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Institutional Rhetorical Genres: Implication and Identity
Full text linkThis paper introduces the idea of rhetorical genre, drawing on previous research in rhetorical genre theory to explain how the genres used in institutions affect the personal and professional lives of people who use them, and how they naturalize certain ideologies in those institutional settings. The paper lays out how—while rhetorical genres serve many practical purposes—they also affect power relations within an institution and can compromise the identity of the individual using them. When assessing the efficacy of these genres, this paper remarks, it is important to question how they were constructed and for whom. To further explore this topic, the paper recounts the personal experience relayed in previous research by Anthony Paré, in which he taught a professional writing course to female Inuit social workers
Guerre, folie et écriture : la métaphorisation du trauma colonial dans Les jardins de cristal de Nadia Ghalem
Full text linkLes jardins de cristal (1981) de Nadia Ghalem nous donne l’occasion de comprendre et d’apprécier les modalités d’écriture du trauma colonial dans une mise en texte de la guerre qui l’évoque sans la représenter directement. En effet, ce roman fait remonter à la surface le trauma enfoui dans la mémoire collective de la guerre d’indépendance algérienne au moyen d’une structure narrative et de procédés textuels privilégiant la polyphonie. La dimension intertextuelle de ce roman souligne également la remontée vers la conscience de ce qui a été réprimé ou refoulé. C’est au moyen de cette approche dialogique que Ghalem dans Les jardins de cristal nous propose une réflexion sur les relations complexes entre la guerre, la folie et l’écriture
FNCB Update
No full textAn update on the activities of the Forensic Nursing Certification Board (FNCB) for Fall 202
History and Humor: How Life of Brian Gives Context to Christ’s Story
Full text linkArguably, Monty Python’s The Life of Brian is one of the most controversial interpretations of Christ’s story, due to the Pythons’ shrewd, satirical sense of humor and the film’s mockery of the historical public’s admiration and obsession with messianic figures. This paper takes a similar stance to scholars who argue, however, that the film is not blasphemous—it does not mock Christ himself. The argument hinges on the distinction between Christ and Brian. In separating Christ and Brian into two figures, the film operates on another level, allowing viewers to experience the rise of a messianic figure through Brian as well as introducing them to the historical context. Therefore, though ostensibly not about Christ, The Life of Brian provides insight into the historical time period of Christ and can be beneficial for those interested in furthering their understanding of Christ’s story
Editorial: Volume 4(1)
Full text linkThis sixth issue of Imagining SoTL consists of a final set of papers based on presentations at the 2022 Symposium for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, with a theme of “A Decade of Imagining SoTL: Looking Back, Looking Ahead.” This was our first in-person conference since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was good to be together. This issue follows our December issue, Volume 3(2). Here, we present the remaining responses to our call for contributors to develop their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) presentations from the conference
Remember the ACEs and PACEs
Full text linkWhile Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are well‐established risk factors for mental illness, the protective factors that promote resilience often less well known nor, at times, highlighted at all. Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACEs) are positive experiences that can increase resilience and protect against risk for mental and physical illness. PACEs are powerful elements of everyday life that already exist, or can be engineered, to occur routinely and frequently, and can be leveraged to support treatment goals and activities. Although it might never be possible to prevent ACEs from occurring in the lives of children, nurses can put an emphasis on the value of PACEs, healthy relationships, and resources, to directly minimize the line between adverse childhood experiences and the sequalae of physical and psychological effects into adulthood. PACEs are often overlooked, but powerful tools, that can support therapeutic interventions and mental health throughout the life course
Psychiatric Deprescribing: Case Studies and Clinical Implications in Forensics: Psychiatric Deprescribing
Full text linkThe use of psychiatric medications is highly individualized. Polypharmacy is common, often introducing additional risks with limited benefits. In correctional settings, judicious use of psychiatric medications is critically important. During transitions of care, such as admission to a correctional facility, individuals benefit from timely and evidence-based prescriptive practices. Various factors can impact the continuation of treatment and medication access for incarcerated individuals, including communication gaps between community clinicians and correctional medical teams, formulary options, structured medication administration schedules, substance misuse, feigned illness, and diversion. Forensic nurses and advanced practice nurses navigate these complexities to provide effective and safe medication plans for incarcerated individuals. Incarceration presents an opportunity to review and deprescribe medications that are excessively or inappropriately prescribed. The existing psychiatric deprescribing literature is limited, with even less evidence oriented towards forensic settings. This paper utilizes case studies of incarcerated individuals to explore clinical insights and experiences related to deprescribing
Revisiting the Godavaya Mid-Holocene Coastal Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Camp Site in Southeastern Sri Lanka
No full textArchaeological evidence suggests that middle Holocene hunter-gatherer-fisher (HGF) populations set up camps on coastal shell ridges of Sri Lanka. From the middle to late Holocene, coastal areas were subjected to several localized episodes of marine transgression and regression due to sea level oscillation. During highstands the Godavaya hill in southeastern Sri Lanka was a coastal headland jutting into the Indian Ocean between two submerged coastal embayments. We present an analysis of data collected from the rescue excavation conducted in 2014 at the Godavaya mid-Holocene coastal HGF camp site, including supporting information from surveys conducted on the surrounding coastal landscape. Through studying the stratigraphy of the profile walls of the gravel pits adjacent to the Godavaya hill, we summarize the geological process associated with site formation, contextualizing the prehistoric cultural phases. The analysis of the lithic and faunal remains recovered from the Godavaya midden refuse, provide insights to middle Holocene coastal adaptations that suggest the existence of multiple sub-ecosystems abundant in aquatic resources. This abundance may have been a key pull-factor that attracted HGF groups to aggregate along the shorelines during the sea-level highstands allowing a relatively higher density of occupation, as evidenced by numerous encampments along former bay beaches. Based on the presence of previously excavated human burials at Godavaya hill, similar to the burials found at interior shell ridge habitations, and support from ethnographic analogy, we propose that inhumation of the dead may have created an ancestral link to the locality, forming a sense of territorial right and ownershi
Letter to the editor
Full text linkA letter in response to a previous article published in JAFN on human trafficking (Calow, 2024)