Special Libraries, Spring 1995

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Crossing the Black Line: An Examination of the Process of Transitioning from Non-Swimmer to Swimmer and a Program Evaluation of an Adult Swim Lesson Program Focusing on People with Aquaphobia

The mission of any learn-to-swim program is to equip individuals with the skills and confidence to safely participate in water activities. Many of these programs primarily focus on children, but little is known about the effectiveness of these programs with respect to adults. Drowning deaths among adult populations are not as proportionately significant compared to children and adolescents but still equally staggering. Researchers conclude more emphasis should be placed on drowning prevention and evaluation of preexisting physical and psychological conditions that create barriers to swimming and water safety. Not much information currently exist for adults with a serious fear of swimming or water, called Aquaphobia. One of the key difficulties in answering the question of whether or not drowning incidents can be reduced through prevention strategies is to understanding why individuals do not participate in prevention strategies. What constraints do these adults face, external and or psychological? The uniqueness of this particular swim program addresses not just the mechanics but also seeks to identify, examine and overcome preexisting fears or phobias associated with swimming. The purpose of this project was to evaluate an Aquaphobics program by identifying common themes unique to the Aquaphobia phenomenon to assist in transitioning adult non-swimmers to swimmers. This study adopted a pragmatic paradigm, with its focus on solving the problem of loss of life through the largely preventable act of drowning. Both a phenomenological and phenomenography explanation of the data were performed to achieve a deeper understanding of the essence of the phenomenon, lived experiences of the non-swimmers and the different ways in which they transition to become confident, or at least comfortable swimmers. The data for this study came from participants in an Aquaphobics program ran from 2013 to 2016. Over the 3 years there have been 117 participants in the program. This study focused on in-depth interviews of 11 participants. It became clear early on that all external barriers, I as the instructor/ researcher was in control over, were removed. Therefore I made this class free, and instructed on a rolling basis, so people could start when they wanted, come when they wanted, for the reason they wanted. There were some people that did not seem to have a phobia of water, more a fear related to an unlearned skill they now wanted for some purpose. The research did reveal that the majority of participants were participating due to a deep fear of water and swimming. Unlike the individuals that were there to improve their swimming ability and did not have a phobia, came, got their skill and left the program, the group that stayed in the program to conquer a fear never left the program for the most and began to build their social lines around other participants. As a programmer this knowledge can help facilitate continued involvement in other recreation programs based on peer motivation. Towards the end of the program many participants expressed an interest to attempt other water related activities and encourage others within their social group to join, for example, padding boarding and scuba diving

Preacher\u27s Magazine Volume 67 Number 02

EDITORIAL Fear Not: I Am with Thee, Randal E. Denny The Bright Side, Barbara A. DuPuy CHRISTIAN MINISTRY Ministerial Responsibility, William S. Deal Ministry Is Not a Job but a Calling, Mel Norton Pastor in the Grass, John Crowder No Forty-Hour Week, Eugene F. Gerlitz Ministerially Speaking, Deanna Harrison CHRISTIAN HOLIDAYS Christmas Simplicity, J. Grant Swank, Jr. A Carpenter’s Gift at Christmas, David Wiggins St. Valentine’s Day, Morris Chalfant CHURCH ADMINISTRATION Sweet Music from a Second Fiddle, Chris Smith CHURCH GROWTH Do Not Disturb, Karen Monnin Doolittle PASTOR’S PERSONAL GROWTH When the Saints Go Marching Out, Kathleen D. Bailey PASTOR’S PROFESSIONAL GROWTH If You Preach: Read, Carl G. Conner Ima Jo Kerr’s Book List, Bob Haslam EVANGELISM Going Forward — It’s Easy!, Kathy Scott PASTORAL CARE Breaking Through the Communication Barrier, Robert W. Rae PREACHINGThe Power of Positive Preaching, Croft M. Pentz Illustrations in Preaching, W. Floyd Bresee STEWARDSHIPThe Preretirement Years: A Time for Planning, Don Walter Make It Easy to Give, Maxine Dowd Jensen MISSIONS Welcome to Islam Jesus, Jim Buchanan PASTOR, BE ENCOURAGED So Much of Life Is . . . Adjusting, C. Neil Strait MINISTER’S MATE Parsonage Paychecks, Celia Jolley HINDERING HANG-UPS Attitudinal Rigidity, Raymond C. Kratzer SOUNDING BOARD When It Comes to Worship . . . Isn’t God the Real Audience?, Joanne L. Holland and Albert M. Wells, Jr. Confessions of a Born-Again Baby Boomer!, Mike MacNeil CHURCH MUSIC The Divine Story of Handel’s Messiah, Robert W. Pelton WESLEYANA “The Best of All Is, God Is with Us”: Living Words of a Dying Man, Barry E. Bryant THEOLOGY The Authority of Scripture, J. Kenneth Grider STORIES PREACHERS TELL EACH OTHER The Great Baptistry Fiasco, Ken Chamberlain IDEA MART The Advantage of Videotaping, Greg Crofford ARK ROCKER The Televangelists Did Me In WORSHIP AND PREACHING HELPS, Derl G. Keeferhttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/1663/thumbnail.jp

DICO Toolkit for Digital Career Stories

Digital Career Stories – Opening new career paths for arts and culture students, or DICO for short, has been a 2-year-long pedagogical development project. Its main objective was to develop innovative narrative and arts- and design-based methods that together form the Digital Career Story methodology introduced in this toolkit. Through the methodology developed, the project aimed to encourage reflection and self-reflection skills in higher education students, along with their digital and creative skills, and to help them build professional identities and design career paths, as well as enhancing their resilience, self-efficacy and self-esteem. The specific target group of the project was students of arts and culture subjects, but the pedagogical methods can just as well be used with other higher education students. The DICO project was the joint effort of a consortium of five European universities: Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS), Finland (as the applicant and coordinator of the project), University of Macerata (UniMC), Italy, Staffordshire University (SU), United Kingdom, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), Hungary, and the Technical University of Dublin (TU Dublin), Ireland. The project was funded by the Erasmus+ programme and lasted from March 2021 to February 2023.The DICO Toolkit contains the project results in the form of a handbook intended for lecturers, counsellors and mentors in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and for cultural and creative organisations and professionals. It aims to provide both theoretical frameworks and practical tools for developing art-based methodologies with HEI students in the arts and culture. The book is structured into three sections – Theories and methodologies, Implementing creative methods, and Project evaluation and further resources – and concludes with an Appendix

Preacher\u27s Magazine Volume 68 Number 01

EDITORIAL Sunday School Is More Important than You Think, Randal E. Denny CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Ten Steps to Sunday School Revival, Kenneth O. Gangel Unsung Heroes, Phil Riley Is Your Congregation a Church at Risk?, Mark York If I Were a Pastor . . . My Dream for the Sunday School, Miriam Hall Ministry to Teenagers: Where Do We Go from Here?, Fred Fullerton Adolescent Spiritual Development, Ed Robinson Demythologizing Adult Ministry in the Church, C. Ferris Jordan The Adult Sunday School: Same Words, Different Tune, Randy Cloud PREACHING What They Are Saying About Our Preaching, Wesley TracyAvoiding Anti-Semitism in Sermon Preparation and Delivery, Jeffery P. Dennis EVANGELISM Evangelistic Preaching in Today’s Pulpit, Kenneth Orr CHURCH MUSIC Evangelistic Music in Worship, Part 1, Daniel Steele PASTOR, BE ENCOURAGED You Make a Difference, C. Neil Strait MINISTER’S MATE Unforgettable Jane Edna Hill, Edward Victor Hill TODAY’S BOOKS FOR TODAY’S PREACHERS CHRISTIAN HOLIDAYS The Response of the Redeemed, D. Randy Berkner PASTORAL CARE Where Was God When My Son Was Killed?, Morris Chalfant CHURCH ADMINISTRATION The Delight of the Struggling Church, J. Grant Swank, Jr. STEWARDSHIP The Preretirement Years: Emotional Preparation, Dennis Apple HINDERING HANG-UPS The Hang up of Self-pity, Raymond C. Kratzer PASTOR’S PROFESSIONAL GROWTH Longevity in the Pastorate, Croft M. Pentz ARK ROCKER You Need a Gossip Queen WORSHIP AND PREACHING HELPS, Stan Tolerhttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/1666/thumbnail.jp

The Privilege to Select : Global Research System, European Academic Library Collections, and Decolonisation

A large part of the literature published in the ‘Global South’ is barely covered by bibliographic databases. Institutional policies increasingly require researchers globally to publish in ‘international’ journals, draining local infrastructures. The standard-setting power of ‘Global South’ scholars is minimised further. My main aim is to render visible the ways in which European academic libraries contribute to this situation. It is explained as a consequence of specific features of current world society, referred to as coloniality, social injustice, and quantified communication. The thesis analyses peripherality conceptually and scientometrically: based on a sample, how is Southeast African basic social sciences and humanities (SSH) research integrated in global scholarly communication, and how do local dissemination infrastructures develop under these conditions? Finally, how are professional values, specifically neutrality, and workflows of European academic libraries, interrelated with these developments? The methodological approach of the thesis is multi-faceted, including conceptual analyses, scientometrics, and a short survey of collection managers and an analysis of the corresponding libraries' collection policies. The off-mainstream decolonial scientometric approach required the construction of a database from multiple sources. Southeast Africa was selected as a field for some of the empirical studies included, because out of all rarely studied local communities to which a peripheral status is commonly attributed, the large majority of Southeast African authors use English as their primary academic language. This excludes linguistic reasons for the peripheral attribution.The theoretical and conceptual point of departure is to analyse scholarly communication as a self-referential social system with global reach (Luhmann). In this thesis, an unorthodox understanding of social systems theory is developed, providing it with cultural humility, inspired by decolonial thinking. The value of the approach lies in its in-built capacity for social change: peripheries are constructed communicatively, and culturally humble communication avoids adding to the accumulation of peripheral references attributed to the ‘Global South’, for instance by suspending the incarceration of area studies which tends to subsume any research from and about Africa as African studies, remote from the core of SSH. While centrality serves the necessary purpose of reducing the overwhelming complexity of global research, communicative centres can just as well be constructed as topical, and do not require a spatial attachment to be functional. Another advantage of this approach is its awareness of different levels of observation, differentiating, for instance, between whether the academic librarian's neutrality is imagined as playing out in interaction with the user (passive neutrality), as representing the diversity of the research system (active neutrality), or as balancing social bias running through society at large, and hence furthering social justice (culturally humble neutrality)