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Discursive Framing & Community Mobilization: The Melancthon Mega Quarry
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Case for Sport as an Intervention for Mental Health Promotion in Youth
No full textThe purpose of this research is to understand the role that community sport programming plays in enhancing northern and urban youth physical and mental health as society reopens from the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the research will longitudinally track changes to social identity over the course of two years, and test subsequent changes in mental health and physical activity levels. As part of the research, we will collect survey and objective Fitbit data from 300 children and youth participants (6-18 years old) who are currently enrolled in sport-based programs at MLSE LaunchPad in Toronto and YMCA Northeastern Ontario (North Bay and Sudbury). Youth participants will complete a survey assessing social identity, mental health, and self-reported physical activity at baseline, 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-months. Given the negative implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on activity levels and mental health of children and youth, innovative strategies are urgently needed to monitor and understand how the return of sport participation can be vital for the promotion of mental health and physical activity. Further, enhanced social identity can help foster a sense of ‘us’ within a community sport organization, which can be a key driver of greater mental health and physical activity
Understanding How Canadian Producers Use Information Sources to Inform Their Adoption of Beneficial Management Practices
No full textThe adoption of beneficial management practices (BMPs) by producers can support both environmental and financial sustainability in the sector. Current literature shows that behavioural factors shape BMP adoption decisions within economic constraints, making behavioural approaches crucial to advancing BMP adoption. However, there is limited literature available in the Canadian context about the role of specific actors, and the behaviours and attitudes of producers. Research was conducted to help fill this gap. The purpose of the research was to identify producers’ attitudes related to adopting new practices; How producers seek out, trust, and use information sources to support their adoption of new practices; How producers gain information from agrologists and other professional experts. A quantitative phone survey of 1,015 Canadian producers was fielded from March-May 2024. Responses were weighted by region and farm revenue. A pre-analysis plan was established, although additional exploratory analyses were also undertaken. The analysis revealed a number of confirmatory and novel findings, such as greater interest in adapting to extreme weather is associated with greater adoption of BMPs after controlling for other factors. Producers who gather information from in-person events and peers are more likely to adopt BMPs compared to farmers who rely more on vendors and newsletters. Producers recall agrologists working independently or for non-profit organizations providing more information about a new practice’s day-to-day impacts and risks than agrologists working for input suppliers or governments. These findings offer a range of policy implications, such as better aligning communications with producer goals and producer learning and relying more on interactive modes of knowledge transfer from trusted sources as a means of support BMP adoption
A tiresome but rewarding task: Teachers’ experiences of assessment within the Uganda Lower Secondary Curriculum
No full textThe Lower Secondary Curriculum (LSC) in Uganda, launched in February 2020, is a competence-based curriculum that has informed the shift in assessment from a focus on knowledge to competences, including the emphasis on formative rather than summative assessment. Despite efforts by Government of Uganda through the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) to equip teachers with competencies to facilitate assessment under the LSC, there are observations that teachers still have limited knowledge about assessment. Moreover, little is known about how teachers cope with the new assessment modalities. This qualitative study thus explored teachers’ experiences of assessment while using the LSC. It was guided by two research questions: What are the teachers’ experiences of using the Uganda LSC assessment modalities, and how would teachers want to be supported to optimize assessment while using the Uganda LSC assessment modalities
Loi égoïste et espaces autres: Balzac à rebours de la loi
No full textBalzac was fascinated by the idea of an occult network operating in parallel with the established legal system, and offering a critical perspective for realist observation. In his later novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, he develops a counter-society through the world of criminals and courtesans. This underground network can be productively read through the lens of Michel Foucault’s “heterotopias”, which he designates as “other spaces” that are structurally necessary, and that reflect and disrupt the established order of place. While Foucault does not consider the position of those who must inhabit and maintain such other spaces, Balzac seeks to give voice to those characters, in particular the courtesan Esther and the master criminal Vautrin, whose perspectives shed light on the public and hidden faces of a world that remains fundamentally egotistical, conservative and colonial.L’opération d’un réseau occulte en parallèle avec la loi officielle fascinait Balzac, qui y voyait un point d’accès critique et réaliste d’observation sur le système des forces de l’ordre social. Dans Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, roman de sa maturité, il élabore une contre-société à travers le monde du crime et des courtisanes. Ce réseau souterrain se compare de façon productrice aux « hétérotopies » analysées par Michel Foucault, des « espaces autres » structurellement nécessaires à toute société qui reflètent et dérangent les lieux établis. Pourtant, si Foucault ne pense pas aux habitants voués à maintenir ces espaces autres, Balzac pour sa part cherche à faire parler ces personnages, surtout la courtisane Esther et le maître criminel Vautrin, dont les perspectives illuminent les deux versants, occulte et officiel, d’un monde qui reste profondément égoïste, conservateur et colonial