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Woman-Thinking in the Dark Core: Life Otherwise and the Community to Come
No full textVirginia Woolf’s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse poses a challenge to the movement of thought as a matter of identity, community, and biopolitics. The crucial question here, which this article reads as an opening for reimagining the terrain of gender and publicness, is how to grapple with Mrs. Ramsay’s meditation on the “wedge-shaped core of darkness” into which she retreats from her communal life. The article dwells with Mrs. Ramsay within this space and in doing so exposes life’s banal, daily surface to the dark otherwise lurking within the realm of Mrs. Ramsay’s thinking, an otherwise that, when thought as an ethics in its own right, has the capacity to reach beyond the novel and its history by remaking gender, race, species, and the terrain of the public—and life—itself
Structured Discussions About Linguistic Diversity: Student Voices and Campus-Based Cultural Mapping
Get PDFThe study presented in this chapter foregrounds student voice research and students as participants in identifying locations on our urban research campus where linguistic diversity can be acknowledged and developed as a tool for knowledge-making. Beyond acknowledging the presence of diverse languages and linguistic practices on our urban campus, this study takes steps toward ensuring that linguistic diversity is recognized by faculty and administrators as a rich and active feature of campus life that crosses academic boundaries.
The study asks the following questions:
● How do Wayne State University (WSU) students experience diversity on campus?
● How do they experience linguistic diversity (their own and/or others\u27)?
● Where on [our] campus do students experience diversity and linguistic diversity?
This project situates student participants as collaborators in identifying rhetorical, pedagogical, and administrative interventions that can support linguistic diversity on campus. In structuring conversations where students, instructors, and researchers work together to investigate a phenomenon at work in our institutional context—in this case, the locations on our urban R1 campus where linguistic diversity is observed and where it is more imperceptible—we allow student experiences to direct our findings and next steps. This work—and the public facing nature of our research—is aimed at broadening conversations with faculty in our disciplines and other disciplines about how linguistic diversity matters and how students are experiencing language instruction and languaging outside of our rhetoric-centered courses in composition and communication
Hiding from Kohanim: Covering Hands, Faces, and Children with a Tallit During the Priestly Blessing
Get PDFWhen the priestly blessing is performed as part of prayer services in both Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities, many of the members of the congregation can be seen covering themselves with their tallit, and also covering their children. The practice evolved from the Talmudic reference of not looking at Kohanim while they recite this blessing in the Temple, because of the Divine Presence resting on their hands and the belief that looking at it would damage a person’s vision. Later authorities expanded this to blessings outside the Temple as well, leading to the practice of Kohanim covering themselves and their outstretched hands when blessing the congregation. The perceived danger associated with looking at the Kohanim led to the grassroots custom of congregants covering themselves as well, which spread between Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. All the covering practices originated with the people, later gaining approval from rabbinic authorities. Fathers covering their children began as a way to protect them from the harm associated with looking at the Kohanim, but evolved into an act of the father channeling the priestly blessing to his children, through placing a hand on the child’s head. First recorded among Sephardic communities in the early twentieth century, it is not motivated by any legal concerns, but rather emotional ones. Eyewitness accounts demonstrate that this practice was still considered rare in the early 1980s, but is seen in just about every synagogue in the present
Using Narrative Webs to Facilitate Effective Science Communication
No full textGiven the intertwining of story and science, this article argues that science communication is always already an act of storytelling making it suitable for narrative analysis. However, among the extensive vocabulary from narrative theories across a variety of disciplines and practices, it can be overwhelming to synthesize this information into a manageable heuristic to apply to specific stories. To rectify this gap in intention and application, this article evaluates the utility of a tool called “narrative webs” that translates narrative theory and concepts to easily accessible choices that science communicators can use to tell scientific stories
Nature, Extent, and Predictors of Kindergarten Teacher Job Satisfaction and Its Relations With Children’s Academic and Social Skill Development: Evidence From the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies–Kindergarten National Dataset
No full textUnderstanding predictors and effects of teacher well-being, including job satisfaction, is crucial for both teachers’ and children’s development. Research on teacher job satisfaction (TJS) has indicated that many individual and contextual factors may make a difference for teachers’ professional well-being. However, against the backdrop of this larger literature, relatively less attention has been paid to kindergarten teachers, despite the pivotal importance of this transition to grade school on children’s long-term academic success. In this study, we first employed confirmatory factor analysis to validate the construct of TJS and then used structural equation modeling to investigate the specific predictors of kindergarten TJS (e.g., job resources, job demands, teacher job self-efficacy). Finally, we used structural equation modeling again to examine the relations between TJS and kindergarten children’s academic and social development. We used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies–Kindergarten, a nationally representative dataset including American children who began kindergarten in 2011. Results shed light on the complex phenomenon of TJS in this critical school transition period
The Development of Social Withdrawal Research in Childhood and Adolescence Over 70 Years: A Systematic Scoping Review
No full textSocial withdrawal has been a topic of interest in the field of developmental psychology for many decades. However, researchers have yet to systematically examine the historical trends in social withdrawal research. To honor the 70th anniversary of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, this systematic scoping review maps the changes in social withdrawal research with children and adolescents over the last seven decades, from 1954 to 2023. More than 300 quantitative empirical studies with unselected samples of children and adolescents (ages 2–19 years) were coded for (1) study characteristics (e.g., developmental periods, study design, measures of social withdrawal, geographic regions) and (2) content/ themes (e.g., motivations for social withdrawal, predictors/concomitants/outcomes). The included studies showed systematic changes in social withdrawal research for all content areas over the last 70 years. Results are summarized, integrated, and used as a baseline for future research recommendations
On Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form
Get PDFSpeaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $28.95 paperback
Synergistic Surgical Strategies: A Comparative Analysis of Combined Carpal Tunnel and Trigger Finger Release
Get PDFIntroduction:
Since 1980, U.S. healthcare spending has outpaced GDP growth, while lagging outcomes, highlighting the need to evaluate cost-effectiveness of treating Trigger Finger Release (TFR) and Carpal Tunnel Release (CTR) simultaneously or sequentially.
Methods:
36 Patients were recruited: 12 CTR and 12 TFR patients comprised the sequential cohort, while 12 patients who underwent simultaneous CTR and TFR comprised the simultaneous cohort. Costs were calculated utilizing time-dependent activity-based costing (TDABC), activity-based costing (ABC), and insurance claims data. Procedural times were tracked and multiplied by personnel per-minute salaries to determine direct variable labor costs. Direct variable costs for supplies and direct fixed costs came from insurance claims data. Indirect costs were calculated as 40% of all other costs. Patient outcomes were measured by differences in pre-operative and 3-month post-operative Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Information System (PROMIS) scores for Upper Extremity (UE), then multiplied by average life-years remaining, to calculate PROMIS-adjusted life-years (PALY). Dividing costs by PALYUE yielded respective average cost-effectiveness ratios (ACER). For the sequential cohort, methods were performed separately for each procedure, then averaged and summed.
Results:
The average cost was 6,139.73 for simultaneous CTR and TFR (p = .001). No significant difference was observed between sequential and simultaneous PROMISUE (4.21 vs 1.92, p=0.353). Simultaneous ACERUE (7,819.61).
Conclusion:
Simultaneous CTR and TFR had significantly lower total costs. However, considering both total costs and patient outcomes (PALYUE) using ACER, sequential ACERUE was lower than simultaneous, indicating higher value for sequential CTR and TFR