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Ignatian Pedagogy for Sustainability to Support Community-based Projects: Client-focused Sustainable Energy Solutions
No full textSeeing the words of Laudato Si’ as a call to action, we are engaging students in Ignatian Pedagogy for Sustainability through a series of community-based projects with the goal of client-focused sustainable energy solutions and associated dialogue. We outline the development of a purpose-created Energy Technology undergraduate program housed in the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University, born from Ignatian Sensibilities, and highlight the role of client engagement to engross students in a client-focused design process to deliver sustainable energy initiatives that become practically feasible with student leadership. For the senior capstone of this program, students engage in a year-long Energy Innovation course that brings together students with assorted clients, various stakeholders and diverse sustainable energy-related projects. We argue that such tangible experiences are a prerequisite to understanding motivating factors for clients to make sustainable energy decisions. Concurrently, while considering the Ignatian Pedagogical paradigm for Sustainability, students clearly understand the practical barriers to implementing actual sustainable energy solutions as all invested parties work towards contentment with the delivered solutions
Developing an Ignatian Pedagogy for Occupational Therapy Education in China: The Lived Experience of the First Two Entry Level OTD, Jesuit Trained Clinicians
No full textThis paper explores the lived experience of the initial two Chinese professionals, competitively selected by a Traditional Chinese Medicine University, to attend and graduate from the Creighton University entry-level Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) program. The process and challenges facing implementation of an international collaborative relationship between a Jesuit university and a public higher education institution in China is considered along with the challenges facing international students immersed in Jesuit health care education. Highlights of differences between Eastern and Western higher education are suggested in the discussion. A review of Jesuit education in China provides the historical background and context for collaborative engagement between Chinese and Jesuit universities to meet the health care needs for rehabilitation services in China. The Chinese professionals’ perspectives as students is iterated based on interviews focused on learning styles, learning environment, spirituality and academic support. The graduates’ perceptions of the value of their Jesuit education and experience in occupational therapy, a developing profession in China, and their reflection, integration and impact of incorporating the Ignatian values into their current professional employment as occupational therapists is discussed
Five Things you Should Know about Jesuit Worldwide Learning: Higher Education at the Margins
No full textTo Be Known: A Supervisee Experience
Get PDFPresented before you are a collective of raw, untamed poetic thoughts from my experiences as a Youth Treatment Counselor. In writing this personal narrative I have been able to let the inner turmoil of my soul soar with peace once more. You will discover how invalidation from supervisors and staff can quickly leave you at a standstill, being left to feel alone. My goal for writing this piece has been to create mental metaphors for others in the field who built up walls as a form of self-preservation, to feel comfort when there is no end. I hope my honesty can leave someone else to feel alive again. That may be you right now or a near and dear friend that would appreciate being heard. We weather storms and more often than not have difficulty finding the right words
Revegetation using cushion plants after recreational trampling on a Colorado fourteener
Get PDFAre cushion plants strong candidates for alpine trail revegetation? The authors present their findings
Finding Darkness: A Case Study on the Light Polluting Effects of Regis University
Get PDFThe author outlines techniques Regis University could employ to make lighting infrastructure safer, healthier, and more pleasing while still being dark sky friendly
Designing a Physiologically Efficient Version of E. coli Alkaline Phosphatase Through a D101H Mutation
Get PDFPoster exploring E. coli alkaline phosphate through a D101H mutation
Are Women Bad at Math or Is It Just an Illusion? How False Memories and Gender Stereotypes Can Influence Women’s Perception of Stem
Get PDFFalse memories and gender stereotypes were used to investigate if inducing a false memory of having a negative experience in a STEM field would influence participant’s preferences pertaining to the field. Women were recruited or volunteered to participate in the study. In the first session, participants completed a series of questionnaires to gauge their pre-existing experiences and attitudes towards STEM and non-STEM related subjects (n = 268). In the second session, participants whose responses from the first survey qualified, were randomly assigned to either the control (n = 74) or experimental condition (n = 71). Participants received a history profile that they were told was personalized to them, but it was actually a generic list of items. In the experimental condition, one of the critical items on the profile told the participant that they “had a negative experience in a math class”. Participants then were asked to elaborate on and justify this false experience. Participants in the experimental condition ended the experiment with a task used to evaluate if the false memory was successful. They then completed all of the measures used in the first session again to compare how their experiences and attitudes towards STEM items may have changed since exposure to a false memory. Results indicated that the false memory was successfully implanted, as indicated by a memory and belief that the false event (i.e., having a negative experience in a math class) occurred, but this did not transfer to altered preferences regarding STEM
