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English professors, nursing students, and the HESI A2 Exam: Partnership in test preparation
Full text linkConceptualising an inclusive approach to student voice in higher education: A heuristic inquiry
Full text linkHigher education seeks the student voice through various approaches. However, including students with diverse learner needs (DLN) in these approaches poses challenges when hierarchy is present. Through self-reflection and collaboration with co-researchers, I engaged in heuristic inquiry to develop a framework for engaging in an inclusive approach to gathering student voice. Nine co-researchers completed 14 individual conversational interviews with me to discuss their student voice experiences in higher education. Five key themes emerged: (1) needing a trauma-informed safe space to regulate emotions, (2) removing judgement through implementing trauma-informed practice, (3) embracing understanding and representation to enable authentic interaction, (4) removing fear by humanising those in positions of power, and (5) needing choice and autonomy. These themes demonstrated DLN students’ desire to cease masking and become more autonomous and authentic in their experiences, thereby moving toward partnership approaches. Drawing on these themes, I an inclusive student voice (ISV) approach and recommendations for practice
Collaborative curriculum design in a health professional program for anatomy and clinical education: A case study with a near-peer instructor
Full text linkBy combining a near-peer instructor (NPI) placement in a master-levelled professional program with co-design approaches, an anatomy and physiology (A&P) review session was developed to supplement Year 1 students’ clinical application. An interactive A&P review, named Partners in Anatomy Learning (PAL) session, was developed by a team of faculty and student partners. A comprehensive co-design framework with five domains guided the development and delivery process of the PAL session to ensure incorporation of diverse perspectives. Year 1 students’ perceptions of their A&P knowledge and application were collected using pre- and post-PAL session surveys, and the team members provided reflections. After the PAL session, Year 1 students felt they had an increased ability to integrate their A&P knowledge into their clinical coursework. The team members felt the co-design process within the NPI placement was a positive partnership experience that leveraged students’ perspectives in curriculum development and implementation
Assessing the Impact of Approval of Mifegymiso on Abortion Access and Care in Canada
Full text linkApproval of Mifegymiso (mifepristone and misoprostol) by Health Canada in 2015 provided a more effective non-invasive option for medical abortions in Canada and aligned Canada with the 60 other countries that had been safely utilizing the drug combination for decades. Initial approval included a number of stipulations and restrictions that were later lifted, paving the way for the drug to be offered via telemedicine under the supervision of a clinician. The approval was anticipated to increase access to abortion services, especially for those in remote and rural areas who may not have been close by to a facility where an abortion procedure could be offered. Public polling shows approval for medication abortion has remained high, especially in the wake of attacks on reproductive health in the United States. Since Health Canada approval and its marketing, the drug is now universally available across Canada with provincial health systems covering the cost for anyone with a valid health card and prescription. Thirty-two percent of abortions in Canada utilize the drug combination. Celopharma remains the only manufacturer in Canada and there have been delays in commercial release and a handful of shortages due to manufacturing issues.
L’autorisation du Mifegymiso (mifépristone et misoprostol) par Santé Canada en 2015 a permis d’offrir une option non-invasive plus efficace pour les avortements médicamenteux au Canada et a aligné le Canada sur les 60 autres pays qui utilisaient cette combinaison de médicaments en toute sécurité depuis des décennies. L’autorisation comprenait initialement un certain nombre de conditions et de restrictions qui ont ensuite été levées, ouvrant la voie à la prescription du médicament par télémédecine sous la supervision d’un clinicien. Cette autorisation devrait permettre d’améliorer l’accès aux services d’avortement, en particulier pour les personnes vivant dans des zones reculées et rurales qui n’avaient peut-être pas accès à un établissement proposant des procédures d’avortement. Les sondages d’opinion montrent que le soutien à l’avortement médicamenteux reste élevé, en particulier à la suite des attaques contre la santé reproductive aux États-Unis. Depuis son autorisation par Santé Canada et sa commercialisation, le médicament est désormais disponible partout au Canada et pris en charge par les systèmes de santé provinciaux pour toute personne disposant d’une carte de santé et d’une ordonnance valide. Trente-deux pourcent des avortements au Canada utilisent cette combinaison de médicaments. Celopharma demeure le seul fabricant au Canada et la mise sur le marché a pris du retard et a connu quelques pénuries en raison de problèmes de fabrication
What is the Task of Frege’s Criteria of Referentiality?
No full textIt is generally assumed that Frege’s solution to the problem of referential indeterminacy in the first volume of Grundgesetze is based on a contextualist conception of reference that is spelt out by his criteria of referentiality. The present paper argues that this assumption is hardly consistent with Frege’s remarks on the task of the criteria in the second volume. They leave no doubt that the criteria are not to be understood as explanations of the concept of reference, but as explanations of the requirement that in the exact sciences all concepts must have sharp boundaries. The crux of the problem of referential indeterminacy is that, to sharply delimit the boundaries of a vague or ambiguous concept, we have almost only concepts at our disposal that also lack sharp boundaries. To solve it, we need a non-inductive method for the complete determination of concepts. It is provided by Frege’s criteria of referentiality. They define a kind of “holistic” method for the complete determination of concepts according to which vague and ambiguous concepts must be completely determined in a reciprocal manner
\u27My Cloudy Melancholy\u27: Productions of Whiteness in Titus Andronicus (1594)
No full textThis paper examines the significance of Aaron’s melancholy toward the production of whiteness in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. While the word ‘melancholy’ only appears once, Aaron’s self-confessed temperament becomes a key tool in the play’s efforts to define race along moral and physical lines. This paper explores how Aaron becomes a resource in securing the play’s representation of a white, Roman legacy, and how the commodification of Black bodies resonates with early modern constructions of race and the formation of a racially delineated hierarchical system
Mediating Criminal Conversion in City Comedy and Domestic Tragedy
No full textThis article explores the stakes of discerning criminal conversion on the early modern stage, particularly when city comedies and domestic tragedies mediate contemporaneous London events. These plots offered an intersection between contemporaneous pamphlets that framed criminality as a distinct social identity and early English dramatic practices representing spiritual conversion. The Roaring Girl defended Moll Cutpurse’s criminal adjacency by framing her urban mediation as a hagiography akin to the Digby Play of Mary Magdalene. In contrast, domestic tragedies used hybrid personification to offer ambiguity about the spiritual or forensic state of mediators or go-betweens in criminal conspiracies. These paradigms offer diverging responses to antitheatrical warnings about the associative risks of playgoing
Carnap\u27s Scientific Humanism
No full textScientific humanism is the formula by which Rudolf Carnap positions science as the best tool for improving life. Science allows us to maximize the rational character of human decisions on the basis of meta-values that include epistemic values and values for rational decision making. These values are politically neutral in that they are not tied to any partisan political position, but deeply political because they allow us to avoid irrational reasoning and to make the right use of science for our political and moral decisions. Maximizing rationality does not mean, for Carnap, that we must think and calculate before every action. Rather, the overall noncognitive character of values and decisions leads to a decisionist momentum, which means that we must find the right balance, both personally and politically, between sharp thinking and following our attitudes, because science is a signpost, not a leader, in life. Carnap’s views are rooted in the intellectual currents of early twentieth-century Central Europe, including Max Weber’s scientific value-neutrality, the German Life Reform and Youth Movement, Lebensphilosophie, the decisionism of the 1920s, and the empiriocriticist branch of Austrian social democracy
A \u27Ludicrous and Inappropriate\u27 Dinner Guest:: The Character of the Titus Andronicus Fly
No full textThis article proposes a new approach to Titus Andronicus\u27s infamous ‘Fly-Killing Incident’ in act 3, scene 2 which prioritizes the role of the segmented fly as a character alongside the dismembered Andronici. Rejecting the critical tendency to read the diminutive figure as a passive emblem for interpreting humanity, this article explores the subjectivity of the fly as an individual with a particular focus on the implications of its murder and dismemberment. Whilst acknowledging its often-flippant critical history, this article asks, ‘What if we took the fly seriously’
Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Full text linkDigital platforms mediating work between customers and service providers have expanded exponentially in the past decade, driving a growing research agenda on the impact of platform capitalism, AI and the gig economy on labour around the world. This paper is interested in understanding the platform economy at the intersection of gender with the political economy of labour. Focusing on the Omani case of a new women’s taxi service (OFemale) through the digital platform OTaxi, it asks how ride-hailing platforms are impacting women’s employment futures. Using rapid ethnography, elite interviews and a survey, the article examines both the launch and expansion of the business alongside the experiences of Omani women as taxi drivers. The article excavates three gendered discourses of freedom, protection and job creation around platform labour and female labour market participation in the region. It argues that digital platforms such as OTaxi offer techno-fixes to fill gaps in the market and respond to the need to generate job opportunities for female citizens in the country. At the same time, women make use of these opportunities and interpret their experience in diverse ways that problematise the neo-liberal promises of innovative technologies, job flexibility and autonomy embodied in platform capitalism