Using Resilient Pedagogy to Rethink Consultant Training in the Writing Center Post Pandemic

Since becoming a writing consultant three years ago, I have been interested in how writing centers can improve their training practices. Specifically, I have always been interested in the invaluable nature of consultant-to-consultant relationships in comparison with standard consultant training manuals. Though my idea of consultant-to-consultant relationships and training was specific to the in-person writing center, the need to rethink this consultant interaction was reinforced by the recent pandemic when most writing centers transitioned to completely online operations. In March of 2021, I hosted a panel presentation and gathered data from writing consultants about the ways that their centers were responding to the pandemic. Using a resilient framework, I analyzed this data and previous consultant training initiatives in the literature to provide writing center professionals with recommendations for creating team building and collaboration-themed training programs for writing centers. Along with helping writing centers withstand future disorientation, this project will help to address additional issues within writing centers, like diversity and inclusion among staff and students

Real #HotGirl Sh*T: Practical application of intersectional re-presentation instruction

This critical commentary outlines how the Real #HotGirl Sh*T: Megan Thee Stallion & Mediated Hip Hop, Black Feminist and Communication Pedagogy promotes active learning via popular culture and digital media, and it provides a practical model for employing intersectionality in classroom settings. Previous critical media pedagogy exploring minority media re-presentation primarily focused on the effects of master narratives produced by traditional media. This syllabus\u27s incorporation of social and digital media helps students understand how collective minority groups use and interact with media as a political tool to challenge re-presentational regimes. More importantly, this syllabus employs real-world examples of popular culture that students engage in their everyday communication practices. This pedagogical approach challenges students to assess their online behaviors and understand the re-presentational impact of their work as future media and communication practitioners. Finally, this syllabus’s incorporation of vertical education practices demonstrates the evolutional intersections of past and current stereotypes associated with Black womanhood. Thus, this syllabus moves forward re-presentation instruction with an intersectional framework that helps instructors better understand how to appropriately implement intersectionality within the classroom

Investigating The Glass Ceiling: How Women In Top Media Management Shattered The Glass Ceiling

This paper explores the successful experiences of women in top media management and their attitudes toward factors of the glass ceiling to identify which factors they perceive as most important, those that remain prominent, and other factors that may have aided in their success. The glass ceiling is the “unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements” (Cotter, Hermsen, Ovadia, & Vanneman, 2001). This ceiling persists for women in top media management, despite increased feminization in these fields. Previous studies conclude that family obligations, lack of development opportunities, lack of mentorship, organizational support, and gendered occupational roles are more prominent factors that hinder women from advancing into top management. An internet survey was used to measure the attitudes of women in media management and to gain qualitative data about their experience. A total of 114 responses were collected and results indicated that nearly half (45.54%) of women reported that they had not experienced the glass ceiling in terms of restricting them from their management careers. Qualitative data revealed, however, that it was not that they had not encountered the glass ceiling; it was the idea that because they had ignored the glass ceiling, they did not believe it restricted them from their management careers. This coping mechanism further normalizes the hegemonic structure of most broadcast environments

Sense-making, Agency, and Globalization: Local Representations of Development Encounters in Nicaragua

In recent years language and globalization has emerged as an important topic of study in linguistics and linguistic anthropology (Blommaert 2010, Coupland 2011, Fairclough 2006. Scholars have considered the macro-level effects of globalization through the lenses of language and materiality (Heller 2010) and political economy (Shankar and Cavanaugh 2012), as well as the function of individual agency within larger structures of globalization (Alim et al. 2008, Canagarajah 2013). Building on such work, the current paper examines Nicaraguan community members’ agentive participation within the structural constraints of globalizing encounters. Data are drawn from everyday interactions and interviews recorded in the course of ethnographic research on NGO-community relationships in central Nicaragua. I analyze locals’ discursive representation of development encounters as either moments of agentive acceptance of, or resistance to, globalizing processes. Drawing on a linguistic-anthropological approach to agency (Ahearn 2001, Duranti 2004), I examine the use of linguistic resources such as tense shifts, generic pronouns, and stance-taking to construct the NGO-community relationship as one that either affects the norms and practices of the inhabitants, therefore facilitating greater connectivity between the local and international communities, or one that provides solely material benefits, therefore limiting such connectivity and restricting development encounters to the transfer of material goods. Ultimately, I argue that while structural forces create globalizing interactions and constrain the frames within which community members can represent development encounters, individuals agentively participate in or resist globalization through interpreting their own roles in the interactions as well as the role of NGOs in the community

Building an Aotearoa New Zealand-wide Digital Curation Community of Practice

How do you build awareness and capability for digital curation knowledge and experience across a country? The National Library of New Zealand has a statutory role in supporting and advancing the work of Aotearoa New Zealand libraries to ensure documentary heritage and taonga is collected and preserved across the country’s memory system. This role includes supporting the collecting and curation of born-digital content. Aotearoa New Zealand’s Gallery Library Archive Museum (GLAM) sector is small but varied and diverse, so requires a flexible and adaptive plan to grow experience and capability in this area. This paper will describe the background research undertaken to gain a better understanding of the current environment, describe the development and delivery of pilot training in managing born-digital archival content, and outline our next steps. Driving this effort has been two foundational principles: 1) theory and practice are always in conversation with each other and practical hands-on experience is as important as theoretical knowledge and understanding; and 2) the work of growing capability should be done in a spirt of collaboration and partnership, meeting each other as equals and learning from each other

Women with Addictions: Music Therapy Clinical Postures and Interventions

Like men, women have been using alcohol and drugs since ancient times; yet we are just beginning to uncover important information about women\u27s unique trajectory to and through addiction. Straussner and Brown (2002) write, “There is little or no denial left today: Women can be and are addicts at alarming rates” (p. 34). Close to 15% of the members of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) report working with clients who have addictions (AMTA, 2011). It is likely that some of these members work with women who struggle with addictions, and it seems feasible that some would work predominantly or exclusively with women. Yet, few treatises exist to inform music therapy clinical practice with this clientele. With the present report, we hope to expand the knowledge base in this important area of clinical practice. We first present statistics and other research findings pertaining to women with addictions. Then, based on our collective experiences with women who have alcohol and drug addictions, we present suggested postures and interventions for ethical, effective, and meaningful music therapy clinical practice

Options Against Opioids

Options Against Opioids Background: Opioid use has been dramatically increasing over the years in the United States with an estimated 10.1 million people misused opioids in the past year. Many people have faced addiction, attempted to overcome their withdrawals, and the pressure to relapse. The United States has expanded its budget on opioid treatment programs and pharmacotherapy, but the relapses have increased which signals the increase in spending to prevent future opioid use. The purpose of this study is to compare pharmacotherapy and psychosocial treatment impact on rates of relapse. Method: The Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model and Guidelines were used in the literature review, critical analysis, leveling of evidence, and quality rating. The PRISMA flow diagram was used to map out the number of records for inclusion and exclusion. CINAHL plus, PubMed, and MEDLINE databases were searched from 2017 to 2022. Results: The initial search yielded 131 articles. Following the removal of duplicates and screening, 24 articles were assessed for eligibility, and 9 studies were included for this review. There is a positive trend set in the recovery with the inclusion of psychosocial therapy reducing the relapse rates in adults with opioid use disorder. Conclusion: There is a greater impact of psychosocial therapy on relapse rates in relation to the implementation of pharmacotherapy in treatment programs

Case 2 : Good Food Box: Generative Relationships and Scenario Planning in Public Health

The Good Food Box project in North Bay, Ontario is a bulk food-buying program with the purpose of supporting chronic disease prevention through the promotion of increased fruit and vegetable consumption. Good Food Box increases the accessibility of healthy, fresh fruits and vegetables for low-income individuals. Unfortunately, the Nipissing District Housing Commission, whose responsibility it was to procure funding for and employ the Good Food Box coordinator, was unsuccessful in renewing funding. Without funding, the Good Food Box program would cease at the end of June. Amy Campbell, North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit employee and member of the Good Food Box advisory committee, and the rest of the Healthy Living team grappled with what the Health Unit could and should do in such a situation. This was especially difficult considering the trajectory of the Health Unit’s programming towards more upstream interventions and the release of the new Ontario Public Health Standards (OPHS), which advocates for policy change. The broader public health context was also shifting towards more upstream solutions to food insecurity. All of this would have to be considered when determining the Health Unit’s responsibilities and approach to the Good Food Box project

Comparative Economic Contribution Analysis of the San Antonio Zoo and the Dallas Zoo

Most economic contribution studies for zoos run the Impact Analyses for PLANning (IMPLAN) model sector for museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks (Sector 493) without customizing it to a specific zoo. This research considers the question of how zoos’ allocations of expenditures and revenues change the default economic multipliers and compares a modified zoo IMPLAN sector to a default zoo IMPLAN sector. This study compares and contrasts the economic contributions of the San Antonio Zoo and the Dallas Zoo to the local and state economies using both multipliers calculated from zoo-specific cost functions and default multipliers. The IMPLAN input-output model was modified with data gathered through correspondence with the Chief Financial Officers and ran using the analysis-by-parts method. Locally, the default IMPLAN zoo sector under-estimated the Dallas Zoo and over-estimated San Antonio output multipliers. Statewide, the default Texas IMPLAN zoo sector saw the San Antonio and Dallas zoos as providing equal contributions to output when, again, it over-estimated San Antonio and under-estimated Dallas. Higher wages relative to revenue at the San Antonio Zoo were associated with smaller output multipliers. Customization of the IMPLAN production function and the percent shares of goods and services purchased locally showed a substantial difference relative to default specifications. This study provides a blue print for specifying zoo-specific information in an IMPLAN analysis-by-parts model

Effects of PECS Phase III Application Training on Independent Mands in Young Children with Autism

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of PECS phase III application training on independent mands in young children with autism. Participants were five children with autism ranging from ages 2 to 4 years old. A multiple baseline across participants was used to evaluate acquisition of independent correct mands across baseline and treatment conditions during training with the PECS Phase III iPadTMapplication. Data for Participant Four did not demonstrate experimental control directly, as he showed high levels of mands during baseline. The functional relationship for Participant One was questionable as she too likely learned to mand by contacting the contingency during baseline procedures. Participant Three successfully acquired all skills taught during training with the PECS Phase III iPadTM application and his data suggested experimental control. Two participants (Participant Two and Participant Five) were unable to complete the study within its time frame, but their data also suggested a functional relationship. Data for Participant Five suggested a delayed, but beneficial treatment effect. For all participants who completed the study, mands generalized at moderate to high accuracy (60% to 100%) in a novel setting across all generalization probes. Maintenance measures indicated moderate to high durability of treatment effects (70% to 100%). Mand preference assessments were also conducted to evaluate participant preference between paper icons and the iPadTM. All participants indicated a preference for mands using the iPadTM. Parent report indicated that four out of five parents of study participants felt that the iPadTM would be easier to use in their daily routine. Parents were also confident that they would be able to use the iPadTM to support their child\u27s communication (if given training)