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    UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024

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    The 2023-2024 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1088/thumbnail.jp

    Conversations on Empathy

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    In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in the public and political arena have argued that we are in desperate need of greater empathy — be this with our neighbours, refugees, war victims, the vulnerable or disappearing animal and plant species. This interdisciplinary volume asks the crucial questions: How does a better understanding of empathy contribute, if at all, to our understanding of others? How is it implicated in the ways we perceive, understand and constitute others as subjects? Conversations on Empathy examines how empathy might be enacted and experienced either as a way to highlight forms of otherness or, instead, to overcome what might otherwise appear to be irreducible differences. It explores the ways in which empathy enables us to understand, imagine and create sameness and otherness in our everyday intersubjective encounters focusing on a varied range of "radical others" – others who are perceived as being dramatically different from oneself. With a focus on the importance of empathy to understand difference, the book contends that the role of empathy is critical, now more than ever, for thinking about local and global challenges of interconnectedness, care and justice

    UMSL Bulletin 2022-2023

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    The 2022-2023 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1087/thumbnail.jp

    2023-2024 Catalog

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    The 2023-2024 Governors State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog is a comprehensive listing of current information regarding:Degree RequirementsCourse OfferingsUndergraduate and Graduate Rules and Regulation

    Introduction to Psychology

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    Introduction to Psychology is a modified version of Psychology 2e - OpenStax

    “Men are the alphas. Men can't be hurt. Men can't be victims” - Narrative, identity, and male victims of female perpetrated intimate partner abuse.

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    This thesis details the process and analysis of the ‘Hard to Tell’ study, a qualitative, narrative study examining how male victims of female perpetrated intimate partner abuse (IPA) tell their story, and what it might mean for their identity. The study consisted of life-story interviews with 18 self-identifying male victims. Between them they described the full range of abuse, including physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, financial, controlling, coercive, and legal and administrative. The differing nature of these forms of abuse meant that some were easier to describe in narrative form, which carried significant implications for their ability to make sense of their experiences and explain it to others. Analysis was informed by a complex and dynamic understanding of identity, including key concepts from Narrative Identity Theory (McAdams, 2018; Bamberg, 2011) and Positioning Theory (Korobov, 2010; 2015). In telling their story, these male survivors were driven to defend against powerful cultural narratives of masculinity and male perpetration that contrasted with their experience as a man and as a victim. In doing so they drew upon other cultural narratives such as mental ill-health and childhood trauma to attain a valid identity position. Cultural narratives such as those of coercive controlling abuse and narcissism, enabled them to identify their abuse and sidestep gendered assumptions of perpetration. This thesis proposes a model of identity work within autobiographical narration that incorporates key components of the individual, audience, context, and culture. A prominent feature of these men’s stories was the role played by third parties, who enabled them to reframe their experience as an abuse narrative and begin a process of escape and recovery. This places professionals at the heart of this model, as audience and co-producer within a critical process of narrative sense making and identity validation

    The incorporation of polyphony into Russian sacred music

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    It is a matter of record that while music in the West steadily incorporated polyphony from the ninth century onwards, sacred music in Russia remained largely monophonic until around mid–17th century, when Western–style polyphony (partesny) suddenly appeared and was incorporated. However, the extant literature does not provide any fully satisfactory explanation for the success of this sudden incursion of polyphony, after almost seven centuries of concerted monophony. Accordingly, in this thesis, I examined the period from 1650–1750 in detail, to clarify the factors either promoting, or inhibiting, the abrupt appearance of polyphony. I identified several powerful pre–existing inhibitors, which I conclude had collectively barred polyphony up to mid–17th century. These included religious opposition, geographical isolation, a lack of training facilities and of singers capable of part singing, and musical roadblocks in the traditional Russia monophonic canon. I proposed that the appearance of partesny was directly and temporally related to the softening and eventual disappearance of these inhibitors. In addition, numerous promoters of polyphony long operative in the West, that had previously been largely absent in Russia, emerged gradually as inhibitors waned. I conclude that the array of inhibitors identified played a primary role in successfully holding polyphony at bay until mid–17th century, with an additional lack of promoters playing a secondary role. I further suggest that while the secular music that developed subsequently in the 18th and subsequent centuries could have incorporated polyphony independently of sacred music at several different historical time points, ingress of polyphony into Russian liturgical music may only have been practically possible in the period from 1650–1750. Failing that, it is plausible that Russia’s sacred music could have remained largely monophonic to the present day, as is the case for Greek sacred music

    Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia

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    This book, Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia, makes a unique and needed contribution to the mentoring field as it focuses solely on mentoring in academia. This handbook is a collaborative institutional effort between Utah State University’s (USU) Empowering Teaching Open Access Book Series and the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico (UNM). This book is available through (a) an e-book through Pressbooks, (b) a downloadable PDF version on USU’s Open Access Book Series website), and (c) a print version available for purchase on the USU Empower Teaching Open Access page, and on Amazon

    Towards an ecosystem view of legitimacy of third sector organisations

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    The study aims to provide a better understanding of the legitimacy and legitimation of third sector organisations (TSOs). It does so by integrating insights from contemporary legitimacy literature and public administration management literature into the context of Scottish-based TSOs that deliver services to young people. Legitimacy can support the resource acquisition and long-term survival of TSOs. Therefore, legitimacy should not be taken for granted and must be actively managed to gain endorsement, support, and resources from the legitimating environment. However, much of the previous non-profit literature has tended to focus on the study of dyads, where the funder is often viewed as the main constituency who grants legitimacy to TSOs. TSOs are complex organisations because they have multiple constituent groups who may have different interests. The non-profit underpinnings of TSOs, the multiplicity of funding mechanisms and the presence of multiple constituents require expanding the focus to embrace these characteristics into the study of TSO legitimacy. The study employed a qualitative multiple case study approach to explore legitimacy of four TSOs with different funding structures. Major data collection tools included semi-structured interviews with selected organisations and their funding institutions, observations and site visits, and analysis of relevant documents. The data was thematically analysed. The research study was guided by abductive reasoning which allowed for the exploration of the appropriate theoretical framework during the research and identified the relevance of the ecosystem approach in the study of the phenomena. The application of the ecosystem approached has allowed to account for the complexity of TSOs and uncover a range of interlinked processes that contribute to TSO legitimacy. By embracing a holistic view on legitimacy, the study has provided an empirical demonstration that in the TSO context, legitimation of TSOs does not occur in dyadic relationships between the organisation and the funder but requires ongoing interactions with other elements in the wider ecosystem, the role of which becomes apparent only after the whole ecosystem has been explored and understood. Accordingly, the study has proposed a framework of the legitimacy ecosystem of TSOs and offered three different approaches to legitimation based on the core element, which has more legitimising potential than others when viewed within the whole ecosystem
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