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Moving Forward with Purpose: Increasing Physical Activity for School Wellness
No full textPhysical activity (PA) or movement embedded into elementary school education offers both mental and physical health benefits for students. This paper will look at the important role physical activity plays in the overall physical, emotional, and academic well-being of students and make an argument for why the field of positive education should incorporate physical activity into its framework. It will also make a case for the critical role teachers play in bringing physical activity into their classrooms and provide strategies for how teachers can do this in a more organic way. Studies show that PA is as important to the learning environment as academics. With buy-in from administrators, teachers, and educational institutions, a practice of including physical activity into our daily schedule will produce benefits for wellness at school and beyond
Examining Mobilities of Care: Perceptions and Practices of Philadelphia Parents and Children Using Transit
Get PDFTransit spaces are not uniformly experienced by their users. Closer inspection of individuals’ journeys reveals unique barriers corresponding with race, gender, age and ability, signifying that the mobility of certain groups may be less accessible than that of more privileged groups. Using the frameworks of a “politics of mobility” (Cresswell 2010) and “mobility injustice” (Sheller 2018), this paper examines the transit needs and experiences of female caregivers and youth populations whose mobilities are frequently challenged.
I engage with the following questions: How do mothers and children in Philadelphia conceptualize accessibility of transit infrastructure? What are the differences and similarities between the concerns of mothers and their children regarding mobility practices? How do transit agencies currently account for the mobility needs of mothers and children? How do mothers, children, and transit officials conceptualize a family-friendly transit system? How can robust community engagement enhance transportation planning practices in the future?
I find that the experiences of mothers and children navigating transit spaces center around the themes of safety, comfort and convenience. In particular, mothers’ express challenges regarding street safety, gendered treatment in public space, and inconvenience of travelling with young children. Children underscore their concerns about safely navigating their neighborhoods in light of reckless driving, issues of poor sanitation and the presence of strangers, and the desire to make transportation spaces sites of play and fun. Mothers and children also expressed clear ideas about how to improve transportation infrastructure to better meet their needs. While planning initiatives and engagement strategies that mitigate certain challenges faced by mothers and children do exist, work is needed to enhance the user experience. Community engagement is a vital component to the creation of not just a family-friendly transportation system, but also one that is accessible to all
Freeing Freedom: Decentering Dominant Narratives of Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Get PDFCARGC Paper 16, Freeing Freedom: Decentering Dominant Narratives of Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Toni Walker examines the continuous struggle over meanings of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa particularly for marginalized communities. The paper came as a result of the research project that Walker pursued during her undergraduate fellowship at CARGC. In March 2020, she took a twelve-day research trip to Cape Town and Johannesburg to interview South African Black women, nonbinary, and self-identifying queer artists and visit the neighborhoods, art galleries, and cultural centers where these artists live and work. Through a careful and sensitive analysis of six multimedia pieces enriched with insights from her interviews with the artists, Toni Walker highlights the meanings of freedom that emerge when these artists are centered. CARGC Paper 16 not only situates culture and lived experiences as important focal points for navigating meanings of freedom, but it also argues that some of the most expansive meanings of freedom can be found in the cultural expressions of marginalized Black creators.https://repository.upenn.edu/cargc_papers/1016/thumbnail.jp
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Get PDFSufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with Preference Heterogeneity
Get PDFThis paper provides general and empirically implementable sufficient statistics formulas for optimal nonlinear tax systems in the presence of preference heterogeneity. We study unrestricted tax systems on income and savings (or other commodities) that implement the optimal directrevelation mechanism, as well as simpler tax systems that impose common restrictions like separability between earnings and savings taxes. We characterize the optimum using familiar elasticity concepts and a sufficient statistic for across-income preference heterogeneity: the difference between the cross-sectional variation of savings with income, and the causal effect of income on savings. The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem is a knife-edge case corresponding to zero difference, and a number of other key results in optimal tax theory are subsumed as special cases. Our formulas also apply to other sources of across-income heterogeneity, including heterogeneity in rates of return on savings, inheritances, and the ability to shift income between tax bases. We provide tractable extensions of these results that include multidimensional heterogeneity, additional efficiency rationales for taxing heterogeneous returns, and corrective motives to encourage more saving. Applying these formulas in a calibrated model of the U.S. economy, we find that the optimal savings tax is positive and progressive
“Others” (Lain-lain): Falling Between Racial Categories in Contemporary Malaysia
Get PDFThis thesis examines racial ontologies in Malaysia, particularly as they are reflected and shaped by the census and other forms of administrative documentation. By tracking the evolution over time of institutionally-operating racial categories, as well as focusing on their current iterations, this thesis examines how individuals assumed to fall under (and between) particular labels talk about their experiences of racial categorization, and how they conceptualize their own identity within a racialized society. This project utilizes data from thirty semi-structured interviews from a group of participants obtained through snowball sampling, and though focused on the Malaysian context, employs insights from broader scholarship on semiotic anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, as well as race and racialization. Throughout this thesis, I endeavor to explore the everyday assumptions about racial kindedness that individuals make propositionally explicit through discourse about race in contemporary Malaysia
Reconfiguring Non-Convex Holes in Pivoting Modular Cube Robots
Get PDFWe present an algorithm for self-reconfiguration of admissible 3D configurations of pivoting modular cube robots with holes of arbitrary shape and number. Cube modules move across the surface of configurations by pivoting about shared edges, enabling configurations to reshape themselves. Previous work provides a reconfiguration algorithm for admissible 3D configurations containing no non-convex holes; we improve upon this by handling arbitrary admissible 3D configurations. The key insight specifies a point in the deconstruction of layers enclosing non-convex holes at which we can pause and move inner modules out of the hole. We prove this happens early enough to maintain connectivity, but late enough to open enough room in the enclosing layer for modules to escape the hole. Our algorithm gives reconfiguration plans with O(n^2) moves for n modules
WAIVER AUTHORITY VS. FEDERAL PRESERVATION LAWS: A CASE STUDY ON THE U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER WALL
Get PDFBecause of federal law waivers, former President Donald J. Trump Administration’s border wall and border infrastructure project threatened the existence of the American Southwests’ natural, archaeological, and historical resources—including Native American cultural patrimony. Legislation such as the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act require lead federal agencies to consider the potential adverse impacts their project may have on cultural and environmental resources prior to project commencement. However, when waiver authority is declared by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security federal agencies are no longer obligated to comply with existing federal preservation laws. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol voluntarily performs environmental reviews called Environmental Stewardship Plans and Environmental Stewardship Summary Reports when waiver authority is declared. Yet, these reviews are not as comprehensive as the existing federal environmental procedures. Through this thesis, I analyze existing surveys of the areas, federal preservation legislation, and interviews with federal and state professionals to understand the implications waiver authority has on the cultural landscapes of the border wall region. In the end, I make general recommendations to avoid, minimize, or mitigate adverse impacts on cultural landscapes when emergencies justifying waiver authority are declared