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The progression of the graphic novel and manga: A look at their rise in popularity, and changing perspectives in modern culture and the modern bookstore.
No full textCompliance and Control: The Hidden Curriculum of Social-Emotional Learning
Get PDFIn this paper, we seek to critically address the enactment and impact of social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum and implementation in early childhood and elementary (PK-5th) classrooms. Specifically, we argue that SEL, as frequently operationalized, is a dehumanizing process that seeks to assimilate non-dominant children into dominant ways of being while concurrently seeking to enforce compliance and normalize children to oppressive structures. SEL is often seen as a “nice” form of classroom management, perfect for a field dominated by “nice” white women who see their work as apolitical and neutral rather than political and rooted in the maintenance of white supremacy (Galman et al., 2010). As such, it makes sense that PK-5 contexts, deeply rooted in a “Just be Kind” sense of morality as opposed to one rooted in justice and student empowerment (Turner, 2019), turn to SEL programs as “fixers” of student behavior. But SEL programs are often anything but “nice.” Despite presenting as humanizing and kind, the focus on compliance makes it inherently dehumanizing
School-Based Relationships Among Children with or at Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Get PDFWe investigated the influence of a teacher’s perceived emotional state (e.g., feeling emotionally exhausted; feeling accomplished) on the association between parent-teacher relationships and teacher-child conflict among young children. We used pretest data from a pilot study examining the efficacy of a socio-emotional learning intervention for children with or at risk for emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD). Twenty-six teachers and 45 children (Mean age= 7.46 years; SD = 1.21) participated in the intervention. Teachers rated their relationships with children and their parents using the Parent-Teacher Relationship Scale and Student-Teacher Relationship Scale. Multilevel models showed that teachers with a higher sense of personal accomplishment evidenced a negative association between parent-teacher relationships and teacher-child conflict. However, for teachers who felt emotionally exhausted or those who had a lower sense of personal achievement, the association between parent-teacher relationships and teacher-child conflict either remained unchanged or was positive. We conclude by discussing findings in relation to the importance of increasing teacher efficacy, reducing teacher burnout, and strengthening parent-teacher relationships in schools to improve teacher-child relationships and children’s psychosocial outcomes
The Need for Performance Standards in Preschools: Stealing Shamelessly from Comprehensive School Mental Health Literature
Get PDFYoung children are at-risk for developing significant mental health difficulties just as their older, school-aged peers. Preschool settings have increasingly attempted to proactively address early childhood socioemotional needs by expanding their prevention and intervention activities. A number of emerging best practices in promoting early childhood mental health have been proposed. However, there are no comprehensive performance standards for preschool mental health and limited guidance on how preschools can align themselves with best practices. This expansion in service scope parallels the development of Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems in K-12 schools. Resources and tools developed for K-12 educational settings may serve as a useful example for preschool mental health systems interested in quality comprehensive mental health care. This conceptual article will describe the prevalence of mental health difficulties in young children, review the current guidance on supporting mental health in young children, and provide support for adapting widely used K-12 school mental health performance standards to establish comprehensive standards for organizing and implementing high quality care systems in preschool settings
Digital Memories: An Exploration of Learning to Create Art in the Digital Age
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My work explores the relationship between physical and digital mediums. I aim to create digital images that looks as if they could be a traditional media. I am interested in how the two forms relate to one another and how digital manipulation affects physical artwork. I shoot and develop the black and white photographs used in this work: I am interested in the way that black and white is not just black and white, but many in-between shades as well.
To a digital element, I create glitch gifs from my images and use augmented reality to display these gifs over the artwork, so it looks as if they are glitching right in front of you: marrying physical, the piece displayed in front of you, and the digital, the A.R. gif.
I play with the idea of memory, and how the past is simply just a story we tell ourselves. The past is captured with my photographs, and I use digital manipulation to transform them into something new while still holding the essence of the old.
My work takes a lot of influence from contemporary digital artists, such as Petra Cortright and Jesse Draxler. Cortright’s digital manipulation of images and her gifs were some of my earlier inspirations for this project. I enjoy the way she lightheartedly plays with digital mediums. Draxler was my main inspiration in terms of aesthetics because of his dark and contrasty images. I feel that my work has a blend of not being too precious with my photographs while keeping the sensuality that comes with black and white film, blending Cortrights playfulness and Draxlers aesthetics
Natural Disasters’ Effect on Tourism Employment
Get PDFNot only do natural disasters cause immediate physical damage to an area, but they often have long-lasting social and economic effects as well. Tourism is a sector of the economy that is relatively fragile and relies heavily on a stable economy. This paper attempts to capture the effect of natural disasters on the tourism industry, specifically tourism employment. This research uses panel data and focuses specifically on 7 metropolitan statistical areas in the United States between 2002-2018. Data collected from the BEA as well as SHELDUS is used in order to quantify this effect. A fixed effects model with a log on the dependent variable finds that for every dollar chance of damage over personal income, tourism employment per capita decreases by about 1.34%. These results are statistically significant at the 5% level
The Magic of Animation: A Global History of Animation and Comparative Analysis of Western and Eastern Historical Representations of Magic in Animation, Societal Perceptions of Magic, and Their Influences Upon One Another
Get PDFAs a unique culture develops, especially in an unexplainable and dangerous world, they must craft tales in darkness to make the night far less scary and explain the unexplainable. These myths, often woven deep with powerful figures performing the impossible, created and were magic. By explaining the world through these stories, passed from generation to generation, cultures develop an eye for the magical and the impossible, seeking to steal fire from gods, trick death, and make the words and pictures within our minds when we hear and imagine these stories come to life. Eventually, we would accomplish the last of those seemingly impossible feats with the birth of animation an unknown amount of millions of years after we first began telling those stories verbally. The medium, drawn and projected by modern storytellers, would allow for the impossible to be seen and for the magic in our minds when we heard these stories to be visualized. This comes at a cost though, as animation proves to be a time-intensive medium with every single frame of the twelve frames per second needed for the brain to see quickly flashing still images as moving pictures had to be drawn by hand. With this came a necessary sense of deliberacy not seen in other contemporary media. Just as animation requires the artist and creator to put so much of their time and effort to magically trick the eye into seeing animation into the work, so too does it require them to sometimes unconsciously put in their inherent biases and perceptions, as well as those held by their culture and society. This makes animation one of the best mediums by which one may analyze a culture or society as the deliberacy inherent in every single frame of every second of an animated film tells the purposeful observer more about the creator’s society and its perceptions of a given topic. One such topic is, of course, magic. In the lifetime of animation, societal views and perceptions of magic have shifted dramatically in a relatively short time frame. As animation was the only Pacifico 3 visual moving medium which allowed for anything the mind could dream of to be visualized, the two have a deep and shared history with the deliberacy of animation no doubt carrying with it those aforementioned societal perceptions. What one may see by looking into these two fields within history, the history of animation and the history of societal perceptions of magic, is this: there is a direct correlation between the two in global history and, in the societies where animation is most prevalently made and consumed, the societal perceptions of magic and their animation follow similar paths throughout the 20th and 21st centuries
A Study of the Impact of US Department of Defense and Movie Industry Cooperation on Military Application Rates
Get PDFUsing data from the Military Entertainment Media Liaison Office and the US Center for Naval Analyses, this paper examines the impact of cooperation between the Department of Defense and movie producers on military application rates. Multiple regression model results determine that movies which utilize the entertainment liaison facilities of the Department of Defense generate an increase in male and female applicants in the movies’ release year. In addition, applications from individuals from the Black population increase with a two-year lag after the movie release year. This study establishes that government institutions have an effect on media, which influences perceptions and application rates of potential enlistees
Copyright\u27s Deficit: Technology, Modern Consumer Preferences, and the Music Marketplace
Get PDFWhile it is clear, and arguably has been for the last five years, that paid subscription streaming is the future of the music industry, the law has failed to keep pace with “modern consumer preferences and technological developments in the music marketplace.” The Music Modernization Act of 2018 (MMA), which amends the U.S. copyright law, 17 U.S.C., is Congress’s effort to keep pace with the music industry by fixing our cumbersome and inefficient music licensing system. The MMA is a step in the right direction, but it falls short of Congress’s goal. Focusing on Title I of the MMA—the Music Licensing Modernization Act—I argue that, aside from creating a compulsory blanket mechanical license for musical works, Title I of the MMA has done very little to improve business transactions in the music marketplace. Moreover, instead of “present[ing] a series of balanced tradeoffs among interested parties to create a fairer, more efficient, and more rational system for all,” Title I of the MMA hyper-
focuses on the short-term interests of the music publishers and non-performing songwriters that lobbied during the MMA legislative process.
I, therefore, argue that Congress should revisit the music marketplace question and update our music licensing system with the following goals in mind: (1) protect the public’s interest in having affordable access to interactive streaming, (2) create administrative synergies in our music licensing system, and (3) increase revenues for industry players and cut costs in the music marketplace. Specifically, Congress should: Replace the willing-buyer/willing-seller standard with the §801(b)(1) (repealed 2018) policy-oriented standard for statutory rate-setting proceedings; Instruct the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) to factor basic principles of federal antitrust law into royalty rate determinations; Expressly communicate to the CRB that maximizing the quality of musical works made available to the public is outside the scope of the CRB’s statutory authority; Reject the principle set forth by the Copyright Office that “[g]overnment licensing processes should aspire to treat equivalent uses of sound recordings and musical works alike”; Authorize the formation of a new Mechanical and Performance Licensing Collective (MPLC), f/k/a Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), and create a compulsory individual and blanket license for the public performance of nondramatic musical works; Migrate public performance rate-setting proceedings from the performing rights organization (PRO) rate courts in the Southern District of New York over to the MPLC; Require terrestrial radio to pay sound recording royalties to recording artists and record companies; Apportion the annual assessment (operating) costs for the funding of the MPLC f/k/a MLC among applicable licensors and licensees; and Create a compulsory licensing system for the recording and commercial release of interpolations.
In the following sections—Part I, II, and III—I set forth the details of my policy proposal, identify the drawbacks of our music licensing system, and demonstrate how my recommendations seek to address these inefficiencies
The Kosovo War: On Religion and Representation
Get PDFThis zine was created for Prof. Bookman\u27s ENG 201 class in the fall of 2022.https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/student_zines/1008/thumbnail.jp