Education for Victory: An Analysis of Social Studies Education in American Secondary Schools during World War II

Secondary schools during World War II were viewed as a vital component of the war effort on the home front. The nation’s youth were seen as important potential contributors to the war effort, and were educated as such. The atmosphere of total war especially affected social studies classes at this level. An analysis of contemporary educational journals and supplementary teaching materials reveals that secondary school students were virtually indoctrinated with democratic and patriotic values in their social studies classes in wartime schools. Social studies classes thus functioned as a route through which students could be encouraged to participate in the war effort. They were also a far-reaching system that attempted to unify the nation’s youth in support of the war

“Swipe Aid”: Using Swipebox to Create a Side-Swipeable Image Gallery for Finding Aids

[Excerpt] The Swipe Aid Project provides another technical solution for the integration of digitized content with a finding aid, specifically aimed at mobile environments. This solution uses a free, open-source JavaScript library (Swipebox) to deliver a multi-device-friendly image gallery within the finding aid. The below project description provides a step-by-step explanation of how Swipebox is used to create a finding aid image gallery. This is followed by a summary of initial feedback, which demonstrates the importance of a finding aid image gallery, as well as desired functionality and further areas for development. This article contributes to the growing body of literature on “next-generation” finding aids by presenting a simple solution to the integration of digitized content for mobile environments

Sites of Southern memory: The autobiographies of Katharine Dupre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray

This study argues that Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray used sites of regional memory in their autobiographies, particularly Confederate burial sites, to discuss how segregation divided not only the southern landscape and the southern people, but southern minds and bodies as well. In the southern graveyard, memory of the Confederate South was stored in tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags driven into grass plots, and in Memorial Day speeches and rituals associated with the burial of the dead. Cemeteries housed the language of southern memory. Here, identity was spoken in ritualistic form--inscribed on tombs, in texts, and in bodily memories and messages.;Witness to numerous activities designed to commemorate the Confederate South and to maintain the social order of the New South, Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray created their autobiographies to dismantle the Lost Cause versions of southern identity. They joined the dialogue surrounding the rituals of regional memory by placing the dead southern body as a site of memory within their texts; they entered burial grounds to unearth the meaning and identity given to dead bodies. In the process, they retrieved forgotten memories, participated in the return of the repressed, and searched for messages inscribed on the bodies of southerners.;Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray used their autobiographies to continue their work in articulating a potential new South, a South freed from the schizophrenic nature of segregation and open to a new era in race relations. In their texts, segregation is a defining metaphor for the South, regulating not only the lay of the land, but also the ways southerners think, how they experience their emotions, and how they remember their collective past. Using their texts, these three writers strive to reshape southern memory, to remold the white supremacist past in order to redirect the region toward a tolerant future.;In raising these issues, Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray point to the segregated, schizophrenic nature of autobiography, using the genre as an appropriate means to discuss the southern experience. their discourse is one of division, discussed in a format itself divided

The Association of Type-D Personality and Prognosis Following Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease: A Review and Meta-Analysis

Type-D personality is characterized by the stable traits of negative affectivity and social inhibition. In recent years, a body of studies has examined the relationship between the presence of Type-D personality and prognosis in cardiovascular patient populations. The present meta-analysis, investigated relationships between Type-D personality and three different outcome measures: major adverse cardiac events, quality of life, and biochemical markers of disease. A random effects meta-analytic model was utilized to calculate omnibus effect sizes for each set of related studies. Tests of homogeneity were conducted, and all studies were coded for the presence of potential moderators. A total of 14 studies were included in the meta-analysis, and one effect size was calculated in the major adverse cardiac event analysis, two were calculated in the quality of life analysis and seven effect sizes were calculated for the biochemical marker analysis. An association was found between Type-D personality and major adverse cardiac events, one measure of quality of life, interleukin-6 levels and tumor necrosis factor-alpha soluble receptor levels. No association was found with respect to cortisol or tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels. All other effect sizes trended towards significance. It is suggested that a broader body of research be conducted in this area in order to generalize these associations. Research is also warranted to investigate the effects of treatment with a focus on alleviating emotional distress on Type-D individuals in order to identify options to improve prognosis in this high-risk patient group

Mental Health and TeamMates

Mental health is an aspect so essential throughout the human experience, yet an aspect overlooked by many. Specifically, mental health in youth is an area hardly touched by different initiatives, programs, and organizations that are put in place in order to bring assistance and guidance to youth. This is despite overwhelming statistics regarding youth and mental health. After analyzing the TeamMates Mentoring Program and finding inadequate measures in place regarding mental health, different initiatives were created in order to increase the program’s use of advocacy, awareness, and actions regarding mental health in youth

Conflict Strategies, Spiritual Meaning, and Spiritual Disclosure Across Various Relationships

This study examined conflict resolution styles across marriages, dating and engaged relationships, and friendships, with the expectation that people in each type of relationship will utilize different conflict strategies. It also explored the relationships among spiritual disclosure, conflict strategies, and spiritual meaning. Sixty-seven college students were recruited as couples, including 29 men and 38 women, each in either a marriage, dating/engaged relationship, or friendship, with a mean age of 20.94. Each participant was asked to complete a Spiritual Meaning Scale (Mascaro et al., 2004), a Spiritual Intimacy Scale (Mahoney et al., 2020), and the conflict frequency and conflict strategies subsections of the Conflicts and Problem-Solving Scales (Kerig, 1996). The results from three One-way ANOVAs failed to support the hypothesis that there would be differences in conflict strategies across various relationship. There was a significant Pearson product-moment correlation between spiritual disclosure and collaboration strategies (r(63), = .49, p\u3c .001), but no correlations were found between spiritual disclosure and conflict frequency, and spiritual disclosure and spiritual meaning. The results of this research indicate that all types of relationships can utilize constructive or destructive conflict strategies. It also implies that spiritual intimacy and collaboration tend to be present together. Future researchers should study this relationship for causality to develop resources to help all relationships experience more intimate and healthy interactions

Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education: A Program\u27s Response

Pressure from external stakeholders increasingly requires higher education institutions to provide concrete evidence of student learning, i.e., learning that will assist graduates to become productive, working members of society

Mindfulness as a Means of Reducing Teacher Burnout

Educators are asked to do more tasks every school year. It can be difficult to maintain boundaries and continue feeling like an effective educator, with the demands of everyday teaching. This paper examined how the use of mindfulness, as an individual, assists educators in avoiding burnout. The resources used were a mix of qualitative, quantitative, quasi-experimental, meta-analyses, and mixed methods focusing on strategies and reasons educators should use stress-reducing techniques in their personal lives to help with occupational stress. The conclusion of the research gathered showed the use of mindfulness benefited educators and school systems by reducing absenteeism, reducing healthcare costs, and reducing teacher turnover (Harris & Bostain, 2021). As administrators add mindfulness into professional development, educators have space to create the balance. Keywords: Mindfulness practice, Burnout, Occupational stress, Resilienc