162 research outputs found
Influence of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors on Transitional Services for Adolescents With Intellectual Disabilities and Traumatic Brain Injury
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
A study of youths with intellectual disability and traumatic brain injury showed no differences in receipt of transition services between minority and nonminority youths after adjusting for socioeconomic status. Informed occupational therapists can develop culturally responsive transition plans.
Primary Author and Speaker: Kelli Williams Gary
Contributing Authors: Adam Sima, Katherine Inge, Paul Wehman</jats:p
Beyond Being Famous for Being Famous: A Phenomenological Approach to Understand the Leadership of Kim Kardashian
No full textThis phenomenological study explores the meaning of the influence of Kim Kardashian on millennial women based on their followership on social media platforms, exploring the intersection of leadership studies, celebrity capital, and popular culture. Social media has democratized influence and transformed power dynamics through access and immediacy of information allowing the celebrity-turned-influencer-turned leader Kim Kardashian to build a billion-dollar empire spanning entertainment, and the media, beauty, fashion, and retail industries. Through qualitative interviews and analysis with 11 millennial women, this research sought to understand the meaning of her influence in their lives.
Explored through the theoretical frameworks of French and Raven’s bases of power, Barbuto’s influence triggers, and Driessens’ celebrity capital theory, four themes emerged. First, Kardashian generates a sense of belonging and social capital by ensuring participants are current on popular culture and trends in conversations with their peers. Second, content posted to her social media platforms influence consumer behavior and self-perception, specifically with body image and online shopping behavior. Third, Kardashian’s power is primarily acknowledged from her legitimate position in society, however her wealth and perceived political alignments prompts ethical and moral concerns in tandem with values misalignment for the study participants. Lastly, participants demonstrate a disconnect on Kardashian and her leadership. Participants assigned traditional leadership characteristics to Kardashian including vision, strength, business acumen, and influence, however, many hesitated to assign the label of “leader” to her. Instead, they contextualized her leadership within specific elements of her life or rejected the designation completely.
The findings showcase how digital platforms have evolved influence beyond traditional organizational and social-movement contexts, highlighting a complex experience between inspiration and criticism, relatability and aspiration, feminism and capitalism. This dissertation contributes to leadership scholarship by expanding the understanding of power and influence across digital spaces to demonstrate how celebrity capital functions as social currency to generate target compliance. This research challenges traditional leadership studies’ frameworks to integrate influencer culture and the power over follower behavior, beliefs, and consumption patterns, while prompting questions of authenticity, relatability, ethics of wealth, and the positioning of leadership in a media-saturated society outside the walls of an organization.
Advisor: Heather Aki
Workplace Discrimination and Visual Impairment: Still a Concern After the Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
People with visual impairments experienced workplace discrimination, yet most of the charges were not substantiated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, indicating the need for targeted education and advocacy for this vulnerable population to achieve parity with their non–visually disabled peers in the workplace.
Primary Author and Speaker: Callie Victor
Contributing Authors: Callie Victor, Dianne Pawluk, Kelli Williams Gary, Leroy Thacker II</jats:p
Assessing Perceived Work Discrimination From Visual Impairments After the Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
Workplace success for persons with visual impairments requires specific demands and skills. Associations of discrimination charges filed before and after the Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act suggest interventions should target retention aspects of work, the largest growing category of discrimination.
Primary Author and Speaker: Callie Victor
Contributing Authors: Al Copolillo, Dianne Pawluk, Kelli Williams Gary, Leroy Thacker II</jats:p
Educating for Sustainability: Competencies & Practices for Transformative Action
No full textabstract: Achieving a sustainable future requires that individuals adopt different values, attitudes, habits, and behaviors, which are often learned and cemented at a young age. Unfortunately, current educational efforts are inadequate for achieving transformative action. Even programs whose primary goal is to promote responsible, pro-environmental behaviors have largely failed at creating change among students. The lack of efficacy in sustainability-related educational programs is at least partly due to faulty assumptions about knowledge automatically leading to action, and by extension, the information- intensive methods that focus largely on declarative knowledge regarding how environmental systems work. Meanwhile, social science literature clearly highlights the need to go beyond ecological and technical knowledge when educating for transformative action, since sustainable behaviors are motivated by much more than declarative information. In order to effectively educate for sustainability, alternative forms of knowledge (i.e., procedural, effectiveness, and social knowledge) are essential, as is the consideration of various barriers and motivators for action. The transition towards sustainability will require action and change that is guided by an understanding of the complexities that arise within an interconnected system, as well as the ability to collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds, while keeping an eye to the future. In formulating our approach to educating for sustainability, we incorporate perspectives from three somewhat disparate fields: (i) behavioral change research, (ii) sustainability scholarship, and (iii) educational pedagogy. While drawing upon diverse knowledge domains, our primary purpose is to integrate behavior change research and sustainability competencies in developing effective educational approaches for transformative actions.
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Archeota, Fall/Winter 2021
No full textArcheota is a platform for SJSU iSchool students to contribute to the archival conversation. It is written BY students, FOR students. It provides substantive content on archival concerns and issues, and promotes professional development in the field of archival studies. Archeota upholds the core values of the archival profession.
Contents:
A Brief History of Kanaka Oiwi Archives: Internship at the Hula Preservation Society by Marcus Opunui Ortiz
The Fascinating and Macabre Art of Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: A Book Review of Dark Archives by Katie Perry
Building an Archive of Local History: Internship at the Convent and Stuart Hall School by Jennifer Pesek
Archiving the Immigrant Experience: Internship at the Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation by Erin Sommers
Introducing SJSU iSchool Student Sophia Bogle: Book Conservator, Educator, Author, Lifelong Learner by Heather Reinold
ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2021: 85th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivist by Sereen Suleiman
An Interview with Heather Reinold: Meet the Newest Member of the Archeota Team by Kelli Roisman
Spartan Daily Newspaper Archives: A Look Back at One Day in 1950 by Kelli Roisman
Event Information for the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter at SJSU:
October 19, 2021 Virtual Event:
ONE Archives at USC Libraries Virtual Event with Loni A. Shibuyama, ONE Archives Archivist & Librarian
November 3, 2021 Virtual Event:
J. Paul Getty Trust Institutional Records & Archives Virtual Event with Jennifer Thompson, Records Analyst & Archivist
December 7, 2021 Virtual Event:
Exploring Career Options and Charting Your Path with Cyndi Shein, Head of Special Collections & Archives Technical Services, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Archives
February 15, 2022 Virtual Event:
Celebrating African American History: SJSU’s Civil Rights and Campus Protest Collection with Craig Simpson, Director of Special Collections & Archives at SJSU Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
March 15, 2022 Virtual Event:
The Writer’s Guild Foundation with Hillary Swett, Archivist
April 20, 2022 Virtual Event:
Labriola National American Indian Data Center with Alexander Soto, Curator/Librarianhttps://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/saasc_archeota/1014/thumbnail.jp
The conceptual bases for codifying Estonia׳s IP law and the main legislative changes: From the comparative approach to embedding drafted law into the socio-economic context
No full textAbstractThe aim of this article is to explore the conceptual bases and methodological issues involved in the codification process of Estonia׳s intellectual property law and outline the main results. The conceptual bases of this codification consist of evolutionary development, a comparative-law approach, stakeholder involvement and regulatory impact assessment. The reform draws on the existing regulatory framework (existing IP law), developed further by the identification and use of the best regulatory practices of other countries and model laws. Stakeholder involvement and regulatory impact assessment are used to improve the draft law and make it compatible with Estonian socio-economic conditions.This article summarises the results of the extensive work from 2012 to 2014 that resulted in the draft Copyright and Related Rights Act, the draft Industrial Property Code and the draft Act Implementing the Copyright and Related Rights Act and the Industrial Property Code with the relevant annexes.The analysis focuses on the Estonian codification project as a case study. The author relies on traditional research methods from social science and draws on comparative and dogmatic analysis conducted during the codification, using empirical socio-economic data acquired through stakeholder involvement and impact assessment.The article also reflects the author׳s personal experience, insights and intimate knowledge of the codification process gained through management and coordination of the project and in acting as a head of the expert group on the codification of IP law under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice of Estonia.The Estonian example could serve as a comparative model for countries aiming to modernise their IP laws within the EU acquis and international legal framework
Professional Philosophy: Education is Dialogue
No full textThis paper reflects the author\u27s personal philoso- phy of education and is influenced extensively by the philosophies of Martin Buber and Paulo Freire. The author has chosen to use the lens of dialogue to focus on the nature of education and her role in it, her perspectives on her role as an educator, and her perspectives on student affairs educators as professionals
Classroom Management Preparation and New Teacher Retention
No full textMany factors affect student achievement, however, an effective teacher has been found to be the most influential. A prerequisite of an effective teacher is the ability to manage his or her classroom. However, due to the high rate of attrition of teachers within the first five years of service, coupled with the paucity of the training, and time it takes to learn to effectively manage a classroom, often student achievement suffers. Because authors of many studies have found that new teachers cite student discipline problems and lack of classroom management preparation as major factors for their attrition, this author created a more nuanced approach to classroom management training. This in-service combines opportunities for self-reflection regarding teachers\u27 beliefs and values regarding control in the classroom, a presentation of research based classroom management and discipline approaches, and time to collaborate and work through scenarios of common discipline problems
An Exploration of the Role of the Nurse as Client Advocate in the Ethical Dilemmas of In Vitro Fertilization
No full textIn the following paper, there will be a discussion on infertility and in vitro fertilization (IVF), with a primary focus on the ethical dilemmas that have arisen with the introduction of IVF. This discussion begins with a description of the scope and experience of infertility, its causes, implications, and nursing care. It will then progress on to the discussion of in vitro fertilization and the procedural steps involved. This is followed by discussion of the background of ethics, basic ethic principles, nursing ethics, and selected religious perspectives. The author will be focusing on the Roman Catholic perspectives in particular. The author will then relate the ethical information to specific ethical dilemmas that have arisen because of the in vitro fertilization procedure. Such ethical dilemmas include conflicting religious beliefs, harmful effects of fertility drugs, genetic testing of preserved embryos, disposal of preserved embryos, gamete donation, selective termination, the use of IVF for non-traditional couples and individuals, financial factors, and publishing accurate consumer information. Carol Gilligan’s theory of moral development will be the conceptual framework for examining these situations. The author will focus primarily on the nursing role of client advocate in the nursing care of clients experiencing such ethical dilemmas. The author will be including information obtained through personal interviews with registered nurses and advanced practice * nurses who work with infertility and IVF clients
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