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Guide to the Dr. Owen B. Kiernan Collection, 1934-2010, undated
Get PDFOwen Kiernan was born on March 9, 1914, in Randolph, Massachusetts. Kiernan graduated from Bridgewater State University in 1935 (known then as Bridgewater State Teachers College) and went on to get his masters at Boston University and his Doctorate at Harvard. Kiernan participated in baseball and basketball while at Bridgewater State and was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989. After graduating from Bridgewater State in 1935, Kiernan kept a strong connection to the school for the rest of his life.
Kiernan became the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education in 1957. He would stay in that role until 1969. During these years he worked on a range of educational committees and from 1966-67 he was the president of the Washington based Council of Chief State School Officers representing the ranking education officials in the 50 states and U.S. territories. In 1964 he returned to his Alma mater as the state’s senior education official to deliver the convocation address to the students.
In 1969 Kiernan became the Executive Director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), a position he would remain in until 1980. During four of these years he was chairman of the Atlantic Treaty Education Committee (NATO countries) and the Atlantic Information Center for Teachers in London. After leading NASSP with its 40,000 members for eleven years, he would stay in education as an educational consultant in Washington, D.C. After serving for 50 years in education, Kiernan retired. He served as an educational advisor for seven presidents of the United States from Eisenhower to the Reagan administration
Perspectives of Women Police Officers in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India
Get PDFWomen face unprecedented challenges of gender inequality despite representing half of the world’s population, yet increasingly, they are entering physically demanding professions such as policing. Underlying police culture is a normative power structure defined by hegemonic masculinity. Discrimination, sexual harassment, and inadequate maternity and parental leave are some of the issues that women police officers face. Despite these limitations, there is a growing demand for women police officers. This study contributes to a better understanding of the issues that women police officers face in their work. It also sheds light on the psychology of women police officers and their approach in confronting these issues. A review of the existing statistics reveals that women are underrepresented and undervalued in policing in the Union Territory of Puducherry. To understand their experiences and viewpoints, the author conducted interviews with women police officers in the Union Territory of Puducherry
Vatsyayana\u27s Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra: A Guide
No full textVatsyayana\u27s Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra is one of classical India\u27s most important philosophical works. This Guide offers both a map and interpretation of this challenging canonical text, suitable for any student or novice reader.Treating them as a single hybrid text, the Nyaya-sutra with Vatsyayana\u27s commentary systematizes in skeletal form centuries of ancient Indian philosophical developments concerning logic, epistemology, and dialectics, while also defending a realist categorial metaphysics. It offers a number of epistemological and methodological insights that inform intellectual inquiry in the Subcontinent for over a millennium. Vatsyayana\u27s Commentary also provides sophisticated arguments for distinct positions in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and value theory that stand amongst the best contributions to world philosophy.This guide, accessible to students and researchers not familiar with classical Indian philosophy, provides a distilled, accessible understanding of the major scholarly, historical, and philosophical issues that inform the Commentary, while unpacking its philosophical content such that it speaks to modern readers. It also illustrates the way that the Commentary may serve as a lens through which to view the formative period of classical Indian philosophy
Survivors of Sexual Assault on the Stand: A New Feminist and Victim-Centered Bioethical Framework to Discuss Justice and Trauma
Get PDFThis essay argues that neuroscientific knowledge of trauma should be utilized to address injustices experienced by survivors of sexual assault (SA) in the courtroom and introduces a new feminist and victim-centered bioethical framework. Survivors face several injustices during a SA trial. Rape myths and victim stereotypes, which stem from gender discrimination, create unrealistic expectations for survivors’ behaviors and engender epistemic injustices. Other injustices are inherent to SA trials. Notably, the justice system fails to protect survivors and actually harms them by granting them little agency while risking secondary victimization. Many injustices experienced by survivors are linked to their reactions to trauma during and after the SA. However, neuroscientists have an extensive understanding of trauma, and they shed light on its mechanisms, effects, and consequences. Neuroscientific knowledge of trauma can improve survivors’ experience in the courtroom through two core means: educating stakeholders and implementing trauma-sensitive and trauma-informed practices in the justice system. A traditional evidence-based framework aims to balance the defendant’s rights and society’s interest in justice, hence eclipsing the survivor’s interests. An evidential framework appears inefficient for discussing survivors’ experiences in the courtroom. Consequently, a new feminist and victim-centered bioethical framework is introduced as it allows for a focus on survivors’ health needs and well-being without compromising the justice system’s need for fairness
Suburban Superheroes: Sitcom Suburbia Reimagined in WandaVision
Get PDFThe superhero genre traditionally dictates that a hero’s traumatic past drives them to save people, and cities—often perceived as highly populated places that are full of crime—make for places where there are plenty of people in need of saving. This trope is notably disrupted, however, in an MCU sitcom-style television show released in 2021: WandaVision. This article contends that WandaVision’s suburban setting serves to mediate and reflect Wanda’s trauma and subsequent sense of powerlessness, as she constructs a small world that is (on the surface) stable and safe from the pain, loss, and violence of the outside world, yet (beneath the surface) furthers the entrapment and instability that characterizes her past. Wanda reconfigures the stereotypical role of a suburban housewife from something that is constrictive to something that is freeing, as it offers her an escape from her identity as a hero and a reprieve into a new life that is structured and stable. However, this quaint suburban life is not sustainable for a superhero, and ultimately the pitfalls of suburbia crumble Wanda’s contrived reality, serving as an ominous reminder regarding the power of the suburbs: though they may be places of order and stability, the control inherent in this dynamic is reciprocal; just as residents of the suburbs shape their community, the suburbs shape their residents right back
How Emerging Adults are Living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Qualitative Study
Get PDFA Song of Ivory and Steel: Suppressive Empowerment in Game of Thrones
Get PDFIn this thesis, I will be examining George R. R. Martin’s series, A Song of Ice and Fire (1993--), and its television adaptation, A Game of Thrones (2011-2019). Using a feminist lens, I will be addressing how the adaptation figuratively and literally strips agency from empowered female characters in the novel through portrayals of rape and blatant suppression of the characters, Daenerys Targaryen, Sansa Stark, and Catelyn Stark