Making the Passionate Mind: An Inquiry into Mental Health and Crisis in Education

This dissertation investigates the passionate qualities of emotional life for the challenges they pose to theories of teaching, learning, and mental health in education. While orientations to mental health frequently manifest in the phantasy of mastery over the mind and the body, this dissertation offers an orientation that conceives of the unknown qualities of the mind from the vantage of unconscious life. Drawing on Julia Kristevas study of passion and maladies and Deborah Britzmans theory of education as an emotional situation, the dissertation offers a study of breakdowns in emotional life as a site for investigating the passionate qualities of teaching and learning. This research investigates such moments of breakdown through a study of three figurations: the mad student, the mad group, and the mad teacher. Through each, the research interprets phantasies of mastery, compliance, omnipotence, control, and cure as unconscious responses to narratives of passionate object relating. Methodologically, the investigation makes use of aesthetic objects, namely film, to interpret phantasies that passionately drive meaning-making even as they also threaten this creative work. The research posits the passionate mind as what binds education to its unconscious underside and argues that education may support mental health by allowing both time and space for its symbolization

Concert recording 2016-04-26a

[Track 01]. Il lacerato spirito from Simon Boccanegra / Giuseppe Verdi -- [Track 02]. Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni from La sonnambula / Vincenzo Bellini -- [Track 03]. Non piu andrai from Le Nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [Track 04]. Madamina from Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [Track 05]. Lamento / Henri Duparc -- [Track 06]. Give me Jesus / anonymous ; arranged by Moses Hogan -- [Track 07]. Ol\u27 Jim / Clara Edwards

Influential Article Review - Exploring Innovation Provisions in Private School Institutions

This paper examines education. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: This study proposes an efficient service delivery system using a blueprinting approach to service innovation in private educational institutions. This case study presents a flow chart based on administration blueprinting of a private preparatory school for college entrance examination, located in South Korea, to streamline process criteria based on administrative procedures for students and their parents. The results of the case study provide useful planning information for successful implementation of service blueprinting in private educational institutions. The study results are expected to help improve customer encounters as the service provider can employ effective processes. The study also sheds light on new operational management strategies for service innovation. By continuously improving information sharing, service encounters are expected to enhance customer satisfaction. The blueprinting technique can streamline the sequence of customer activities in a service process to meet customer expectations and needs. Thus, the approach could help researchers and administrators as certain how they might implement the system to correct failure points to successfully resolve difficulties. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

Concert recording 2016-04-22

[Track 01]. Ombra mai fu from Xerxes / George Frideric Handel -- [Track 02]. Adam and Eve duet from The creation / Joseph Haydn -- [Track 03]. Morire ; Sole e amore ; Salve Regina / Giacomo Puccini -- [Track 04]. Ó mon cher amant from La périchole ; Ah, what a feast ; You are not rich / Jacques Offenbach -- [Track 05]. Spiel auf deiner Geige from Venus in Seide / Robert Stolz -- [Track 06]. Belle nuit, ô nuit d\u27amour from Les contes d\u27Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach -- [Track 07]. O wär ich schon from Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [Track 08]. Orlofsky\u27s aria from Die Fledermaus / Johann Strauss II -- [Track 09]. He\u27s got the whole world in his hands / Moses Hogan -- [Track 10]. This little light of mine / Jacqueline B. Hariston -- [Track 11]. Take my hand, precious lord / Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey

Blithewold Mansion: A Vision for the Visitors Center

The Visitor Center is one of the most important programmatic elements of the estate. The building tends to get overlooked due to its small size and unclear signage. It currently houses a ticket booth, an information center and a gift shop, but there isn’t much space leftover for employees, guests or expansion

Concert recording 2016-02-04

[Track 01]. Der Schmetterling / Franz Schubert -- [Track 02]. Moonshine lullaby from Annie get your gun / Irving Berlin -- [Track 03]. Voi, che sapete from Le Nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [Track 04]. Barcarolle from Les contes d\u27Hoffman / Jacques Offenbach -- [Track 05]. A maiden fair to see from H.M.S. Pinafore / Gilbert and Sullivan -- [Track 06]. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai from Dichterliebe / Robert Schumann -- [Track 07]. L\u27heure exquise / Reynaldo Hahn -- [Track 08]. And this is my beloved from Kismet / Wright ; Forest -- [Track 09]. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Gustav Mahler -- [Track 10]. Va! Laisse couler mes larmes from Werther / Jules Massenet -- [Track 11]. Give me Jesus / traditional ; arranged by Moses Hogan -- [Track 12]. Il lacerato spirito from Simon Boccanegra / Giuseppe Verdi -- [Track 13]. Giunse alfin il momento...Deh viene, non tardar from Le nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [Track 14]. St. Ita\u27s vision from Hermit songs / Samuel Barber -- [Track 15]. Adele\u27s audition aria from Die Fledermaus / Johann Strauss -- [Track 16]. A part of that from The last five years / Jason Robert Brown -- [Track 17]. Two for the road / Henry Mancini -- [Track 18]. Nel cor piu non mi sento / Giovanni Paisiello -- [Track 19]. Love\u27s minstrels from The house of life / Ralph Vaughan-Williams -- [Track 20]. Der stürmische Morgen / Franz Schubert -- [Track 21]. Die Lotosblume / Robert Schumann -- [Track 22]. Nothing from A chorus line / Hammlisch ; Kleban -- [Track 23]. Spiel auf deiner Geige / Robert Stolz

Chronic Kidney Disease and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: Findings from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Cognitive Study

To investigate cognitive impairment in older, ethnically diverse individuals with a broad range of kidney function, to evaluate a spectrum of cognitive domains, and to determine whether the relationship between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cognitive function is independent of demographic and clinical factors.Cross-sectional.Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study.Eight hundred twenty-five adults aged 55 and older with CKD.Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, mL/min per 1.73 m 2 ) was estimated using the four-variable Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation. Cognitive scores on six cognitive tests were compared across eGFR strata using linear regression; multivariable logistic regression was used to examine level of CKD and clinically significant cognitive impairment (score ≤1 standard deviations from the mean).Mean age of the participants was 64.9, 50.4% were male, and 44.5% were black. After multivariable adjustment, participants with lower eGFR had lower cognitive scores on most cognitive domains ( P <.05). In addition, participants with advanced CKD (eGFR<30) were more likely to have clinically significant cognitive impairment on global cognition (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 2.0, 95% CI=1.1–3.9), naming (AOR=1.9, 95% CI=1.0–3.3), attention (AOR=2.4, 95% CI=1.3–4.5), executive function (AOR=2.5, 95% CI=1.9–4.4), and delayed memory (AOR=1.5, 95% CI=0.9–2.6) but not on category fluency (AOR=1.1, 95% CI=0.6–2.0) than those with mild to moderate CKD (eGFR 45–59).In older adults with CKD, lower level of kidney function was associated with lower cognitive function on most domains. These results suggest that older patients with advanced CKD should be screened for cognitive impairment.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78647/1/j.1532-5415.2009.02670.x.pd

Lynn Chamber Music Competition 2017

Judges Dr. Francesca Arnone Renate Falkner Joseph Robinson Winners (New York Prize) Fantasia Trio: David Brill (violin), Niki Khabbazvahed (cello), Guzal Ismetdinova (piano) Winners Concert on May 1, 2018 at Kosciuszko Foundation Winners (Miami Prize) Syzygy Wind Quintet: Emilio Ruttlant (flute), Trevor Mansell (oboe), James Abrahamson (clarinet), James Currence (horn), and Isaac Roles (bassoon)https://spiral.lynn.edu/conservatory_chamber-music-competition/1002/thumbnail.jp

Concert recording 2013-11-15

[Track 01]. Amarilli, mia bella / Guilio Caccini ; [Track 02]. Dein blaues auge / Johannes Brahms -- [Track 03]. Come raggio di sol / Antonio Caldara -- [Track 04]. Come ready and see me / Richard Hundley -- [Track 05]. La promessa / Giacchino Rossini -- [Track 06]. Se tu m\u27ami / Giovanni Pergolesi -- [Track 07]. Sonntag / Johannes Brahms -- [Track 08]. Le colibri / Ernest Chausson -- [Track 09]. Paulus. Jerusalem! / Felix Mendelssohn -- [Track 10]. Gia il sole dal Gange / Alessandro Scarlatti -- [Track 11]. Go, lovely Rose / Roger Quilter -- [Track 12]. Si mes vers avaient des ailes / Raynaldo Hahn -- [Track 13]. I\u27m a person too / Leonard Bernstein -- [Track 14]. Les chemins de l\u27amour / Francis Poulenc -- [Track 15]. La Boheme. Donde lieta usci al tuo... / Giacomo Puccini -- [Track 16]. Plum pudding / Leonard Bernstein -- [Track 17]. Queues de boeuf / Leonard Bernstein -- [Track 18]. Tavouk gueunksis / Leonard Bernstein -- [Track 19]. Civet a toute vitesse / Leonard Bernstein -- [Track 20]. When I have sung my songs to you / Ernest Charles -- [Track 21]. Linda di chamournix. Ah! Tardai troppo...o luce di quest\u27anima / Gaetano Donizetti