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Understanding the association between adolescent nicotine exposure and major depressive disorder at the neurocircuitry level
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Mental Health in the Social Media Era: Diminishing Happiness, Performative Digital Identities, and What’s Next?
Get PDFThe Other 2/3 of the Iceberg; Building Intercultural Understanding in a Monocultural Setting
Get PDFFor expat teachers embarking on an overseas sojourn, language and cultural differences can be a navigational hazard, resulting in hardships, broken contracts, and distrust. Within the monocultural setting of Vietnam, expats experience a dichotomy of their own cultures, and strong Confucian and communist underpinnings of Vietnamese society. With 35 years of experience in Asia, the author engages as change initiator and change agent, in a non-western model of leadership, culturally responsive leadership, addressing the lack of clarity about cultural nuances, and a lack of information/strategies to nurture cultural intelligence, leading to cultural dissonance between expats and Vietnamese faculty. The resulting low retention of expat teachers and leaders, the existence of cultural biases, the need for global competencies, and the necessity for establishing common cultural expectations define the current situation. To address the problem of practice, an integrated model of change using Deszca, Ingols and Cawsey’s change path model and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges cycle of quality is employed to raise awareness of the problem and ensure ongoing, cyclical revision. The political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) factors raise awareness of culture embedded in Vietnamese organizations, and solutions are proposed through head, heart, and hands application of cultural intelligence in new expat teachers. Cultural nuances, as depicted by Schein and Schein and Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions, underscore the need for explicit hiring practices to ensure the best fit, and cultural onboarding to enhance teacher alignment to the organization, collegiality and collaboration, and retention at New Thought Education (a pseudonym). Implementation, monitoring, and evaluation are completed with the support of creative groups of vested partners
Strengthening Administrative Structures to Enhance Community-Partnered Research
Get PDFPost-secondary institutions across Canada are grappling with how to advance reconciliation and equity in education and research. This challenge is amplified in northern Canada, where northern residents have long sought equity in the Arctic and northern research ecosystems, yet the population has historically been excluded from research programs and research leadership. This paper is focused on exploring how a community college in northern Canada should invest in developing institutional support for research and expanded research capacity as it transforms into a polytechnic university. The community college serves a remote population where the majority of residents are Indigenous, and the institution needs to develop capacity in a way that supports both Indigenous self-determination in research and the regional aspirations of expanded research leadership. A solution is proposed that uses transformative and inclusive leadership approaches to guide the development of research services and capacity at the college in partnership with Indigenous and community organizations through the co-development of a partnership framework. The Dissertation-in-Practice (DiP) presents a change implementation plan to develop the proposed solution in collaboration with Indigenous partner organizations. This plan describes how the college can establish institutional support for Indigenous self-determination in research and build research capacity grounded in equity and partnership. Ultimately, this DiP suggests developing a partnership framework to guide the co-development of research capacity in collaboration with Indigenous community partner organizations to empower, strengthen, and uphold a network of community-led research partnerships
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