32 research outputs found
Relational Conservation Territories: Racialized Property Regimes, Negotiated Rights and Environmental Management in the Selva Misionera
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2023This dissertation examines the intersection of the often-unrealized rights of Latin America’s ‘territorial turn’ and the shifting political economy of Misiones, Argentina, as the selva misionera subtropical forest is revalorized as an object of conservation. I analyze the making of conservation territories through an ethnography of ‘Lote 8’, a nearly 4000-hectare lot in the Yabotà Biosphere Reserve, purchased for conservation and titled to three Mbya Guarani communities following over a decade of struggle for their land. First, I explore how Lote 8 is produced and stabilized as a discursive object through a multi-scalar network of actors, institutions, and infrastructures, which extract political, social and material value through its representation. Then, I trace the relationship among property, indigeneity and the selva though the creation of the Yabotà Biosphere Reserve in the early 1990s, the dispute over Lote 8 between the Mbya Guarani and a logging company at the turn of the century, and the negotiated conservation land purchase and titling agreement. I show how claims to ‘conservation citizenship’ produce new spaces to contest histories of racialized dispossession and negotiate rights otherwise foreclosed through legal avenues, as conservation networks become an audience for the enunciation of rights claims and a non-state arbiter of the recognition of Indigenous communities. Problematically however, where rights claims made to the state require legibility of land as Indigenous territory, recognition by conservation actors requires that Indigenous communities demonstrate their legitimacy as conservation subjects, making ‘negotiated rights’ contingent, imbricated with the political economy of conservation and always susceptible to being undermined. Finally, I examine the effects of (re)producing the selva misionera as an object of environmental management in the Yabotà Biosphere Reserve and its area of influence. I show how provincial parks are socially produced through the embodied labor of park rangers, which extends through (b)ordering practices for managing the overlapping borderlands of the Yabotà Biosphere Reserve and the national border with Brazil. I argue that accessing land titles through conservation entangles Indigenous rights with environmental management as it operates as a mode of extending settler colonial territorial control through the everyday enactment of conservation territories
English vocabulary teaching in Chinese junior high schools
Get PDFVocabulary learning is an important and indispensable part of the English language learning process. In this paper, the author tried to examine the vocabulary teaching practice in Chinese junior high schools. A questionnaire was used to investigate the problem from the perspectives of in-service teachers. Besides, the National English Curriculum (MOE, 2011) served as another important source of data in this study. The data revealed that progress has been made in English vocabulary teaching in Chinese junior high schools. Teachers are utilizing a wider range of educational resources and vocabulary teaching strategies during their instruction. The methods to assess vocabulary have also become more diversified. In addition to the enhancement in English vocabulary teaching practice, areas for further improvement were identified and pedagogical implications from the study were also discussed. Drawing on the data collected from the study and the official English curriculum (MOE, 2011), and research on vocabulary teaching, the author proposed three tentative suggestions to further improve the vocabulary teaching practice in Chinese junior high schools. The suggestions include: an emphasis on the teaching and testing of productive vocabulary; an increasing focus on the incidental acquisition of vocabulary; and construction of a comprehensive and balanced vocabulary assessment system which employs diversified assessment tools (formative/summative assessment; context-dependent/ context-independent assessment)
An examination of at-risk student's career development needs
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Biases and limitations of Global Forest Change and author-generated land cover maps in detecting deforestation in the Amazon
Get PDFStudying land use change in protected areas (PAs) located in tropical forests is a major conservation priority due to high conservation value (e.g., species richness and carbon storage) here, coupled with generally high deforestation rates. Land use change researchers use a variety of land cover products to track deforestation trends, including maps they produce themselves and readily available products, such as the Global Forest Change (GFC) dataset. However, all land cover maps should be critically assessed for limitations and biases to accurately communicate and interpret results. In this study, we assess deforestation in PA complexes located in agricultural frontiers in the Amazon Basin. We studied three specific sites: Amboró and Carrasco National Parks in Bolivia, Jamanxim National Forest in Brazil, and Tambopata National Reserve and Bahuaja-Sonene National Park in Peru. Within and in 20km buffer areas around each complex, we generated land cover maps using composites of Landsat imagery and supervised classification, and compared deforestation trends to data from the GFC dataset. We then performed a dissimilarity analysis to explore the discrepancies between the two remote sensing products. Both the GFC and our supervised classification showed that deforestation rates were higher in the 20km buffer than inside the PAs and that Jamanxim National Forest had the highest deforestation rate of the PAs we studied. However, GFC maps showed consistently higher rates of deforestation than our maps. Through a dissimilarity analysis, we found that many of the inconsistencies between these datasets arise from different treatment of mixed pixels or different parameters in map creation (for example, GFC does not detect reforestation after 2012). We found that our maps underestimated deforestation while GFC overestimated deforestation, and that true deforestation rates likely fall between our two estimates. We encourage users to consider limitations and biases when using or interpreting our maps, which we make publicly available, and GFC’s maps
Transitioning from high school to college: first-generation college students' perceptions of secondary school counselor's role in college preparation
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Creighton University School of Law Omaha, Nebraska Class of 1990
No full textGraduates|Anderson, Robert; Bear, Julie; Bertsch, Frances; Beyerhelm, Ruth; Birkel, William; Boudreau, Paul; Brock, Joe; Broghammer, John; Butler, Bradley; Castron, Paul; Christensen, Meredith; Cook, Barbara; Cooper, Elizabeth; Coziahr, Scott; Cruger, Brooke; Davis, James; Dieter, Lisa; Dowd, Michael; Dyer, MIchael; Ebsen, Ann; Ervanian, Gregory; Essay, Laura; Finneseth, Scott; Fleener, Clair; Fleming, Ronald; Flynn, Stephen; Forbes, Brian; Fredenberg, Mark; Fuhrman, Lori; Fuselier, Christopher; Gallardo, Lance; Gamblin, Julie; Geist, Fiona; Gerdes, Kandace; Gilman, Frank; Gonzalez, Edgardo; Gonzales Hicks, Carmen; Goodwin, Bruce; Hansen, Mark; Henkel, Lisa; Hoeft, Timothy; Hofmann, Paul; Holzhauer, Edwin; Hutton, Todd; Jobeun, Larry; Johnson, Maurice; Jones, Maureen; Judge, William; Kelly, John; Kemmy, Jeanne; Klinker, Janet; Kohl, John; Koithan, James; Koury, Nanette; Kralik, Lisa; Lambert, Christopher; Landers Jeffrey; Lanphier, Kelley; Larson, John; LeBlanc, Paul; Lefko, Stacy; Licata, Lon; Lingo, John; Lipinski, Adam; Lohaus, Sheryl; Love, George; Lund, Marc; Marcellus, Jennifer; Marchi, Nicholas; Marry, Philip; Matthews, Francis; McCormack, Timothy; McCoy, Kevin; McDonald, Loretta; McMurray, Kevin; McNamara, Paula; McPherson, Thomas; McQuillan, Michael; Miller, Arnold; Miller, Kevin; Moons, Mary; Muia, Paul; Murphy, Allen; Murphy, Mark; Murray, Michael; Necheles, Lawrence; Neuens, Chad; Niemeyer, Julie; O'Toole, Theresa; Panichas, Paul; Pape, Daniel; Parato, Angela; Peniston, Thomas; Pieper, Mark; Plambeck, Michael; Policastro, Anthony; Ramold, Robert; Reichert, Michael; Reida, Francis; Reynolds, Steven; Ringwalt, John; Rizakos, John; Romanucci, Demostene; Roth, Judith; Rouse, Michael; Rupiper, Michael; Sage, Scott; Scaglione, Gregory; Schauer, David; Schilken, Michael; Schulte, Mary; Seger, Michele; Shoffner, Robin; Siegel, Andrew; Sklute, Lawrence; Spence, Mark; Stark, Thomas; Straub, Gregory; Stuard, Scott; Sullivan, John; Tekippe, Jeffrey; Thesing, Christopher; Thornton, Philip; Turner, Carol; Urlakis, Katherine; Vogt, Diana; Vogt, Karl; Wasserman, Steven; Weaver, Kenneth; Weaver, MIchael; Whaley, Michael; Wintroub, Dana; Wolfe, Jennifer; Zevitz, Michael; Bartley, Gregory (not pictured); Eckel, Gregory (not pictured); Faisant, Lisa (not pictured); Jacques, Linda (not pictured); Kincaid, Katherine (not pictured); Kowalski, Robert (not pictured); McCormack, Patricia (not pictured); Phillips, Scott (not pictured); Angelos, Craig (not pictured)|41 x 38 in. landscap
Nurse Religiosity and Spiritual Care: An Online Survey
No full text This study measured the frequency of nurse-provided spiritual care and how it is associated with various facets of nurse religiosity. Data were collected using an online survey accessed from the home page of the Journal of Christian Nursing. The survey included the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale, six scales quantifying facets of religiosity, and demographic and work-related items. Respondents ( N = 358) indicated high religiosity yet reported neutral responses to items about sharing personal beliefs and tentativeness of belief. Findings suggested spiritual care was infrequent. Multivariate analysis showed prayer frequency, employer support of spiritual care, and non-White ethnicity were significantly associated with spiritual care frequency (adjusted R2 = .10). Results not only provide an indication of spiritual care frequency but empirical encouragement for nurse managers to provide a supportive environment for spiritual care. Findings expose the reality that nurse religiosity is directly related, albeit weakly, to spiritual care frequency. </jats:p
Approaches to interdisciplinary mixed methods research in land‐change science and environmental management
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