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Getting Started on Your Professional Job Search: A Workbook for College Students
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Diversity Gaps in OT Education: Addressing the Challenges and Support Needs of Underrepresented Faculty
Get PDFUnderstanding the status of diversity in OT academia is crucial for promoting equitable representation and addressing the needs of underrepresented faculty. This exploratory mixed-methods study sought to assess the diversity landscape in OT academic programs and explore the support needed by diverse faculty to enter and remain in academic positions. The researchers used an online survey distributed to faculty members of accredited OT programs across the United States. In-depth interviews were conducted with select respondents to gain deeper insights into their experiences. The interview participants were selected based on survey responses through purposive sampling. The study focused on capturing perspectives from diverse faculty members and examined the challenges faced by diverse OT faculty, including ambiguous hiring practices, organizational culture, and legislative barriers. Insights were gathered on the perceived value of faculty diversity and strategies to improve hiring and retention practices. Eighty-five respondents participated. Most were female (89%) and Caucasian/White (68.18%). Over half had over 15 years of OT practice experience (61.9%), while 70.52% had less than 10 years in academia. Findings underscore the need for diversity and inclusion efforts in OT academia and clinical settings, highlighting the importance of recruiting and supporting diverse faculty to enrich perspectives and improve patient care
An Authentic Leader Never Dies: Lessons Learned from The Seminal Work Of Elizabeth Yerxa
Get PDFThis Opinion in the Profession is based on the enduring legacy of Elizabeth June Yerxa, a pioneering leader in occupational therapy and occupational science, following her passing in December 2024. Rather than a traditional in memoriam, the author uses the present tense to emphasize Yerxa\u27s ongoing influence. The paper highlights four key themes from Yerxa’s work: the commitment of occupational therapy to social change, the importance of an occupation-centered education, the term “engaging in occupation”, and the establishment of occupational science as a foundational discipline. Yerxa’s advocacy for critical thinking, holistic perspectives, and the integration of diverse fields in occupational therapy education is explored, alongside her challenges to conventional approaches in the profession. Central to her vision was the recognition of occupation as a vital force in human life, transcending the medical model and focusing on personal and societal well-being. The piece urges current occupational therapists to draw inspiration from Yerxa’s work, particularly in times of societal uncertainty, and to continue her advocacy for a more inclusive, compassionate world. Yerxa’s leadership, based on person-centered care and social justice, remains a beacon for the future of occupational therapy and science
Becoming the Sibylline Astrologer: Invention, Inheritance, and Identity in Christine de Pizan’s Le livre du chemin de longue étude
No full textThis article examines Christine de Pizan’s mode of self-fashioning in her 1403 dream vision Le livre du chemin de long étude, both in the ways she undermines the performance of femininity, and in the ways she uses and deviates from the prophetic mode by which some of her contemporaries used to attempt to influence their social superiors during the Great Schism. In order to secure herself a royal patron like her own father had with King Charles V, Christine establishes a relationship of mentorship between narrative self and the Cumaean sibyl, with whom she imbues astrological knowledge, an addition of her own invention, and one that fuses the traditionally-masculine mode of learned knowledge with the traditionally feminine mode of received knowledge. Under the sibyl\u27s tutelage, Christine the narrator both masters astrology and fulfills the sibylline function as mouthpiece of God, roles that she uses to present herself as an ideal advisor to her earliest royal readers
Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film, by Usha Vishnuvajjala
Get PDFThe Annunciation Triptych: How the Engelbrechts Saw It
No full textThe Annunciation Triptych (aka the Mérode Altarpiece) at the Met Cloisters has continued to be the object of intense study over the years. This essay considers the position of the triptych on the borderline of medieval art and focuses on the medieval context for longstanding liturgical and devotional practices dedicated to the Virgin of the Annunciation that inform its meaning. The ultimate goal of the patrons’ contemplation was to identify with her experience of the Incarnation. The layered scriptural readings of monastic meditation that Richard of Saint-Victor transformed into four modes of seeing allow for levels of understanding within and beyond the depicted elements of contemporary life. Medieval artists’ cultivation of an empathetic viewer response, fortified by optical science developed in the thirteenth century, enabled a reciprocal engagement between the viewer and the image at the astonishing level of immediacy and refinement that came to fruition in early fifteenth-century Netherlandish painting and can be seen to be at play in this triptych
Interview with Christine Der Chamberlin
Get PDFChristine Der Chamberlin grew up in Missouri as a second-generation Chinese American. Her mom came from Taiwan on an academic scholarship, and her dad was from Hong Kong, with a family history of moving around because of political issues. Her grandfather fought against communism and eventually came to the U.S. in the 1920s.
As an only child, Christine didn’t celebrate many Chinese traditions because of her Christian faith, but her dad made Chinese food for church events. She didn’t see many Asians around her growing up, but when her family moved to California at age 11, things changed.
Now, Christine is a teacher and makes sure to pass on her culture. Both of her kids speak Chinese, and she’s learned even more about her roots through the Chinese immersion program that helped her stay connected to her heritage.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/our-stories-aapi/1014/thumbnail.jp
“Proving Our Worth”: Discourses of Teacher Evaluation in Literacy Coaching
Get PDFThere is increasing evidence that literacy coaching is an effective method for supporting teachers’ professional development. At the same time, teacher evaluation systems have intensified in response to reform initiatives, raising questions about what happens at the intersection of teacher evaluation and coaching. Despite the potential of coaching to promote deep reflection and professional growth, discourses of teacher evaluation can disrupt teacher-coach relationships if accountability is privileged over professional learning and coaches are positioned as experts who judge and report on teachers’ performance. The purpose of this study was to explore how dominant discourses of teacher evaluation influenced the professional learning cultures and coaching interactions of practicing teachers enrolled in two sections of a Reading Masters course focused on literacy leadership and coaching. Data included written documents from a situated coaching cycle assignment, in which students recorded, analyzed, and reflected on a coaching interaction, and semistructured interviews designed to elicit participants’ stories about their experiences with the assignment. A multiphase qualitative analysis of the data revealed teachers’ affective responses to the discourse of evaluation through the themes of enforcement of “good” teaching and professional status. The discourse of evaluation negatively influenced coaching interactions within cultures of accountability. These findings have implications for how coaches and administrators can work together to rebalance the relationship between accountability and professional growth in their school’s teacher evaluation processes
