Exploring Vocation: Early Career Perspectives on Vocation in Action

As tenure-track professors at a Catholic liberal arts college, we began our academic careers four years ago with a strong desire to excel in our research and teaching. Most importantly, however, we hoped to come to a deeper understanding of how we might imbue our work in a Christian higher education context with a strong sense of purpose and connection to our beliefs. This reflection details our experience of co-developing a sense of vocation and sacramentality in ourselves and our students during the busy pre-tenure years. We discuss how religious and scholarly texts, workshop and retreat experiences, and course design focused on experiential learning have deepened our ability to live out vocation and sacramentality through our work

Exploring Vocation: Early Career Perspectives on Vocation in Action

As tenure-track professors at a Catholic liberal arts college, we began our academic careers four years ago with a strong desire to excel in our research and teaching. Most importantly, however, we hoped to come to a deeper understanding of how we might imbue our work in a Christian higher education context with a strong sense of purpose and connection to our beliefs. This reflection details our experience of co-developing a sense of vocation and sacramentality in ourselves and our students during the busy pre-tenure years. We discuss how religious and scholarly texts, workshop and retreat experiences, and course design focused on experiential learning have deepened our ability to live out vocation and sacramentality through our work

Reconsidération de l'éducation financière : les lacunes des programmes et les occasions de transformation

Early, comprehensive and contextually relevant instruction in financial literacy for youth has been found to positively influence financial behaviours as well as psychosocial outcomes such as stress management and feelings of self-efficacy. Yet, financial literacy resources and secondary school curricula have several key limitations, such as piecemeal delivery, which hinder their potential to promote positive and lasting habits. With a focus on the Canadian context, we first assess the potential benefits and limitations of financial literacy education. We then present and assess a newly released financial education curriculum package from Western Canada, analyzing its proposed delivery framework and possibilities for implementation elsewhere.Il a été démontré qu’un enseignement précoce, complet et contextuellement pertinent en matière de littératie financière pour les jeunes influence positivement les comportements financiers ainsi que les résultats psychosociaux tels que la gestion du stress et le sentiment d’efficacité personnelle. Pourtant, les ressources en matière d’éducation financière et les programmes d’enseignement secondaire présentent plusieurs limites majeures, telles qu’une prestation fragmentaire, qui entrave leur potentiel à promouvoir des habitudes positives et durables. En nous concentrant sur le contexte canadien, nous évaluons d’abord les avantages et les limites potentiels de l’éducation en littératie financière. Nous présentons et évaluons ensuite un programme d'éducation financière récemment publié dans l'Ouest canadien, analysant son cadre de prestation proposé et les possibilités de mise en œuvre ailleurs

VISIBILITY AND USAGE OF ISBS PROCEEDINGS AT FORTY YEARS

This study described the visibility and usage of research published in ISBS conference proceedings articles from 1983 to 2022. The 6,688 articles were downloaded 1,955,728 times in total, and 78% were indexed by Google Scholar. In recent proceedings, the number of articles and total downloads have decreased but downloads per article per year of availability have increased steeply. Top (1%) cited articles in Google Scholar had citations and citation rates similar to articles in biomechanics journals. While visibility has grown, there is limited citation of most ISBS proceedings articles compared to journal articles

Role of accounting practices in the disempowerment of the Coahuiltecan Indians

This paper argues that a complex of accounting measures : account books, inventories of accumulated wealth, and detailed instructions for production performance : were used to inculcate Western values into the native population located at five Franciscan missions along the San Antonio River in New Spain (present-day Texas) from 1718 to 1794. Bolstered by the need to alleviate communications problems caused by extreme isolation, the missionaries constructed detailed mission documents that described the acquisition of scarce resources, reported the aggregation of material and spiritual mission wealth, and controlled daily production performance of the native population. In short, the resulting mission economic system, which held the Indians to certain notions of accountability, primarily by restricting their choices, nourished the Western view of income distribution based on effort. We propose that these procedures ultimately caused the Coahuiltecans to abandon their native beliefs, and gradually, to be absorbed into Spanish society. The 150 Coahuiltecan tribes ceased to exist as a distinct culture by the early 19th century. The exploitation and ultimate subjugation of the Coahuiltecan Indians parallels strikingly subsequent developments in Canada, Australia, and the Scottish Highlands

The Farming Population and Health Insurance: Educational Needs and Approaches of Extension Professionals

Health insurance policy has critical implications for farmers, who work in a dangerous occupation and have historically high rates of being uninsured and underinsured. Extension is well poised to respond to changing policies and provide outreach to agricultural communities. However, few studies have explored capacity within Extension to respond knowledgeably to health insurance–related opportunities. Accordingly, we conducted focus group sessions with Extension professionals to understand current efforts, resource needs, and opportunities for program development in this realm. Our findings revealed a need for knowledge building within Extension through programming collaboration and an opportunity to connect the agriculture and health insurance sectors. We also identified strategies for addressing the topic with farmers

Stuck in the Nest? A Review of the Literature on Coresidence in Canada and the United States

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Marriage and Family Review on March 3rd 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01494929.2020.1728005This research was supported in part by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Award (#752-2014-2654) and SSHRC Insight Development Grant (#752-2014-2654).Peer ReviewedAn historically high proportion of Canadian and American young adults are living with their parents. This trend has stimulated research and theorization of “coresidence,” yet recent reviews of the subject are lacking. In this paper, we examine literature on coresiding families spanning the last two decades, focusing discussion on their economic, cultural, gendered, familial, and psychological characteristics. We argue that theoretical understanding of this topic is expanding, that knowledge of this issue is improving in nuance, but that, despite these encouraging trends, researchers have neglected to examine the actual practices and consequences of coresidence. As a result, the field offers little guidance to parents, young adults, and family counselors. We recommend that researchers expand their methodological approaches, introducing more longitudinal and qualitative designs to capture the day-to-day practices of these families and the consequences of coresidence over time. In addition, we offer some guiding principles for practitioners working with young adults and their parents, based on our findings

ISBS 2018 AUCKLAND CONFERENCE AUT MILLENNIUM TEACHERS DAY

Dr Sarah Kate Millar is coordinating the New Zealand Biomechanics Teachers Day. Teachers will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with leading biomechanics instructors/researcher from across the world. There will be a focus on creating hands-on experiential learning opportunities to achieve science and physical education outcomes. Sarah-Kate Millar is a senior lecturer at AUT (AUT) in the area of sports coaching and in particular skill acquisition. Dr. Kim Hébert-Losier is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Biomechanics and Injury Prevention at the University of Waikato. Dr Laura-Anne M Furlong is a Lecturer in Biomechanics, currently based in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, and the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine. Dr Philip Fink is Senior Lecturer in motor control and biomechanics at the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University. Dr Duane Knudson is a Professor in the Department of Health & Human Performance at Texas State University. Suzie Belcher is currently working with Netball New Zealand as part of their national Injury prevention team, NetballSmart

Interprofessional Education in Occupational Therapy: The Idaho State University Model

Interprofessional education (IPE) is becoming a common practice among most allied health professions as a part of entry level training. IPE is intended to promote greater professional collaboration in routine clinical practice. The prerequisites for this type of educational process include gaining an understanding of one’s own and other professions while developing mutual respect, trust, and communication skills. The Idaho State University (ISU) Interdisciplinary Evaluation Team (IET) course delivery model is one such vehicle which fosters IPE across numerous disciplines while providing significant clinical support to the local community. This study presents the ISU IET course process, which combines clinical care of community pediatric clients via student/clinician partnership, which reflect on the process of interprofessional care. Occupational therapy student perceptions of the IET course consistently trended in favorable directions. All participants desired more opportunities for IPE combined with direct client interaction as a part of their other course work. Occupational therapy educational programs are well suited and positioned to host and/or to establish key roles in IPE to support student clinical training and meet the health and needs of their local communities

The Morphological Butcher-Oemler effect in the SDSS Cut&Enhance Galaxy Cluster Catalog

We investigate the evolution of the fractions of late type cluster galaxies as a function of redshift, using one of the largest, most uniform cluster samples available. The sample consists of 514 clusters of galaxies in the range 0.02<z<0.3 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Cut & Enhance galaxy cluster catalog. This catalog was created using a single automated cluster finding algorithm on uniform data from a single telescope, with accurate CCD photometry, thus, minimizing selection biases. We use four independent methods to analyze the evolution of the late type galaxy fraction. Specifically, we select late type galaxies based on: restframe g-r color, u-r color, galaxy profile fitting and concentration index. The first criterion corresponds to the one used in the classical Butcher-Oemler analyses. The last three criteria are more sensitive to the morphological type of the galaxies. In all four cases, we find an increase in the fraction of late type galaxies with increasing redshift, significant at the 99.9% level. The results confirm that cluster galaxies do change colors with redshift (the Butcher-Oemler effect) and, in addition, they change their morphology to later-type toward higher redshift -- indicating a morphological equivalent of the Butcher-Oemler effect. We also find a tendency of richer clusters to have lower fractions of late type galaxies. The trend is consistent with a ram pressure stripping model, where richer clusters have more effective ram pressure due to their higher temperature.Comment: 44 pages, 15 figures, accepted for PAS