bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Preventing computer crime by knowing the legal regulations
that ensure the protection of computer systems
Authors: IANCU Elena-Ana , TUȘA Enache , IANCU Nicolaie , SIMION Eduard , MOISE Adrian-Cristian
Published: November 2023

Our intention in this study is to emphasise a few aspects relating to the need to
support cyber education and to preventive goals, by informing people about the strategies in
place at Union and/or national level, which reflect current realities, in relation to which each
person, active entities and, last but not least, the authorities will have to act so as to identify
early on any possible risks. We have also aimed to identify legislation that criminalises acts
of cyber fraud, in which respect we have referred to certain articles in the criminal codes of
several European countries. We consider that cyber education and legal education,
regardless of the social level one belongs to, the social roles one takes on at a given time,
and/or of age, are essential to setting the foundations for a cyber security culture.
Examining the Role of Customer Satisfaction and Brand Image as Mediators Between Service Quality and Repurchase Intent with Reference to India’s International Airlines
Authors: Balakrishnan Ravishankar , Christopher Prabu B.
Published: November 2023

Purpose: The study's overarching goal is to use findings on the associations between airline passengers’ perceptions of service quality, brand image, and customer satisfaction to forecast whether or not those customers would return for future flights.
 
Theoretical framework: Maintaining service quality is critical for customer retention in the aviation industry since customers have high expectations for exceptional service. Thus, the fundamental significance of service quality lays the foundation for developing a theoretical framework in this study.
 
Method: The hypothesis was tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) on a convenience sample of 423 respondents who travelled on India’s International Airlines (IIA), and the data were examined using statistical software packages such as Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Descriptive research is suggested as the approach of choice.
 
Results and conclusion: The results indicate that service quality has a strong positive effect on repurchase intention, as well as mediated by customer satisfaction.
 
Research implications: The research findings have several implications for the aviation industry, emphasising the significance of incorporating service quality guidelines into the training of airline staff. This approach can enhance customer satisfaction; thereby instilling the customer's repurchase intent.
 
Originality/value: The study presents a unique and original contribution to the existing research literature. The results are particularly valuable as they explore a combination of variables that have not been previously investigated in the aviation industry with such precision.
Prevalence of Sleep Problems among Children in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Sendy Jana , Alshahrani Ahmad , Sankari Mohamed , Sankari Sana , Almotairi Abdulaziz , Alnassr Shahid , Aleid Lama , Hakami Ali , Alqurashi Mansour
Published: November 2023

Background: Sleep is a vital aspect of a child\'s development, impacting physical health, emotional well-being, and academic performance. This study delves into the prevalence of sleep problems among children, their association with demographic factors and sleep-related habits, and the potential influence on academic performance.

Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 198 boys and girls between the ages of 2 and 16 was conducted in Riyadh, the Western and Eastern Provinces. An online questionnaire, divided into six parts focusing on personal data, the quality of sleep, the relationship between trouble sleeping or resisting normal sleeping and the regularity of sleeping, sleeping and resting hours during weekdays and weekends, and the educational level, was administered. The data were analyzed using SPSS, with statistical significance tests used for data analysis.

Results: The findings revealed that bedtime resistance was the most prevalent sleep issue, affecting over half of the participants, followed by sleep-onset delay and bedtime fears. Notably, a significant percentage of children reported not getting enough sleep and experiencing daytime fatigue, indicating potential sleep-related challenges within the cohort. Factors such as interrupted sleep, sleep talking, and difficulty waking up on weekdays and weekends exhibited significant age-related differences. Co-sleeping with parents was most common among the youngest children.. The study found that children who reported sleeping a lot due to various sleep-related issues tended to have lower academic performance. Sleep duration on both weekdays and weekends also correlated with academic outcomes.

Conclusion: The study highlights the prevalence of sleep problems among children and their potential consequences for academic performance. The findings emphasize the importance of addressing these sleep-related challenges to support better educational outcomes in this demographic.
Cataract surgery knowledge, awareness, and misconceptions among Tabuk city's adult population: a cross-sectional survey
Authors: Tufal Muhammad , Alghamdi Kholoud , Aljumaiah Rawabi , Alghamdi Rozan , Alsubhi Bashear , Alamoudi Riham , Alhemedy Areen , Alawaji Mayadah , Ameer Sharooq , Alamri Muath , Alolayani Rayan
Published: November 2023

Objective:
This study aimed to determine the degree of knowledge, awareness, and misconceptions about cataract surgery among the adult population in Tabuk city, Saudi Arabia.
Methods:
This was a cross-sectional survey study consisting of 692 participants. This study design allows the collection of data from a representative sample of the adult population in Tabuk city, Saudi Arabia.
Results:
Around 68.6% participants had heard about cataract surgery; where family and friends were the most frequent source of knowledge (42.63%). The participants' knowledge about cataract surgery was inadequate, as 47.5% were not sure. The awareness of the participants about the availability of cataract surgery facilities (54.8%) and the cost of cataract surgery (64.6%) in Tabuk city showed adequate information. Majority of the participants showed agreement that cataract surgery could significantly improve one\'s quality of life (64%) and early detection and treatment of cataracts can prevent further vision loss (76.3%). Further, age group between 18-30 years, males and bachelor, master and doctoral degree holders demonstrated adequate knowledge and awareness of cataracts.
Conclusion:
The participants' knowledge of government policies or activities supporting access to cataract surgery in Tabuk city was lacking. Future studies should concentrate on raising cataract awareness. Patients should be informed about risk factors, complications, treatment options, cataract surgery complications, and regular follow-ups. Early detection and treatment of this problem would be easier with routine eye exams.
Epidemiology, causes, and management of ascites; a systematic review
Authors: Albalawi Abdullah , Alshamrani Riyadh , Abudayah Afraa , Hamrani Amnah , Fathi Shroog , Almehmadi Ala’a , Saeidi Awatif , Alanazi Talal , Daghriri Abdulrhman , Almubarak Zahrah
Published: November 2023

The main malignancy of hepatocytes, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a medical condition with a poor prognosis. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP), a common infection in individuals with cirrhosis and ascites, has high morbidity and mortality. Thus this study aimed to investigate the prevalence, etiology, and treatment of ascites. English-language articles were collected from 2015 to 2023 demonstrating the management of epidemiology, causes, and management of ascites. Overall, there were 5 articles. Surveys and analyses of national databases were the most widely used methods (n=5). Sociodemographic information, symptoms, warning signals, risk factors, historical medical conditions, findings from significant investigations, and potential advanced management alternatives were all gathered. Intractable ascites indicated a bad prognosis in people with liver cirrhosis and frequently aggravated decompensated hepatic cirrhosis. Treatment and management options vary. Aldosterone blockers and loop diuretics are the mainstays for the treatment of ascites in cirrhotic patients, while vasopressin receptor antagonists are infrequently utilized. The sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors might be a novel ascites treatment with a different mechanism than currently prescribed drugs, according to recent findings. Additionally, urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin can be used to predict the incidence of acute kidney injury following the administration of tolvaptan and is a helpful predictor of tolvaptan\'s short- and long-term effectiveness.
Pengaruh Efikasi Diri, Pengetahuan Kewirausahaan, Motivasi Kewirausahaan terhadap Keberhasilan Usaha UMKM F&B di Jakarta Barat
Authors: Irwanto Anthony , Ie Mei
Published: November 2023

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji pengaruh efikasi diri, pengetahuan kewirausahaan, dan motivasi kewirausahaan terhadap keberhasilan usaha UMKM F&B di Jakarta Barat. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah seluruh UMKM di bidang F&B di Jakarta Barat. Sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak lima puluh orang pemilik UMKM. Metode sampling yang digunakan adalah non probability sampling dengan teknik purposive. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner dan kemudian data diolah dengan SmartPLS versi 4.0. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah variabel efikasi diri, pengetahuan kewirausahaan, dan motivasi kewirausahaan berpengaruf positif dan signifikan terhadap keberhasilan usaha UMKM F&B di Jakarta Barat.

 

The purpose of this study is to test the influence of self-efficacy, entrepreneurial knowledge, and entrepreneurial motivation on the success of F&B MSME businesses in West Jakarta. The population of this study is all MSMEs in the F&B field in West Jakarta. The sample in this study was fifty MSME owners. The sampling method used is non probability sampling with purposive techniques. The data collection method uses a questionnaire and then the data is processed with SmartPLS version 4.0. The results of this study are variables of self-efficacy, entrepreneurial knowledge, and entrepreneurial motivation with a positive and significant impact on the success of the F&B MSME business in West Jakarta.
Administração Financeira nos processos de planejamento e implementação de uma empresa do setor de Publicidade e Propaganda
Authors: Marassato José Mário , Rufino Marta Cacilda de Carvalho
Published: November 2023

A administração financeira é o método de gerenciar os recursos financeiros da organização.A gestão financeira é um dos principais fatores que determinam o sucesso de um negócio. A falta de controle financeiro continua sendo o principal alerta e também um dos principais motivos de fechamento de pequenas empresas, ainda que estas estejam na modalidade MEI - Microempreendedor Individual e que tenham facilidades burocráticas na abertura além de isenções fiscais, se faz imprescindível uma gestão eficaz na qual os gestores possam utilizar de maneira eficiente os recursos e ter condições e capital para investir na própria empresa e garantir a longevidade da mesma. Desta forma, a gestão financeira torna-se uma ferramenta de vital importância para o gestor manter a saúde financeira da empresa. Neste viés julgou-se importante analisar quais os benefícios da utilização dos recursos da Administração Financeira durante os processos de planejamento e implementação de uma empresa do setor de publicidade e propaganda em formato de MEI. A metodologia aplicada neste trabalho foi bibliográfica, do tipo descritiva-exploratória e qualitativa. Utilizou-se a pesquisa de campo como procedimento de coleta de dados, através de entrevista semiestruturada com o gestor da empresa. Com base nos resultados da pesquisa, constatamos que o uso da administração financeira e suas ferramentas de aplicação se faz imprescindível para constituição de uma empresa. Através dela o empreendedor poderá ter um controle de caixa, saber onde aplicar os recursos dentro da empresa e potencializá-los possibilitando a tomada de decisões mais assertivas e aumentando os lucros.
Gestão por competências
Authors: Luiz Fernanda Gouvea , Rodrigues Stephanie da Silva
Published: November 2023

This article aims to analyze which Soft Skills are more relevant to the administrative practices of the Secretariat of People Management of the Court of Justice of Roraima, through the perspective of civil servants graduated in administration, using the problematic "In what way the identification of Soft Skills in the functions developed by civil servants graduated in administration contribute to the best performance of activities in the Secretariat of People Management? Through the analysis, it was verified that "flexibility" and "conflict resolution" were indicated as the Soft Skills most present in administrators, although others were pointed out as being more relevant for the performance of activities developed in the Secretariat of People Management. It was also possible to verify that assertive communication is the Soft Skill that needs to be improved in administrators.
O endomarketing como estratégia de motivação e produtividade
Authors: Silva Patrícia Gonçalves da Silva e , Santana Geovana Mendes de
Published: November 2023

O endomarketing é um conceito inovador e transformador que modifica os ambientes internos dessas entidades públicas. A partir disso, será apresentado através desse artigo um estudo com o objetivo de analisar o conjunto de ações estratégicas do endomarketing com o intuito de propiciar eficiência motivando os servidores de uma autarquia, diante da problemática “De que maneira as estratégias do endomarketing contribuem na motivação e produtividade dos funcionários do Departamento Estadual de Trânsito de Roraima?”. O estudo foi baseado em outros artigos, livros e trabalhos de conclusão de curso em que foi estudado o assunto, suas estratégias e sua correlação com o colaborador. Esta pesquisa é um estudo exploratório com abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa, e para esta investigação foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo com funcionários de uma instituição da administração pública na cidade de Boa Vista - RR. Para isso, foram aplicados questionários e uma entrevista para entender melhor as perspectivas dos funcionários da instituição. A análise dos dados foi realizada por meio da análise narrativa no que se refere à abordagem qualitativa. Por meio da análise, constatou-se como resultado que a organização possui ações de endomarketing como capacitações e treinamentos, porém os respondentes afirmam que precisam melhorar, sugerindo assim ações que os deixariam motivados em seu ambiente de trabalho.
Curricular Landscapes: Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Place and Identity
Authors: Courtland Mary Clare , Hammett Roberta , Strong-Wilson Teresa , Bainbridge Joyce , Johnston Ingrid , Burke Anne , Ward Angela , Wiltse Lynne , Gonzales Ismel , Shariff Farha
Published: November 2023

The longitudinal study explored preservice teachers’ understandings of Canadian identity and representations of identity in Canadian multicultural picture books. The design involved descriptive case studies in six Faculties of Education across six provinces. Some participants viewed place as related to landscape and geography; some perceived place as a site for promoting sociocultural understanding; others articulated critical discourse of place. Perspectives ranged from sophisticated understandings of Canadian identity and representations in the picture books to resistance to representations or issues that disrupt a dominant (white) perspective of a benevolent multicultural Canada.
Landwash Readers: A Space of Collective Reading in the Medical Humanities
Authors: Lewkowich David
Published: November 2023

As readers, the sedimentations of our surrounding world ensure that we never read alone. There is an uneasy otherness in all readings, through which naming our obstacles is a bringing to the fore a consciousness of lack and flatness; what Maxine Greene calls an achievement of freedom in education as a transcendence of the given, an overcoming that is never complete. Obstacles in learning, which signify the dialectical nature of every human situation, are stirrings that engage dialogue in the place of an assumed silence, imagining the possible pluralities of subjectivity through learning on the verges of a fractured space. Within the context of this pedagogical confrontation, I examine the articulations of a reading group in the medical humanities from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Surpassing the closed nature of individual readings, such groups choose to act out their freedoms, and in doing so, interact with other people and textual forms as obstacles, where reading is a looping, a struggle, and a risking of free choice in a landspace that is forever shifting. As a commitment of an inherently social nature, Greene’s struggle for freedom in learning enables an embracing of alterity in a reader’s process of becoming; to become different from what one is, and what one is supposed to be—pursuing a curriculum of incessant rupturing, where openings and cleavages are always available. In this paper, I look at one use-value of social reading shared by members of this reading group: Resistance, and a Legitimation of Artistry in Medicine.
Upsetting Ourselves: Readings, Relations, and Other Unsettling Practices
Authors: Brushwood Rose Chloë , Krasny Karen
Published: November 2023

This editorial introduces the current issue, Volume 7 Number 1.
Burning at the Edges: Judith P. Robertson and the Provocations of Reading
Authors: Lewkowich David
Published: November 2023

In the writings of curriculum and literary theorist Judith P. Robertson, we encounter the stirrings of a language that often refers to something outside of the material heart of reading, yet essential to its very operations. There is something that "burns" at reading's edges, a desire that the encounter of reading awakes, provokes, and inspires. This paper examines these implications of Robertson's writings, paying particular attention to her considerations of reading as a social experience, as an erotic and embodied activity, as a gathering of the psychic and physical worlds of the reader, and as a function of travelling and landscape.
Ludic Epistemology: What Game-Based Learning Can Teach Curriculum Studies
Authors: De Castell Suzanne
Published: November 2023

"Ludic epistemology" references the need for educational game studies to remediate traditional (linguistically mediated) epistemologies. Its guiding questions are about what it means to encode knowledge in the form of a game, and how we might conceive coming to know as a process of playing. In digital game studies, a theory of ludic epistemology is concerned with the distinctive demands of-and the particular constraints upon knowledge representation in the development of computer-supported game-based learning environments. Its primary theoretical questions are about the re-mediation of educational knowledge and its representation. What educational game studies does for curriculum is to radically stir things up. Its core theoretical project of formulating a "ludic epistemology" can advance epistemic inquiries into media and learning, and respond to what have become serious questions for educators about how game-based technologies for learning, and emergent digital epistemologies, reform and re-forge relations between learning and play.
Towards a Complicated Conversation Among Disability Studies, Complexity Thinking and Education
Authors: Khan Steven K
Published: November 2023

The presence of disability, an embodied form of extreme vulnerability that is socially enacted, introduces into complex systems such as education or society, a perturbation, embodied agents that are biologically and socially constructed as being 'unfit', 'mal-adapted' or who do not adapt easily to the specific ecologies in which they must operate and thus gestures toward a current limit(ation) (and new beginning) of the complexivist framework for theorizing the pragmatic question of "How we should act?" What is required of us in our interaction with dis/abled agents who are circumscribed by not being fully "capable of adapting... to the sorts of new and diverse circumstances that an active agent is likely to encounter in a dynamic world" (Davis & Sumara, 2006, p.14)?  In this paper I present a "complicated conversation" among complexity thinking, curriculum theorizing, and disability studies in education and argue that dis-embodiments prompt a certain type of ethical mindfulness
Social Justice and the Gender Politics of Financial Literacy Education
Authors: Pinto Laura Elizabeth , Coulson Eliabeth
Published: November 2023

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, financial literacy education received increased political attention worldwide as an important policy solution to achieve a variety of ends. Cloaked in the neo-liberal language of value-neutrality, financial literacy education presumes that individuals on a level playing field become "responsible" and "empowered,” motivated and competent to make financial decisions if given certain tacit knowledge. Through its naïveté, this type of financial literacy discourse perpetuates the false impression that choices, decisions and outcomes are the same for all. In this article, we describe the gender politics of contemporary financial literacy discourse, and analyze how it fails to explore women’s experiences in financial arenas by analyzing three popular Canadian financial literacy education curriculum resources designed for use in K-12 classrooms. We describe how these resources fail to acknowledge gender injustice by presenting content through discourses of “choice” and “value neutrality” that fail to critically examine the underlying assumptions crucial to social justice. By ignoring equity issues, these resources perpetuate inequity and marginalization.
Living Ethically within Conflicts of Colonial Authority and Relationality
Authors: Donald Dwayne , Glanfield Florence , Sterenberg Gladys
Published: November 2023

To consider more fully the contextual complexities of living ethically as curriculum scholars, we wish to attend to the various discursive regimes that effectively delimit and circumscribe research projects initiated in partnership with Indigenous peoples and their communities. The habitual disregard of Indigenous peoples stems from the colonial frontier experience. The overriding assumption at work in these colonial frontier logics is that Indigenous peoples and Canadians inhabit separate realities. The inherent intention is to deny relationality. Within the research community there is an increased awareness of the importance of including Indigenous people in the development of research programs related to their communities. We were invited by an Indigenous community to work with the community and school leadership to develop a research program related to student performance in mathematics. Through our work, we have come to wonder about the authority of researchers, the authority of mathematics, and the authority of culture. We have come to understand how easy it is to replicate colonial logics as authoritative and have encountered conflicts when resisting these stances. In this paper, we offer some reflections and insights regarding how, and in what ways, we attempted to disrupt colonial logics. Through our listening to the teachings of children and teachers, we have come to conceptualize cultural relationality as an ethic guiding our participation in a research project with an Indigenous community.
Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip Hop And Spoken Word Classroom
Authors: Campbell Mark V.
Published: November 2023

Book Review
Silent moments: An autoethnography of learning, teaching, and learning to teach
Authors: Airton Lee
Published: November 2023

A book review.
Illness and the Concept of Aesthetic Responsiveness In Early Childhood Education
Authors: Khattar Randa , Wien Carol Anne
Published: November 2023

What does a concept of “aesthetic responsiveness” offer to our understanding of the dynamics of teaching and learning about or from conflict? And what can it mean to live creatively as a teacher in the midst of suffering? To what extent is it possible to offer a disposition of aesthetic responsiveness in the midst of suffering? What might young children understand and contribute in the midst of such difficulty? We offer these questions within a context of emergent curriculum as an enactment of curriculum inquiry. Emergent curriculum can be thought of as providing opportunities for curriculum inquiries to emerge from the lived experiences of those who embody it. Enacted in the shared relationships among educators’ children, and their families, emergent curriculum can acquire (accrue?) a disposition that we are calling aesthetic responsiveness. In this paper we wonder about the conditions and limits offered up by aesthetic responsiveness in times of trauma. We share what this disposition might offer for the field of curriculum inquiry. First, we wish to show you what we mean, provisionally, by a concept of aesthetic responsiveness as an attitude or disposition to coping with trauma. Secondly, we offer moments in a story of suffering in an early childhood setting that might illuminate our questions. Third, we engage with ecologist Gregory Bateson’s notion of “patterns which connect” (1979), as a disposition of aesthetic responsiveness.
Aesthetic Archives: Pre-Service Teachers Symbolizing Experiences through Digital Storytelling
Authors: Aitken Avril , Radford Linda
Published: November 2023

With the novelty of digital storytelling, there is increased enthusiasm in taking up forms of filmmaking in teacher education as a way to promote self-directed reflective practices. However, the visual quality of digital stories holds blind spots, in other words, what we defend against seeing in these approaches, as well as their implications for meaning making. With this in mind, the authors undertook a multi-year process that involved having pre-service teachers work with the aesthetic medium of digital storytelling to engage with critical incidents in their teaching. In this context, digital storytelling works as an aesthetic archive that symbolizes the conflicts of learning to teach. This article focuses on a close reading of two cases which provide insight into the ways in which future teachers use digital storytelling to both wrestle with and question the significance of the identity-making venture of becoming teachers. Additionally, the authors consider the personal and social implications of such an undertaking for teacher-educators.
Between Hope and Despair is Resolve: Remembering Roger Simon
Authors: Pinar William
Published: November 2023

The traditional understanding of abstract does not apply in this case. This article is a memoir written in honour of the late Roger Simon. The work seeks to honour both Roger Simon and his body of work.
Duoethnography. Understanding qualitative research & Duoethnography: Promoting personal and societal change within dialogic self-­‑study
Authors: Sameshima Pauline
Published: November 2023

The following review serves two purposes: 1) it focuses on a pair of remarkable books on the methodological process of duoethnography; and 2) it provides an example of how this qualitative method expands the boundaries of curriculum studies in dialogic conversation and life writing, bringing forward critical structures of teaching and learning through research method.
Book Review: Postfeminist education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling
Authors: Starkman Rebecca
Published: November 2023

In, Postfeminist Education?, Jessica Ringrose (2013) powerfully illustrates how postfeminist media discourses have infiltrated Western educational policy and curricula. Ringrose’s book contributes significantly to the field of curriculum studies for the ways that she knits postfeminist media exemplars, poststructural and (post) psychosocial theory, and educational policy together to demonstrate the shortcomings in current policies and practices that shape girls’ experiences in school.
Announcement
Authors: DeLuca Christopher
Published: November 2023

Announcement - Book Review
Reimagining Teacher Education through Design Thinking Principles: Curriculum in the Key of Life
Authors: Latremouille Jodi , Grant Kimberley , Kalu Frances , Dodsworth Dianne , Knowlton Cockett Polly , Mitchell-Pellett Mary-Ann , Paul Jim
Published: November 2023

Inspired by Arendt’s (2009) “task of renewing a common world” (p. 193), a team of ten instructors took on the challenge of reimagining a teacher preparation course entitled Curriculum II - Arts & Humanities. Through the dominant discourses of management, accountability and technique-driven preparation, the act of teaching is interpreted as a “service rendered” (Pinar, 2012, p. 36), measured “objectively” by demonstrable deliverables and pre-determined outcomes. Our team provoked these discourses by asserting that human beings are inherently attuned to deeper learning through wonderment, interpretation, ideation and experimentation (Whitehead, 1929). The principles of design thinking – a problem-based process which, through curiosity, empathy and interdisciplinary thinking, generates playful and collaborative creative experimentation – offered a space within which to open up deeper educational conversations with pre-service teachers.

Invoking the metaphor of a choral performance, this series of miniature musical movements “in the key of life” express the challenging, enlivening and multivocal nature of curriculum and pedagogy enacted through Design Thinking principles. From contemplating the power of self-reflection and collective action, to meeting challenges and resistance with courage, to listening with heart to people and places, and to responding with joy and hope in the face of our place and circumstances, each individual movement gives voice to the echoes that linger long after the official coursework is complete. Together, these voices join together in a chorus of authentic and responsive curriculum renewal.
From Lists to Images: Exploring the Concept of the Good Teacher in Teacher Education
Authors: Grant Kimberley A.
Published: November 2023

The question of what it means to be a good teacher is often addressed through lists of teacher traits, competencies, skills, beliefs, and practices. However, list-making runs the risk of fragmenting the complex, relational act of teaching and limiting the types of conversations that occur in teacher education. There is a small body of literature that attempts to explore this question through the use of images rather than lists. The aim of this paper is to foreground that research and the types of conversations it enables in order to begin to interrogate the images and corresponding discourses about good teachers that are held both individually and collectively.
(Re)visiting John Dewey and (Re)imagining a Curriculum with the Empty Space of a Haiku
Authors: Nguyen HongNguyen (Gwen) Thi , Slavik Steve
Published: November 2023

Like the haiku, in which the empty space invites a reader into open and honest communication with the poet, the authors believe that the empty space of curriculum can promote genuine conversations between the learner and the teacher. Relying on Dewey’s concepts of interest, continuity, and interaction in education, the authors develop three aspects of a curriculum that may engender sustained conversations: (a) aspirations of both the teacher and the learner; (b) continuous interaction; and (c) trust and respect between the teacher and learner. Mentoring in teacher education programs is proposed to develop such conversations, in which both mentor and teachers-to-be feel secure and open enough to claim their aspirations.
Memories, Crossings, and Station Stops: Displaced Pasts into Present Teaching of Language and Art
Authors: Morawski Cynthia Marlene , Cloutier Geneviève
Published: November 2023

Whether photographed from the missing pages of a summer day, or surrounded by the light of spectral clouds passing through a whisper, stories that provoke connections between person and place can be both powerful and inspiring in the recurring creation of teaching narratives. What happens when we, a professor and a doctoral student, come together to critically inquire into the displaced pasts of our present selves for future teachers of language and art? Which locations will we select? Where will our dialogue take us? We respond in a composition of poetry, prose, and image.
Feeling My Way From the University Into the Wilderness and Back Again
Authors: Kull Robert
Published: November 2023

This narrative essay unfolds in two parts. Part 1—Feeling My Way into Embodied Research—reflects on my doctoral fieldwork, which involved living for a year in complete solitude in the remote wilderness of southern Chile. The life events that shaped this experience, including childhood, education, early career, and graduate studies, laid the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual groundwork for the project. A key challenge was to develop a methodology appropriate to the unusual context of my study. My methodology was grounded in mindful observation layered with analytic introspection, loosely based on autoethnography. Part 2 Feeling My Way into Embodied Writing—recounts the process of transforming my 900 page wilderness journal into a doctoral dissertation that was both academically rigorous and accessible to audiences. I abandoned the traditional academic approach of using a conceptual framework to organize the work in favour of a first person narrative, punctuated with analytic essays. Rather than write a dissertation about solitude, I let the voices of solitude speak directly to readers and evoke for them the actual experience as I had lived it.
Book Review: Ecological Pedagogy, Buddhist Pedagogy, Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Experiments in a Curriculum for Miracles
Authors: Haggarty Holly Tsun
Published: November 2023

Jackie Seidel and David Jardine’s book Ecological Pedagogy, Buddhist Pedagogy, Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Experiments in a Curriculum for Miracles both diagnoses and offers a remedy for the ills of modern, Western education. The book is, indeed, about miracles, but it starts with a re-interpretation of the meaning of miracle, suggesting that miracle is not something imposed on a problem to effect a wondrous transformation, but the transformative effect of wonder itself. Wonder is an attitude that the authors see as arising from a pedagogy based on ecological awareness, interpretive inquiry, and most of all, from the Buddhist precept of “dependent co-arising”—the idea that all beings exist, not autonomously, but in relation with each other. The book discusses both philosophical concepts of the three pedagogical disciplines as well as practices that arise from them.
Curriculum Encounters Through Walking the City
Authors: MacDonald Jennifer
Published: November 2023

In this paper, the author explores how the practice of walking the city may open curricular spaces to nurture a deep engagement and feelings of enchantment with the world. By disrupting the taken-for-granted sensibilities of our everyday urban lives and being open to the unexpected voices, bodies and more-than-human beings who co-exist in urban spaces, the author contends that when we slow down and become attuned to our surroundings, possibilities of transformation can emerge. In this interdisciplinary unfolding, the author first shares how walking allows us to experience time and space to accentuate our relations, engagements, and being in the world. Through narrative and photography, the author then reflects on encounters from recent walks through the city of Calgary, addressing notions of self-reflexivity, play and experience. Through these walking encounters, this paper reflects on considerations for embodying a curriculum to promote a modern ecological ethic.
The Faces of Love: The Curriculum of Loss
Authors: Leggo Carl
Published: November 2023

My brother was diagnosed with cancer in early July, 2017. He died on August 22, 2017. I have written many poems about growing up with my brother, and now that he has died, I am revisiting the poems I once wrote and writing more because writing is my way of addressing grief. Writing is an integral path in the curriculum of loss, and I trust writing will lead me to the understanding I need to begin each new day with hope, even joy in the midst of loss. Joy Kogawa (2016) sees “the world as an open book embedded with stories” that we can hear “if we have ears to hear” (p. 149). When my brother died, the loss was grievous, but the loss reminded me I am alive and I must keep on telling stories. I am learning to live with the curriculum of loss. As one who is left behind, my calling is to remember my brother and to share stories about him, but my calling is also to explore connections between life and loss, and the possibilities that extend beyond loss. Ultimately the curriculum of loss is a curriculum of hope. I want to be open to learning from my brother. I am not satisfied with remembering or memorializing him. I want to continue in a pedagogic relationship with my brother so that I learn from both memories and loss, as well as from the possibilities that continue.
In a Good Way: Reflecting on Humour in Indigenous Education
Authors: Leddy Shannon
Published: November 2023

Humour is ubiquitous in Indigenous communities, and often provides some of the most memorable moments in our relationships with one another. In this article, I explore an instance of such humour backfiring in an educational situation, and reflect on whether humour was an appropriate response. After surveying some academic research in the area of humour in the classroom, as well as some of the works of several prominent Indigenous writers and comedians, I reflect on the importance of humour in Indigenous pedagogy. Drawing on this research, and moments from my own practice, I theorize that humour has three core pedagogical impacts. First, it has a humanizing affect, helping us to see one another more clearly, and to appreciate that we all have foibles, and areas of ourselves that require improvement. It is also a culturally relevant pedagogy, having been used for millennia as a mechanism of social order and of upholding community values in Indigenous communities. Finally, humour also has a soothing effect, especially in the face of grappling with difficult concepts and situations, and can ease the tensions that often arise in Indigenous education classrooms. Used judiciously, humour is a powerful tool for decolonization. While I do not presume to offer a prescription for the use of humour in the classroom, in reflecting on my own practice, I am increasingly convinced of its importance in Indigenous pedagogy, and I offer my reflections for the reader’s consideration.
Book Review: Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy
Authors: Tompkins Joanne
Published: November 2023

Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy is intended to create discussions and describe actions that will challenge the colonial narrative and create more inclusive humanities. Aimed at both Indigenous and Settler educators, the beautifully edited book uses the metaphor of a basket to suggest the weaving of Mi’kmaw knowledge systems with Eurocentric knowledge systems, a weaving that is necessary to create a trans-systemic concept of the humanities that will ultimately decolonize and transform the academy. Visioning Mi’kmaw humanities can create the emergence of education systems which create pride, confidence, belonging and educational success for Indigenous students and teachers. This kind of education system will also benefit non-Indigenous students and teachers with the same gifts and lead to the reconciliation we so urgently seek.
Silence, Discipline and Student Bodies
Authors: Latremouille Jodi Marie
Published: November 2023

In this ecological poetic inquiry, I contemplate a curriculum of silence, discipline and student bodies. As I seek to work through and against the entrenched-knowings of school and schooling in these ecologically urgent times, I contemplate how children’s bodies are disciplined, how the voices of nature are silenced, how dominance rears its head through the myths of competition, progress and human supremacy. The cluster of poems is a consideration of some of the ways in which bells, security screening systems, silent lunchrooms, dead-lines, and all of the so-called “practical necessities” of schools, serve to silence and marginalize the voices, beings and bodies implicated in the industrial-powerful places and ecologically barren times of education. I ask, what wild, young-old, creaking, sleeping voices, beings and bodies need to be considered in our curriculum encounters? In response to David Geoffrey Smith’s (2014) call for educators to “reimagine new, wiser, human possibilities” (p. 1), I consider how educators may encounter ecological possibilities for a curriculum of living.
Intersectionality and Solidarity in Curriculum-Making Theatre Encounters with Marginalized Youth Researcher-Artists
Authors: Rhoades Rachel
Published: November 2023

In this article, drawn from my doctoral study, I argue that applied theatre encounters can serve as methods of Deweyian social inquiry and as curriculum-making events that illuminate how youths perceive their roles in social resistance and that offer them an opportunity to serve as artists, researchers, activists and public pedagogues. I situate the study in the field of curriculum studies by placing the research project itself in relation to a William Doll’s 4Rs model of curriculum principles: Richness, Recursion, Relations and Rigor. I posit that the research-based applied theatre practice of ethnodrama can potentially serve as an educational space wherein marginalized youths can integrate qualitative research and experiential knowledge as facilitators of a more just society. The 12 racialized, socioeconomically under-resourced youth participants in Toronto focused on intersectionality and solidarity in their ethnodrama action project. I explore the pedagogical, political and artistic choices these youths made in the process of both devising and presenting their original theatrical piece.
Finding Humanity in Design
Authors: Quinn Erin , Bartlett Stephanie , Alisat Laurie , McNeil Sandra , Miner Kim
Published: November 2023

The Calgary Board of Education’s Design the Shift was a radical step away from typical professional development opportunities. It was a year-long collaboration designed for educators to provoke a shift in practice by redefining curriculum through design. Our definition of design evolved from a linear business model to a much more generous movement. As designers of learning, the participants took up “what really [mattered] to them”, with design becoming an intersection of creativity, place, and community (Chambers, 1998, p. 17). We created opportunities for participants to charge up against an experience, causing them to make, unmake, and remake the curriculum of their classrooms. All experiences inspired the participants to stop, notice, listen and awaken, drawing on Maxine Greene’s (1977) wide-awakeness philosophy.
Creating the Dance and Dancing Creatively: Exploring the Liminal Space of Choreography for Emergence
Authors: Martin Brittany Harker , Snook Barbara , Buck Ralph
Published: November 2023

In this paper, three dance scholars explore the tensions and bliss inherent in curriculum delivery through dance integration. It meets the call for a curriculum attuned to provoking encounters (Pinar & Grumet, 2015) through philosophical narration that interweaves experiences as dancers, dance educators, dance scholars and dance integrators. Personal vignettes unveil the sense-making of creative artists tasked with the duty to “deliver” curriculum, and as arts integration specialists tasked with the duty to share knowledge, with teachers, for designing learning through dance. The authors liken the inherent tensions to those of a tight rope walker balancing between forces pulled in opposite directions. They share their own encounters of pedagogical balance and counterbalance, of choreography and emergence, and of leading and following, as each relates to learning design. They also explore the duality of meeting curricular ends and unfolding endless possibilities (Aoki, 2005; Roth, 2014). Together, the authors find that their collective experience leads to three charges for curricular reform: 1) embed dance integration in teacher preparation; 2) infuse dance integration in K-12 curriculum; and 3) provide time for pedagogical experimentation through dance-based inquiry.
Poet, Teacher, Acadie: Using Poetic Inquiry as a Tool for Unearthing Identity
Authors: Vincent Adam
Published: November 2023

Uncovering an authentic version of self-identity is at once difficult and profound. Our self-identity affects how we (re)present ourselves to the outside world and ultimately how we engage as educators. Through more than twenty years of writing experience, and a decade as an educator at the post-secondary level, I have learned that poetry has power. However, it is only recently that I have come to further appreciate its power to explore the links between place and self-identity (Vincent, 2020). Poetry offers a chance to dwell in the depths of self-identity while simultaneously tapping into the liminal spaces that often unconsciously frame who we are. This presentation focuses on my on-going journey of self-discovery as an Acadian Canadian, and explores how poetry, as a tool for textual analysis and self-analysis, has helped me to unearth previously unexamined parts of my identity. This presentation also includes demonstrations of ways that other educators, whether experienced in poetry or not, can use poetry and/or poetic techniques to begin to explore their own identities as educators.
Experiences From the Field: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Child Rights Education
Authors: Mreiwed Hala
Published: November 2023

Children are not just the future; they are the present. Their voices must be heard and their rights fully implemented in the here and now. Empty promises for future actions do not build communities but destroy momentum. It is therefore essential that children learn about their rights, and for these rights to be at the core of teaching. Through reflective writing, I explore my personal and professional experiences as an educator, course lecturer, researcher and Child Rights Education (CRE) consultant in learning and teaching about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) while working in Canada and abroad for over a decade. Personal reflections from workshops, trainings and desk research have led to the understanding that it is essential for children to learn about their rights and for teachers to be trained in CRE to transfer this knowledge. This process of knowledge transfer can help educators and learners transform the CRC from a symbolic text to a living document, ensuring that child rights are lived (experienced) and living (contextualized and adapted to present and emerging needs), ultimately bridging diversities, leading to equitable practices and fostering understanding, respect and inclusion in and beyond the classroom walls. Informing the research findings are a conversation about child rights, an understanding of the constructed nature of childhood, and the role of creative drama as a pedagogical approach in transferring knowledge and opening the path for creative and collaborative practices and forms of inquiry in CRE.