319 research outputs found
“When There’s Good, There’s Good. When There’s Harm, There’s Harm”: Diverse Voices on Community Engagement
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. 2021. Major: Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development. Advisor: Tania Mitchell. 1 computer file (PDF); 301 pages.Service learning and community engagement, pedagogical strategies combining work in the community with academic learning, have become near ubiquitous across U.S. higher education. While scholarship has demonstrated positive student learning outcomes of community engaged pedagogies and practices, there has been unequal consideration towards understanding the experiences of communities involved. Calls for elevating community voices and perspectives in service learning and community engagement are not new but have all too often demonstrated lofty rhetoric without subsequent practical application. What is even more concerning is that critical scholars have argued that service learning has been shaped by white supremacy and neoliberalism. Yet, these racial and economic realities have rarely been discussed in detail and scholars also have neglected to consider these issues from the perspectives of communities. Because community perspectives have been largely missing from the community engagement scholarship, this qualitative inquiry, drawing on a case study research approach, as well as the analytic lenses of Critical Whiteness Studies and neoliberalism, aimed to engage a multivocal account of how one community described and understood their experiences with community engagement by one college. Specifically, this inquiry took me back to the college that I graduated from, Providence College (a regionally selective, predominantly White, Catholic, liberal arts college in Providence, Rhode Island that had an academically situated undergraduate community engagement program) and the Smith Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island (a predominantly lower-income, multiracial community that abutted the southeast corner of the campus) where I was first introduced to and participated in service learning and community engagement as a college student. Findings from this study revealed how a range of community members experienced Providence College’s community engagement work within Smith Hill as well as how community members described a perceptual harm imposed on the community by the college’s community engagement work. By listening to community voices and perspectives, this inquiry offers a key implication for practice and future research that more fully considers community members in the context of service learning and community engagement in higher education.Perrotti, Carmine. (2021). “When There’s Good, There’s Good. When There’s Harm, There’s Harm”: Diverse Voices on Community Engagement. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223137
sd920/FIJI-macros-for-IHC-and-SHG-analysis: Batch Split Channels (3 channels)
No full textThis macro allows to split channels for Z-stack .tiff files and save them in a new folder in batch mode.
Author: Samuele Di Carmine, [email protected]
Version 1.0
July 13, 2021
//License: BSD3
Copyright 2021 Samuele Di Carmine, Imperial College Londo
Let\u27s Move! from DC to PC: Policy and Programming in Providence Charter Schools Around Student\u27s Awareness Towards Living Healthy
No full textA thesis developed out of an intership for the Office of the First Lady\u27s Let\u27s Move Initiative . Following said internship, the author conducted original research on the local level - namely, Providence charter schools - to design, implement, and assess a series of educational “interventions”. These interventions were created to provide information to students and their parents about the benefits of healthy eating and exercise. Over 500 elementary-level students were surveyed for the research. See document abstract for more information
Emory S. Bogardus. La distanza sociale
No full textThe volume deals with the social and historical reconstruction of the personal, environmental and cultural aspects that characterized the career path of the American sociologist Bogardus, author of the concept of social distance. The social factors that heavily invested the USA in the 19th century as lands of considerable migratory flows are analyzed. This movement can be further distinguished by referring to two migratory subperiods in which there was a succession of a so-called "first wave" up to 1880, and a "second wave" after 1880. These groups of immigrants settled consistently in the geographical area in the North (both East and West).
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a "third wave" followed, during which immigrants came mainly from Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, China and India and settled substantially on the west coast, particularly in the Californian region.
After a brief biographical note by the North American sociologist, the scientific interest of American sociology towards these profound changes, in particular of the Chicago School, will also be analyzed; the scientific debate and the main scholars who have contributed to the conceptualization first and then operationalization of the concept of social distance with the Social distance Scale and its relevance in the panorama of social sciences
Il ruolo dell’interpretazione nell’adeguamento del diritto tributario all’innovazione tecnologica: l’Iva sui servizi “ricreativi” prestati mediante Internet
No full textStarting from the analysis of the Advocate General’s conclusions, the author aims to evaluate the opportunity to use interpretation as a tool to adapt the positive rules to the economic reality of reference, in absence of new law reforms. After the examination of the peculiarities of the case, the article intends to assess if the conclusions’ findings could by applied even in other sectors of the taxation system, and if they may resist in front of the Court
Ritualità e forme di culto funerario tra VI e V sec. a.C.
No full textIn the Etruscan-Samnite settlement of Pontecagnano, the south necropolis, which formed in the sixth and fifth century, consists of distinct funerary areas reserved for élite groups. Recent excavations have allowed a complete investigation of one of these areas. The author analyzes its spatial organization and demographic composition, as well as its funerary behavior and how it changed between the beginning of the sixth and the middle of the fifth century. For instance, as regards cremation, he reconstructs the different phases of the ritual, which shows a strong Greek influence.
Complex rites correlated to specific eschatological beliefs are observable in some funerary contexts. They include the manipulation of bone remains or the use of pots with pierced bottoms, or placed
upside-down. Moreover, archaeological excavations have unearthed structures for the canalization and collecting of water, as well as areas in cemeteries set aside for ceremonies such as animal sacrifice and food consumption
FEACE, «I REMATORI DELLE MUSE» E UN CASO DI AUTO-METAPOIESIS SIMPOSIALE (DIONISIO CALCO, FR. 3 E FR. 5 GENT.-PR. = FR. 4 E FR. 5 WEST)
No full textThe ‘you’ addressed at the beginning of the fr. 3 Gent.-Pr. (= 4 West) by Dionysius Chalcus may be recog- nized as the same Phaeax as the one mentioned in v. 5 that is present at the sym- posium. He is the well-known Athenian orator and politician and a contemporary of Alcibiades’s. Phaeax will start (note πέμπει in v. 5) the sympotic chain of songs in praise of a distant friend. The sequence of songs is imagined as the work of the «Muses’ rowers». The rowing metaphor, that is used in a sympotic context once again, is present in fr. 5 Gent.-Pr. (= 5 West), where it describes the dense sequence of drinking cups. The two fragments could represent a case of auto-metapoiesis by the author, that is to say, the retake and variation made by a poet in relation to one of his previous poems that is already known to the symposium audience
A novel dataset on legal traditions, their determinants, and their economic role in 155 transplants
No full textAbstractThe law and the economy are deeply influenced by the legal tradition or origin, which is the bundle of institutions shaping lawmaking and dispute adjudication. The two principal legal traditions, common law and civil law, have been transplanted through colonization and occupation to the vast majority of the jurisdictions in the world by a group of European countries. Here, I illustrate a novel dataset recording the lawmaking institution employed by 155 of these jurisdictions at independence and in 2000 and four discretion-curbing adjudication institutions adopted by 99 of these “transplants” at the same two points in time. Contrary to the “legal origins” scholars׳ assumption, 25 transplants changed the transplanted lawmaking institution and 95 modified at least one of the transplanted lawmaking and adjudication rules. In “Endogenous Legal Traditions” (Guerriero, 2016a) [12], I document that these reforms are consistent with a model of the design of legal institutions by societies heterogeneous in their endowment of both the extent of cultural heterogeneity and the quality of the political process. In “Endogenous Legal Traditions and Economic Outcomes” (Guerriero, 2016b) [13] moreover, I show the relevance of considering legal evolution and the endogeneity between legal traditions and economics outcomes. The data illustrated here also include the proxies for the determinants of legal evolution I use in “Endogenous Legal Traditions” (Guerriero, 2016a) [12] and the novel measure of economic outcomes I employ in “Endogenous Legal Traditions and Economic Outcomes” (Guerriero, 2016b) [13]
«Autorità senza autore» nella Grecia antica: il caso dello scettro
No full textStarting from an important work by Carlo Severi dedicated to forms of "authority without an author" in modern societies that do not have a written tradition, this article analyzes the cultural mechanisms by means of which the authority of the sceptre is constructed in a prevalently oral world like that described in the Homeric poems. Through comparison with ritually subjectivized artifacts like the nkisi, to which a mainly judicial function is attributed among the Zinganga of Congo, we demonstrate that the sceptre of Agamemnon, venerated in the Boeotian city of Chaeronea as the chief deity of the polis, has a specific "agency", presenting itself – in Alfred Gell's terms – as "the visible knot which ties together an invisible skein of relations, fanning out into social space and social time"
India and Greece: Methods and Models of Comparison in The Mahābhārata and Greek Mythology by Fernando Wulff Alonso
No full textIn his recent study of the Mahābhārata, Fernando Wulff Alonso compares systematically Indian “epic” and Greek mythology to support the thesis of the derivation of the former from the latter. The considerable space reserved in the book to the comparison and to the relationships between India and Greece invites, in the light of the role that such relationships have had in the history of studies of comparative mythology, careful evaluation of the use of the methodological forms and models the author has employed, as well as of his relationship with the main comparative “schools” and trends identifiable in modern and contemporary historiography. The rigorous discussion of the “isolationist” image of India suggests to reposition the culture, or rather the cultures, of the Subcontinent in the framework of the local and international networks of relationships, justifying the use of the heuristic tools developed in the studies on cultural cohabitations, in which assimilation of the “other” in not seen as a passive phenomenon, but as an active process of identity renegotiation, aimed at denoting differences at the scope of self-definition or self-representation
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