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Increasing Motivation and Engagement in Advanced Literature Courses: Visions of Home: Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809; Elective Affinities)
No full textGoethe’s complex novel, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, with its focus on enhancing the home and its landscape, an activity that ends in chaos and destruction, allows for a problematization of the Enlightenment credo of perfectibility of humanity and its environment. To increase student motivation, I prefer thematic courses instead of relying on survey courses. In particular, I favor topics that lend themselves to comparing and contrasting the students’ contemporary experience with the historical context. Creating a link between the past and the present, thus offering both familiarity and alterity, facilitates access to the respective theme. At the same time, employing typical pedagogies used in the beginning language courses (images, activities beyond questions, worksheets, games) also in the advanced language, literature, and culture courses like the one described here, fosters stronger engagement with the literary text. This fourth-year course, taught in German, meets our “Learning Goals”, emphasizes transferable skills, and contributes to project-based learning.Goethe’s complex novel, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, with its focus on enhancing the home and its landscape, an activity that ends in chaos and destruction, allows for a problematization of the Enlightenment credo of perfectibility of humanity and its environment. To increase student motivation, I prefer thematic courses instead of relying on survey courses. In particular, I favor topics that lend themselves to comparing and contrasting the students’ contemporary experience with the historical context. Creating a link between the past and the present, thus offering both familiarity and alterity, facilitates access to the respective theme. At the same time, employing typical pedagogies used in the beginning language courses (images, activities beyond questions, worksheets, games) also in the advanced language, literature, and culture courses like the one described here, fosters stronger engagement with the literary text. This fourth-year course, taught in German, meets our “Learning Goals”, emphasizes transferable skills, and contributes to project-based learning
Le colorisme et le noirisme dans le contexte haïtien. Amour de Marie Vieux-Chauvet
No full textIl s’agit du contraste entre la Négritude, qui repose sur la certitude que le continent africain et ses habitants ont un apport positif qui doit contribuer à l’universel des cultures humaines. Il s’agit d’une main tendue sans complexe. Tandis que le colorisme, introduit par Alice Walker, et le noirisme, ont rapidement été dévoyés en une pratique du ressentiment en Haïti, causant les noirs de peau foncée de devenir la terreur de leurs compatriotes « mulâtres ». Sous l’impulsion des « trois D », dont Duvalier, le noirisme est devenu la politique des « tontons macoutes » assoiffés de pouvoir et de reconnaissance sociale, par les bourgeois mulâtres qu’ils persécutaient, selon des relents d’envie, de jalousie, de ressentiment meurtrier et de désir sexuel qui en fin de compte jouent avec le racisme, et gardent la hiérarchie des pigments intacte et opérationnelle, comme dans une famille aux relations d’amour malsaines et mortifères.Il s’agit du contraste entre la Négritude, qui repose sur la certitude que le continent africain et ses habitants ont un apport positif qui doit contribuer à l’universel des cultures humaines. Il s’agit d’une main tendue sans complexe. Tandis que le colorisme, introduit par Alice Walker, et le noirisme, ont rapidement été dévoyés en une pratique du ressentiment en Haïti, causant les noirs de peau foncée de devenir la terreur de leurs compatriotes « mulâtres ». Sous l’impulsion des « trois D », dont Duvalier, le noirisme est devenu la politique des « tontons macoutes » assoiffés de pouvoir et de reconnaissance sociale, par les bourgeois mulâtres qu’ils persécutaient, selon des relents d’envie, de jalousie, de ressentiment meurtrier et de désir sexuel qui en fin de compte jouent avec le racisme, et gardent la hiérarchie des pigments intacte et opérationnelle, comme dans une famille aux relations d’amour malsaines et mortifères
Galambos v Perez, its Critics, and the Equity-Certainty Paradox in Fiduciary Law
No full textThis paper examines the merits of the current approach to identifying ad hoc fiduciary duties in Canada, which was exposited by the Supreme Court of Canada in its 2009 Galambos v Perez decision. The indicia of fiduciary relationships expressed in Galambos, I argue, are sufficiently comprehensive and certain to overcome popular academic criticisms of the indicia-based ad hoc approach. Specifically, I will challenge the arguments of the contractarian scholar Anthony Duggan and the equity-focused scholar Leonard Rotman -- both of which argue, albeit from different ends of the academic spectrum, that ad hoc fiduciary duties should not be identified using indicia
Mansplaining as Epistemic Injustice
No full text“Mansplaining” is by now part of the common cultural vernacular. Yet, academic analyses of it—specifically, philosophical ones—are missing. This paper sets out to address just that problem. Analyzed through a lens of epistemic injustice, the focus of the analysis concerns both what it is, and what its harms are. I argue it is a form of epistemic injustice distinct from testimonial injustice wherein there is a dysfunctional subversion of the epistemic roles of hearer and speaker in a testimonial exchange. As these are roles of power and are crucial to our existence and functioning within epistemic communities, the wrong and harms suffered from this injustice are serious and, I argue, distinct from other types already discussed in the literature. I close by considering an alternative model of mansplaining as a form of silencing, as well as briefly diagnosing its general underlying cause and possible solutions
San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training as an Educational Intervention: Promoting Anti-Racism and Equity in Health Systems, Policies, and Practices
No full textThe San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program is an Indigenous-led, policy-driven, and systems-level educational intervention to foster health equity and mitigate the effects of systemic racism experienced by Indigenous people in health and other sectors. Currently, San’yas is being scaled-up across Canada. This article focuses on the following: (a) the pedagogical underpinnings of San’yas grounded in transformational learning principles and Indigenous knowledges; (b) the scope, reach, and scale-up of San’yas as an explicit anti-racism educational intervention; (c) its unique program delivery approaches; and (d) program evaluation trends. We discuss the insights gained from implementing San’yas over the past decade, which will be relevant for leaders and policy-makers concerned with implementing anti-racism educational interventions as part of broader system transformation
The Power of Connections: How a Novel Canadian Men’s Wellness Program is Improving the Health and Well-Being of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Men
No full textThe DUDES Club is a novel men’s health and wellness organization founded in 2010 in Vancouver, BC. Since 2017, the DUDES Club has rapidly expanded in Northern BC and, with the help of a partnership with the First Nations Health Authority, has grown to include 40 sites in British Columbia and 2 sites nationally. In this study, we analyze interviews (n = 5) and 15 focus groups (n = 101) conducted as part of a program evaluation with DUDES Club members, Elders, providers, and health care professionals. We focus on men’s experiences with the DUDES Club to identify four main themes in the data: brotherhood and community, accessible health care information, disrupting colonial constructions of masculinity, and systemic and structural challenges. We conclude with policy recommendations
Unresolved Privacy and Ethics Issues Related to Learning Analytics in Higher Education and Academic Librarianship
No full textLearning analytics involve big data collection, analysis processes, and technology that are used in higher education institutes and academic libraries to support student success and perform organizational assessment. Since these processes require the input of personally identifiable student and patron information to be effective, there are major ethical and legal considerations that must be addressed concerning privacy. This article demonstrates that privacy concerns about learning analytics can be mitigated by requiring informed consent from participants, establishing protocols for the collection and management of personally identifiable information, and advocating privacy rights of patrons. By synthesizing and expanding on viewpoints from the literature, this article offers recommendations pertaining to the collection, analysis, and management of patron data that are gathered for the purpose of learning analytics
A Defense of Locke’s Moral Epistemology
No full textIn An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke provides an empirical account of all of our ideas, including our moral ideas. However, Locke’s account of moral epistemology is difficult to understand leading to mistaken objections to his moral epistemological theory. In this paper, I offer what I believe to be the correct account of Locke’s moral epistemology. This account of his moral epistemology resolves the objections that morality is not demonstrable, that Locke’s account fails to demonstrate the normativity of statements, and that Locke has not provided us with the means to determine the correctness of the moral rules. 
Is Emergency Medicine Overusing Valuable Resources?
No full textOver the past three decades, the growth of medical imaging has unquestionably helped patients by allowing physicians to diagnose disease and improve patients’ quality of life. However, overutilization of medical technologies, such as computed tomography (CT), can lead to an increase in the total public risk of cancer deaths due to radiation exposure. Although CT is an important technological advancement in medicine, approximately a third of all CT scans are performed needlessly. Children have a longer lifetime after radiation exposure and a greater radio-sensitivity than adults, hence they are at a higher risk of developing cancer. Extra caution should be taken when imaging children in the ED. Choosing Wisely, Image Gently, and ALARA are organizations that offer valuable tools to educate physicians about avoiding unnecessary medical treatments and reducing radiation exposure in patients. However, most ED physicians are aware of the problem of overimaging; lack of insight was not the reason why physicians were overimaging. The main reason was fear of malpractice. Solutions thought to be helpful for reducing unnecessary ED imaging included malpractice reform, physician feedback on test-ordering metrics, improved education of diagnostic imaging for physicians, educating patients to increase patient involvement, and shared decision making. These solutions could alleviate some of the ED physicians fears of malpractice and reduce the overuse of medical imaging technologies which can not only lessens patients’ radiation exposure but reduce the cost to the healthcare system
A Delayed Presentation of Diffuse Axonal Injury
No full textDiffuse axonal injury is one of the most common and debilitating pathologies resulting from mechanical deformation of the brain. The current case involves a 19-year-old female involved in a high velocity ski crash. The accident resulted in a right lower leg fracture, with no loss of consciousness or evidence of head trauma. Approximately 6.5 hours after her admission, the neurological status of the patient deteriorated markedly, and magnetic resonance imaging findings were consistent with diffuse axonal injury. This presentation illustrates a case of delayed diffuse axonal injury, a phenomenon not commonly described. Diffuse axonal injury involves rapid inertial forces causing strain to brain tissue. This strain results in various stages of diffuse axonal damage and inflammation. This article highlights a case of delayed onset diffuse axonal injury, describes the progression of neural sequelae post-injury resulting in axonal damage and explores proposed therapeutic targets.