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Occupational Apartheid
No full textOccupational apartheid is a term that is often misunderstood. I wanted to bring more awareness and understanding to a very real concept that happens every day. I hope to have provided education and examples that make it easy to follow along and see how apartheid shows up on a daily basis. Let\u27s work together as future OT professionals to expand our knowledge and practice to decrease experiences of occupational apartheid.
Kimberly Dewey, Class of 202
The Virtues of Endurance
No full textThe virtues of endurance -- perseverance, patience, resilience, and constancy -- are central to success in any goal-oriented challenging activity that a person undertakes. Gaining a rich understanding of these virtues requires insights from multiple areas of study, but most treatments of the virtues of endurance to date have remained within narrow disciplinary boundaries. No longer. In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, legal scholars, educational theorists, medical practitioners, military theorists, and theologians have labored together to advance our understanding of endurance. Written with scholars in mind, this volume is nevertheless accessible to students and general readers.This volume is divided into two sections: Explorations and Applications. The first section considers the nature of a given virtue, while the second section showcases the relevance of endurance to important areas of our lives. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of this ever-important virtue, offering both a theoretical and practical roadmap to working through challenging activities.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/faculty_books/1166/thumbnail.jp
Athens, Jerusalem, and Places in Between: Secular Learning and Christian Faith in Historical Perspective
No full textAuthor\u27s preface:
This novella-length essay began life as an introductory chapter in the draft version of a text on pedagogical practices in church-related higher education. The project was made possible by a $25,000 grant received by the author in 1996 from what was then known as the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts (now the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities). Fordham University Press expressed interest in publishing the book but required that the opening chapter be shortened considerably. Consequently, what eventually became Teaching as an Act of Faith: Theory and Practice in Church-Related Higher Education (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002) contained a much-abbreviated twenty-three-page version of the original essay titled “An Odyssey of the Mind and Spirit.” The chapter included key aspects of the original seventy plus page manuscript, but although the main thesis and some of the supporting evidence remained, I always hoped an audience for the full study could be found.
The vast majority of research for the chapter took place in the mid to late 1990s and reflects with a significant degree of accuracy the breadth of secondary scholarship on the germane issues at that time, although my basic argument remains somewhat unique and is not unchallenged. To do justice to the current state of scholarship and update the bibliography on the topics I address in the essay would take me away from other pressing endeavors, and frankly I am on to other projects in my retirement years and do not have the ambition to do so. Scholars such as Charles Taylor, Douglas and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, Alasdair MacIntyre, Brad Gregory, John Schmalzbauer, Kathleen A. Mahoney, Paul Griffiths, and Leon Kass among many others have added much to the debate I engage in these pages and should be consulted for the reader to be fully apprised of the contemporary contours of the relevant matters. Although now a bit dated, the 2017 issue of Intellectual History Review 27: 1 analyzed various issues surrounding the debate over secularization and would be helpful to consult. The controversies swirling around the enterprise of higher education have also evolved beyond the secularization question over the past quarter century to include disputes over diversity, equity, and inclusion, distance/online learning, the impact of AI technologies, and the rise of the Christian polytechnic university.
Even though early twenty-first century scholarship has introduced newer perspectives on some of the issues developed in the essay and raised others pertinent to it, I do believe that interested educated laypersons and scholars wading into the history and culture of higher education in the West, should find enough in the pages that follow to whet their appetite for deeper inquiry
Mind the Gap
No full textI went in to OT to make the world more accessible. I love how OT views people as their hopes, dreams, values, strengths, and facilitators...NOT as an injury or disease. At this point, every room I enter becomes a personal case study of accessibility. I can\u27t help but wonder how many spaces have hung huge signs that say YOU ARE NOT WELCOME that are only visible to some. I\u27m thankful for my love ones who agreed to help me with this project. While I can never fully understand their experience, I can listen.
Klaire Perry, Class of 202
Welcomed In: A Love Letter to Okinawa
No full textThis zine is a personal, reflective project exploring Okinawan culture through my lens as a long-term guest -- first as a military child, then as an adult returning home to visit the island where my parents still live. While I am not Okinawan, the culture has deeply influenced my values, worldview, and understanding of community, aging, and wellness.
Through this project, I have sought to honor the richness of Okinawan traditions -- not as an authority, but a someone shaped by the grace of being welcomed in. The pages blend scholarly knowledge, lived experience, and cultural observation to explore how Okinawa exemplifies many values central to occupational therapy: community-based living, preventative wellness, cultural occupation, and holistic care.
Creating this zine has allowed me to practice knowledge translation, cultural humility, and creative advocacy -- skills essential for an occupational therapist committed to equitable, client-centered practice. I approached this project with care, creativity, and respect, recognizing the limitations of my perspective and the responsibility that comes with representing another culture\u27s story. My hope is that this zine communicates not only information, but reverence.
This is a love letter to the island that helped raise me -- and to the values I carry with me into my future as an occupational therapist.
Taylor Fernandez, Class of 202