bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Docking Molecular Study, Pharmacokinetics Profile and Toxicity Prediction of Basil Plant (Ocimum basillicum) Compounds as Isocitrates Dehydrogenase Inhibitor
Authors: Imani Fitril , Yusnita Rifai  , Herlina Rante  , Ansari Masri  , Andri Anugrah Pratama  , Musabbiha
Published: November 2023

This study aims to predict the compounds from Ocimum basillicum that have potential as glioma inhibitors by inhibiting the enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH). Forty-two compounds from Ocimum basillicum were carried out by molecular docking to the IDH receptor using the AutodockTools 1.5.7 program and continued prediction of pharmacokinetic profile and toxicity using ADMETab 2.0 and Toxtree. The validation of the molecular docking method showed an RMSD value of 1.8509 A. As a result of the research, we discovered several compounds had the best interactions in our investigation. Those compounds were Apigenin, Catechin, Chloronergic Acid, Ellagic Acid, Quercetin, Rutin, Eriodictyol, and Chicoric Acid, with binding affinity values of -7.1, -6.7, -7.1, -7.1, -7.1, -8.5, -7.2, and -6.5, respectively. Several compounds are predicted to have the potential to be developed as glioma inhibitors. Furthermore, the ADMET's predictions show that these potential compounds still require improvement in pharmacokinetics and toxicity. However, further laboratory investigations like in vitro and in vivo assays need to be conducted.
Optimization and Validation Test of Self Nano-emulsifiying Drug Delivery System Capsule of Ethanol Extract Parang Romang Leaves
Authors: Magfirah Magfirah , Utami Indah Kurnia , Nurllya K.D I Dewa Ayu , Dewi Niluh Puspita
Published: November 2023

Introdiction: Parang romang contains alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, and saponins. The secondary metabolites of the leaf extract have low solubility in water. The self-nano emulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS) is one solution to increase the solubility of the extract. Aims This study aims to obtain the best formula and ensure that the assay analysis method used can provide accurate and reliable results so that they can be trusted. Methods: Parang romang leaf extract was added to the optimum mixture of tween 20/80, propylene glycol, and olive oil and then characterized including% transmittance, drug loading, emulsification time, particle size, index polydispersity, zeta potential, dissolution test, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM ) and validation of the analysis method including linearity, precision, accuracy, LOD, and LOQ. Result: The results showed the ratio of surfactant, co-surfactant, and olive oil which produced the optimum formula for SNEDDS, namely 26 ml; 17.5 ml; and 6.5 ml,% transmittance 85.90, drug loading 45.36, emulsification time for AGF, AIF, and aqua dest was 15-16 seconds, particle size 404.1 nm, index polydispersity 0.840, zeta potential -31.4 mV, dissolution test 92.13%, SEM in the form of spherical chunks, and the result of the validation test of the analytical method with a linearity of r = 0.9902, precision 0.436%, accuracy 103.738%, LOD 1.87 µ / ml and LOQ 5.57 µ / ml. SNEDDS parang romang leaf extract using olive oil as the oil phase, Tween 80 as a surfactant, and propylene glycol as a cosurfactant provide optimal nanoemulsion characteristics and validation of the analytical method meets the requirements. Conclusion: Formula 1 SNEDDS parang romang leaf extract using olive oil as the oil phase, Tween 80 as a surfactant, and propylene glycol as a cosurfactant is an optimal formula that provides good nanoemulsion characteristics and validation of analytical methods meets the requirements
Sunnah, Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Peradaban (Analisis Terhadap PandanganYusuf al-Qaradawi)
Authors: Yahya Muhammad
Published: November 2023

Sunnah bermakna tradisi Nabi Muhammad saw yang transformasi pesannya telah melewati masa yang panjang. Relevansi antara tradisi Nabi saw dengan tuntutan masyarakat dari masa ke masa semakin kompleks yang oleh Nabi Muhammad saw memerintahkan umatnya untuk mendidik generasi penerus dalam upayah menjawab segala problema sosial yang dihadapi. Untuk mengangkat harkat martabat dan peradaban umat Islam, ajaran pokok Islam, al-Quran dan hadis menempatkan pendidikan sebagai skala prioritas dengan cara memerintahkan dan memoivasi menimba ilmu pengetahuan. Pendidikan dalam Islam sudah jelas arah dan tujuannya, yakni pada memahami bahwa sumber ilmu adalah Allah, sumber dari segala potensi bakat adalah Allah Maha pencifta, dengan tujuan memakmurkan bumi sehingga terwujudlah kehidupan yang berperadaban tinggi di zamannya. Salah satu ulama hadis kontemporer Yusuf al-Qaradawi dalam kitabnya  ”al-Sunnah al-Masdaran li al-Ma’rifah wa al-Hadharah, berpandangan bahwa peradaban umat Islam akan maju jika syiar keislaman dibangkitkan dengan menggali ajaran Islam secara original, tanpa dipengaruhi oleh dotrin tertentu. Originalitas dalil memungkinkan untuk melakukan adanya pleksibilitas cara pandang dan dalam pengamalannya. Sehingga oleh al-Qaradawi melihat bahwa Islam adalah agama realita dan aktual, serta fleksibel dalam pengamalan baik kaitannya dengan hablun minallah dan hablun minannas, sehingga dalam kaitan dengan fiqih dapat dielaborasi ke seluruh tuntutan masa dan perubahan. Menurutnya perbedaan pandang para ulama fiqih membuka ruang terjadi perbedaan dalam hal interpretasi dalil, memungkinkan munculnya mazhab baru yang memberikan kemudahan dan jawabahan seiring perkembangan dan kemajuan pendidikan dan peradaban umat Islam. Oleh karena itu Yusuf al-Qaradawi menawarkan fiqih taysir (mempermudah) sebagi solusi memahami hukum Islam. Pemikiran dan pandangan Al-Qaradawi yang moderat, terkenal toleran dan menolak segala bentuk ekstriminitas dan terorisme, Al-Qaradawi adalah seorang penyeru dialog antar-kultur dan agama
An early clinical phenotype of necrotizing meningoencephalitis in the Pug reveals similarities to multiple sclerosis in humans
Authors: Windsor Rebecca , Stewart Samuel , Huentelman Matt , Keller Stefan , Khanna Chand
Published: November 2023

Necrotizing meningoencephalitis (NME) is a fatal neuroinflammatory disease that previously carried a uniformly grave prognosis. Our recent identification of a novel early form of NME in Pugs suggests that disease onset and progression are likely more insidious than previously recognized and provides new hope that early therapeutic intervention may halt disease progression and ultimately prevent or cure NME. This novel perspective also sheds new light on the clinical similarities to multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans and provides a rationale for cross-species translation. The history of recent scientific discoveries in NME and new parallels between MS and NME will be reviewed.
Cognitive task performance in sitting and standing: A pilot study
Authors: Niedzielska Ewa , Guszkowska Monika , Mikicin Mirosław
Published: November 2023

Study aim: The aims of this study were to compare the effectiveness of performing tasks involving different cognitive functions in sitting versus standing positions and to assess the perceived workload. Standing or moving at work increases energy expenditure and brings health benefits while lowering the risk of diseases related to physical inactivity. The question arises whether this occurs at the expense of the effectiveness of professional activities.

Material and methods: Twenty-nine physical education students (including 20 women and 9 men) volunteered to participate in the study. The participants performed four cognitive tests: two tests based on the Vienna Test System (Cognitron and ALS) and two paper-and-pencil tests (TUS and Toulouse-Pieron test).

Results: There were no significant differences found between the sitting and the standing groups as regards the results of the cognitive tests. The number of omissions in the TUS test was higher in a standing position. The groups significantly differed in the perceived workload: A greater value of the summary weighted index was obtained in the sitting group. Also, the sitting students perceived their mental effort as significantly more onerous.

Conclusions: The results of this pilot study suggest that the standing position does not reduce the effectiveness of activities involving cognitive functions. This is an incentive to continue randomized trials with a greater number of individuals.
Pulse-width Modulation Techniques in Two-level Voltage Source Inverters – State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Authors: Chattejee Dipankar , Chakraborty Chandan , Dalapati Suvarun
Published: November 2023

The core of most power electronic systems involving DC/AC conversion is a voltage source inverter (VSI) that runs on some pulsewidth modulation (PWM) strategy. Numerous PWM techniques have been reported in the literature over the past few decades, each having its own merits and limitations. This paper reviews some selected areas of two-level PWM VSI, namely proper utilisation of the DC bus without deteriorating the quality of the output waveform, switching-loss reduction in the linear and over-modulation zones, common-mode voltage and PWM strategies for its reduction or elimination, distortion of the output voltage owing to dead time, and its compensation. These phenomena are explained in brief, followed by discussions on different research works relevant to these areas, and their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, the paper shows prospective directions in which research may continue in these areas in future.
Calidad de agua para uso recreativo del Río Ctalamochita en Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina
Authors:   Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, Marín Graciela N. , Moyano Silvia A. ,   Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, Biolé Fernanda G. ,   Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, Debernardi Paula ,   Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina
Published: November 2023

El Río Tercero o Ctalamochita a lo largo de la ciudad de Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, es utilizado con fines recreativos, entre otros. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la calidad del agua para tal uso en el tramo correspondiente a la ciudad, a través del análisis de variables microbiológicas, fisicoquímicas y del índice de calidad de agua (WQI) del Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Para ello se realiza el muestreo del río aguas arriba, en puntos intermedios y aguas abajo en distintos momentos del año, abarcando un periodo de dos años (de octubre 2017 a septiembre 2018). Se determinaron coliformes totales, coliformes termotolerantes y Escherichia coli. Además, se registraron la temperatura, pH, turbiedad, sólidos totales, demanda biológica de oxígeno (DBO5), demanda química de oxígeno, oxígeno disuelto, nitratos y nitritos. Los resultados muestran que los coliformes totales superaron el límite permitido en el 60 % de las muestras; los coliformes termotolerantes son acordes con la normativa en el 100 % de las muestras y la determinación de E. coli; sólo un valor supera el límite establecido. El WQI resultante es “Bueno” para dos de los sitios estudiados, mientras que aguas abajo, en Barrancas del Río, es “Marginal” (WQI = 62.2). Se concluye que en las zonas estudiadas, el uso recreativo no implicaría un riesgo para la salud humana. Sin embargo, es importante identificar los factores que influyen en el decrecimiento del WQI luego de atravesar la ciudad y las posibilidades de actuación sobre los mismos, si se quieren lograr mejoras en dicho tramo.
Level of confidence in exodontia among senior dental students and interns in Madinah: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Othman Ahmad , Kaaki Muhannad , Meer Rayan , Mirah Mahir , Almuzaini Esam , Mulla Abduljabbar , Huwaykim Dalia , Arabi Lina , Alassaf Muath , Bafail Arwa , Alsulimani Mahmoud , Qazali Ahmad , Abdouh Ismail
Published: November 2023

Objective: This study aimed to assess the level of confidence regarding exodontia among senior dental students and interns in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive observational study was conducted using an online-based self-administered questionnaire consisting of 34 close-ended questions. It was divided into four sections, including demographic data, theoretical knowledge, clinical knowledge, and the level of confidence of exodontia.
Results: The study group comprised of 84 participants. Most participants were females, 53.6%, and half were dental interns. Around 88.1% reported that they had sufficient knowledge to decide if a tooth was indicated for extraction or not. Almost 77.4% thought they had sufficient knowledge to assess case difficulty, and 72.6% had sufficient knowledge about the essential investigations needed to assess the difficulty of the case. However, 33.3% were less confident about extracting an ankylosed tooth, while 50% might need help, and 35.7% were less confident about extracting a partially impacted third molar and less confident about handling medical emergencies during dental extraction.
Conclusion: The present study revealed that there is a need to enhance the level of confidence and knowledge related to exodontia among dental students and interns. Proper diagnosis of complex cases and choosing a suitable surgical procedure are essential factors in achieving the treatment outcome and could influence a good prognosis.
Analysis strategy of Sheep farm development in Bondowoso Regency
Authors: Agung Taufiqurrachman Muhamad , Ali Usman , Kentjonowaty Inggit
Published: November 2023

The sheep population in Bondowoso Regency increases every year, but this number cannot meet the demand for sheep meat. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the internal and external factors affecting sheep farming in Bondowoso Regency, as well as to determine the strategies that should be carried out according to experts and analyzed using the Analysis Hierarchy Process (AHP). This study used purposive sampling, where the number of respondents was 30 sheep farmers. Furthermore, questionnaires were distributed to 2 experts in the field of animal husbandry. Questionnaires from farmers were processed using SWOT analysis and questionnaires from livestock experts were processed using AHP. The results of the SWOT analysis are that 50% of respondents are in Quadrant 1, 6.67% in Quadrant 2, 16.67% in Quadrant 3, and 26.67% in Quadrant 4. The conclusion of this study was based on SWOT analysis, 50% of sheep farmers in Bondowoso Regency are in a very favorable condition. Based on AHP, the most recommended variable was code V1, "available natural resources, especially forage, and agricultural waste". Furthermore, the most recommended strategy is code S1, "Livestock businesses must be integrated from upstream to downstream industries, such as producing feed, selling using the latest market prices and livestock manure processed into organic fertilizer".
The Reader Response Approach in Modern Language Acquisition
Authors: González Ismel , Courtland Mary Clare
Published: November 2023

This article describes the implementation of the reader response approach as a focal practice in a university Spanish language class. The design of was qualitative. Methods included participant observation, taped responses, a taped focus group meeting, and analysis of documents. Four main themes emerged from the data analysis: shifting roles in the modern language classroom; patterns of shared response to La Casa en Mango Street; students’ attitudes towards a new pedagogical approach; and response to La Casa en Mango Street. This approach contributed to the narrowing of the gap between language and culture in the modern language classroom.
Developing Ecological Habits of Mind
Authors: Upitis Rena , Abrami Philip C , Patteson Ann
Published: November 2023

This paper describes a two-part study. The first part of the study documents the experiences of nine school-based artists who took part in a six-day professional development workshop on ecology and the arts at an off-grid wilderness facility. The course was designed to increase artist-educators’ awareness of issues surrounding energy use and consumption as well as to provide them with direction for approaching these topics through arts-based learning in schools. One of the sessions introduced an electronic portfolio as a tool for supporting arts-based learning on topics dealing with ecology and the environment. Data were collected from the artist-educators through observations, field notes, and semi-standardized interviews. Participants also completed an on-line survey regarding various energy conservation and consumption issues. The data for the first part of the study revealed how the artist-educators anticipated interacting with teachers and students upon returning to their local schools, both in terms of content related to energy conservation and in the ways that they would approach this topic through their respective art forms. In the second part of the study, the electronic portfolio was used to promote self-regulated learning with Grade 5 students in a public elementary school in Toronto, Ontario while they studied energy and ecology through an arts-based approach to these topics. Students worked with one of the participants who took part in the six-day professional development workshop. Together with their teacher, they explored solar power and wind turbine energy and presented their learning through dance. As for the first part of the study, classroom-based data were comprised of observations, field notes, and interviews. In addition, a pre- and post-questionnaire was used to ascertain the degree of self-regulatory practices used by the students. Students expressed considerable enthusiasm for the tool and demonstrated significant growth in understanding how to set goals and critique the work of their peers.
Living Language: What Is a Poem Good For?
Authors: Leggo Carl
Published: November 2023

I read and write and teach poetry because I hold a long commitment to the efficacy of poetry for transforming our hearts, imaginations, intellects, conversations, and communities. I promote a curriculum of poetry as a curriculum of possibility for learning to live poetically in the world, for learning to live in the ecotone, the fecund place of tensions where conflicts are integral to vitality, education, and transformation. I often hear the question, Is it a good poem? I think we should ask, What is a poem good for? I am eager to bear witness to poetry, to invite a conversation with poets I have lingered with, to spark a little enthusiasm among others, to remind all of us that poets are pursuing their art and living with keen desire. So, in this paper I ruminate on possibilities for responding to the question, “What is a poem good for?” In my ruminations I do not attempt to be definitive; I am only eager to continue a conversation that is ongoing. I present a performative text that is both poetic and full of poetry. I invite colleagues to receive this essay like a long poem, to see with the eyes of the heart, and to hear with ears that are attuned to resonances and silences, and to linger with language and memory and hope.
A heart of wisdom: Life writing as empathetic inquiry
Authors: Watt Diane
Published: November 2023

This exquisite collection of creative non-­‐‑fiction expands possibilities for education through its rich and provocative articulation of life writing as curriculum inquiry. “A Heart of Wisdom: Life Writing as Empathetic Inquiry” (2012) is a companion volume to the editors’ previous work, “Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for our Times” (Hasebe-­‐‑Ludt, Chambers & Leggo, 2009).
Métis Curricular Challenges and Possibilities: A Discussion Initiated by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy in Ontario
Authors: Kearns Laura-Lee , Anuik Jonathan
Published: November 2023

The Ontario Ministry of Education’s (2007) Ontario First Nation, Métis and Inuit Education Policy Framework asks school boards to “provide a curriculum that facilitates learning about contemporary and traditional First Nation, Métis, and Inuit cultures, histories, and perspectives among all students, and that also contributes to the education of school board staff … [and] teachers” (p. 7). The framework is a conduit to push First Nation, Métis, and Inuit initiatives beyond the exceptional program or course found in a few Ontario schools. However, in our recent Report on Métis education in Ontario’s K-12 schools (2012) for the Métis Nation of Ontario’s Education and Training Branch, we found only a small portion of school boards were engaged actively in bringing the above mandate to life. As to Métis, the challenge is largely a lack of awareness of Métis history and culture. Our findings show there is a need for more Métis curricular material to be developed to broaden the appreciation, awareness, and understanding of the historical and contemporary Métis. Here, we share curricular challenges and possibilities in heading the call from Métis for a nuanced portrayal of families and communities at school.
Maroon Theory and Me-thou-poeisis
Authors: Khan Steven K
Published: November 2023

Taking ‘maroon’ as a complexly embodied psychoanalytic hermeneutic aesthetic in Caribbean literatures in English I tell a story of my own production as a curriculum scholar with others through poetry and photographs. In many ways aspects of my experience of doctoral education in curriculum studies in Canada can be described as a marooning. This perhaps is not a unique experience. However, in my case, very early on in the process – less than two months in – I physically abandoned my doctoral seminar and though my body returned to the classroom in the coming weeks I do not think my spirit ever has. That moment has become an identity marker, somatically sutured and indexed to a mythopoetic re-construction of a-Being-not-at-home-with-oneself.
Teacher education and drama: possibilities, promise, potential.
Authors: Anderson Elizabeth
Published: November 2023

Contemporary discussions about curricula, whether for schools or for higher education, come with demands for change to cope with uncertainty, unpredictability, and 21st century challenge. Core notions however of curriculum as structure for providing access to knowledge (Young, 2014), or a set of teaching and learning prescriptions (Scott, 2014) are hard to shift, yet questions of what knowledge and how is it formed are ones which should be critical for teacher education, where, as a site of higher education, decisions about that knowledge are contested (Barnett, 2015). The prospective teacher continues to negotiate tensions between knowledge of content and of curriculum, pedagogical knowledge and generic teaching skill, knowing as process and knowing in performative terms, and between shaping a role as teacher and as educator for the 21st century. This paper makes a case for the potential that an arts oriented course, specifically drama, holds for helping student teachers to conceptualise their own learning experiences within a teacher education curriculum, to better understand the facilitation of learning experiences within school and classroom curricula, and to begin to shape their teacher identity.
I Live in a Place That a River Runs Through: Localized Literacy, Currere and a Summer in an Ojibway Community
Authors: Butler Jesse Keith
Published: November 2023

In this paper, I analyze a particular artifact from my lived curriculum – a short children’s book I wrote while running a literacy program in an Ojibway community. In doing this, I draw upon Ng-A-Fook’s (2011) (re)imagining of currere as specific experiential snapshots that open up into wider landscapes of meaning. After situating the book within my own lived experience, I unlock some of the meanings contained in it by analyzing it through three different theoretical lenses. I first examine the book in relation to research on place-based literacy (e.g. Kulnieks, Longboat, & Young, 2010), and suggest the value of such a localized approach to literacy education. Secondly, in relation to the scholarship on settler colonialism (e.g. Tuck & Gaztambide-Fernández, 2013), I question whether my choice as an outsider to write a work of “literature” incorporating aspects of local intergenerational knowledges should be seen an act of appropriation. Thirdly, I draw on literature arguing for the development of ethical intercultural meeting places (e.g. Haig-Brown, 2008) in order to suggest that this artifact is best understood as a record of my gradual development as an educator and a researcher. I suggest that currere is not just a way for teachers to become “amateur intellectuals” (Kanu & Glor, 2006), but also a way for researchers like such as myself to become “amateur practitioners,” by learning to situate our experience within the skilled practices of a curriculum of place (Chambers, 2008).
Weaving Vocabularies and Counterpoint in Canadian Curriculum Studies
Authors: Sameshima Pauline
Published: November 2023

The focus on Canadian curriculum landscapes in this issue is imaginatively re-formed through playing with a composite digital artwork and a poem created from photographs and text taken from the current issue's submissions. The metaphor of a personal métissage through time by weaving threads from JCACS' first issue through to the current issue is used to describe the verdant terra of Canadian curriculum studies.
The Live(d) Curriculum: Life Feeling Itself
Authors: Thom Jennifer S.
Published: November 2023

The article focuses on the ideas and meanings that emerge for the author as she experiences the death of her father. Here, through a series of vignettes which expose curricula as live(d) by herself, her father, and others, the author explores multiple conceptions of the live(d) curriculum. As a result, ideas and meanings of (in)visibility, last(ing) rituals, and life feeling itself surface and in significant ways occasion the author’s new awareness and deeper understanding of the live(d) curriculum.
Provoking a Curricular Métissage of Polyphonic Textualities
Authors: Hasebe-Ludt Erika , Leggo Carl
Published: November 2023

Editorial for the special issue of JCACS, Fall 2016.
Book Review: Getting Out of Your Head, Back in Your Heart
Authors: Strong-Wilson Teresa
Published: November 2023

Michele Tanaka’s book, Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing Into Education, documents and contemplates the pedagogical effects of a unique course, Earth Fibres, designed by Lorna Williams, and guided by Indigenous elders, to immerse student teachers at the University of Victoria into Indigenous ways of knowing, by having them work with traditional Indigenous fabric and textile arts. In her book, Tanaka repeats the key questions of the course: How do you get out of your head? How do you get back into your heart? In the course, the students do this in the context of a culture that destabilizes their normative understandings of the world and of teaching, learning and the curriculum. The book uses the framework of the medicine wheel, of “walking the wheel,” and likewise, the student teachers taking the Earth Fibres course are invited on a kind of medicine walk of their own. The book contributes to efforts to Indigenize the curriculum through its thoughtful documentation of the Earth Fibres course itself, as well as the responsive, Indigenist frame in which it has been written.
Book Review: Inclusive Education: Stories of Success and Hope in a Canadian Context
Authors: Gooderham Suzanne
Published: November 2023

In their book, Inclusive Education: Stories of Success and Hope in a Canadian Context (2018), Stegemann and AuCoin have created an exceptional collection of case studies that illustrate what is possible when a firm belief in inclusion in its deepest sense is combined with a spirit of collaboration and co-operation. The nine case studies include students with unique and complex learning needs at different stages of their educational career. A wide range of exceptionalities and levels of ability are presented in different settings across Canada. While this diversity makes the book interesting and informative, it is the inclusion of multiple perspectives and the actual voices of the individuals involved that results in a compelling and important resource for both pre-service and in-service educators.
Innovative Exemplars and Curriculum Created from Online Videos of Visual Artists in Greater Sudbury
Authors: Browning Kathy
Published: November 2023

The article begins with a description of the award-winning online artists’ video project, 14 Videos of Visual Artists in Greater Sudbury, and concludes with a presentation of my pre-service BEd students’ creative use of this digital resource. The video series was conceived and created with the aim of filling a gap in materials that were sorely lacking to teachers of Visual Arts in Ontario. The video series includes Aboriginal, Métis, Francophone and Anglophone artists and highlights the artists’ interconnections with the local community. The streamed, linked and library-accessible videos (see http://www3.laurentian.ca/visual_artists/) served as inspiration for student teachers’ creation of their own innovative curricular exemplars. In the article, I describe the complex inner workings of the research project in order to establish a context for the students’ work. I show how the students were able to conceptualize curriculum through being able to better see what and how to teach through creating art and making exemplars in a variety of media. Using the artists’ work as a catalyst, the students worked in groups, selecting artists whose artwork spoke to them while creating exemplars and co-creating curricula that would be meaningful. The article concludes with student exemplars that offer insights into the value of focusing on local artists in order to better meet Art Education curriculum goals in Ontario and, by extension, elsewhere in Canada.
Metaphysics of Presence and Difference: A Comparison of the Belief Systems Inherent in the Methodologies of Arts Based Research and A/r/tography
Authors: Haggarty Holly Tsun
Published: November 2023

Arts-integrating approaches to research are increasingly engaged in the field of education. Arts-integrating approaches offer exciting opportunities for engaging creativity and imagination in research. However, researchers should be aware that the field of arts-integrating research encompasses a number of distinct methodologies, which entail varying understandings of what constitutes knowledge. From my (arts-integrating and phenomenological) comparative inquiry into two research methodologies, arts based research and a/r/tography, I conclude that they differ in their conceptions of knowledge, and that this difference is underpinned by differing beliefs regarding the nature of reality and being. Arts based research, as elaborated by Elliot Eisner and colleague Tom Barone (Barone & Eisner, 2006; Eisner, 1991) aligns with what may be called a metaphysics of presence, while a/r/tography, as elaborated by Rita Irwin and colleagues (Irwin & de Cossan, 2004; Springgay et al., 2008) espouses what may be called a metaphysics of difference. My inquiry parses the essential elements of these contrasting belief systems through two categories that I term primacy and unity. My findings provide a useful reflection on the unavoidably paradigmatic nature of all research.
Symposium: Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education: Canadian Perspectives
Authors: DiGiuseppe Maurice , Karrow Douglas , Inwood Hilary
Published: November 2023

This symposium examines Canadian perspectives on environmental and sustainability education in teacher education (ESE-TE) through the newly published Springer book volume titled, Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education: Canadian Perspectives (2019). The book’s contributors, from diverse faculties of education across Canada, employed a range of research methods in exploring various aspects of Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education (ESE-TE). The book includes the results of empirical and non-empirical studies, including case studies, mixed methods studies, self-study and narrative inquiry, as well as theoretical, conceptual and philosophical inquiries on ESE-TE. The book volume concludes that ESE-TE in Canada depends on the determined, persevering and passionate efforts of faculty members working in varied contexts while exhibiting a fair degree of autonomy. While provincial policy directives for ESE-TE are the exception rather than the norm, the degree of autonomy that post-secondary instructors enjoy could be further supported and strengthened by consistent policy directives that help further local curriculum development by faculty members representing different curricular areas. Additional empirical research is needed to identify specific factors—including a) approaches employed in Canadian ESE-TE programs, b) theoretical frameworks informing such approaches, c) curricular emphases and outcomes implemented in these programs, and d) experiences of ESE-TE students, instructors, administrators and policy-makers—that facilitate or hinder the enhancement of ESE-TE.
Anti-Blackness and Orientalism in Quebec and Manitoba Ancient History Curricula
Authors: Abdou Ehaab Dyaa , Joyce S. J. Adrienna
Published: November 2023

Although Canada is often portrayed as a multicultural, benevolent, liberal society, the experiences of Black peoples, Indigenous peoples and Peoples of Colour living in Canada point to the problematic of ongoing anti-Black racism, Indigenous erasures and anti-immigrant sentiments, while perpetuating White Eurocentric dominance. Research demonstrates that schools and school curricula play an important role in perpetuating these problems (e.g., Abdou, 2017; Calderon, 2014; Poole, 2012). But how might curricula and available teaching resources specifically be contributing to Canada’s underlying narratives of White Eurocentric dominance? There is a growing body of literature that demonstrates problematic discourses in the curriculum for Indigenous peoples (e.g., Battiste, 2013; Calderon, 2014; Tuck & Gaztambide-Fernández, 2013). In this paper, we specifically interrogate anti-Blackness and Orientalism. We outline the various findings of critical discourse analyses that we conducted on secondary school textbooks used in Quebec and Manitoba to teach world history and ancient civilizations. By comparing these two contexts, we offer new perspectives on the ways that Canadian curricula are constructed as dominant White-centric narratives by depending on the logics of Orientalism and anti-Blackness. Building on previous textbook analyses, we attempt to bring critical perspectives to problematize dominant norms that contribute to the oppressions of Black peoples and Peoples of Colour in the Canadian context and to provide insights on a potential way forward for more inclusive and balanced representations. While our textual analyses do not directly address representations of Indigenous peoples in curricula, we hope this contribution will help draw attention to some common exclusionary approaches and representations that need to be questioned and challenged.
In Between Familiar-Unfamiliar: Research Travel as Arts-Based Research
Authors: Morimoto Ken , Mosavarzadeh Marzieh
Published: November 2023

Artists, researchers and teachers often find their work positioned in-between the familiar and the unfamiliar. The arts linger in-between such familiar-unfamiliar events, objects and places, unfolding new understandings and potentialities by making the familiar strange and the unknown familiar. Through a collaborative arts-based educational research project conducted in Japan, we address the following question: How can artistic practices lend to pedagogical possibilities when we attend to new things in familiar ways, and when we situate familiar things in new ways? Through a combination of a/r/tography and walking method, we engage in a series of walks, conversations and creative practices that explore layers of relationality through research travel. Walking as an arts-based research practice emphasizes the physicality of our nature as an embodied being grounded in movement; “walking is not just what a body does; it is what a body is” (Ingold & Vergunst, 2008, p. 1). Working together from different perspectives troubles a binary understanding of the insider-outsider relationship, focusing instead on the “-“ as a site of a hyphenated positionality. The walking sessions form a relational correspondence with each other that reveal rhythms of our walks, relationships and experiences while we attune ourselves to ways of lingering in-between familiar and unfamiliar places. Through the embodied and metaphorical walking in-between the familiar-unfamiliar, we consider the pedagogical implications of research travel as site of collaborative arts-based inquiry and what further questions they may raise.
“No Face Can Be Approached With Empty Hands and Closed Home”: Literacy in the Post-Truth Era
Authors: Parker Lana
Published: November 2023

Education has a responsibility to respond to the threat of deteriorating democracies (DeLuca & Christou, 2016; Peters, 2017). The post-truth era is marked by an erosion of trust in public institutions and conflict in online spaces. The broad purpose of this research is to examine the ways in which the evolving post-truth era has the potential to redefine how people consume information and make decisions, and to explore the implications for democracy. A more specific purpose is to draw attention to the limits of current literacy pedagogy and to propose a literacy education that engages deeply with questions of intersubjectivity. I begin with a discussion of the evolution of literacy education policy and curriculum, looking at disjunction between research and practice. I demonstrate the ways current literacy and media literacy education is not simply outmoded, but also limited by neoliberal conceptions of rationality and individualism. Offering a counterpoint to the status quo, I work with Levinas’ (1969, 1989) conception of ethics to consider the importance of three affective dimensions of literacy. I illustrate the tensions between affective reactionism and non-intentional affectivity, enjoyment and its disruption as a premise for intersubjectivity and two manifestations of anger—moral and defensive. I conclude with a proposal for literacy education that furnishes a space for the intersubjective relation to emerge. This approach comprises an intentional focus on relationality, responsibility and affect.
Recycling Stories: Community Art and Deliberative Democracy Opening Spaces for Civic Engagement
Authors: De Oliveira Jayme Bruno , Germanos Erika , Saccucci Brent Franco
Published: November 2023

How can we create meaningful spaces of engagement for citizens who work in the recycling industry in Brazil who suffer marginalization? What can we learn from the Brazilian experience of opening spaces of engagement? Seeking answers for these questions, we entered the journey of participatory action and arts–based research and developed a series of visual arts workshops and public exhibits in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. In this context, the objective of this study is to explore the diverse role of the arts in not just creating spaces for engagement that are inherently deliberatively democratic, but also holding the space for dialogue, knowledge construction and mobilization, and civic engagement.
High Heels, Empty Bottles and Other Interesting Pedagogical Artefacts Mediating Social Movement Learning
Authors: Saccucci Brent Franco , De Oliveira Jayme Bruno
Published: November 2023

How does individual transformation unfold within social movement learning, a territory that mainly embodies learning as a collective practice? How do the visual and performing arts, as research tools, mediate such individual transformation while simultaneously promoting community engagement and critical dialogue amongst members of social movements and the general public? Interweaving social movement and transformative learning theories along with queer performance theory, this arts–based and participatory study answers these questions by describing and articulating two art interventions and the subsequent discourse and politics that emerged from these two scenarios. The first scenario unfolded during a series of painting workshops facilitated with members of the National Recycling Social Movement (MNCR) in 2017 in São Paulo, Brazil. The second scenario unfolded as a series of drag performances in Edmonton, Canada. By exploring the potentialities of visual and performing arts to understand social movement learning through the arts, people were asked to engage internal and external dialectical relationships that mediate their construction of visual and performative thought. Such creative thinking awakened a higher level of human consciousness, enabling individuals to construct new knowledge. This new knowledge empowered participants and enabled an agency which they later used to promote community development and social change.
UTILIZATION OF OYSTER MUSHROOM BAGLOG WASTE AS ORGANIC COMPOST IN THE PROSPEROUS LIME OYSTER MUSHROOM CULTIVATION GROUP, LIMAU MANIS VILLAGE, PAUH DISTRICT
Authors: Meutia Risa , Permata Deivy Andika , Asben Alfi
Published: November 2023

The LMS oyster mushroom cultivation group consists of 31 people. Each member has a kumbung with a capacity of 2000-4000 baglog. The problems that arise from the cultivation of oyster mushrooms are: Oyster mushroom baglog waste that is no longer productive is wasted and becomes environmental pollution. Besides polluting the environment, it can also be a polluter for baglogs that are still productive. One effort that can be done is to process it into compost. Unproductive baglog processing can increase added value. Utilization of compost can be applied to vegetable crops and ornamental plants. Processing compost from baglog that is not productive is also beneficial in preserving the environment.
Improvement of Knowledge and Innovation in the Limau Manis Sejahtera Oyster Mushroom Cultivation Group through a Benchmarking in Sungai Sarik, Padang Pariaman
Authors: Wellyalina Wellyalina , Meutia Fiana Risa , Dewi Hayati PK , Febjislami Shalati , Pramana Putra Dian
Published: November 2023

The Limau Manis Farmers Group is a farmer group located in Limau Manis Village, Pauh Subdistrict, Padang City. This farmer group has been engaged in the cultivation of white oyster mushrooms, and its development has been quite successful. Productive economic development can create a sustainable economy and provide a business opportunity that is ready to compete, thus becoming a source of income for farmers. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people lost their jobs, making economic needs even more challenging. The oyster mushroom production efforts of this farmer group are capable of producing a considerable amount of oyster mushrooms. However, there are some obstacles and challenges to producing even more oyster mushrooms. This is due to several factors such as (1) the short shelf life of fresh oyster mushrooms; (2) limited knowledge in processing oyster mushroom harvests; (3) funding issues to support oyster mushroom processing activities; (4) the group's limited knowledge of labeling and packaging; and (5) the group's limitations in managing digital marketing. The most common challenge faced is the frequent delay in spawn availability. Furthermore, the high cost of spawn can also reduce the income of the LMS group. Through benchmarking or visits to advanced oyster mushroom cultivation groups such as the De Jamur group in Sungai Sarik, Padang Pariaman, new knowledge can be acquired, and innovations can be found for the LMS group, resulting in improved mushroom productivity in that group compared to before.
O impacto das tecnologias da informação em saúde na atuação do farmacêutico hospitalar na reconciliação medicamentosa
Authors: Vieira Douglas Nunes , Figueiredo Junior Adiel Goes de , Liberal Márcia Mello Costa de
Published: November 2023

Objetivo: Descrever o impacto da tecnologia da informação em saúde na atuação do farmacêutico hospitalar na reconciliação medicamentosa. Revisão bibliográfica: O aumento do número dados e informações médicas e de saúde, o uso da tecnologia da informação e o advento da indústria 4.0 no âmbito da saúde impôs uma nova realidade e um novo patamar a atuação do farmacêutico hospitalar para realizar a reconciliação medicamentosa. Considerações finais: O advento da indústria 4.0 possibilitou interligar e conectar inúmeras instituições de saúde públicas e privadas, aumentando a quantidade de dados e informações alimentando a big data. Este entrelaçamento de dados, informações por meio da tecnologia da informação em saúde possibilita o farmacêutico hospitalar minerar dados de modo ágil, realizar a reconciliação medicamentosa hospitalar com maior precisão. A tecnologia da informação abriu um novo horizonte profissional para o farmacêutico hospitalar. No Brasil o uso da tecnologia da informação em saúde para a reconciliação medicamentosa hospitalar ainda se encontra em estágio de implementação.
A segurança do paciente na terapia dialítica sob o olhar da enfermagem
Authors: Carvalho Hosana de Nazaré Miranda de , Formigosa Dociana Erica Cabral , Ferreira Maria Goreth Silva , Pacheco Jéssica Oliveira , Gaia Melyane de Assunção
Published: November 2023

Objetivo: Identificar as evidências científicas disponíveis sobre a segurança do cuidado na terapia dialítica sob o olhar da enfermagem. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo de revisão integrativa da literatura que selecionou artigos científicos nas bases de dados BVS, Scopus e Web of Science. Adotou-se a seguinte questão “Quais estratégias de segurança são usadas pela equipe de enfermagem no cuidado do paciente com doença renal crônica?” e utilizou-se os descritores “Nursing”, "Nurse", "Care Safety”, “Safe Care", "Patient Safety", "Chronic Kidney Disease", "Kidney Dialysis" e "Hemodialysis". Foram eleitas publicações em inglês, espanhol e português, publicados entre 2012 e 2022. Resultados: Elencou-se 26 estudos como principais achados e que nortearam o debate sobre a temática e foi possível inferir que a segurança na diálise é favorecida pela utilização de tecnologias, que em sua maioria, sinalizam a oportunidade de eventos. Considerações finais: O estudo contribuiu para reflexões acerca do exercício da enfermagem na terapia dialítica e aponta a necessidade de estudos que versem sobre a carga laboral e estresse desta categoria profissional.