“This is the Psychology we Need”: Maya immigrant views on mental health treatment

This paper engages the theme of psychological-physical-spiritual health among displaced Maya communities. To pursue knowledge about the communities’ visions for thriving in the United States, I worked with Maya leaders in Ohio to coordinate a series of dialogues utilizing a Participatory Action Research paradigm. Participants exposed ways in which Western institutions (including hospitals, mental health providers, and schools) reenact elements of colonialism and fail to offer culturally sensitive care. The participants emphasized a key missing element in their well-being: renewing the relationship with the Earth that they lost through colonization and forced migration. To separate physical/mental health from these elements would deny the current ecological realities at the heart of the migrants’ existence. It would also recreate Eurocentric false division among mind, body, soul, and spirit. Maya focus group participants claimed that a decolonial approach to healing could be initiated by returning land to the communities, which they could use for cultivation, community gathering, food sovereignty, and sacred practices. Praxis participants offered critical guidance in re-imagining health and healing in community with each other and with the Earth, which they identified as the sources of flourishing, identity, cultural history, belonging, and spiritual connection

“It's only sport” - the symbolic neutralization of “violence”

Within the commodified world of professional ice hockey, athletes sell their bodily performances in return for a salary. A central feature of this transaction is the very real risk of physical injury – a risk inherent within most contact sports, but particularly so within those that feature seemingly ‘violent’ confrontations between competitors, as ice hockey is widely reputed to do. Yet within the spectacle of sport, where physicality can be constructed as playful and unserious, it is possible for the consequences of such action to be concealed behind a symbolic, ludic veneer. Within this paper we explore this process with a particular focus on ice hockey spectators, for whom notions of sport violence as in some important way ‘mimetic’ of the ‘real’ enabled their propensity to both enjoy, and find moral validation through, potentially deleterious behaviours among athletes

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Reconcilable differences: confronting beauty, pornography, and the future of feminism

This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism - pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape - from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmented and mutually exclusive. Exploring the dichotomy between sex and sexism as it has developed through five current feminist debates, Chancer seeks to forge positions that bridge oppositions between unnecessary (and sometimes unwitting) "either/or" binaries. Chancer's book attempts to incorporate both the need for sexual freedom and the depth of sexist subordination into feminist thought and politics

After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism Taking Back a Revolution

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Taking Stock -- 2. Debating the "F" Word -- 3. Achieving Political, Economic, and Educational Equalities -- 4. Liberating Sexual Choices -- 5. Ending Violence against Women-and Men -- 6. Changing Sexist Imagery -- 7. Taking Back a Revolution -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- YDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Algebra for all? Exploring professional development in mathematics teaching during Covid-19

This presentation explores the experiences of primary and secondary teachers undertaking professional learning in Wales during the Covid-19 pandemic.The focus was on exploring the teaching of algebraic reasoning. Within the literature there is debate regarding the teaching of algebra: 'some educators believe in "algebra for all," they question what constitutes the algebra everyone must take and how it can be delivered to all students. Others believe that algebra, like college, is not for everyone' (Morgatto, 2008:215).However, there is agreement that professional development for teachers regarding both mathematics content and instructional techniques is paramount. Although many children are inherently curious about mathematics when they enter school, most do not maintain this curiosity because problems are not always presented in a way that resonates with their lived experiences. Indeed, to maintain motivation children need access and opportunity in mathematics to solve problems that are important to them (Weissglass, 2001).This project allowed the teachers time to discuss, reflect and explore their teaching. Undertaking this project during Covid-19 offered opportunities to reframe and rethink what mattered to them in terms of professional learning. We hear from the teachers as they reflect on their experiences and the impact that this will have on their pupils and on their future engagement with professional learning.Morgatto, S. (2008). Should All Students Be Required to Take Algebra? Are Any Two Snowflakes Alike? The Clearing House, 81(5), 215-217. Retrieved July 31, 2021http://www.jstor.org/stable/30189996 Weissglass, J. (2001). In focus... inequity in mathematics education The Mathematics Educator, 12(2)