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“Being represented in the game on your own terms”: A Mi’kmaw sport administrator’s perspective on transferring agency in mainstream hockey from the structure to the individual
No full textRyan Francis grew up in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a member of Acadia First Nation. He played hockey in the United States while he completed an undergraduate degree in Sport Management before returning to Canada to obtain a Master of Physical Education in Administration, Curriculum, and Supervision. He is currently employed as Manager of Provincial Outreach and Coordination for the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage in its Communities, Sport, and Recreation Division. He is also the first ever Visiting Indigenous Fellow at Saint Mary’s University where he is leading projects in research and community collaboration all related to Indigenous sport participation and education. Ryan is perhaps best known for having helped launch the Indigenous Girls Hockey Program Nova Scotia, a role that contributed to his nomination for the National Hockey League’s prestigious Willie O’Ree Community Hero Award. He wrote this essay in his capacity as a Mi’kmaw hockey player and sport administrator about his perspective on racism in hockey and how the structure of mainstream hockey in Canada perpetuates exclusion
Utah K-12 Teachers’ Perspective: Challenges and Changes with Technology Integration during COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textIn March 2020, the global health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic brought about significant changes in classrooms around the world. This paper is part of a larger study that investigated how Utah teachers across the state adapted to technology integration during that period. Specifically, we present interview findings from ten teachers in Utah, which we analyzed using open and axial coding. The study identified four distinct challenges that teachers faced at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak: increased stress, difficulties in transitioning to digital formats, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) dissonance, and students’ lack of technological knowledge. As a result, teachers began to reassess their pedagogical approaches and incorporate greater care for themselves and their students. In terms of technology, teachers reported an increased willingness to utilize technology and videoconferencing, as well as a shift toward digital formats and platforms
About This Issue: From the Editor
No full textWelcome to Volume 27, Number 2 of the Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education. In this issue, we present a collection of articles organized under the theme: Education and Teaching Practices: Enhancing Learning and Support for Diverse Student Needs. Some of these papers were presented at the Annual ISfTE Seminar in Bhutan in 2023. Together, the articles in this issue cover various aspects of education and teaching, including pre-service teacher self-efficacy, teacher feedback, self-determination for students with disabilities, student perceptions in health education and continuity of teaching practices in higher education in our post-Covid context. This compilation of articles presents research carried out in Bhutan, Norway, Nigeria, and the USA. It underscores the diversity of educational research and its relevance to improving teaching and learning practices across different settings
« Où la licorne nous parle d’anarchies relationnelles » : la vie de licorne selon Anne Archet
No full textPar l’entremise d’un web-feuilleton, Anne Archet nous invite à repenser les interactions humaines au-delà des binarismes. Vie de licorne raconte les aventures de multiples personnages, liés les uns aux autres par le polyamour, la coparentalité, l’amitié et des pratiques sexuelles non normatives. Armée d’une palette où les couleurs de peau, les orientations sexuelles et les identités de genre des personnages s’unissent, Archet développe un processus de désinvisibilisation de minorités parfois – et même, souvent – oubliées dans l’acronyme LGBTQ+. Les anarchies relationnelles qu’elle dépeint, subvertissent l’espace virtuel pour créer une queertopie. En nous penchant sur ce processus et ces anarchies, nous analyserons la pluralité des voix qui participent d’une flexibilité des identités et des relations non binaires pour ensuite considérer les réactions face à cette pluralité. Il s’agira enfin de poser la question de la fiction et de la réalité qui déboulonnent tout cloisonnement
Ambivalent Resonance: Advocacy for Secure Status for Migrant Farm Workers in Spain, Italy and Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textDrawing on insights from scholarship on contentious action frames, this article examines the framing of demands for social justice for migrant farmworkers in Spain, Italy and Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus particularly on how activists in each country aligned their action frames with prevalent public discourses on the essential contribution migrants make to agricultural production, the need to guarantee “health for all,” and “increased vulnerability” of migrants’ lives during the global health crisis. Using these diagnostic frames, activists in the three countries called for secure legal status for all migrants. Drawing on the literature on contentious action frames, we then analyze if action frames advanced by activists during the COVID-19 pandemic “resonated” with the understanding of these issues by policymakers. We challenge an approach to understanding resonance in binary terms as either present or absent. Instead, we introduce the notion of “ambivalent resonance” to draw attention to the fact that some frames are accepted only partially or only by some policymakers but not the others, as was the case in the three countries under study. We then situate this ambivalent resonance in the context of immigration priorities and recent trends in immigration policy development in these three countries and suggest that activists can build on ambivalences to advance migrant rights to status
Risky Others: Covid-19 Reconstitutions of Risk, Governance, and Stigmatization of Bodies
No full textThis review essay considers how the risk constructions of Othered groups have been reconstituted across intersecting forms of stigma, social injustice, and discrimination during COVID-19. Through three case studies – fat irresponsible bodies, racialized contagious bodies, and food/health workers who are considered risky yet essential labour – we argue that an intersectional lens be applied to the social constructions of risk to understand the social processes of Othering when planning socially just policies, practices, pedagogies, and activism
A Lost Opportunity? Collective Demands and Migrant Farmworkers in Costa Rica during the Pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic induced an overexposure of migrant farmworkers’ poor working and living conditions in Costa Rica’s northern border area and underscored the country’s dependence on migrant labor. This created a unique opportunity to position pro-migrant concerns and demand actions from the state. In this article, we assess if and to what extent the actions of the Costa Rican state were influenced by migrant demands, or whether other priorities guided policy. Based on a novel database on protest and collective action (Protestas-IIS) that is fed with national and local newspaper articles, we analyze the demands made by migrants, the private sector and NIMBY movements, and state responses. Our findings suggest that the latter prioritized market concerns and antiimmigrant interests, thereby underscoring lessons from the literature that migrants are among the politically most disenfranchised in society. Their demands were only partially responded to by the state, and only concerning issues that aligned directly with public concerns, in this case related to health
“You Do What You Have To Do For The Babies”: The Pregnancy Experiences of Native American Women
No full textSettler colonialism has contributed to disproportionate health disparities for Indigenous women, however their health experiences during pregnancy are understudied. The first author used qualitative description methodology to conduct life-course semi-structured interviews with 31 women who were members of a state-recognized Gulf Coast Indigenous tribe in the United States. Participants most often described these types of pregnancy experiences: How and From Who Learned About Pregnancy and Birth; Experiences with Miscarriage; Complications During Pregnancy; Working During Pregnancy and Lack of Post-Partum or Maternity Leave and Generational Changes in Pregnancy. We discuss research implications and areas of future research based on participants\u27 experiences
Collegial or Contentious? Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion about an Oil Pipeline
No full textThe Decline of the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century
No full textThe Irish language has a complicated past and a delicate future. Much of the language’s past and eventual decline occurred during and due to events that began during the nineteenth century. This paper explores the introduction of English language laws in Ireland as well as the tactics employed by the English to eliminate the Irish language and its speakers from the island as a whole. Although the decline of the Irish language in the nineteenth century was steep, Ireland did not go without attempts to retain and revitalize the Irish language against the efforts of the English settler government. This paper will summarize these events and efforts as well as explore the immediate and long-term effects which occurred in Ireland as its language was swept away.