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World Music Open-earedness as a Possible Measure of Proteophilia and Connection to a Cultural Secure Base: A Commentary on Quan et al. (2022)
No full textIn this commentary, I discuss the key findings of Quan et al. (2022) and consider how their World Music Open-earedness Scale might contribute to future research and practice. I offer an alternative assessment of the relationship between world music open-earedness and sociocultural adaptation, and suggest how this may be investigated further. I extend this into a reinterpretation of the result linking specific functions of music to adaptation, adding greater emphasis to the role of music as an explicit expression of culture. I propose that these findings can be used to support an increased focus on culture and art in educational contexts, including an increase in intercultural content and encounters
Facilitating Veteran Student Success: Experiences from an Accelerated BS Program
No full textBackground: Military Veterans (MVs) face unique challenges that are important to recognize when building supportive academic environments. There is a need to broaden our understanding of the diverse student population within academia, requiring us to hear their voices and deduce facilitators and barriers to their academic transition and success.
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the unique needs of MV students and understand obstacles and facilitators for successful transition and completion for MV students entering a civilian baccalaureate program.
Method: This study was guided by a phenomenological approach; we conducted three focus group interviews with Veteran students (n = 17) and conducted verbatim transcription thematic analysis.
Results: Three themes were identified that impacted student success: (1) military experience prepared me for academic challenges, (2) defining my new role, and (3) no one left behind. Specific exemplars for thematic components to support transitioning into a civilian academic program included incorporating a military liaison for academic guidance and mentoring, acknowledging baseline skills using competency-based cohorts, and facilitating opportunities for connecting with other Veterans.
Conclusion: Preparation of faculty and staff to better understand MV’s specific needs in civilian academic environments is needed
Velocity and Virtuosity: An Empirical Investigation of Basic Tempo in Contemporary Performances of Two Large-scale Works of Chopin and Liszt
Get PDFPast research suggests that exceptional speed is a salient feature in virtuoso performance. However, this claim has not yet been tested by empirical studies. This article sets out to investigate in what ways contemporary piano virtuosos play fast in their performances and how they manifest the concept of virtuosity through tempo. It achieves these goals by analyzing a set of recordings of Chopin's First Ballade and Liszt's Sonata with a view to examining the tendency of basic tempo in the performances of two pianists who are most often considered as virtuosos of our time by music critics of English-speaking countries – Kissin and Lisitsa. The results show that they do not always play faster than other selected pianists do. Rather, they tend to play with extreme tempo at the sectional level – playing exceptionally fast in fast sections and exceptionally slow in slow ones. Their performances create dramatic contrast in expression between fast and slow sections, manifesting the concept of virtuosity in both the broader sense – dazzling the audience through broadened expressive power – as well as the narrower sense – displaying of exceptional technical skills through speed, agility and accuracy. The findings provide new, albeit preliminary, insight into the performance practice of modern piano virtuosos and how performers may manifest the concept of virtuosity in their performances
Nemeth in a Box: Unpacking Tools to Build Success in Math for Students with Visual Impairments
Get PDFStudents with visual impairments can be successful in math learning if they are provided with accessible materials, appropriate accommodations, and knowledgeable teachers. Four teachers of students with visual impairment designed a set of activities to build middle school students' knowledge of the braille code while engaging in math activities. The activities are described, and the authors provide strategies for successfully including students in general education math classes. 
'Policing Rural Communities in North America': An International Society for the Study of Rural Crime Roundtable
Get PDFRural crime and criminal justice practices and responses face different challenges from those experienced in urban contexts.
A practitioner-focused roundtable, convened by The International Society for the Study of Rural Crime (www.issrc.net), investigated challenges and innovations in international contexts on issues surrounding rural policing with a specific focus on rural policing in Canada and the United States. The roundtable was held online on 15 September 2021 and was moderated by Dr. Jessica Peterson, formerly of the University of Nebraska at Kearney (now an Assistant Professor at Southern Oregon University).
Panellists were asked to respond to three key questions:
What is the key element to successful community policing in your community?
What is one initiative in which you have successfully engaged the community in crime-reduction efforts?
What is the most significant challenge to successfully reducing crime in your community?
The following are transcripts of the four presentations from the panelists on this Roundtable
Pedagogies of lived experience: The perspectives of people with disabilities on their educational presentations about disability topics
No full textDisability Studies in Education (DSE) scholars have described the importance of centering the lived experiences of disabled people in order to understand the complex and context-specific nature of living with a disability and to advance justice and inclusion for disabled people. Researchers have yet to explore the perspectives of disabled people on the potential significance of learning about disability topics from people with disabilities themselves. For the current qualitative study, I interviewed nine people with disabilities who had delivered presentations on personally relevant disability topics in a college course to examine their perspectives on teaching from their lived experience and on the potential broad impacts of opportunities to learn about disability from disabled people. The participants believed that learning from people with disabilities contributed insider perspectives and meaningful interactions to the study of disability topics. They hoped that their presentations would teach students to recognize the capabilities of people with disabilities and to see them as individuals. They believed that learning about disability from disabled people has the potential to improve access to communication and community participation for disabled people. These findings contribute important implications and directions for future research
“Your request is touching”: Marginalization, weakness, and liminality experienced by disabled graduate students in Israel
No full textAcademic neoliberal ableism has considerable negative implications for all disabled academics, but specifically for the marginalization, liminality, and weakness of disabled graduate students. This is particularly true for the understudied and underrepresented disabled graduate students who are not native English speakers and who live in regions that are geographically and culturally distant from the English-speaking academic hegemony. This article addresses this gap by presenting a collaborative autoethnography of two disabled Israeli doctoral students. The analysis raised two themes. The first includes the complex aspects of learning to perform new academic roles – teachers, conference presenters and researchers – as disabled academics. The second includes our marginality in two contexts, namely our studied disciplines, which fail to see disability as a critical object, and the developing Israeli community of disability studies in which disabled scholars are underrepresented. On the basis of these themes, we identify four combined environments that mirror the intersection between global neoliberal ableism and the specific ableist culture found in Israel, which exacerbate our weakness, marginality, and liminality: The Israeli Disability Studies community, our discipline, the Israeli academy, and the English-speaking academy
Real-time Monitoring and Evaluation of the Vax Cash Program: A Case Study from Columbus, Ohio
Get PDFBackground: The prevention of severe outcomes due to SARS-CoV-2 infection among vulnerable populations is an important public health goal. The purpose of our study was to report on the implementation and evaluation of an innovative public health prevention program. This program aimed to reduce the projected gap in COVID-19 vaccine uptake between more and less vulnerable neighborhoods by addressing issues around access and trust among communities at high risk for COVID-19 positive cases, hospitalization, and death.
Methods: Columbus Public Health implemented the Vax Cash program in Columbus, Ohio, from July 6, 2021, to August 22, 2021, based on regular community feedback and using a data-driven approach. The program provided a financial incentive to eligible individuals upon receiving their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. A time-series model was used to create short-term forecasts for COVID-19 vaccine uptake for neighborhoods in and around the 10 clinics in the program. These projections were compared with the observed uptake as the program was implemented over a 6-week period.
Results: Seven out of ten sites showed an increase in the observed COVID-19 vaccine uptake in and around the sites compared to projected uptake values. We observed a rapid increase in uptake among Black residents and a reduction in the Black-White vaccine uptake gap in and around the Vax Cash sites.
Conclusion: Vaccination rates increased in areas of high social vulnerability through the Vax Cash program. Similarly designed programs could be applied to achieve other public health prevention goals