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Comparative Methods for Teaching Contemporary and Ancient Saints
Get PDFThis paper argues that a comparative study of saints is not only a useful classroom tool for historians and religionists, but an exceptionally powerful locus of pedagogical insight and cultural understanding. By reframing contemporary consumptive patterns, media representations, and power discourses as religious vectors of saintliness, the professor has an opportunity to explore and assess cultural values, rituals, beliefs, worldviews, communities, traditions, and meaning making in the contemporary college student’s world. By acknowledging the dangers and possibilities of the category of saint while reframing the ascetical impact on developing subjectivities, we propose six pedagogical examples of how this might best be deployed
Perception, Attention, and Action! A New Perspective on the Associations Found in Educational Expertise and Visual Search
Get PDFExpertise as defined in literature is the peak or otherwise exceptionally high levels of performance on a particular task or within a given domain (Papesh et al., 2021). In this study, expertise is defined as the time length the individual has spent in their field. For the purpose of this research, an expert can exist in a plethora of fields ranging from history and music to mathematics or science. Becoming an expert requires for the individual to not only have the mental and cognitive concepts that come with acquiring this type of knowledge, but it also incorporates skills they know in terms of their tools that are specific to their field alone (Kramer et al., 2019). On the other hand, novices are those that lack the necessary tools and knowledge required to succeed to the best of their ability. This eventually leads to general problem-solving strategies that more often than not induce a stressful environment and generate a cognitive load from juggling multiple things at once. This study investigated interactions between educational expertise and how this translates to perceptual experiences of an individua in order to elucidate the relationship between academic expertise in an individual’s field with their visual perception. Participants were recruited to complete two visually based experiments, a visual search task and the Navon Figure task. They were separated into two groups based on the individual characteristics-expertise and academic major. In all, there were no statistically significant main effects nor interactions found between the different experimental groups. Though there were no significant findings, there were patterns such as a longer expertise positively correlating with a faster reaction time. With some methodological adjustments, ie. a large sample size, this could lead to significant findings
Examining the communication work of women who have tested BRCA-positive: I feel this responsibility to let people know
No full textInheriting a pathogenic variant in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene considerably increases a woman\u27s risk levels for developing breast and ovarian cancer. In addition to serious physical health implications, women with a BRCA pathogenic variant may face psychosocial challenges, including those related to navigating the often demanding process of communicating about topics regarding BRCA with family and other social network members. Based on in-depth interviews with 24 women who tested BRCA-positive, we found that—consistent with the conceptualization of communication work articulated by Donovan-Kicken et al. (2012) as an extension of the theory of illness trajectories (Corbin & Strauss, 1988)—the labor of communicating about BRCA genetic risk entails (a) duties, (b) challenges, (c) strategies, and (d) shared work. Within each category, our results illuminate particular characteristics of communication work for women who have tested BRCA-positive, which are commonly tied to the profound health consequences that a pathogenic variant may have for them and, potentially, for their genetic relatives. Our findings offer useful theoretical implications regarding communication work in this context. Furthermore, our results yield valuable practical insight for genetic counselors and other health care professionals regarding the struggles that can accompany communication work for women who have tested BRCA-positive as well as the strategies that participants reported using to manage or avoid these challenges
Conceptualizing Financial Crisis Communication: Central Bank’s Reputation Management Strategies During a Crisis
No full textResearch suggests that financial crises are inherently and mostly communication problems, making it crucial to study how central banks deploy crisis communication strategies for reputation management. This study proposed financial crisis communication conceptual framework to examine how the Central Bank of Ghana communicatively managed the financial industry reputation during the Ghanaian banking crisis. Findings revealed that whereas the Central Bank of Ghana deployed justification, differentiation, shifting blame, and attacking the accuser strategies to manage its own reputation, it used corrective action, good intentions, and minimization strategies to manage the reputation of the financial industry at large. Implications for practice are discussed
The Importance of Mentalized Affectivity in Understanding the Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experience & Pathological Concern
No full textWith increasing interest in emotional regulation as an important determinant of psychopathology, prior research has demonstrated that mentalization plays a role in the development of psychological distress and dysfunction. Mentalized affectivity, a specialized form of emotion regulation that includes valuing emotions and reflecting on how current affect is shaped by past experience, may be an especially important factor that both predicts and mediates how prior experience influences current functioning. The current study aimed to investigate how mentalized affectivity, a component of mentalization, might have an indirect effect on the relationship between adverse childhood experience and pathological concern. A total of 171 participants completed measures of adverse childhood experience, pathological concern, and mentalized affectivity (MA). Parallel mediation analysis confirmed that MA had an indirect effect on the relationship between adverse childhood experience and pathological concern. Specifically, lower identifying and expressing components accounted for the mediating effect. The role of compromised MA is discussed, including how deficits in identifying and expressing may be important factors when assessing and treating those with adverse childhood experiences and pathological concern. Future directions, both clinical and empirical, are explored
Empty Plates: The Evolution of Hunger Relief, Until All Are Fed
No full textThe history of the hunger relief movement has never been documented and holds many important lessons and learning. The book will examine how food has played a critical role in society over the centuries. In particular, a detailed look will be provided on America\u27s hunger relief efforts and Feeding America\u27s 40-plus-year history. In addition, the wisdom and practices of many leaders over that period offer great value to all readers, even outside the hunger relief movement. Everyone deserves access to healthy food; it\u27s a fundamental need. The meal gap continues to grow, with 38 million people deemed food insecure or otherwise hungry. In addition to history, included in the book is the breaking of stereotypes of who needs help and why. This book will shine a light on our neighbors seeking and receiving support. They often look like you and me. Different voices from across the country are shared within this book, offering important history valuable perspectives, and wisdom. One hundred interviews were conducted, ranging from people in higher education, our neighbors in need, volunteers, food bankers, elected officials, the military, healthcare, food and financial donors, and many more. The way forward is as much as remembering what has come before as it is an invitation to a new path. Sharing this knowledge will inspire and create change for the better and engage more people to make a difference
Navigating Challenges in Community-based Research Aimed at Ending the HIV Epidemic Among Black Womens.
Get PDFOur interdisciplinary team initiated a community-based participatory research project aimed at dismantling the gendered racism faced by Black women in healthcare settings that makes them vulnerable to HIV and other health conditions. During the data collection phase of the project, we encountered multiple challenges with the recruitment and enrollment of Black women in the study as well as with an influx of fraudulent responses that slowed down the research process. In this article, we discuss our research methodology followed by details of the challenges we faced and the processes we used to navigate those challenges
Hybrid Interpersonal Violence in Latin America: Causes and Patterns
Get PDFIn this review, we argue that to understand patterns and causes of violence in contemporary Latin America, we must explicitly consider when violence takes on interpersonal qualities. We begin by reviewing prominent definitions and measurements of interpersonal violence. We then detail the proliferation of interlocking sources of regional insecurity, including gender-based violence, gangs, narcotrafficking, vigilantism, and political corruption. Throughout this description, we highlight when and how each source of insecurity can become interpersonal. Next, we outline mutually reinforcing macro and micro conditions underlying interpersonal violence in its many hybrid forms. To conclude, we call for more multifaceted conceptualizations of interpersonal violence that embrace the complexities of Latin American security situations and discuss the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in this area