42 research outputs found
Morning Routines of Adults With Chronic Disabilities and Without Disabilities
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
The purpose of this qualitative research was to examine morning routines of adults with chronic disabilities. The study revealed that morning routines show similarities regardless of disability. Those with disabilities may need more time and objects, and they experience the need to change routines over time.
Primary Author and Speaker: MaryEllen Thompson</jats:p
sj-pdf-1-ggm-10.1177_23337214211068290 – Supplemental Material for Sensory Processing Abnormalities in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Mixed Methods Study
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ggm-10.1177_23337214211068290 for Sensory Processing Abnormalities in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Mixed Methods Study by Elizabeth K. Rhodus, Elizabeth G. Hunter, Graham D. Rowles, Shoshana H. Bardach, Kelly Parsons, Justin Barber, MaryEllen Thompson, and Gregory A. Jicha in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine</p
Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth
No full textPraise for Inspired College Teaching "The thoughtfulness, personalization, and consideration Maryellen Weimer demonstrates in discussing the experience of faculty members; her ability to identify issues that are shared and solvable; and her suggestions and solutions to commonly experienced stressors and difficulties in college teaching are major strengths of this volume. In addition, her personal and professional reflections on her long career as a faculty member, writer, and faculty developer expose tantalizing research questions that young education researchers might want to examine. The originality of this volume is its exploration of and reflection on a faculty member's career from a long-term perspective. The focus on iterative self and course renewal is personal and thus practical. In a way, it is a 'workshop between book covers' or perhaps several workshops!" — Laura L. B. Border, director, Graduate Teacher Program and Collaborative Preparing Future Faculty Network, University of Colorado at Boulder "A book by Maryellen Weimer always displays her wonderful grasp of the literature on college teaching and learning, her ability to tell good stories, and her wit and wisdom. This one is no exception." —Nancy Van Note Chism, professor, Indiana University School of Education, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis "Although I work at a faculty teaching center and encounter many books on teaching, I have seen very few that span the full arc of the teaching career and what steps can be taken at each stage in order to retain vitality all the way through the way that this book does. I look forward to getting my own copy and using it as a resource in the faculty development activities of my center. It will have a wide readership." —Mano Singham, University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education, Case Western Reserve University From the Inside Flap Good teaching requires a lot from teachers: emotional energy, the will to keep caring, intellectual stamina, creative approaches, vigilance, perseverance to find the way back from failure, and faith in the power of feedback to promote learning. In this groundbreaking work, Maryellen Weimer, acclaimed education author, experienced college teacher, and editor of The Teaching Professor, posits that the growth and development of a college teacher should be seen as a journey and shows how this career-long quest can be just as exciting as its destination. Inspired College Teaching reveals what faculty at all levels (beginning, mid-career, and senior) are best positioned to accomplish as teachers. It proposes activities that faculty can use across their careers to awaken their intellectual curiosity, develop instructional prowess, and keep alive the motivation to teach with passion. Filled with wisdom and a healthy dose of wit, Inspired College Teaching puts the spotlight on how faculty can best use Weimer's tested improvement process. Step by step, she shows how to select changes, how to adapt them, how to implement them, how to assess their effects, how to revise them, and when to infuse these changes elsewhere in the classroom. This method rests on Weimer's premise that faculty can and should play the central role in their own improvement process. Only by being truly involved can faculty undertake the transformative activities that result in vibrant, invigorated teaching. Inspired College Teaching is the hands-on resource that can help faculty understand and plan for all that it takes to sustain teaching excellence across a career
Use of Participant-Generated Photography in a Research Contribution Course
No full textThis paper describes the use of small, qualitative studies focused on interviews done with participant- generated photographs as an effective and efficient way of teaching research to entry-level masters students. A comparison of using time-use diaries vs. participant-generated photography is presented to explicate the research process and demonstrate the advantages of using photography, including ease of data collection and data sharing. Over a three-year period of using participant-generated photographs as a guide for semi- structured interviews, students have consistently expressed enjoyment of the research process and increased empathy with their research participants
Morning Routines: Revelations about Participation – Year 4
No full textTitle: Morning Routines: Revelations about Participation – Year 4
Statement of purpose: Morning routines are critical to setting the flow of the entire day. Analysis of the literature reveals a lack of information related to the morning routines of persons with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to focus attention on the importance of morning routines, to add descriptive information regarding the morning routines of persons with chronic disabilities, and to further developing the construct of morning routines.
Description of methods: Participants included a convenience sample of eleven individuals with a chronic disability and ten individuals without known disabilities. Qualitative cross-case analysis was used to initially code and analyze the data collected through the photo-elicited interviews. Grounded Theory and constant comparative analysis were used to further analyze emerging themes/constructs as data was collected over the four-year period . Unstructured and semi structured interviews were conducted using the participant-generated photographs to guide questioning. Although this research was strictly qualitative, numerical trends seen within the data collected were observed and will be reported.
Report of results: The following parts of a morning routine emerged from the coding: Occupations/activities, Objects, Temporality, Context, Pleasure and Motivation. Morning routines as a construct will be put forward and described. Notable differences between persons with and without disabilities included the number of medical objects used, critical placement of objects, temporal differences, and for those who were retired – activity and physical context differences. In particular, individuals with chronic disabilities who were retired were missing a key part of the morning/daily routine most retirees enjoy – volunteering.
Implications related to occupational science: Routines are the underlying support for daily occupations. Understanding and describing routines will add to basic knowledge in occupational science. As our basic knowledge of occupation expands, we can do the more complex research.
Discussion questions to further occupational science concepts and ideas:
1. What should be the next direction for researching morning routines?
2. What are your thoughts about impact of chronic disabilities on participation in the retired population?
3. How is the digital revolution changing your morning routine?
Three Key Words:
Morning routines, Qualitative research, Photograph
Occupations, Habits, and Routines: Perspectives from Persons with Diabetes
No full textAlmost all of the management of diabetes is the direct responsibility of the person with diabetes. While many studies have attempted to examine issues of management of diabetes and compliance with medical recommendations, little has been done to examine daily diabetic care from an occupational perspective. The purpose of this research was to examine and describe how persons with diabetes perceive the occupations related to the management of their diabetes. Methods: A qualitative methods approach was used including photo elicitation and interviews. A team of student researchers recruited participants for a sample of convenience. Results: The following themes emerged from qualitative cross-case analysis: “Changes over time”; “What to eat”; “Habits and routines”; and “Family: Occupational impacts”. Discussion: Findings highlight the importance of considering the individual experience of diabetes self-management occupations and the need to develop habits and routines to support management of diabetes. Further research is needed to expand our understanding of how daily routines and habits can affect health in persons with diabetes
Diabetic Self Care Routines: Photo-elicitation and Interview
No full textThe purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the daily care routines of persons managing diabetes. Managing diabetes on a daily basis is a complex occupational demand that requires sophisticated understandings of medical routines, the balancing of diet and exercise, and ongoing judgment of how engagement in different occupations will impact blood sugar levels. Balancing engagement in desired and necessary daily occupations against compliance with medical recommendations for effective management of blood sugar levels is primarily the responsibility of the person with diabetes. Specific self care activities involved in self-management of diabetes include, but are not limited to, counting carbohydrates at each meal, exercising regularly, eating a low fat and high fiber diet, taking daily medications or insulin, regularly checking blood glucose levels with a finger stick, and monitoring feet for sores or infections. Although many studies have examined the medical management of diabetes, little research has examined the experience of daily diabetic care from an occupational perspective. This research contributes to occupational science by describing the use of habits and routines in managing chronic conditions.
Preliminary data was collected by means of participant photography and interviews. Participants included 10 persons with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Analysis combined photo-elicitation with a grounded theory approach. Methods were modeled on a study of quality of life in African American survivors of breast cancer that combined photographic data collection with grounded theory. For this study, photos were taken by participants in response to a suggested focus for their content. Participants were instructed to photograph daily self-care related to diabetes management. Photograph could be representative. Interviews were elicited through discussion of the photos. Analysis was ongoing with comparison across all data as new data was collected. As is common practice in grounded theory analysis, a theoretical description was developed through the following steps: derivation of an initial coding scheme, open data coding, memo writing, developing a second coding scheme, coding for axial themes, and development of the description from further memos. Results suggest that understanding occupations as an individual’s unique experience of constructing personally-tailored daily routines to manage diabetes is critical to a full understanding of effective diabetes management. Current results and planned research will be discussed.
Author Objectives: Describe the activities and occupations of daily self-management of diabetics. Stimulate discussion of the effects of disruption and re-establishment of habits and routines. Identify future research needs
Use of Participant-Generated Photographs Versus Time Use Diaries as a Method of Qualitative Data Collection
No full textA small qualitative research study was chosen as a time efficient way to allow students to participate in and complete a research project during a 16-week long semester course. In the first year of the research contribution course, student researchers asked participants with diabetes to complete time use diaries as a part of their initial data collection. The time use diaries were found to be an ineffective way to collect data on self-management of diabetes and were not useful as a basis for subsequent interviews with the participants. A review of the literature suggested reasons for this lack of effectiveness; in particular, participants tend not to record frequently done daily activities. Further review of the literature pointed toward the use of participant-generated photography as an alternative. Subsequent participants were asked to take photographs of their daily self-management of their diabetes for initial data collection. These photographs provided a strong basis for subsequent interviews with the participants. A comparison of the data collected and the emergent themes from the two different methods of initial data collection demonstrated the improved ability to answer the original research question when using participant-generated photography as a basis for participant interviews. The student researchers found the use of participant-generated photographs to elicit interviews with participants in the context of a research contribution course to be effective and enjoyable
The First Ten Years: A Descriptive Analysis of Presentation Abstracts of the SSO:USA, 2002 to 2011
No full textThis mixed methods study of the first ten years of presentations of the Society for the Study of Occupation: USA (SSO: USA) yields important information about the development over time of occupational science as a disciplinary body of knowledge. A quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis of the abstracts of peer-reviewed presentations at the first ten annual meetings of the SSO: USA was separately and then collaboratively completed by a group of four researchers. Carrying forward the methods used in the previously published examination of the first five years of research reported at the SSO:USA, this ten-year study used descriptive statistics to portray the methods being used in OS and the populations studied, as well as using thematic analysis via HyperRESEARCH coding to describe the degree to which occupations studied were individual alone, individual shared, shared group characteristics, and population level. This in-progress research will report emergent themes in the research interests of occupational scientist over the first ten years of the Society. Implications of the study for the future of occupational science will be discussed, including gaps in occupational science research, methodological trends and needs, and possible influences on researchers’ choices in regard to topics of future research.
Author Objectives: Highlight the role of a research society as an institutional structure that supports the development of a discipline. Identify research trends and needs in occupational science. Stimulate discussion of the future directions of occupational science
Galdosian Novels Adapted in Film and Television: 1970-1998
No full textThesis (PhD) - Indiana University, Spanish, 2007In twentieth-century filmmaking, most film critics agree that nineteenth-century novels had a special attraction for filmmakers because they established a national discourse or mythology and generated authoritative figures for their cultures. In the case of Spain, Galdós is a popular nineteenth-century author among filmmakers especially in the late twentieth century. In relation to twentieth-century Spanish history, Galdosian adaptations formulate the expressions of cultural critiques questioning the value and the meaning of the existing social order, such as women under patriarchal rule, and even representing national-historical concerns.
My studies of three adaptations, Tristana (1970) by Luis Buñuel, Marianela (1972) by Angelino Fons, and Fortunata y Jacinta (1980) by Mario Camus, demonstrate that the adaptations establish oppositional discourses to the patriarchal order of society by means of formulating and underlining the novels' femininity used in various ways such as the subversion of female body's conventional concepts, the feminine narrative style, and the emphasis on female perspective and space. The last chapter, which is about the adaptation El abuelo (1998) by Garci, shows that the adaptation questions the conventional way of defining the nation's identity and suggests another way of formulating it through melodramatic structure and emotional effects.
The fact that Galdosian novels were adapted during the most critical times in recent Spanish history indicates a national and cultural authority that Galdosian novels have. Therefore, studying literary adaptation can generate various ways to read novels, thus lending the novels cultural significance in a different period of time and through a different medium
