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So sorry your grandma died. Get that paper in.”: Graduate Teaching Assistants\u27 Experiences of Student Grief in the Communication Classroom
Get PDFGraduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are faced with managing how to respond to student disclosures of grief in the classroom but often lack grief training from their universities when these instances occur. Good and Mad grief, and Critical Grief Pedagogy (CGP) are the frameworks for which this study is positioned. Through interviews with GTAs in the United States, we explore their experiences when engaging with student grief disclosures and revealed three main themes: regulations and boundaries, transactional exchanges in institutions, and the classroom being a human space. We also discuss how GTAs use CGP to manage these interactions. We further suggest that GTA training should include CGP to help prepare future instructors for student grief and welcome grief into the classroom
Five Secondary Teachers’ Developing Identities as Teachers of Digital Writing
Get PDFThe negotiation of teacher identity has been identified as a particular challenge for literacy teachers in the context of technological change and expanding beliefs about writing. This research project uses “identity” as an analytic tool to understand five secondary teachers’ development as teachers of digital writing. Following similar research on teacher development and identity (Lee, 2013), this study examines teacher identity in relation to discourse (how teachers talk about themselves) and practice (how they perform their identities in their work), with attention to how identification is influenced by and through social and cultural factors. Findings show that these teachers’ embrace of digital writing pedagogies was intertwined with their self-identities as teachers who wanted to motivate and engage their students, but their desired identities and practices were constrained by administrative mandates and more traditional discourses about what counts as writing in their schools. I argue that helping teachers to develop resilient and reflective professional identities in the context of ongoing technological change and sociopolitical tension remains an urgent need in writing teacher education across pedagogical levels
Interview with Ruchi Manohar
No full textInterview with Ruchi Manohar recorded on March 25, 2024 at Forest Hills Northern High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ms. Manohar is interviewed by Forest Hills Northern High School students Ella Shaarda, Lila Fus, and Reagan Kurt as a part of WMU’s Telling Our Stories: A Video Collection Celebrating AAPI Heritage. During the interview Ms. Manohar discusses the following topics: Her dad wanting her to immigrate to the U.S. for her Master\u27s; Her positive perception of Americans and the U.S.; Adjusting to a new English dialect; Choosing to attend university in Texas; Differences between Indian and American universities; Her relative ease with adjusting to American culture; Working as a software engineer; Meeting her husband and moving from Florida to Michigan; Differences in driving between the U.S. and India; Celebrating Diwali in the U.S. and missing other celebrations and festivals in India; Dietary changes she has made since moving to the U.S.; Expectations vs. reality of the U.S.; Missing the busy, crowded environment in India; Feeling accepted and welcomed by Americans; How her goals and ideas of success have changed since being in the U.S.; Getting a green card and later choosing to become a U.S. citizen during the pandemic; How she helps her children remain connected to their Indian roots; How the exposure to new cultures in the U.S. has changed her as a person; Advice for immigrants, and; Difficulties building community in the U.S.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/our-stories-aapi/1010/thumbnail.jp
Religious Expression Through Architecture
Get PDFReligious architecture is found all around the world, with roughly 84% of the population identifying with a religious group, therefore, having a proper space to practice is essential.Having the right space to gather in community includes providing the appropriate architectural elements, which enhance one’s beliefs. While worship and faith practice can happen anywhere, religious architecture gives meaning, stability, and a place for purpose in one’s life, providing a safe gathering space for community members.
This research examines the human experience of faith practices and the architectural elements that aid in providing functionality to religious spaces. To understand the importance of religion and the significance it provides, one must have a basic understanding of what religion entails. The human need for external expression can be seen in spiritual cleansing and acknowledgment towards a higher power. There are vast differences of honoring a higher power, yet all with the commonality of showing gratitude, love, and the importance of community, connection, and external expression.
Compiled into this booklet are the basic fundamentals of beliefs, practices, and the overarching design elements associated with the five most prevalent religious groups. While there are an infinite number of religious groups in the world, with varying segments even within these groups - the information presented here are the basic concepts of beliefs and practices compiled based on literature review, field studies, precedent studies, and interviews
Stones Have Personalities Too
Get PDFThe natural environment is a system we as humans can learn from. We after all, benefit from the system of nature, it is the idea that there are three groups who inhabit the built environment, that is flora, fauna, and human. By working together, we create a circular approach to sustainable development. What it means to be self-sufficient is to work alongside nature and what it has to offer. Creating a built environment that benefits all four tiers of sustainability can create a circular approach to sustainable systems that will benefit all three groups who inhabit the built environment.
Biomimicry is a design approach that looks at the form, function, and behavior of the natural environment. Creating an environment that works together in a circular approach with nature can create sustainable solutions that in favor create a sustainable future. Looking into the flora and fauna that are endangered in a specific area creates an understanding of what needs to be incorporated into the environment that will pave the way for a sustainable future. Coexisting with nature starts with creating an environment where all can thrive.
This research explores biomimicry as a circular approach, social, cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability factors, as well as form and function as a natural source. By exploring these key objectives, we can then prove that self-sufficiency is a principle that achieves sustainable architecture in various dimensions
Lessons from Critical and Transnational Disability Perspectives for Social Work
No full textThis paper calls on social work to incorporate anti-oppressive paradigms in research, practice, education, and policy by developing a critical understanding of disability. Critical disability studies is an interdisciplinary field that challenges hegemonic framings that individualize and pathologize disability and recognizes the ways in which ableism intersects with other systems of oppression. Transnational disability studies provides explicit attention to the power dynamics between the Global North and the Global South. Adopting a perspective grounded in these two frameworks offers direction for social workers to apply the principles of disability justice in their choices for clinical interventions, policy goals, classroom strategies, and research methodologies
Fictional Literary Biography
No full textThis essay examines how Lauren Groff’s novel, Matrix, creates a fictional life story for Marie de France as it minimizes the importance of the poetic corpus associated with that name. It reads this exchange of poetry for biography against a backdrop of medieval thinking about gender, language, and corporeality
Informing Modifications to Social Participation and Navigation (SPAN) for Adolescents with Social Anxiety Incorporating Pet Dogs
Get PDFBackground: Social anxiety is one of the most prevalent mental health challenges of adolescence and profoundly impacts social participation. This study obtained adolescent and parent feedback to inform a future modification of Social Navigation and Participation (SPAN) for use with adolescents with social anxiety incorporating pet dogs.
Methods: The study had two phases: Phase 1 included interviews with adolescents with social anxiety (n = 8) about their social participation experiences, strategies, pet dogs, and thoughts on a proposed intervention to promote social participation; and Phase 2 included on-line survey completed by the adolescents and their parents (n = 14) assessing likelihood to engage in proposed components of the future modified SPAN intervention.
Results: The adolescents identified social participation challenges consistent with prior literature, including fear of judgement and larger group avoidance, and supportive features of the relationship with their pet-dogs. The adolescents reported a high likelihood of engaging in the coaching aspects of SPAN and pet-dog assisted strategies. Findings reflected the necessity of flexibility and individualization of the proposed SPAN modification to address adolescent and parental needs.
Conclusion: Results provided insights that informed the future SPAN modification and highlighted areas to consider for occupational therapists and others who work with adolescents with social anxiety and incorporate animal-assisted activities into practice
