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Confrontations in the New World: Grete Weil\u27s Happy, sagte der Onkel (1968)
Get PDFIn her essay “Travel Writing and Gender,” the British scholar Susan Bassnett makes two points that are relevant in analyzing Grete Weil’s travel tales, Happy, sagte der Onkel (Happy, Said My Uncle). Bassnett remarks that “increasingly in the twentieth century, male and female travelers have written self-reflexive texts that defy easy categorization as autobiography, memoir, or travel account.” This observation certainly holds true for Grete Weil’s slim volume, and so does Bassnett’s gender-specific assertion that there is a “strand of women’s travel writing that has grown in importance in the twentieth century: the journey that leads to greater self-awareness and takes the reader simultaneously on that journey.”
Double Precarisation of Labour and Social Reproduction: Zambian Mineworkers’ Experience of Electricity Pricing
Get PDFThis article explores how increases in electricity tariffs for mining companies and domestic consumers affect the lives of Zambian mineworkers. It shows that, on the one hand, mining companies retrench workers, citing falling rates of profit, in a context in which unions are weak and workers have limited recourse, meaning loss of employment and uncertainty. On the other hand, given their low wages, the withdrawal of company social benefits, wage inflation and high indebtedness, increasing tariffs undermine mineworkers’ ability to meet their cost of living. In addition, it leads to conflicts about the efficient use of electricity at household level, increasing use of dirty fuels and vulnerability to criminality. This article argues that, for mineworkers, electricity tariff increases lead to a double precarisation – of labour and reproduction. The article draws on ethnographic field research conducted between 2015 and 2023 in two mining communities and two underground mine sites on the Zambian Copperbelt
What makes a good specialty referral?
No full textReferrals between medical and surgical specialties are an important communication challenge in healthcare. Yet there is little guidance on how to make a competent referrals. We aimed to clarify the qualities of a good referral by means of a qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews and email correspondence with a predefined topic schedule were conducted with participants purposively sampled to include a wide range of specialties. The results were collated and coded using the Framework Method. These were then qualitatively analysed and common themes emerged. A total of 51 specialists from 29 clinical specialties responded. The broad themes identified included a standardised structure, appropriate method and relevant content of referral. Many clinicians cited a well-organised structure with a clear clinical question as key to a good referral. Many also preferred a ‘headliner’ summary sentence to give an overview of the content of the referral. Perceived barriers to a good referral included staffing levels, high workload and complexity of the referral process. We have identified common themes that can be applied to referrals made to a wide range of clinical specialities. The q-SBAR (question-Situation Background Assessment Referral) method is one way that such a referral could be structured
Collaborative authoring using wiki: An open education case study
Get PDFThis case study describes a collaborative online authoring project in which undergraduate students co-produce open educational resources as a learning and assessment exercise. Over 1,500 chapters and videos about how psychological science can improve people’s motivational and emotional lives have been co-created. Wikiversity provides a simple and powerful open editing and hosting platform. The project’s key pedagogical principles include students as partners, open education, guided experiential learning, and self-determined learning. Other key ingredients include scaffolding, skill development, and formative feedback. Potential issues are framed as educational opportunities, including privacy and anonymity, intellectual property and copyright, and individual versus collective work. Collaborative online authoring projects offer real-world benefits over disposable essays in higher education. The principles and methods are adaptable to a wide variety of disciplines and educational contexts, offering a scalable approach to collaborative student-staff partnerships
The power of naming students-as-partners practices
Get PDFInvolving students in the design of their educational experience is increasingly being understood by higher education institutions to enhance learning, to build a better culture, and to foster inclusivity amongst a host of other benefits. Accordingly, institutions are trialling a wide range of Students as Partners practices. There is currently huge variation in the nature and scale of these practices. This paper proposes a taxonomy that will allow Students as Partners practices to be consistently described, and therefore compared and mapped. This is a vital next step in the development and widespread adoption of this transformational set of practices
Pedagogical partnership: Insights from developing an EDI-conscious study aligning with Freirean principles
Get PDFDigital media interns: Students as partners for technology support and educational innovation
Get PDFWhile COVID-19 dramatically changed the way that we taught during the pandemic, not all of these changes were negative. In response to the pivot to remote learning, Western University employed student digital media interns (DMIs) to support faculty in adapting their courses. This resulted in the formation of the Digital Media Intern program at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry (SSMD), a students-as-partners (SaP) approach that supports faculty in the adoption and use of educational technology. Despite moving back to in-person learning, the DMI program is thriving and has expanded its scope. An understanding of the learner context of technology can be missing when faculty are designing and updating their courses. The DMI program helps bridge this gap by creating a way for students to directly contribute to their education, gain meaningful employment or experience, and provide feedback to instructors. Instructors benefit in two ways: by gaining hands-on support and ongoing, actionable feedback. This case study will outline the evolution of the DMI program, its implementation and its impact. Leader and student perspectives will also be shared. It describes the evolution of this student intern strategy from a band-aid solution to a fully integrated and supported unit in one academic faculty
Frege’s Conceptions of Elucidation
Get PDFI argue that discussions of Frege’s conception of elucidation have suffered from a conflation of two distinct issues: elucidation of primitive scientific terms, and elucidation of the logical categories. The former seeks to bring us to grasp the Bedeutung of terms that stand at the beginning of the chain of definitions of a scientific system. The latter cannot be understood on the model of securing agreement in Bedeutung at all. I show how existing discussions of Fregean elucidation insufficiently take this difference into account. I adumbrate what I take to be a more accurate understanding of Fregean elucidation of the logical categories, starting from the observation that Frege, when engaged in such elucidation, consistently reverts to talking about signs. Frege, I argue, takes signs to possess logical features, and it is these logical features which his elucidations are meant to help us to grasp. For Frege, the nature of the logical categories lies in the signs. I argue that this reveals that Frege’s approach to elucidating the logical categories is incompatible with a realist framework according to which there is a logical order of reality that is prior to the logical order of language