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Co-Theorizing Lifeworlds Across Borders: Learning with Migrant Youth About Educational Policy, Place, and Collective Decision-Making
No full textThis article describes findings of a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project, entitled “Migrant Youth Lifeworlds”, which took place during 2015–2018 in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New York State and during 2021–2022 in Toronto, Ontario. The research project explored how a specific policy—namely the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy in the United States—impacts migrant youth’s decisions around secondary and post-secondary education and work. This article focuses on the second phase of the project, active from 2021–2022. In this second phase of the project, migrant youth co-researchers in Toronto, Ontario read, engaged, and analyzed transcripts and visual place maps created in the first phase of the study. The activities completed by the migrant youth in Toronto were in an effort to understand and reflect upon the lifeworlds of the migrant youth in the Mid-Hudson Valley considering their own similarly situated experiences. Informed by Critical Place Inquiry and YPAR, we treated the migrant youth as experts in their lived experiences and drew three major findings from the study. First, feelings of connection and disconnection shaped the youth’s relationships to their neighbourhoods and communities. Second, the youth’s critiques of social injustice in educational policies that impacted their post-secondary decision-making drew from distinctions and links between places. Finally, the youth nuanced and resisted the damage-centred narratives through forms of embodied mobility. Ultimately, we recognize that the migrant youth participants are key contributors who provided nuanced and rich offerings to educational research
“Siamo condannati alla pena del desiderio” (Davide). Doppio, androginia, infinito assoluto
No full textQuesto articolo esplora il tema del doppio e il genere dell’autobiografia fittizia, un concetto al centro di un ampio dibattito teorico. L’analisi si concentra in particolare sul romanzo Davide di Coccioli, offrendone una lettura approfondita, soprattutto del dualismo del personaggio biblico e del suo rapporto omoerotico con Gionata. La seconda parte del contributo è dedicata a Le corde dell’arpa, mettendo in luce il tema parallelo dell’androgino, un concetto che scaturisce da una citazione di Garcia Lorca. Attraverso questa analisi, il presente lavoro intende contribuire alla comprensione delle dinamiche complesse tra identità, sessualità e mitologia nella narrativa contemporanea
Incidence of Dyslipidemia and Hyperglycemia Among Healthy Female Teachers in Nablus, Palestine: Incidence of Dyslipidemia and Hyperglycemia
No full textCardiovascular diseases are associated with several risk factors such as hyperlipidemia and diabetes mellitus. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of undiagnosed dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia among healthy female teachers. A cross-sectional study included 229 healthy female teachers in Nablus city of Palestine. A questionnaire and laboratory investigations were used to obtain personal and medical information, and all data was categorized and analyzed. The overall prevalence of undiagnosed dyslipidemia, pre diabetes and diabetes mellitus (DM) was 44.9%, 9.6% and 2.2%, respectively. Age showed a significant influence on dyslipidemia (total cholesterol (TC), p = 0.002 and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), p = 0.03), as well as DM (p < 0.001). About 47.8% and 21.7% of obese participants had high TC (p = 0.04) and hyperglycemia (p = 0.02). Waist-to-hip ratio was significantly associated with hyperglycemia (p < 0.001) and hypertriglyceridemia (TG) (p = 0.002). Participants with high TC (p = 0.036) and high LDL (P = 0.047), were less likely to engage in adequate physical activity. Elevated blood pressure notably correlated with hyperglycemia (p < 0.001), while postmenopausal transition associated significantly with DM (p = 0.004), high TC (p < 0.001) and high LDL (p < 0.001). The prevalence of undiagnosed dyslipidemia and DM among healthy female teachers was high. Many factors, including age, obesity, waist-to-hip ratio and menopause were significantly associated with dyslipidemia and DM
The Engagement of Students in Foster Care in Ontario Schools
No full textIn Ontario, over 8,000 children and youth are in care per month (Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies, 2024). Children and youth in foster care often experience a myriad of adverse events in early life, leading to heightened instability from a young age (DeGarmo, 2015; Liming et al., 2021). Among the areas of heightened instability is school engagement and participation. In addition to navigating new living arrangements, students in care often face school transfers as well, furthering instability in their formative years (DeGarmo, 2015). However, despite these profound disruptions, very limited information exists on the specific supports available in schools for students in foster care. Thus, this paper seeks to identify the extent to which Ontario’s policies address students in foster care, and whether trauma-informed strategies are included. This study employed a directed content analysis to investigate how students in foster care are represented in Ontario’s policies. For this study, the trauma-informed principles outlined by Public Health Ontario (2020) were utilized as the guiding framework for analysis. The results revealed minimal reference to students in foster care in the policies and PPMs, with only one document explicitly naming this population. The study found that although schools applied trauma-informed principles, it is often done so variably, and these approaches only minimally address the needs of students in foster care. To effectively support the unique needs of students in foster care, schools must implement supports with a trauma-informed approach, addressing the lasting impact of trauma on school engagement. 
Surveillance Capitalism Pandemic
No full textA review of Shoshana Zuboff\u27s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism; The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is made
A Global Epistemological Crisis
No full textA description is made of the global epistemological crisis arising from the Covid-19 pandemic; the rise of fake news and deep fakes; deniers of science and objectivity and the use of AI in human decision making
Review of Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship by Andrey Miroshnichenko
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Andrey Miroshnichenko, a media futurist and journalist, trained as a philologist, has written a book that I first read and reviewed a number of years ago three weeks after first meeting Andrey. I never published the review before, but I believe it is an appropriate piece for New Explorations. I mention this background because Andrey is now a friend and colleague and my review is a rave review and I want to dispel the notion that I had a conflict of interest when I wrote the review. The most that I can be accused of is that as editor of the journal I chose to publish the piece in New Explorations. To guard against this, I had my review undergo a blind peer review, which it passed. 
Abortion as a Jewish Dilemma in Norma Rosen’s At the Center
No full textThis article reads Norma Rosen’s 1982 novel At the Center, a novel set in an abortion clinic, as articulating the ethical complexity of abortion for American Jews in the years following abortion legalization. It argues that the novel presents legal abortion as morally complex. Given the harm of dangerous illegal abortion, providing legal abortion makes the world safer. But the fear of abortion becoming illegal again is ever-present. The increased availability of abortion can lead to it being conducted without grappling with the morality of ending a potential life. Jews must also negotiate the probable comparisons of abortion to Nazism. The article first shows how abortion is presented in Rosen’s journalism from the late-1970s before explicating how At the Center presents the central moral issues of abortion through analyzing the novel’s central characters
