The Pawnee Mission Letters, 1834–1851

Review of: The Pawnee Mission Letters, 1834–1851, edited by Richard E. Jensen

DOING THE WORK: USING QUESTIONS, TASKS, AND SOURCES TO NAVIGATE TEACHING CONTENTIOUS SOCIAL STUDIES IN SECONDARY CLASSROOMS

This explanatory case study examines how two secondary social studies teachers use inquiry-based learning to mitigate the risks of teaching contentious social studies in a charged classroom. Research questions included: 1. How do two in-service secondary teachers use inquiry-based instruction to navigate teaching contentious social studies during charged times? 2. What curricular and pedagogical choices were made by the in-service teachers to navigate risk when designing inquiry-based instruction that features contentious social studies during charged times? 3. What curricular and pedagogical choices were made by the in-service teachers to navigate risk when delivering inquiry-based instruction that features contentious social studies during charged times? Through interviews, observations, and artifacts, this study examined the teachers\u27 instructional choices as they taught units featuring American Reconstruction and Europe’s interwar years and the rise of Hitler. Data was analyzed using Swan et al.’s (2018) Questions, Tasks, and Sources [QTS] Observation Protocol and Pace’s (2021) Framework for Teaching Controversial Issues. The author identified three broad themes: curriculum control, ideological distancing, and community utilization. The teachers exerted significant control over their instruction, privileging safety over openness in how they designed and delivered their lessons. Additionally, when instructing on topics in which they held different views than the school’s community, they distanced themselves from the contentious issues they taught. Finally, the teachers’ engagement with the community and strong positive regard for their students facilitated greater and more effective risk-taking in their teaching practice. This work speaks to the impact of official curricula on teachers’ praxis when teachers and communities hold different views of topics as open or closed to deliberation

The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833–1849

Review of: "The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833–1849," written by Edmund F. Ely, edited by Theresa M. Schenck

The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833–1849

Review of: "The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833–1849," written by Edmund F. Ely, edited by Theresa M. Schenck

Government Sponsored Health Care: A Cluster Profile of Supporters and Nonsupporters

While there has been a great deal of information revealing the public\u27s dissatisfaction with our current health care system, there is little detailed analysis of these attitudes, and of the individuals who are most likely to support or reject such a system. This becomes more and more important as health policy debates shift toward a questioning of the viability of the current health care system and possible alterations to that system. In this paper we use cluster analytic methods on data collected from a public opinion survey of Louisiana residents to develop profiles of those people who support and who reject government-sponsored health care for all citizens. We then use these profiles to develop informed strategies for use by sociologists to impact health care policy. Much of the literature on attitudes toward human resource spending were confirmed by the multivariate analysis we performed. However, the cluster analysis illuminated the true diversity that exists. Quite often, rather weak statistical relationships tend to be overgeneralized. In attempting to develop these profiles, the cluster analysis allowed us to regain the diversity in a comprehensive fashion. We found that there are clear groupings of both supporters and nonsupporters, but probably of greater importance is that there is more similarity between supporters and nonsupporters than distinctiveness

The Concept of Social Exclusion and Rural Development Policy

Since the early 1970s rural research and public education programs have been intensified in efforts to improve living conditions and strengthen community life in rural America (Southern Perspectives 2000). During much of the 1990s, the nation, including the rural South, experienced a growing economy, a booming stock market, and declining unemployment rates (Gibbs 2001). However, many serious social problems traditionally associated with the rural South remain to this day (Gibbs 2001). This paper introduces the concept of social exclusion, used extensively in European countries and now part of the European Union\u27s official lexicon. Social exclusion is defined as the process and the resulting condition in which specific social entities are fully or partially prevented from acquiring the basic necessities of life. Further components are that it is seen as a product of the social system, not an individual attribute, and that it is multi-dimensional and dynamic in time and space. It is argued that the concept of social exclusion should be incorporated into rural development policy discourse in the United States. This would aid in countering the predominant pattern of neglect in rural development policies and programs in addressing the persistent problems which exist

Changing the Health Care System: Opinions of Rural and Urban Residents

This paper examines the opinions of rural and urban residents toward a full health care system provided by the government. The data used in the study come from a statewide poll conducted by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. Because of a greater need for health care reform in rural areas, it was assumed that rural Louisianians might be more supportive of a government health care system than their urban counterparts. However, analysis of the data indicates that a person\u27s residence had no statistically significant effect on attitudes toward government sponsored health care

Bioinformatic Analysis of Proteomic Changes That Occur in an Airway Epithelial Cell Line in Response to Exposure to Physiologically Relevant Concentrations of Carbon Nanotubes

poster abstractCarbon nanomaterials are widely produced and used in industry, medicine and scientific research. To examine the impact of acute exposure to nanoparticles on human health, the human airway epithelial cell line, Calu-3, was used to evaluate potential alterations in cellular function of airway epithelia after 24 hours exposure to different concentrations of two common carbon nanoparticles, single- and multi-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT, MWCNT). After exposure to the nanoparticles, label-free quantitative mass spectrometry (LFQMS) was used to study the differential protein expression in Calu-3 cells. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) was used to conduct a bioinformatic analysis of proteins identified in LFQMS. Changes in protein abundance generated in response to 100 ng/ml exposure of both MWCNT and SWCNT suggest that cell functions of cell death and survival, cell-to-cell signaling and interaction, cellular assembly and organization, cellular growth and proliferation, infectious disease, molecular transport and protein synthesis are predicted to be effected. The majority of the protein changes represent a decrease in amount suggesting a shut down of metabolism to protect cells. The STRING database was used to analyze the protein networks in different functions. Interestingly some proteins like cadherin 1 (CDH1), signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1), junction plakoglobin (JUP), apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD (PYCARD), appear in several functions and tend to be in the center of the networks, which suggest they may play important roles in the cell function and activity

Public Opinion on Childhood Obesity as a Driving Force for Policy and Intervention Development

Childhood obesity is a complex issue in which evidence describing strategies and methods for prevention are needed. It is important that the public’s perception of childhood obesity is understood. This includes determining attitudes about childhood obesity and assessing support for an array of policies and prevention initiatives. A multidisciplinary research team at The University of Southern Mississippi conducted the Mississippi Public Perception of Childhood Obesity telephone survey. Childhood obesity information was elicited from 1,352 Mississippi adults. Telephone interviewing was conducted using WinCATI on a sample selected using random-digit dialing. Data were weighted to reflect race, sex, and age distribution of the population. All analysis was performed using SPSS 14.0. There is widespread knowledge and understanding of the existence and problems resulting from or associated with childhood obesity. Mississippians have varying levels of concern, interest, and suggestions on how to address this problem. Data shows variation in their opinions by ethnicity, gender, age, and family composition; therefore, sensitivity to these disparities is warranted.Although more research is needed, obesity initiatives do exist and can be further used in Mississippi. To be successful, these initiatives require policy development, long-term strategies, and interventions based on solid evidence and best practices