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Season 1, Episode 8: Philip Roth\u27s The Plot Against America and Its Relevance to American Politics Today with Dr. Fletcher McClellan
No full textIn his 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, the late author Philip Roth explores an alternate version of American history from 1940-1942 in which FDR loses the 1940 presidential election against the isolationist, celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh, leading to serious consequences for the country, particularly for the Jewish population. Etown College Professor of Political Science, Dr. Fletcher McClellan has used the novel in his senior seminar in recent years as a way to explore parallels between the fictional Lindbergh presidency of Roth\u27s novel and the Trump presidency, focusing on the similarities between the isolationist, nativist ideology behind the America First movement of the early 40s and the MAGA movement. In this month\u27s JayPod episode, we discuss these and other parallels and how the novel might inform discussions of current American politics and the state of our democracy. In November 2022, Dr. McClellan published an article, href= https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15512169.2022.2148533\u3e It Almost Happened (And Might Still Happen) Here: Philip Roth\u27s The Plot Against America in the Journal of Political Science Education on how he has used the novel in his senior seminars
Season 2, Episode 1: Writing Creative Non-Fiction with Erica Dolson creative non-fiction, her writing process
No full textThis episode features a conversation with Erica Dolson, a professor in Elizabethtown College\u27s English department who serves as the director of our creative writing program. Erica writes creative non-fiction (which she has also taught at the college) and she has published work in Full-Stop, Critical Read, and borrowed solace among other publications. She also regularly teaches first-year writing and professional writing.
Today we’ll be discussing the topic of creative non-fiction, her writing process, as well as some of the challenges and pleasures of writing on personal topics. She will read from and discuss a couple of her essays: “Chance of Showers,” published this past December in Bright Flash Literary Review, and “How I Renewed My Enthusiasm for Writing,” published in Hippocampus Magazine in late 2020
Season 1, Episode 6: Using Digital Storytelling in Literacy Education with Dr. Kathryn Caprino
No full textDigital storytelling can be a powerful teaching tool for children. In this episode of The JayPod, Etown Education professor Dr. Kathryn Caprino talks about what digital storytelling is and what some of the potential benefits are for using it in the classroom. In 2021, she published a series of blog posts on this topic in collaboration with former Early Childhood Education students, Samantha Weigle and Alyssa Marzili.
You can check out those blog posts at the links below: Digital Storytelling: An Exciting Teaching Tool! href= https://www.middleweb.com/46096/assessing-digital-stories-in-the-middle-grades/\u3eAssessing Digital Stories in the Middle Grades
Dr. Caprino has taught middle and high school English. She teaches classes on adolescent and children’s literature and literacy methods and has a special interest in integrating technology as part of literacy education. You can follow her on Twitter at @Kcapliteracy and she also reviews children\u27s books at https://katiereviewsbooks.wordpress.com/
Season 1, Episode 10: Studying the Health Benefits of Mindfulness Training for Undergraduate Students with Drs. Elizabeth Dalton and Tomás Estrada
No full textHow can mindfulness training and meditation practice benefit our mental health and well-being? In today\u27s world of constant distractions, it seems harder than ever to live in the present moment with sustained focus while managing the stress of daily life. In a recent study, Etown College\u27s Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dr. Elizabeth Dalton and Associate Professor of Engineering and Physics, Dr. Tomás Estrada collaborated to explore the impact of formal mindfulness training on the well-being of 48 undergraduate engineering students. In this episode, we discuss the concept of mindfulness and its usefulness both in the classroom as well as in one\u27s personal life to manage stress and improve one\u27s overall quality of life. Estrada and Dalton also provide some background information on how they developed an interest in this area of research and what conclusions they reached through their study, Implementation and Feasibility of a Group Mindfulness Intervention for Undergraduate Engineering Students which they published in a recent issue of Advances in Engineering Education. Some books on mindfulness training that we discuss in this episode and which might be of interest to listeners include Jon Kabat-Zinn\u27s Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness and Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein\u27s A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook
Episode 6: Smallness
No full textIt may sound audacious, to say that a horse-and-buggy driving group, can teach us anything about living in a hyper-tech, hyper-everything world. Yet for Professor Kraybill, the Amish demonstrate how some old-fashion things, suddenly turn relevant, once again! In nine episodes Kraybill explores what he learned from the Amish about (1) Community, (2) Technology, (3) Apprenticeship, (4) Forgiveness, (5) Hacking (6) Smallness (7) Choices (8) Humility, and (9) Death.
Episode Six: Smallness
Professor Kraybill explains why the Amish think bigness ruins things and shows how small-scale life, including small schools, preserve the dignity of individuals
Sharing Personal Cultural Experiences Through Travel Writing
Full text linkIt is common to hear that travelling changes people, often for the better, but what are tangible ways in which those changes are shown? Founded on a two week study abroad to England, I explored the captivating and educational genre of travel writing and attempted it myself. Through researching and consuming various travel writing and taking countless notes and observations in England, I set myself up to create my own travel pieces. Based on my research, two common types of travel writing included location-based personal narrative and tourist-centered pieces, both of which styles I experimented with in my three completed articles. After writing and reviewing, I submitted pieces to publishers or published them to my own website. My project affirmed that the power of travel can be wielded through the written word with the proper tools
Episode 4: Forgiveness
No full textIt may sound audacious, to say that a horse-and-buggy driving group, can teach us anything about living in a hyper-tech, hyper-everything world. Yet for Professor Kraybill, the Amish demonstrate how some old-fashion things, suddenly turn relevant, once again! In nine episodes Kraybill explores what he learned from the Amish about (1) Community, (2) Technology, (3) Apprenticeship, (4) Forgiveness, (5) Hacking (6) Smallness (7) Choices (8) Humility, and (9) Death.
Episode Four: Forgiveness
An English neighbor shoots ten young girls in an Amish school. Within hours, the Amish offer forgiveness to the offender. Forgiveness is a dominate theme in Amish life, and the Amish community demonstrates how forgiveness brings freedom and healing, and enhances our mental wellbeing
Season 1, Episode 3: Is Hinduism Present in Game of Thrones? A Conversation with Dr. Jeffery Long
No full textThe question, Is Hinduism Present in Game of Thrones?, is the title of a book chapter recently published by Elizabethtown College Professor of Religious and Asian Studies, Dr. Jeffery Long, in Theology and Game of Thrones, a collection of essays that came out in February of this year. In this episode, host Josh Cohen chats with Dr. Long about his exploration of influences from Hinduism and other world religions in George R.R. Martin\u27s popular fantasy series. Some of the topics include Martin\u27s various fictional religions and how they impact the shaping of the Game of Thrones world as well as the relevance of scholar Edward Said\u27s concept of orientalism
Music and the Brain: Synesthetic Relationships Found in Amy Beach\u27s Compositions
Full text linkAmy Marcy Cheney (1867-1944) showed clear signs of musical prowess before she could even walk. When Cheney reached the age of four, it was discovered that she had absolute pitch as well as synesthesia. Cheney had what is now described as grapheme-color synesthesia; she associated certain colors with pitch classes or keys. Amy Marcy Cheney was a brilliant pianist, and she gave her first public debut at age sixteen. She was married to Henry Harris Aubrey Beach in 1885, and upon his request, Beach began to limit her public performances despite her musical skill. Instead, she began to take up composition under her married name, Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. Beach would later become one of the first major female composers in the United States. This project seeks to examine relationships between Amy Beach’s synesthesia and her compositional practices. The varying moods of Beach’s compositions will be examined through the lens of color psychology
Sound Priming in Marketing: The Influence of Sound on Consumer Behavior in a Retail Environment
Full text linkThe atmospheric conditions within a retail environment have the potential to influence how consumers think and behave. Philip Kotler (1974) initially studied the effect of atmospherics on consumers in retail stores, and researchers continue to study the effects of atmospherics today. There are, however, questions that remain regarding sound atmospherics and what specific aspects of sound affect consumer behavior. This study seeks to explore these aspects to determine how they may or may not influence consumer behavior. To accomplish this, an experimental approach was utilized to measure the influence of sound on consumers’ behavior in a retail environment. The results were mixed. On one hand, sound did not have the expected effect detailed in the hypotheses. At the same time, there were differences between the three groups studied in the experiment