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Accepting the Terms and Conditions: An Evaluation of a Parole-Based Experiential Assignment
No full textDegrees relating to criminal justice issues are growing in popularity as more students seek to understand the cultural, societal, personal, and situational precursors and solutions to criminal behaviour. As experiential learning is a natural extension to the criminal justice field given its applied nature and focus on understanding complex societal problems, many instructors are keen to adopt these practices to enhance student experience and understanding. However, concerns about student safety, respect for justice-involved persons, and resource limitations are among several hurdles in organizing such an experience. What is needed are flexible, scalable opportunities for students to easily engage in protracted activities that provide first-hand experiences of criminal justice system involvement. The current study presents an evaluation of one such activity where students abided by a set of parole conditions for one week, documenting the impact it had on their daily lives. Results indicated that students enjoyed the assignment, believing that it provided real-world experience, transformed their perspectives, and helped them better understand course material
The Sisters On Screen Film Festival: A Case Study of Playing with Popular Culture to Achieve High-Impact Learning
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The Sisters On Screen Film Festival was a class project undertaken by the undergraduate students of the Women in Music seminar at Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada) in 2019 and 2023, both times resulting in a three-day event that screened three films for the local community. This presentation offers The Sisters On Screen Film Festival as an example of how playful pedagogy using popular culture can yield high-impact practices (Hayford and Kattwinkel, 2018): student-centered collaborative learning, both in and beyond the classroom. Drawing from feedback collected from both the audience and participating students, it outlines the student-perceived learning outcomes achieved through this process and considers both the benefits and challenges of a community engagement project of this nature. It will also address the project’s development, and the impact of modifications made to its design and implementation from the 2019 to the 2023 iteration
Half-Asian? Half-Valid?: An Autoethnographic Account of the Situational Mixed-race Experience
Get PDFThis autoethnographic study uses the researcher’s personal racialized experiences to illuminate the complexities of being mixed-race. Understanding one’s own identity is crucial to positioning oneself in the world and experiencing one’s surroundings. For mixed-race individuals, understanding oneself becomes more difficult and nuanced as compared to monoracial groups. The mixed experience is marked with struggles with racial ambiguity, rejection from racial communities, and racial performativity. Feelings, including invalidation, self-doubt, discrimination, and longing for community often arise, prompting an investigation as to what it feels like to carry a mixed-race identity. This study contributes to the field of race and identity studies, exploring mixed-race identity from a first-hand perspective. Through three main frames of analysis: 1) perception of mixed-race by others, 2) internalization of invalidity, and 3) understanding the contextuality of the mixed identity, this paper delves into how identity is constructed uniquely for mixed-race individuals. Findings from this paper provide insight to the situational experience of mixed-race individuals.
 
How to Enhance your Capacity for Imagination
No full textThis article discusses the benefits of fostering imagination in teens and suggests some ways in which you can open your mind to become more imaginative
Program Plan: Young Writer’s Circle
No full textYoung Writers Circle is a weekly interactive writing workshop designed specifically for older teens (aged 14-18) and hosted in a public library setting. This program arises out of desire to create a space for teenagers to learn, collaborate, and find community in other young people who are interested in creative writing
Resources: Performance Classes Across Canada
No full textA curated list of different theatres, community centers, or organizations that offer acting and performance classes to teens in some major cities across Canada
Book Review: Long Short Story
No full textA review of the novel Long Story Short by Serena Kaylor. This book tells the story of a sixteen-year who spends the summer at theatre camp before going to university in the Fall
