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Evaluation results from three student cohorts in the Interprofessional Education: Skills Training (IPST) program.
Get PDFUsing student evaluation results to improve teaching - a practical guide to interpreting teaching evaluation results and using them to improve your teaching.
Get PDFAt the Juncture of TESL, Multicultural Education, and Newcomer Integration
Get PDFTeaching English as a Second Language (TESL) may not be a familiar term for many people in Newfoundland and Labrador, and TESL professionals in the province are a very small group. One can easily count the numbers of ESL teachers in the K-12 school system, the government sponsored Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, and the ESL Department at Memorial University. There are also a few ESL teachers in the community and a handful of graduate students who came from, and taught ESL in, different parts of the world and are still interested in the field. TESL professionals work with very diverse student populations and they need to feel connected and have their voices heard in a rather homogeneous province with a predominantly white English speaking population (Statistics Canada, 2016)
Will Enough ever be Enough?
Get PDFThis paper examines the apparent discrepancy between public opinion and congressional action with regards to the implementation of further gun control policies within the United States. Through the examination of the history of congressional decision making as well as the history of gun control policies, it is the main contention of this paper that under the current policy-making environment within the United States further gun control measures will fail to come to materialize.
The Causes of High Human Development in Cuba
Get PDFCuba continues to have a HDI score well above what one would expect from a country of its GDP. A unique case both regionally and globally, it presents an impressive degree of success in meeting human security needs. This paper compares key domestic policies used in Cuba with those used in comparable states in the region and worldwide in order to find the causes of Cuba’s high HDI score. It finds that these results are due to a combination of factors, many of them based in the state's Marxist-Leninist ideology. Specifically, a combination of equitable land reform, a strong welfare state, and smart prioritization and allocation of government resources work together to deliver a high degree of human development. These findings show that while Marxism-Leninism is by no means a flawless ideology, in practice it can contribute to high human development. Cuba’s remarkable success compared to countries with similarly low GDPs suggests that the policies and underlying ideology utilized there should be adopted in other developing nations in order to improve human development and security
An Ever-Closer Union: Communitarization of the European Union's Border Security
Get PDFFrom the signing of the Maastricht Treaty to the formal implementation of Schengen into European law, the postwar integration of Europe through the idea of a European identity has pushed the current member states of the EU to abolish their internal borders and erect stronger external ones. Pushed by changing circumstances, the EU has had to alter how it polices its external borders by further supranationalizing its security processes. By examining primary sources that have been crucial to the supranationalization of European border security, this paper answers the following research question: how has the EU created institutions that supranationalize its border security processes? After searching through primary sources and conducting a discourse analysis on the Maastricht Treaty, Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004, the Treaty of Lisbon, Council Decision 2009/371/JHA, Regulation (EU) 1052/2013, and Regulation (EU) 2016/1624, this paper concludes that the EU has created institutions that gradually shift the sovereignty from member states to the supranational level as per the rhetoric of securitization. This has generated significant pushback as the chain of command becomes less clear due to communitarization and power to conduct external affairs shifts from member states to EU institution
Early Forms of Apprehension and Moral Evaluation
Get PDFThe following essay is an exercise in doing the second functional specialty, Interpretation, in relation to research materials from my essay, “Lonergan’s Puzzling Comment about the Vis Cogitativa.”1 Section I briefly reviews the puzzle and suggests how Lonergan’s theoretical meaning of ‘development’ offers clues for resolving it. In Section II the significance of his comment expands in relation to a much larger puzzle as old as Aristotle’s sensus communis and as current as contemporary neuroscientific reports on the binding problem. Given this much larger puzzle, Section III pauses to ask methodological questions about how to proceed. There the question is what heuristic framework might be adequate in interpreting texts from several disciplines ranging from the neuroscience of attention to psychology and intentionality theory. I identify four features of such a framework and then apply them in the last two sections of this essay
Development and ongoing evaluation of procedural skills instruction sessions for core and low-frequency high-stakes EM procedures.
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