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Review Essay: Why Baseball?
No full textWhy Baseball? attempts to answer the personal question of what led a kid from the Canadian prairies to a lifelong love of America’s pastime and explore the larger question of other Canadians’ connection to the game through a close reading of several recent books on the topic. The books under review are Andrew Forbes’ The Utility of Boredom and The Only Way Is The Steady Way, Stacey May Fowles’ Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me, Mark Kingwell’s Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters, Andrew North (Editor)’s Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball, Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs’ 100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One Summer, and Heidi Jacobs’ 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year. This review essay blends anecdotes from the author’s life with quotes from the selected books to suggest that Canadian baseball fandom is not a unique experience but one experienced uniquely.Cet essai tente de comprendre ce qui a conduit un enfant des prairies canadiennes à choisir le baseballtout au long de sa vie et explore la question plus large de l’attachement des autres Canadiens à ce sport , via lalecture de plusieurs livres récents sur le sujet. Les livres étudiés sont The Utility of Boredom et The Only Way Is TheSteady Way d’Andrew Forbes, Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me de Stacey May Fowles, FailBetter : Why Baseball Matters de Mark Kingwell, Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in CanadianBaseball, d’Andrew North (éditeur), 100 Miles of Baseball : Fifty Games, One Summer de Dale Jacobs et HeidiLM Jacobs et 1934 : The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year, de Heidi LM Jacobs. Cet essai mêledes anecdotes de la vie de l’auteur à des citations des livres sélectionnés pour suggérer que le fait d’être partisancanadien de baseball ne se vit pas d’une manière unique, mais est vécu d’une façon singulière
Integrating the Key Competencies of International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) into the Teacher-Education Curriculum in the Philippines
No full textThis study proposes a framework to integrate competencies from various international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) into the program design of a teacher educational institution (TEI) in the Philippines. Using a descriptive-developmental research design, the study examined how ILSA key competencies can be incorporated into the curriculum, along with practices of outcomes-based educational programs at the TEI. Inductive thematic analysis of focus group interviews revealed one overarching program-level theme: using ILSA as a benchmark for curriculum development. At the micro level, four core themes emerged: (1) strengthened content teaching, (2) increased pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) courses, (3) explicit targeting and teaching of ILSA competencies through course-intended learning outcomes (CILOs), and (4) ILSA-like assessments. The study recommends that the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) and TEIs collaborate to align pre-service teacher training with global literacy standards, ensuring that pre-service teachers are equipped to teach ILSA-recommended skills
Research Thinking for Responsive Teaching: Research Skill Development with In-service and Preservice Educators
No full textThe book focuses on responsive teaching, highlighting the importance of adaptability and the effective utilization of resources to meet the needs of diverse learners. In the context of Education 4.0, digital literacy is crucial; however, educators also require clear objectives and a comprehensive understanding of their practices to maintain professional autonomy. The book presents the Research Skills Development (RSD) framework to guide teachers\u27 research thinking across various contexts, including secondary schools in Australia and Canada, as well as pre-service teacher education in Indonesia and the United States
The Edmonton Encampment Litigation and The Charter Claims We Didn’t (Get to) Argue
No full textIn recent years, the number of unhoused and unsheltered individuals in Canada has risen dramatically. In urban centres across Canada, unsheltered individuals have gathered together in encampments for safety and a sense of community. Municipalities frequently respond to these encampments by forcibly evicting them. In autumn 2023, the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights filed a claim on behalf of Edmonton’s encampment residents, alleging their rights and freedoms, as enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms sections 2, 7, 8, 12, and 15, were unjustifiably infringed by the City of Edmonton\u27’s encampment displacement policies and practices. The case was struck on a preliminary ground, because the court held that the Coalition lacked public interest standing, and thus the court never made a decision on the merits of the Coalition\u27s Charter claims. This article provides a procedural chronology of the Edmonton encampment case and sets out the Charter arguments that the Coalition planned to advance. In doing so, this article aims to offer guidance to others engaged in encampment litigation, to broaden the conversation about how the Charter is implicated in encampments and governmental responses to them, and to give voice to the unhoused individuals, who provided evidence in support of the Coalition\u27s lawsuit. Ces dernières années, le nombre des sans‑logis et des sans‑abri au Canada a radicalement augmenté. Dans les centres urbains du Canada tout entier, les sans‑abri se sont regroupés dans des campements par souci de sécurité et par sentiment de solidarité. La réaction des municipalités à la présence de ces campements consiste souvent à expulser leurs occupants. À l’automne 2023, la Coalition for Justice and Human Rights a présenté une demande pour le compte des résidents des campements d’Edmonton, alléguant que les politiques et les pratiques de déplacement des campements de la ville d’Edmonton violaient de façon injustifiable les droits et libertés que garantissent à ces personnes les articles 2, 7, 8, 12 et 15 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés. L’affaire a été invalidée pour un motif préliminaire, car la cour a décrété que la Coalition n’avait pas qualité pour agir dans l’intérêt public, et, de ce fait, elle ne s’est jamais prononcée sur le bien‑fondé des allégations fondées sur la Charte de la Coalition. Cet article présente une chronologie procédurale de l’affaire des campements d’Edmonton et il énonce les arguments fondés sur la Charte que la Coalition prévoyait invoquer. Ce faisant, il vise à donner conseil à d’autres personnes ou entités engagées dans des litiges relatifs à de tels campements, de manière à élargir la conversation concernant la mise en cause de la Charte dans la présence des campements et les réponses gouvernementales à ceux-ci, ainsi qu’à donner la parole aux sans‑abri qui ont témoigné à l’appui de la poursuite de la Coalition
Situational Analysis of Mental Health Challenges in Sierra Leone: Possible Roles of Social Workers
No full textSince the rebel war in Sierra Leone ended in 2002, there has been an extraordinary increase in international non-governmental organizations that aid people. One such area is mental health. However, both the government and NGOs use the medical model for intervening in mental health and mental illness. Therefore, this research was a documentary analysis of the World Health Organization Mental Health Atlas of 2020: Country Profile. The report states that there are no social workers who provide help to people diagnosed with mental illness. So, this research brings to the fore some of the significant roles that clinical and mental health social workers can provide. The research is a move away from the pathological focus on mental health and discusses the sociological and biopsychosocial intervention by social workers. 
The Second Life of the European Arrest Warrant: An Analysis of the Protective Potential of Mutual Recognition against Extradition to Third States
No full textStill the primordial crime repression device at the disposal of the Member States (MSs) in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, the European arrest warrant (EAW) has developed a protective function. Not only did it mature into a balanced legal instrument where fundamental rights are no longer overshadowed by the goal (however legitimate) of ensuring high efficiency, but it also took on a shielding role in the context of extradition from MSs to third States. The latter aspect is the primary focus of this article. It first assesses the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union on extradition of EU citizens and the role assigned therewith to the EAW. It then considers this type of case constellations from the angle of the Member State of origin and of its duties of protection towards its own citizens. Finally, it provides an account of the emerging debate as to whether a decision by a Member State refusing extradition to a third State should be mutually recognised among the MSs, particularly when such a decision has relied on European case law concerning the EAW. The Portuguese law and practice are taken as the point of reference for the national level of the analysis, yet always with a view to feeding the broader debate on the ‘external’ implications of mutual recognition – which this reflection seeks to foster more than to settle
Regional Report: East/Northeast Africa
No full textThis report covers developments related to transnational crimes for the period between 1988-2024 in Eastern/North Eastern Africa countries. Eastern/North Eastern African countries include: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Federal Republic of Somali, South Sudan, Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Mauritius, Djibouti, Seychelles and Comoros. These developments are discussed in three categories: Treaty Agreements and National legislations; institutional mechanisms in place; and significant case laws
Les vertus suffisent pour l’évaluation des arguments
No full textThe virtues and vices of argument are now an established part of argumentation theory. They have helped direct attention to hitherto neglected aspects of how we argue. However, it remains controversial whether a virtue theory can contribute to some of the central questions of argumentation theory. Notably, Harvey Siegel disputes whether what he calls ‘arguments in the abstract propositional sense’ can be evaluated meaningfully within a virtue theory. This paper explores the prospects for grounding an account of argument evaluation in arguers’ virtues and vices by examination of a corresponding debate in virtue ethics: Can an ethics of virtue guide our actions? It is thereby argued that an affirmative answer is possible: virtues suffice for argument evaluation.Les vertus et les vices de l’argumentation font désormais partie intégrante de la théorie de l’argumentation. Ils ont contribué à attirer l’attention sur des aspects jusqu’ici négligés de notre façon d’avancer des arguments. Cependant, la question de savoir si une théorie de la vertu peut contribuer à certaines des questions centrales de la théorie de l’argumentation reste controversée. Harvey Siegel se demande notamment si les « arguments au sens propositionnel abstrait » peuvent être évalués de manière significative dans le cadre d’une théorie de la vertu. Cet article explore les possibilités de fonder une analyse de l’évaluation des arguments sur les vertus et les vices des argumentateurs en examinant un débat correspondant dans l’éthique de la vertu : une éthique de la vertu peut-elle guider nos actions ? On avance ainsi qu’une réponse affirmative est possible : les vertus suffisent pour évaluer les arguments
Le problème du caractère distinctif des arguments analogiques
No full textThe orthodox view holds that analogical arguments are a distinctive type of argument, while the eliminative view and its enhanced variant proposed in this paper contend that analogical arguments can be reducible to non-analogical arguments by eliminating the similarities proposition. This paper shows that the existing defense for the orthodox view fails to tackle the challenge posed by the eliminative view and its enhanced variant. The new defense for the distinctiveness of analogical arguments argues that an analogical argument is composed of both a conductive and principle-based argument. Consequently, analogical arguments remain irreducible, as the similarities proposition is not eliminated.Le point de vue orthodoxe soutient que les arguments par analogie constituent un type d’argument distinctif, tandis que le point de vue éliminatif et sa variante améliorée proposés dans cet article soutiennent que les arguments par analogie peuvent être réduits à des arguments non analogiques en éliminant la proposition de similitudes. Cet article montre que la défense actuelle du point de vue orthodoxe ne parvient pas à relever le défi posé par le point de vue éliminatif et sa variante améliorée. La nouvelle défense du caractère distinctif des arguments par analogie soutient qu\u27un tel argument est composé à la fois d\u27un argument conducteur et d\u27un argument fondé sur des principes. Puisque la proposition de similitude ne peut pas être éliminée, les arguments par analogie restent irréductibles