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Domenica De Falco, La Femme et les personnages féminins chez les Goncourt
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Renewed Spirit in Winnipeg's North End: An emerging Aboriginal young adult co-creative leadership model
Get PDFThis thesis argues that the Winnipeg youth movement, “Meet Me at the Bell Tower” (MMBT), offers a new form of spiritual, cultural, and political renewal. Qualitative data drawn from interviews of youth leaders in this movement suggest four characteristics that attract youth to this community and make it a powerful force for social change. These characteristics are: (1) an affirmation of urban Aboriginal experience, (2) provision of positive alternatives to violence (3) the renewal of community spirit, and (4) the empowerment of subsequent leaders. Underlying these characteristics of MMBT is a reclamation of traditional spiritual teachings that reinforce positive identity, offer spiritual practices that are life-giving, and generate positive outcomes through relationship building and community renewal. Since the inception of Meet Me At the Bell Tower, participants report significant individual and community transformation from violence to one of non-violence and from despair to hope. Such renewal of self and community in North End Winnipeg (one of the most impoverished neighbourhoods in Canada) raises hope for the future. MMBT members believe that their experience and their leadership model can succeed beyond their local context. This thesis therefore concludes with several observations on what the Canadian Church (specifically, the United Church of Canada) may learn from this transformative movement.Master of Sacred Theolog
New Uses for Old Buildings: Organic Renewal in the West Exchange District, 1975-2010
Get PDFPaper: iii, 14 pp., digital file.Since 1975, the Exchange District west of Main Street has emerged as downtown Winnipeg’s
most successful and interesting neighbourhoods. Built up as a wholesale warehouse district in
the late 19th and early 20th century, the West Exchange is now seeing these warehouse spaces
reused as loft condos, artist studios, offi ces and trendy retail, bars and cafes. This paper will
examine the slow revitalization process that has occurred in the West Exchange, arguing that
the lack of a major urban renewal programs and the abundance of cheap, reusable space has
facilitated this revitalization. By leaving the West Exchange’s physical form intact, revitalization
has been further assisted through the attraction of hipster and yupster consumers.Institute of Urban Studie
“By Nature Fram’d to Wear a Crown”? Decolonizing the Shakespeare Authorship Question
Get PDFReprinted with permission from Brief Chronicles www.briefchronicles.comThe paper suggests that the academy's marginalization of Shakespeare authorship scholarship originates in the imperial origins of the broader culture, in particular within the totalizing, essentialist and self-aggrandizing rhetoric concerning the "natural genius" of both "the West" and its paragon, William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon. Postcolonial readings of early Shakespeareana and contemporary defenders of Western imperialism demonstrate how the invocation of "Nature" as an explanatory metanarrative was the keystone element in establishing the "genius of the West," of which the semi-divine Shakespeare was a not insignificant ingredient. Seeing the quasi-religious grace of "natural genius" as the origin of and Divine support for the European-dominated global order of the colonial era -- and the corresponding privileged position of the white race -- both elevated the colonizer and Shakespeare himself from ontological scrutiny.Editor Roger Stritmatter writes: "I am pleased to confirm in writing your permission for your Brief Chronicles essay, "By Nature Fram'd to Wear a Crown? Decolonizing the Shakespeare Authorship Question" (Brief Chronicles 5 (2014): 11-30) to be reprinted by the University of Winnipeg.
Using Behaviour to Understand Conservation and Management Strategies for Threatened Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus)
Get PDFA thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree, Department of Biology. Master of Science in Bioscience, Technology, and Public Policy Program, University of Winnipeg.Captive assurance populations can help preserve populations in the face of rapid declines that cannot be mitigated in the wild. Individual behavioural tendencies or personality may affect how easily different individuals acclimate to captivity and ultimately influence the success of captive assurance efforts. Temperate bat species face a range of conservation threats including habitat loss and degradation, mortality from wind energy facilities, and white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fungal disease causing the most rapid declines of mammals ever observed. I tested the hypothesis that behavioural tendencies associated with animal personality and the shy-bold continuum affect feeding behaviour in healthy and WNS-affected captive little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus), one of the species most affected by WNS. I predicted that, in comparison to shy individuals, bold, active bats would spend more time feeding, feed more frequently, arrive earlier to the food dish each night, and gain more mass in captivity than shy individuals. Bats were captured from the wild in spring and held in the laboratory in one of two flight cages, isolating healthy and WNS-affected individuals. I quantified behavioural tendencies using a hole-board test and recorded feeding behaviour. Every two days during the feeding experiment, I recorded body mass to quantify pre-hibernation mass accumulation. I found that more active WNS-affected bats fed more frequently and that grooming in the hole-board test (which may reflect anxiety) was correlated with body mass at capture (i.e., at the end of the preceding hibernation season). I also found that individuals from both healthy and WNS-affected groups arrived at the feeding dish in approximately the same order each night, which could reflect a dominance hierarchy. However, I found no evidence that order of arrival at the food dish affected feeding or mass accumulation. My results suggest that behavioural tendencies during the active season may impact captive maintenance of bats for conservation, particularly those affected by disease. More work is required to understand the role of dominance interactions on the potential success of captive assurance populations.This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship and a University of Winnipeg Graduate Studies Scholarship. Grants were also provided to CKRW from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Canada Foundation for Innovation, and Bat Conservation International.Master of Science in Bioscience, Technology, and Public Polic
Relational Accountability, or, The Limits of Objectivity [Editorial]
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Stories of Transformation: Memories of a Global Citizenship Practicum
Get PDFEleven years ago the author took 13 high school students from the University of Winnipeg (Canada) on a practicum trip to Costa Rica. Eight and a half years later he revisited the experience with many of those people. Stories of Transformation: Memories of a Global Citizenship Practicum is an account of what they remembered and what it means for global citizenship education. Kornelsen contextualizes his account by examining contested notions of world citizenship and exploring the ethical and pedagogical challenges of international practicums. Therewith, Kornelsen also introduces readers to contributions that leading philosophers and educators have made to our understanding of what it is to prepare young people for citizenship in a globalizing world. Stories of Transformation: Memories of a Global Citizenship Practicum is based on research for which Kornelsen was awarded the Manitoba Education Research Network prize for outstanding achievement in education research – research that examined the intersection of experiential learning, international practicums and cosmopolitanism. This book will be of special interest to global educators: high school teachers and administrators, facilitators of study abroad and service learning courses (at high school and university levels), members of faculties of education, and policy consultants for state and provincial departments of education
Going Old School: Activism Reborn in Winnipeg's Inner City
Get PDFOnline resource: 12 pp., ill., digital file.In our first In-Brief discussion, IUS and Mike Maunder team up to explore a longstanding issue facing a local Winnipeg high school trying to secure much needed green space. In this brief discussion, what emerges is a story about how ordinary citizens and others worked collectively to make a difference in the community. We see that getting involved using “old school activism” still works, especially when you introduce modern social media to get the work out.
The battle over the Gordon Bell field saw community members, students, government and school officials tussling for years, but finally ending up working together to ensure the right thing was done for a prime inner city parcel of land that would have otherwise been redeveloped. While there were many important people involved in this story, our In-Brief discussion focuses on a few whose story is important to share. We feel it important to focus on the grassroots approach that helped kick-start a successful campaign that won the hearts of many Winnipeggers and gave the school a field. The truth is, this field would not exist if not for the efforts of those highlighted in this paper
Manitoba Older Worker Project
Get PDFReport: 68 pp.; ill., digital fileTo explore the role of older workers in Manitoba and in a broader context, The
Manitoba Older Worker Project (MOWP) explores the trends in the literature
and the experiences of both employers and employees. A key component of this
effort focuses specifically on the salient literature with the intent of providing a
sound, Manitoba-specific perspective with supporting data that examines the:
• Needs and experiences of older workers in Manitoba;
• Perceptions of older workers by employers and their desire and ability to
retain them; and
• Current policies and options for policy reform which would encourage the
benefits of an older workforce.
Specifically, this project is concerned with older workers 55 years of age or more
who are working, unemployed or retired. The report is geared towards
supporting policy and program development aimed at maintaining an older
workforce that will meet the specific labour market needs of Manitoba