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Incorporating Cultural Healing Practices into Mental Health Care
Get PDFMinnesota approaches mental health based on Western cultural traditions. This approach does not encompass the traditions of multicultural communities, many of whom have experienced deep generational trauma, oppression, and discrimination. We must address our treatment of people living with mental illness by incorporating and expanding holistic cultural traditions rooted in the cultural traditions of all Minnesotans. This will include honoring the work of cultural healers, cultural brokers, elders, and community health workers within all communities
Tales from Respite, OH
No full textTales from Respite, OH is a collection of short stories set in a fictional town, in my home state of Ohio, where they are left to struggle with addiction and attraction, with mental illness and an undercurrent of murder. I like to think I’ve learned a little something from the symbolism that abounds in myth and legend. My collection has its own recurring warnings—cigarettes and broken doors warn of coming doom, while night skies and dancing speak to the possibility of happiness. If I speak to religion and religious trauma, I hope it is more evenhanded than it first appears. If nothing else though, I hope my thesis encompasses the human spirit in some way—its capacity for cruelty and self-defeat as well as the strength found in community and connection. Failing that, I hope at least to return to some small part of the world an appreciation for diner food and memory
New Industry: The Town that Owned the Future
No full textNew Industry: The Town that Owned the Future is a novel about a cathedral of prophet-women who’ve turned their sacred gift into a money-making scheme. It focuses on Jacolyn Abbott, the head prophet of the cathedral, and a fraud, faking her prophecies in order to maintain her tenuous grasp on the only life she understands or knows. The novel follows her redemptive arc. Jacolyn slowly pulls away from the corruptive power of the cathedral she spent her whole life trying to earn a place in, and is reunited with her sister, who was ex-communicated from the community during the girls’ childhood. The novel engages with three interwoven time periods in Jacolyn’s life, delineated as ‘Child Jacolyn’, ‘Prophet Jacolyn’, and ‘Reformer Jacolyn’
The Southworth Ratio: A Tool for the Analysis of Journal Usage Trends
Get PDFThe purpose of this presentation is to introduce a journal collection analysis metric we developed at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MNSU). At MNSU, my colleagues have been developing our Collections Power BI (CPBI) to utilize interactive data visualization in Microsoft Power BI to demonstrate the library’s value to the campus community. The CBPI has been used for a variety of purposes, including collection development and evaluation. Recently, as the library liaison to the engineering departments, I was drawn into a project to determine if any journal title swaps could be made with our Elsevier subscription. As we worked on this project, I introduced the Usage Trend Ratio as a means to help us make collection development decisions. My colleagues have mentioned the Usage Trend Ratio at a recent conference and in an upcoming article as the Southworth Ratio. The Southworth Ratio helped us to clearly identify which journals were trending toward more or less use. While the Southworth Ratio was not the sole factor for decision making, it was often decisive and saved us time because the Southworth Ratio is a sortable value. We have continued to utilize the Southworth Ratio, which can be calculated in a variety of ways, and to find new applications for this variable. Most recently, we implemented it in our CPBI, where we can also filter journal reports on subject, and we can clearly see journal usage trends in our programs. This presentation will present the concept of this Southworth Ratio, how we calculate it, and how we have utilized it
Social Studies Standards and Teacher Preparation in Minnesota: An Examination in Relationship to Native American History
Get PDFFive teacher preparation programs were examined to understand how teacher candidates are prepared to educate their students about Native American history in Minnesota
Review of A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues
Get PDFReview of A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues by D.C. Wilson (2020), University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, https://open.lib.umn.edu/goodreasoning
Volume 43, Number 3, September 2023 OLAC Newsletter
Get PDFDigitized September 2023 issue of the OLAC Newsletter
At the Intersection of Ableism Entelechy, and Policy Debate
Get PDFThis article investigates the causes of ableism and inaccessibility in policy debate, and also envisions alternatives to the current conception of debate that could open doors to more participants at all levels of ability. We argue that the rhetorical theories of Kenneth Burke help to illuminate symbolic practices in debate which function to exclude disabled voices. We also forward the argument that the competitive nature of policy debate, along with its dominant discursive practices and speech codes, constitutes an example of what Kenneth Burke calls ‘entelechy’. We further argue that the entelechial nature of policy debate is at the root of ableism in the activity. Finally, we further employ Burke’s theory of the comic frame to elucidate how the institutions and individuals in the policy debate community might engage in self-reflection as a way to generate fresh approaches to the problem of ableism and exclusion in policy debate
Power Grid Politics: Winter Storm Uri and Texas Governor Greg Abbott\u27s Image Repair Discourse
Get PDFWinter storm Uri hit the state of Texas on February 14, 2021. Bringing record amounts of snow, ice, and prolonged sub-zero temperatures, the storm caused widespread power outages which led to hundreds of deaths, and created a complex rhetorical situation for Governor Greg Abbott. This article examines the image repair discourse engaged in by Abbott, and ultimately concludes that his use of blame-shifting, corrective action, and defeasibility strategies were ultimately effective, but to varying degrees based on each respective strategy. We argue herein that Abbott’s strategy of shifting the blame for the debacle to ERCOT was his most effective tactic, while his reliance on corrective action approaches (while necessary and expected by the audience) were only marginally persuasive. Abbott’s defeasibility strategy was undercut both by conflicting statements, and by the recent reality that Texas does, in fact, experience extreme weather events however rare. We also argue that severe weather events are likely to become more frequent in the future, and that Texas in particular will be uniquely impacted by these storms due to climate change. We conclude that the political fortunes of elected officials will increasingly depend on how they justify their response to these cataclysmic storms