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Using Principles of Theatrical Intimacy to Shape Consent-based Spaces for Minors
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Understanding the way that the adolescent mind may respond to perceived danger and how that response could potentially become a habitualized response encouraged me to research how to adapt the best practices of boundaries and consent for specific developmental stages among minors.
As I realized the importance of adapting these best practices, I knew that this work would revolutionize middle school and high school theatre and drama programs. However, in order for these best practices to have an ultimately positive and developmentally supportive outcome, I recognized the need to make adjustments based upon the cognitive development of the artists in question. The needs of a minor in a creative environment differ from those of the adult. Through research and experimentation, I began to alter the approaches to the best practices based on the developmental stage of the subject. While the foundations remained the same, the approach and terminology shifted. As we began to work with secondary educators at our workshops, it became apparent that bringing the best practices of Theatrical Intimacy Education to middle and high school educators was an effective next step. 
Sinking a Ship and Loading the Cannon: Interpretations of Mass Murder and The Terror
Get PDFThis paper will work to show how government-sponsored violence for the sake of the revolution during the Reign of Terror allowed for mass murder to take place. I analyze work from people like Reynold Secher (2003), and Julie Patricia Johnson (2020) where they use locations such as the Vendee and Lyon to describe the revolutionary violence from the perspective of Anti-Revolutionaries. It tackles the historiography of studying this topic and how the field has changed over time from covering the impact on the people of these regions to its lasting effects such as the role it played in mental health as Ronen Steinburg (2015) does in her work. The works range from being published in 1983 to current-day studies of Revolutionary violence. I use the framework of mass violence to discover how the government allowed such atrocities to take place and how they influenced many events that would take inspiration from the French Revolution. 
Defining Experiential Education: The field\u27s seminal thinkers take stock and look ahead.
No full textSeveral decades into their remarkable careers, George Kuh and David & Alice Kolb continue to have an outsized influence on the field of experiential education. A 2022 survey conducted by the Society for Experiential Education (SEE) ranked Kuh and Kolb as the two scholars most relied on by current practitioners, without any close runners up.
ELTHE invited them to think about why this is, what prompted them to get into this work, and where it might go next. The conversation was led by Patrick Green, member of the SEE Board of Directors and ELTHE Editorial Board, and chair of the SEE Research & Scholarship Committee. It has been edited and condensed
Black College Students’ Hardship in Post-Secondary Education
Get PDFThis study is designed to pinpoint the hardships Black students endure and why these students are treated differently. Some of the barriers related to college access and college environmental settings (which I label “internal issues”) that have affected Black college students include the cost of higher education, which that can lead to them dropping out due to being unable to afford their education, a lack of spaces of belonging, and difficulty finding helpful mentors for guidance. These internal issues are compounded by challenged Black students often face outside college contexts (labeled “external issues”), including raising dependents, a lack of community or family resources, and experiences of racism. Taken together, internal and external issues interact to impact Black college students’ experiences and outcomes in post-secondary education
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Get PDFThis is the about page of the California Sociology Forum Student Journal of Sociology Volume 6 Spring 2024
Youth Incarceration: Components of the Carceral State
Get PDFThe United States education system has set the value for BICOC (Black, Indigenous, Children of Color) through the development and education of the children since its creation. Forced “civilization” of Native American children in Indian boarding schools, and the denial of education for Black and Latino children. Later, BICOC/youth enter the school system through the segregated means set by the schools. The United States has historically created a value/worth for BICOC through their access to education. The racist system that the schools were built upon reflects their treatment of BICOC today. Schools today are a punitive system for BICOC. The existence of zero-tolerance school policies, predatory military recruiters, and the overall denial of freedoms for BICOC. In many spaces created by schools for punishment, breed alternative opportunities for youth. Pushing the idea of them being a "bad kid," they are susceptible to alternative/criminal lifestyle influences that fit that narrative. Once they are integrated into institutions like juvenile halls, it is extremely difficult for the child/youth to find a way out. How the punitive criminal justice system is built, BICOC come face to face with spaces that foster recidivism which then influences that lead to adult prisons that further feed the fire.  
Roles of Mothers in Classical Sparta
Get PDFThis is a student paper from a 300-level history course, “Historians and Historical Methodology” which teaches writing and research skills with a focus on historical interpretations. The author was a junior, and his faculty mentor was Professor Dallas DeForest. This historiographical paper is a critical examination of what past historians have had to say about the roles and status of women in classical Sparta. Though formatted slightly differently for this journal, the style guide used for this paper was Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, which is typical of papers in this discipline