Foreword

Professor Colin Rose provides insight into the 10th edition of Brocks "The General," an academic undergraduate history journal. His commentary on the current affairs of Canadian autonomy in the face of political uncertainties provides a harrowing account of the struggles of modern-day Canadians. Rose\u27s forward addresses numerous articles with a prompt commentary to introduce the new edition.

Childism, Adultism, and Language Barriers in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Messaging: An Analysis of EDI Statements across Child and Youth Autism Centres, Clinics and Hospitals in Canada

In the past three years, organizations in Canada have been asked to better address issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Organizations have been encouraged to self-reflexively look inward, to examine how institutional policies and practices serve EDI goals. EDI is increasingly regarded as a social justice issue. In the Canadian autism and autistic community, more attention is being devoted to EDI. However, to date EDI messaging has not been explored in the context of child and youth autism centers and hospitals. We conducted a scan of EDI messaging across child and youth Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) centres in Canada. We utilized a document analysis approach. We found major geographic disparities in EDI messaging with most EDI messaging originating from Ontario. Some ASD centers did not have EDI statements. EDI messaging was mainly directed toward adults, and in this way reflected discourses of childism and adultism. Despite Canada’s growing language diversity, EDI statements were mainly in English only and reflected a lack of engagement with other languages. Statements were Euro-centric. Vagueness in EDI statements, tokenistic EDI statements, and a lack of attention to intersectionality in EDI statements continue to be problems of a moderate scale. Finally, many ASD centers were reliant on broader institutions’ EDI statements and did not generate their own EDI statements. Suggestions to improve EDI messaging in the context of pediatric care – such as engaging children and families in the writing of EDI statements and taking accountability and responsibility to generate one’s own – are proposed

Impact of Nearpod on Students’ Motivation and Learning about Minerals: A Case Study

This study examines the impact of Nearpod on students’ motivation and learning outcomes about minerals. The study adopted a quantitative method; a pre-experimental design type of one-group pretest-posttest design, whereby one group of grade 10 students (n=24) was taken as a sample. An observation tool was used to study students’ motivational behavior, and a two-tier multiple-choice diagnostic instrument was employed to assess student learning outcomes. The findings indicate that using interactive digital tools positively influenced students’ motivation to learn and increased their participation in the learning process. Furthermore, the study found that using digital technology enhances students’ understanding of the subject matter as evidenced by a significant improvement in the mean marks of the students in the post-test. The findings of this research suggest that the integration of interactive digital tools into the classroom can enhance student’s learning experiences and academic performance

Perceptions of Institutional Resource Inequities at FCS and Low-Major NCAA Programs

This study delves into the perceptions of student-athletes from Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and low-major NCAA Division I programs, regarding the disparities in institutional resources. Employing a grounded theory approach, the research compiles data from interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups involving 81 student-athletes across four different universities. It highlights the perceived inequities in resources, such as facilities, equipment, and support staff, alongside the effects of these disparities on athletes’ health, recruitment, mental wellness, and academic achievement. The findings suggest a profound impact of resource inequities on the competitive and personal development of student-athletes. This research contributes to the ongoing dialogue on equity in collegiate athletics, providing insights that could guide policy and resource allocation decisions to promote a more equitable environment for student-athletes across various divisions. It also introduces the development of a new theory referred to as institutional athletic privilege

Medical-Legal Alliances: Encounters with Excited Delirium in Ontario Coronial Law

This theoretical paper analyzes Ontario coroner inquest reports that reference excited delirium from 1996 to 2023. The author argues that coroner inquest reporting engaged medical experts in work to exonerate law enforcement of white supremacist violence. Excited delirium as a racializing assemblage illustrates how the coroner inquest functions as a medico-legal tool that pulls focus from, and in so doing is designed to maintain, the violent institution of policing. To that end the author describes the anti-racist abolitionist theoretical approach driving this paper’s analysis, to show the limitations of reliance on what is ultimately a reformist response to death-by-police. Through this lens the author explains the invention and development of excited delirium in medical scholarship. Then in a review of Ontario coroner inquest reporting, the author shows how the causes of death identified and the summaries of death presented come to constitute excited delirium, both by focusing on conditions located in the body-mind of the deceased, and by reframing – and ultimately displacing legal scrutiny away from – restraint use and other patterns of violence found in police encounters. Further, jury recommendations and coroner elaborations related to training and research align with a reformist ethos that enlists medical authorities in the work of keeping institutions of policing intact and beyond meaningful reproach despite the violence they continually enact

Elevating Learning with Collaborative Invitational Education

Invitational Education and literature circles elevated learning in this longitudinal qualitative study as undergraduate teacher candidates collaborated on digital projects. Multimodal instruction promoted innovative collaboration to lift learning and success to new levels in a university methods course. Through an intentionally inviting environment, teacher candidates collaborated in literature circles, prepared multimodal digital projects, and conducted personalized learning experiences with students from third to fifth grade in a field experience. A variety of evidence-based literacy strategies and activities, including the LIFT strategy, extended their opportunities to prepare multimodal digital projects, conduct peer mentoring, and metacognitively reflect upon their learning. Results confirmed the study’s efficacy and alignment with the overarching goals, elements, and domains of Invitational Education theory and practice

Border Extraterritoriality or Cosmopolitan Responsibility? Conceptualizing the Possibility of Asylum Claims in absentia

An emergent issue for critical migration studies concerns the technological and diplomatic capacities of Western nation-states to externalize bordering practices. The extraterritorialization of border enforcement presents a dual problematic for migrants, intellectuals, activists, and civil-society members. They must navigate, on one hand, a pressing need to respond to the pre-emptive foreclosure of a “right to presence,” while on the other hand rethinking institutions of asylum to be capable of operating from a distance. In the following, I construct a new manner of thinking about border extraterritorialization in general, and in response, formulate rightful claims to asylum as articulated in absentia. Extraterritorialization practices and their logics are characterized by pro-jection, through which they give rise to a “general domain of ends” predicated on nation-state irresponsibility, outside of law and outside of their territories. I then elaborate upon a notion of cosmopolitanism that characterizes grassroots actions attempting to address these bordering practices, ones that challenge state-centric frameworks of politics. In advancement of this position, I discuss how a relation of responsibility may be constructed from a distance through civil society initiatives (private sponsorship), counter-public networks (exemplified by WatchTheMed), and counter-institutions (the International Parliament of Writers). All these examples represent a form of communicative reach

Editorial for volume 31

Editorial for volume 3

Visages des terres et des hommes dans l’œuvre de Jean Giono

Romancier, poète, essayiste, Jean Giono a été travaillé par l’humain dans son rapport étroit avec la nature, précisément avec la terre. Son écriture est encline à mettre en avant la corporéité humaine, dans ce qu’elle est un corps-sujet. Cette corporéité, en prise avec les sens et la sensorialité, apparait dans les visages de ses personnages. Les visages dans la Trilogie de Pan : Colline, Un de Baumugnes et Regain sont le symbole de la connaissance de la nature et de la terre, ce qui inscrit le rapport de l’homme à la nature dans l’expression. D’autre part, ils sont l’expression d’une scission entre l’homme et la terre. Plusieurs visages dans l’œuvre de Giono reflètent ce lien qui peut être étroit ou rompu