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Mecánica terrestre: humanismo y modernidad en la primera poesía de Carmen Conde (1929-1939)
Authors: Bagué Quílez Luis
Published: June 2016

La obra poética de Carmen Conde recoge las aportaciones literarias más relevantes de su época. Desde 1929 hasta 1939, la autora asume un simbolismo personal que se proyecta sobre la representación impresionista de la naturaleza (Brocal), la intensidad imaginativa asociada con los objetos cotidianos (Júbilos) o la experiencia trágica de la Guerra Civil (Mientras los hombres mueren). Su concepción lírica se defi ne por compatibilizar los signos externos de la modernidad con un humanismo que atraviesa todas las facetas de una vida dedicada a la escritura
Escribir desde la trinchera: memoria y compromiso en la literatura de la I Guerra Mundial
Authors: Sánchez Zapatero Javier
Published: June 2016

Durante el desarrollo de la I Guerra Mundial, escritores de diversas culturas y nacionalidades mostraron a través de sus creaciones literarias y su actitud pública su rechazo a la contienda. Por un lado, los autores excombatientes y testigos de la batalla en muchos casos, como los de Erich M. Remarque, Henri Barbusse, Robert Graves, Ernest Glaeser...- narraron sus experiencias, poniendo de manifi esto el horror del combate. Por otro, defendieron en la esfera pública su postura crítica contra los poderes de sus países, responsables de la contienda. Este artículo explica cómo esa postura antibelicista estaba condicionada ideológicamente por el universalismo propio de las corrientes de extrema izquierda
El padre Jerónimo López, "Maestro y caudillo de misioneros"
Authors: Gentilli Luciana
Published: June 2016

La trayectoria existencial del jesuita Jerónimo López, una de las personalidades más destacadas en el panorama misional ibérico del siglo XVII, nos depara unas copiosas informaciones sobre la predicación itinerante en el seno del instituto ignaciano
La canción de Lope de Vega "Murmuraban al poeta" (1605-1634). Versiones y variantes
Authors: Cuiñas Gómez Macarena
Published: June 2016

Este artículo estudia las variantes existentes entre las dos versiones de la canción de Lope de Vega titulada «Murmuraban al poeta la parte donde amaba por los versos que hacía»publicadas en la antología de las Flores de poetas ilustres de Pedro de Espinosa en 1605 y en las Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos de Lope de Vega, en 1634
Componentes del enredo en una comedia de capa y espada de Rojas Zorrilla: "primero es la honra que el gusto"
Authors: Gutiérrez Gil Alberto
Published: June 2016

Primero es la honra que el gusto se presenta como un claro ejemplo de la evolución que la comedia de capa y espada sufrió a lo largo del siglo XVII, pues personajes, espacios y recursos estructurales se reducen a su mínima expresión. Debido a que es una comedia relativamente tardía dentro del género (creemos que podría datarse en torno a 1640) los mecanismos del enredo que Rojas utiliza para enriquecer la acción adolecen de cierta mecanización que no se contrapone a la vivacidad con que la trama se desarrolla
Working towards a better understanding of Helicobacter pylori-related gastric cancer’s biology
Authors: Abdel-Rahman Omar
Published: June 2016

Gastric cancer is a significant cause of cancer-related mortality and morbidity. In terms of disease etiology, it ranks as the fourth and fifth most common contributor of male and female cancer-related death, respectively [1]. A marked geographical variability has been observed for gastric cancer incidence, with the majority of cases reported in Eastern Europe, South America, and Asia [2]. This has been ascribed to environmental (e.g., H. pylori infection), dietary, as well as genetic factors [3]. H. pylori is considered as a definite carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and intes-tinal metaplasia has been suggested as the intermediate event in the development of H. pylori-related gastric cancer [4]. However, the molecular mechanism of this event needs to be further elucidated. In this issue of AMOR, a report from Ukraine’s Vinnitsa National Pigorov Memorial Medical University by Sergii Vernygorodskyi attempts to improve our current understanding of the molecular mechanism associated with H. pylori-related gastric carcinogenesis [5]. The investigator found that the activation of CDX2, along with the simultaneous inactivation and a decreased number of genes (e.g., SHH, SOX2, and RUNX3) responsible for gastric differentiation, is a probable cause that leads to the ap-pearance of intestinal metaplasia. Therefore, this study serves as an important catalyst to promote further research on the molecular mechanism and programming of gastric cancer cells, in hope of gaining new knowledge in the prevention and treatment of gastric cancer.
AMOR Vol. 2, Issue 3, 2016
Authors: Editorial Office AMOR
Published: June 2016

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PRE/PERINATAL ADVERSITIES AND BEHAVIOURAL OUTCOMES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM THE VANCOUVER LONGITUDINAL STUDY
Authors: Lussier Patrick , Tzoumakis Stacy , Healey Jay , Corrado Ray , Reebye Pratibha
Published: June 2016

Several pre/perinatal factors (e.g., birth complications, maternal substance use, low birth weight) have been associated with early neuropsychological deficits and negative behavioural outcomes in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. The current study examines the relationship between maternal substance use during pregnancy and its impact on physical aggression and sexual behaviours in a sample of preschoolers. This study is based on a sample of children (n = 129), boys and girls, recruited as part of the KD-BEAR project, an ongoing longitudinal study conducted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The sample consisted of clinical referrals for an externalizing disorder and children recruited in daycares located in at-risk neighbourhoods. Semi-structured interviews were completed with the primary caregiver. A series of structural equation modelling showed that children showing higher levels of physical aggression and sexual behaviours were more likely to have been exposed to maternal substance use and pregnancy-related complications. Implications of the study are discussed in light of the scientific literature on the early prevention of aggression and violence.
PROMOTIVE FACTORS DURING ADOLESCENCE: ARE THERE CHANGES IN IMPACT AND PREVALENCE DURING ADOLESCENCE AND HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO RISK FACTORS?
Authors: Van der Put Claudia , Van der Laan Peter , Stams Geert-Jam , Deković Maja , Hoeve Machteld
Published: June 2016

In this study we compared the impact of promotive and risk factors on 18-month recidivism during adolescence. We measured bipolar factors (factors with risk and promotive effects being the ends of the same continuum) for 13,613 American juveniles who had committed a criminal offense. For most of the factors no significant differences were found between the impact of the promotive and risk ends. Interventions aimed at increasing promotive factors may therefore be potentially just as effective as interventions aimed at decreasing risks. The importance of both promotive and risk factors was found to be significantly higher for younger than for older adolescents in almost every domain, which emphasizes the importance of early intervention. Furthermore, age and sex differences were found in the impact and prevalence of promotive and risk factors. The discussion focuses on implications for clinical practice.
SERIOUS CONDUCT PROBLEMS AMONG GIRLS AT RISK: TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO INTERVENTION
Authors: Moretti Marlene M. , Odgers Candice , Reppucci N. Dickon , Catherine Nicole L.A.
Published: June 2016

Until recently, research on serious conduct problems focused primarily on boys and men. In the past decade, however, we have gained a better understanding of the unique and shared risk and protective factors for girls and boys, and the role of gender in relation to developmental pathways associated with such problems. In this paper we discuss findings from the Gender and Aggression Project on risk and protective factors for girls who are perpetrators but also victims of violence. We discuss our findings from a developmental perspective, with the goal of understanding how exposure to adversity and violence early in life places girls at risk for aggression and violence, among other problems, and how continued exposure to trauma and the disruption of interpersonal and self-regulatory developmental processes cascades into ever deeper and broader problems. This research points more clearly to the need for  accessible, evidence-based, and developmentally sensitive intervention.
PREFACE: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN CHILD, YOUTH AND FAMILY STUDIES
Authors: Moore Shannon A.
Published: June 2016

This special issue of the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies offers critical insights into contemporary social justice issues impacting the lives of children and young people, their caregivers, and their communities. The authors write from a range of fields as they question taken-for-granted knowledges within social work, child welfare, health promotion, psychology, sociology, education, human rights, and women’s studies. As such, the collection includes feminist, post-colonial, post-structural, and post-modern analyses organized through an editorial standpoint of critical pedagogy. The preface offers additional insights into my own personal, professional, epistemological, and pedagogical locations that illuminate my role of guest editor, and further contextualizes the transdisciplinary selection of manuscripts within a social justice discourse.
YOUTH VICTIMS, COMPETENT AGENTS: A SECOND OPINION ON SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION TRAUMA
Authors: Grondin Anne-Marie
Published: June 2016

Michel Dorais’ (2009) Don’t tell: The sexual abuse of boys showcases the testimonials of 30 males who experienced sexual abuse in their youth. Though insightful in its challenge to normative readings of child sexual abuse (CSA), Dorais’ compilation remains limiting in that victims’ experiences are continually (re)framed through the medicalized lenses of trauma and pathology, while young victims are represented as having been developmentally “damaged” as a result of their experiences. Using a postructural/discursive approach to ground my analyses, I argue that Dorais’ work parallels dominant CSA discourses, which pathologize already heavily stigmatized individuals, efface counter-narratives, essentialize trauma as an inherent and immovable attribute, and constrain the ability of former victims to transcend their victimization. This maintains these victims “in” trauma through the discourse of the trauma “in” them. Finally, I offer an alternative reading of the claims put forward by Dorais and his research participants to highlight young people’s own positions of power contra adult sexual aggressors and thereby draw out youth resistance. I do so in an effort to sketch out the beginnings of a framework that does more than pay lip service to the recognition of young people’s agency.
IMMEDIATE RESPONSE: ADDRESSING ANTI-NATIVE AND ANTI-BLACK RACISM IN CHILD WELFARE
Authors: Pon Gordon , Gosine Kevin , Phillips Doret
Published: June 2016

Anti-oppression emerged in the 1990s as a perspective for challenging inequalities and accommodating diversity within the field of social work, including child welfare in Canada. Using the concepts of white supremacy, anti-Black, and anti-Native racism in conjunction with the notion of the exalted national subject (Thobani, 2007), we contend that any understanding of the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Black children in the care of child welfare services must be located within the wider narrative of white supremacy that has underpinned the formation of the post-war welfare state. This overrepresentation highlights the need to shift from anti-oppression to critical race feminism and anti-colonialism perspectives in order to address more effectively anti-Black and anti-Native racism and the economy of child welfare.
CONSTRUCTING CRITICAL CITIZENSHIP WITH YOUNG PEOPLE: ALTERNATIVE PEDAGOGIES
Authors: Moore Shannon
Published: June 2016

The authors present theoretical and empirical arguments for adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (or CRC) to renew the teaching of citizenship to young students from a social justice standpoint (Giroux, 2003; Giroux & Searls-Giroux, 2004; Mitchell, 2010; Moore, 2008; Smith, 2007). The paper draws its analysis and conclusions from a descriptive, exploratory study with key participants from a 2009 rally hosted by Nobel nominee, child rights activist, and founder of Free the Children, Craig Kielburger. Four of the paper’s co-authors were senior elementary students initially chosen as interviewees for the investigation and subject to traditional research protocols for minors. During data collection, however, their status shifted reflexively to include their contributions – not as objects under study or subjects of the interviewer’s questions – but as co-constructors of new knowledge. Relative to the dominance of their teachers and other adult groups “engaging” their participation, this new status allowed a deeper exploration of the meanings they attached to active citizenship through an innovative dialogue (see Kellett & Ward, 2008; Kellett, Forrest, Dent, & Ward, 2004; also Devine, 2002). Through participatory lenses embedded within CRC principles, particularly Article 12, the analysis transcends traditional disciplinary silos to offer a critical and transdisciplinary alternative pedagogy.
“HERE WE ARE, AMAZINGLY ALIVE”: HOLDING OURSELVES TOGETHER WITH AN ETHIC OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN COMMUNITY WORK
Authors: Richardson Cathy Lynn , Reynolds Vikki
Published: June 2016

In this paper, the authors describe their orientation to social justice based community work. The tenets of this work include: an ethical orientation towards staying alive in the work, descriptions of social justice, engaging with a hopeful skepticism, responding to privatized pain with justice-doing, and contesting the individualism of “burnout”. This is followed by reflections on the role of solidarity, the sacred, revolutionary love, resistance, and an ethic of belonging in the commitments to staying fully alive in community work. The authors discuss the importance of forging communities of care with other practitioners through shared and collectively held ethics.
CHILDREN’S AND PARENTS’ EXPERIENCES ON EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE HOME/WORK BALANCE IN FINLAND
Authors: Määttä Kaarina , Kyronlampi-Kylmanen Taina
Published: June 2016

Paid work and the high-pressure working life are reflected in the everyday life of Finnish families with children. This article introduces a research project where 29 children aged between ages 5 and 7 and their 13 wage-earner parents were interviewed in order to discover to what degree they are able to achieve a home/work balance in their family lives. There is a lack of such research that examines children’s and parents’ experiences simultaneously and comprehensively, as this study does. The children’s experiences were analyzed with an existential-phenomenological method, while the parents’ experiences of how their work affects everyday life were interpreted within a hermeneutically advancing interpretation process. This research describes the challenging combination of work and family, the demanding relationship between children and parents, and the ways in which parents approach balancing work and everyday life when parents’ paid work, stress, and fatigue follows them home. Parents’ working life moulds the rhythm of their children’s everyday lives, which are structured by the departures and arrivals at home and at their daycare centers. This article makes visible Finnish families’ daily worries and how they cope with everyday life. The research highlights the question of how to secure both children’s and parents’ rights to a safe and anxiety-free everyday life.
CONVERSATIONS ON CONVERSING IN CHILD AND YOUTH CARE
Authors: De Finney Sandrina , Little JN Cole , Skott-Myhre Hans , Gharabaghi Kiaras
Published: June 2016

In the spring of 2011, we had the pleasure of participating in the 3rd Child and Youth Care (CYC) in Action Conference hosted by the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. We were invited by conference chairs Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Jennifer White to participate in a roundtable discussion on the theme of “Conversations on Conversing in Child and Youth Care”. This theme was inspired in part by a recent posting to the CYC-Net listserv, which asked, “Why are people speaking about the field in ways I don’t understand?” Veronica and Jennifer sensed that this question – and the spirited, and at times fractious, discussion that it generated on the listserv – would provide an excellent platform for mutual learning, critique, and reflection. Thus they capitalized on the opportunity to extend a conversation that was already underway, and used the question as a departure point for our roundtable discussion. In this paper, four of us who participated in the roundtable continue this conversation, with each of us probing deeper and pushing further along the themes and ideas we discussed in Victoria. We are not so much responding to any particular questions here, but rather trying to articulate some of our critical reflections on the field as we each are experiencing it. We hope that readers might engage with some of ideas we present in this conversation on their own terms.
DIS[S]CURSE[IF] CHALLENGES: PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATIONS IN CHILD AND YOUTH CARE IN FLUID MODERNITY
Authors: Artz Sibylle
Published: June 2016

I have, as you can see, entitled my talk: Dis[s]curse[if] Challenges: Professional Conversations in Child and Youth Care in Fluid Modernity. I chose this title, in part, with a smile on my face. We have, in the last few years, in what we sometimes refer to as the child and youth care “academy”, challenged ourselves to work with language forms that signal our knowledge of, and affection for, the history, the geneology, of the ideas that support our practices and also show that we can speak the vernacular. New turns of phrase, new ways of employing words that for many of us have had fixed meanings, now force us to meet these words again in different guises, and so create the need for a re-acquaintance, for hearing and seeing again in a different way, what we thought we knew:

Words move [and] music moves…

Words after speech, reach into the silence…

Words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden,

Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,

Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,

Will not stay still. Shrieking voices

Scolding, mocking or merely chattering,

Always assail them…(Eliot, 1944, p. 19)
ESCAPING PURITY: LESSONS FOR CHILD AND YOUTH CARE FROM RELIGION
Authors: Scott Daniel
Published: June 2016

By taking up the suggestion of Michel Serres (1991) to use the history of religion to study change processes, this paper explores the development of the field of Child and Youth Care (CYC) and its current state of change. It draws on Karen Armstrong’s (2001) portrayal of the history and development of fundamentalism across religious traditions to serve as a mirror for this reflective exercise, calling on CYC to risk the complexity of a self-reflective critique in moving forward to the next stage of development professionally and academically.
TELL IT LIKE YOU SEE IT: YOUTH PERCEPTIONS OF CHILD AND YOUTH CARE PRACTITIONER INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOMES IN AN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL SETTING
Authors: McMillan Cait , Stuart Carol , Vincent Jennifer
Published: June 2016

Using a semi-structured interview format, students (n = 7) attending an alternative school program who were supported by child and youth care (CYC) practitioners described their view of the work these practitioners do and the effect it has on the students. We were interested in learning about how students perceived the strategies and interventions they experienced and how the said interventions affected student outcomes. Students described program strategies such as the use of a token economy and daily group sessions as well as practitioner strategies including presence, support, use of self, and the student as resources for information and assessment. Students accomplished a variety of academic and socio-emotional outcomes, and identified the relationship as the basis for effective work between themselves and the CYC practitioner. Students identified both passive and persistent engagement strategies in the relational context. Together, these two types of engagement seem to create a continuum of constant engagement. Through a comparison of the student perceptions to the CYC practice literature, we offer a beginning point for a dialogue between students and theorists and researchers about some of the accepted and common practice strategies in our field.
INVESTIGATING THE MULTIMODALITY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Authors: Phillips Lynda , Cameron Catherine Ann
Published: June 2016

Capturing lived childhoods without decontextualizing their meaning and still providing information needed by policy-makers and practitioners is a pressing challenge for contemporary researchers. In this paper we provide information to open up such a dialogue via a range of tools we have utilized when investigating well-being. We interrogate bio-socio-ecological approaches to human development to provide relatively holistic pictures of the lived experience of childhood. We utilize various methodologies within this approach to determine what they transactionally facilitate at each level. At the bio-psychological level, for example, controlled, psychologically valid, psychosocial stress procedures expose hormonal responses, yielding valuable information about individual differences in physiological stress reactivity. At the level of the psychological self within a social ecology, we systematically observe children and youth in naturalistic, environmental transactions with the aid of visual methodologies such as Day in the Life filming, and invite the children and their parents and youth to share their reflections on their lived context via focused discussions and interviews. In this paper we discuss new ways of integrating research findings by suggesting Sameroff’s (2010) unified theory as an interpretive framework for research within the field of child and youth care.
MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MIGRANT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN CANADA
Authors: Di Tomasso Lara
Published: June 2016

As borders become increasingly porous to the flow of global capital, human beings entering countries like Canada are routinely criminalized. On August 13, 2010, the Canadian Navy escorted the MV Sun Sea, a ship carrying 492 men, women, and children from Sri Lanka, to a Canadian Forces Base on Vancouver Island. Many months later, people remained imprisoned. The racialization, criminalization, and detention of migrant children and families in Canada poses a direct challenge to the notion of Canadian multiculturalism, as well as purported commitments to the rights of children. This paper seeks to critically engage with dominant narratives surrounding the arrival and treatment of the 492 men, women, and children aboard the MV Sun Sea in order to unmask and explore the multitude of discourses required to normalize the criminalization of people’s bodies.
THE PARADOX OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Authors: Newbury Janet
Published: June 2016

With the rise of neo-liberalism has come the assumption that the individual is the locus of action. Paradoxically, our heightened focus on the (generic) individual has led to universalized notions of individuality, sifting out of view the particular dimensions of experience that differentiate us from one another, rendering each (unique) individual invisible. In this article, the dynamics through which social processes are being increasingly individualized are called into question, and alternative constructions are offered. When subjectivity and ethics are reconceptualized, new paths for ethical engagement as non-unitary subjects begin to emerge. These are taken up in relation to human service practices, and some collectively-oriented approaches to practice are presented.
GENDERED LEISURE ACTIVITY BEHAVIOR AMONG NORWEGIAN ADOLESCENTS ACROSS DIFFERENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS GROUPS
Authors: Leversen Ingrid , Torsheim Torbjorn , Samdal Oddrun
Published: June 2016

The present paper explores gendered behavior based on participation patterns of leisure activities among adolescents across socio-economic status (SES) groups, aiming to increase knowledge and understanding of how gender socialization processes are expressed through boys’ and girls’ participation in leisure activities. Furthermore, the aim is to investigate whether such gendered behavior is associated with general levels of participation, and if there may be differences between low, middle, and high SES groups. The study used Norwegian nationally representative data of 15- and 16-year-olds from the World Health Organization's cross-sectional survey, Health Behaviour in School-aged Children 2005/06 (n = 3,273). Logistic regression analysis and propensity scores showed that adolescent boys and girls had clear gendered behavior patterns based on leisure activity participation in 27 different activities, and that boys and girls had about equal distributions on what was classified as typical (“boyish” or “girlish”), atypical, and neutral gender behavior. Furthermore, gendered behavior was correlated with higher levels of participation for both sexes, and it was more or less similar for boys and girls and for different socio-economic status groups. However, when investigating differences in distributions between SES groups, high SES girls were found to have a significantly higher prevalence of both “boyish” and “girlish” activity behavior, but less “gender-neutral” compared with girls in medium and low SES groups. There were no such differences for boys.
THE BABY DUMPING PHENOMENON IN NIGERIA: A STUDY ON THE PERCEPTION OF MARKET WOMEN IN IBADAN
Authors: Ojedokun Usman Adekunle , Atoi Ewere Nelson
Published: June 2016

Baby dumping is one of the most common forms of child abuse in Nigeria. Although this practice is not new, its current frequent occurrence and the negative implications it has on the babies concerned, however, makes it a serious social problem that requires urgent attention. Against this background, this paper examines the patterns, causes, and consequences of the baby-dumping phenomenon in Nigeria. One hundred (100) market women involved in the study were selected through a quota sampling technique. In-depth interview and focus group discussion were the methods employed for data collection. Data interpretation was done through content analysis and ethnographic summaries. Findings showed that the phenomenon of baby dumping is complex in nature: Multiple factors were identified as responsible for its occurrence and it was recognized to have a wide range of social and health implications on the dumped babies. This study advocates for an urgent shift from the current reactive approach to more proactive planning to effectively curtail the problem.
DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS AND CRIME IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA
Authors: Stevens Gillian , Hartnagel Timothy , Odynak Dave , Brazil Jasmine
Published: June 2016

We present forecasts of crime rates in the Province of Alberta, Canada for the decade 2010 to 2020. The results suggest that rates of all types of crime in the province will drop between 2010 and 2020, largely because of the aging of the population. Our forecasts of crime rates rest on three projections of the age-specific and gender-specific composition of the population using sets of assumptions about fertility, mortality, and net migration. We then estimate the rates of total crime, violent crime, property crime, and other crime by taking the age composition of the projected populations into account and presuming that the age-specific crime rates observed from 2006 to 2009 remain constant.
STEPPING UP: A PEER-TO-PEER DATING VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROJECT ON A POST-SECONDARY CAMPUS
Authors: Warthe D. Gaye , Kostouros Patricia , Carter-Snell Cathy , Tutty Leslie M.
Published: June 2016

The purpose of the Stepping Up project was to develop, implement, and evaluate a peer-facilitated dating violence prevention program for post-secondary students. Phase I of the program focused on recruiting and training student peer- facilitators, adapting the curriculum for a post-secondary population, developing the evaluation measures, ethics clearance, and establishing community partners and an advisory committee. Phase II included recruiting participants, implementing Stepping Up and completing pre, post, and follow-up measures. To consolidate learning the students then completed prevention projects and presented them to the university campus community. Repeated evaluations showed that students had increased knowledge about dating violence and resources and these changes persisted over time. Use of peers as facilitators and community partner involvement contributed to success. Challenges included scheduling the weekend, the time commitment for facilitators and participants, and project resources. Stepping Up is compatible with an academic setting with benefits for both the students and the institution.
FORGING ETHICAL ADULT-YOUTH RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN EMANCIPATORY ACTIVISM
Authors: Evans Rachel , Lund Darren
Published: June 2016

The authors engage in a duoethnographic dialogue about their past work as activists in a high school setting, where Rachel was a high school student  and Darren a teacher-advisor. Their discussion focuses on their recollections of the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) within a conservative community setting, the first of its kind in the Province of Alberta. Reflecting critically on their own roles, they explore the dimensions of effective adult-youth collaborations, including notions of power and privilege, and the role of adults in protecting students from hostile community backlash. Using specific illustrations, the authors outline some of the optimal qualities of adult-youth projects in a way that can enable and empower young people, while avoiding unduly burdening them with the responsibility to solve all social inequity.
TRAJECTORIES OF PARENTAL MONITORING KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH ADOLESCENTS’ SUBSTANCE USE, POOR ACADEMIC OUTCOMES, AND BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS
Authors: Findlay Leanne , Garner Rochelle , Kohen Dafna
Published: June 2016

Lower levels of perceived parental monitoring knowledge have been associated with various risk behaviours among children and youth. Data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were used to: 1) identify longitudinal patterns of parental monitoring knowledge through early adolescence; 2) explore associations between these patterns and socio-demographic factors; and 3) examine the association between patterns of parental monitoring knowledge and behavioural and academic outcomes. Results revealed that a 3-group model best represented patterns of parental monitoring knowledge. Socio-demographic factors were found to differentiate membership in these patterns. Findings also suggested that lower levels of perceived parental monitoring knowledge were associated with higher levels of behaviour problems, poorer academic outcomes, and a greater likelihood of substance use.
THE PARADOX OF BEING YOUNG AND HOMELESS: RESILIENCY IN THE FACE OF CONSTRAINTS
Authors: MacDonald Sue-Ann Belle
Published: June 2016

The major contribution of this article is to address the lack of knowledge regarding homeless youth’s experiences of risk, from their point of view. The youth at-risk field has become a burgeoning area of research that tends to magnify vulnerabilities, yet limits our understanding of complex youth experiences. It is important to highlight another dimension of the homeless youth experience that has rarely been promoted, and that is one of adaptability and creativity encompassed within a framework of survivability and resilience - notions that often necessitate taking risks. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic study with 18 homeless youth (aged 16 and 17 years old) in Ottawa (Canada), this article paints a more complex understanding of the struggles youth face, in terms of structural (social assistance, housing) and symbolic (stigma, social representations, and identity constructs) constraints. This analysis adds complexity to youth-at-risk discourses and displays the challenges they encounter and the resilient ways in which they seek to overcome obstacles. This paper supports a movement towards recognizing youth strengths and the heterogeneity of their experiences.
CHILDREN ACCUSED OF PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT IN AKWA IBOM, NIGERIA: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ONLINE NEWS MEDIA
Authors: Onuzulike Uchenna
Published: June 2016

This essay analyzes online news media reactions to the labeling and stigmatizing of children as witches in Eket, within the state of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. The paper was triggered by Governor Godswill Akpabio’s August 30, 2010, appearance on CNN, during which he stated that the situation of these stigmatized children is exaggerated. This essay seeks to understand what perspectives the online news media created in response to Akpabio's interview. Three themes - the children accused, the behavior of the gatekeepers (i.e., among others, parents, guardians, religious leaders, and government officials), and the practice of witchcraft - emerge from the data. The results reveal the following: (a) the Governor is defensive and in denial, (b) the involved pastors are opportunists, and (c) the accused children are abandoned, maltreated, and sometimes murdered. Results also show that none of the analyzed online news media specifically blame the parents of the accused children; rather they blame the Governor and pastors, and specifically Helen Ukpabio. Further analysis indicates that poverty is not necessarily the root of the problem as the Governor claims. The essay recommends acknowledgement of folk belief systems in the training of gatekeepers.
TRAUMA-INFORMED FLEXIBLE LEARNING: CLASSROOMS THAT STRENGTHEN REGULATORY ABILITIES
Authors: Brunzell Tom , Stokes Helen , Waters Lea
Published: June 2016

This study explores the implementation of the first of three domains, increasing regulatory abilities, within a trauma-informed positive education (TIPE) approach with flexible learning teachers as they incorporated trauma-informed principles into their daily teaching practice. Trauma-informed teaching approaches have particular relevance for flexible learning settings, and can help meet the complex needs of students who have experienced violence, abuse, or neglect. This paper proposes that redressing a trauma-affected student’s regulatory abilities should be the first aim in this developmentally-informed TIPE pedagogy. Drawing from research with nine teachers working in trauma-affected flexible learning settings in a large metropolitan region, this study employs a qualitative appreciative inquiry action research methodology to explore the use of TIPE perspectives with their students. Under the domain of increasing regulatory abilities, four arising subthemes hold particular application for teacher practice and planning: rhythm; self-regulation; mindfulness; and de-escalation. These four subthemes are positioned as promising pathways to increasing regulatory abilities in students as they strive toward successful learning outcomes.
RE-CREATING SOCIAL FUTURES: THE ROLE OF THE MORAL IMAGINATION IN STUDENT–TEACHER RELATIONSHIPS IN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
Authors: Vadeboncoeur Jennifer A. , Vellos Renira E.
Published: June 2016

In this article, we describe a quality of student–teacher relationships that supports re-engagement in alternative education. This quality is based upon the principle of accept and build: a dialectical principle that simultaneously includes both student and teacher accepting what the other offers in the present moment while building new social futures in relation. We argue that this form of relation is both a means and an outcome of moral imagining. The article is in three sections. We begin by providing a brief review of the literature on student–teacher relationships. Then, drawing together the literature on moral imagination, we describe and exemplify the principle of accept and build with research from Australia and Canada. From this perspective, student–teacher relationships can be positioned as developing projects of the moral imagination with implications for the recreation of social futures. Although the label of “second chance” is often applied pejoratively to alternative and flexible programs, we argue that this should be viewed as a strength rather than a weakness.
Common Marginalizations: Neoliberalism, Undocumented Migrants and Other Surplus Populations
Authors: Rajaram Prem Kumar
Published: June 2016

The study of the marginalization of undocumented migrants tends to focus on how states govern migrants in order to reinforce its sovereignty. These are important accounts, but the tendency is then to think the marginalization of undocumented migrants as being of a significantly of different order to the marginalization of other groups or populations. In this essay I argue that the contemporary neoliberal relation to politics, economy and the law cultivates surplus populations, amongst which are undocumented migrants. Their marginalization, while possessing singular features, is related to the marginalization of other groups surplus to a neoliberal political economy. It is important to understand this common marginalization as part of an ongoing history of the relationship between capital and labour. Understanding common marginalization would be useful in understanding the possibility of political change.   
No Longer a “Damsel in Distress”: Indonesian Migrant Returnee Women Living in a City
Authors: Park Kilim
Published: June 2016

Stories and images of Indonesian women working overseas as domestic and factory workers or in so-called low-skilled occupations are becoming increasingly familiar. The majority of the stories are distressing and heartbreaking, dominated by tragic accounts that continue to strengthen discursive constructions of migrant women’s vulnerability. In this paper I want to put a different spin to the current discourse of TKW in Indonesia. More specifically, I want to begin to talk about former TKW who have now returned to Indonesia after their employment overseas. When the identity of these women are extracted, and framed in a single dimension and when the memory of migrant workers is thus collective as opposed to individual, how can we truly consider femininity and gender of an Indonesian migrant woman? In order to build more dimensions to this story, I take a group of women returnees who are disrupting such workings I discussed earlier that push women into so-called margins, migrant worker returnee-turned activists who advocate on behalf of migrant women workers both at home and overseas. I argue these migrant returnee-turned activists display a different brand of collective consciousness that one might expect from TKW, and instead occupy a place of innovation and transformation in the city, and confound and subvert gender-specific conceptualization of migrant women.
Changes in mycelial structure of Botrytis cinerea induced by removal of the glucan matrix
Authors: Bar-Nun Nurit , L'Hyvernay Annie , Donèche Bernard , Mayer Alfred M.
Published: June 2016

Aims: b-1,3-glucanase is one of the main pathogenesis related proteins of plants, involved in plant-pathogen interactions. Its effect on fungal pathogens is not entirely known. The hyphae of Botrytis cinerea are covered by an extra cellular matrix, mainly composed of a b-1,3-D-glucan. This matrix also contains a variety of enzymes, lipids and melanin which may play a role in fungal virulence.

Methods and results: Cultures of Botrytis cinerea are made in presence of b-1,3-glucanase. The structure of the mycelium of Botrytis cinerea after exposure to b-1,3-glucanase during growth was examined by staining with Schiff's reagent and using the electron microscope. Without glucanase, hyphae have a normal diameter and were surrounded by a glucan matrix. Cytoplasm is dense and contains little vacuoles. The glucanase treatment removed most of the glucan sheath, but did not kill the fungus. The structure of the hyphae was changed by the treatment and their diameter increased. Membrane structure showed marked changes, the cytoplasm of the cells was less dense, but more inclusions were observed, including an increase in what appeared to be lipids.

Conclusion: The appearance of the mycelium, whose glucan sheath has been removed, was that of cells under stress. The possible implications of the function of the glucan sheath during the interaction of Botrytis cinerea with its host during pathogenesis are discussed.

Significance and impact of study: These changes following glucanase treatment would lead to a fungal mycelium which will be more sensitive to antifungal agents and might suggest ways of combating Botrytis infections by preventing the formation of the extra-cellular matrix.
Incidence of nitrogenous compounds of must on ethyl carbamate formation induced by lactic acid bacteria
Authors: Suárez Lepe José Antonio , Uthurry Carlos Anibal
Published: June 2016

Aims: Ethyl carbamate (EC) is a toxic compound of major concern for the hygiene quality of wines. Its natural synthesis in wine is connected to the ethanolysis of molecules such as urea (alcoholic fermentation metabolite) and citrulline and carbamyl phosphate (malolactic fermentation metabolites) during ageing. This study reports the effect of adenine, arginine, urea and ammonium phosphate of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Tempranillo must, on EC synthesis in fermented wine using two lactic acid bacteria strains under different microbiological and physicochemical conditions.

Methods and results: EC was quantified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry detection. The Lactobacillus hilgardii strain evaluated was associated with particularly high EC production. No significant effect on EC formation was observed for nitrogen enrichment of the starting must.

Conclusion: Residual arginine levels at the end of alcoholic fermentation from arginine- and ammonium-enriched musts showed no direct relationship to EC levels found after incubation with either of the LAB strains. Overall results suggest that the different nitrogenous substrates added to V. vinifera L. cv. Tempranillo must do not have any influence on EC formation due to LAB growth in wines under the experimental conditions used.

Significance and impact of study: The composition of the nitrogen status of must has frequently been said to be a factor of concern on the final urethane concentration of wines. High contents of arginine coming from over fertilised vineyards are known to render significant levels of urea after alcoholic fermentation if conducted by arginase (+) yeast strains. This urea is always likely to undergo ethanolysis. No significant correlations were found between any of the nitrogenous compounds tested and final EC. High levels of arginine in the starting must did not lead to greater EC concentrations in the resulting wines.
Students’ Degree of Satisfaction of Student Services
Authors: Pendon Guiller P.
Published: June 2016

The student services programs must provide an integral development among students manifested in institutional practices; thus, this descriptive study was undertaken to find out the students’ degree of satisfaction of student services programs. A sample of 300 students of WVSU-Janiuay Campus were chosen through stratified –purposive sampling. The results showed that students were very satisfied of all student services. When classified as to sex and year level the respondents were very satisfied; however, when classified as to course only BEED were satisfied and other courses were very satisfied of all student services. No significant difference existed when respondents were classified as to sex and year level however there was a significant difference when respondents were classified as to course. Implications and recommendations for further research were discussed.
Relationship between Socio Economic Status and Academic Achievement
Authors: Raju T. J. M. S.
Published: June 2016

The present study aimed at the relationship between the socio-Economic Status and Academic Achievement among secondary school students of Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. A number of investigations conducted so far in the field of Socio Economic Status (SES) indicated a significant relation between achievement and SES.  After independence the SES of secondary school students in both urban and rural areas have registered a remarkable change.  On account of phenomenal advancement in science and technology the conditions of the people have changed a lot.

The data were collected from 200 secondary school students by using the tools socio-economic status tool measures the dimensions of educational, economic, social, cultural and occupational determinants.  The academic achievement tool consists of the test items of mathematics, general science and social studies.  Later the data were analyzed with the statistical procedures like mean, standard deviations, critical ratios, Chi-square test and r-values.  The results were discussed according to the significant values.  Based on the results certain conclusions were drawn. Over all observation of the study some educational implications were given.
Being an Educator in Private vs. Public School System: A Comparative Study on Job Contentment
Authors: Tej S Dr. Guru , Jindal Dr. Priya , Tej Dr. Francisca
Published: June 2016

Job satisfaction can be defined as an extent of positive feelings or attitude that individuals have towards their jobs. When a person says that he has high job satisfaction, it means that he really likes his job, feels good about it and values his job dignity. Job satisfaction is important technique used to motivate the employees to work harder. It is often said that “a happy employee is a productive employee”. Satisfied employees work in integrity with organizational goals and their work performance falls in sync with what is being expected of them. Satisfied employees stay happy, hardworking, enthusiastic, committed and always open for new challenges. The present study makes an effort to study the job satisfaction level among educators of selected private and government school educator in Bangalore City.The paper also investigates various factors influencing job satisfaction of educators. Based on the survey, the paper attempts to gain insights into the satisfaction level from educators of both types of schools. Some of the factors considered under this study are; current job role, job satisfaction, salary earned, recognition at work, freedom at work, accessibility to knowledge, facilities provided at work, and behavior of colleagues/coworkers. 
Shakespeare’s greatness as a literary artist
Authors: Sinha Dr. Gopal
Published: June 2016

Literature is a fruit of imagination, an ecstasy of the heart, the revelry of a mind steeped in the high floods of passion. Every great author has a special point or message to communicate. ‘The critic’s primary job, is to make the reader understand, to make him delve into the deeper recesses of the author’s mind, to throw light on those hidden treasures which lie buried beneath the dusts of anonymity.’ Shakespearean criticism has proliferated and, without doubt, critical works abundantly provide prolific, even mind-boggling information on this great dramatist’s genius, but works of criticism on Shakespeare are themselves inexhaustible, simply because of the reason that, Shakespeare; the man; is the man of a ‘genus’; he is one in whose revelry mankind would continue to sing for all time to come.
Creating learning organisation: An OD Practice
Authors: Sarangi Dr. Arpita
Published: June 2016

Organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to learn together (Senge,1990). A learning organisation(LO) is a place where people are continually discovering how they create their reality, and how they can change it.