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Problematic ideas for a problematic group: Untangling common depictions of transgender characters in Young Adult Literature
Full text linkThe need and desire for diverse perspectives within young adult (YA) literature led to a boom in the amount of stories featuring trans people at the start of the 21st century and has continued to this day. However these perspectives have not all been positive with earlier books written featuring viewpoints that would be seen by a trans individual as not reflective of their lived experiences. This project aims to compare the depictions of trans people in trans YA from the start of the 21st century up to the present day. The perspectives used within this project will be from a curated list of books within the YA genre that is explicitly about a trans individual since the year 2000. The methodology used to judge if a depiction is positive will be based on pre-existing scholarship and based on common sentiments from the trans community
The Morris Intercultural Education Initiative: A Decade of Advancing Democracy Through Community-Engaged Learning in the Rural Midwest
Full text linkWhile ethnoracial diversity is associated with metropolitan areas in the popular imagination, Latinx people have been moving increasingly into rural spaces during this century. Rural communities often have less infrastructure to adapt to changing linguistic and intercultural circumstances than do their urban counterparts. Following a community needs and assets assessment, the Morris Intercultural Education Initiative (MIEI) was founded in 2013 as a collaboration between the University of Minnesota Morris Clifford J. Benson Center for Community Partnerships, the local Latinx population, and the area school district to address disparities in literacy and academic outcomes and to promote community integration in West Central Minnesota. MIEI currently administers four programs: Community English as a Second Language, the Teaching Reading and Empowering Children program, the Jane Addams Project for intercultural exchange, and the Tercero Community Interpreter Workshop Series. This retrospective article explores the genesis and organic responsiveness of MIEI programs through Freirean praxis and offers wisdom to those who wish to pursue similar projects in their own communities. Reflecting on their own problematic positionality as relatively privileged professional intellectuals in an intercultural rural environment, the authors argue that it is important to understand others in terms of the strengths and assets that they contribute to efforts to build culturally agile, democratic institutions
Plastron...Plastroff: Sometimes It\u27s Hard to Tell Turtles Apart
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Student Honors and Awards Program
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Talking about Politics on Social Media?: Opinions of Emerging Adults
No full textNews stories say the Internet is filled with increasingly polarizing, politically strident speech. Looking beyond the headlines, this study investigates experiences of non-activist, emerging adults at a small college, to see in what ways their everyday social media communications reflect these conflict-oriented, argumentative extremes, and/or if they have internalized a version of the “spiral of silence.” Regarding active media engagement, this project describes how social media is used by a selected group of emerging adults and investigates the reasons these people give when explaining the risks they perceive are related to political communication on social media. Fifteen structured interviews from 2016, fifteen from 2020 and twenty from 2024 are considered qualitatively, with research team reviewers clustering responses and highlighting themes, which collectively present a consistent pattern of media sensibilities. Explaining decisions regarding online engagement with political topics, participants suggest that rather than expressing strong opinions, they desire cautious speech and conflict avoidance. Some risks related to speaking up are also implied. For the studied emerging adults, fitting-in and maintaining family and community connection through communication are the preferred functions for social media
