Enacting Social Justice to Teach Social Justice: The Pedagogy of Bridge Builders

This article describes a particular endeavor, the Bridge Builders Academic Mentoring Program (BAMP), a partnership between a school of education in a Catholic university in the Northwest and a community-based rites of passage program for adolescent African American males. The partnership exemplifies tenets of Catholic social teaching, in that it is community-based, justice-oriented and in many ways countercultural. The pedagogy aligns with the goals of service learning; that is, the service extended by university students satisfies a genuine community need, and at the same time affords those engaged in service an opportunity to acquire crucial knowledge, skills, and dispositions to which they would not otherwise have access. Implications for translating this program to other contexts are provided

Self-trapped states and the related luminescence in PbCl2_2 crystals

We have comprehensively investigated localized states of photoinduced electron-hole pairs with electron-spin-resonance technique and photoluminescence (PL) in a wide temperature range of 5-200 K. At low temperatures below 70 K, holes localize on Pb$^{2+}$ ions and form self-trapping hole centers of Pb$^{3+}$. The holes transfer to other trapping centers above 70 K. On the other hand, electrons localize on two Pb$^{2+}$ ions at higher than 50 K and form self-trapping electron centers of Pb$_2$$^{3+}$. From the thermal stability of the localized states and PL, we clarify that blue-green PL band at 2.50 eV is closely related to the self-trapped holes.Comment: 8 pages (10 figures), ReVTEX; removal of one figure, Fig. 3 in the version

Enacting Social Justice to Teach Social Justice: The Pedagogy of Bridge Builders

This article describes a particular endeavor, the Bridge Builders Academic Mentoring Program (BAMP), a partnership between a school of education in a Catholic university in the Northwest and a community-based rites of passage program for adolescent African American males. The partnership exemplifies tenets of Catholic social teaching, in that it is community-based, justice-oriented and in many ways countercultural. The pedagogy aligns with the goals of service learning; that is, the service extended by university students satisfies a genuine community need, and at the same time affords those engaged in service an opportunity to acquire crucial knowledge, skills, and dispositions to which they would not otherwise have access. Implications for translating this program to other contexts are provided

Role of continuous glucose monitoring in the management of diabetic pregnancy

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) with intermittent capillary glucose fingerstick tests is currently the universally accepted method of glucose monitoring in pregnancy. During pregnancy SMBG tests are recommended before and after meals and before bed (typically 7 values/d). Continuous glucose monitoring systems consist of a disposable subcutaneous glucose-sensing device, electrochemically measuring glucose levels in subcutaneous tissues every 10 seconds, providing an average interstitial glucose value every 5 minutes (typically 288 values/d). From a research perspective this provides unprecedented insights into the pathophysiology of glucose metabolism, while from a clinical perspective it can facilitate enhanced patient-professional decision making, patient motivation, and improved glycaemic control. CGM has thus been described as a "roadmap for effective self-management" and as a "stepping stone in the journey towards a cure." This review will consider the lessons learned and evidence supporting current and potential future use of CGM in the management of diabetes in pregnancy