Biography of Samuel Kennedy Talmage (1798-1865)

Samuel Kennedy Talmage was born December 11, 1798 near Somerville, N.J. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister and moved to Georgia where he helped found Oglethorpe University at Midway. He served as President of the school from 1841 till his death September 2, 1865.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1142/thumbnail.jp

Why Do You Work with Struggling Students? Teacher Perceptions of Meaningful Work in Trauma-Impacted Classrooms

This study contributed new findings to the construct of meaningful work (MW) and negative impacts on MW. In other professional samples, finding meaning in work has been shown to be an effective buffer when facing workplace adversity. However, prior investigation has neither identified nor explored the specific sources and mechanisms of meaningful work that teachers derive from educating trauma-affected students. Within a cross-sectional sample of primary and secondary teachers (N = 18) working in trauma-affected classrooms, two interrelated sources of MW: (1) practice pedagogy and (2) teacher wellbeing were further analysed for discussion via Rosso, Dekas, and Wrzesniewski’s (2010) four mechanisms of MW (i.e., individuation, self-connection, contribution, and unification). These findings argue for the new development of trauma-informed pedagogies that both (1) enable teachers to redress the complex and unmet needs of students and (2) incorporate domains of meaning that teachers bring to their trauma-affected work

Trauma-informed Teacher Wellbeing: Teacher Reflections within Trauma-informed Positive Education

For the last 15 years, teacher wellbeing has been a priority area of exploration within education and positive psychology literatures. However, increasing teacher wellbeing for those who educate students impacted by trauma has yet to be comprehensively explored despite repeated exposure of teachers to child trauma and their experiences of associated negative effects such as secondary traumatic stress, vicarious traumatisation, compassion fatigue and burnout. This study follows teachers’ understandings and reflections upon their own wellbeing after learning the literatures supporting trauma-informed positive education. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used as the methodological approach to represent teachers (N = 18) in order to privilege the language, voices and experiences of participants. Results yielded a new set of domains of trauma-informed teacher wellbeing to assist teachers to increase their own wellbeing when working with students. The likely upsurge in students and teachers across the world experiencing trauma symptoms (primary and vicarious) arising from the COVID-19 global pandemic makes this research timely and relevant

A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit

Income inequality, as well as the impact of tax and benefit reforms on it, has typically been evaluated with respect to ‘snapshot’ incomes, measured over short periods such as one week or year. But longitudinal data allows long-run measures of income to be used, which will be of interest to policymakers interested in persistent, rather than only temporary, poverty. We show that the long-run distributional impact of a reform is the combination of three effects: a ‘static’ effect, which would be observed if individuals’ circumstances were consistent throughout their life; an ‘income dynamics’ effect, resulting from individuals moving around the income distribution over time; and a ‘tagging’ effect, resulting from the reform affecting individuals differently according to whether they have a characteristic predictive of long-run income conditional on current income. We propose a simple method to decompose these three effects for any inequality, poverty, or distributional statistic. We use the method to examine the distributional impact of the introduction of ‘Universal Credit’, the most important reform to the UK benefit system in decades. We show that Universal Credit is less regressive on a long-run basis than a snapshot one, partly because of income dynamics but also because it reduces entitlements for (or ‘negatively tags’) those who are more likely to find a period of low income to be temporary, rather than persistent

Initial validation of a relaxed human soft tissue simulant for sports impact surrogates

Impact injuries are a common occurrence in sport such that personal protective equipment (PPE) is often mandatory to ensure participant safety. Current tests to assess PPE effectiveness often use unrepresentative human surrogates, insufficient to accurately assess human impact response. More refined surrogates typically use “off the shelf” silicone elastomers to better represent human tissue, however using a single simulant material for all soft tissues means some phenomena associated with injury are not adequately represented. This study presents an evaluation of the effectiveness of a bespoke muscular tissue simulant using a proprietary blend of additive cure silicones. The mechanical response has been compared and validated with porcine tissue properties and provides improved behaviour when compared with a previously used silicone elastomer, Silastic 3481. The material has also been modelled computationally using a two-term Ogden model and exhibits a significantly different response to Silastic 3481 under a low-speed knee-strike loading condition