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Developing a comprehensive Interprofessional Education (IPE) curriculum for health and social care in Newfoundland and Labrador: the "Provincial IPE Project" update.
Get PDFIntegrating the arts and literature in the undergraduate medical education at Memorial University: reflection on accomplishments, challenges and possibilities.
Get PDFConnection, dehumanization, the arts and Jewish identity: A visual relational Autoethnography
Get PDFThroughout centuries, art and images have helped individuals express what remains beyond words and verbal communication. This relational autoethnographic study uses the creative process of painting artistic images to dialogue with four chosen Holocaust survivor artists to explore the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma theory, as a western Jewish millennial woman living during times of alt right wing resurgence in the Western hemisphere. The study uses painting, drawing and creative writing to explore layers of cultural experience of historical trauma through self-observation, while linking introspective content to wider social psychology theories.Keywords: Autoethnography, image dialogue, creative process, contemporary Jewish identity, Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, Holocaust artist
Autoethnography of Work: Challenges, Triumphs, and Queer Voice
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to explore the tensions between Queer experience and what Mizzi (2013) calls heteroprofessionalism within the corporate workplace. Using an analytic approach to autoethnography, this article explores a particularly tense experience between supervisor and employee, underlined by an exchange of transphobic comments. This experience begs the question: how do we engage in LGBTQ+ activism within the professional world? To answer this question, notions of Queer voice in relation to toxic workplace culture are explored. This article ultimately suggests that Queer marginalization within corporate atmospheres require a re-telling of these alternative stories as a method of counteracting and challenging systemic oppression
Emerging researcher pedagogies: The “Dear Data” project
Get PDFThis special edition of the Morning Watch is the second collection of papers from the Faculty of Education doctoral students who are participating in ED 702 A/B Advanced Research Methodology in Education in 2017/18. ED 702 is a core course and is delivered over two semesters. This year we used Patricia Leavy’s (2017) book Research Design to anchor our discussions. Through this book we discussed quantitative, qualitative, arts-based, and community-based participatory research approaches. In this course, and other courses, students become familiar with the ins and outs of research methodologies as they search for the methodology, or even methodologies, they will focus on in their own research projects. In addition to the theoretical knowledge of research methodologies, we, the course facilitators, wanted to include further experiences in our pedagogy. For us, creativity was something we felt was important and often under-represented in research courses. We also wanted to link creativity to critical thinking in students’ minds. Practical research knowledge was also a priority. All of these are difficult to include in a seminar-based course. Creativity is a complex, multifacted concept and is often not linked to critical thinking, and practical research knowledge is challenging to impart in a theoretical course. How can students experience the day-to-day logistics of a research project including unexpected challenges without actually undertaking a research project
Dear Data: My Metrobus Experiences
Get PDFData collection can be exciting as the Dear Data project demonstrates. In this project, various forms of data were collected on my experiences on the Metrobus. I found that collection and visual representation of data were challenging in a good way. However, I struggled with turning what I considered to be ‘fun’ and ‘creative’, to a research paper which I considered ‘academic’. I used the Problem, Purpose Statement and Questions (PPS &Q) to conceptualize my data collection under three subjects: greetings on the bus, punctuality, and gender of transit operators. The paper has been structured in an IMRAD (introduction, methodology, results/findings, and discussion) fashion with a slight variation which includes data collection, analysis, visual representation, and reflection sections. This paper, written as an assignment for ED 702, is a testament that my perceived dichotomy between creativity and academic can be reconciled.
Campaigns as Gendered Institutions: A Case Study Between B.C. Premier and California Gubernational Campaigns
Get PDFThis paper will explore campaigns as gendered institutions using Acker’s framework of gendered organizations. Acker notes political institutions are defined by the absence of women, and campaigns are no different. This paper will explore two case studies: British Columbia’s 2017 Provincial Election and California’s 2010 Gubernational Race to identify how gendered institutions operate across electoral races. The framework of gendered institutions is applied by exploring how four components: the historical bias in job evaluation and candidate selection of the preferred “gender” traits; the decisions and procedures that control and construct hierarchies based on gender; the construction of symbols and gender ideology that give legitimacy to the institution and the process of “doing gender”. The case studies demonstrate that campaigns generally seem to be gendered in the same way with the exception of how campaign fundraising operates, which warrants further investigation. Additional research is needed to understand the extent to which campaigns as gendered institutions operate across political systems.
Edging Towards A Later Global Stage
Get PDFThe objective of this essay is to illustrate patterns of present distraction from the meaningful objectives ofThe objective of this essay is to illustrate patterns of present distraction from the meaningful objectives of global business: the provision of local standards of living through collaborative care both of innovative structures of local improvements and for the global distribution of generic consumer benefits. Such distractions are as obvious as media attention, in pseudo-business discussions, to the neurotic and greedy patterns of gambling symbolized by the name Wall St. But overlayed on this silly devotion to casino-dynamics are varieties of supposedly learned discourse that are, in the main, locked into those same patterns. They need to be exposed. : the provision of local standards of living through collaborative care both of innovative structures of local improvements and for the global distribution of generic consumer benefits. Such distractions are as obvious as media attention, in pseudo-business discussions, to the neurotic and greedy patterns of gambling symbolized by the name Wall St. But overlayed on this silly devotion to casino-dynamics are varieties of supposedly learned discourse that are, in the main, locked into those same patterns. They need to be exposed
