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Ch. 20 - Cultivating Hope in an Uncertain World: Engaging with a Pedagogy of Hope in Music Education
Get PDFIn this chapter, I explore ways in which a disposition of hope can sustain a music teacher’s professional career and personal well-being at a time of uncertainty and changing values and professional practices. I approach hope as a spiritual human disposition capable of motivating action, sustaining energy, and transforming positively those engaged in education. Themes addressed include: the relevance of hope in the context of schooling today, contemporary approaches to the phenomenon of hope, synergies that give rise to hope in education contexts, and ways of engaging with a pedagogy of hope with implications for music teaching and learning
Ch. 13 - In Search of Choral Music Education: Where is it Now?
Get PDFThis chapter chronicles the influence of Jorgensen’s writing in a graduate choral music education course. Jorgensen’s book chapter, On Spheres of Musical Validity (2005), becomes the focal point for an examination of the legitimacy of five major influences on music education: family, religion, politics, the music profession, and commerce. This investigation leads to consideration of these influences in graduate students’ personal lives, classrooms, rehearsal halls, and the broader profession of choral music education
Ch. 01 - Of Dialectics, Juxtapositions, and Flexible Thinking: A Tribute to Estelle Jorgensen
Get PDFNumerous scholars have provided philosophical perspectives to justify the inclusion of music education in public schools. The philosophical work of Jorgensen offers a framework that allows educators to move beyond singular agendas and apply eclectic approaches to meet the needs of unique teaching environments. This chapter offers commentary on her concept of dialectics and how Jorgensen’s philosophy nurtured innovative curricular approaches to music teacher preparation in a university teacher certification program
Enabling Organizational Change in Community Pharmacy Practice
Get PDFCommunity pharmacy practice in Ontario is undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from a product-centered to a patient-centered orientation. As a result of increased demands on Ontario’s healthcare system, the provincial government enacted legislation that expanded the scope of practice for pharmacists, authorizing them to deliver clinical services in a pharmacy setting. The provincial government also introduced a regulated pharmacy support staff role, the Pharmacy Technician (PT) to assist pharmacists in managing the resulting higher demands on them. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) seeks to address performance concerns in an organization that operates two community pharmacies that arose as a result of these legislative changes. The OIP advocates for a comprehensive approach to organizational change that focuses on both external and internal organizational factors that contributed to the problem of practice. The OIP champions a leadership approach that emphasizes both structural and relational elements of leadership. Through a patient education initiative, the OIP attempts to counter misperceptions that patients may have regarding the roles that different pharmacy team members play. The OIP also proposes redesigning the pharmacy workflow process in order to better integrate PTs, enable pharmacists to improve the delivery of clinical services, and achieve efficiencies within the pharmacy. These changes are introduced in the OIP through a detailed leadership-driven implementation plan which is complemented by a change process monitoring and evaluation strategy and a change communication plan. While this OIP was tailored specifically to the needs of one organization, this problem of practice is not unique to it. As such, the analysis that was performed, the proposed leadership approach, and the change plan that was devised can provide important insights to other community pharmacies within Ontario, across Canada, as well as in other countries where similar legislation has been introduced
Beth Emanuel and Fugitive Slave Chapter
No full textPhoto of Beth Emanuel Church and the Fugitive Slave Chapelhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/hearhereopening/1036/thumbnail.jp
Back of a stop sign
No full textPhoto of back of stop sign on Clarence and Grey st.https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/hearhereopening/1020/thumbnail.jp
Story 30-2 Jean Hough Interview
No full textJean Hough recounts early morning walks down Grey Street and explains how the diversity in the community helped foster her own sense of belonging