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Self-Improvement in Astellian Friendship
No full textIn this article, I argue that existing literature discounts the role of self-improvement in Astellian friendship. To make this element central, I show how an Epicurean analysis of Astellian friendship brings self-improvement clearly into focus. On the way to centering self-improvement, I show how extant accounts imply self-improvement without explicitly setting up the architecture to explain this element of Astellian friendship. Self-improvement is centralized by way of three shared themes between the Epicurean Garden and the Astellian religious retirement: the motivation to enter, the project inside, and the manner of friendship
Child care participation among Indigenous children in Canada
No full textThe release of a Canadian Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework highlights the importance of recent, Indigenous-specific information to describe the landscape of child care among Indigenous children in Canada; however, there has been a gap in identity-specific, national data on child care for Indigenous children. The purpose of the current study was to address data gaps on participation in child care for First Nations children living off reserve, Métis, and Inuit children. Furthermore, two years of data are examined which provide information on child care use both prior to and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, First Nations children living off reserve (49%) and Inuit children (42E %)1 were significantly less likely to participate in child care compared with non-Indigenous children (60%), although Métis children (60%) were equally likely to participate in child care compared with non-Indigenous children. Only First Nations children living off reserve (40%) were significantly less likely than non-Indigenous children (53%) to participate in child care in 2020. In terms of the type of child care used, Inuit children were more likely to be in a daycare centre (70%) compared with non-Indigenous children (52%) in 2019, although Inuit children’s participation in a daycare centre dropped to 46E% in 2020. This is likely due to public health restrictions which closed many child care centres during the pandemic, as over one-third of child care in the territories is centre-based. The findings provide important information about patterns of child care use for Indigenous children both before and during the pandemic
Resistance Through Connections, Communities, and Friendships: Interrelational Possibilities of Educational Curriculum Design
No full textThis paper examines the transformational possibilities of educational curriculum design in fostering interrelational solidarities among mature migrant and diaspora women. It offers a brief introduction to an emerging doctoral project that engages with the educational experiences of mature migrant and diaspora women in Canada. Throughout a migrant woman’s displacement and “settlement” journey, friendships emerge as a starting point through which some women start to construct their agentic selves within and outside their homes, partners, and diasporic community. These friendships allow for a transnational self to emerge, one that can move beyond identification as the primary location for struggle, and towards shared, but different, experiences of oppression. By resisting neoliberal and multicultural immigration policies that isolate mature immigrant women and reproduce violence, these connections, communities, and friendships push settlement education systems to reckon with complicated, yet symbiotic experiences of migrant and diaspora women
Evaluation of Multimedia-Based Intervention for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study
No full textThis pilot study evaluated the possible risks and prospects of a multimedia-based intervention in improving the social and adaptive skills of students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Thirty Filipino special education teachers served as evaluators and teacher-respondents. Using a validated and reliability-tested evaluation grid, they evaluated the intervention using the following constructs: alignment and appropriateness, utility and relevance, visual appeal, and overall engagement. The findings of this preliminary study indicate that the overall evaluation of this relatively unexplored multimedia-based intervention was favourable (M = 4.502); in other words, teacher-respondents found that the intervention has the potential to enhance the social and adaptive skills of students on the spectrum, including their attention, task performance, social learning, and engagement. Furthermore, the findings highlight the positive perception of the multimedia-based intervention among the participating teachers and suggest that its potentiality was contingent neither on their number of years in the field nor the number of students with ASD enrolled in their classes (p-values > 0.05). The results of both descriptive and inferential statistics, in conjunction with valuable recommendations from the teacher-respondents, led to the formulation of a targeted action plan for enhancing the efficacy of the proposed multimedia-based intervention
Ficcionalización de Simón Bolívar como personaje heroico en su discurso epistolar
No full textIn this paper I research the fictionalization of Simón Bolívar as a heroic character. The corpus that is taken are his letters. It is analyzed how there are traces of this intention enunciated throughout his epistolary writing, which suggest that there exists at a discursive level, implicitly and explicitly, a self-conception of himself as a hero. The theoretical plane is based on theories of fiction and character.
The analysis of the epistles is subdivided into three main parts: “Formation of the hero” (1805-1812), a stage in which it is observed how the character internalizes that he is a heroic figure who has an important role in the story; “Consolidation of the hero” (1812-1827), phase in which the character has the self-conception that he is a hero and analyzes aspects of his environment based on these parameters (the importance of glory and transcendence, a clear vision of friends/enemies similar to how it is found in epic stories, among others); and “Decline of the hero” (1828-1830), a phase characterized by showing traces of disenchantment, questioning of betrayals and recalling mistakes.En esta investigación se realiza un estudio sobre la ficcionalización de Simón Bolívar como personaje heroico. El corpus que se toma son sus cartas. Se analiza cómo hay huellas de esta intención en enunciados a lo largo de su escritura epistolar, que dejan entrever que existe a nivel discursivo, implícita y explícitamente, una autoconcepción de él mismo como héroe. El plano teórico se sustenta con base a teorías de la ficción y del personaje.
El análisis de las epístolas está subdividido en tres grandes partes: “Formación del héroe” (1805-1812), etapa en la que se observa cómo el personaje va internalizando que es una figura heroica que tiene un papel importante en la historia; “Consolidación del héroe” (1812-1827), fase en la que el personaje histórico tiene la autoconcepción de que es un héroe y analiza aspectos de su entorno con base a estos parámetros (la importancia de la gloria y la trascendencia, una visión clara de los amigos/enemigos similar a como se encuentra en relatos épicos, entre otros); y “Declive del héroe” (1828-1830), fase caracterizada por presentar huellas de desencanto, el cuestionamiento de las traiciones y rememorar errores
The Open Arms Day Centre as a Pou Whirinaki and Key Space of Care within the Conduct of Māori Homeless Lifeworlds in Whangārei, Aotearoa, New Zealand
No full textHomelessness has re-emerged as a significant issue in Aotearoa, New Zealand (Aotearoa/NZ) in recent decades, with Māori (Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) being impacted disproportionately due to ongoing processes of colonisation and impoverishment. Whether living on the streets of an urban centre, small city, or rural district, the lifeworlds of homeless people are frequently textured by social, material, and spatial exclusions, uncertainties, insecurities, and stigma. This article explores how the Open Arms Day Centre (OADC), a drop-in day centre for homeless people in Whangārei (a small city in Northland), functions as a dependable Pou Whirinaki (pillar of strength and support) in the everyday lives of Māori experiencing homelessness. Employing a Māori-centred, case-based approach, we explored the experiences of a small group of local service users, volunteers, and staff through interviews, photographic exercises, and regular casual conversations. This culturally informed mode of inquiry resulted in a deeper understanding of the OADC’s operation as what health geographers have also referred to as a space of care. Such spaces offer those frequenting them opportunities for respite, inclusion, belonging, and routine. They become Pou Whirinaki through enactments of Māori relational values and practices that foster a sense of ontological security, cultural continuity, and shared humanit
"Wholly Useless and Unserviceable to Knowledge": Locke's Practical Case Against Species Realism
No full textIn this paper I examine Locke’s criticism of the view that some species of natural objects are determined by real essences, a view I call species realism. Most commentators have focused either on Locke’s putative objections to the realist’s claim that species determining real essences exist or on his semantic case against the assumption that our species terms can refer to real essences that determine species. I identify another objection, which, I argue, is independent from both of these lines of criticism. This objection is essentially practical. It is based on the claim that adopting species realism has detrimental practical consequences: it undermines, Locke believes, our ability to sort particular natural objects into species. This alone, he argues, is already sufficient to set aside and ignore species realism when trying to sort objects into species
Bones Wanted: Home Front Britain’s Use of Propaganda to Promote Civilian Engagement Through the Salvage Campaign During Word War II
No full textThis paper aims to examine how Home Front Britain used propaganda such as posters to promote civilian involvement in the war effort during World War II. The campaign that is being examined is the Salvage Campaign which was active from 1939 to the end of the war. Through the study of two posters entitled "Bones Wanted" and "Bones Still Wanted" it is clear that recycling was a recurring need throughout the war. It also contributed to the popularization of recycling within the duration of the war as it continued on afterward, something that it failed to do after World War I. Different aspects of the Salvage Campaign such as its use of gendered terminology and its success on a national level can be seen in its impact on recycling in the aftermath of the war. Additionally, the study of posters such as these also reveals a shifting focus toward sociocultural narratives by using propaganda media as a way to examine what the British wartime government deemed useful information to share with its civilians and how effective it truly was to the war effort and afterward. 
Sur les pronoms personnels et les expressions de mépris dans deux traductions japonaises de Manon Lescaut : Mizuho Aoyagi (1956) et Kan Nozaki (2017)
No full textL’analyse de deux traductions japonaises de Manon Lescaut à travers l’usage des pronoms dans le passage où le vieux G... M... découvre Manon Lescaut et des Grieux chez son fils donne deux portraits divergents du narrateur. Soit c’est un brutal de nature emportée et potentiellement vulgaire; soit c’est un adolescent qui a peu d’usage du monde mais qui malgré ses fautes, ou défauts de caractère, reste relativement plus poli, et conscient de son rang. L’analyse de deux traductions japonaises de Manon Lescaut à travers l’usage des pronoms dans le passage où le vieux G... M... découvre Manon Lescaut et des Grieux chez son fils donne deux portraits divergents du narrateur. Soit c’est un brutal de nature emportée et potentiellement vulgaire; soit c’est un adolescent qui a peu d’usage du monde mais qui malgré ses fautes, ou défauts de caractère, reste relativement plus poli, et conscient de son rang. 
Contribution de l’enseignement de la médecine vétérinaire aux enjeux du développement durable des productions animales
No full textThis article explains the process of creating a course in veterinary medicine aimed at interesting students to the challenges of animal production. The article is a retrospective analysis of five consecutive versions of the course which resulted in the elaboration of an explicit frame of reference that links three key concepts: 1) Animal production as the object of analysis; 2) Sustainable development as the paradigm of integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions and 3) Ethical deliberation as the process of analysis. The course proposes an innovative approach based on active learning, peer-based learning and ethical deliberation to resolve the main conflict of values of a case study of a veterinary intervention from the perspective of sustainable development. The method proposed meets the requirements of the competency-based program of the Faculty of veterinary medicine on the acquisition of the competencies of professionalism and integration of the scientific approach. The pedagogical approach presented in this article contributes to the advancement of knowledge in teaching and learning of veterinary medicine by valuing knowledge and attitudes of the profession in the perspective of openness to other disciplines and interveners of the agricultural sector. This interactive method could be adapted to other post-secondary programs seeking to define the role and contribution of their discipline to different challenges linked to sustainable development.Cet article explique le processus de création d’un cours en médecine vétérinaire qui vise à intéresser les étudiants aux enjeux des productions animales. L’article est une analyse rétrospective de cinq versions successives du cours, qui a donné lieu à l’élaboration d’un cadre de référence explicite qui relie trois concepts-clés : 1) Productions animales comme objet d’analyse; 2) Développement durable comme paradigme d’intégration des dimensions économiques, sociales et environnementales et 3) Délibération éthique comme processus d’analyse. Le cours propose une approche innovatrice basée sur l’apprentissage actif, l’apprentissage par les pairs et la délibération éthique pour résoudre le principal conflit de valeurs en lien avec une étude de cas d’une intervention vétérinaire dans une perspective de développement durable. La méthode proposée répond aux exigences du programme par compétence de la Faculté de médecine vétérinaire sur l’acquisition des compétences de professionnalisme et d’intégration de la démarche scientifique. La démarche pédagogique présentée dans cet article contribue à l’avancement des connaissances en enseignement et en apprentissage de la médecine vétérinaire en valorisant les savoirs et les savoir-être de la profession dans une perspective d’ouverture aux autres disciplines et intervenants de la filière agricole. Cette méthode interactive pourrait s’adapter à d’autres programmes d’études postsecondaires cherchant à définir le rôle et la contribution de leurs disciplines à l’égard de différents défis liés au développement durable