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My Nail-biting Challenge
Get PDFThis paper is a three-week journey of gathering personal data about my nail-biting challenge. It borrows the idea from the “Dear data Project” by Georgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec to frame a personal experience with nail-biting as a habit for the past years as an adult. Personal stories and encounters are drawn from to convey content and underlying perspectives from a body of literature in the psychology, psychiatry and behavioral health studies. Data is collected around three questions: When do I bite, why do I bite and how does nail-biting make me feel? Tables, images and data visualization are used to understand the situation. The use of zentagles and elements of art were adopted since this is a technique in art that puts one in a mode of relaxation. In this sense, the data created the opportunity for me to address and explore the habit of nail-biting and its underlying causes as experienced
The “Dear data” Project: More than Just Data-Art
Get PDF “Dear Data” is a graduate research project that involved collecting ethnographic and ethological data that produced some unexpected tensions. Initially, I was uncertain how I could represent the data using art. However, through trial and error, along with collaborations with my project partner, I achieved my goal of representing the data using artistic realism. An unforeseen aspect of the collaboration was the social facilitation of the writing and artistic representations of the results. Our collaboration also clarified how I was projecting my data story to her and other readers, enriching my appreciation of the importance of data representation. I noted that my interpretation of project data sets, such as my Twitter usage or observed dog behaviour, demonstrated my tendency towards reductionism. Metacognitive analyses led to the resolution that, I should concentrate on the whole of a phenomenon versus a reductionist focus on minute components. The project concluded with a final data collection that required reflexivity, a process completely foreign to a fish physiology researcher, further demonstrating the educational and developmental value of the “Dear Data” project for an emerging social science researcher
Affective Factors in Second Language Writing: Is It a Matter of Concern?
Get PDFThis personal narrative delineates the effect of affective factors: anxiety, self-efficacy, and motivation in second language learners’ writings. The author discusses factors affecting ESL writing performance and shares her experience of tutoring an English as a Second Language (ESL) learner with a focus on the impact of affective factors in writing outcomes. The findings support the portion of Krashen’s Input Hypothesis (1982) relating to the affective filter hypothesis. Therefore, this study seeks to build upon theoretical knowledge by reviewing related literature, and presenting researcher’s personal tutoring experiences. Finally, the implications for pedagogy are considered with suggestions on how teachers can motivate students to master writing with confidence and success. Educators might consider paying special attention to improving teaching practices and support services (such as individual assessment, counseling, writing centre...etc.) to assist the ESL learners.Keywords: ESL writing, affective factors, wring self-efficacy, writing anxiety, Ira
The Role of Arts-Based Research in Creating Safe Spaces for Newcomer Refugees
Get PDFThis article discusses the role of arts-based research in generating a supportive cross-cultural way for newcomer refugees to express themselves within an emerging aesthetic intersubjective paradigm of arts-based research and art therapy (Chilton, Geber, & Scotti, 2015). It begins by reviewing literature on the global and contemporary experiences of refugees and displaced persons and the need to support newcomer refugees, particularly women. Furthermore, this article briefly discusses the connection between art-making and health with recent relevant systematic reviews, experiential designs, and biomarker evidence. It concludes that arts-based research can be a way to support diverse forms of knowledge and communication, with a particular focus on cultural humility (Bal & Kaur, 2017; McNiff, 1984; Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998).Keywords: newcomers; refugees; arts-based research; art therapy; cross-cultural
“Prophetic, Dreaming on the Mounds of Heaven”: Schelling and Hölderlin and the Madness of Prophetic Time
Get PDFHölderlin, it must be said, was always ahead of his time! His was an experience of Heracleitean time, as the later hymns would conceive it, one in which the liveliness within poetry is transfigured into the ever-living fire of prophetic time and logos. What does it mean to speak of the prophetic? What does this strange word, wrenched from the comforts of institutional religion as usual—Nietzsche’s “monotonotheism”— give us to hear? In a time of diminishing returns for the traditional regimes of religion, how does the promise of the prophetic still speak to us
Ethnicity, Regime Type and the Tendency for Violence
Get PDFWithin the study of ethnicity and violence, there is a compelling puzzle: the number of ethnic groups in the world exceeds the number of violent ethnic conflicts. This puzzle alludes to an important question: what explains the tendency for violence among ethnic groups in multiethnic states? This essay argues that the tendency for violent ethnic conflict in multiethnic states depends on the regime type of the state. Using data from the Democracy Index developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit (2017) to classify regimes, this paper will argue that ‘anocratic’ regimes have a higher tendency for ethnic violence than states classified as ‘full democracies’ or ‘authoritarian regimes’. This essay contributes to the literature on ethnic violence and how regime type is an important and overlooked variable for explaining its onset
Post-Graduate medical education examination outcomes and work locations of IMG family medicine residents in Canada.
No full textIdentifying individuals at risk for ARVC caused by THEM43 P.S358L: a genetics educational tool for primary care physicians.
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