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Teacher Retention in Early Childhood Settings
No full textThis qualitative study explored teacher retention in early childhood classroom settings, focusing on job satisfaction, stressors in the workplace and factors that push early childhood educators out of the field. An open-ended online survey was completed by 38 early childhood educators throughout the state of Maine. Good management and being able to meet the needs of their students were found to be the most important factors which teachers’ feel influence their job satisfaction. Recommendations to promote educator retention include having adequate resources and support
Moral Contagion : Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America
No full textBetween 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a \u27moral contagion\u27 of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and British diplomatic agents protested this treatment. They wrote letters, published tracts, cajoled elected officials, pleaded with Southern officials, and litigated in state and federal courts. By deploying a progressive and sweeping notion of national citizenship - one that guaranteed a number of rights against state regulation - they exposed the ambiguity and potential power of national citizenship as a legal category. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized the robust understanding of citizenship championed by Antebellum free people of color, by people afflicted with \u27moral contagion\u27.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1064/thumbnail.jp
Thailand\u27s Kik Culture: Society, HIV and Public Policy in a Changing World
Get PDFThis preliminary study had the explicit goal to determine the perceived understanding of kik in Thai culture, the influence of the internet and Western movies on sexual norms, and the awareness of public policy surrounding sex education and HIV campaigns in addressing the new landscape of sex among the youth. The author also queried the respondents’ perception of equality of sexual liberation between the sexes. While able to capitalize on existing historical research and reports on HIV, STI, and teenage pregnancy as reported in Thailand, the author was also able to travel to Thailand for a total of 14 days in January, 2019, in order to collect primary data through interviews with both participatory observers and those who work in the field
One, Two, Three, Four! We Don’t Want Your F**king War! The Vietnam Antiwar Movement in Young Adult Fiction
No full textThis study of the representation of the anti–Vietnam War movement in 53 young adult novels published from 1967 to 2018 includes every young adult novel that lists the Vietnam War as its first or second Library of Congress subject descriptor. The teen characters who participate in the antiwar movement or question our government’s war policy are regularly ignored or vilified. Only 32 novels acknowledge the existence of an antiwar movement. Most novels equate antiwar sentiment with aggressive anti-soldier action, even though the historical record does not bear this out. When young readers are repeatedly shown protesters as vicious idiots who regularly attacked veterans, they learn that there is no legitimate way to question our country’s war policies. When they’re never shown active-duty GIs (many of whom were teens) and veterans who worked tirelessly as antiwar activists, this dishonors veterans. These representations, combined with images of protesters ubiquitously spitting on veterans and shouting “baby killer” at them, have served to discredit the antiwar movement and the young people involved in it
Fedco Seeds and Supplies 2019
Get PDFWhen is a seed catalog more than a seed catalog?
When it is the Fedco Seed catalog.
Fedco, founded in 1978, is a worker-consumer cooperative in Maine known for promoting the ideals of cooperation, transparency, and the common ownership of seeds. These archives contain thousands of pages of Fedco’s seed catalogs. As one of its editors noted, “We give our readers things to think about.” Annual themes have included the role played by soil bacteria—the microscopic heroes that make life on this planet possible; the contributions of plant breeders and seed keepers; poetry by Walt Whitman, Vergil, and Russell Libby, among others. Editorials often stress the negative impact multinational corporations have on the genetic diversity of food crops, and provide annual updates on genetic engineering and the consolidation of the seed industry. Bits of humor are throughout, some of them in possibly the catalogs’ best feature: original art, and engravings from old seed catalogs and horticultural books. It is, in the words of Fedco’s founder CR Lawn, “More than a marketing tool.
Assessing Adult Perceptions of Sexual Behavior in the Early Childhood Setting
Get PDFIn recent years, there has been an increase in challenging behavior in early childhood settings
because of “sexual behavior”, making an understanding of healthy development in children crucial to the work of the early childhood educator. This study explores information gathered from early childhood educators throughout the state of Maine to assess adult perceptions, opinions, and attitudes about the concept of sexual behavior in early childhood settings, as well as needs for support. Utilizing an online survey tool, the study gathered feedback from 633 respondents throughout the state of Maine. The study revealed that while 72% of educators are comfortable talking to children and parents about these issues, 61% are seeking training and resources on the topic. Minimal research on the issue exists, making the need for current information crucial to the task of determining how best to support early childhood educators in their roles
As Many Nows as I Can Get
No full textIn one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions.Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of the landscape. Magnetic, spontaneous, David is a gravitational force. And Scarlett, pragmatic, wry, eye on the future, welcomes the whirlwind he brings even as she resists it.Moving between the present and the past, this is the story of a seemingly grounded girl who\u27s pulled into a lightning-strike romance with an electric-charged boy, and the enormity of the aftermath. Smart, bold, and unconventionally romantic, Shana Youngdahl\u27s debut explores grief, guilt, and reconciling who you think you need to be with the person you\u27ve been all along. It\u27s an aching, transporting reminder that between the past that shapes us and the unknowable future, we have only the present to forgive ourselves and forge ahead.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1082/thumbnail.jp
Vigilance of Stars : A Novel
No full textFour stories twine together in this novel set in both contemporary and 1950\u27s Maine. Kiya, a Portland hair stylist in her early 20\u27s, becomes unexpectedly pregnant and determined to keep the baby as she struggles to recover from her brother\u27s suicide. Peter, the baby\u27s father, wants to break away from Kiya and find love--somewhere else. Maddie, Peter\u27s mother, fights her own loneliness as she cares for Alex, incapacitated in a nursing home. Evie, Maddie\u27s mother, appears as a young woman in the 1950\u27s, searching to heal herself both emotionally and physically.
Kiya loses her confidence to be a mother in a shattering experience, which drives her from her home in Portland into the care of Maddie. On the shores of a wide and quiet lake in central Maine, Kiya tries to piece herself together. Peter, still in Portland, struggles to do the right thing without assuming the responsibilities of fatherhood, finding help from his new girlfriend Toni, who--for reasons of her own--pushes him into helping Kiya. In counterpoint to the lives of her descendants, Evie, Peter\u27s grandmother and Maddie\u27s mother, puts herself into the care of Wilhelm Reich at his institute in northern Maine, Orgonon. She is hoping to heal both her melanoma and (though she can hardly admit this to herself) her sexual problems.
The characters\u27 lives spiral together, moving with inexorable force toward an ending which takes place on an uninhabited island in Maine where the stars stand watch over lives both old and new.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1081/thumbnail.jp
