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Invitation to support reawakening pentl’ach
No full textThe last fluent speaker of pentl’ach passed away in the 1940’s, and recent work has been undertaken by pentl’ach descendants to reawaken the language. This paper discusses how the reawakening pentl’ach team invited participants in LING 431/531 (Researching) Community-based initiatives in language revitalization, to develop projects to support their work
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF PRACTITIONERS’ USE OF YOGA WITH YOUTH WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED TRAUMA
No full textIt is not uncommon for youth (ages 2–19) to experience trauma. There are various types of traumatic events that may lead to adverse effects on youths’ emotional, cognitive, social, physical, and spiritual health. It is important that youth receive support and resources to address the negative impacts trauma may have on their minds and bodies. Yoga is a holistic practice that may address these negative effects in all 5 health domains. However, there are many inconsistencies and gaps in the literature regarding the use of yoga with youth who have experienced trauma. The purpose of this descriptive survey research study was to address these inconsistencies by describing the approaches of 56 practitioners who utilize yoga with youth who have experienced trauma, and their perceptions of how and why they use yoga with these youth. Findings highlighted the importance of implementing trauma-specific adaptations when facilitating yoga with youth who have experienced trauma, such as increasing participant autonomy, providing a safe environment, and developing a therapeutic rapport. Results also indicated that the most common use of yoga among these practitioners was to address emotional and physical needs of youth who have experienced trauma. Implications of study findings and opportunities for future research are discussed
SCALING UP POSITIVE PARENTING PRACTICES IN UGANDA: RESEARCH EVIDENCE FROM AN INTEGRATED COMMUNITY-LED INITIATIVE FOR REDUCING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN LIRA DISTRICT, NORTHERN UGANDA
No full textCommunity-based action research is increasingly gaining traction in development work, partly because of its benefits in contextualizing societal problems and “handing over the stick” to the communities; that is, researchers listen, question, and learn as the experts (the community members) identify their problems and define the change they desire. This research approach, therefore, empowers communities and is a shift from traditional research where the researcher presupposes that deductions about a phenomenon are to be made outside the natural environment. This research paper documents the use of participatory learning and action approaches in designing, implementing, and monitoring interventions to prevent violence against children in post-conflict northern Uganda, a region that suffered through the Lord’s Resistance insurgency from 1987 to 2006
Katie Get Your Gun: Frolicking through the Wild Wild West in Bard on the Beach’s The Taming of the Shrew
No full textMeredith Beales reviews the Bard on the Beach production of The Taming of the Shrew, now relocated to the gun-toting West. This choice makes for an interesting rereading of the Katherine character, made even more sympathetic by her mistreatment at the hands of local townsfolk. The specificity with which the comedy Western world informs the eventual transformation of Katherine, and her surprisingly successful revenge against those who seemingly spent years bullying her, adds its own topicality to this uncomfortably nuanced play. A “satire of sexism” or “simply a straight-up sexist play”? Beales finds this Canadian production’s creative choices unusually informative, albeit within the confines of an ultimately troubling drama
Plastics, Birds, and Humans: Awakening and Quickening Ecological Minds in Young Children and Their Teachers
No full textWorking with educators, artists, young children, and materials to make meaning with place affected by human environmental impacts, this study zooms in on a documentary of dying birds who’ve swallowed plastics. The birds’ habitat is an eye-opening 2,000 miles from the nearest continent and is infested with trash and plastic. The birds ingest many shiny plastic bits and slowly die. This research paper focuses in on experiences of sharing this documentary with teacher educators at an international conference, then educators in our own context, and then with early childhood artists working in reuse materials. The research captures a series of dialogues and materials interactions at each of the three gatherings about possible ways to research with young children on daunting ecological issues in perilously turbulent times
(Re)Envisioning Childhoods With Mi’kmaw Literatures
No full textA generative reading of four recent children’s books by Mi’kmaw authors through Indigenous and posthumanist lenses, this article suggests that Indigenous children’s literature works at envisioning a “very old” future and highlights the counter-hegemonic potential of that future in the current moment. First, a reading of the Mi’kmaw mythopoetic tradition as speculative fiction is presented. Second, becoming-with Land is discussed as a radical pedagogical future. Third, the tensions between Indigenous and posthumanist theories are discussed, along with the generative potential of those tensions. The article concludes by highlighting the power of the very old futures (re)emergent from very old stories
À voix haute : combiner les représentations rhétorique et médicale de la voix à la Renaissance
No full textIn the Renaissance, the oral transmission of texts was not only justified by a tradition that would persist in parallel with the rise of printing: it actually found a point of support in the rediscovery of the medical treatises of the Ancients interested in reading out loud. Able to better allow for the circulation or release of moods, vociferation or reading aloud are among the therapeutic programs at work in Antiquity. Rabelais, a doctor himself, Latin translator and publisher of Hippocrates and Galian, was no doubt aware of this link between voice and health, as Gargantua’s way of life seems to show: the humanist combines in his stories a representation of the voice borrowed from the rhetoric of the actio, an anatomical representation of the path of the voice to the ear, and a therapeutic vision of the vocal exercises. These different representations all contribute to the humanist development of the giant. Clément Marot goes even further by giving an echo of these medical treatises in the “Royal Chant of the Conception of Our Lady,” thereby renewing the image of the divine “Word” and that of the Virgin Mary.A la Renaissance, la transmission orale des textes ne se justifie pas seulement par une tradition qui persisterait parallèlement à l’essor de l’imprimerie : elle trouve un point d’appui dans la redécouverte des traités de médecine des Anciens s’intéressant à la lecture à voix haute. Capable de mieux faire circuler ou libérer les humeurs, la vocifération ou la lecture à voix haute font partie des programmes thérapeutiques à l’œuvre dans l’Antiquité. Rabelais, médecin lui-même, traducteur en latin et éditeur d’Hippocrate et de Galien, n’ignorait sans doute pas ce lien fait jadis entre voix et santé, comme le mode de vie de Gargantua semble le montrer : l’humaniste combine dans ses récits une représentation de la voix empruntée à la rhétorique de l’actio, une représentation anatomique du trajet de la voix dans l’oreille, et une vision thérapeutique des exercices vocaux. Ces différentes représentations concourent toutes à l’épanouissement humaniste du géant. Clément Marot va encore plus loin en donnant un écho de ces traités médicaux dans le « Chant royal de la conception Nostre Dame », renouvelant par là-même l’image du « Verbe » divin et celle de la Vierge Marie