Community Engaged Research: Student and Community Perspectives

Engaged scholarship is defined by Stanton (2008) as research that partners university scholarly resources with those in the public and private sectors to enrich knowledge, address and help solve critical social issues and contribute to the public good. To be truly engaged and of high quality, engagement must take place in the development of the purpose, throughout the research process and in the compilation of the research product. It includes research that incorporates only a few elements of community-engagement, for example having the researchers control the research with the community in more of a consultative role, to research in which both are equal partners throughout the process. This paper will report on a community engaged research course. Feedback from the community agencies and the students involved in the course will be examined in terms of the level of engagement and whether the students were able to make a contribution to the organization. KEYWORDScommunity engaged research, pedagogy, community partnership

Medically Complex Child: Best Practice Toolkit for Improving Coordination of Care Between Parents, Providers, and Support Systems

Children with special health care needs face multiple challenges within the educational realm due to missing school days from illness. The purpose of this paper was to explore an electronic toolkit that would allow for improved communication and care coordination between teachers, principals, social workers, school nurses, parents, and healthcare professionals to maximize in classroom learning opportunities. The project was guided by the following PICOT question, for interprofessional staff supporting the medically complex child (P), how does the development of a best practice for coordination of care toolkit (I) compared to no structured program strategy (C) influence the efficacy of interprofessional staff coordination of care between parents, providers, and support systems? Communication and lack of coordination of care between health care providers and school personnel is deficient as evidenced within the literature. Utilization of action plans for chronic health conditions, primarily for asthma and food allergies, have been shown to decrease school absenteeism. Incorporation of existing action plans for chronic health conditions, that are individually modifiable, into an electronic coordination of care toolkit, allowed for improved communication, stronger bonds and relationships developed with the aim of maximizing the full classroom experience for the student, defining best practice

Toward a Systematic Evidence-Base for Science in Out-of-School Time: The Role of Assessment

Analyzes the tools used in assessments of afterschool and summer science programs, explores the need for comprehensive tools for comparisons across programs, and discusses the most effective structure and format for such a tool. Includes recommendations

“ON PEUT PAS LE FERMER” : COMMENT LA DISCUTION POSITIONNE LES PERSONNES AYANT DES HANDICAPS INTELLECTUELS

In 2004, the government of Manitoba decided to spend $40 million to upgrade the Manitoba Developmental Centre, an institution housing people with intellectual disabilities. By examining local newspaper accounts of this story, I use discourse analysis as a means of uncovering how language works to position people with intellectual disabilities in certain ways. I rely upon Wolfensberger’s (1998) devalued social roles as an analytical framework to consider how our society understands and characterizes these individuals. I argue that within this discourse, people with intellectual disabilities have been cast into three devalued roles: as the object of paternalism, as the object of the professional gaze, and as the failed human. Keywords: People with intellectual disabilities, devaluation, devalued roles, discourse analysis, newspapersEn 2004, le gouvernement du Manitoba a décidé de dépenser 40, 000,000$ afin de renouveler le Centre développemental du Manitoba, une institution hébergeant des personnes ayant des handicaps intellectuels. En examinant les articles parus dans les journaux locaux par rapport à cet événement, j’utilise l’analyse des discours en tant que moyen de découvrir comment le langage humain fonctionne afin de positionner des personnes ayant des handicaps intellectuels dans certaines manières. Je me fie sur les rôles sociaux dévalués de Wolfensberger (1998) en tant que cadre analytique afin d’aborder comment notre société comprend et caractérise ces individus. Dans ce discours, je constate que des personnes ayant des handicaps intellectuels se trouvent dans trois rôles dévalués : l’objet du paternalisme, l’objet du professionnalisme, et l’être humain failli. Mots clés : Personnes ayant des handicaps intellectuels, dévaluation, rôles dévalués, analyse des discours, journaux

Analysis of factors influencing selection of research topics in the Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1978 S39Master of Art

Community Engaged Research: Student and Community Perspectives

Engaged scholarship is defined by Stanton (2008) as research that partners university scholarly resources with those in the public and private sectors to enrich knowledge, address and help solve critical social issues and contribute to the public good. To be truly engaged and of high quality, engagement must take place in the development of the purpose, throughout the research process and in the compilation of the research product. It includes research that incorporates only a few elements of community-engagement, for example having the researchers control the research with the community in more of a consultative role, to research in which both are equal partners throughout the process. This paper will report on a community engaged research course. Feedback from the community agencies and the students involved in the course will be examined in terms of the level of engagement and whether the students were able to make a contribution to the organization

Application of a Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for the Simultaneous Confirmation of Listeria monocytogenes and Other Listeria Species in Turkey Sample Surveillance

A multiplex polymerase chain reaction was developed to simultaneously identify Listeria monocytogenes and species of the genus Listeria. Two sets of primers were used, with the first amplifying a 938-bp region of the 16S rRNA gene that is highly conserved in all Listeria species and the second amplifying a 174-bp region of the listeriolysin (hlyA) gene of L. monocytogenes. Thus, isolates of Listeria spp. yield a single 938-bp product, whereas L. monocytogenes isolates yield both the 938-bp product and a 174-bp product. The specificity of the assay was verified with all six Listeria species and 11 serotypes of L. monocytogenes, as well as nonrelated bacteria. The multiplex PCR assay was used to determine the incidence of Listeria spp., especially L. monocytogenes, in mechanically separated turkey samples (n = 150 samples). L. monocytogenes strains were selected by using the University of Vermont two-step enrichment protocol and plating to selective Palcam agar. The multiplex PCR assay was used for verification of presumptive Listeria colonies. Approximately 38% of mechanically separated turkey samples (57 of 150) yielded L. monocytogenes; an additional 18% of these samples (27 of 150) harbored other Listeria spp. Fifty-one percent (29 of 57) of the L. monocytogenes isolates were of serogroup 1, 44% (25 of 57) were of serogroup 4, and 2% (1 of 57) were assigned to serogroups other than 1 and 4

Municipal Liability and Liability of Supervisors: Litigation Significance of Recent Trends and Developments

The purpose of this presentation is to examine two recent Supreme Court decisions, Connick v. Thompson and Ashcroft v. Iqbal with an eye to their impact on how lower federal courts will assess such claims in the wake of new constraints imposed by these cases. The focus of the discussion will be on developments in single-incident liability cases after Connick and supervisory liability claims after Iqbal

Skeletal remains from punic carthage do not support systematic sacrifice of infants

Two types of cemeteries occur at Punic Carthage and other Carthaginian settlements: one centrally situated housing the remains of older children through adults, and another at the periphery of the settlement (the "Tophet") yielding small urns containing the cremated skeletal remains of very young animals and humans, sometimes comingled. Although the absence of the youngest humans at the primary cemeteries is unusual and worthy of discussion, debate has focused on the significance of Tophets, especially at Carthage, as burial grounds for the young. One interpretation, based on two supposed eye-witness reports of large-scale Carthaginian infant sacrifice [Kleitarchos (3rd c. BCE) and Diodorus Siculus (1st c. BCE)], a particular translation of inscriptions on some burial monuments, and the argument that if the animals had been sacrificed so too were the humans, is that Tophets represent burial grounds reserved for sacrificial victims. An alternative hypothesis acknowledges that while the Carthaginians may have occasionally sacrificed humans, as did their contemporaries, the extreme youth of Tophet individuals suggests these cemeteries were not only for the sacrificed, but also for the very young, however they died. Here we present the first rigorous analysis of the largest sample of cremated human skeletal remains (348 burial urns, N = 540 individuals) from the Carthaginian Tophet based on tooth formation, enamel histology, cranial and postcranial metrics, and the potential effects of heat-induced bone shrinkage. Most of the sample fell within the period prenatal to 5-to-6 postnatal months, with a significant presence of prenates. Rather than indicating sacrifice as the agent of death, this age distribution is consistent with modern-day data on perinatal mortality, which at Carthage would also have been exacerbated by numerous diseases common in other major cities, such as Rome and Pompeii. Our diverse approaches to analyzing the cremated human remains from Carthage strongly support the conclusion that Tophets were cemeteries for those who died shortly before or after birth, regardless of the cause. © 2010 Schwartz et al