882 research outputs found

    Understanding The Lived Experiences of Elementary Teachers Who Teach Students With Dyslexia How to Read: A Transcendental Phenomenology

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    This transcendental phenomenology sought to understand the lived experiences of elementary teachers who teach students with dyslexia how to read. The central question guiding this study was: “What are the lived experiences of elementary teachers who teach students with dyslexia how to read?” Three sub-questions looked more deeply into the phenomenon. The first sub-question asked: “What internal influences shape elementary teachers’ experiences when teaching students with dyslexia how to read?” The second sub-question asked: “What external influences shape elementary teachers’ experiences when teaching students with dyslexia how to read?” Finally, the third sub-question asked: “How do internal and external influences shape elementary teachers’ experiences when teaching students with dyslexia how to read?” Bandura’s social cognitive theory (SCT) guided this study, as its model of triadic reciprocal causation provided a framework for understanding the internal and external influences that shaped elementary teachers’ experiences when teaching reading to students with dyslexia. A total of 14 teachers were purposefully selected either from public and private elementary teacher Facebook groups across the United States or snowball sampling. Participants were K-4 classroom teachers, special education teachers, and reading specialists. Data were collected from individual interviews, document analysis, and participant journaling. Moustakas’ (1994) data analysis procedures were used to reveal the essence of participants’ lived experiences of the phenomenon. Thus, the science of reading, barriers to teaching students with dyslexia, and the pandemic and dyslexia strongly shaped elementary teachers’ instruction when teaching students with dyslexia how to read

    2017 GREAT Day Program

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    SUNY Geneseo’s Eleventh Annual GREAT Day.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/program-2007/1011/thumbnail.jp

    Trans and non-binary people’s experiences of cancer care in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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    Cancer is a severe and life-threatening disease affecting many people and their loved ones. Much is still unknown about cancer as a disease; however, it is known that the care that patients receive can play a vital role in producing better illness outcomes and improving quality of life during treatment. Understanding people’s experiences of cancer care is important for creating better care protocols, understanding barriers to care access, and ensuring patients receive care that meets their needs. This thesis explores the gap in knowledge surrounding trans and non-binary (TNB) people’s experiences of cancer care in Aotearoa/New Zealand. There is limited cancer research internationally regarding TNB communities and cancer, and little-to-no known research has been published specific to Aotearoa/New Zealand. The research question of this study was, what are the cancer care experiences of TNB people in Aotearoa/New Zealand? To understand this question, I undertook an interpretive qualitative study theoretically informed by community psychology. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three participants who identified as trans or non-binary and had received treatment in Aotearoa/New Zealand within the last ten years. A narrative case study approach was utilised, in order for the complexity and diversity of each participant’s experiences to be recognised. It was found that TNB people experience barriers in accessing cancer care and receiving quality cancer care. These barriers are related to wider structural issues resulting from cisgenderism that are reflected within cancer care. Cisgenderism acts to constrain how TNB patients define their own narrative of illness and interrupts the ability to move forward through cancer in ways that are personally meaningful. The study also found that TNB people are not passive in the face of constraint, as the participants each found ways to maintain a sense of agency within their experience of cancer care. There was significant diversity within the participants’ experiences, which was an important finding in-itself. This diversity particularly demonstrated the benefit of a methodological approach that could account for complexity and intersectionality, when seeking to understand TNB people’s experiences of cancer care. Overall, this thesis provides new insight into an underexplored topic and has important implications for TNB cancer patients in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: Towards new critical understandings of borders. Working Papers

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    UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020publishersversionpublishe

    Modern meat: the next generation of meat from cells

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    Modern Meat is the first textbook on cultivated meat, with contributions from over 100 experts within the cultivated meat community. The Sections of Modern Meat comprise 5 broad categories of cultivated meat: Context, Impact, Science, Society, and World. The 19 chapters of Modern Meat, spread across these 5 sections, provide detailed entries on cultivated meat. They extensively tour a range of topics including the impact of cultivated meat on humans and animals, the bioprocess of cultivated meat production, how cultivated meat may become a food option in Space and on Mars, and how cultivated meat may impact the economy, culture, and tradition of Asia

    The global problem of image-based sexual abuse considered in the Irish context: An evaluation of existing legal responses with a focus on effective enforcement in the online environment

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    The recording and/or sharing of intimate images without consent – known as image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) – has received significant legislative attention in recent years. Various approaches to addressing the harm of IBSA have been adopted internationally and this thesis identifies a need to consider the Irish response to IBSA. Adopting a victim-centred approach, this thesis derives lessons from the Australian experience where an innovative system of redress and enforcement has been developed through the establishment of a regulatory structure supported by a statutory body, the Office of the eSafety Commissioner (OESC). The immediate importance of this research is clear. Remediating harm in the world of the internet where both identities and jurisdictional boundaries are blurred is challenging. This thesis investigates the effectiveness of the OESC in practice in order to better assess the Irish approach and the potential of the Irish Online Safety Commissioner to provide adequate redress for victims of IBSA in Ireland. Through the use of doctrinal and comparative analysis and the conducting of interviews with key stakeholders in the area of online regulation, this thesis identifies the key needs of victims of IBSA and identifies numerous mechanisms designed to address those needs, at least in part. This victim-centred approach underlies the in-depth analysis of the Australian system and is used to inform the policy recommendations made in this thesis. Particular attention is afforded to whether the Irish approach should include an individual complaints mechanism. By drawing inferences between the Irish and Australian situations, a clearer picture is drawn as to the optimum remit, structure, functions, and powers of the Irish OSC in order to effectively address the harms of IBSA

    EU Data Governance: Preserving Global Privacy in the Age of Surveillance

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    The thesis explores the EU’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), its human rights approach to data privacy, and its diffusion around the world. It asks the question: why would any nation, authoritarian or democratic, adopt Europe’s data privacy framework as a model for their country’s data governance? Accessing the theoretical frameworks of the Brussels Effect and the New Interde-pendence Approach, the research considers country case studies on China, Japan, and the US, comparing the different motivations and structural conditions that dictate how these three countries have adopted and adapted the GDPR framework. It finds a vastly different set of conditions for adopting the GDPR data privacy framework, none of which can be explained fully by either the Brussels Effect or the New Interdependence Approach. It also finds that none of the three countries embrace the language of human rights in their data privacy legislation. Of all the three countries, Japan has converged most closely with the GDPR in letter and spirit over time. While China’s legislation bears all the key features of the GDPR, the de facto reality is that data privacy regulation is a tool of state control. The United States case shows how a changing global environment forced the U.S. legislators to retreat from their market-driven approach to data governance in the direction of GDPR-like regulation

    Internet Human Rights

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    The rate at which Internet connectivity is spreading is matched only by the increasing amount of time people spend online. Today over 5 billion humans access the Internet; the overwhelming majority of them engage in social media, and almost all of them live out key aspects of their daily lives digitally. Human rights are universal in the sense that they apply to everyone, everywhere. And while there are indicators that they apply in cyberspace, how they apply is a different story. Now, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns 75, we wonder how many of those rights accompany us into our digital lives. This article develops a matrix mapping how human rights, which were developed for the physical world, might apply in the digital world. Using the 30 articles (rights) enumerated in the UDHR as a foil, the broad outline of a clearer picture emerges. Some governments or courts mandate certain rights to fully manifest in digital space, others are making progress, and still others remain static. Moreover, these rights can be enforced via either state regulation or corporate terms of service. Designed as the first tool of its kind for attorneys, judges, policymakers, and advocates to chart which rights are accompanying us onto and into the Internet, this guide will be a foundational starting point for a much broader discussion to come

    Historical organization studies

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    Historical organization studies denotes organizational research that draws on historical sources, methods and knowledge to promote historically informed theoretical narratives attentive to both theory and history. It thus aspires to dual integrity, whereby organization theory and history inform one another without either becoming dominant. By historicizing organizational research, the contexts and forces bearing upon organizations may be more fully recognized and analyses of organizational and institutional dynamics improved. This chapter explores, through three illustrative projects, different ways in which historical organization studies might be enacted: an archival-based exploration of the construction since 1945 of the global hotel industry; an oral-history project on corporate governance and executive remuneration; and a database-centric study of philanthropy in North East England between 1830 and 1939 drawing on diverse primary sources. The methodology’s main strength lies in explicating the processes at work in the emergence, institutionalization and maintenance of contemporary phenomena of substance and import
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