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Editorial: Renewal and Reinvigoration
No full textThis editorial explains how JEI is a Phoenix rising, welcomes readers and future authors and describes the content of the issue
Examining the Use of Wearable Technologies for K-12 Students: A Systematic Review of the Literature
No full textWearable technologies such as smartwatches, smart clothing, smart glasses, fitness trackers, and brain senor headbands are wireless body sensors designed to record physiological and physical data. Since 2015, their use has increased in K-12 classrooms, but a comprehensive investigation of student impact yet to be conducted. In this paper, we conducted a systematic review of the literature focussing on the benefits and challenges of using wearable technologies for K-12 students. Using the PRISMA approach and a thematic narrative analysis, we analyzed 29 peer-reviewed articles from 2003 to 2019. The benefits of using wearable technologies for K-12 students included providing students with voice, ownership of learning and reflection, increasing engagement and relevance, improving learning, building social presence, increasing accessibility, and differentiated instruction. The challenges of using wearable technologies for K-12 students were health and safety as well as diminished perceptions of self-worth. Finally, we explored future research directions for wearable technologies in K-12 classrooms, including improved wearables-based pedagogy, data analysis methods, data ethics, and security policies
Supporting English Language Learners in High-Stakes Literacy Testing: Design Features of an Online Learning Tool for OSSLT Preparation
No full textIn Ontario, a mandatory high-stakes standardized literacy test called the OSSLT is administered in the tenth grade. With notable failure rates and acknowledged test anxiety, students are in need of better test preparatory methods. In this article, we examine some of the challenges and analyze ways that online multimedia learning tools can be designed in order to support diverse student needs. The online tool developed in this study features learning principles and practices based on research in literacy testing and online education. Our discussion contributes new ideas and future directions for task designers and online test preparatory tools
Changing Lives, Saving Lives: Women Centred Working – An Evidence-Based Model from the UK: Changing Lives, Saving Lives
No full textRelative disadvantage and deprivation are significant problems for vulnerable women in urban areas in England. Despite experiencing a range of complex health needs such women do not always meet the required thresholds for statutory help or if they do, they are often unable to engage with the requirements of these service providers. Third sector (or non-governmental) organisations have often supported women in need but operate time-limited programmes due to funding restrictions. In a climate where statutory support systems are being systematically weakened, third sector organisations are playing a more significant role in supporting vulnerable women. This paper will present key findings from several evaluations of projects delivered by non-governmental organisations which are designed to make a difference to women’s lives. The findings cohere around what works providing evidence of effective approaches to supporting vulnerable women with complex needs. A transferable model of women-centred working is presented
Unequal Impact of COVID-19: Emergency Neoliberalism and Welfare Policy in Canada: Unequal Impact of COVID-19
No full textThis paper examines Canada\u27s liberal welfare state in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that contrary to claims that the pandemic is affecting both rich and poor equally, its impact is both gendered, racialized and class-related. It thereby exacerbates existing social and health inequalities. Responsible for much of this is Canada\u27s welfare state that reproduces established patterns of power that create systemic social and health inequalities. In addition, the responses of the Canadian liberal welfare state to the COVID-19 pandemic make explicit its underdeveloped nature and its difficulties in responding to social and health inequalities. This paper shows how the political foundation and organizational logic of the liberal welfare state promotes and reinforces existing inequalities. Similarly, its responses to the pandemic reflect crisis management that meets immediate urgencies but does little to provide long-term economic and social security to citizens
Editor\u27s Introduction
No full textThis article outlines the themes of the manuscripts published in Vol 15, no. 1 (August 2020)
Fair workplaces, better jobs: Is Ontario addressing precarious employment?
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to examine how Bill 148, introduced by the province of Ontario in 2017, addresses the issue of precarious employment. Bill 148 was created based on information from The Changing Workplaces Review, which reported on Ontario\u27s labour standards and employment systems. An overview of precarious employment in Ontario is provided, including a working definition of the term, statistics, rates, and demographics. The issues that face precarious workers are explored, using the framework of the four dimensions of precarious work as identified by Rodgers (1989) and Vosko (2010). The Changing Workplaces Review and Bill 148 are analyzed to see if they fully address the concerns of precarious workers in Ontario. The paper concludes with suggestions on how the government of Ontario can continue to address work and employment conditions of those who are precariously employed
Decolonizing Health Care: Reconciliation Roles and Responsibilities for White Settlers
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to enhance a nascent discussion to white settlers about how they can be active participants in reconciliation action to decolonize health care—by way of truths. I start with an examination of settler denial and settler truth-telling about Indigenous genocide, along with the deadliness of white settler health care racism, which results in embodied oppression—oppression that is the root of Indigenous inequities in the social determinants of health (SDH). White settler privilege is emphasized, including persistent impacts of Western, Eurocentric, and biomedical knowledge dominance in health care, and related suppression of Indigenous knowledge systems and healing traditions. I analyze how white settlers can engage in performing decolonization with critical perspectives on the SDH, allyship, and anti-racist, anti-oppressive health care. Although persistent white settler acts of racism, including systemic racism in health, legal, and educational systems, make reconciliation seem an impossible goal, we continue to be ethically bound to walk alongside Indigenous peoples in the Truth and Reconciliation’s Commission’s Calls to Action
