1,187 research outputs found
Housing Affordability and Safe Supply — with Jean Swanson
No full textJean Swanson has been a city councillor in Vancouver since 2018, when she was elected through COPE (The Coalition of Progressive Electors).Jean is an anti-poverty activist who has been working with Downtown Eastside organizations for almost 50 years, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2017. She is the author of the book, Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. Jean recently announced her intention to run for re-election in 2022. Resources: Housing For All Of Us: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-making-home-kennedy-stewart-revisedCarnegie Action Projects: http://www.carnegieaction.org/reports/Residential Tenancy Act: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/lc/statreg/02078_01Vacancy Control: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-needs-vacancy-control-tenants-group-says-following-alarming-evictions-study-1.5588483CMHC: Rental Market Report: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/market-reports/rental-market-reports-major-centresRenter Services Centre: https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/renter-office.aspxIan Mulgrew: B.C.\u27s chief coroner laments lack of action as opioid crisis hits worst death toll yet: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/change-bonnie-henry-to-b-c-s-chief-coronerVancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU): https://vandureplace.wordpress.com/Drug Users Liberation Front (DULF): https://www.dulf.ca/Fair Price Pharma: http://fairpricepharma.ca/Insite: https://www.phs.ca/program/insite
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No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Motor cortex inhibition is significantly associated with complex bimanual control of the upper extremities. It remains unclear whether this same relationship exists for the lower extremities. We utilized transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess motor cortex inhibition and wireless, inertial sensors to quantify gait variables to assess how cortical inhibition contributes to the control of gait in healthy, young adults. Gait cycle duration variability was significantly correlated to right motor cortex inhibition. The results of this study indicate that motor cortex inhibition may be associated with complex components of gait in a similar fashion to its association with bimanual control
ACTFL celebrates its first 50 years
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript version of an article published in:
Swanson, P. (2016). ACTFL celebrates its first 50 years. Foreign Language Annals, 49(4), 642-646. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12242
Building and sustaining our profession
No full textAuthor Accepted Manuscript version of an article published in:
Swanson, P. (2016). Building and sustaining our profession. Foreign Language Annals, 49(1), 5-6. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12185
Building social capital alongside a strong sense of efficacy
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript version of an article published in:
Swanson, P., & Osborn, T. A. (2016). Building social capital alongside a strong sense of efficacy. Foreign Language Annals, 49(2), 197-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12205
Genu(re)flections: Mathematics, Democracy and the Arts
No full textFirst paragraph: In her address at the November 2009 graduation ceremony of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Louise Richardson, made the following rather insightful remark in reference to the role of the university in the mandate of educating (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2009/Title,44179,en.html): In a somewhat unlikely statement, the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, once said: "The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do." What are we universities trying to do? As John Stuart Mill memorably said in his inaugural address as Rector of St Andrews in 1867: "Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings." Universities are not here simply to provide raw materials for the skills economy. Rather, universities generate understanding of where we have been, where we are, where we might go, and what it means to be human. The Arts are essential to that exploration. Her comment is equally applicable to contemporary education and modern society more broadly, most especially in recognition of our new era of neoliberal economic globalization. More and more standardized, efficiencies-based and surveillance-driven modus operandi are prescriptively defining the interests of the individual and collective in terms of market-driven imperatives in consonance with the demands of the nation state competing for resources, means and power on a global stage. Acting in accordance with ‘(inter)national' relations of exchange, this dominant thinking is reflected in the production of fact factories for the ‘New Knowledge Economy' through the increasing trend towards techno-scientistic corporatist economic utilitarianism in education[1], or rather, ‘learning' discourses[2]. This functionalism is concomitant with increasing privatization, standardization, instrumentality and commodification of curricula and educational environments. It is in this prevailing (structural) condition that the (ideological) rules of the game have been set in terms of the (ironic) assumption of ‘common/global good' by (uneven) capitalist relations of production and ‘market forces.' It is a normalizing condition pervading all aspects of our lives and is increasingly foreclosing the public sphere, in Arendtian terms[3], and leaching (imaginative and practical) capacity and disaggregating political will for resistance. It instigates the question: in our incremental accommodation of this general depoliticized "common sense" hegemony, our slow capitulation to a diminished public space, and our relinquishing of freedoms even with greater consumerist "choice" and networked transnational intercommunicative access, is this neoliberal spread a form of global "political evil"[4] as Patrick Hayden (2009) asseverates in drawing on the political thought of Hannah Arendt, or is it ‘merely' stupidity on our parts[5], in forgetting what we were trying to do
A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
No full textDrew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters.
Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virginia tobacco farm, explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. He weaves together social, agricultural, and cultural history of the Piedmont region and illustrates how ideas about race and landscape management became entangled under slavery and afterward. Challenging long-held perceptions, this innovative study examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land, and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/books/1062/thumbnail.jp
Stayers and the Leavers: The Identity of S/FL Teachers at a Time of Critical Shortage
No full textAuthor manuscript version of chapter published in:
Swanson, P. (2013). Stayers and the Leavers: The identity of S/FL teachers at a time of critical shortage. In P. Miller, J. Watzke, & M. Mantero (Eds.), Readings in language studies (Vol. 3): Language & identity (pp. 285-311). St. Louis, MO: International Society for Language Studies, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-64802-761-120251019
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what\u27s the point: For Brittany
No full textKatelyn Swanson is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University studying English with a concentration in creative writing. Katelyn has goals of becoming a published author. She fell in love with writing in high school, and the rest has been history. She loves experimenting with different styles of writing and in different types of art as well. When she is not creating, you can find her playing video games in her room or cheering on the Bulldogs on the football field with the LA Tech color guard
The View
No full textKatelyn Swanson is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University studying English with a concentration in creative writing. Katelyn has goals of becoming a published author. She fell in love with writing in high school, and the rest has been history. She loves experimenting with different styles of writing and in different types of art as well. When she is not creating, you can find her playing video games in her room or cheering on the Bulldogs on the football field with the LA Tech color guard
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