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Challenges Faced by Practitioners Accessing Jordan’s Principle: A Commentary
Full text linkThe Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has adjudicated that substantive equality is not met in the implementation of Jordan’s Principle. Further, there is evidence that each province and territory receive differential support and access to funding via Jordan’s Principle, resulting in ongoing health inequities. This commentary draws on a qualitative study conducted between 2021-2022 that explored Indigenous Services Canada’s administrative functioning at the locus where frontline clinical and administrative practitioners apply for funding through the federal bureaucracy of Jordan’s Principle. As affected parties, practitioners (n=41) provided an evidence-informed perspective on specific mechanisms and processes that are of concern.
Le Tribunal canadien des droits de la personne a jugé que l’égalité réelle n’était pas respectée dans la mise en œuvre du principe de Jordan. En outre, il y a des preuves que chaque province et territoire bénéficie d’un soutien et d’un accès au financement différents dans le cadre du principe de Jordan, ce qui se traduit par des inégalités persistantes en matière de santé. Ce commentaire s’appuie sur une étude qualitative menée entre 2021 et 2022 qui a exploré le fonctionnement administratif des Services aux Autochtones Canada à l’interface où les praticiens cliniques et administratifs de première ligne demandent un financement par le biais de la bureaucratie fédérale du principe de Jordan. En tant que parties concernées, les praticiens (n=41) ont fourni une perspective éclairée par des données probantes sur les mécanismes et processus spécifiques qui sont préoccupants
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government Reorganizes to Further Privatize Health Care: A Commentary
No full textSince the 1990s, Alberta has been a leader in attempting to reform its health care system. These reforms have largely focused on delivery of services and governance. Underpinning these policy changes has been a continuing effort to promote privatization in the health sector, an idea which can be defined as the results of a range of strategic choices: “increasing out-of-pocket payments for care, private ownership, for-profit methods, privatized care work, private responsibility, and private decision-making regarding the organization and delivery of health care” (Bryant and Raphael 2020, 137). While these efforts have been tempered over the years by political leadership and fluctuations in the provincial economy, the renewed push by the current United Conservative Party (UCP) government appears to be the most overt and aggressive effort since the Ralph Klein government of the 1990s. This article provides an update from a recently completed book about Alberta’s health care system (Church and Smith 2006; Church and Smith 2022). Much of the efforts of the current government have focused. [full text continues in PDF / HTML]
Racial Capitalism and Global Labour Studies – a Missed Encounter ?
Full text linkDespite of the centrality of the topic of labour in the 1983 book by Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism, global labour studies have devoted little attention to the concept of racial capitalism that became established with Robinson’s book. Robinson’s main claim is that the first proletariat formed in the plantations in colonized countries from about the 16th century, calling into question the crucial relevance of the industrial proletariat in England (and Europe) for the emergence of the labour movement. In taking up recent debates on racial capitalism that are inspired by Robinson´s work, but which also expand and criticize it, this text proposes a more integrated theorization of race and labour. It also takes up debates about the Plantationocene as a complex dispositive which connects ecological rupture, large scale production and racialised labour
Beyond the Fields: Solidarity Narratives and Coalition Building in the Fair Food Movement
Full text linkThis paper extends scholarship on emerging sources of worker power in the 21st century through an examination of the solidarity activism of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), an agricultural worker-led human rights organisation that advocates for Fair Food policies. The successes of the CIW are unexpected, since Florida’s migrant workers lack the traditional sources of worker power that bolstered the labour struggles of the 20th century. Through in-depth interviews and a survey of student-farmworker activists, we extend scholarship rooted in the power resources approach to analyse the societal forms of power – both discursive and coalitional – that the CIW has developed in their efforts to harness broad social support from actors beyond the fields. We demonstrate how CIW coalitions are sustained through solidarity narratives that clarify the stakes for student allies and the discursive frames that motivate their activism
Inspiration strikes: Partnering with experienced student consultants to prepare to partner with new student consultants
Full text linkThis article examines the process of partnering with experienced undergraduate SaLT consultants to ready educators to work in partnership with high school student consultants. We discuss the benefits of preparation: giving time to building relationships, being ready to receive feedback, learning to trust the process of student partnership, and honoring authenticity and vulnerability
The potential of student as partners approaches for humanitarian developments
Full text linkThis article explores the potential for students-as-partners models developed in the scholarship of teaching and learning and educational development fields to be expanded to new agendas such as humanitarian developments and other agendas related to the so-called civic university. There is a growing appetite for students and staff to work in partnership due to the mutual benefits for both parties (Mapstone et al., 2017), yet the majority of the published works on students as partners is almost exclusively reporting upon partnership activities relating to curriculum and wider student experience developments in higher education. This paper explores the literature on best practice for working with students as partners in order to create new recommendations for how the students-as-partners model can be applied successfully for community and humanitarian development projects, rather than curricular, teaching, or research projects By drawing on literature from student voice, student engagement in quality assurance, and co-design, this paper will highlight the great potential of student-staff partnerships for addressing other development agendas globally
A mixed-method investigation of faculty perspectives on the benefits and challenges of engaging in student partnership activities in science
Full text linkThere is a growing interest within higher education to engage with students as partners to reposition students from consumers to producers of knowledge. The purpose of this study was to gather insights into the benefits, barriers/challenges, and best practices for engaging in student-faculty partnership activities for science faculty members. Supervising or working with graduate teaching assistants, working with students on university committees, collaborating with undergraduate or graduate students on a new or existing research project, and co-authoring manuscripts with graduate students were regarded as the most impactful partnership activities. Common benefits of student partnership activities included: collaboration and relationship building, broadening perspectives and gaining feedback, personal satisfaction, and institutional and career-related benefits. Common barriers/challenges reported were interpersonal dynamics and maintaining relationships, student management, and external influences. Best practices consisted of planning and setting expectations, developing students’ agency, using open communication, and facilitating peer-to-peer collaboration and peer mentoring
Synergizing perspectives: A dual student-instructor partnership in transforming STEM recitation experiences in large enrollment courses
Full text linkReflections on co-researching AI literacy: A Students-as-Partners approach with international students
Full text linkStudents as Partners (SaP) approaches have gained more and more traction in higher education in recent years (Dai & Matthews, 2022). Rooted in values such as reciprocity and shared responsibility, SaP can offer opportunities for internationalizing the curriculum and departing from traditional teacher-student hierarchies (Green & Baxter, 2022). This case study focuses on a SaP project involving international students and their English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teacher, which investigated artificial intelligence (AI) literacy during a UK pre-sessional course in summer 2023. The project identified that learning about the limitations of AI, in addition to developing skills for effective prompt writing, was beneficial to students (Partridge et al, 2023). This case study reflects on the challenges and benefits of SaP for both students and the teacher using the Advance HE (2016) Framework for Student Engagement Through Partnership. Based on these reflections, the case study offers recommendations for future SaP projects including effective scheduling, defining roles, engaging in continual reflection, and formally recognising student input
A Graphical and Beta Analysis of the Effect of Increased Ethanol Production on the Volatility of Corn Prices
No full textIncreased demand for corn-based ethanol puts upward pressure on prices of corn and other commodities, such as soybeans, and possibly worsens their price volatility. The paper investigates the changes in agricultural commodities\u27 standard deviation and beta sizes due to ethanol production in the US. Standard deviations and beta estimations are compared for the ethanol pre-expansion and expansion periods. The results indicate a high level of price volatility in the second period, which could be attributed to ethanol expansion