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Dear Data: The Process of Becoming a Researcher
Get PDFDear Data is a project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec (2016), two strangers who met at a conference and decided to become friends by sending post cards to each other each week depicting hand-drawn data visualizations from every day events, such as the number of doors opened in a day, or how many complaints were made in a day. This paper draws inspiration from the Dear Data project. As a doctoral studies assignment, it was created to understand research processes, collaboration, and different ways of conducting research using personal experience over a three-week period. For this project, I chose to track how many goodbyes I made in person while travelling around Newfoundland and Labrador for the Christmas holidays. The paper, then, is an illustration of my process of understanding research through social interactions. In doing this project, I created an alternative data visualization to help present the data collected from the project, and use the visualization to aid in the presentation of results and interpretations. Finally, I discuss the process of doing research and the multitude of decisions required, while also commenting on some of the lessons learned in doing this project
Issues in Providing English as a Second Language Training to Refugees: Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador
Get PDFEnglish as a Second Language (ESL) instruction is a vital part of integrating refugees who do not speak the language into their new home in Newfoundland and Labrador. Given the importance of communicating in an official language in Canada, learning English is integral to finding a job, expanding social networks, and accessing social services. Yet, learning English can be a challenge for this diverse group which includes people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. The Canadian government supports refugees through the one-year Refugee Assistance Program and within this timeframe, refugees are expected to learn English and be able to support themselves financially
Reflections on 20 Years of ESL Teaching in St. John’s: Changes and Challenges
Get PDFMy career teaching English as a second language (ESL) in K-12 in Newfoundland and Labrador began at the elementary level in 1999 and quickly shifted to secondary. For nearly two decades I have been teaching ESL at one of the largest high schools in the province, and certainly the one with the densest population of secondary English language learners (ELLs). In that time, I have witnessed some changes in the ELL population and the visibility of newcomer students in our schools. However, in some surprising ways, much has not changed at all. In this paper, I present my perceptions of the changes, along with what I feel to be the major challenges still facing schools with regard to the delivery of ESL instruction to newcomer students
Grade Level Placement for Refugee Students: Determining Appropriate Placement
Get PDFAs a university student and teacher in Toronto I studied, lived, worked with and taught refugees from almost all over the world. In the mid-1990s I had a pivotal conversation with a colleague who confided, “I lost my surname and aged five years,” when he entered Canada as a university student in the late 1960s from South Asia. Upon returning to my hometown I have worked as a Literacy Enrichment and Academic Readiness for Newcomers (LEARN) teacher in St. John’s. Since then, I have realized that, like the case of my colleague, errors may exist on refugees’ documentation for various reasons. In this discussion, I will explore the context, challenges, and felt experiences of grade level placements for refugee children through integrating my personal experience as a teacher, experiences of diverse newcomers to St. John’s, and international literature
Teaching Diversity: Helping Newcomer Students Adjust Academically
Get PDFThe province’s five-year action plan to attract more immigrants into the province (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, n.d.) indicates an increase in the number of newcomer students in our education system. Most of these students come from war-torn regions with diverse linguistic, cultural, and educational backgrounds. Many of them had been living in the refugee camps for years with limited or interrupted schooling, which makes it more challenging for educators to help them succeed in the school
The Shifting Memory of the Boer War in Newfoundland
No full textThe Boer War is a conflict that has passed out of the living memory of Newfoundlanders in the modern day, but from the early 1900s to the 1960s, it was alive and well. The Boer War war portrayed by Newfoundlanders as a source of improvement of the Boer people, the British Empire itself, and of the future generation of Newfoundlanders through organisations such as the Arm Lads Brigade of Durrell Newfoundland
“When in France, do as the French do!”: The Front National and the European Union; A Battle for the Preservation of French Culture
Get PDFWith the rise of the far-right in Europe, previously unpopular right-wing parties emerge from the shadows to rival the dominant parties of their state. One such political party which has benefited from the wave of far-right movements in Europe is the Front National (FN) in France. One of the most distinguishing features of the FN is its criticism of the European Union (EU), arguing that the EU has contributed to the decline of France, specifically, the decline of French sovereignty. Embracing its Euroscepticism, the FN is the only outspoken anti-EU party in France, allowing it to further promote its role as the sole protector of the French culture. This paper contends that the condemnation of the European Union by the Front National is embedded in a cultural nationalist argument, where the EU is viewed as encroaching on the state’s ability to provide for and look after “the French people,” thereby being detrimental to the interests of France
The Meaning of Credit
Get PDFThe reach here is for relevant guidelines to the search for a meaning to the word credit and to the activity of credit-giving. It draws on the work of Joseph Schumpeter on norms of constructive credit in relation to economic progress and development. More fundamentally, it draws attention to the need for a new level of serious science regarding our own performances of belief and credit-giving. What is at stake is the slow emergence of a novel type of economic democracy quite foreign to present centralism, an emergence depending on a novel style of reading on the part of the reader
National Identity and Sports in Latin America: The Hundred-Hour Football War between El Salvador and Honduras
Get PDF“La Guerra de Fútbol,” Spanish for The Football War, erupted after a qualifying match in Mexico City between El Salvador and Honduras for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Despite El Salvador winning the match, the state dissolved diplomatic ties and invaded Honduras on July 14, 1969. However, a football match was not the primary cause of the war. Instead, the sport was used a political tool by the government of El Salvador to direct the attention of its frustrated citizens towards the actions of its neighboring state in expelling and attacking Salvadoran immigrants while attempting to remain in power. This paper argues that citizens of El Salvador could be motivated to invade Honduras because of the build-up of tension between both states, providing an optimal opportunity for the Salvadoran government to create an “us vs. them” mentality surrounding the events of the 1969 football matches. The role of the sport in Latin America is analyzed and considered how it could be used for a nationalist cause to invade another state. Moreover, the xenophobic feelings of Hondurans towards the Salvadoran immigrants (legal and illegal) is examined as is the economic distress and political tensions of both states and discussed how it ultimately played out in the football field because of a blurred line between sports and national identity
Starting Economics: Again
Get PDFThis first essay of the volume sets the scene for the cumulative work of the five contributors. The issue is the emergence of a genuine science of economics that is based on identifying the real, and simple, variables of production and consumption. That identification is the task of the group of essays to follow. Here attention is drawn to the fact that we do not seek models to guide us but concrete promising insights into how we may improve our standard of living by seekin