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Revisiting the Six Declines of Contemporary Youth: Considering Adventurous Outdoor Learning as an Intervention
Full text linkThis article discusses six declines of youth patterned after Kurt Hahn’s similar declines from a century ago. Outlined as a theoretical construct, the author describes the role of adventurous outdoor learning experiences as positively influencing youths’ emerging sense of “self.” After describing an underlying theoretical framework for the six declines, the background and rationale are discussed for each separate decline. A summary of the various “selves” is presented for the declines, progressing from empty, through social, to healthy self. Finally, adventurous outdoor learning is identified as a potential intervention for youth with the potential to remedy some of these declines
Massachi, Dina Schiff, editor. The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation. McFarland, 2023.
Full text linkWhen people think of “Oz,” they tend to think of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. But the Oz franchise is larger than those two works. It is so large, in fact, that a specialized term is required to fully appreciate its mass and the concepts pulled into its orbit. In the introduction to their essay collection Third Person, Patrick Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin establish a list of five qualities and claim that a text should satisfy at least one to qualify as what they call a “vast narrative” (2). Two of these are closely connected to new digital media forms (vastness through procedural potential or multiplayer interaction) and another involves a sharp deviation from expected form (vastness narrative extent). The remaining two traits are vastness through world and character continuity, and vastness through cross-media universes. Beginning with the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and extending to this very day, then, L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz is doubly vast, first through its ever-expanding cast and adventures in Baum\u27s fourteen-book original series and through its multitudes of retellings and adaptations, ranging from the early plays to the 1939 MGM classic film to the upcoming 2024 film release of Wicked, still two months away as I write this review
Five Years of Annual Giving Day Campaigns for Academic Libraries and Lessons Learned Along the Way
Full text linkAnnual giving day campaigns are the norm for many public higher education institutions. With a lack of funding from government entities, universities look to donors to fill the void. For academic libraries, without alumni, it can be difficult to find and connect with a donor network. In this article, Outreach and Strategic Initiatives Librarian, Elizabeth Batte looks at research and their past five years of experience in fundraising to offer insights in how academic libraries can improve their fundraising campaigns and foster relationships with future donors.
What Do You Hear? What Do You See?
No full textBefore leaving for school, Roman tell his plants, Bob and Amy, he has a delicious breakfast for them. This seven-year-old is showing empathy, responsibility and kindness. Referred to as anthropomorphism, humans frequently attribute human qualities to non-human entities such as animals and other objects, and, of course, the plants Bob and Amy
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Full text linkThank you for your continued support of the International Journal of the Whole Child and our commitment to holistic learning and to the development of the whole child. Moving forward the publication dates for this journal will take place in June and December. The submission deadlines for the June publication will be March 1st and the submission deadline for the December publication will be October 1st. Also, we would like to increase our submissions for the Emerging Leader Section. If you know a graduate or doctoral student or an individual early in their career, please encourage them to submit a manuscript. Again, we sincerely thank you for your continued support of the International Journal of the Whole Child. We look forward to seeing you in December 2025
OUTSIDE READINGS IN PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS: TEACHING STUDENTS TO SEE NUANCES
Full text linkPrinciples curricula frequently introduce students to complex social choice questions. The literature has emphasized the use of outside readings and real-world examples to improve students’ understanding and economic literacy. This paper focuses on robotization and its macroeconomic consequences as an example of a multifaceted social transformation that is relevant to both the textbook material and current economic events. I present an assignment on this topic based on news articles. The proposed intervention builds on the knowledge students have at the end of a semester-long, undergraduate Principles of Macroeconomics course. The goal of the assignment is to improve students’ ability to reconcile a complex trade-off. Using an experiment, I measure the contribution the assignment makes to students’ learning experience. I show that exposure to the texts changes students’ attitudes and preferences over policy. The paper contributes to the literature on outside readings and economic literacy
About I19
Full text linkThe Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the finest scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots. I19 interprets “the nineteenth century” broadly, using the dates of “The Long Nineteenth Century”—roughly, from the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of World War I—but even these dates are just notable historical markers as they approximately coincide with Romanticism and Modernism, respectively. Scholarship on works from the eighteenth century that anticipated or influenced writers in the nineteenth century or ways in which nineteenth-century literature influenced later authors both fall within the interests of this journal. I19 also publishes scholarship on Neo-Victorianism, Steam Punk, or any other contemporary genres that react to the time periods contained within The Long Nineteenth Century. Genres such as horror and mystery, though not strictly within the realms of the fantastic, are also welcome, due to their close affinity with science fiction and fantasy. Scholarship on early film is also welcome. Additionally, I19 is dedicated to maintaining a scope that is both multicultural and global, and we encourages submissions on works from marginalized communities and from around the world.In addition to literary scholarship, I19 also publishes works on pedagogy. These pieces may be personal reflections, strategies on course design, innovative assignment sheets with commentary, or anything else that educators teaching nineteenth-century literature may find useful.
Finally, I19 maintains robust Book Reviews and Media Reviews sections. Book reviews cover a wide array of recent scholarly works, and media reviews cover film, television, video games, and any other form of mass media.
Queries and submissions may be sent to [email protected]. We accept submissions on a rolling basis, and there are no author fees. Generative AI may not be used to produce text
Nosferatu (2024): A Truly Monstrous Monster
Full text linkSince writer/director Robert Eggers chooses to follow the same narrative trajectory as previous Nosferatu films, people reading this review might well ask, “Why do I need to see this new version? What does it do that previous adaptations did not?” My answer is that the biggest changes are that Eggers focuses on Ellen’s motivation to sacrifice herself to a creature so obviously evil and that Eggers also establishes the full extent of Orlok’s evil. Not only is he a creature of consummate evil, he is also a moldering dead body to whom Ellen is nonetheless sexually responsive. As a result, Nosferatu provides its actors (Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Bill Skarsgard as Count Orlok, and Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter) with rich and complex roles. In addition, masterful cinematography, a haunting musical score, and lavish period costumes make it a pleasure to watch. But don’t take my word for it. Though it did not win any of them, the film received Academy Award nominations for production design, best makeup and hairstyle, cinematography, and costume design, not to mention similar nominations by BAFTA
A Fool’s Errand: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Parodic Use of Tragic Characterization in Early Elizabethan Drama*
Full text linkHerein I argue that Christopher Marlowe’s revered Elizabethan drama The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus subverts the allegorical conventions of the Medieval morality play, recasting the everyman figure—the protagonist tempted by personifications of sin—in an ironic light. As the title implies, the learned doctor is cast ostensibly as a tragic hero, yet the character to appear onstage is far from heroic, and his inevitable demise comes across as more pathetic than tragic. Whereas the classical tragic hero embodies larger-than-life qualities ultimately undermined by a devastating flaw, Marlowe’s protagonist possesses no such grandeur. In Marlowe’s hands, Doctor Faustus becomes a buffoonish clown, a figure of public ridicule offered up to assuage the anxieties of the Elizabethan audience. Marlowe’s take on the Faust myth speaks just as loudly to the present age—an age fueled by relentless technological ambition often tinged with ethical indifference and heedless of unintended consequences
“Outcast of All Outcasts”: The Doppelganger in Poe’s “William Wilson”
Full text linkEdgar Allan Poe was influenced by the darker side of German idealism, which was in fashion in America during the early 19th century as a result of the emergence of the Transcendental movement. The genesis for Poe’s short story, “William Wilson,” comes from a sketch by Washington Irving. Poe enlarges the brief sketch into a story that focuses on the duality of humanity by use of the motif of the doppelganger, which was developed by Germanic writers who sought to explore duality in an individual. Critics have discussed the doppelganger in Poe’s short story “William Wilson,” but many have overlooked how the tradition of German idealism influenced Poe’s story. This essay explores Poe’s use of the traditional role of displacement, repetition, ego and alter-ego, and other aspects of the doppelganger as a theme of German idealism throughout “William Wilson.” Poe’s innovation in “William Wilson” is his depiction of the doppelganger, which Poe uses as a corrective force to the narrator’s evil. Incorporating the German tradition into a reading of “William Wilson” shows how Poe effectively uses the tradition to create a story that explores the duality of the human conscience