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Developing a Learning Community to Promote and Encourage Critical Thinking and Constructive Discourse in the Classroom
No full textWe are currently in a time where the value of a university education is being consistently challenged. University education is a chance for students to gain a liberal understanding of the world through engaging with multiple diverse perspectives and developing habits of mind that will help them be thoughtful and critical. We anticipate that students will use what they gain at the university to help them better their own lives and the lives of those around them as engaged citizens seeking to make the changes necessary to promote freedom, access, and democracy. But what does this look like in our current political climate? How do we develop classroom spaces where students and instructors have the courage to speak up, and the humility to have their views critiqued and challenged? Can there be room in the classroom for civil discourse, disagreement, and critical thinking without things getting out of control? In this workshop session, attendees will participate in a variety of discussion and dialogue activities that will facilitate constructive discourse in a learning community where teachers and students work together to build an environment that encourages critical thinking and constructive discourse
The Courage to Support Student Communication of Assignments: Integration of a Late Work Explanation Form Over Two Semesters
No full textThis session will discuss the implementation of utilizing a Late Work Explanation Form to support student communication between the student(s) and the instructor when unexpected events happen or when a student is not able to complete all required assignments on time. The session will discuss the integration of the Lake Work Explanation Form, where communication to students from the instructor states: This form is intended to support communication between us for the course you are enrolled in this semester when life happens to allow you the opportunity to submit assignments late. De-identified data and results will be addressed relating to the student population\u27s submissions while using the form throughout two different semesters and courses within a master\u27s level program along with discussion of the takeaways relating to both students\u27 and instructors\u27 perceptions of the use of the form to support communication within the course
Quantitative Analysis of Protective Effect of Resveratrol Against Nanoplastic-Induced Oxidative Stress
Get PDFNanoplastics and microplastics are a growing ecological and health concern due to their widespread prevalence. The effects of these microscopic particles in biological systems primarily relate to their potential to produce reactive oxygen species and interactive effects with other cytotoxic agents. Of particular interest in this work is the effect on mammalian intestinal cells, due to the regular unintentional ingestion of micro- and nanoplastics in the normal western diet. In this study, Caco-2 cells were cultured and exposed to polystyrene particles in vitro as a simple model of the human digestive endothelium.
Resveratrol, a naturally occurring polyphenolic compound, has been shown to protect against reactive oxygen species through a combination of direct neutralization or by enhancing the expression of genes responsible for cellular defense. This work sets out to demonstrate how resveratrol and other antioxidant compounds can be used to assuage the cellular damage caused by nanoplastics. Oxidative damage and apoptosis were measured as a function of nanoplastic size, concentration, and chemical modification. Significant cellular damage was detected in the presence of amine-modified nanoplastics, while cell health was recovered when the cells were pre-treated with resveratrol and a chemically-modified variant of resveratrol
Coexistence Conservation: Time to Change the Paradigm
Get PDFThis letter to the editor recommends that coexistence conservation should be recognized as a new discipline within conservation biology with vast potential for the future of biodiversity conservation. The term “coexistence conservation” must be broadened to accommodate different techniques and their development, regardless of the context of invasive species
Tremblings November 2024
Get PDFAspen Stewardship With PBR
Paul C. Rogers, Director, Western Aspen Alliance, Adjunct Professor (Environment & Society), Associate (Ecology Center), Utah State University
How do we effectively piece together aspen science for better management? This question has been the nexus of the Western Aspen Alliance\u27s (WAA) mission since our 2008 inception. If you participated in one of more than 40 WAA field-based workshops you can attest that evolving research findings from numerous interlacing disciplines makes for a challenging science-management landscape. However, this clear departure from historical and linear \u27command and control\u27 approaches, though demanding, incorporates vital multi-dimensionality (e.g., social, cultural, institutional elements; plants, animals, soils, water, climate, etc.) into an adaptive framework. Process-based restoration (PBR) involves consideration of both science and institutional practices; physical and cultural elements are equally in play, so it\u27s best to acknowledge this up front
Teaching Sociology Through Reality TV: Understanding Society through the Small Screen
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This article explores reality TV’s value in teaching sociological concepts and theories for a better understanding contemporary society. Reality TV serves as a rich canvas for illustrating key tenets of major sociological theories such as structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. By analyzing reality TV through a sociological lens, insights into societal dynamics emerge, revealing how individuals navigate social norms. Additionally, reality TV serves as a cultural mirror, reflecting and shaping societal values. Globally, it influences cultural attitudes and social dynamics, transcending geographical boundaries through adaptations and social media engagement. It promotes inclusivity by showcasing underrepresented voices and challenging stereotypes. As an educational tool, reality TV offers concrete examples for teaching sociology, facilitating the exploration of social concepts such as inequality and gender roles. Ultimately, reality TV provides a window into human behavior and societal structures, offering valuable insights for sociological inquiry
Thriving Hives: Cleaning and Sterilizing Beekeeping Equipment
Get PDFHoneybees are susceptible to many types of diseases and parasites, most of which can spread easily through equipment. Your hives\u27 health and safety depend on your attention to detail and efforts to keep your equipment clean and sterile. This fact sheet lists several methods for sterilizing beekeeping equipment. The list is not exhaustive but includes some of the most cost-effective options
Causal Inference in Ethnographic Research: Refining Explanations With Abductive Logic, Strength of Evidence Assessments, And Graphical Models
Get PDFIn their classic accounts, anthropological ethnographers developed causal arguments for how specific sociocultural structures and processes shaped human thought, behavior, and experience in particular settings. Despite this history, many contemporary ethnographers avoid establishing in their work direct causal relationships between key variables in the way that, for example, quantitative research relying on experimental or longitudinal data might. As a result, ethnographers in anthropology and other fields have not advanced understandings of how to derive causal explanations from their data, which contrasts with a vibrant “causal revolution” unfolding in the broader social and behavioral sciences. Given this gap in understanding, we aim in the current article to clarify the potential ethnography has for illuminating causal processes related to the cultural influence on human knowledge and practice. We do so by drawing on our ongoing mixed methods ethnographic study of games, play, and avatar identities. In our ethnographic illustrations, we clarify points often left unsaid in both classic anthropological ethnographies and in more contemporary interdisciplinary theorizing on qualitative research methodologies. More specifically, we argue that for ethnographic studies to illuminate causal processes, it is helpful, first, to state the implicit strengths and logic of ethnography and, second, to connect ethnographic practice more fully to now well-developed interdisciplinary approaches to causal inference. In relation to the first point, we highlight the abductive inferential logic of ethnography. Regarding the second point, we connect the ethnographic logic of abduction to what Judea Pearl has called the ladder of causality, where moving from association to intervention to what he calls counterfactual reasoning produces stronger evidence for causal processes. Further, we show how graphical modeling approaches to causal explanation can help ethnographers clarify their thinking. Overall, we offer an alternative vision of ethnography, which contrasts, but nevertheless remains consistent with, currently more dominant interpretive approaches
Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition
Get PDFLiquid Light is an important addition to the growing number of published accounts that discuss the use of ayahuasca (known by the name, Daime), and its role within Santo Daime, a fundamentally Christian though highly syncretic new religious movement founded in 1930 in the Amazonian state of Acre by an Afro-Brazilian rubber tapper known to followers as Mestre Irineu. The text is a richly descriptive account of Barnard’s own evolution as a fardado (Santo Daime initiate) and includes first-hand accounts of his participation in many kinds and types of Santo Daime worship services in both the United States (Chapters 1 and 3) and during his four-month visit (Chapters 4–10) to the Amazonian village of Céu do Mapiá, an intentional community founded in 1983 by one of Irineu’s followers known as Padrinho Sabastião
Phylogenomics Recovers Multiple Origins of Portable Case Making in Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera), Nature\u27s Underwater Architects
Get PDFCaddisflies (Trichoptera) are among the most diverse groups of freshwater animals with more than 16 000 describes species. They play a fundamental role in freshwater ecology and environmental engineering in streams, rivers and lakes. Because of this, they are frequently used as indicator organisms in biomonitoring programmes. Despite their importance, key questions concerning the evolutionary history of caddisflies, such as the timing and origin of larval case making, remain unanswered owing to the lack of a well-resolved phylogeny. Here, we estimated a phylogenetic tree using a combination of transcriptomes and targeted enrichment data for 207 species, representing 48 of 52 extant families and 174 genera. We calibrated and dated the tree with 33 carefully selected fossils. The first caddisflies originated approximately 295 million years ago in the Permian, and major suborders began to diversify in the Triassic. Furthermore, we show that portable case making evolved in three separate lineages, and shifts in diversification occurred in concert with key evolutionary innovations beyond case making