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Translating Ignatian Principles Into Artful Pedagogies Of Hope, Susan Mossman Riva
Translating Ignatian Principles Into Artful Pedagogies Of Hope, Susan Mossman Riva
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal
The Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL) program offers transformational learning through institutional partnerships that grant academic degrees to students at the margins of society. Ignatian principles and pedagogy are applied within online coursework. Teaching anthropology within this diverse, intercultural learning environment required artful language and narrative approaches to create a trusting environment in which to discuss challenging concepts. The place of hope in students’ lives was underscored in this process that describes how teaching is a practice of accompaniment. Providing educational platforms and mentoring to students living in the margins requires an adapted online learning environment as well as a relational …
Songs From Home: A Study Of Musical Traditions Amongst Iraqi Refugees, Moira Rose Dunn
Songs From Home: A Study Of Musical Traditions Amongst Iraqi Refugees, Moira Rose Dunn
Anthropology: Student Scholarship & Creative Works
Families relocating to new communities face the hardships of learning how to navigate in a new legal and cultural environment and can also experience an interruption of past forms of passing down cultural, personal, or familial traditions, such as music. My research asks the following questions: how does music exist in the memories and daily life of Iraqi refugees in the Quad Cities, and how does the community provide specific expressive outlets for them? Using a combination of interviews with resettled Iraqi refugees and community members who try to reach out to them and participant observation, this research focuses on …
Refugee Resettlement And Integration In Germany: Analysis Of Media Discourse, Dylan T. O'Neil
Refugee Resettlement And Integration In Germany: Analysis Of Media Discourse, Dylan T. O'Neil
Student Publications
Refugees are among the most discussed and debated topics worldwide; the massive movement of refugees and asylum seekers facing the world today is the largest since the end of the second world war. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates the total number of refugees in the world to be almost twenty-six million people, while asylum seekers account for around three million. The concept of a refugee is formally defined by the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees, which creates a legal status, and states that a refugee is a person who “faces well-founded fear of being …