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A Conversation: Student Organizers Reflect on the 2018 Youth Summit
Get PDFThis is a conversation between University of Puget Sound graduating seniors Kaity Calhoun and Collin Noble about the 4th RPI Youth Summit which occurred during the 2018 Race & Pedagogy National Conference. Comprised of about 500 middle and high school students and college student volunteers, the Youth Summit worked to engage in conversation revolving around histories of power, expressions of resistance and new actions for justice. With over 100 University of Puget Sound Student volunteers, these two organizers were pivotal in making sure the event day was successful. Their work would not have been possible without the leadership of the Youth Summit committee particularly the co-chairs: Sonja Morgan (RPI Community Partner), Jade Cooper (High School Student), and Kaity Calhoun (UPS Student) who is represented in this interview
2018 Race and Pedagogy National Conference: Images form the Inside
Get PDFThe 4th Quadrennial Race & Pedagogy National Conference hosted the first RPNC photo contest. The desire was to gather views and insights surrounding the conference by those attending it. Images from the inside. Images from the participants. The contest was open to University of Puget Sound Students, Staff, and Faculty along with all conference participants. The overall prompt was: Define RPNC 2018 with a space, a moment, an interaction, a group, or an individual and capture it through your camera lens. We received various submis sions and the ones showcased here, along with some of the written content the photographer provided, share a glimpse at #RPNC2018 from the inside. Enjoy and we hope to see your images in 2022
“Go West young man, and grow up with this country”: Settler Colonialism, Gender and Property
Get PDFAs a theoretical starting point, this paper takes up Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity which posits that gender configurations are shifting and determined by whichever expectations best motivate behaviors that reinforce a hierarchical and complementary relation between genders. This hierarchical structure, following theorizations by Maria Lugones, is itself a product of the colonial encounter. With this in mind, this paper compares historical shifts in American gender configurations to the material demands of settlement. Utilizing existing research into settler gender identity between 1760 and 1870, it finds that the increasing emphasis on domesticity in gender discourses concretized gender configurations in the racialized nuclear family, facilitating overwhelming population booms and justifying land-grabbing. Resultingly, American manhood was configured around patriarchal familial relations and property, intimately connecting settlement and masculinity. The 2016 Malheur occupation in which armed, primarily white, militia members took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon exemplifies this settler masculine complex. The militants routinely emphasized that their access to land was necessary for them to maintain their livelihoods and thereby their position as patriarchs. This paper finds that the connection between property and manhood is an important part of settler colonization because it embeds, at the level of socialization, an internal motive to seize and hold territory. Looking more broadly, the explanatory power of combining post-colonial feminist scholarship with modern gender research paradigms reveals not only their utility but also the need to take settler colonialism as a structural factor seriously in current American gender formation research
Acting the Author: observations on authority in collective performance
Get PDFAuthorship in theatre is divided – and divisive. The focus of this essay is on actors, and how actors engage with authorship in the theatre. In contemporary Western theatre, the division of authorship is composed of three primary fields: playwrights, directors, and actors. This essay challenges the hierarchy inherent to commercial theatres and advocates for actors who think like authors, not as the creators of solely characters, but as the co-authors of the theatrical event as a whole. In result, theatres and theatre-makers might be fortified by a shared sense of authorship, enriched by a steadfast sense of collaboration and a conviction that the performance is a shared entity in every moment, from genesis to expiration
Common Experiences and Beliefs Among Highly Active, Older Adults
Get PDFBackground: Research on correlates and determinants of physical activity has shown that age and motivation are associated with physical activity. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) provides a well-researched framework for understanding motivation, and proposes that the satisfaction of three primary psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness, fuels motivation for physical activity and promotes wellness.
Purpose: Use SDT to identify experiences and beliefs that affect motivation for physical activity in older adults and provide a narrative approach to share their “movement stories.”
Methods: Participants were recruited using nominated sampling and a public advertising campaign. Participants were at least 55-years old with International Physical Activity Questionnaire scores categorizing them as moderately-vigorously active. Data was collected using the Motives for Physical Activities Measure – Revised, Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale – General Measure, and via in-person interviews. Interviews were filmed and narratives created using Adobe. Interview scripts were analyzed by researchers and common themes coded.
Results: Qualitative analysis showed participants expressed higher life satisfaction than frustration. Collectively, statements that expressed motivation were most common for competence (55), relatedness (33), autonomy (28), and interest/enjoyment (27). The least commonly mentioned motivation types were appearance (3) and fitness (13).
Conclusion: Overall, active older adults showed greater satisfaction over frustration with basic psychological needs. Motivational factors influencing PA varied greatly among participants, but they shared many common beliefs and experiences. It was shown that motivation stemmed most strongly from competence, interest, and relatedness and those promoting PA within this age group should focus on these domains
Autonomic Nervous System Changes In Individuals With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review Of The Literature
Get PDFPURPOSE: The aim of this review was to investigate the relationship between heart rate (HR) or blood pressure (BP) and chronic pain conditions.
BACKGROUND: Treatment of chronic pain has placed enormous economic burden on the healthcare system. Autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysregulation is correlated to chronic pain. One measure of ANS dysregulation is heart rate variability (HRV), and decreased HRV can predict adverse future prognosis in a variety of conditions. While HRV validly measures ANS dysregulation, inexpensive and quicker measurements of HR and BP have been less investigated.
METHODS: Searches in PubMed, Ovid, Google Scholar, and CINAHL were performed using combinations of the following search terms: “HR”, “BP”, “chronic pain”, “persistent pain”. Inclusion criteria was preregistered though PROSPERO.
RESULTS: Review of 47 articles found differences in HR and BP measurements between individuals with and without chronic pain conditions. These differences varied in their significance and were found in various states including at rest, during physical activity, during psychological or physical stress tests, or before and after specific interventions.
CONCLUSIONS: Differences in HR and BP exist in individuals with chronic pain conditions compared to healthy, age-matched controls, which may be indicative of ANS dysregulation. Further research is needed to determine if HR and BP are valid measures of ANS dysregulation in individuals with chronic pain. HR and BP are quicker and more cost-effective measurements compared to HRV, and if they validly measure ANS dysregulation, may provide insight into the future prognosis of individuals with chronic pain conditions
Occupational Therapy Handwriting Interventions on a Systems-Level
Get PDFJulie Anderson, DrOT, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist in the Puyallup School District who works with elementary aged students. For this project, Dr. Anderson worked as the primary collaborator with occupational therapy students to answer the question: What is the evidence that occupational therapy interventions at a systems-level improve student\u27s academic performance and skill development outcomes, such as handwriting, in elementary age students with and without disabilities? The results of this descriptive study indicate strong evidence that systems-level interventions, involving an occupational therapist, in a school setting improve at least one area of a student’s skill development. Additionally, any consistent handwriting curriculum improved handwriting skills in elementary school children compared to no handwriting curriculum. Finally, when teachers and occupational therapists collaborate, systems-level interventions can be implemented to best fit the needs of individual classrooms. Future research in this area should work to define the terms “systems-level” and “collaboration.” This would allow consistent results when comparing various studies performed at a systems-level and involving collaboration, as currently studies use multiple terms to describe the same approaches.
Knowledge translation for this project included compiling the systematic review, as well as other handwriting research, into a PowerPoint to be presented to administrators at the Puyallup School District. The aim of this presentation was to educate administrators on the benefits of a districtwide handwriting curriculum for kindergarten and first grade classrooms, provide details on specific curricula and provide a possible implementation plan. Pre- and post-survey results, gathered at the presentation, indicate that administrators within the Puyallup School District believe they should have a districtwide handwriting curriculum. All administrators picked TV Teacher as the top choice at the end of the presentation. As a result of the presentation, the administrator for the kindergarten academy in the Puyallup School District will be using TV Teacher as the kindergarten academy’s curriculum. Future recommendations regarding this knowledge translation include recording data on handwriting for either pre- and post-handwriting curriculum or utilizing a between group design that compares half the Puyallup School District using a handwriting curriculum to half not using a handwriting curriculum