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Create your own Picasso: A Youth Program
No full textThis article discusses the benefits of freestyle art on youth and how librarians can create an art program for youth in their library. 
Cutting edge hackathon competition winners strive to better support more surgeons with primary childcare responsibilities
No full textFrom Panel to Archive, and from Atlantic Canada to the World: Reciprocity in the Superman’s Children Project
No full textThe rewards and challenges of experiential learning have long been acknowledged. In this paper, I discuss my teaching, training, and mentorship of RAs for a study of Superman’s son Jon Kent. This monograph project advances scholarship on popular culture, cultural studies, and immigration studies. That my RAs belong to Jon’s generation and that they face so many of the pressing issues that Jon does make our collaborations especially fruitful and insightful. My RAs’ responsibilities involve contributing to the identification and cataloguing of Jon’s and his siblings’ appearances. In the first half of this paper, I canvas what I’ve learned while working in the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University, and how I draw on this experience to teach my RAs about researching such a universally beloved character, via comics, and at archives internationally. And in the second half, I attend to how my RAs’ readings and activism revitalize this research project. My central argument is for the value of intergenerational and international collaboration for a project that’s inherently intergenerational and international
Decolonizing institutional foodservices: learning through doing making food more acceptable for First Nations, Metis and Inuit.
No full textInstitutional foodservices are often overlooked as a place for decolonization initiatives. Yet, these foodservices may provide all the food eaten by residents in their facilities. Lack of culturally appropriate food can cause harm. Despite the evidence for the benefits of making hospital foodservices more acceptable to First Nations, Inuit, and Metis there remains many barriers to doing this including legislation, access to traditional foods, supply of traditional foods, knowledge of traditional foods and institutional barriers such as the budget, meeting nutritional targets and working around dietary restrictions. To prepare students who may become foodservice managers for decolonizing foodservices in the foodservice management class the students complete a project which culminates in providing a meal to Indigenous students and faculty. Students learn about the importance of the work, hear of examples of institutions that have started to decolonize their foodservices, and conduct a survey asking Indigenous students at St FX about food. Based on the survey the nutrition students prepare a meal for Indigenous students and faculty
Cultivating an Openness to the Other in Higher Education through Phenomenology, Beginner’s Mind, and Storytelling
No full textTo make higher education inclusive and support Indigenizing the curriculum, we must acknowledge the limits of our knowledge when engaging others and create safe spaces for them to share their experiences. How can we foster a space where the knowledge embodied by others is ethically engaged and its interpretations respectfully explored? As praxis, I will share personal-professional stories to illustrate how I integrate Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, the concept of shoshin or “beginner’s mind” in Zen Buddhism, and Indigenizing storytelling principles into a unified approach that honors the preconceptual aspects of others’ stories. This approach avoids imposing fixed interpretations, allowing for exploration of diverse meanings with others that honors both the sensible and intelligible. To deepen understanding, I will include brief exercises in suspending preconceptions, attending to the sensible, and sharing personal-professional stories. By the presentation’s end, participants will understand the interplay of the sensible and intelligible in engaging others’ stories ethically and feel inspired to adapt these examples and exercises in their own teaching
Lessons learned teaching in living classrooms: Reflections on co-creating “Equity by Design” field schools
No full textA robust body of scholarship explores the transformative power of internationalization in higher education. At the same time, a growing body of work articulates and aims to identify ways to address the significant barriers to participation in these rich educational opportunities. The significance of international teaching for faculty, particularly our pedagogical practice, is comparatively less well understood. This interdisciplinary, interactive workshop will explore how university educators’ teaching practice both informs and is shaped by the experience of bringing faculty-led, short-term study abroad programs to life. The workshop will have three parts: 1) we will begin with a presentation in which the authors speak to their field school experiences, 2) we will welcome questions and comments from workshop participants as a whole, and 3) in small groups (led by authors) we will pursue four questions through discussion
Introductory surveys create a positive classroom climate from day one
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Inside a Safe Place: : The perception of LGBTQ+ urban spaces’ role in shaping feelings of identity, community, and security
Get PDFThe influence of LGBTQ+ spaces in defining the urban experience of people belonging to the LGBTQ+ community has become the subject of a growing literature in the field of urban sociology. Our present research focuses on the perception of these urban spaces by their attendants and analyses how different LGBTQ+ spaces shape a sense of identity, community, and security among them. Using the tools of ethnographic research, such as participant observation and in-depth interview, we analysed two LGBTQ+ friendly spaces located in Padua, an Italian medium-size city with a noteworthy LGBTQ+ history. The selected spaces each have a different social function: political or recreational; one space is the headquarters of a political association, and the other one is a club. Our results show that an LGBTQ+ urban space, especially the political one, can have a positive influence on the perception of a sense of identity, community, and security. This is both thanks to its social function, because it allows for the creation of solid bonds inside a safe place, and thanks to its history, which makes it a point-of-reference for the local LGBTQ+ community
Seeking Stability in China\u27s "Involuted Generation"
No full textIn recent years, the word “involution” (Nei Juan) has become a popular word in Chinese society to refer to the great competitive pressure young people in China now face in their life such as passing the college entrance examination and searching for a job. They are called the “involuted generation.” To study the involution phenomenon, I conducted eleven semi-structured interviews with students, parents, and teachers in Zhejiang Province in China. This study also explores the causes and effects of the phenomenon of involution by combining online research and a literature review. I argue that the pursuit of stability produces the present involution while the college entrance examination and differences in family background create different degrees of involution which intensifies the stress of competition. The effects of involution include anxiety and tension for both students and parents brought on by competition, the devaluation of academic qualifications in the job market, and the gap young people experience between their interests and careers
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About the Cover
Christie Stilwell
Welcome
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From the HPJ Editorial Board
Articles
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Community-Based Doula Training: A Promising Practice for Improving Black Maternal Health
Ottley, Motlagh, Chung, Yang, Haseeb, Gilka, Pham, Zachos, Salad
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Employment Status of Canadian University Students’ Association with Ability to Meet the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines
Shivgulam, Pellerine, Bray, Fowles, Furlano, Morava, Taniya, Nagpal, O’Brien,
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Examining Student Perceptions and Awareness of Social Prescribing in a Canadian University
Smoke, Wadge, Barrett, Mikitin, Melekh, Law, Muhl
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“It’s Such an Inclusive and Welcoming Environment”: Caregiver Perspectives of a Play-Based Program for Autistic Children and Youth
So, Truong, Woodford, Moore
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Exploring Mental Health Literacy in Canada: A Mixed-Method Cross-Sectional Study
Hill, Sheaves, Tiller, Fisher
Protocols
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Understanding the Feasibility and Benefits of Exercise Programs in Individuals Living With a Brain Cancer Diagnosis: A Scoping Review Protocol
Langley, MacNeil, Pace, Peters, Grandy, Keats
Closing
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Acknowledgements