The Lessons of Charity Lamb

This poem inspired by the case of Charity Lamb is stylistically based on Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl.”https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/aha_2018/1001/thumbnail.jp

Patient Education on the Association of Hormonal Contraception with Depression

Hormonal contraceptive agents are widely used by women during their reproductive years. In recent years, research has been released linking hormonal contraception with the initiation of antidepressant medication and a first diagnosis of depression. More research is still warranted in order to further elucidate the relationship between hormonal contraception and depression, but current evidence prompts the necessity for shared decision making between clinicians and women considering treatment with hormonal contraceptive agents. The goal of this project is to give providers easily accessible patient educational materials in the form of epic smart phrases to aid in informed decision making.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1498/thumbnail.jp

The Librarian in Bibliotherapy: Pharmacist or Bibliotherapist?

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Learning to Understand: Mathematical Preparation of Prospective Teachers

This paper describes the development of a two-course sequence in mathematics content for prospective elementary teachers. Community college and university personnel collaborated to develop a course sequence that would prepare prospective elementary teachers to teach mathematics with an understanding of concepts to support their abstract mathematical knowledge. The strategy was to begin with a broad vision and then focus on the smaller pieces which would achieve that vision. The course changes are validated by documents published by various educational and mathematical groups advocating an increased emphasis on teaching for understanding rather than rote learning. Significant change is difficult without support from colleagues and sufficient time, both necessary to the change process. The noteworthy components of Austin Community College’s revised course are a safe environment in which students become independent learners and written communication as an integral part of the course resulting in students who have increased their conceptual understanding. As a result of taking the course, students accept responsibility for their own learning, have increased self-confidence, and show enthusiasm for mathematics. While requiring a major commitment from faculty, the results are well worth the effort

Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Discipline Beliefs in Administrators

Traditional methods of discipline have demonstrated to be ineffective in helping students learn or behave. The use of suspensions as the only means of discipline has become a commonly engrained practice for many administrators. This study presents empirical data on the differences between traditional and innovative administrator beliefs about discipline. The findings indicate key differences between traditional and innovative administrator beliefs

North American Wood Ducks in Myth and Legend

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Crossing disciplinary boundaries and sharing unrelated datasets led to ‘critical junctures’ in practitioner outreach.

Delivering fresh insights on evidence-based practice, Ben Hannigan charts how a combination of action research and qualitative methods helped identify the role of ‘critical junctures’ in improving mental health services and practitioner support. This analysis helped to connect people, processes and systems and was able to overcome the ‘micro’ and ‘meso’ distinctions holding back longer trajectories of care and change

“Collateral Damage in the War on Travel Writing”: Recovering Reader Responses to Contemporary Travel Writing

Scholarship of travel writing has seldom paid proper attention to questions of how and why readers engage with the genre – an oversight which, as Robin Jarvis (2016) has noted, at times leads to negative generalizations about travel writing’s presumed audience. This article examines this issue, and considers ways of recovering actual reader responses – through surveys of online reviews, and qualitative interviews. The article outlines findings from a structured group discussion with six regular readers of travel writing. Particular attention is paid to the way these readers respond to the possible inclusion of fictional elements in notionally non-fictional travel books, with the discussion revealing a broad conservatism on this point, and a general rejection of fictionalisation as a travel writing practice. This finding is contrasted with ideas voiced during the author’s interviews with notable travel writing practitioners, revealing a significant tension between the production and reception of the genre

Financialisation in Planning: Examining the Planning and Funding of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area and Northern Line Extension

This thesis discusses how financialisation influenced the planning of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area (VNEBOA) and accompanying Northern Line Extension. The United Kingdom, and London particularly, increasingly adopt financialisation as a method to deliver development and infrastructure, in which speculative real estate investments and the infrastructure it demands are converted into financial products for shareholders of private companies. This research was carried out via desktop review of feasibility studies, promotional materials, business cases, and a number of plans relevant to the VNEBOA, plus 11 interviews with developers, consultants, academics, and public sector employees. It found that in the absence of local and central government funding, local planning authorities entrepreneurialise by providing additional services to developers and maximising land value capture. Developers shape their projects based on the most financially viable schemes but promote them under principles of “placemaking.” Lastly, mega-transport projects financed by the public and funded by the private sector act as public guarantee for private project delivery. These findings support claims that financialisation subjugates the public’s best interest in favour of private profits and limits regulatory autonomy of planning authorities