Witnessing Engaged Voices: A Feminist Pedagogy of Inclusion

When student perspectives, needs, and wants are left out of academic discourse, the discursive structures necessary to encourage, organize, and evaluate their voice are absent. Students then become ambivalent, instead of exercising their voice and decisively assessing the value of their contributions. This original teaching activity targets the problematics that constrain voices in the classroom, inviting readers and listeners to consider their positionality and action as a commitment to a Feminist Pedagogy of Inclusion (FPoI). This method allows students and professors to deliberately hold a space where the act of witnessing is more than simply observing voices. The intended result is a comprehensive way of engaging inclusively

A Comparative Study of the Performer\u27s Empathic Process in the Arts of Interpretation and Modern Dance

The present study was designed as a comparative analysis of the performer\u27s empathic process in the arts of interpretation and modern dance. The similarity between the performer\u27s empathic process in both arts provided a method for exploring the utility that modern dance offers the interpreter. It was the purpose of this thesis to suggest that training in modern dance provides an experience in expressive movement which develops the interpreter\u27s ability to empathize with the literature. The performer\u27s experience in modern dance and interpretation involves an empathic response to stimuli presented within the choreography or within the literature. Examination of various theories of empathy described the performer\u27s experience in both arts. Numerous relationships exist between the performing artists, yet it was the purpose of this study to examine only one of these relationships: the performer\u27s empathic process. Description of this specific relationship suggested that participation in modern dance increases the interpreter\u27s awareness of his own movement. The increased awareness of the body and its movement,-develops the interpreter\u27s ability to appropri9tely express the imagery discovered in a piece of literature

The Ursinus Weekly, December 6, 1973

ProTheatre to present “Second Shepherd’s Play” • Ursinus to comply with Nixon’s request to save energy • St. Andrew’s Society of New York announces graduate deadline • Professor Miller is elected to post • Christmas program to be first of kind • Women’s problems, schedule change aired at meeting • Economics club goes to New York • U.C. band to play on Monday • Editorial: The energy predicament; David Ben-Gurion • Wickersham publishes book, his first, on Greek history of fourth century B.C. • Letter to the editor: Mid-semester assessment • Arts Festival scheduled • Alumni corner: Class of ’73 active in many fields • The Zodiac: The signs and their compatibility discussed • Forum review: Longstreth speaks to forum audience on Megalopolis, 1984 • George Fago, of Psychology Department, delivers first Socratic Club lecture • Don’t think too hard • Hockey Bearettes go to nationals • Ursinus hoopla • Winter sports schedule • Swim team bows to Swarthmorehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1007/thumbnail.jp

Loss of migratory traditions makes the endangered patagonian Huemul deer a year-round refugee in its summer habitat

The huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) is endangered, with 1500 deer split into >100 subpopulations along 2000 km of the Andes. Currently occupied areas are claimed-erroneously-to be critical prime habitats. We analyzed historical spatiotemporal behavior since current patterns represent only a fraction of pre-Columbian ones. Given the limited knowledge, the first group (n = 6) in Argentina was radio-marked to examine spatial behavior. Historically, huemul resided year-round in winter ranges, while some migrated seasonally, some using grasslands >200 km east of their current presence, reaching the Atlantic. Moreover, huemul anatomy is adapted to open unforested habitats, also corroborated by spotless fawns. Extreme naivety towards humans resulted in early extirpation on many winter ranges—preferentially occupied by humans, resulting in refugee huemul on surrounding mountain summer ranges. Radio-marked huemul remained in small ranges with minimal altitudinal movements, as known from other subpopulations. However, these resident areas documented here are typical summer ranges as evidenced by past migrations, and current usage for livestock. The huemul is the only cervid known to use mountain summer ranges year-round in reaction to anthropogenic activities. Losing migratory traditions is a major threat, and may explain their presently prevalent skeletal diseases, reduced longevity, and lacking recolonizations for most remaining huemul subpopulations.Fil: Fluck, Werner Thomas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina. Universidad de Basilea; Suiza. Administración de Parques Nacionales; ArgentinaFil: Smith Flueck, Jo Anne M.. Universidad Nacional del Comahue; Argentina. Parque Protegido Shoonem; Argentina. Deer Lab; ArgentinaFil: Escobar, Miguel E.. Parque Protegido Shoonem; ArgentinaFil: Zuliani, Melina Elizabeth. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina. Fundación Bariloche; ArgentinaFil: Fuchs, Beat. Deer Lab; ArgentinaFil: Geist, Valerius. University of Calgary; CanadáFil: Heffelfinger, James R.. Arizona Game and Fish Department; Estados UnidosFil: Black de Decima, Patricia Ann. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo; ArgentinaFil: Gizejewski, Zygmunt. Polish Academy of Sciences; ArgentinaFil: Vidal, Fernando. Univerdidad Santo Tomas; Chile. Centro de Conservacion y Manejo de Vida Silvestre; ChileFil: Barrio, Javier. Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad; PerúFil: Molinuevo, María Silvina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas; ArgentinaFil: Monjeau, Jorge Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina. Fundación Bariloche; ArgentinaFil: Hoby, Stefan. Berne Animal Park; SuizaFil: Jiménez, Jaime M.. University of North Texas; Estados Unido

MODELING CONTROL IN THE HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION: A SOCIAL SYSTEM IN TRANSITION

Diagnosis related groups (DRGs), as a newly-implemented prospective payment system, has brought about profound changes in the way health care is delivered and financed. Thus, the implementation of DRGs provided an opportunity to examine critically the introduction of a new system of control. A model of control was developed and utilized to examine the nature and functioning of the control system in two hospital organizations. The case-study approach relied predominantly upon moderately-scheduled interviews with administrators, physicians, nurse, technicians, medical records personnel, and other selected individuals. Analysis of interview data required close examination of the choices that individuals made in communicating with each other about DRGs. The overall goal of this research was to organize the findings into an interpretation of the system of control. The conclusion that can be drawn from the findings reported in this research is that administrators utilized cooptation through their selection of strategies for communicating directives, monitoring behaviors, and communicating incentives and penalties. Both administrators\u27 and physicians\u27 perceptions of degree of control confirmed the existence of the state of tension between formal authority and social power which Selznick (1953, 1948) cites as a condition that leads to the formulation of cooptation as a mechanism for organizational control

The Light and Shadow of Feminist Research Mentorship: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Faculty-Student Research

“Research assistant” is a term used to describe student researchers across a variety of contexts and encompasses a wide array of duties, rewards, and costs. As critical qualitative scholars situated in a discipline that rarely offers funded research assistantships to graduate students, we explore how we have engaged in faculty-student research in one particularly understudied context: the independent study. Using narrative writing and reflection within a framework of collaborative autoethnography, the first three authors reflect as three “generations” of protégés who were each mentored through independent studies during their MA programs by the fourth author. We explore the environmental context, mentor facets, and protégé facets that highlight the light and shadow, or successes and struggles, of our mentoring relationships. Reflecting on our own experiences of collaborative research through independent studies, we suggest a model for feminist research mentorship that may be enacted across disciplines

Trailblazing healthcare: Institutionalizing and integrating complementary medicine

Objectives — This study examines three integrative health centers to understand their (1) historical development, organizational goals, and modalities, (2) the processes and challenges of integrating complementary and allopathic medicine, while encouraging staff collaboration, and (3) how each center becomes institutionalized within their community. Methods — We focus on three organizational case studies that reflect varying forms of integrative health care practices in three U.S. cities. Participant-observation and in-depth interviews with center directors were analyzed qualitatively. Results — Important patterns found within the three cases are (1) the critical role of visionary biomedical practitioners who bridge complementary and allopathic practices, (2) communicating integration internally through team interaction, and (3) communicating integration externally through spatial location, naming, and community outreach. Conclusion — IM centers continue to blaze new trails toward mainstream access and acceptance by gathering evidence for IM, encouraging team collaboration within organizational contexts, constructing organizational identity, and negotiating insurance reimbursements. Practice implications — IM is not the enactment of specific modalities, but rather a philosophy of healing. Though scheduling conflicts, skepticism, and insurance coverage may be obstacles toward IM, collaboration among specialists and with patients should be the ultimate goal