68 research outputs found
The Unsilencing of Children: A Study Examining School Climate, Anxiety, and Stress in Elementary School Children
No full textThe purpose of this critical phenomenological qualitative study was to examine how school climate impacts children’s lived experiences with stress and anxiety during the school day. Bronfenbrenner’ (1986) bioecological theory of human development, Maslow’s (1943) hierarchy of needs, and Freire’s (2018) pedagogy of humanization served as the frameworks for
this study.
A snowball sample of elementary students enrolled in third, fourth, and fifth grades within charter, private, and public schools in Texas was interviewed using a semi-structured protocol. Interview questions aligned with Texas Education Code 38.351’s (Texas Education Agency [TEA], n.d.a) definition of school climate that encompassed teacher relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures. Interview transcriptions were analyzed through elemental and affective coding (Saldana, 2021) in ATLAS.Ti25 (2025).
Findings focus on children’s emotional well-being during the school day. Suggestions for changes in school policies and areas for future research are recommended
Manipulating Images of Women\u27s Power in Elizabethen England: Elizabeth I, Spenser, and Shakespeare
No full textThis work celebrates the influence of Elizabeth I on Elizabethan society and literature. In the opening of his Shakespearean Negotiations. Stephen Greenblatt describes writing as an outlet for the dead to speak to the living through textual traces of themselves that make themselves heard in the voices of the living . These textual traces form the foundation for the critical theory of New Historicism, which perceives such traces as a conduit for literary critics to learn about an author\u27s view of the nation, and era, in which he or she lived. In The Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text, Louis Montrosse describes New Historicism in terms of interpretation: a new historical criticism takes as its subject that interplay of culture-specific discursive practices in which versions of the Real are instantiated, deployed, reproduced—and also appropriated,contested, [and] transformed . Literature and art, according to New Historicist theory, can demonstrate the impact of social and political factors because writers and artists can use their works to comment on their culture\u27s values and their nation\u27s future; Indeed, the culture In which he or she lives affects an author and shapes how that writer comments on his or her country. In Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Greenblatt observes that [I]iterature functions within this system in three interlocking ways: as a manifestation of the concrete behavior of its particular author, as Itself the expression of the codes by which behavior Is shaped, and as a reflection upon those codes (4). A writer\u27s commentary provides an image of how that author perceives his or her time and nation; therefore, critical examination of the literary works of a particular period can help to reveal the way people of the time thought about their society
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"Upon the Threshold": Anglo-American Jewish Women Writers' Counterhistories of Liberal Citizenship and Jewish Nationalism in England and the United States, 1880-1923
No full textThis project illuminates Anglo-American Jewish women writers’ (AAJWW) critical appropriation of counter-history—which David Biale argues is a Jewish hermeneutic for transvaluing historical records to expose the ethical structures of the present—in their writings to critique and expand definitions of citizenship and emerging Jewish nationalisms in England and the United States between 1880 and 1923. In chapter one, “Contingent Sympathies: Politics and Poetics of Pseudepigrapha,” I examine Amy Levy and Emma Lazarus’s use of counter-history and pseudepigraphic dramatic personation to challenge the gender and racial biases of authorship and citizenship with their poetry. In chapter two, “Exposing the ‘Secret History’: Translation and Biblical Midrash,” I utilize translation theories put forward by AAJWW to expose how each relied on a counter-history hermeneutic to expand the role of women within and beyond their Jewish communities. In chapter three, “Novel Counter-histories: Contesting the ‘Jewish Type’ in the works of Amy Levy and Israel Zangwill,” I examine Levy and Zangwill’s novels as counter-histories to Joseph Jacobs and Francis Galton’s composite photographs of the “Jewish type” and expose how imperialist narratives mobilize the gender and racial bias of liberal subjectivity. In chapter four, “Counter-Photography: History as Identity in Early Alternative Zionist Discourses,” I trace the legacy of Jacobs’s “Jewish type” in early political Zionist “fauxtographic” histories—which aimed to rewrite the discourse of modern Jewish identity—and then contrast these histories with AAJWW’s historical works to expose what was being left out of this discourse of identity, namely Jewish women and indigent Jewish refugees. In chapter five, “From Plotzk to Boston: Mary Antin’s Human Document: Immigration, Genre, and Citizenship,” I situate Russian-Jewish author Mary Antin’s memoir within the transatlantic contexts of British and American fin-de-siècle immigration policies and the burgeoning literary sub-genre of invasion fiction to claim her work as a counter-history of the “invasion of America” by Jewish immigrants. In the coda, “On the Edge of Empire: Hannah Barnett Trager & Citizenship in Pre-Mandatory Palestine,” I foreground Trager’s 1923 memoir, Pioneers in Palestine, as a counter-history of pre-mandate Palestine that challenges the gender, class and racial biases of political Zionism’s vision of Jewish nationalism
Sexual Interactions: Why
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Yale School of Nursing Class of 2015
No full textEliana Marcus Aaron, Gabriella Tayo Adjapon-Yamoah, Emily Josephine Alfano, Christopher John Andreozzi, Emily Doyle Armstrong, Vanessa Bailey, Mary Ella Bartlett, Laura Austen Berger, Jaime Ethan Biava, Ann Pearce Bisland, Nancy Picard Blumenthal, Lauren Lewis Bradley, Shaylice Michelle Bragg, Jessika Ducharme Brasseaux, Lisa Braun, Marisa Brown, Yasmeen Al Marrikhi Bruokner, Katherine Parker Bryden, Peter Andrew Butzen, Deborah Lynn Caselton, Joseph Andrew Celella, Ariana Chao, Celine Joelle Croft, Regina Gabrielle Daniels, Anastassia Minkova Daskalova, Heather Melissa Deal, Lauren Kohlhepp Eddy, Asefeh Faraz, Amanda Carolyn Filippelli, Rachel Sara Geylin, Erica Leigh Gibson, Leonid Gorelik, Gillian Elizabeth Graham, Lorne Harris, Chelsea Teresa Hinchey, Alison McCandlish Hoover, Carolyn Rayburn Hwang, Jacqueline Renee Johnson, Angela Irene Julian, Elise Marissa Kaye, Maura Colleen Keeley, Claire Kinnison, Marissa E. Kirby, Elizabeth M. Edwards Kitue, Laurene Terese Kordell, Kirsten Tamara Kowalski, Tara Marie Kunkel, Hannah Petran Lakehomer, Brittany Nicole Leach, Michael Shaylan Lord, Helen Mary MacGregor, Gayge Jakobsen Maggio, Malorie M. Mahan, Marilynn Roberge Malerba, Emily Cheney Martyn, Aron Lynn Mavros, Michaela Ann Maynard, Rita Mazina, Kara Heather McGee, Kathryn Ellen Medow, Juraj Melek, Emily Anne Mellor, Maud Meulstee, Caitlin Clare Miller, Jonathan Mills, Kristin Elizabeth Morgan, Rose Nanyonga, Bethany Ann Nelson, Orly Ninyo, Summer Cozene Oakes, Joseph Egbedare Ojo, Ashley Kikumi Okada, Whitney Alyse Osborn, Eunie A. Park, So-Hyun Park, Leif E. Petterson, Susanne Johnson Phillips, Ashley Renee Plummer, Antonia Reese Pryor, Molly Emma Radis, Kaitlyn Elise Rechenberg, Jesse Rachal Ridgway, Hsiaoying Annie Shic, Grace Anne Snell, Lisa Ariel Spencer, Jenine Yager Stone, Jamie Brennan Stone, Danielle Elizabeth Strehlow, Ella Sylvia Sussman, Janice Y. Tham, Rebecca Aliza Theise, Jasper Erwin Lavina Tolarba, Bonnie Tong, Yasemin Turkman, Helena Shaelyn Turner, Allison Kelly Underwood, Michael Hazen Valalik, Nathan Howard Valentine, Robin Landes Wallin, Emily Katherine Weigel, Camille M. White, Allison Raphael Whitmer, Laura Lee Setliff Whittaker, Christine Annette Wibby, Claudia Cole Wies, Abigail Stanton Wikoff, Tanya Wills, and Devyn Rene Young.https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ysn_images/1232/thumbnail.jp
The geologic history of central and eastern Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia
No full textabstract: Sedimentary basins in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia archive the progression of continental breakup, record regional changes in east African climate and volcanism, and host what are arguably the most important fossiliferous strata for studying early human evolution and innovation. Significant changes in rift tectonics, climate, and faunal assemblages occur between 3-2.5 million years ago (Ma), but sediments spanning this time period are sparse. In this dissertation, I present the results of a geologic investigation targeting sediments between 3-2.5 Ma in the central and eastern Ledi Geraru (CLG and ELG) field areas in the lower Awash Valley, using a combination of geologic mapping, stratigraphy, and tephra chemistry and dating. At Gulfaytu in CLG, I mapped the northern-most outcrops of the hominin-bearing Hadar Formation (3.8-2.9 Ma), a 20 m-thick section of flat-lying lacustrine sediments containing 8 new tephras that directly overlie the widespread BKT-2 marker beds (2.95 Ma). Paleolake Hadar persisted after 2.95 Ma, and the presence and characteristics of the Busidima Formation (2.7-0.016 Ma) indicates Gulfaytu was affected by a reversal in depositional basin polarity. Combined with regional and geophysical data, I show the Hadar Formation underlying CLG is >300 m thick, supporting the hypothesis that it was the lower Awash Pliocene depocenter. At ELG, I mapped >300 m of sediments spanning 3.0-2.45 Ma. These sediments coarsen upward and show a progression from fluctuating lake conditions to fluvial landscapes and widespread soil development. This is consistent with the temporal change in depositional environments observed elsewhere in the lower Awash Valley, and suggests that these strata are correlative with the Hadar Formation. Furthermore, the strata and basalts at ELG are highly faulted, and overprinted by shifting extension directions attributed to the northern migration of the Afar triple junction. The presence of fossiliferous beds and stone tools makes ELG a high-priority target for anthropological and archaeological research. This study provides a new temporally-calibrated and high-resolution record of deposition, volcanism, and faulting patterns during a period of significant change in the Afar.Dissertation/ThesisPh.D. Geological Sciences 201
The development of virtual libraries in Commonwealth Libraries in Australia
No full textThis research examines the development of virtual libraries in Commonwealth libraries in Australia in 1998-1999. The background to the study lies in some of the current issues in the information sector, and government responses to those issues. The study begins by considering the nature of the Australian Commonwealth Government, reviewing what government libraries are and whom they serve, and examining the future trends expected to affect Commonwealth libraries. The current state of virtual library research is then reviewed, and the need for research in the Commonwealth library sector examined. The author reviews the virtual library concept as expressed in the literature in the field, determines what a virtual library is, and gives consideration to why virtual libraries are being developed. The issues that affect and are affected by virtual library development are then examined. Based on this, a model of virtual libraries is formulated, along with a brief consideration of the possible application, importance and problems associated with each element of the model. The research design and methods that were used to gather information for this study are then outlined, along with the inherent limitations of the research model. Following this, the findings from a survey of virtual library development in Commonwealth libraries are discussed. The author then conducts some analysis of these responses, and makes comparisons between different Commonwealth library responses, as well as comparisons with virtual library studies conducted in American and Australian academic libraries. The research concludes by attempting to reach some conclusions about Commonwealth virtual library development and the validity of the proposed model of virtual libraries. Flowing from this, recommendations are made for further research in this field
Review of Indigenous Health Curriculum in Nutrition and Dietetics at One Australian University: An Action Research Study
No full textThis article has been published in a revised form in Australian Journal of Indigenous Education https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2015.4. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. ©The Author(s) 2015.This article describes a review undertaken in 2012–2013 by Nutrition and Dietetics, Flinders University, to assess the Indigenous health curriculum of the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (BND) and Masters of Nutrition and Dietetics (MND). An action research framework was used to guide and inform inquiry. This involved four stages, each of which provided information to reach a final decision about how to progress forward. First, relevant information was collected to present to stakeholders. This included identification of acknowledged curriculum frameworks, a review of other accredited nutrition and dietetics courses in Australia, a review of Indigenous health topics at Flinders University, including liaison with the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-Being (Indigenous health teaching and research unit), and a review of BND and MND current curriculum related to Indigenous health. Second, input was sought from stakeholders. This involved a workshop with practising dietitians and nutritionists from South Australia and the Northern Territory and discussions with Flinders University Nutrition and Dietetics academic staff. Third, a new curriculum was developed. Nine areas were identified for this curriculum, including reflexivity, approach and role, history and health status, worldview, beliefs and values, systems and structures, relationship building and communication, food and food choice, appreciating and understanding diversity, and nutrition issues and health status. Fourth, a final outcome was achieved, which was the decision to introduce a core, semester-long Indigenous health topic for BND students. A secondary outcome was strengthening of Indigenous health teaching across the BND and MND. The process and findings will be useful to other university courses looking to assess and expand their Indigenous health curriculum
Women Look into Love: Reimaginings of Heterosexual Love in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
No full textThis thesis explores how contemporary women writers write about heterosexual love, considering not only the ways it has been implicated in patriarchal models and traditional romance plots, but also its portrayal in light of developments in feminism and fiction in the 1990s and 2000s. The thesis examines Carol Shields’s The Republic of Love (1992), Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992), Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1993), Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup (2001), Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto (2001), Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) and Doris Lessing’s Love, Again (1995). In this study it emerges that as well as illustrating continuities, the scope of the treatment of love is opened up further in recent fiction as aspects like age or social, economic and historical factors are centralised and considered in interesting ways. The thesis also identifies some positive approaches to heterosexual love, as in, for example, the emphasis on men’s capacity for emotions. However, this is not always the case, as a writer like Lessing further develops a vision of love without providing an affirmative view. Thus, the contemporary women writers’ work can be said to contribute to understandings of heterosexual love on many different levels, even as feminist criticisms of repressive, patriarchal forms of romantic relationship continue to remain relevant
Does the presence of cardiovascular disease risk factors or established disease influence the dietary intake of affected adults and their children residing in the same household? A secondary analysis of the Australian Health Survey (2011–2013)
No full textThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Background
Diet is an important contributor to risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and integral in management and delaying progression. Little is known however about whether increased CVD risk or established CVD has any influence on dietary intakes of Australian adults or children residing in the same household. This study aimed to determine whether the presence of CVD or CVD risk factors influences dietary intake of Australian adults and if the presence of an adult with increased CVD risk influences the dietary intake of a child living in the same household.
Methods
Data were sourced from the 2011–2013 Australian Health Survey for: (1) adults ≥18 years with risk factors or established CVD and (2) children 2–17 years residing in the same household as adults with CVD risk factors or established CVD. Selected nutrient intakes (total fat, saturated fat plus trans fat, alpha-linolenic acid, total long chain omega 3 fatty acids, fibre and sodium) collected by repeated 24 h recalls were compared to national dietary recommendations and to the intakes of all other adults and children surveyed. Standard errors of the estimates were calculated using the replicate weights method, and an alpha value of <0.05 considered statistically significant.
Results
Six thousand two hundred sixty five of 9435 adults surveyed were identified as having CVD risk factors or established disease and of these 1609 had a child in the same household that also contributed data in this survey. No differences were observed in adjusted mean dietary intakes between those without risk factors or established CVD and those with, except for total energy and sodium which were significantly lower in the adults with CVD risk factors and/or established disease. However sodium intakes across both groups were higher than recommended targets. There were no differences for selected nutrients between children residing with affected adults and other children surveyed.
Conclusions
While intakes of Australian adults with CVD risk factors or established disease were favourable for sodium, compared to unaffected adults, there is still scope for improvement as many Australian adults, despite CVD risk, are unable to achieve targets for selected nutrients. Effective dietary behaviour change strategies and resources are urgently needed
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