Børnelitteratur: Noget andet, og dog det samme

Når børnelitteratur gøres til genstand for et temanummer af et tidsskrift, signaleres det indirekte, at børnelitteraturen har nogle særlige egenskaber, at den er noget “andet”. Men på hvilken måde er den noget andet, og hvad er det, man forestiller sig, den adskiller sig fra? Disse spørgsmål skal denne indledningsartikel i meget kort form forsøge at besvare. Jeg gør det ud fra to perspektiver eller påstande: børnelit- teratur adskiller sig fra anden litteratur, hvad angår 1) tekstinterne forhold, 2) kon- tekstbestemte forhold. (...

Arvegods - Fire punktnedslag i forestillinger om barndom og børnelitteratur i dansk børnelitteraturs historie

Nina Christensen lægger ud med en artikel om forestillinger om barndom og børnelitteratur. Gennem fire nedslag i henholdsvis 1700-tallets opdragende litteratur, 1800-tallets forfattere, heriblandt B.S. Ingemanns “Morgensange for Børn”, Bent Hallers kontroversielle roman Katamaranen fra 1976 og Bente Clods trilogi om pigen Thilde tegner hun et billede af den danske børnelitteraturs udvikling op til i dag

Assessing the Need for a Social Worker at the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf

Introduction: Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf (CEFS) Largest direct service emergency food provider in Vermont Serves over 12,000 people/year Works to alleviate hunger through grocery services, hot meals, and home delivery Offers a culinary job training program CEFS seeks to understand client need for assistance in accessing/coordinating additional public assistance services and resources. Could CEFS improve its services by staffing a social worker on site? Project Goal: Collect data from CEFS users to assess current need for in-house social worker to assist with diverse needs beyond emergency food assistance.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/comphp_gallery/1225/thumbnail.jp

Emotional risk work during the pandemic:Healthcare professionals’ perceptions from a COVID-19 ward

In March 2020, COVID-19 wards were established in hospitals in Denmark. Healthcare professionals from a variety of specialities and wards were transferred to these new wards to care for patients admitted with severe COVID-19 infections. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a COVID-19 ward at a hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark, including focus group interviews with nursing staff, we intended to explore practices in a COVID-19 ward by seeking insight into the relation between the work carried out and the professionals’ ways of talking about it. We used a performative approach of studying how the institutional ways of handling pandemic risk work comes into being and relates to the health professionals’ emerging responses. The empirical analysis pointed at emotional responses by the nursing staff providing COVID-19 care as central. To explore these emotional responses we draw on the work of Mary Douglas and Deborah Lupton’s concept of the ‘emotion-risk-assemblage’. Our analysis provides insight into how emotions are contextually produced and linked to institutional risk understandings. We show that work in the COVID-19 ward was based on an institutional order that was disrupted during the pandemic, producing significant emotions of insecurity. Although these emotions are structurally produced, they are simultaneously internalised as feelings of incompetence and shame.In March 2020, COVID-19 wards were established in hospitals in Denmark. Healthcare professionals from a variety of specialities and wards were transferred to these new wards to care for patients admitted with severe COVID-19 infections. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a COVID-19 ward at a hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark, including focus group interviews with nursing staff, we intended to explore practices in a COVID-19 ward by seeking insight into the relation between the work carried out and the professionals’ ways of talking about it. We used a performative approach of studying how the institutional ways of handling pandemic risk work comes into being and relates to the health professionals’ emerging responses. The empirical analysis pointed at emotional responses by the nursing staff providing COVID-19 care as central. To explore these emotional responses we draw on the work of Mary Douglas and Deborah Lupton’s concept of the ‘emotion-risk-assemblage’. Our analysis provides insight into how emotions are contextually produced and linked to institutional risk understandings. We show that work in the COVID-19 ward was based on an institutional order that was disrupted during the pandemic, producing significant emotions of insecurity. Although these emotions are structurally produced, they are simultaneously internalised as feelings of incompetence and shame

Performance of Afinion HbA1c measurements in general practice as judged by external quality assurance data

Background: It has been debated whether point-of care (POC) glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measurements methods can be used for diagnosing persons with diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the analytical performance of the POC Afinion HbA1c system in the hands of the users, and to investigate which predictors that were associated with good participant performance. Methods: External quality assurance (EQA) data from seven surveys in 2017–2018 with a total of 5809 Afinion participants from a POC total quality system in Norway were included in this study (response rate 90%). The control materials were freshly drawn pooled EDTA whole blood. Each participant was evaluated against the analytical performance specification of ±6% from the target value, while the Afinion system was evaluated against the pooled within-laboratory CV <2%, the between-laboratory CV <3.5%, and bias <0.3%HbA1c. Logistic regression analyses were used to investigate which factors were associated with good participant performance. Results: The participant pass rates for each survey varied from 98.2% to 99.7%. The pooled within-laboratory CV varied from 1.3% to 1.5%, the between-laboratory CV varied from 1.5% to 2.1%, and bias varied between −0.17 and −0.01 %HbA1c in all surveys. Reagent lot was the only independent factor to predict good participant performance. Conclusions: Afinion HbA1c fulfilled the analytical performance specifications and is robust in the hands of the users. It can therefore be used both in diagnosing and monitoring persons with diabetes mellitus, given that the instrument is monitored by an EQA system.publishedVersio