Builders and wanderers: How two tomboys escape gender conformity in Katherine Paterson’s Newbery-winning novels

This paper looks at the importance of tomboy characters in children’s literature, specifically focusing on Katherine Paterson’s Newbery-winning novels, Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved. Though much of the children’s literature arena remains dominated by “boy books,” the use of tomboy characters in literature offers an opportunity for teachers and parents to push aside the gender conventions and stereotypes that are reinforced through trite and redundant curriculum. The strong tomboy transcends masculine-feminine roles and develops identity outside of their restrictions. She is an ideal for young females working toward gender equality while allowing young males to safely explore “girl books.” A close analytical reading of each text provides numerous examples of tomboys breaking gender conventions in order to establish true identity. In both novels, the tomboys (Leslie Burke in Bridge to Terabithia; Sara Louise Bradshaw in Jacob Have I Loved) struggle with the rules of gender convention in the face of adolescence, peer pressure, love, and death. Readers of Paterson’s books easily relate to the characters, sharing in their triumphs and sorrows and learning from their experiences. If true change is to take place in society regarding gender roles, then it must begin in the classroom. Katherine Paterson’s novels and tomboy characters offer students the opportunity to push beyond gender conformity, as well as encourage them on their quest of self-identity. Such literature should be incorporated into the general Reading curriculum

Impact Of Inter-Professional Education On Nursing Student Outcomes In The Online Environment

The implementation and integration of inter-professional education (IPE) into a curriculum is supported by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), the Inter-professional Education Collaborative (IPEC), and the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Future of Nursing report. While there is support for implementation, there is a lack of data and guidelines which to follow currently. The purpose of this nursing research study was to investigate the impact of inter-professional collaboration on nursing student outcomes in the online environment. A co-teaching model was implemented within an online environment to provide inter-professionally lead nursing sciences courses to nursing students in a baccalaureate program. In the four sessions following the implementation of interdisciplinary collaborative teaching, 605 students completed the courses with 179 submitting the end of course survey. Results indicated that the overall student satisfaction rating with the pathophysiology online course was significant at p < 0.05 following the implementation of inter-professional teaching methodology. Prior to implementation of collaborative teaching, the total enrollment in pathophysiology was 194. After the institution of collaborative teaching, the total student enrollment was 605. This reflected a significant increase in student enrollment of 311%. Today, the complex healthcare delivery system necessitates a shift from traditional education to an inter-professional collaborative teaching model that generates knowledge from interaction with a variety of educators from a variety of disciplines (Hean, Craddock, & Hammick, 2012). Nursing curricula is needed which fosters both an inter-professional learning of shared knowledge and the discipline-specific learning essential for professional practice.

Newsletter No. 4: Prostitution, sex workers and social justice.

La cuarta edición de la Boletina Anual de la Escuela de Estudios de Género se dedica a presentar, desde una multiplicidad de perspectivas, algunas de las aristas del debate en torno de la prostitución, aprovechando la coyuntura local propiciada por la formulación y posterior discusión del proyecto de ley 079 de 2013, que pretende reglamentar su ejercicio en el territorio nacional.The fourth edition of the Annual Bulletin of the School of Gender Studies is dedicated to presenting, from a multiplicity of perspectives, some of the edges of the debate on prostitution. Taking advantage of the local situation propitiated by the formulation and subsequent discussion of the bill 079 of 2013, which aims to regulate the practice of prostitution in the national territory