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Tools to Support Public Policy Grantmaking
· This article provides guidance on how foundations can frame, focus, and advance efforts to achieve public policy reforms.
· Five essential steps for developing public policy strategy are described: choosing the public policy goal, understanding the challenges, identifying influential audiences, determining how far those audiences must move, and deciding how to move them.
· Two tools developed specifically to support foundations during the strategy development process are presented
Final Experiential Learning Report: The Stratford Festival Archives & Ecuador Womenâs Empowerment Trip
To fulfil my SASAH experiential-learning requirement, I worked as an intern at the Stratford Festival Archives in 2017 and travelled to Ecuador as part of a Womenâs Empowerment trip in 2018. At the Festival, my colleague and I were responsible for designing the Archivesâ first-ever digital catalogue. We researched the provenance of each costume piece, which often included looking through design bibles and conducting informal interviews. We then photographed and wrote detailed descriptions for each costume piece. By the end of the summer, my colleague and I had written over 300 complete entries, laying the groundwork for future interns. My trip to Ecuador consisted of two days in Quito, a week in Chimborazo, and a week in the Amazon rainforest. The aim of this trip was cultural exchange: our group would meet with local womenâs groups to discuss the challenges each group faces and how we are both empowering ourselves and our communities. In addition, we also 1) worked on build sites under the leadership of local build crews, 2) learned about the local flora and fauna with our jungle guide, 3) learned about Ecuadorâs colonial history and the ongoing environmental destruction with a leader from one of Ecuadorâs indigenous communities, and 4) learned about agricultural practices in relation to Ecuadorâs economy from a local farmer. This trip was the first step on my journey to becoming a global citizen and taught me important lessons about intersectional feminism and positive global-development practices
Combatting Arts-Led Gentrification: A Case Study of Slanguage Studio
This essay examines Slanguage Studio, founded by Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra Jr. in 2001, as a case study that illuminates how community-based art spaces can resist arts-led gentrification. The processes of arts-initiated gentrification and displacement of lower-income residents of color are demonstrated through explorations of arts districts in the Lower East Side, SoHo, and Boyle Heights. In response to artist Charles Gainesâ claims that art spaces inevitably lead to gentrification, Slanguage Studio offers an alternative in which community needs are prioritized
Understanding perceived determinants of nursesâ eating and physical activity behaviour : A theory-informed qualitative interview study
We thank Eilidh Duncan and Maria Prior for help with designing the interview topic guide. We would also like to thank all the nurses who gave their time to participate in the pilot study of the interview topic guide and the qualitative interviews. The Health Services Research Unit is funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. The views expressed are those of the authors alone. Funding This work was funded through a Medical Research Council doctoral training award.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
New Urbanism and Brownfields Redevelopment: Complications and Public Health Benefits of Brownfield Reuse as a Community Garden
Brownfields have an important impact on health. They can influence physical health by increasing risk for health hazards such as the potential for injury hazards, disease transmission, or exposure to chemicals. They can also influence social health determinants like neighborhood level social capital or behavioral risk factors. Reusing brownfields for community gardens reduces environmental hazards and associated health hazards. It further promotes public health, and sustainable quality environment. Community gardens increase nutrition access, especially for many in low income populations, and community aesthetic. They also strengthen social cohesion and create recreational or therapeutic opportunities for a community, becoming part of the urban green space network. Special care must be taken to protect public health when reusing a brownfield for a community garden, like sampling for chemicals, cleaning up soil, and using protective garden designs. The overall benefit to the community is worth the initial investment required
Traces of the (m)other: deconstructing hegemonic historical narrative in Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona's Os SertÔes
This article focuses on the way in which renowned SĂŁo Paulo-based theatre company Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona deconstructs hegemonic historical narrative in their 2000 - 2007 25 hour-long production of Euclides da Cunhaâs seminal Brazilian novel Os sertĂ”es (âRebellion in the Backlandsâ), an account of the War of Canudos (1896-1897), the first major act of State terrorism carried out by the nascent Brazilian Federal Government on the countryâs subaltern population.
The Teat(r)o Oficinaâs epic adaptation fuses events from the colonial period, the military dictatorship and contemporary 21st Century SĂŁo Paulo to relate the repetitive cycles of misappropriation, oppression and resistance that have characterized the history of Brazil and its people over the centuries. However, any fatalistic view of victimhood as an essential aspect of Brazilian subjectivity is radically challenged by the vibrant, rhythmic, material impact of the theatrical super-signs underpinning the performance text.
Drawing on Julia Kristevaâs notion of the semiotic - the pre-linguistic, illogical, rhythmical materialism of language intimately related to a primordial relationship with the abject mother â I shall suggest that it is the rhythmic, libidinal force of the performance and its extensive use of the cultural manifestations of Brazilâs subaltern population that imbues Os SertĂ”es with the silent presence-as-absence of the abject Brazilian (M)Other â the Black, Indigenous and Mestiza matriarchal line whose alternative discourse is often barred from hegemonic accounts of Brazilian historiography. Her silent heritage is embodied on stage by the members of the Oficina, who reclaim an alienating national heritage for themselves by transforming the often tragic tale of Brazilâs past into a joyous celebration of tenacious vitality
Unintentional eating : what determines goal-incongruent chocolate consumption?
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Evaluation of the Use of Water Quality Videotapes by County Extension Offices in Iowa
All of the 100 county Extension offices in Iowa have a set of six water quality videotapes available for use by clientele
Dualisation of Dualities, I
We analyse the global (rigid) symmetries that are realised on the bosonic
fields of the various supergravity actions obtained from eleven-dimensional
supergravity by toroidal compactification followed by the dualisation of some
subset of fields. In particular, we show how the global symmetries of the
action can be affected by the choice of this subset. This phenomenon occurs
even with the global symmetries of the equations of motion. A striking
regularity is exhibited by the series of theories obtained respectively without
any dualisation, with the dualisation of only the Ramond-Ramond fields of the
type IIA theory, with full dualisation to lowest degree forms, and finally for
certain inverse dualisations (increasing the degrees of some forms) to give the
type IIB series. These theories may be called the GL_A, D, E and GL_B series
respectively. It turns out that the scalar Lagrangians of the E series are
sigma models on the symmetric spaces K(E_{11-D})\backslash E_{11-D} (where K(G)
is the maximal compact subgroup of G) and the other three series lead to models
on homogeneous spaces K(G) \backslash G\semi \R^s. These can be understood from
the E series in terms of the deletion of positive roots associated with the
dualised scalars, which implies a group contraction. We also propose a
constrained Lagrangian version of the even dimensional theories exhibiting the
full duality symmetry and begin a systematic analysis of abelian duality
subalgebras.Comment: Latex, 82 pages, minor corrections and references adde
Improving Assessment Outcomes Through the Application of Innovative Digital Technologies
Assessing studentsâ live performances is challenging because the marker needs to make complex judgements often very quickly while at the same time recording information and viewing the performance. The challenge increases when multiple markers are involved and moderation of marks is required. It can be difficult to maintain sound assessment principles, such as fairness and validity, and to offer students quality and timely feedback. This paper describes a two phase, qualitative, action research project which trialled the use of an innovative, digital technology-supported assessment tool designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of assessment and moderation of live performances. The digital assessment tool enabled students to engage with the assessment and feedback from tutors and peers multiple times. The project was initially trialled with 170 pre-service teachers (in phase one) and then 200 pre-service teachers (in phase two) enrolled in an arts education unit in the third year of their Bachelor of Education course. Literature is abundant with references of digital technology which is used to automate scoring and marks (Clarke-Midura & Dede, 2010), however, use of digital technology in this project does not replace the marker. Instead, it provides the marker with a tool to conduct and easily record rich observations of complex learning in a paperless, highly efficient and engaging way
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