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Thrown into the Deep End: K-12 Teachers’ Educational Technology Usage in Utah During the Pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic\u27s shift to emergency remote teaching (ERT) revealed significant gaps in K-12 teachers\u27 preparedness to use educational technology (ET) outside traditional settings. This study explores ET usage among Utah\u27s K-12 teachers in 2021, focusing on tool prevalence, differences between elementary and secondary educators, and variations by educational attainment. A survey of 5,934 teachers resulted in 902 responses. Findings indicate that while traditional tools like printers and projectors were widely used, newer technologies such as Canvas and Zoom became essential. Some differences also emerged between groups. The study highlights the need for comprehensive ET training to prepare teachers for diverse instructional environments and informs recommendations for teacher preparation and professional development programs
L\u27 année de Bacchus (2020) d’El Mostafa Bouignane : une réponse affective et esthétique à l’injustice sociale et politique
No full textL’année de Bacchus d’El Mostafa Bouignane explore les profondeurs de l’âme humaine une fois confrontée à l’injustice et à la souffrance. Le roman met en exergue des éléments affectifs et esthétiques tels que l’amour, l’art et l’écriture ayant le pouvoir de neutraliser ces douleurs, d’ouvrir les êtres en détresse au monde et de les amener à faire preuve de pardon et d’indulgence. L’œuvre invite le lecteur à réfléchir sur la résilience de l’âme humaine face à l’adversité
Bénédicte Boyrie-Fénié, quand l’amour des mots rejoint l’amour de la Lana gran
No full textDocteur en géographie historique, la Landaise Bénédicte Boyrie-Fénié est spécialiste de toponymie, ce qui l’amène à réaliser des études toponymiques sur différentes communes ou régions. Grâce à ses différents travaux, parfois conduits avec son époux Jean-Jacques Fénié, elle met en valeur le pays occitan, en conservant un intérêt tout particulier pour les Landes. Elle s’engage depuis plus de trente ans pour faire connaître et vivre la langue gasconne, utilisant pour ce faire de nombreux médias. Elle va ainsi à la rencontre de la population, par des expositions, des livres de vulgarisation ou des ouvrages scientifiques, des conférences. Même si elle a dû admettre que la langue ne serait plus parlée comme dans son enfance ou même dans sa jeunesse, elle ne renonce pas et demeure une femme d’oc engagée.Docteur en géographie historique, la Landaise Bénédicte Boyrie-Fénié est spécialiste de toponymie, ce qui l’amène à réaliser des études toponymiques sur différentes communes ou régions. Grâce à ses différents travaux, parfois conduits avec son époux Jean-Jacques Fénié, elle met en valeur le pays occitan, en conservant un intérêt tout particulier pour les Landes. Elle s’engage depuis plus de trente ans pour faire connaître et vivre la langue gasconne, utilisant pour ce faire de nombreux médias. Elle va ainsi à la rencontre de la population, par des expositions, des livres de vulgarisation ou des ouvrages scientifiques, des conférences. Même si elle a dû admettre que la langue ne serait plus parlée comme dans son enfance ou même dans sa jeunesse, elle ne renonce pas et demeure une femme d’oc engagée
AI-books, Vines, Bricks
No full textAI-generated texts and images are here transformed, “translated” – carried over – into new forms
Border Extraterritoriality or Cosmopolitan Responsibility? Conceptualizing the Possibility of Asylum Claims in absentia
No full textAn emergent issue for critical migration studies concerns the technological and diplomatic capacities of Western nation-states to externalize bordering practices. The extraterritorialization of border enforcement presents a dual problematic for migrants, intellectuals, activists, and civil-society members. They must navigate, on one hand, a pressing need to respond to the pre-emptive foreclosure of a “right to presence,” while on the other hand rethinking institutions of asylum to be capable of operating from a distance. In the following, I construct a new manner of thinking about border extraterritorialization in general, and in response, formulate rightful claims to asylum as articulated in absentia. Extraterritorialization practices and their logics are characterized by pro-jection, through which they give rise to a “general domain of ends” predicated on nation-state irresponsibility, outside of law and outside of their territories. I then elaborate upon a notion of cosmopolitanism that characterizes grassroots actions attempting to address these bordering practices, ones that challenge state-centric frameworks of politics. In advancement of this position, I discuss how a relation of responsibility may be constructed from a distance through civil society initiatives (private sponsorship), counter-public networks (exemplified by WatchTheMed), and counter-institutions (the International Parliament of Writers). All these examples represent a form of communicative reach
Multisensory Storytelling in Disability Arts: Innovations in Accessibility and Audience Engagement
No full textFractured Time: Sensory Dimensions of the Pandemic is a multisensory four-dimensional installation created by neurodivergent artists. The piece communicates aspects of the artists’ lived experiences of the pandemic through the sensory modalities of touch, sound, smell, and sight. In this paper, the authors consider the installation of Fractured Time at three distinct, non-traditional sites. Reproducing the installation at each site presented unique complications for accessibility, therefore requiring adaptation where possible. These experiences provide a foundation for discussing Disability Arts. By addressing the questions, how might we engage sensory modalities without ocularcentrism overpowering the storytelling process?, and what are the ways we can address accessibility in curating an art installation?, the authors propose three creative phases when considering accessible curation: isolate (falsely), instruct, and imagine. These steps are explained within the context of the installation
We Killed Them First: How the Robert Pickton Investigation Revealed Systemic and Intersectional Discrimination within Canada
No full textRobert Pickton is often considered to be Canada’s most notorious serial killer. By his own estimation, he murdered 49 women over at least 5 years (Craig, 3). The Pickton case brought attention to fundamental issues within the Canadian justice system and highlighted systemic inequities. From the outset, the police failed to take the issue of missing and murdered women seriously because the women were considered expendable. As members of several marginalized communities at the intersection of race, low socioeconomic status, and stigmatized labour, the loss of these women was considered acceptable. I argue that the intersection of these characteristics that were “accepted” as defining Pickton’s victims demonstrates that the assumptions and biases of those who enforce the law (police and judges) can seriously impair the system\u27s ability to create equitable outcomes. Utilizing media analysis, this paper looks at the language commonly found in articles about Pickton and his victims to demonstrate the role intersectional characteristics played in crafting certain narratives to the public
Human Rights Approach for Climate Justice – Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland
No full textReflections on Repair Praxis in Academic Spaces
No full textHaving conducted research and taught courses in political anthropology for several decades, particularly on nationalism, populism, and ethnonational conflict, I have initiated, facilitated and been caught up in many difficult conversations on issues including identity (politics), rights, conflict and justice with my students and colleagues. My research on the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia and the Kitchener-Waterloo Mennonite Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program has taught me valuable lessons on how practices of repair have been embedded or emerged in response to tensions, conflict and trauma-induced experiences, histories and lived realities. These lessons have become especially relevant in the context of recent challenges to academic freedom that have emerged in response to the ongoing war in Palestine/Israel. Suspensions, censure and surveillance are some of the troubling consequences, which combined have had an enormous impact on pedagogy and scholarship, affecting faculty and students alike. In this context, I argue that practices reflecting the centrality of (and urgent need for attention to) academic freedom are enhanced through pedagogical instruction and illustrate several strategies I use in classroom settings. I also discuss how despite the fractious environment created, and in some cases inflamed by the ongoing conflict, faculty and student groups are endeavouring to create and test out safe and respectful spaces for critical thinking, vigorous debate, as well as sharing and listening. These and other locally inspired initiatives are important to building networks based on thoughtful discussion and analysis, allyship, activism and more. I conclude by reflecting on anthropological research on the ethics of repair and its potential to inform pedagogical strategies aimed at navigating increasingly fraught and vulnerable academic spaces