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“Johnny Come Lately” – An Essay on Latter-Day Myths about Rural Crime and Justice Studies
No full text “Johnny Come Lately” is a colloquialism with roots backs to nineteenth century British maritime days. It is used here to illustrate the recent emergence of new myths about rural crime and justice studies. As rural crime and justice studies have emerged and grown over the previous 50-plus years, a number of scholars have discussed and debunked myths about crime and rurality, but unfortunately, new falsehoods have been purposively created of late. In this paper, each latter-day myth is described, debunked and then transformed into positive directives about the future of rural crime and justice studies, following the example set by Ceccato and Abraham (2022). These positives include: (1) there must be a sustained effort to make the location for rural crime studies and the scholars who do the research and theorizing ever more diverse; (2) rural crime studies, both old and new, must be made more easily accessible to this generation and future generations of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike; (3) rural crime studies must continue to improve theoretical sophistication through application, critique, and revision, and through theoretical interpretation of previously published empirical work; and (4) a thorough synthesis of the rural crime and justice studies literature is imperative to its future development
Rejoinder to Book Review of "Rural Transformations and Rural Crime"
No full textA review of a book we edited, Rural Transformations and Rural Crime (Bowden & Harkness, 2022) was published in Volume 32, Issue 3 of Rural Society (Scott, 2023) in December 2023. The review makes two key but highly misleading charges. The first is an intimation that rural criminology is dominated by a clique of scholars; and second that the book by and large lacks critical analysis to the reviewer’s liking. The reviewer provides a glimpse of a broad analysis of the field and adopts an independently minded position. Indeed, some observations and claims are made that should rightly be part of a wider debate in criminology, about the book’s relevance, and its impact and contribution to the social sciences: legitimate and important questions that ought to be addressed. However, a few errors in the review need to be corrected and cannot go unchallenged
Reflections on How Mathematics Education in Ohio Impacted the Nation
No full textThis invited paper reflects on the evolution of technology in mathematics education, with a focus on how handheld graphing tools have transformed teaching and learning since their inception in the 1980s. Drawing on personal experiences and the visionary work of educators at The Ohio State University, the author examines the profound impact of visualization technologies and the enduring challenges of integrating technology into curricula. Key themes include the shifting priorities in K-12 mathematics, advances in technology like the TI-Nspire, and the potential of digital tools to enhance equity and engagement. The paper concludes by advocating for a renewed vision in mathematics education that emphasizes relevance, creativity, and access
Nisly, God’s Guidance: A Kansas Amish Boy Reflects on Being Led to Places He Had Not Planned to Go; Furlong, Liberating Lomie: Memoir of an Amish Childhood
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Nurse Ambassadors as a Trauma-Informed Strategy to Encourage Rural Migrant Populations’ Use of Sexual Assault Victim Service
No full textRural migrants are vital to rural areas in terms of their engagement in the agricultural economy and as the fastest growing population in rural areas in the United States. Yet, rural migrants do not have access to all the education, services, and resources they need, including sexual assault education and care. In this paper we consider a novel approach, a Nurse Ambassador model that integrates trauma-informed care, as a strategy to increase knowledge about and access to sexual assault services for members of a large rural migrant community. A nurse practitioner specialized in sexual assault, in the Nurse Ambassador role, can offer expertise from direct clinical care to targeted educational support. Nurse Ambassador programs have been used effectively within patient support programs to provide clinical and/or educational support to clients perceived to be at risk for treatment abandonment or medication non-adherence and to decrease overall health care costs for patients with chronic diseases. Yet there is no research on their utilization to address sexual assault. Using a case study approach grounded in a community assessment of a rural area in a southern state, we share a first-person narrative from a Nurse Ambassador working within a rape crisis center to describe how such a position might facilitate community-based knowledge-building and enhanced trauma-informed service delivery, specifically for rural migrant survivors. Our study details the responsibilities, strategies, engagements, challenges and opportunities for a Nurse Ambassador model working to educate about and provide services to address sexual assault in a rural domain
A Recent History of Activism for Accessibility in Japan (1981–2006)
No full text In this article, I consider how Japanese activists for accessibility localized concepts born out of American and European advocacy, reinterpreted them in light of domestic conditions, and then used them to pass policies for some physically disabled communities between 1981 and 2006. My analysis, which examines newspapers, magazines, state records, and documents from disability organizations, highlights how Japanese activists negotiated global understandings of Independent Living and capitalized on local concerns about the nation’s aging population to convince policy makers to promote the creation of barrier-free facilities and implementation of Universal Design. I conclude that the study of disability in Japan and other parts of the world must include the study of successes and failures of activism for accessibility in differing cultural contexts, and that further research on Japan is needed to continue improving the inclusivity of our increasingly global society
Commentary on Frank et al.'s "Exploring the variability of musical-emotional expression over historical time"
No full textMusic is often regarded as the 'language of the emotions' (Cooke, 1995), and since the early 20th century, empirical research into musical emotions has been conducted to explore the mystery of how they are evoked by music. In this context, Frank et al. presented an experimental study that examined the scarcely researched field of historical listening. Their study aimed to investigate the question, "Do modern listeners hear the emotional content in Baroque music that the composer intended to portray?". The results indicated that modern listeners placed the three modern excerpts in the expected quadrants of the valence-arousal space. However, there were significantly different valence and arousal ratings among the Baroque examples and the modern excerpts, and significant differences between paired examples (where Baroque and modern examples were expected to fall into the same quadrants) occurred. This commentary summarizes Frank et al.'s experimental study, discusses methodological considerations, and suggests possible refinements for future (experimental) studies on historical listening
Gauss's Area Formula for Irregular Shapes
No full textTo find the area of an irregular shape, we break the shape into common shapes. Then we find the area of each shape and add them, but this approach does not always work. In this paper we investigate Gauss’s area formula (for irregular shapes), also known as the shoelace formula or the shoelace algorithm. This theorem is outside the scope of school program. Nevertheless, we provide several applications that emphasize the importance and usefulness of this theorem. Most of the applications provided in this paper are created by the authors
An Elementary Mathematics Lesson about the 2020 Presidential Election
No full textThis lesson is a “spin-off” to a high-school lesson that we recently shared in this journal (Izard & Cloft, 2023); however, the lesson shared here is intended for 4th grade. We wanted to continue the conversation about how to make mathematics more meaningful and relevant for our students by considering ways of bringing real-world events into our classrooms, and we specifically wanted to consider what this could look like in an elementary classroom.
A Transformational Approach to Factoring
No full textFactoring nonmonic quadratics is challenging. To overcome such difficulties, we offer a substitution method that transforms challenging expressions into a more familiar structure. This approach illustrates a common problem solving strategy and engages students in the mathematical practice of looking for and using structure