103 research outputs found
A Life of Spirit in Action
No full textAuthor, teacher, and ecophilosopher Joanna Macy is known the world over for her workshops for social and environmental activists. She\u27s joined in conversation by ecophilosophy teacher Renée G. Soule to discuss her life and work.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1017/thumbnail.jp
Ulysses
No full textThis item features in the Monash University Library exhibition Tall Tales and True: Journeys Real and Imagined. View the virtual exhibition"The edition was designed by George Macy and printed at the Printing-Office of the Limited Editions Club ..."--Colophon. Limited ed. of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. Issued in a slip case. A few copies are also signed by the author. Cf. Newman & Wiche. Printed with two columns per page
Empathy and Pre-service Teachers: How Much is Too Much?
No full textResearch shows that burnout happens when educators feel emotionally exhausted (Crosby, Howell & Thomas, 2018). Similar to burnout, compassion fatigue is a result of emotional exhaustion that occurs after repeatedly being exposed to secondary trauma ( Johnson, 2018). It has been documented that roughly 75% of educators experience high levels of compassion fatigue (Koenig Rodger, & Specht, 2018) and many of these educators leave their job. This information is vital to school administrators, parents, and the community in order to keep good teachers in the field.
Research shows that burnout happens when educators feel emotionally exhausted (Crosby, Howell & Thomas, 2018). Similar to burnout, compassion fatigue is a result of emotional exhaustion that occurs after repeatedly being exposed to secondary trauma ( Johnson, 2018). It has been documented that roughly 75% of educators experience high levels of compassion fatigue (Koenig Rodger, & Specht, 2018) and many of these educators leave their job. This information is vital to school administrators, parents, and the community in order to keep good teachers in the field.
In this research, we are wondering if signs of compassion fatigue show up as early as the student teaching semester. In that vein, our quantitative research question is: Do student teachers demonstrate signs of compassion fatigue? For this study, 55 out of 75 (73%) of student teachers from a midwestern small liberal arts college anonymously completed the instrument, Professional Quality of Life Scale at the end of their student teaching semester. Interestingly, 100% (n=55) of these student teachers reported that they are feeling some level of compassion fatigue. This vast number shows the need for future and continued research in this area of compassion fatigue and how early it shows in a teacher\u27s career.
Research shows that burnout happens when educators feel emotionally exhausted (Crosby, Howell & Thomas, 2018). Similar to burnout, compassion fatigue is a result of emotional exhaustion that occurs after repeatedly being exposed to secondary trauma (Johnson, 2018). It has been documented that roughly 75% of educators experience high levels of compassion fatigue (Koenig Rodger, & Specht, 2018) and many of these educators leave their job. This information is vital to school administrators, parents, and the community in order to keep good teachers in the field.
In this research, we are wondering if signs of compassion fatigue show up as early as the student teaching semester. In that vein, our quantitative research question is: Do student teachers demonstrate signs of compassion fatigue? For this study, 55 out of 75 (73%) of student teachers from a midwestern small liberal arts college anonymously completed the instrument, Professional Quality of Life Scale at the end of their student teaching semester. Interestingly, 100% (n=55) of these student teachers reported that they are feeling some level of compassion fatigue. This vast number shows the need for future and continued research in this area of compassion fatigue and how early it shows in a teacher\u27s career
Between Replication and Docking: "Adaptive Agents, Political Institutions, and Civic Traditions" Revisited
No full textThis article has two primary objectives: (i) to replicate an agent-based model of social interaction by Bhavnani (2003), in which the author explicitly specifies mechanisms underpinning Robert Putnam\'s (1993) work on Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, bridging the gap between the study\'s historical starting point—political regimes that characterized 14th Century Italy—and contemporary levels of social capital—reflected in a \'civic\' North and an \'un-civic\' South; and (ii) to extend the original analysis, using a landscape of Italy that accounts for population density. The replication exercise is performed by different authors using an entirely distinct ABM toolkit (PS-I) with its own rule set governing agent-interaction and cultural change. The extension, which more closely approximates a docking exercise, utilizes equal area cartograms otherwise known as density-equalizing maps (Gastner and Newman 2004) to resize the territory according to 1993 population estimates. Our results indicate that: (i) using the criterion of distributional equivalence, we experience mixed success in replicating the original model given our inability to restrict the selection of partners to \'eligible\' neighbors and limit the number of agent interactions in a timestep; (ii) increasing the number of agents and introducing more realistic population distributions in our extension of the replication model increases distributional equivalence; (iii) using the weaker criteria of relational alignment, both the replication model and its extension capture the basic relationship between institutional effectiveness and civic change, the effect of open boundaries, historical shocks, and path dependence; and (iv) that replication and docking may be usefully combined in model-to-model analysis, with an eye towards verification, reimplementation, and alignment.Replication, Docking, Agent-Based Model, Italy, Social Capital
Perceived Credibility in News Depending on Author Race & Statistical Evidence
No full textThis 2x2 between-subjects experiment investigated the impact of the race of the reporter and statistical evidence upon perceived credibility. This study was run at a small midwestern university with 65 participants (60% female and 40% male) that had an average age of 19.26 years. These participants were asked to read a news article in an online format, answer a few short-answer questions over the content of the article, take a quick survey, answer a set of multiple choice questions about the content, and complete a demographic survey. The survey that the participants completed was adapted from a credibility scale utilized by Gaziano and McGrath (1986) and measured credibility on a five-point likert scale. It has been hypothesized that articles with more statistical evidence present will lead to higher ratings of credibility in relation to the report and a white male author will lead to higher ratings of credibility in relation to the article. Finally, an interaction was also hypothesized between the race of the author and the statistical evidence present in the article such that when there is a presence of statistical evidence, the credibility ratings of the black and white male authors will not show a statistical difference. Whereas, without the presence of statistical evidence, the black male author will lead to significantly lower ratings in credibility in comparison to the white male author. A 2x2 between-subjects ANOVA indicated no significant results (p \u3e .05) suggesting that neither race or statistical evidence has a significant impact upon credibility
Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries – Introducing the ONEAL Project
No full textCAUL welcomes the team from the ONEAL Project who will speak about the valuable work the organisation provides in developing curricula and open educational resources to support negotiation education for academic libraries and Master of Library Science (MLS/MLIS) programs. These resources introduce negotiation theory and practical strategy using academic library context of negotiating vendor agreements.
The open curriculum will include introductions to critical issues in academic libraries as they intersect with contract negotiations such as user privacy, platform governance, emerging publishing models, author rights, and computational collections research. Speaking on behalf of the ONEAL Project will be Katharine V. Macy (Project Director/Principal Investigator), Scarlet Galvan (Co-Principal Investigator. Collection Strategist Librarian, Grand Valley State University Libraries) and Courtney Fuson (Co-Principal Investigator. Asset Management Librarian and Subject Liaison to Education at Belmont University). This session will be highly useful for library staff experienced with licence negotiations as well as those with less experience, and those likely to be involved in negotiations in future
Compassion Fatigue within Pre-service Teachers: An Analysis within Hope College’s Education Department
No full textWith growing signs of burnout along with increased compassion fatigue reported in teachers, we were interested in studying whether this burnout and compassion fatigue begins to show during the student teaching semester. This semester occurs during the last semester of the pre-service teacher\u27s undergraduate studies. This semester should align with the real world of teaching , and set up individuals to get ready to enter the field.
Current research shows a correlation between teacher burnout symptoms to teaching enthusiasm levels. Analysis of previous research proved that gender, seniority, and the teacher burnout symptoms of emotional exhaustion and a decreasing sense of personal accomplishment were significant predictors of both teaching and subject enthusiasm (Dağyar & Kasalak, 2022). Additionally, research by King and Wheeler (2019) explores the dark side of interpersonal communication allowing students to open up about traumatic personal experiences and the stress that can lead to compassion fatigue in teachers. Furthermore, Ziaian-Gafari and Berg\u27s (2019) qualitative research explored compassion fatigue and burnout, which both appeared when general education teachers worked with students with exceptionalities or those students with trauma. Compassion fatigue has been shown to affect one\u27s health-related quality of life negatively (Jackson et al., 2021).
Looking at this previous research, we were interested in exploring when this compassion fatigue begins to show during teaching. Specifically, our research questions are: (1) Do pre-service teachers show signs of compassion fatigue during the student teaching semester? (2) Do pre-service teachers report needing additional assistance (such as mentorship or counseling) during the student teaching semester? To explore these questions, we gave the standardized survey, The Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQLS) to 55 pre-service student teachers in Spring 2022. Our poster will dive into the qualitative results
Promoting Clarity and Transparency in Family Violence Research: Editorial Comments on the Journal’s Revised Author Guidelines
No full textSewing the Body of Christ : Eucharist wafer souvenirs stitched into fifteenth-century manuscripts, primarily in the Netherlands
No full textBooks of hours in the fifteenth century occupied several social and devotional roles. People used them to store small objects, including metal badges. Although the cultural practice of sewing in badges was widespread in the late Middle Ages, nearly all of the badges were removed (by later collectors). This article examines the practice by considering needle holes and offsets in the soft parchment, which indicate the shape of the badges and where they were attached. Noting that vast majority of metal offsets in books of hours are round, the author posits that these were not impressed by pilgrims’ badges, as is often repeated in the scholarly literature, but rather by tokens that commemorate having taken the Eucharist. The round badges are the same size and shape and bear the same imagery as host wafers. Owners stitched such badges into their books’ margins at locations relevant to Eucharistic piety. When they were sewn into books, Eucharist badges reconfigured the book as a shrine that recorded a votary’s pursuit of Communion.Peer reviewe
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