254 research outputs found
No. 095. Heritage Update (July 2024)
No full textIn this version of the Heritage Update for July 2024: we learn about three new heritage designations (The Terra Nova Sulphite Company Pulp Mill, Surgeon Cove Head Light Station, and Holloway Property in Lethbridge); Andrea O'Brien walks us through what is meant when we talk about "heritage designation" and the various levels at which that can occur; Meaghan Collins talks about her Sailor’s Valentines research as part of her dissertation project. and, a colourful legend about the origin of the place name for Halls Bay by Dale Jarvis.News and updates on Newfoundland and Labrador's Cultural Heritage Program.Name change: Intangible Cultural Heritage Update, no. 1-62 (December 2008-April 2016); Heritage Update, no. 63 (May-June 2016) onwards
Reflections: The relational practice of teaching and learning
No full textIn this essay, Meaghan Dougherty reflects upon how research she conducted on social service workers’ transition from post-secondary education to work has influenced her approach to teaching and learning. Drawing parallels to her own transition experiences, she examines how key findings from the research—including transition being a continual process, “not knowing” being an asset, and the importance of truly “being with” others—have important implications for relational practice and pedagogy. Reflecting on her developing approach to teaching and learning, the author encourage educators to rethink the importance of relational processes in educational encounters. Critically questioning our role as educators generates possibilities for social change; we can disrupt ideas about education which are taken for granted and transgress dominant ways of “being” in the classroom.Peer reviewe
Human and animal skin identified by palaeoproteomics in Scythian leather objects from Ukraine
No full textLeather was one of the most important materials of nomadic Scythians, used for clothing, shoes, and quivers, amongst other objects. However, our knowledge regarding the specific animal species used in Scythian leather production remains limited.In this first systematic study, we used palaeoproteomics methods to analyse the species in 45 samples of leather and two fur objects recovered from 18 burials excavated at 14 different Scythian sites in southern Ukraine. Our results demonstrate that Scythians primarily used domesticated species such as sheep, goat, cattle, and horse for the production of leather, while the furs were made of wild animals such as fox, squirrel and feline species. The surprise discovery is the presence of two human skin samples, which for the first time provide direct evidence of the Greek historian Herodotus’ claim that Scythians used the skin of their dead enemies to manufacture leather trophy items, such as quiver covers. We argue that leather manufacture is not incompatible with a nomadic lifestyle and that Scythians possessed sophisticated leather production technologies that ensured stable supply of this essential material
Reconceptualizing the school-to-work transition
No full textPresented at the Douglas College Research Cafe, March 24, 2022
Voice and affect in entangled phenomena: Experimenting with writing voice to promote responsibility
No full textPresented at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 2019, University of Illinois.
This presentation experiments with writing voice as it's been retheorized as emerging from entanglement. Dougherty is interested in how writing this entangled voice may help promote understanding of inseparability, intra-action, and responsibility. Not peer reviewe
Need to get somewhere fast: A critical examination of the transition from post-secondary education to work
No full textNeed to Get Somewhere Fast critically explores the transition from post-secondary education to work - it seeks to complexify the dominant view of the transition from post-secondary education to work as a linear, distinct event that can be assessed through primarily financial indicators. Complexifying our understanding of transition, as critical scholars/educators and critical practitioners, allows us to move beyond deficit-focused interventions and offers a more comprehensive understanding of how factors beyond the individual student constitute and constrain the transition experience. With a more complex understanding of transition, post-secondary educators, students, employers, and researchers can consider the pressures on students to “get somewhere fast” and support transition processes that involve complex and interrelated factors.
Need to Get Somewhere Fast is grounded in the narratives of social service workers. Social service workers, practitioners who work with marginalized people in community-based, not-for-profit agencies, are a liminal group who face significant challenges, including tenuous work, vicarious trauma, and precarity. Their narratives of navigating the neoliberal institutions of school and work highlight power relations, idealized expectations, and the experience of transition as an ongoing process. Their narratives illustrate the importance of resistance, criticality, and exploring alternate discourses of what it means to successfully transition into a professional role. Need to Get Somewhere Fast puts more-than-human, relational, and performative ontologies to work to see what is possible, from a practical, ethical perspective, for educators and educational institutions. -- From publisher website
Reconceptualising the transition from post-secondary education to work
No full textEducational researchers identify the transition from post-secondary education to the labour market as a critical point for the success of the student, and for society more broadly. This transition is often explored as a distinct phase between education and work that can be assessed based on pre-determined outcomes (i.e. employment, income). From this perspective, it is the responsibility of individual students to effectively commodify themselves and navigate their transition into employment. This focus on individual responsibility fails to question social mobility discourse and current labour market realities that significantly influence transition. In order to re-conceptualise transition, I deconstruct social mobility discourse as the foundation of transition research. Then, I draw on narratives of social service workers in British Columbia, Canada, to complexify transition and allow for more nuanced research. The narratives contradict dominant conceptualisations of transition, critiquing transition as a linear process that can be assessed through economic indicators. Recognising transition as a continual process that is influenced by a multiplicity of factors opens new ways to research. Research exploring the nuance of transition moves away from a deficit-focused, intervention approach focused on students, to critically exploring education, the labour market, and the relationship between school and work. -- PublisherPeer reviewedEmployabilitySchool-to-work transitionCritical narrative inquiryLabour marke
Acupuncture to Induce Labor: A Randomized Controlled Trial
No full textObjectiveTo estimate the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture to induce labor.MethodsThis study was a randomized controlled trial of acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture. Women who were scheduled for a postterm induction with a singleton pregnancy and cephalic presentation were eligible for the study. Women received two acupuncture or sham acupuncture sessions over a 2-day period before the planned medical/pharmacological induction. The principal primary outcomes related to the need for induction methods and time from the administration of the intervention to delivery.ResultsThree hundred sixty-four women were randomly assigned to the trial (treatment n=181 and control n=183). Women did not differ in their need for induction methods between groups: prostaglandin induction: relative risk (RR) 1.20, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.96-1.51, P=.11; artificial rupture of membranes only: RR 0.93, 95% CI 0.72-1.20, P=.57; oxytocin only: RR 0.89, 95% CI 0.60-1.32, P=.55; artificial rupture of membranes plus oxytocin: RR 0.87, 95% CI 0.57-1.33, P=.52; prostaglandins, artificial rupture of membranes, and oxytocin: RR 0.84, 95% CI 0.37-1.91, P=.68. The median time from acupuncture to delivery was 68.6 hours (interquartile range 53.9-79.5) compared with 65 hours (interquartile range 49.3-76.3) for women in the control group.ConclusionTwo sessions of manual acupuncture, using local and distal acupuncture points, administered 2 days before a scheduled induction of labor did not reduce the need for induction methods or the duration of labor for women with a postterm pregnancy.Clinical trial registrationAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, www.anzctr.org.au, ACTRN12606000494538Level of evidenceI.Caroline A. Smith, Caroline A. Crowther, Carmel T. Collins and Meaghan E. Coyl
Re-imagining school to work transition through a relational ontology
No full textThe paper was presented at the 44 annual Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Conference, Portland, OR (November 16, 2019).Not peer reviewedConference Pape
The messiness of becoming - researcher: the importance of qualitative inquiry in understanding the "posts"
No full textPresented at the ICQI (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry), May 2018 at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Drawing on autobiographical narratives from my research process, I examine the necessity of messiness in becoming-researcher. Specifically, I argue that struggling and stumbling through conventional humanist qualitative inquiry allows new scholars to think their way through tensions, through various theoretical ideas and concepts. I believe we, as scholars, cannot know first; it is through this process of messy sense-making that the theoretical concepts collectively known as the “posts” (e.g., deconstruction, post-structuralism, post-qualitative, etc.) take shape. I explore how my own messy experience with conventional humanist qualitative inquiry allowed me to experience “post” philosophies and altered my way of being in the world.Not peer reviewedConference presentationauto-biographical narrativeQualitative inquirypost-qualitativepost-structuralis
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