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Environmental Justice Organizing In A Gentrifying Community: Navigating Dilemmas Of Representation, Issue Selection, And Recruitment, Amy Krings, Colette Copic

Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works

Environmental justice organizations aim to secure an equitable distribution of environmental resources through the participation and self-determination of affected people, particularly communities of color. Yet organizing in a market economy is complicated: As communities become greener, gentrification can follow, thereby inadvertently displacing low-income communities of color and reproducing environmental injustices. This study informs antiracist community practice methods by examining strategic and ethical dilemmas embedded within an environmental justice organization that is located in a gentrifying Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago. Drawing from interviews, we examine members’ perceptions relating to representation, recruitment, and issue selection. We reveal key considerations for community …

Care And The Standards Of Proficiency For Social Care Workers, Majella Mulkeen

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

This paper examines the Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers (Social Care Workers Registration Board (SCWRB), 2017b) in light of the scholarship of care. It does so by setting out some key strands of care scholarship and their significance for social care, followed by a critical assessment of care and its relational and emotional dimensions in the Standards of Proficiency (SoP) (SCWRB, 2017b). Given the centrality of care in the title Social Care Worker and the prevalence of the term in legislation and policy, the word is often ill-defined or not defined at all. Discussion of care within social …

The Importance Of Education In Self-Care In Social Care Work Programmes For The Professionalisation Of Social Care Work, Aoife Johnson, Deborah Long

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

This article outlines approaches to self-care in a third level social care programme in Ireland with a view to establishing and maintaining a social care worker’s well-being in line with requirements by CORU, as part of the professionalisation of social care work. It explores the importance of self-care for social care work practice, the challenges which can impact a worker’s wellbeing, the CORU Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers (SCWRB 2017b) related to the self and self-care and the functions and theories associated with experiential group work. It then further considers how group work approaches can prepare a student …

Learning To Put Everyday Creativity, Semiotics And Critical Visual Literacy Using Inquiry Graphics (Ig) Visual Analysis To Work In Social Care, Denise Mac Giolla Rí

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

This article argues that despite CORU’s recognition of Creative Arts as integral to Social Care Practice, there are ‘pedagogical, theoretical and practice gaps’, which might be addressed through a ‘process orientated novel creative pedagogy’ (PONCP) introduced in this paper. The PONCP is built on two tenets, firstly that creative expression is not just for professional artists – everyone is capable of creative expression, though cultural messages make us believe otherwise, and secondly engaging in creative practice is therapeutic in varying degrees from passing time productively to psychoanalytic engagement. A curriculum is proposed comprising: edusemiotics (the interpretation and creation of meaning), …

"Relentless": The Social Identity Of Chronic Illness And Disability, Mary Boujaoude

Honors Theses

Despite the steady growth of rights and acceptance of people from other minority groups, the significance of the issues faced by people with chronic illnesses and disabilities has not enjoyed the same public endorsement. This population has experienced disproportionate disadvantages that have prohibited them from realizing their full potential as active members of society. Much of the scholarship in the area of Disability Studies and research into the social issues faced by people with chronic illnesses and disability is academic in nature, while most advocacy work is non-academic in nature. Relentless is a book of essays that blends personal narrative …

Attitudes Of Teaching Staff Members At Palestinian Universities Towards The Requirements Of Using E-Learning Tools In The Educational Process, Rafat Alawadi

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed at attitudes of teaching staff members at Palestinian universities towards the requirements of using E-learning tools in the educational process from their point of view, it used a descriptive and analytical approach, the study sample consisted of (286) teaching staff member from Al-Aqsa and Al-Azhar in Gaza universities, a questionnaire composed of (31) paragraph in the second semester of the academic year 2015/2016 was applied on them. The results revealed that the overall average estimate of teaching staff members to identify attitudes towards scale using e-learning tools when the sample had reached the capacity of (3.64), it …

2020 Fall Commencement, Harding University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Harding University Commencement on November 21, 2020.

Commencement Speaker: Bill Richardson

Rural Resentment And Lgbtq Equality, Luke A. Boso

Florida Law Review

In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges settled a decades-long national debate over the legality of same-sex marriage. Since Obergefell, however, local and state legislatures in conservative and mostly rural states have proposed and passed hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills. Obergefell may have ended the legal debate over same-sex marriage, but it did not resolve the cultural divide. Many rural Americans, especially in predominately white communities, feel that they are under attack. Judicial opinions and legislation protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination are serious threats to rural dwellers because they conflict with several core tenets of rural identity: …

Reducing False Recognition In The Deese-Roediger/Mcdermott Paradigm: Related Lures Reveal How Distinctive Encoding Improves Encoding And Monitoring Processes, Mark J. Huff, Glen E. Bodner, Matthew R. Gretz

Faculty Publications

In the Deese-Roediger/McDermott (DRM) paradigm, distinctive encoding of list items typically reduces false recognition of critical lures relative to a read-only control. This reduction can be due to enhanced item-specific processing, reduced relational processing, and/or increased test-based monitoring. However, it is unclear whether distinctive encoding reduces false recognition in a selective or global manner. To examine this question, participants studied DRM lists using a distinctive item-specific anagram generation task and then completed a recognition test which included both DRM critical lures and either strongly related lures (Experiment 1) or weakly related lures (Experiment 2). Compared to a read-control group, the …

Interview With Colette Drouillard, Colette Drouillard

Auntie Sewing Squad Interviews

Colette L Drouillard grew up in Michigan and later lived in various places, including Boston, Tallahassee, and London. She received her PhD in Library Science and is now an Associate Professor in the state of Georgia. During the pandemic, she moved to Michigan to care for her mother and joined the Auntie Sewing Squad to help others.

Historical Trauma Response Scores As A Function Of Unresolved Grief And Substance Use Disorder In American Indian Populations, Andrew R. Saunders

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Abstract

Researchers are interested in the outcomes of interventions, specifically, measuring historical trauma (HT) among American Indian/Alaska Native communities and the long-term distress and substance abuse as a result of historical trauma response (HTR). Previous literature has implicated limitations in the clinical conceptualization of the relationship between intergenerational transfer of HTR and substance abuse. The aim of the current study is to examine treatment efficacy of 50 homosexual, American Indian males randomized to a culturally-adapted juxtaposition of (1) Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), (2) Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and (3) Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief Intervention (HTUG), or (4) waitlisted on …

Mitigating Toxic Stress In Children Affected By Conflict And Displacement, Anushka Ataullahjan, Muthanna Samara, Theresa S. Betancourt, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Anushka Ataullahjan and colleagues describe the myriad stressors related to conflict and displacement experienced by children and how best to reduce their negative effect

Strategies To Improve Coverage Of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (Tcv) Immunization Campaign In Karachi, Pakistan, Farah Qamar Naz, Rabab Batool, Sonia Qureshi, Miqdad Ali, Tahira Sadaf, Junaid Mehmood, Khalid Iqbal, Akram Sultan, Noah Duff, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

The emergence and spread of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in Karachi, Pakistan led to an outbreak response in Lyari Town, Karachi utilizing a mass immunization campaign with typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), Typbar TCV®. The mass immunization campaign, targeted Lyari Town, Karachi, one of the worst affected towns during the XDR typhoid outbreak. Here we describe the strategies used to improve acceptance and coverage of Typbar TCV in Lyari Town, Karachi. The mass immunization campaign with Typbar TCV was started as a school- and hospital-based vaccination campaign targeting children between the age of 6 months to 15 years old. A dose …

Time-Resolved In Situ Visualization Of The Structural Response Of Zeolites During Catalysis, Jinback Kang, Jerome Carnis, Dongjin Kim, Myungwoo Chung, Jaeseung Kim, Kyuseok Yun, Gukil An, Wonsuk Cha, Ross Harder, Sanghoon Song, Marcin Sikorski, Aymeric Robert, Nguyen Huu Thanh, Heeju Lee, Yong Nam Choi, Xiaojing Huang, Yong S. Chu, Jesse N. Clark, Mee Kyung Song, Kyung Byung Yoon, Ian K. Robinson, Hyunjung Kim

Faculty and Staff Publications

Zeolites are three-dimensional aluminosilicates having unique properties from the size and connectivity of their sub-nanometer pores, the Si/Al ratio of the anionic framework, and the charge-balancing cations. The inhomogeneous distribution of the cations affects their catalytic performances because it influences the intra-crystalline diffusion rates of the reactants and products. However, the structural deformation regarding inhomogeneous active regions during the catalysis is not yet observed by conventional analytical tools. Here we employ in situ X-ray free electron laser-based time-resolved coherent X-ray diffraction imaging to investigate the internal deformations originating from the inhomogeneous Cu ion distributions in Cu-exchanged ZSM-5 zeolite crystals during …

Beyond The Emotion Among The Parents Of The Autistic Children In Preschools And Its Impact On Emotional And Behavioral Problems Among Their Children, Said Abdul Hamid

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The present study is aimed to identify the emotion among the parents of the autistic children in preschools and its impact on emotional and behavioral problems among their children, Formed sample of 24autistic kindergarten children, aged (3-6 years) with an average of (5.22) years, a standard deviation of (1.72), Intelligent ranged between (56-68) Asample of 24of the parents, Was studiedincluded tools on a scale of Binet Intelligence Scale (Egyptian(2003), andestimate the scale of autism Tarsh and others .(2010). scale of emotional and behavioral problems (by researcher), and the Questionnaire of Meta-Emotion for the parents of the Autistic (by Paterson et …

The Impact Of A Family Counseling Program In Developing Self-Steem And Self Management Among The Mothers Of Children With Autism In Al-Karak Governorate, Abdulnaser Algaralleh, Suhib Takhaineh, Anas Aldalaeen

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed at identifying the impact of a family counseling program in developing self-esteem and self management among the mothers of children with autism in Al-Karak governorate. The researcher used the semi-experimental approach. The study sample consisted of (20) mothers, who were divided into two groups; the experimental group (10) mothers who were selected from Basma Center for Special Education, and the control group (10) mothers who were selected from Joud Center for Special Education. The equivalence of the two groups was verified by using the self-management scale of (Xue & Sun, 2011), as well as developing the scale …

Satisfaction Of The Families Of Palestinian Martyrs From The Role Of Foundation For The Welfare Of The Families Of Palestinian Martyrs And The Wounded In Ramallah And Al-Beireh Governorate (2016-2000), Ayed Al-Wraikat, Tareq Qundah

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aims at identifying the satisfaction of the families of the Palestinian martyrs from the role of the Welfare of Martyrs’ Families Foundation in the West bank during the period 2016-2000. To do so, the study employs the social survey methodology where the researcher devised questionnaire to survey the views of the martyrs’ families. The research was conducted, and all the methodic procedures were implemented, including the validity of the research tool. A regular random sample of 150 households from Ramallah and Al-Beireh governorate, constituting 15 % of the total research population, was selected. The study revealedthat there is …

University Students’ Attitudes Toward The Physically Disabled In Palestine And Norway: A Multidimensional, Comparative And Quantitative Study, Erni Gustafsson, Nabil Alawi, Er Normann Andersen

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The aim of this study is to investigate students’ attitudes toward disabled people in Palestine as compared to the attitudes of their peers in Norway. The instrument used is the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale toward Persons with Disability (MAS); a self-report multidimensional inventory consisting of 34 items, that measures affects, cognition, and behavior toward the physically disabled people. A total of 100 students from Palestine participated in this study, in addition to a comparison group of 104 students from Norway. Despite the researchers’ impression that the Palestinian society is ridden with some prejudices concerning various forms of disability and that many …

The Role Of Some Sport Activities In Serving The Local Community Environment In Youth Centers Of Ma'an Governorate, Ola Al Abbas, Sulaiman Amad

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The aim of the study is to identify the role that educational youth centers can play in the development of some sports activities and serving the environment, and the role of the youth educational centers in activating sports activities to serve the environment and increase environmental awareness, in addition to trying to identify the most important difficulties facing youth centers in activating sports and environmental activities. The researchers used the descriptive method in the survey manner to suit the nature of the study. The study population is affiliated with the youth centers in the city of Ma'an (1235) male and …

The Impact Of Paternal Caregivers For Youth Who Commit Sexual Offenses, Miranda Hope Sitney

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation presents three manuscripts exploring the impact of caregivers, particularly male caregivers, on the development of juvenile sexual offending behavior. The first manuscript investigated the role of disrupted caregiving for juvenile sexual offenders compared to non-offending juveniles and youth who committed non-sexual crimes. The results indicated that juvenile sexual offenders have particularly poor relationships with their primary caregivers, especially if their primary caregiver was male. The second manuscript is a systematic literature review that explored the pathways through which male caregivers may influence the sexually aggressive behavior of their sons. A total of thirty-four articles describing three pathways (i.e., …

The Child Care Crisis And Its Impact On Hispanic Families, Katie Bogle, Abby M. Foreman

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

While the child care crisis has touched nearly every corner of America, impacting families of diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, this report will examine its impact on the Hispanic community. With a population of 59.9 million, Hispanics are the largest minority population in the United States and contribute to the rich and diverse fabric of American life. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines Hispanic as “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.” Hispanic families in the United States, made up of both immigrants and …

The Parthenon, November 18, 2020, Douglas Harding, Brittany Hively, Taylor Huddleston, Grant Goodrich, Meg Keller, Isabella Robinson, Denise Jackson, Zachary Hiser

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

The Student Movement Volume 105 Issue 9: Zooming Away: Covid Alert Sends Au Remote, Caralynn Chan, Joelle Kim, Elianna Srikureja, Masy Domecillo, Jessica Rim, Celeste Richardson, Alyssa Henriquez, Hannah Cruse, Megan Napod, Lyle Goulbourne, Adoniah Simon

The Student Movement v. 105 (2020-2021)

NEWS

AUSA Hosts AU's Got Talent, Caralynn Chan

AU Says an Early Goodbye to Face-to-Face Semester, Joelle Kim

Tenth Annual Honors Church Service Reflects on Christian Stewardship, Elianna Srikureja

PULSE

Election Results, Interviewed by Masy Domecillo

Turkey is Overrated: A Korean Variation on Thanksgiving Dinner, Jessica Rim

HUMANS

Home for the Holidays: How AU Students Celebrate Christmans, Interviewed by Celeste Richardson

Reflecting on Fall Semester with Vice President Frances Faehner, Alyssa Henriquez

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Tribute to Alex Trebek, Hannah Cruse

AUdio Christmas EP is TBD, Interviewed by Megan Napod

IEDAS

Election Aftermath, Lyle Goulbourne

On Healing, Adoniah Simon

Voices Of The Poor: Field Study Implemented On A Sample Of The Poor In Jordan, Mahmoud Al-Kafawin

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The present study aimed to explore poor people's perceptions of poverty and their own experience of poverty, as well as its definition, causes and possible methods to reduce it. To achieve the study objectives, the researcher used a qualitative methodology. The study consisted of 150 poor people. Purposive sampling was used to select participants from a variety of poor situations (e.g., working poor, cash assistance recipients, unemployed). The researcher used semi-structured individual interviews, content analysis and observation as methods of collecting data and information. This was done in order to give policymakers a deeper, richer and ultimately better understanding of …

Conflicting Identities: The Lgbtq-Jewish Identity Conflict And How The Jewish Community Is Working To Fix It, Gavin Christy, Sam Crew, Molly Klimo, Peter Sparrow

Content presented at the Roesch Social Sciences Symposium

This work studies the identities of Jewish people who are also a part of the LGBTQ community. It examines the conflict that many LGBTQ Jews feel between these two identities and how this conflict decreases these people's involvement in the Jewish community. Looking from the Jewish community side we examine how the Jewish community has responded to this problem and how they are working to better integrate their LGBTQ members into their community.

Warriors, Guardians Or Both: A Grounded Theory Approach Of Exploring The Development Of Patrol Officers In Urban Community Relations, Kyle Znamenak

ETD Archive

The culture of policing is rooted in a warrior ethos of preserving order against chaos and criminality in a hostile world. This ethos may be negatively influencing community relations. A guardian mindset encourages community engagement, fostering trust, and building allies within the community. The purpose of this grounded theory study is to understand in the context of strained relationships between Communities of Color and police, how officers develop their knowledge, skills, and experiences to become guardians in the communities they serve. This research considers: 1) what is the process of developing patrol officers that are competent in community relations within …

Springboro And West Carrollton School Districts, Alex Roberts

Content presented at the Roesch Social Sciences Symposium

Poster describes my field experiences in the Dayton-area school districts of Springboro and West Carrollton. During my time at each school, I helped students with disabilities and observed a school resource officer and her duties.

Religion War: Judaism's Impact On The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Marissa Mark, Richard Morisette, Jennifer Rosio, Jack Willerton

Content presented at the Roesch Social Sciences Symposium

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has been a major issue since 1948 when the Israelis and Palestinians engaged in a Civil War. One of the driving factors in the conflict is the religious affiliation from each side, with Jewish Israelis clashing with Muslim Palestinians. While religion has been a driving force for hostility, religion can also be seen as a beacon of hope and peace. In our research, we have found that religious affiliation from the Israeli side tends to result in more positive attitudes towards their Palestinian counterparts. In our research, we investigated three major fields: Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology. By …

Religion And Racism In The United States, Sebastian Rawl, Kingsford Adjei

Content presented at the Roesch Social Sciences Symposium

Through the literary analysis of eight scholarly writings, we sought to answer our research questions and were able to form hypothesis based on the evidence provided by the authors. From there, we formulated ideas on what we think can and should change in the relationship between religion and race relations.

University Of Dayton Sociologist Awarded Science & Technology Policy Fellowship From The American Association For The Advancement Of Science, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A University of Dayton sociologist is working to reduce gender-based violence around the world through a competitive fellowship program that places scientists in U.S. federal government policy positions.