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Towards a partnership model for developing core abilities
Get PDFA tutor and a student together propose a model for integrated student and staff engagement that concentrates on developing students’ core abilities. They build upon their respective experiences of self-managed problem-based learning and of the purposeful promotion of core abilities. They explore the potential of collaborative interaction between trainee tutors and their students, who are both freshly engaged in self-managed experiential learning. The authors’ use of the Kolb Cycle as a framework is exemplified in the student-author’s experiential learning. They relate and comment upon the tutor-author’s iterative attempts to overlap experiential learning cycles for trainee tutors and their students, and extend the emerging model by adding purposeful peer interactions and regular evidence-based evaluations. Their completed scheme features a partnership wherein tutors’ growing experiences of structuring and facilitating socio-constructivist learning are integrated with students’ reflective reviews of recent developmental experiences
A Sexist Joke in Principia Mathematica
Get PDFAttempts have recently been made (Blackwell, 2011; Berumen, 2014) to catalogue the humour in Principia Mathematica, but so far overlooked has been a joke in the symbolism of PM itself
A student-staff partnership conducting research in higher education: An analysis of student and staff reflections
Get PDFThis article reports on an analysis of reflections by students and staff following a student-staff partnership which conducted a qualitative exploratory inquiry case study on student mental health in higher education. Following completion of the inquiry, two engaged students and the principal investigator reflected on their experience of the partnership. The analysis resulted in the following categories: a) benefits, b) support for learning, c) motivations, d) impact, e) outputs, and f) limitations. Students learned research skills, enhancements for learning/career and empowerment. Staff experienced an eased ability to conduct research and the rewards of seeing students develop new skills. It is recommended stakeholders in higher education continue to invest in student-staff partnerships in the context of research studies and mental health inquiry to foster opportunities for positive learning outcomes for students, staff, and institutions.
 
How can students-as-partners work address challenges to student, faculty, and staff mental health and well-being?
Get PDF‘My maine hope is, to begin the sport at Millaine’: Italy in Philip Massinger’s The Duke of Milan
No full textPhilip Massinger’s The Duke of Milan (1621) clearly sits in the tradition of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Italianate tragedy and is resonant of stories, ideas, theories, and characters from Italian history and its literary tradition. This essay discusses the play as one of the earliest examples of Massinger’s interest in Italy and its culture. It investigates the play’s Italian setting and examines the influence of the Italian cultural and political legacy to offer new insights into the development of Anglo-Italian relations and England’s home and religious politics in the early 1620s.
An Edition of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse and a New Letter by Collier on Massinger in the Athenaeum (1857)
No full textThis article identifies two previously uncatalogued items that were published in the Athenaeum in November 1857, each of which is connected to the then-recent acquisition of the Conway Papers by the Public Record Office (now the National Archives). These include a printing of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse and a letter from John Payne Collier that seems to refer to Massinger’s lost play Philenzo and Hippolyto. The former nuances the publication history of a work whose historical and dramatic importance recent scholarship demonstrates, while the latter offers evidence regarding Collier’s claim that a manuscript of Massinger’s play once lay among the Conway Papers
Addressing Ontario’s Hospital Crisis: A Critical Analysis of The More Beds, Better Care Act
Get PDFWith overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, the Canadian province of Ontario faces immense challenges in recovering from COVID-19’s impacts on the health care system. In response, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed Bill 7: the More Beds, Better Care Act on 31 August 2022, which aims to facilitate the transfer of patients who no longer require acute care to long-term care homes. To streamline this process, Bill 7 permits the relocation of the patient without informed consent. The conception of Bill 7 resulted from immense public pressures placed on the Progressive Conservative government to address the hospital crisis. Proponents of the reform argue that Bill 7 will free up hospital beds and provide more appropriate, quality health services for patients who need “alternative levels of care.” However, other stakeholders – such as advocacy groups and unions – voiced concerns that the legislation violates fundamental right to consent. As Bill 7 disproportionately impacts elderly patients, advocacy groups argue that its provisions are ageist and ultimately cause further harm by removing individuals from their families and communities. As such, the reform raises critical questions about value trade-offs between optimizing hospital capacity and preserving patient autonomy.
Avec des hôpitaux surchargés et en sous-effectif, la province canadienne de l’Ontario est confrontée à d’immenses défis pour se remettre des effets de la COVID-19 sur le système de santé. En réponse à cette situation, l’Assemblée législative de l’Ontario a adopté le 31 août 2022 le projet de loi 7: Loi sur l’augmentation du nombre de lits et l’amélioration des soins, qui vise à faciliter le transfert des patients qui n’ont plus besoin de soins actifs vers des centres de soins de longue durée. En vue de faciliter ce processus, le projet de loi 7 autorise le transfert du patient sans son consentement explicite. La conception du projet de loi 7 est le résultat d’immenses pressions publiques exercées sur le gouvernement progressiste conservateur pour qu’il s’attaque à la situation de crise dans les hôpitaux. Les partisans de la réforme soutiennent que le projet de loi 7 permettra de libérer des lits d’hôpitaux et de fournir des services de santé plus appropriés et de qualité aux patients qui ont besoin de « niveaux de soins alternatifs ». Cependant, d’autres parties prenantes – comme les groupes d’activistes et des syndicats – ont exprimé leurs inquiétudes quant au fait que la législation viole le droit fondamental au consentement. Comme le projet de loi 7 a un impact disproportionné sur les patients âgés, les groupes d’activistes pour la cause soutiennent que ses dispositions sont âgistes et qu’elles causent un préjudice supplémentaire en éloignant les personnes de leur famille et de leur communauté. Ainsi, la réforme soulève des questions essentielles sur le maintien d’un équilibre entre l’optimisation de la capacité de service des hôpitaux et la préservation de l’autonomie des patients
Emerging Lessons from Health Systems and Policy Reforms during COVID-19
Get PDFFocusing events — sudden, relatively uncommon events that can be reasonably defined as harmful or portending of greater future harms (Birkland 1998), such as infectious disease pandemics — can push problems onto decision-making agenda leading policy-makers to formulate and adopt responses. Occasionally, in the process of responding to such crises, policy-makers also address long-standing related or tangential problems because they have come to understand the old problems in new or different ways, additional stakeholders are lobbying to address the lingering issues, or because a window has finally opened to make change (Kingdon 1995). [continued in PDF / HTML]
Les événements déterminants — des événements soudains, relativement rares, que l\u27on peut raisonnablement définir comme dommageables ou annonciateurs de dommages futurs plus importants (Birkland 1998), tels que les pandémies de maladies infectieuses — peuvent mettre les problèmes à l\u27ordre du jour de la prise de décision, amenant les décideurs politiques à formuler et à adopter des réponses. Parfois, dans le processus de réponse à ces crises, les décideurs politiques s\u27attaquent également à des problèmes connexes ou tangentiels de longue date parce qu\u27ils en sont venus à comprendre les anciens problèmes d\u27une manière nouvelle ou différente, parce que d\u27autres parties prenantes font pression pour traiter les problèmes persistants ou parce qu\u27une fenêtre s\u27est enfin ouverte pour opérer un changement (Kingdon 1995). [suite en PDF / HTML
An Interpretation of the Gray\u27s Elegy Argument
No full textIn this essay, I first argue that the Gray’s Elegy Argument—the dense passage in Bertrand Russell’s ‘On Denoting’—can be interpreted as a single, coherent argument against the notion that a definite description corresponds to what I call a multifaceted object—an object having multiple facets or sides. I then look into some manuscripts Russell wrote in 1904 and in 1905. I show that he had envisaged the notion of a multifaceted object and used it for two different purposes before he discovered various objections to it, which he turned into the Gray’s Elegy Argument
Rules and Self-Citation
Get PDFI discuss a neglected solution to the skeptical problem introduced by Lewis Carroll’s “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles” (1895) in terms of a self-citational inferential license. I then consider some responses to this solution. The most significant response on behalf of the skeptic utilizes the familiar distinction between two ways of accepting a rule: as action-guiding and as a mere truth. I argue that this is ultimately unsatisfactory and conclude by opting for an alternative conception of rules as representations of behavior deployed for various purposes, some theoretical and others practical. This alternative conception does not allow the skeptical problem to get off the ground