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    Wooster Magazine: Spring 2023

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    The spring 2023 issue of Wooster magazine features alumni influencing change in their communities around the world, including John Carwile ’81, career member of the U.S. Foreign Service; Rashmi Ekka ’08, international development consultant; Samira El-Adawy ’13, Special Olympics youth manager in the Middle East and North Africa; Ishtiaq Ghafoor ’00, a diplomat with the British Foreign Service; Sarah Haile ’03, a biostatistician at University of Zurich; Kurt Russell ’94, 2022 National Teacher of the Year; and Lauren Vargo ’13, climate change researcher in New Zealand. Also featured are students who have attended the annual Athens Democracy Forum for the past five years and recent international graduates taking advantage of opportunities to gain experience in STEM fields. The issue also includes an interview with Wooster’s incoming 13th president, Dr. Anne McCall.https://openworks.wooster.edu/wooalumnimag_2011-present/1045/thumbnail.jp

    Lift EVERY Voice and Sing: An Intersectional Qualitative Study Examining the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Faculty and Administrators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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    While there is minimal literature that address the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans* identified students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the experiences of Black, queer faculty and administrators at HBCUs has not been studied. This intersectional qualitative research study focused on the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer identified faculty and administrators who work at HBCUs. By investigating the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality within a predominantly Black institution, this study aims to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at HBCUs by sharing the experiences of the LGBQ faculty and administrators that previously or currently work at an HBCU as a full-time employee. The research questions that guided this study were 1) How have LGBQ faculty and staff negotiated/navigated their careers at HBCUs? and 2) How do LGBQ faculty and staff at HBCUs influence cultural (relating to LGBQ inclusion) change at the organizational level? The main theoretical framework used was intersectionality and it shaped the chosen methodology and methods. The Politics of Respectability was the second theoretical framework used to describe the intra-racial tensions within the Black/African American community. The study included 60-120 minute interviews with 12 participants. Using intersectionality as a guide, the data were coded and utilized for thematic analysis. Then, an ethnodramatic performance engages readers. The goals of this study were to encourage policy changes, promote inclusivity for LGBQ employees at HBCUs, and provide an expansion to the body of literature in the field pertaining to the experiences of LGBQ faculty and administrators in higher education

    Graphical scaffolding for the learning of data wrangling APIs

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    In order for students across the sciences to avail themselves of modern data streams, they must first know how to wrangle data: how to reshape ill-organised, tabular data into another format, and how to do this programmatically, in languages such as Python and R. Despite the cross-departmental demand and the ubiquity of data wrangling in analytical workflows, the research on how to optimise the instruction of it has been minimal. Although data wrangling as a programming domain presents distinctive challenges - characterised by on-the-fly syntax lookup and code example integration - it also presents opportunities. One such opportunity is how tabular data structures are easily visualised. To leverage the inherent visualisability of data wrangling, this dissertation evaluates three types of graphics that could be employed as scaffolding for novices: subgoal graphics, thumbnail graphics, and parameter graphics. Using a specially built e-learning platform, this dissertation documents a multi-institutional, randomised, and controlled experiment that investigates the pedagogical effects of these. Our results indicate that the graphics are well-received, that subgoal graphics boost the completion rate, and that thumbnail graphics improve navigability within a command menu. We also obtained several non-significant results, and indications that parameter graphics are counter-productive. We will discuss these findings in the context of general scaffolding dilemmas, and how they fit into a wider research programme on data wrangling instruction

    Full Issue: Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 6, Issue 1, Spring 2022

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    The full-length 2022 Special Issue (Volume 5, Issue 3) of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence Access the online Pressbooks version (with downloadable EPUB format) here. The Spring 2022 issue begins with research that explores the perceptions of pre-service teachers relative to learning mathematics and science, with suggestions for how findings can impact curriculum and further research. The focus on pre-service teachers continues with research into their sense of self-efficacy with instructional technologies and whether specific techniques increase comfort level with technologies. Next, researchers explore the products that Generation Z students value most in their learning of a second language, including practical language application and engagement with the language culture and its native speakers. Then, college-level educators share a process for implementing problem-based learning (PBL) in higher education, exploring four main ideas of PBL and the role of the educator in its implementation

    Composing Care: The Aesthetics and Politics of Music Therapy in the Clinic

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    This dissertation examines the care work of music therapists in North American hospitals. Based on sixteen months of fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2020 in Canada and the United States, this ethnography investigates the clinical aesthetics of music therapy, or how music therapy is sensed and made sense of in the clinic. I show how, through its foundation in Western art music traditions, the profession of music therapy is depoliticized—grounded in the values of universality, rationality, and objectivity—and aligned with biomedicine. It is through an association with biomedical knowledge systems that, I argue, music therapy is made into a health profession. I found that music therapists struggle to have their work taken seriously as they care for patients on the margins of hospital systems. Music therapists are in pursuit of what I call clinical recognition—being seen and valued from a biomedical perspective. As they strive to be recognized as indispensable to biomedical care, I show how music therapists attempt to ameliorate biomedical care structures from within. They cultivate sensitivities to sensory experience, especially to sound, that inform their movement through hospitals and guide their interactions with patients and staff. By intervening in what I describe as the clinical sensorium—the dominant structuring of sensory modes of attention that shape what is sensible in the clinic—music therapists disrupt the stultifying anaesthetic, or numbing, qualities of the clinic by reconfiguring clinical attunements, composing atmospheres of care, and structuring feelings in their extra/ordinary care practices. These care practices, I argue, are grounded in reciprocity; through musical gift exchange, music therapists foster affective connections and attachments for hospital patients that reimagine care in ways that remain partially tethered to yet exceed biomedical logics. Mobilized for and against biopolitical care regimes that attempt to delineate, capture, and govern life and death, I argue the care practices of music therapists reimagine the sensory-affective possibilities of living and dying in the clinic

    Translating Lightning in A Bottle: Idealists, Pragmatists, and the Reorientation of Translators at the Intersection of Blockchain and Climate

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    The travel of ideas is a ubiquitous part of social and organizational life. People and organizations are constantly exposed to ideas and often incorporate them into their lives in some way, including adopting them to create new ventures or solutions to grand societal challenges. Grounded in the translation perspective (i.e., Scandinavian institutionalism), this dissertation explores the notion of within organization translator heterogeneity and the microfoundations of the incipient process of new venture ideation predicated on the translation of an idea to a new setting or what I call "ideational translation." To explore such underpinnings of the emergence of a new organizational entity and the travel of ideas, I draw on insights from a 24-month ethnography of life behind the creation of Blockset, one of the world's first blockchain-based carbon offset platforms. Through a detailed ethnographic account, I tell the story of the set of blockchain experts and climate experts contributing to Blockset's formative creation and explore their diverse lived experiences as translators facilitating the travel of the idea of a blockchain platform to the field of climate. Notably, in doing so, I pay attention to the tensions that ensued, how people navigated them, and to what avail. Yet, what lies at the heart of this dissertation is my finding that a key microfoundational aspect of ideational translation is within organization translator heterogeneity delineated by "translation orientations" – a term I use to capture a person's general beliefs with regards to the appropriate way to implement an idea. Overall, based on my findings, I present an orientation-based model of ideational translation that is centered around a translation orientation spectrum anchored on idealism and pragmatism – which stress translators' preferences for conforming to the norms of an idea's origin and destination, respectively – and specifies why translators embrace specific orientations, their impacts on the dynamics and outcomes of translation, and reorientation pathways that translators can follow

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    Building a Generic Value Creation Model For the Sri Lankan National Education System

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    This research was an attempt to build a generic value creation model architecture which can be used by any organisation without business v. public or profit v non-profit differences, by way of: a synthesis of literature in 6 streams of management related to value creation; operationalise it using data collected through an exploratory study in the System of General School Education in Sri Lanka; and, test the operationalised model in the same context through a confirmatory study. The study was a mixed-method one, using in its exploratory phase interviews as its data collection instrument, and in its subsequent confirmatory phase, questionnaires as its data collection instruments. Data analysis methodologies used to test hypotheses were structured equation modelling and multiple regression analysis. The operationalisation validated the model building assumptions, and the final research results showed that the proposed model can be used in a national-scale public education context to measure value creation
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