38 research outputs found
Traumatized Children and Post-Traumatic Growth in Francophone Trauma Novels
In an attempt to decolonize Trauma Studies, a dominant mental health discourse, and to expand our understanding of trauma and post-traumatic growth, this project investigates J.M.G. Le Clézio’s The African (L’africain 2004) and Ahmadou Kourouma’s: Allah is Not Obliged 2011) (Allah n’est pas obligé 2000) and the untranslated and unfinished Quand on refuse on dit non (2004). The term “decolonizing Trauma Studies” refers to a remapping of this particular field of Cultural Theory by studying these non-Western “trauma novels”. The first critical suggestion advanced is that these authors explore the traumatic consequences of lies that are ontological and phenomenological in nature and maintained through language (logos). This research then examines Le Clézio’s and Kourouma’s models of healing, which centre on the body, language, and an empathetic re-encounter with the traumatized self through narratives. Another major finding is that these texts experiment with literature, manipulating it into new forms, thus expanding our understanding of the relationship between the literary arts and post-traumatic growth theories and treatments
The position of the United States on the Northwest Passage : is the fear of creating a precedent warranted?
For decades, Ottawa and Washington have been agreeing to disagree on the question of the legal status of the Northwest Passage. One argument which has been consistently raised on the U.S. side and which has precluded attempts to end the deadlock has been the fear of creating a negative precedent. This article assesses whether U.S. concerns are warranted: could coastal States elsewhere in the world rely on an eventual recognition of Canadian sovereignty over the Northwest Passage to bolster their claims over a local strait
The Mastery Rubric for Statistics and Data Science: promoting coherence and consistency in data science education and training
Consensus based publications of both competencies and undergraduate
curriculum guidance documents targeting data science instruction for higher
education have recently been published. Recommendations for curriculum features
from diverse sources may not result in consistent training across programs. A
Mastery Rubric was developed that prioritizes the promotion and documentation
of formal growth as well as the development of independence needed for the 13
requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for professional practice in
statistics and data science, SDS. The Mastery Rubric, MR, driven curriculum can
emphasize computation, statistics, or a third discipline in which the other
would be deployed or, all three can be featured. The MR SDS supports each of
these program structures while promoting consistency with international,
consensus based, curricular recommendations for statistics and data science,
and allows 'statistics', 'data science', and 'statistics and data science'
curricula to consistently educate students with a focus on increasing learners
independence. The Mastery Rubric construct integrates findings from the
learning sciences, cognitive and educational psychology, to support teachers
and students through the learning enterprise. The MR SDS will support higher
education as well as the interests of business, government, and academic work
force development, bringing a consistent framework to address challenges that
exist for a domain that is claimed to be both an independent discipline and
part of other disciplines, including computer science, engineering, and
statistics. The MR-SDS can be used for development or revision of an evaluable
curriculum that will reliably support the preparation of early e.g.,
undergraduate degree programs, middle e.g., upskilling and training programs,
and late e.g., doctoral level training practitioners.Comment: 40 pages; 2 Tables; 4 Figures. Presented at the Symposium on Data
Science & Statistics (SDSS) 202
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law: Who Controls the Northwest Passage?
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law presents the article by Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law and Suzanne Lalonde and Professor of Law from University of Montreal. The article treats about the challenges of Northwest Passage to become the international shipping route and disputes with regards to the claims made by various states over the strait
Towards Statistical Best Practices For Gender And Sex Data
Suzanne Thornton, Dooti Roy, Stephen Parry, Donna LaLonde, Wendy Martinez, Renee Ellis and David Corliss call for a more inclusive – and informative – approach to collecting data on human gender and sex
Insights from global environmental governance
This collection of essays brings together scholars from various disciplines, based on three continents, with different theoretical and methodological interests, but all active in the subfield of global environmental governance (GEG). Each of them reviews the emerging literature around one specific conceptual innovation of GEG, related to one of the two core themes of GEG: International regimes or non-state actors. Beyond a review of the literature, each contribution hypothesizes on the reasons why GEG played a pioneer role in this concept and discusses its transferability to other subfields of IR