences and contribute to writing productivity. A writing group might be particularly beneficial to provide emotion regulation support from others through interpersonal emotion regulation. The purpose of this research was to understand the emotion experiences of doctoral student writers while engaged in academic writing in a social context, the ways in which graduate students experience emotions related to their academic writing, how interpersonal emotion regulation is enacted in social writing contexts, and which intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies support academic writing productivity. To investigate these experiences, in the current collective case study research, four doctoral student writers were led individually through meme elicitation during an initial interview to explore their previous emotion experiences in academic writing. Subsequent multi-participant writing group sessions were offered online and video recorded to document the ways in which the participants and the group facilitator (the researcher) provided interpersonal emotion regulation in that context. During and after each writing group session, participants were invited to complete a brief questionnaire about their emotions and their experiences in the group. Final individual interviews provided participants the opportunity to recount their emotion experiences while writing in the group context. Findings indicate that these doctoral student writers experienced a wide variety of emotions in relation to their academic writing. Participants reported a desire to feel positive, activating emotions while they were engaged in academic writing. These same emotions, including happiness, contentment, and engagement, for example, were reported when they were most satisfied with their writing progress after a writing group session. These doctoral student writers used a variety of interpersonal emotion regulation techniques to support each other, most frequently empathic concern and validation. Participants found emotions to be an important factor in writing motivation. They reported using strategies such as breaking the task into smaller pieces, working for shorter time periods, and compartmentalizing their tasks when they were feeling unmotivated to write
Fitting AdaBoost Models From Imbalanced Data with Applications in College Basketball
Get PDFData imbalance is an important consideration when working with real world data. Over/undersampling approaches allow us to gather more insight from the limited data we have on the minority class; however, there are many proposed methods. The goal of our study is to identify the optimal approach for over/undersampling to use with Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost). Based on a simulation study, we’ve found that combining AdaBoost with various sampling techniques provides an increased weighted accuracy across classes for progressively larger data imbalances. The three Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique’s (SMOTE) and Jittering with Over/Undersampling (JOUS) performed the best, with the JOUS approach being the most accurate for all levels of data imbalance in the simulation study. We then applied the most effective over/undersampling methods to predict upsets (games where the lower seeded team wins) in the March Madness College Basketball Tournament
Educational e-Leadership: A Review of Literature
Get PDFStudies have shown that e-learning seems to be a more established scholarly field in educational studies, both theoretically and practically, while the interface of educational leadership and technology remains relatively unexplored by comparison. This literature review aims to find out to what extent educational e-leadership has created a valid theoretical framework for the field and aims to synthesize previous research into a conceptual framework for educational e-leadership, based on the advances in both the field of education and e-leadership. Upon study, it became apparent that there remain various similar terminologies around e-leadership, which has caused a lack of unity among scholars—hindering development in the field of study. Five important topics were chosen to discuss including philosophy and pedagogy, competencies or growth of an educational e-leader, and models of quality management and trust
Letter by Andrew C[aughey] to D.B. McCreary, November 25-26, 1863
Get PDFThe USS Michigan was an iron-hulled warship that was launched in 1843 in Lake Erie. During the Civil War the Michigan was used by Union officials to patrol the Great Lakes and address any civil unrest in port cities. A Confederate naval lieutenant planned to purchase a small steamer in Canada and travel to Erie, PA, accompanied by Confederate soldiers, and take control of the Michigan. However, Confederate President Jefferson Davis refused to support the plan and it was abandoned.
During the American Civil War, Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie, near Sandusky, Ohio, was used by Union officials as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate officers. The camp opened in 1862 and imprisoned over 9000 men during the course of the war. At times the prisoner population far exceeded the prison’s capacity. Very few escaped from Johnson’s Island, although around 200 men are buried in the prison’s cemetery.
Andrew H. Caughey (1827-1916) was born in Pennsylvania. He was a Presbyterian minister, teacher, lawyer, and newspaper editor. Caughey wrote The Occassional Writings of Isaac Moorhead; with a sketch of his life.
David B. McCreary (1826-1906) was born in Pennsylvania. He worked as a teacher and lawyer before enlisting in 1861. The following year he received a commission as a captain in the 145th Pennsylvania Infantry and received a series of promotions, achieving the rank of brevet brigadier general in 1865. After the war he returned to Erie and served in the state legislature in 1866, 1867, and 1870. He served as state senator from 1889 to 1896.A letter by Andrew C[aughey] to Lieut. Col. D.B. McCreary, 145th Regt., Army of the Potomac, Washington, D.C. The letter is dated at Erie, PA, November 25-26, 1863 and contains 18 pages. The envelope the letter was mailed in is included. The letter was written during the American Civil War and mentions plans of a rebel attack from Canada. On page 5 Caughey writes “you have doubtless been told by some of your other correspondents of our great military preparations against a rebel attack by way of Canada and the Lake [Erie]. For about a fortnight our ‘streets re-echoed to the tread of armed men’, and our citizens took up the shovel and the pick-ax, and they did dig a ditch, and did throw up an embankment towards the North, even by way of the Block House bank, as thou goest to the Light House. And many people did work thus, both the young and the old and the middle-aged—the priests and chief men of the city, as well as the laboring man and the colored person. But the fortifications are finished, the soldiers are gone and we are at peace”.
Caughey continues on page 6 “There was no doubt a plot concocted in Canada, originating at Richmond, to seize vessels on Lake Erie and then make a descent on Johnson’s Island and release the Rebels there confined; but the plot never took very formidable proportions, and perhaps would have amounted to nothing had the rebel force even attacked Johnson’s Island. But the alarm has had at least one good effect—it has given the Government an opportunity to put the Lake cities in a state of defence, so that they may be able to resist if not a Rebel, a British and Canadian attack, which will doubtless sometime be made”
Investigating the Crosslinking Mechanism of Cinnamate-Modified Silicones
Get PDFGiven the negative impacts of synthetic polymer plastics on the environment, it is of interest to
develop syntheses for polymers and polymeric materials that either utilize naturally occurring
resources or are biodegradable in an effort to promote sustainability. Cinnamate silicone
polymers can be synthesized chemoenzymatically using cinnamic acid, a naturally occurring
compound from the oil of cinnamon. Cinnamate side groups are well known photoreactive
molecules that undergo [2+2] cycloaddition reactions but whose thermal reactivity was presumed
to be forbidden by the Woodward-Hoffmann rules. We have synthesized cinnamate silicones that
cure at 110 °C in less than 24 hours to form solid materials via a short-lived free radical reaction
that was confirmed using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. The cinnamate
silicones were used to produce a series of materials. The properties of the silicone materials and
a proposed mechanism for their formation will be discussed
The Subject Reimagined: Language, Event, and the Event of Language
Get PDFIn event phenomenology, the problem of subjectivity and its relation – or non-relation – to event remains a legitimate problem. A legitimate problem because, on the one hand, events are the definitional neuter, or nihil, that erupt into the something of being and subsequently reconfigure this being; while on the other, our experience of ourselves, what constitutes the bedrock of subjectivity, appears as cogent, unified. The purpose of this thesis is to propose a new sort of phenomenological language, carried through in a thoroughly ontological anthropology, that provides a way to connect discontinuity with continuity, the unfamiliar and alien with the familiar, inside subjectivity. Doing so requires abandoning the transcendental residue in Heidegger’s work, relying instead, and primarily, on Francoise Dastur’s ontogenetic analysis of language (and its event) to forge a path forward to an eventful subjectivity
Subduing the “moral panic”: Sustaining a nuanced conversation about predatory publishing
Get PDFPresented at Canadian Health Libraries Association conference June 2023Introduction: Predatory publishing has long raised alarm bells among faculty,
librarians and research administrators. Often falsely conflated with open access
publishing as a whole, predatory publishing is painted as a grievous threat to the
sanctity of scholarly research and a waste of research funding. However, the 'moral
panic'* over predatory publishing may be unjustified. Equipping researchers to make
informed decisions about publishing is a more sustainable approach. Building
partnerships and sharing evidence about faculty publishing patterns can support this
type of advocacy.
Description: Librarians at institutions without subscriptions to costly citation analysis
tools such as Scopus may find it difficult to analyze open access publishing patterns.
However, freely available academic search tools such as The Lens can provide
useful snapshots to guide education and support for researchers. Data from Brock
University indicates that our faculty are overwhelmingly publishing in OA journals
which would not typically be deemed predatory. Partnering with institutional research
services via outreach and workshops has allowed the Library to share this data and
other information about open access with key audiences of research administrators
and faculty.
Outcomes: This outreach helps the Library to guide researchers towards a more
robust understanding of open access and scholarly publishing and away from
reliance on problematic tools such as blacklists. In addition to helping authors make
informed decisions about where to publish, such programming has boosted uptake
for research consultations around publishing and open access.
Discussion: The presenter will share tools and strategies for implementing this
collaborative approach at other libraries
Examining the Bilingual Mental Lexicon through Associative Priming
Get PDFResearch examining the associations between words in the monolingual versus bilingual mind has employed various models to examine differences in lexical organization, with varying degrees of success. The paradigms used have primarily been word association and semantic priming with a Lexical Decision Task (LDT). This thesis research has focused on the latter method, with an online data collection method using Testable. One distinction of this thesis research has been the types of semantic associations used for priming, namely syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations, which refer to either word context in a sentence, or word categories respectively. The control condition used from which facilitation effects were calculated was unrelated primes. In addition, a phonetic (or “clang”) priming condition was included as it was felt that it might tap into an important aspect of lexical organization for those who have English as a second language (L2). Recruitment was for native English-speaking monolinguals, native English-speaking bilinguals (who also speak a variety of other languages), and non-native English-speaking bilinguals (also from a range of language backgrounds) to participate. Results indicated that the paradigm was successful in gathering information about lexical associations in all three language groups. There was significant semantic facilitation across all language groups for both syntagmatic and paradigmatic associative primes, with these effects not differing from each other. Interestingly, only the L2 group showed significant facilitation from clang primes. Overall, the absolute priming effect was smaller than anticipated, despite reaching statistical reliability, suggesting possibilities to refine the display times of primes or targets. Other hypotheses concerned potential effects of participants’ context for L2 language learning and also attempts to address the main research question with the use of a classic word association task; however, both fell victim to the vagaries of online data collection. Nevertheless, the method and the software provide some hope for continued research in some aspects of the monolingual versus bilingual mental lexicon.