The Courier, Volume 23, Issue 18, March 16, 1990

Stories: Students Come Together Students \u27Crowning Blow\u27 In Contract Negotiations SG Meeting Attracts 450 Student Workers To Receive Deductions-Bush Administration May Require Students To Pay Social Security Active, Female Leader Awarded At CD Peregrine Falcons To Be Released At CD\u27s Arts Center CD Offers Special Services To Hearing Impaired Students People: Ron Jones Marget Hamilton Adade Wheeler Meridian Arts Ensemble Guillermo Barquero Walt Packart Al Romero Kori Konopk

The Discourse Beneath: Emotional Epistemology in Legal Deliberation and Negotiation

All lawyers negotiate, and all negotiators deliberate. This article addresses the pervasive but unrefined use of emotional insight by deliberating and negotiating lawyers, and suggests that legal education could improve lawyering by adopting a fuller model of legal thinking that takes account of this epistemological emotionality. In forming the beliefs that underlie choices made during deliberation and negotiation, people rely on insights informed by past and present emotional experience. Such epistemological emotionality fuels a pre-linguistic, quasi-inductive reasoning process that enables us to draw on stored information about emotional phenomena to hypothesize about motives, behavior, and potential consequences. As deliberation moves from the individual to the collective endeavor, negotiators draw on epistemological emotionality in an iterated process of evaluating and adjusting for the impacts of each round of exchange on each participant, to maintain an effective negotiating environment. Epistemological emotionality thus fuels the processes of deliberation and negotiation that permeate legal practice, but lawyers are discouraged from refining (or even acknowledging) their use of emotional insight by a professional culture that disdains it. Disdain is inculcated by a tradition of legal education steeped in the Platonic dichotomy between cognition and emotion, in which cognition is the virtuous champion of objective truth and emotion is an amoral, primitive wilderness to be tamed by reason. However, lawyers are called upon to untangle the vexing, layered, and often emotionally-charged situations that others have finally relinquished to the care of professionals, and neglect (or abuse) of epistemological emotionality can compromise their performance. Growing recognition in other academic and professional disciplines attests to the importance of emotionally-informed knowing in reasoned human discourse - but nowhere is reasoned human discourse more important than in the deliberative enterprise of law, which requires its agents to reflect carefully about the meaning of social interactions and institutions (and accords great significance to their ultimate decisions). The piece argues that a more purposeful synthesis of emotional and analytic data in deliberation and negotiation will improve the potency with which lawyers, judges, and lawmakers approach the problems they are called upon to solve

Casco Bay Weekly : 4 August 1988

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Factors Influencing the Adoption of Immersive Virtual Reality for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Parents Perceptions

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify factors that affect the adoption of a spherical video virtual reality (SVVR) mobile application among parents of adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The study used the diffusion of innovation theory by Rogers (2003) as a framework to explore parents’ perceptions of an SVVR transportation model designed to improve the quality of life of adults with ASD. In addition, the study sought to learn what might increase adoption of VR technology among other parents of individuals with ASD and what life skills that might be addressed using VR technology in the future. The study employed interviews, focus groups, and observation to collect data. The factors that negatively affected the perception of VR technology among parents were categorized into themes: awareness of VR learning applications, availability, disadvantages of SVVR, and technical issues related to the SVVR transportation model. Factors that positively affected the parents’ decision to adopt VR were immersion, realism, ease-of-use, enjoyment and motivation. To increase the adoption of VR by other parents of individuals with ASD, parents suggested that understanding of VR learning applications needs to increase, more teachers should be trained to use VR, the SVVR model should be improved, and there should be greater exposure to VR in schools and at home. Potential future life skills that need to be addressed through the VR technology were also identified. The findings of this study may help eliminate concerns about using VR technology as a therapy for ASD individuals and encourage more parents, teachers, and other stakeholders to adopt it

The poetics of experience: a first-person creative and critical investigation of self-experience and the writing of poetry

There is increasing interest in the personal benefits of writing poetry and a growing field of practical application within healthcare. However, there is little direct research and a need for practice-based theoretical integration to improve understanding of the specific changes, creative processes and challenges involved. This study investigates the way that writing poetry can affect self-experience. It also contributes to the development of combined modes of creative and critical inquiry. A first-person account of the experiential and creative outcomes of writing poetry over an extended period is presented. The results of this are subjected to reflexive analysis and a critical theoretical explication. Four factors relating self-experience to the experience of writing poetry are identified: a failure of conscious intention; an inhibiting objectification of experience; an implicit assumption of a separate self, and a changed experience of self that felt more embodied and fluid. These findings are the basis of a theoretical examination that utilizes the work of Ignacio Matte Blanco and Michael Polanyi, in conjunction with insights derived from contemporary psychoanalysis, embodied cognition, neuroscience and attention training. An original theoretical integration is developed. It is proposed that poetry has a characteristic bi-logical form that condenses and integrates difference and identity in a simultaneous and concentrated manner. The process of composition requires a reciprocal interplay of conscious and unconscious processes, which can be enhanced by an increase in embodied awareness, a decrease in the exercise of deliberate volition, and the facilitative use of images. This involves a flexible oscillation of awareness that, modulated by the breadth of attention and the degree of identification or separation from experience, directly alters the boundaries and quality of self-experience. This framework avoids the limitations of reductive or eliminative views of the self and allows for the creative operation of what is dubbed the 'nondual imagination'

Children’s perceptions of climate change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

We are in the midst of a climate crisis (IPBES, 2022). Our reliance on burning fossil fuels as the primary energy source for the global economy is leading to atmospheric and oceanic heating, which is leading to a range of societal consequences including unstable, unpredictable, and more intense hydrological extremes such as tropical storms and associated, extended periods of drought, as well as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and ecological instability; amongst many other ill effects (United Nations Environment Programme, 2021). Perhaps most significantly, Climate Change is placing a growing number of people at heightened flood risk in low laying deltaic regions around the world, including one of the most at-risk deltas, the Mekong Delta in Vietnam (Dun, 2011a; Human Rights Watch, 2019; Huong & Pathirana, 2013; Ngo et al., 2019; World Bank, 2020b), which is home for 18 million people.Among those people most at risk from Climate Change, both here and around the world, are children (Jones et al., 2021; O'Brien et al., 2018). Yet, these voices are often the least consulted or explored within Climate Change research, knowledge exchange and policy formulation (Beer, 2014; Malin & Ryder, 2018; Schlosberg & Collins, 2014; Smith, 2021; Son et al., 2021). Using a qualitative, creative, and place-based approach, this thesis provides an indepth exploration of the knowledges, perceptions, and experiences that children living in the Mekong Delta hold in relation to Climate Change and hydrological extremes – paying particular attention to the socio-cultural dimensions that shape these views. The findings presented demonstrate how children psychologically distance the issue of Climate Change both spatially and temporally and highlights the suite of reasons generating disconnects between lived experiences and formal education. The findings, however, also identify many socio-cultural factors that serve as opportunities for enhancing Climate Change education across the region and suggests ways in which these could be leveraged in future education initiatives with the aim of improving decision making and longer-term Climate Change adaptation and mitigation