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Constructing Identity from Illusion: A Reflexive Investigation on the Practice of Magic in the Life of an Educator
No full textThis autoethnographic study presents a narrative of my lifelong yearning to pursue the practice of magic while concurrently managing the frustrations of being a public elementary school teacher. This study also presents sets of facilitating factors that enabled me to surmount personal, professional, and sociocultural challenges to rekindle my direction and purpose in life. The research questions guiding this study include the following: 1) What are the multiple levels of influence that have contributed to my desire to be a magician and leave the teaching profession? ; and 2) In the interrelation of the above context, how do I reignite my artistic passion and purpose? Using the Bronfenbrenner model of human ecology, this study explores multiple levels of influence spanning those from a sociocultural perspective to those of an inter- and intrapersonal nature.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Middle and Secondary Educatio
The Effects of Punishment on Uncertainty Avoidance
No full textCognitive Psychology - Individual Differences in Executive [email protected]
Physical Injury as a Result of Intimate Partner Violence: An Individual, County, and State Level Analysis
No full textINTRODUCTION:
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant, preventable, and complex health issue in the United States. Previous research on the prevalence of IPV has shown similar to higher rates of IPV among sexual minorities when compared to heterosexuals (with the exception of gay men). Despite these disparities, approximately 3% of available literature on IPV addresses the LGB community directly. Moreover, literature concerning injurious IPV tends to operate out of a heteronormative framework that primarily centers women as victims and their opposite-sexed partners as perpetrators. Considering that between one-fifth and one-third of sexual minorities reported being injured due to IPV victimization, further research into IPV injury risk factors among the LGB population are needed.
METHOD:
This study examined state, county, and individual level correlates of experiencing physical injury as a result of intimate partner violence. We used the social ecological model to explore predictors that could serve as risk or protective factors for acquiring a physical injury during a reported incident of intimate partner violence. The primary outcome of interest was injurious IPV within same-sex relationships compared to injurious IPV in opposite-sex couples. Individual IPV incidents were nested in counties and those counties were nested in states.
RESULTS:
We found that, when controlling for global, contextual and demographic determinants, those victims in same-sex relationships have an increased odds of experiencing injurious IPV when compared to opposite-sex couples with a male perpetrator depending on the weapon type used during the incident.
DISCUSSION:
Policy makers and researchers should push for more gender and LGB inclusive IPV discourse and services. They should also advocate for law enforcement and clinical training concerning IPV among sexual minorities to help reduce the severity of IPV among this population.Master of Public Health (MPH)Public Healt
"Make a Party" or "Make a Decision": The Role of Formulaic Sequences in the Second Language Acquisition of English Verbs
No full textApplied Linguistics & [email protected]
Ventral pallidum activation during reinstatement of heroin seeking after adolescent- versus adult-onset of heroin self-administration
No full textNeuroscience [email protected]
Seattle: Stories
No full textFour short stories that depict aspects of Seattle not often found in popular culture. Stories that focus on men in tenuous moments of their lives.Master of Arts (MA)Englis
Understanding Human Perception of Emotional intensity within Human-Robot Interactions
No full textComputer [email protected]
A Foucauldian Analysis of NCLB: Student Data as Panoptic Surveillance
No full textThe No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; Public Law 107-110) reauthorizes and expands the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require large amounts of student data for the purpose of academic surveillance. This study investigates the historical and philosophical components of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon as a model of surveillance to identify similarities between panopticism and the rubric of collecting student data required by NCLB. All public school districts are evaluated annually for adequate yearly progress (AYP). Under the auspices of this evaluation, all students must be tested, and all results must be included in each district’s AYP calculation. All African American, Hispanic, White, economically disadvantaged, special education, and limited English proficient (LEP) students must meet the same performance and participation standards. States individually develop minimum size criteria for evaluation of student groups. High schools must meet a graduation rate standard set by the state.
NCLB’s comprehensive data compilation and student tracking initiatives are consistent with previous federal education policies to conduct data surveillance on students and teachers. Similar to Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century Panopticon model of penal supervision and rehabilitation, NCLB is transforming the schoolhouse into a correction house by unveiling technologies of surveillance and power. By using Benthamian and Foucauldian philosophical analyses, this dissertation examines NCLB’s
worldview of student data and tracking, specifically from student subgroups, and their effects of panoptic surveillance.
This dissertation proceeds with a review of the historical context of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon and Michel Foucault’s panopticism. This study recognizes various American educational reform movements from 1776 to 2002 in identifying the following panoptic disciplines: constant surveillance, hierarchical observation and categorization, and panoptic power. It considers the NCLB doctrine of data collection for student and teacher tracking purposes and presents an anticolonial analysis of NCLB’s methods of compiling and tracking student subgroup data using the works of anticolonial scholars Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, and Carter Woodson. The dissertation concludes with a synthesis of the questions and the problems presented by NCLB and the implications of this analysis for students and teachers.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Educational Policy Studie
Aeolian
No full textAeolian is a creative work of poetry in which coming out, self-discovery, identity through LGBTQ+ community, family pressures, romantic struggles, secrecy, and survival are explored through myth, poetic form, sense-of-place, and music. The work is divided into three sections like an art triptych with each section titled: Vinyl, Mixtape, and Music Download. The piece is a journey through the speaker’s self-discovery, and coming out, and the heady queer “underworld” of clubbing during the height of the AIDS epidemic. A tone of melancholy pervades the work as friends are lost to the AIDS epidemic, and a brother succumbs to the pressures of heteronormativity, and many struggle economic struggle in a changing economic and political landscape. Elements of music and Greek Mythology are employed, adding levels of metaphor, symbolism, and a connecting motif to the work.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
