Continuum of significance

At the intersection of multiple simultaneous timelines, Continuum of Significance is a graphic design practice that acknowledges time and meaning as fluid, shifting variables. By challenging notions of obsolescence and assumed valuations, the work brings forward stories and experiences that might otherwise go unnoticed, or quickly fade from memory. This body of work explores various attempts at reconciliation, vacillating between faster modes of production, and a practice deeply anchored and concerned with history, research, iteration, and contemplation. Materials gleaned from the mundane: the expired historic archive, and the vivid digital cache, are recomposed to invoke a slow read in our fast world. Timelines are not fixed; the past is an active part of where we are and where we are going. Its meaning and interpretation undergo continuous renegotiation across the spectrum of time

Children Use Language Membership When Reasoning About Food Contamination

Food choice is cultural (Fischler, 1988; Millstone & Lang, 2002; Rozin & Rozin, 1981). Indeed, even infants prefer foods liked by members of their group (Shutts et al., 2009) and expect culture to guide food choices (Liberman et al., 2016). People learn not only what to eat, but also what to avoid. Previous work suggests that children do not avoid contaminated foods until 8 years of age (Rozin et al., 1986). Combining these lines of research, we ask how children reason about foods that are contaminated by someone from within versus outside their culture. In Studies 1 & 2, we presented 3- to 11-year-olds with videos of a native speaker and a foreign speaker each liking a food, but varied whose food was contaminated: the foreign speaker’s food (Study 1), or the native speaker’s food (Study 2). In Study 3, children were randomly assigned to watch videos of one speaker (either native or foreign) eat one food (either clean or contaminated) to better understand the mechanisms driving children’s food choices. By 3-years-old, children rated contaminated food as germy and were better at avoiding it when the contamination came from a foreign speaker. However, when contaminated food came from a native speaker, children were not as adept in their understanding of contamination. Children reported that contaminated food from a native speaker was germy and likely to make them sick by 5- to 7-years-old, but did not accurately avoid it until around 7- to 9-years-old

Attitudes of fathers toward their latency age sons

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

A policy design analysis of Iowa\u27s Educational Excellence Program

The purpose of this study was to use the model of Policy Design to identify factors that contributed to the development of Iowa\u27s Educational Excellence Program. Interviews with policy makers and a review of relevant documents were used to reconstruct the development of the program;The results indicated that the program was the result of a confluence of four events: The movement to raise teachers salaries, the education reform movement, the emergence of a more collaborative attitude among policy makers, and the availability of windfall revenues. Further analyses indicated that the values of teachers, education, politics, local control, reform, and efficiency shaped the development of the program. The program was also affected by a number of individuals and agencies/organizations. Development of the program did not follow traditional procedures. The Governor invited lobbyists from the Department of Education and the two most powerful education associations to collaborate in the development of a 100 million dollar program;The theoretical framework of the program assumed that the quality of education was being compromised by the quality of the teaching force, and that low salaries were compromising the quality of the teaching force. Raising teachers salaries would improve the states ability to recruit, retain, and continuously improve the quality of the teaching force and, therefore, improve the quality of education in the state. Capacity building provisions and inducements were used to raise teachers salaries. A mandate to generate student achievement information was included to provide accountability and to guide professional development activities;Analyses identified inconsistencies between all elements of the program s design (context, instruments, and theoretical framework). The design of the program was similar to policy learning designs. The most unique characteristic of the program was the emphasis on local accountability. Finally, the design was affected by the way the problem and solution were structured, characteristics of the individuals involved in the design process, the level of consensus among policy makers, and the availability of resources;Implications of policy learning designs for establishing an optimal balance between state and local authority and the importance of values to the design process are explored

A Survey of Southwestern Indian Stone, Shell, and Bone Sculpture

The interest of the modern artist and craftsman in primitive art has increased yearly since the official discovery of this variety of art in the early years of the twentieth century. To meet the demand for information that this interest has aroused, large numbers of books and articles, many illustrating handsome examples of primitive work, have been compiled. These works, though often valuable and exciting, usually fail to give anything approaching a complete examination of one subject. An art student of a particular subject must turn to the works of the anthropologist, rather than to the works of the art historian. Here he will find a rich and extensive field, as the anthropologist began collecting the artifacts of primitive peoples nearly one half century before most of them were officially recognized as art

Cross-Sector Partnerships and Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities with the Private Sector

Over the past few decades, cross-sector partnerships that include the private sector have become an increasingly accepted practice in public health, particularly in efforts to address infectious disease in low and middle income countries. Now they are becoming a popular tool in efforts to reduce and prevent obesity and the epidemic of non-communicable disease. Partnering with business presents a means of acquiring resources, as well as opportunities to influence the private sector toward more healthful practices. Collaboration is a core principle of public health practice; however public-private or non-profit-private partnerships present risks and challenges that warrant specific consideration. In this article we review the role of public health partnerships with the private sector, with a focus on efforts to address obesity and non-communicable disease in high-income settings. Challenges, risks and critical success factors relevant to partnering are identified, as are areas for improving public health practice to inform decision-making around partnership development