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Joker Exchange Online - Meeting The Risks And Opportunities Of The Covid-19 Crisis, Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir, Anne Larcher

Spect-actor: A Journal of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

In this article, we narrate and analyse patterns of engagement and harvest key learning from the Joker Exchange Online (JEO) events on 11th April and May 2nd. We map the impact of these online events to inform future events as an effective collective response/strategy to global challenges. At the same time, we are Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners who attended/presented in the JEO, and this informs our research and engaged interest in theatre and community work on the margins of theatre, activism, and social change. The article has three parts: the first part look at the “triggers” for the Joker …

Rehearsing For Transformation: Theatre Of The Oppressed, Pedagogy And Human Rights, Amir Al-Azraki

Spect-actor: A Journal of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

The report showcases a series of TO training workshops and projects in several contexts and settings. The aim of the report is to show how TO techniques and forms could contribute to the transformation of the learning environment and the social justice issues relevant to diverse communities across cultures (North America, Latin America, Middle East). It highlights and facilitates critical discourse and interchange through working with various participants (students, faculty, refugees, women, artists, prison staff etc.) and tackling significant issues such as trauma, violence, oppression, discrimination, gender inequality and homophobia. The report shows how TO could be used as a …

Begin To Play: The Case For Play In Community Engagement In Higher Education, Naomi B. Roswell

Spect-actor: A Journal of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Although little is written about the role of play in community engagement in higher education, professors and administrators intuitively grasp its value in building trust and democratizing spaces, but use games thinly. This paper acknowledges the challenges of developing effective community engagement partnerships and demonstrates how and why games based in Theater of the Oppressed deepen and enhance initiatives to dissolve town / gown divisions and enable collaborative knowledge generation. Through an analysis of literature reviews and interviews, this paper makes a case for deliberately incorporating games from Theater of the Oppressed (TO) - to advance community engagement initiatives by …

Trust And Feedback In A Student Teaching Support System, Kristin M. Rich

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

In a preservice teacher’s brief time as a student teacher, feedback between the student and his or her cooperating teacher and university supervisor is intended to be formative and allow for adjustments in pedagogy and continued development of a teaching identity. However, trust or lack of trust within this triad can influence any of the member’s response to feedback. Without trust, giving or receiving feedback may break down and hinder the preservice teacher’s progress. By considering three examples of student teaching experiences where the interplay of trust and feedback adversely affected a student teacher’s progress, this essay argues for more …

Beyond Victims & Villains: Teaching Cleland With Haywood & Behn, Christopher Nagle

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

This essay explores strategies for teaching Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) in the introductory literature classroom, and why it might be especially valuable to do so at a time when issues surrounding sexual violence, rape culture, and the politics of consent continue to be prominent inside and outside the college classroom.

A Travel Writer Reconsidered: Recovering Mary Morgan’S Mary, The Osier-Peeler, Emily D. Spunaugle

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Recently discovered is the singly-extant 1798 quarto chapbook, Mary, the Osier-Peeler, a Simple but True Story, written by Mary Morgan, best known for her 1795 travel narrative, A Tour to Milford Haven, in the Year 1791. The inaccessibility of the osier poem has shaped the scholarly understanding of Morgan as solely a travel writer, disregarding the intertextuality of her published oeuvre and its post-publication circulation. This essay revisits the historiography of Mary Morgan and demonstrates her embeddedness in local networks, coterie relationships with notables such as Bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, and introduces evidence of a broader, international audience to better …

Episode 2: Jacob Rieker, Christina Torres

Futures in Languages Transcripts

Listen to Jacob Rieker talk about his experiences in the MATESOL program and life after graduation.

New Poetry And Old Cathay : Translational Sinography In The Early Twentieth-Century English Literary World, Qingyang Lin

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

This thesis looks into the culture of reading, translating, and publishing classical Chinese poetry in the English literary world between the 1890s and the 1920s. It explores the mediating and constructive roles of translation (broadly construed) in the formation of knowledge about Chinese literature by focusing on an unconventional segment of the field – poet-translators who integrate Chinese poetry with the pursuit of literary modernism, whose avid experimentalism and lack of sinological credentials run counter to the fidelity principle of translation. I try to foreground the dynamism of this literary contact zone by correlating three dimensions of networks: the transtextual …

The Use Of Empiricism, Rationalism And Positivism In Library And Information Science Research, Nadia Abbas Shah, Amjid Khan, Pervaiz Ahmad, Muhammad Arshad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper aims to study the significance/importance of “empiricism”, “rationalism” and “positivism” and their application in library and information science (LIS) research. The objectives of this paper covered in two parts. Part one describes the historical development of these epistemologies, explore its main characteristics and presents the criticism that has been nurtured against these views. In the second part, the importance and use of these epistemologies in the context of LIS research have been discussed. Since philosophy is the least touched subject in LIS, therefore, limited literature is available to review these epistemologies from the perspective of LIS.

Empiricism, rationalism …

“Diversity & Inclusion & Free Speech & Civility”: Oppression And Marginalization Through Diversity Rhetoric, Kamden Strunk, Hannah Carson Baggett, Ivan E. Watts

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

As higher education institutions increasingly roll out diversity and inclusion initiatives, they intend to signal particular commitments. In this manuscript, we employ critical literacy as a framework for understanding the text and subtext of moments on our campus related to diversity and inclusion offices and initiatives. We first present the text of two particular moments, including the actual text of signs, messages, and conversations, but also including as a text the actions and inactions of university administrators. For each moment, we first present the text, including the actual or physical text(s), the superficial meaning(s), and the sequence of events. …

Sustainable Strategies For Funding Teacher Residencies: Lessons From California, Karen Demoss, Cathy Yun

Prepared to Teach

With significant state investment, teacher residencies are spreading throughout California To sustain these efforts after the initial state investment programs are using creative funding strategies. To learn about how teacher residencies across the state are funding their work, the Learning Policy Institute and Prepared To Teach at Bank Street College of Education partnered to examine the current state of practice around residency sustainability. The report highlights California teacher residencies with known financial sustainability efforts in which partners are leveraging local resources to support residents and mentor teachers. These concrete examples of creative residency funding strategies are meant to help California’s …

Life-Long Benefits Of Studying Abroad, Ellora Olsen

Library Research Prize Student Works

9 AM in Tokyo, Japan is when instead of being a commuter, you get to be a sardine. Physically crammed into the train with hundreds of other people, you better be prepared to get comfortable (or uncomfortable, if we’re being honest) for your hour-long ride, with skyscrapers as far as the eye can see zipping past. It may not be the most enjoyable, but it is one of those experiences where a person stops feeling like a tourist and starts feeling like one of the natives. Studying abroad does that, it is a unique time when students can do more …

Ud Men For Gender Equity Newsletter, November 2020, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

UD Men for Gender Equity Newsletter

In this issue:

1. Welcome Message
2. Upcoming Engagement Opportunities
3. Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women
4. Video Clip: 'Gendered Linguistics: Why Words Matter'
5. Article Reads: Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies, Gender-Inclusive Housing, and Everyday Tips for Equity-Minded Scholars
6. Stories of Gender Equity Advocacy at UD
7. Share Your Experience

Willard Espy: A Coincidental Encounter, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

The author, a fan of Willard Espy, recalls a chance meeting with Mr. Espy and his wife.

Missing Positives, . Anil

Word Ways

Many negative words beginning with in- and some with im- do not become positive words by simply dropping the negative prefix -e.g., perious is not a word. I found no un-words of interest.

Quiz: Pick which of the words in this list are not words with the prefix removed.

Quips Of The Tongue: More Amusing Media Boners, With Puckish Rejoinders, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

Media Bloopers.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 53, Issue 4

Word Ways

The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.

Triple Word Ladder Phrases, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Examples of triple word ladder phrases.

Palindromic Vowels, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A list of words that have vowels in palindromic patterns.

"Perfect" Magic Squares, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

Word Ways

An essay on Martin Gardner and perfect number magic squares, including puzzles you can try.

"Hootie" Palindromes, Jim Puder

Word Ways

What, exactly, constitutes a hootie? Good question. A hootie is hereby defined as any lexically acceptable palindromic passage in which the word "too" and the unbroken trigram "oot" occur in corresponding positions in opposite halves of the passage.

Alliterative Pangrams, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

A pangram is a text that contains each letter of the alphabet at least once.

Tennis Palindromes, . Anil, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

A series of palindrome words and phrases using the names of professional tennis players.

Large Word Squares In Latin, Eric Tentarelli

Word Ways

Large word squares have been pursued in many languages, but large word squares in Latin appear to have remained unexplored, despite the form's origins in ancient Rome and despite the benefits offered by Latin inflectional endings. New word squares constructed in Latin are shown to surpass in size those created in other languages to date, most notably by attaining the holy grail of logology: the first known non-tautonymic ten-squares consisting entirely of solid, uncapitalized words in a single language. Additional results, also consisting entirely of solid, uncapitalized Latin words, include double eight-squares, a double nine-square, and eleven-squares.

Nursey Free Verse, . Anil

Word Ways

A re-imagining of classic nursery rhymes into free-verse.

Magic Squares Revisited, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

Puzzles and games.

Mary's Little Mule, . Anil

Word Ways

This sequel to all the variations of Mary Had a Little Lamb in past Word Ways is from the author's upcoming poetry collection, 101 Animal Universes.

Letter From Martin Gardner To Tapan Kumar Mukherjee 27 April 88, Tapan K. Mukherjee

Word Ways

A letter the author received from Martin Gardner.

Words Ending In Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A list of words that end in two different vowels.

Tautonymic Vowels, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A list of words that contain tautonymic vowels.