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Teacher Candidates’ Attempts to Implement Anti-Ableist Pedagogy and The Constraints Therein
No full textIn this qualitative study, I interviewed four special education teacher candidates with a stated interest in enacting anti-ableist pedagogy in their student teaching placements. I drew on Holland et al.’s (1998) figured worlds to examine their attempts to enact anti-ableist pedagogy in their classrooms and their navigation of the hierarchy within their placements. Participants entered their student teaching eager to implement anti-ableist pedagogy. However, their attempts at implementation were often met with pushback from a variety of sources and a new understanding of how much they could actually accomplish from their place at the bottom of the school hierarchy. Findings reveal how TCs ultimately questioned their desire to pursue a career in special education as a result of their experiences in their placement
Portland\u27s Black Community & the Anti-Apartheid Movement: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
No full textExperience the inspiring story of Portland’s 1980s Anti-Apartheid Movement brought to life through powerful archival images and documents. Discover how local activists and communities united in the global fight against White supremacy in South Africa. This dynamic presentation by Dr. Carmen Thompson connects past and present struggles for justice in Portland and the world.
This event was held at Portland State University Library on December 3, 2025.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/black_bag_series/1027/thumbnail.jp
Book Review: Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees
No full textResisting the Dehumanization of Refugees, edited by Abu-Laban, Frishkopf, Hasmath, and Kirova, has a familiar quality when I read it. The book explores the profound struggle to cocreate a sense of home and belonging amidst the relentless dehumanization refugees face from restrictive policies, biased media portrayals, and societal prejudice. It adopts a transdisciplinary approach, featuring contributions from scholars, practitioners, and refugees themselves, who focus on the Canadian context and draw on broader international comparisons that support both the mechanisms of dehumanization and strategies for resistance
Stigma, Shame, and Narcissism: A Literature Review
No full textThis thesis is a literature review of 12 peer reviewed journal articles accessible through the Portland State University library database on the relationship between stigma, shame, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). This thesis discusses ideas brought up in these articles regarding the classification and conceptualization of NPD as a disorder, the role that shame plays in the pathology of NPD, the ways that shame is addressed through treatment, and public and practitioner held bias resulting from the stigmatization of the disorder. New and upcoming ways of conceptualizing the disorder are also briefly discussed as there has been a push to incorporate a more integrated, spectrum model of presentation, reflecting a new understanding of NPD that accounts for the roles that shame and stigmatization play in the pathology and treatment of the disorder
Examining Long-Term Care for NCAA Student-Athletes: Improving Concussion Protocols and Healthcare
No full textSports-related concussions (SRC) are a significant issue in collegiate athletics, particularly in high-impact sports. While the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has protocols for immediate injury management, they don\u27t fully address the long-term effects retired athletes experience. This paper examines whether former NCAA athletes who suffered from SRC should receive more comprehensive concussion-related healthcare. Findings reveal that current NCAA measures, such as baseline assessments and return-to-play protocols, fall short in addressing the lasting physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges of student-athletes who suffered multiple SRC. Protocols and procedures set by professional leagues like the NFL and NHL highlight the NCAA\u27s gaps in providing post-retirement care. The literature review argues for updated NCAA protocols, including enhanced diagnostic tools, improved post-concussion care, and extended healthcare coverage for retired athletes. By adopting these reforms and incorporating athlete perspectives, the NCAA can better support the long-term health of its student-athletes during and after their collegiate careers
Beyond the Genome: The Racialized Exposome, Flourishing, and Stress Biology in African Americans, a Non-Exhaustive Review
No full textRacial health disparities remain an enduring challenge in the United States, disproportionately impacting African American communities through higher rates of chronic disease and premature mortality. This non-exhaustive literature explores how the racialized exposome - a term denoting the totality of social, environmental, and structural stressors rooted in systemic racism - biologically embeds itself via stress-responsive pathways. Specifically, it examines the interaction between racial stress, flourishing, and key biological markers, including allostatic load and telomere length, considering the gut-brain axis. The review highlights robust evidence that chronic exposure to racial discrimination and structural adversity contributes to multisystem dysregulation and accelerated cellular aging. Telomere shortening and elevated allostatic load emerge as physiological signatures of these exposures, yet research also underscores the modifiable role of psychological resilience factors. Flourishing - defined here through eudaimonic well-being, racial identity, cultural pride, social support, and community grounding- is framed as a biopsychosocial buffer that may moderate the health impacts of chronic racial stress. However, flourishing is not a universal shield; under persistent adversity, even adaptive coping may carry physiological costs. This paper calls for a deeper, more intersectional understanding of how flourishing interacts with adversity across the life course and advocates for future longitudinal, culturally grounded, multi-omic research. By integrating psychosocial assets and biological pathways, we can better understand how systemic inequities get under the skin and inform strengths-based, community-relevant interventions to advance health equity
The Johnson-Křížek-Mercier Elasticity Element in Higher Dimensions
No full textMixed methods for linear elasticity with strongly symmetric stresses of lowest order are studied in this paper. On each simplex, the stress space has piecewise linear components with respect to its Alfeld split (which connects the vertices to barycenter), generalizing the Johnson–Mercier two-dimensional element to higher dimensions. Further reductions in the stress space in the three-dimensional case (to 24 degrees of freedom per tetrahedron) are possible when the displacement space is reduced to local rigid displacements. Proofs of optimal error estimates of numerical solutions and improved error estimates via postprocessing and the duality argument are presented
Capital Structure and Business Failure: the Collapse of Canada’s Dome Petroleum
No full textIn popular lore, the failure of Canada’s once-biggest company, Dome Petroleum, was caused by the interventionist policies of the federal government or its misadventures drilling for oil in the Arctic. But these factors acted in varied ways on the company. Rather, corporate finance theories offer more insight into the dynamics that led to Dome’s takeover by the American oil major Amoco in 1988. Dome was unique in its unwillingness to issue new share capital during its growth phase and instead relied on easy debt financing. This in turn was a result of both insider preferences as well as capital market imperfections. The transformation of capital structure from a background into a critical weakness, this paper argues, making use of newly available data and company archives, provides a more convincing explanation of Dome’s failure than other factors. The relevance of capital structure highlights the enduring analytic utility of the Modigliani-Miller theorem of capital structure irrelevance
A Case Study on the Effectiveness of Llms in Verification with Proof Assistants
No full textLarge language models (LLMs) can potentially help with verification using proof assistants by automating proofs. However, it is unclear how effective LLMs are in this task. In this paper, we perform a case study based on two mature Rocq projects: the hs-to-coq tool and Verdi. We evaluate the effectiveness of LLMs in generating proofs by both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Our study finds that: (1) external dependencies and context in the same source file can significantly help proof generation; (2) LLMs perform great on small proofs but can also generate large proofs; (3) LLMs perform differently on different verification projects; and (4) LLMs can generate concise and smart proofs, apply classical techniques to new definitions, but can also make odd mistakes
Institutions, Indigenous Peoples, and the Structure of Power in Columbia River Basin Salmon Governance
No full textAs broad patterns of behavior influenced by norms and rules, institutions structure many aspects of modern society through coordination and the distribution of power. Due to the importance of common-pool natural resources to many aspects of society, they usually involve competition and lie at the intersection of multiple institutions. This combination of institutions, power disparities, and a competitive interest is what scholars have referred to as a field. Fields can be complex, and the coordination among interests is generally done through a form of governance involving a wide array of laws, regulations, and actors. When at least one of these actors is an Indigenous group with a strong tie to the resource of interest, the structure of power has important theoretical and practical implications. To better understand these implications, the overarching research question is how does the structure of power in natural resource governance fields impact governance outcomes and institutional stability?
Using an in-depth case study and semi-structured interviews, this research question is explored with a focus on integrating Indigenous interests in natural resources governance. This case study is centered on the governance of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin and includes two broad components. First, an extensive historical institutional analysis was done to identify the trends and events that have influenced change in this governance field and converged to create the current structure of power. The second component is a relational analysis of power to understand how the current governance field distributes power among the various actors involved and how that affects outcomes (i.e., decisions) and the stability of the field. The relational analysis includes data from 38 semi-structured interviews with individuals with experience in this governance field. This research integrates the macro-institutional influences and micro-level individual perspectives to analyze the role that institutions and power play in influencing sensemaking and decision-making. The results of this analysis are then used to elaborate on theories of power and institutional change and provide practical implications.
The research findings show that the migratory patterns of salmon and steelhead combined with the evolution of multiple institutional layers since time immemorial have created an incredibly complex governance structure in the Columbia River Basin. Currently, this structure privileges those actors with decision-making authority, which are essentially government entities and, to a lesser degree, a subset of Native American tribes. These decisions are fragmented across programs and jurisdictions, and each includes its own criteria and processes. The result is a governance structure beset by institutional inertia that produces outcomes reinforcing the status quo. This is problematic considering increasing landscape-scale stressors such as climate change and the growth of human populations.
Whereas the current governance structure is struggling to sustainably support salmon populations across the Basin, the pre-contact Indigenous social-ecological system sustained large salmon runs for thousands of years. This was upended upon contact with Europeans, who instituted a new worldview and institutional structures. While those non-Indigenous structures are still dominant today, Native Americans continue to improve their position of power in the governance field. This exemplifies how instability caused by power disparities can prompt change in institutions and fields over time. This research shows that actors in fields can employ multiple strategies to accumulate power to institute change within the current structure or work to change the structure itself. Ultimately, this power can then be used to influence sensemaking events in terms of structure and content.
These findings contribute to both theory and practice. Theoretically, this research integrates Bourdieu\u27s theory of practice, pragmatist philosophy, and relational sociological theories while bolstering them with empirical data. This research also bridges the macro-micro gap by integrating theories of sensemaking, institutions, and power and empirically grounding them through the concept of the habitus. From a practical perspective, the Columbia River Basin governance structure requires a combination of change to produce outcomes that result in more sustainable salmon and steelhead management, especially in light of systemic issues such as climate change. These changes could include elevating Native American perspectives and modifying how institutions structure and influence sensemaking. Absent change, the current governance structure will continue to struggle to sustainably manage salmon populations, which, in turn, will continue to have detrimental effects on Indigenous peoples