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Teaching as Authentic Practice in the Graduate Student Supervisory Relationship
Get PDFThis article is the outcome of a co-inquiry with students where shared interests about student learning, students as partners, and a hermeneutic lens shaped the main research questions: What are graduate students’ experiences of the supervisory relationship and what happens inside the relationship in terms of learning and student success? We conducted 16 in-depth interviews with graduate students across various departments and programs. From these interviews we theorized that it may be more appropriate to speak of graduate supervision as a practice which produces internal and external goods. We found that it may be more appropriate to speak of the pedagogy as mentoring. We believe our research findings extend understanding of the supervisory relationship, contribute to the concept of teaching, and expand the idea of partnership with students in higher education wherever faculty and students find themselves in supervisory relationships. This is relevant to SoTL because it allowed us to think of the nuances in the word teaching and how supervisory relationships in higher education may need to expand the way we talk about teaching and learning in higher education
"The Sex They Really Need:" Medicalization and Popular Interpretations of Homosexuality in Postwar Canada
Get PDFWith the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots having just past, it is astounding to see the leaps and bounds made by queer historians towards developing an understanding of homophobia in the American postwar period which led up to the riots. While the publicised, state-sanctioned homophobic purges of men and women from public service has been well documented in American history, the equivalent persecution of gay men and lesbians in Canada has gone largely unexamined. Much like other oppressive acts enacted by the Canadian government, the purging of those suspected of homosexuality has been left out of Canada\u27s collective national history. That organisations such as the RCMP and CSIS act as arbiters of archival documentation detailing the means of constructing and detecting the homosexual other only complicates matters further. As such, researchers can be better served through the examination of auxiliary texts, or interviews with those affected by the purges. This paper opts for the former, utilising postwar medical periodicals, popular media publications, and audio recordings of postwar symposiums to unravel the proposed medical basis for state homophobia and demonstrate how scholarly research was appropriated by the press. Through utilising a queer reading of these texts and employing contemporary queer theory, it is revealed that gender anxiety was at the root of the purges and that constructions of homosexual men and women as subversive was the result of self-reinforcing cycles of information misinterpretation. 
Les mondes inversés de Gherasim Luca – Étude de trois poèmes
Get PDFL’œuvre du poète francophone Gherasim Luca (1913-1994) comprend de nombreuses références au renversement, à la révolution (au sens de retournement) et à l’inversion dans son ensemble. Ces bouleversements touchent tous les aspects de son écriture, tant sur le plan symbolique et métaphysique, que sur le plan de la langue, de la poétique et de l’esthétique. L’étude de ces éléments dans trois textes issus de deux recueils majeurs du poète, Un Loup à travers une loupe (1945) et L’Extrême-occidentale (1961), permet d’en comprendre les enjeux cognitifs, déployant les richesses de la langue et la suggestion poétique d’une manière arborescente. De fait, les mondes inversés et hétérogènes de Gherasim Luca s’agrègent paradoxalement avec une certaine fluidité qui montre que le cheminement poétique, graphique et sonore, est aussi un entrelacs d’images qui permet au texte de se dérouler infiniment à la façon des rêves
Canada’s Façade of Equality: Austin Clarke\u27s More
No full textCanada prides itself as a nation welcoming to immigrants, but this multicultural façade cloaks the struggles of immigrants who fight against systemic inequality. This study aims to expose the mechanisms of societal and systemic oppression faced by immigrants in Canada, especially Black immigrants, as well as the psychological isolation they endure living in the diaspora. The study relies primarily on Austin Clarke’s novel More, and investigates economic gatekeeping by Canadian employers who often require Canadian experience and education, relegating skilled migrants to unemployment and underemployment. This illustrates the barriers to upward social mobility faced by Canadian immigrants, a reality portrayed in More by the protagonist Idora’s poverty despite living for thirty years in Canada. This paper also delineates the societal oppression which manifests in the Canadian media’s perpetuation of discrimination and projection of degeneracy on Black Canadians. Furthermore, it investigates the role of unchecked police brutality in continuing psychological exclusion and brutal violence towards Black Canadians. The psychological alienation and denigration experienced by immigrants and those living in the diaspora is also explored through More. In this context, those living in the diaspora is defined by migrants and their descendants who live in one country but feel strong emotional and identity ties to their former country.
Therefore, Canada’s image as haven for immigrants is dispelled through its systemic and societal prejudice and exploitation of immigrants, complicity towards acts of brutal violence conducted by police officers, and exclusion towards those living in the diaspora
Penser au-delà du binarisme: Étude des stratégies de reconnaissance et de ré/conciliation des altérités dans « Aux États-Unis d’Afrique » d’Abdourahman Waberi
Get PDFDans « Aux États-Unis d’Afrique » (2006), Abdourahman Waberi renverse le monde et instaure de nouveaux rapports de force. L’espace géographique alors renommé Etats-Unis d’Afrique, est une fabrique du pouvoir politique, social et culturel qui domine le Nord géographique des dépossédés. Dans le récit, la mise en place d’un patrimoine culturel africain suggère en premier lieu le dépouillement de ceux associés à d’anciennes puissances coloniales et dans en second lieu, une pratique conjointe de destitution et de restitution du nom. Le Nord de l’envers et les États-Unis d’Afrique de l’endroit sont non seulement les vecteurs de rapports de domination mais tracent plus précisément les contours d’un binarisme: le Sud géographique impose l’hégémonie africaine au reste du monde. Au coeur de cet espace mondial redessiné, Maya/Malaïka (prénom d’adoption), personnage central du récit, est en mouvement; quittant les États-Unis d’Afrique en quête de ses origines, elle se met en route vers le Nord, et prend le chemin du re(/dé)tour dans les dernières pages du récit.
S’agirait-il là de la subversion du binarisme géographique, d’une distortion d’un modèle d’espace frontalier figé par le biais du motif de l’errance ? Ainsi, en quoi peut-on déceler dans l’oeuvre de Waberi plusieurs niveaux de déstabilisation de toute proposition binaire, qui atteignent leur culmination avec le motif de l’errance ? Dans quelles mesures, le voyage de Maya tend vers une remise en question des moules identitaires géographiques et culturels, et à quels effets
Power, Voice and Positionality: An Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Team Podcasts Their Experience With a Students-as-Partners Framework
Get PDFA faculty-student partnership records a podcast to share their experience of a students-as-partners framework. The commentary invites the listener to explore some of the inherent tensions associated with power, voice, and positionality. Listeners are gifted with the story of the Ani to Pisi (Spiderweb), which informs this work
Les Inversions de l’héritage littéraire entre Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt et Romain Gary
Get PDFA travers un jeu de reflets intertextuels et d’inversions diégétiques dans « Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran » (2001), Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt rend hommage à Romain Gary et à « La Vie devant soi » (1975). Dans cet article, nous explorerons l’héritage littéraire qui lie ces deux romans et les divergences esthétiques qui les différencient et créent des mondes inversés. Chez Gary, le jeune orphelin Mohammed devient Moïse, chez Schmitt, Moïse devient Mohammed. Chez les deux écrivains, l’orphelin demeure au centre, refuse son parent biologique et adopte un parent qui partage ses valeurs humanistes. Alors que « La Vie devant soi »met en lumière la complexité de la mémoire, l’indicibilité du traumatisme et la richesse de la subtilité langagière, « Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran» souligne la force libératrice de l’oubli, la possibilité de la guérison et la joie de la simplicité. Au fond, ces deux œuvres représentent un plaidoyer de l’amour et de l’empathie qui réunissent les êtres séparés par la race et la religion
Role-Playing Gamification Technologies with Adult Learners
Get PDFThe purpose of this quantitative scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research study was to examine the impact Classcraft had on adult criminal justice students in a face-to-face context in a western-Canadian institution. Specifically, the role-playing digital game was integrated into a first-year applied English and investigative writing course; learners earned points, received “real world” prizes, and completed random, content-related challenges with their teams. Using a survey with Likert-style and open-ended questions, it was determined that most elements of Classcraft motivated and engaged participants. The most impactful finding was that Classcraft promoted teamwork and problem-solving abilities. While little research has been conducted in adult post-secondary settings related to the implementation of Classcraft, it is evident more research is required in other post-secondary learning contexts
How Educational Developers can Re-engage Mid-Career Faculty Using SoTL
Get PDFMid-career faculty (MCF) currently make up a significant number of faculty at higher educational institutions. This group comprises key stakeholders with institutional history, diverse teaching and learning experiences, and strong relationships with colleagues. While faculty need different kinds of support and opportunities at different career stages, it has been reported that mid-career professional development is under-researched and overlooked. We contend that professional development for MCF is essential if these faculty are going to continue to grow as educators, leaders, and scholars. With the support of Educational Developers (EDs), the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is one way for faculty to focus their professional development in the middle years of their career. Drawing on the literature about challenges for MCF and using the micro-meso-macro-mega framework, we explore ways in which EDs can use SoTL to re-engage MCF on a revitalized path. Our synthesis offers reflections on our career experiences as EDs and boundary-spanning points to ponder for both EDs and MCF as they enter into SoTL engagement