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Ekphrastic Inquiry into the Neolithic Mind in the Islands of Scotland and Wales
Amanda Nicole Gulla
Apr 09, 2021
In a world of schooling that is increasingly driven by the measurable and quantifiable, poetry provides a rare experience of the ineffable. While there are indeed many other things teachers need to learn besides the reading and...
Reviewing the Ethics and Philosophy Behind Social Media's Crowdsourced Panopticon
Amanda Furiasse
Jan 01, 2022
Philosopher Jeremy Weissman theorizes a new approach to social media surveillance by utilizing a familiar theoretical model: the Panopticon. In effect, Weissman argues that social media has transformed ordinary people into...
Published by: IGI Global
Brought, Sought, and Taught
Skillification is a powerful concept that can drive better outcomes for students, employers, and institutions of higher education (IHEs). Successful use, however, requires IHEs to adopt a systems thinking mindset more than...
Published by: IGI Global
On Trampled Ground
Amanda Warner
Mar 24, 2021
In her work, Rossiter (2011) considered the violence inherent in representation and called for a critical social work that is committed to an unsettled practice. In following Rossiter’s call to action , this article works to...
Preposition Stranding and que-deletion in Varieties of North American French.
Comparative studies of the differences between North-American varieties of French (NAF) and Standard French (SF) reveal that most variation is found in the lexical and phonological systems. This type of variation is...
Civic Value of National Service
Research from one large public university highlights that on average, of the 10,000 students who graduate, 650 students, or 8% of participating graduates, indicate ‘volunteering' or ‘taking time off' as their immediate next step...
Published by: IGI Global
Navigating the Brick Wall
For newcomer students, inequities exacerbated by COVID-19, including racism, unfold within their educational landscapes. School settlement workers perform a critical role in newcomer students’ educational trajectories. COVID-19...
Beyond “Indigenous Social Work” and Toward Decolonial Possibility
While social work has been a specific technology of settler colonialism levied against Indigenous Peoples, the phenomenon of “Indigenous social work” is now rather comfortably discussed and included within university curricula...
Mapping Out Indigenous and Racialized Critical Community-Based Perspectives and Experiences in the Time of COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many implications for the lives, health, and well-being of Indigenous and racialized queer individuals and communities across the globe. In this article, three queer social workers (two Indigenous...
Evaluation of a hybrid peer-teaching method for undergraduate medical microbiology
Background Microbiology in undergraduate medical education has been traditionally taught through didactic lectures. However, alternative educational strategies such as case-based learning and peer-teaching can be effective...
Teacher Recruitment in Rural and Aboriginal Communities
The north coast of Labrador is full of rough terrain and rugged coastlines.  There are six active communities in the northern most area of this region: Nain, Natuashish, Hopedale, Makkovik, Postville and Rigolet, which have a...
Learning From Doing
Software applications in educational technology have been a strong driving force for the success of online learning at all levels. These applications are created for various purposes and are used by a range of experts. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Pedagogical Innovation in Higher Education
Quality teaching in higher education (HE) is gaining increasing international attention and pedagogical innovation is seen as an important construct of quality teaching. The drivers for pedagogical innovation include the need...
Published by: IGI Global
So very really variable
Previous studies have shown that one of the linguistic tools that individuals use to identify themselves is adjectival intensification (e.g., so cool, very cool, really cool). We assembled and analyzed a corpus of over 3000...

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