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The Bg News October 4, 2023, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 04, 2023. Volume 103-Issue 07.

Knowing The Unknowable: Visions Of Troubled Lands, Estella C. Kuchta

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This paper describes the author’s clairvoyant visions of war and personal experiences of transrational knowledges. It is an account of one Westerner coming to know outside of and despite Western episteme. Transrational knowing was modelled by companion dogs in the author’s childhood and literary figures in early adulthood, and was experienced as a means of self-protection. Western culture fosters skepticism about transrational knowledges, such as psychic visions and telepathic connections. This paper asserts that transrational knowing—whether between humans, other species, or humans and other species—is a valid and readily available form of knowing that exists outside of and in spite …

Philosophical Counselling Through Meditative Inquiry: Insights For Holistic And Contemplative Educators And Practitioners, Ashwani Kumar

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

This paper explores how meditative inquiry can contribute to philosophical counselling, and how these two perspectives together can inform the work of holistic and contemplative educators and practitioners. After outlining the definition, goals, and practices related to meditative inquiry and pointing to its transformative potential, the author draws attention to how meditative inquiry and philosophical counselling share similar goals, such as engagement in authentic inner exploration of questions of deep existential significance, and highlights the benefits of processes related to meditative inquiry, such as developing attentive listening and observation, engaging in creative and aesthetic exploration, and connecting with nature. Rather …

Index Of Articles: 1997, Deborah L. Bainer, Gene A. Kramer, Richard M. Smith

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Index of Articles

Effect Of Depression And Anxiety On Rehabilitation Adherence And Injury Recovery In Collegiate Athletes, Luis Torres, Shala E. Davis, Colleen A. Shotwell, Frederick A. Gardin

Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences: Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association

Introduction: The noted prevalence of depressive and anxious symptomology both pre-injury and post-injury in collegiate athletes raises concern regarding their ability to maintain appropriate rehabilitation adherence in their recovery from sports injury. The purpose of this study was to further explore the effect of depressive and anxious collegiate athlete symptoms on athletic trainers’ perceptions of rehabilitation adherence and return-to-play. Methods: NCAA Division II and Division III injured collegiate athletes (N = 19, M age = 20.58 ± 1.31) were observed throughout their rehabilitation programs by 5 separate collegiate athletic trainers. Collegiate athlete depressive and anxious symptoms were assessed during preseason …

Mid-Western Educational Researcher Call For Manuscripts, Kristin L. K. Koskey, Susan N. Kushner Benson, Xin Liang, Jennifer L. Milam, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Call for Manuscripts

Do We Need Paradigms? A Mixed Methods Perspective, R. Burke Johnson

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Point/Counterpoint

Where Do I Look? Preservice Teachers' Classroom Observation Patterns, Teresa Young, Delane Bender-Slack

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

During field experiences, preservice teachers are typically required to observe mentor teachers in schools, but what exactly are they seeing? This research examined the patterns and variations that existed with regard to preservice teachers’ classroom observations during recent field experiences. Data were collected from 24 preservice teachers during two semester-long Language Arts methods courses where students used a two-step blended observational approach (both guided and unguided) for their observations. Themes of literacy events and classroom organization emerged, and preservice teachers ultimately focused on student outcomes. The blended observational approach helped preservice teachers mediate classroom observations in order to improve learning …

Mid-Western Educational Researcher Call For Manuscripts—2010-2011, Kristin L. K. Koskey, Susan N. Kushner Benson, Xin Liang, Jennifer L. Milam, Sandra Spickard Prettyman

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Call for Manuscripts

Politics, Economics, And Testing: Some Reflections, Michael J. Feuer

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Luncheon Keynote Address

Facilitating A Faculty Learning Community: Determining Consensus Using Q Methodology, Susan Ramlo

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

With plans to improve a Technical Report Writing course, writing faculty and engineering-technology faculty formed a faculty learning community (FLC). Although discussions were often productive, it was often difficult to gauge consensus and differing views among the group members. In a previous study, Q methodology, a measure of subjectivity, was used to facilitate discussions among a diverse set of faculty (Ramlo, 2005). Similar to that study, the researcher found here that determination of consensus and differing opinions in the FLC improved dialogue, built an improved sense of community, and led to improvement of the course.

Mid-Western Educational Research Association 34th Annual Meeting Call For Proposals, Ellen A. Sigler

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Call for Proposals

Coaching Conversations: Enacting Instructional Scaffolding, Sharan A. Gibson

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

This study analyzed coaching conversations and interviews of four coach/teacher partnerships for specific ways in which kindergarten and first-grade teachers, and coaches, conceptualized instructional scaffolding for guided reading. Interview transcripts were coded for coaches’ and teachers’ specific hypotheses/ ideas regarding instructional scaffolding. Coaching session transcripts were analyzed for coaches’ and teachers’ actual use, or enactment, of instructional scaffolding. Significant tensions were evident between hypotheses describing the need for high levels of instructional support versus opportunities for students to read independently. Teachers’ expertise for effective instructional scaffolding appeared to be assisted by coaching conversations that enacted instructional scaffolding, demonstrating an analytic, …

The Bg News September 6, 2023, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU Campus student newspaper. September 06, 2023. Volume 103-Issue 03.

The Bg News August 30, 2023, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 30, 2023. Volume 103-Issue 2.

Reviewing Research On Down Syndrome To Then Inform And Create A Children’S Book With A Child Protagonist Who Has Down Syndrome, Trey Williams

Honors Projects

Children's literature continually evolves, requiring a steadfast commitment to align with new insights into various disabilities for genuine and accurate portrayal. This project delves into leveraging research to craft a children's book featuring Bonnie Lynn, a protagonist with Down Syndrome, recognizing the growing presence of individuals with Down Syndrome in today's society and the imperative for empathetic understanding within this community.

The Bg News August 23, 2023, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 23, 2023. Volume 102,-Issue.

Altering United States Drug Policy And Shifting The Focus Of Drug Use From Conviction Toward Drug Addiction Treatment, Natalie Marra

Honors Projects

While these substances were not always controlled by law, drug use has been as issue throughout time going back thousands of years and continues to be a concern in the twenty-first century. Possession, distribution, and manufacturing of controlled substances outside of what is considered legal can lead to fines and or jail time and can also increases the severity of other crimes committed either due to or under the influence of drugs. As of Saturday June 10th, 2023, 44.5% of Federal inmates are incarcerated for drug offenses, including possession, distribution, and manufacturing1. Drug offenses make up the largest percentage of …

The “Other” Nil And Sportcrit: Narrative Identity And Liminality Of Black Gendered Scholar-Athletes, Joseph L. Herman Ii

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

The purpose of this conceptual manuscript is to advance a new integrated model: the Narrative Identity (NI), and Liminality Model (NILM). The NILM advances narrative as an intervention tool for Black gendered scholar-athletes (BGSAs) by integrating NI theory (Adler et al., 2017) with the Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) model (Yosso, 2005) for positive outcomes intra-intercollegiate career. The developmental characteristic of sense-making of one’s life via the life story model and life stage phases (McAdams, 1985, 2011) are paramount to BGSAs’ articulation and development during their liminal condition (Sutton, 2017) as athletes in their orientation to sport. More specifically, orienting the …

Personality As A Predictor Of Hitting And Pitching Performances Among Professional Baseball Players, Tess M. Palmateer, Trent A. Petrie, Whitney Moore

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Research regarding personality as predictors of objective physical performances has been limited and equivocal. We examined longitudinally whether personality predicted baseball pitchers’ (n = 119) or hitters’ (n = 115) performances after controlling for past performances. Through regression analyses, we determined that personality did not significantly predict the player’ performances during their first year in Minor League Baseball (MiLB). Our results indicate that, at least in the short-term, personality may be a poor predictor of such performances. Research is needed to determine if personality’s effects may occur over a longer period of time, such as through the development …

Not A Student, Not An Athlete, A Person, Amanda L. Paule-Koba, Todd A. Gilson

School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies Faculty Publications

College athletics can place immense demands on athletes in terms of time commitment, physical conditioning, and pressure to perform. However, one important but less visible dimension affected by participation is one’s identity. College athletes hold multiple identities (Sturm et al., 2011) and these identities are further refined through their experiences (Chang et al., 2018). However, much less is known about athletes’ cognitive awareness of others’ perceptions and how those opinions influence athletes’ sense of self. In the present work, 52 Division I collegiate basketball players took part in a qualitative survey focused on understanding their athletic experience based on interactions …

Giving And Taking Care During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Secondary Teachers’ Experiences Of Social Emotional Learning, Janna Jobel, Rebecca J. Lloyd

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been primarily researched in elementary schools, and within this context, SEL curriculum is often presented as an isolated, preplanned curriculum, with a list of curricular objectives to be delivered. A phenomenological inquiry was conducted to better understand the ways in which SEL and SEL curriculum are understood and experienced in a high school context. Data gathered from close phenomenological observations and interviews with three high school teachers in mathematics and physical education afforded the opportunity to orient, interpret, and describe the phenomenon of SEL-in-action. Rich descriptions of SEL as it is lived were generated and …

Book Review: Kumar, Ashwani. (Ed.). (2022). Engaging With Meditative Inquiry In Teaching, Learning, And Research: Realizing Transformative Potentials In Diverse Contexts. New York, Ny: Routledge., Giovanni Rossini Phd

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

Book Review of following text:

Kumar, Ashwani. (Ed.). (2022). Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in Teaching, Learning, and Research: Realizing Transformative Potentials in Diverse Contexts. New York, NY: Routledge.

Closing Racial Disparity By Dismantling Constructs Of Fear - A Practical Methodology For Learning To Swim, Dane W. Wolfrom, Christine L. Snellgrove, Marisol A. Rivera, Keisha Laguer Vandessppooll, Emily D. Feliciano

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

African American, Black, Hispanic, Latino, and low-socioeconomic communities have lower swimming ability and higher relative drowning rates than White and high-socioeconomic communities, distinguishing the former as high-priority populations to engage with effective learn-to-swim programming. This article demonstrates how prioritizing the reduction of fear-producing brain processes while learning to swim can result in 79.5% of high-priority population non-swimmers being able to jump into deep water, roll onto their backs and either float or tread for 60 seconds, and swim 25 yards after an average of 14 practice sessions. Practical explanations of four key components— water exploration, structured games, emulating coaches, and …

A Leisure Model: Barriers And Black Womxn Collegiate Swimmers, Tiffany Monique Quash

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

There remains a gap in the literature about the experiences of Black Womxn Collegiate Swimmers (hereafter referred to as BWCS) and the application of the leisure constraints model. Whether research has been conducted with Black Womxn Swimmers enrolled in a swimming course while using an autoethnographic lens (Norwood, 2010) or the representation of one Black Womxn Swimmer from a Predominantly White Institution (Quash, 2018), minimal knowledge is known about this specific demographic representative of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and the barriers they experience. Using a qualitative methodological approach to understand the leisure constraints …

Blue-Mindfulness Training: A Story Of Restorative Justice Decolonizing And Re-Indigenizing Communal Relationships With Water, Thaddeus Gamory, Miriam Lynch Ph.D., A. Udaya Thomas, Angela K. Beale-Tawfeeq Ph.D., Mph

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

This article aims to introduce and describe the development of the concept of Blue-Mindfulness Training^TM, which was created and designed by Thaddeus Gamory and supported by research and the experience of other experts in the field. Drawing from the author’s and others' practical experience, the authors present a "Voice from the Field" perspective on creating and developing the Blue-Mindfulness^TM . This Instructional Framework, coined by Mr. Thaddeus Gamory Blue-Mindfulness^TM, addresses the impacts of historical racial discrimination and trauma in BIPOC communities, specifically on marginalized African American communities while promoting a communal and safe relationship with …

Employee/Work Place Services: The Individual, Bryan Cavins, Bob D. Lee, David L. Groves

Visions in Leisure and Business

One of the often forgotten elements in the employee/workplace services is the individual. This does not suggest that there has not been a focus on this topic historically, but the amount of emphasis that it has received and should receive should be far more. The other aspect is that even if the employee has been addressed sometimes there is a very simplistic approach to develop a greater understanding. Employees are very complex subject just as the organization. This subject can be studied from a number of perspectives. The perspective that was adopted for this essay has been one that has …

Introduction, Bryan Cavins

Visions in Leisure and Business

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Programs A Model: Employee/Workplace Services, Bryan Cavins, Bob D. Lee, David L. Groves

Visions in Leisure and Business

A publication from the incentive travel industry on return on investments was used as a secondary source and was analyzed to provide information that may be useful to the employee service/workplace service industry. This publication provided a framework for the development of a conceptual basis to provide a mechanism for thinking about return on investment, especially on intangible benefits. There is a great similarity between incentive travel industry and employee services/workplace services. This similarity provided a new way to think about assessment and the development of a new model that focuses upon a way to approach how intangible benefits can …

Positive Psychology And Employee Services, Bryan Cavins

Visions in Leisure and Business

Emotional and social intelligence is often forgotten element in the development of management styles that has the possibility of increasing effectiveness that relates to the achievement of organization and individual goals. This is the process that has the potential to achieve cooperation and understanding of the different employer and employee positions. It is a framework that can provide a basis for the development of a common understanding as well as respect for each his position. This is the starting point for the development of effective management programs.