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Full Issue: Fall 2024

DePaul Magazine

In DePaul Magazine's fall 2024 issue, DePaul’s new men’s basketball coach draws up plays for a revitalized hoops program, the DePaul Art Museum provides a home for marginalized artists and social justice, environmental sustainability initiatives cultivate community equity, and career changers get trained to teach in high-need public schools.

Elementary Teachers’ Knowledge And Application Of Formative Assessment To Improve Instruction, Judy Charles

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many students at the Valley View Primary School (pseudonym) in the Caribbean are not performing according to numeracy and literacy standards on national tests. Administration and teachers wanted to know why changes to formative assessment practices are not increasing students’ achievement levels. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to examine teachers’ perspectives regarding the importance of formative assessments relating to their instructional practices and knowledge of formative assessments in this primary school. The study was guided by Xu and Brown’s teacher assessment literacy in practice (TALiP). Nine participants were purposefully sampled. Research questions helped guide exploration regarding …

Notes On Contributors

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

A Review Of Lady Gregory’S Early Irish Writings, 1883–1893 Edited By James Pethica, Anna Pilz

International Yeats Studies

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Adding In Commentary: One Word-Hoard, Two Periods, Three Clusters, Four Dimensions: A Yeats Knowledge Site, Warwick Gould

International Yeats Studies

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Envisioning A Yeats Poetry Digital Archive, Rob Doggett

International Yeats Studies

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What Is To Be Done? The Mystical Nihilisms Of Yeats’S Where There Is Nothing, The Unicorn From The Stars, And The Hour-Glass, Stephen Cheeke

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

Translation As A Tool For Interpretation: Hebrew-Language Translations Of Yeats’S “The Second Coming”, Irina Ruppo

International Yeats Studies

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“The Invulnerable Tide”: Water, Nation, And Nature In Yeats, Nels C. Pearson

International Yeats Studies

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Volume 8, Issue 1

International Yeats Studies

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Nurse Educators' Perceptions Regarding Faculty Participation In University Governance, Janet J. Gross

Dissertations

The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify nurse educators' perceptions of faculty participation in university governance

Evaluating The Impact Of Post Discharge Callback On Patients With Copd Exacerbation, Stephanie L. Staten

Dissertations

The purpose of this project was to evaluate the impact of a post-discharge callback within 72 hours of discharge on medication adherence, attendance to post discharge follow up clinic visit, and 30-day readmissions in COPD patients. A secondary purpose was to explore reasons why patients who are discharged with a diagnosis of COPD exacerbation, did or did not adhere to their medications and keep their post-discharge follow up clinic visit during the 30-days following hospital discharge.

Reducing The Use Of Multiple Restraints In The Psychiatric Emergency Department, Juliet Nneka Udo

Dissertations

The purpose of the quantitative quality-improvement project was to implement the interprofessional collaborative practice model (ICPM) education program for providers, as an evidence-based intervention in reducing the use of multiple restraints in the psychiatric emergency department.

An Exploratory Study Of The Barriers Of Pediatric Palliative Care Programs And Their Relationships To Funding, Mary Maureen Kirkpatrick Mclaughlin

Dissertations

This study, a sequential mixed methods design, used quantitative techniques and a qualitative, phenomenological approach. The quantitative phase addressed the research question: Does the reimbursement of services for the delivery of pediatric palliative care differ between types of funding, and is funding related to directors' perceptions of obstacles to the delivery of care? The qualitative phase addressed the research question: What are the barriers that CHI PACC directors' experience in their roles and how do they overcome them?

The Moderating Effect Of Religion On Death Distress And Quality Of Life Among Christian Cancer Patients In The United States With Muslim Cancer Patients In Saudi Arabia, Doaa A. Almostadi

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine whether religiosity has a moderating effect on the relationship between death distress and quality of life among patients facing a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.

Compassion Fatigue And Satisfaction Among Nurses At A State Psychiatric Hospital: An Opportunity To Educate, Santhi Avula

Dissertations

This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project aims to bring awareness to psychiatric nurses at NOPH about CF and burnout and educate them on ways to improve resiliency and compassion satisfaction as professional nurses.

PICOT: How do psychiatric nurses at NOPH (P) who are at increased risk for CF benefit from a webinar-based educational intervention (I) to identify and reduce symptoms of CF and improve compassion satisfaction (O) one month after intervention (T) compared to preintervention (C)?

The Hoosier Slide: Promoting Engagement With Environment, Kayla Vasilko

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

With unsustainable production models and a plethora of other damaging activities, humans’ strain on the environment has made it impossible to assume that the planet’s ecosystem will sustain future generations (WWF, 2018); our response to this crisis will impact current and future generations and all other species on Earth (Global Stewards, 2022; United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2022). To make a difference, education about the problem needs to be furthered. I worked with the PNW Westville Warriors and the Michigan City Lubeznik Center for the Arts (a community center dedicated to offering programming that balances joy with critical thinking, with …

Calming The Weight Of Anxiety For Pediatric Oncology Patients, Jennifer Olson, Leanne Adamson, Cassie Lang, Kelly Miller, Flori Legette, Figaro Loresto

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

• Aim 1: Does the utilization of a weighted blanket on pediatric outpatients receiving chemotherapy reduce anxiety as measured by the Children’s Anxiety Meter-State (CAM-S)?
• Hypothesis: The use of a weighted blanket in this population will reduce anxiety.

• Aim 2: Assess quality of life in this population and compare between visits and between groups.
• Hypothesis: Quality of life will increase between visits and quality of life will be higher for those who started with weighted blankets first and standard care second.
• Aim 3: Describe the use of the weighted blanket in the population during their infusion treatment.
• Hypothesis: Participants will use …

Aboard The Giant Clam: Ramon Muzones's Maritime Historicization Of The Nation, Winton Lou G. Ynion

Kritika Kultura

Philippine literature scholarship is currently interested in decentering the discourse of nation-building from the capital to the periphery, but least often is attention given to the very geography that makes these communities marginalized. Habitually, multiculturalism and multilingualism have been convenient explanations for why it is difficult for the Philippines to come up with a “national literature” and a paradigm for imagining a nation. This essay centers on this neglected aspect, casting a novel written by a marginalized author in a vernacular language – the Margosatubig (1946) by Ramon Muzones. Three prime objectives guided the navigation of this paper: (1) to …

From Nostalgia To Nirvana: A Buddhist Epistemological Approach To Diasporic Literary Forms, Carlos V. Reyes

Kritika Kultura

Like the diasporian, the Buddhist knows the displacement from home to homelessness. Practicing, the Buddhist makes homelessness her home. Writing, the diasporic writer (re)constructs a movable home in words. Using the Buddhist five thesis on form, this paper attempts to apply these principles to the notion of diaspora. Five new insights to the experience of diaspora are gained from this approach. The method is then applied to the diasporic Filipino poet Jose Garcia Villa’s poem “Before, One, becomes, One.” In conclusion, it is argued that the Buddhist perspective offers a new critique useful in understanding the challenges of the postmodern …

People Power As Immanent Collectivity: Re-Imagining The Miracle Of The 1986 Edsa Revolution As Divine Justice, Fernando Gonzaga

Kritika Kultura

The Philippine People Power Revolution (EDSA) was remarkable for its non-aggressive overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship. The spontaneity and creativity of the people to answer the summons to defend dissonant army troops contrasts with the administrative efficiency and armed might of the military army. The people acted as a collectivity, with its own collective power, opposing the military. This non-aggressive collective power was rooted in a distinctive Filipino culture and religiosity that hailed the EDSA Revolution as a miracle of divine justice.

Placelessness, Mark Anthony Cayanan

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

Training For Learner-Centered Pedagogy And Curriculum Design Agendain Staff Development For Problem-Based Learning (Pbl), Peter Freebody

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

Grafting Philosophy To The Tagalog Prefix Ka, Rainier A. Ibana

Kritika Kultura

This paper presents Filipino language as a tool in capturing the Filipino world view. By examining the Tagalog prefix “ka” as an accommodation of differences and opposition, this paper shows the infinite depth and breadth of Filipino’s capacity to absorb various kinds and levels of solidarity. This also analyzes the development of Filipino society by the way the prefix “ka” was used especially during the Philippine Revolution and its present-day significance.

Refusing Subjects And (Dis)Owning America In Asian American Studies, Allan Punzalan Isaac

Kritika Kultura

Given the myriad historical and cultural trajectories of Asian America as a political coalition, Asian American Studies continually interrogates the terms of its coalitional unity as it foregrounds and theorizes “difference.” The challenge for Asian American Studies is to question identity with nation as the endpoint to anti-racist politics in order to create a space for theoretical inquiries of belonging beyond nation and racial identity to foreground other ways of imagining affinity, communities, and political alliances.

"Pedagogic Invasion": The Thomasites In Occupied Philippines, Dinah Roma-Sianturi

Kritika Kultura

The early education of the Philippines by American voluntary teachers (the Thomasites) is often hailed as a laudatory project. However, education can be a deceptive gift. The ethnographic writings of the Thomasite teachers, like Mary Fee’s A Woman’s Impressions of the Philippines, reveal that these well-meaning American teachers had their own colonial opinion of their Filipino students. Perhaps unwittingly, the Thomasite teachers were still part of the American colonial education policy. Most especially, the memoir writings reveal a perception of Filipino males as effeminate and childlike, an opinion that did much to legitimize the American colonial mandate.

A Late Ottoman Ceramic Assemblage From The Harbor Area, Yafo (Jaffa), Anna De Vincenz

'Atiqot

The pottery retrieved from the excavations in the Yafo harbor dated mostly to the Late Ottoman period, from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The Ottoman-period ceramics consist of hard-paste ware, porcelain and stoneware vessels, such as plates, bowls, coffee cups and bottles, mainly imported from Europe, as well as earthenware vessels imported from Turkey and Greece, and glazed cooking pots from southern France. Black Gaza Ware and other coarse ware vessels were locally produced. Ottoman clay smoking pipes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were found abundantly in the excavation, while only a few narghile heads …

The Yafo (Jaffa) Harbor: The Course Of The Seawalls During The Crusader And Ottoman Periods And Remains Of The Wharf From The Days Of The British Mandate (Hebrew; English Summary), Elie Haddad, Alexander Glick

'Atiqot

Salvage excavations in the Yafo harbor area uncovered five strata (V–I), dating from the Byzantine period to the modern era. A short section of the Byzantine-period seawall and sections of the Crusader seawall were exposed, as well as four phases of the Ottoman-period harbor, including wharfs, a customs house and a seawall. At the end of the Ottoman and the beginning of the Mandate periods, a maritime citadel and a system of wide and narrow stairs were constructed. The finds included pottery, glass vessels, metal objects and seashells. The course of the seawalls in the Yafo harbor moved westward over …

The Synagogue At Ḥorbat Merot: Its Construction Phases And A New Interpretation Of The Finds (Hebrew; English Summary), Emmanuel Damati

'Atiqot

This article focuses on the ancient synagogue uncovered at Ḥorbat Merot and offers a new interpretation of its various phases. Three strata were identified: Stratum I, predating the synagogue, from the Early Roman period; Stratum II, the construction of the synagogue and its use, with three phases dating from the Byzantine to the Early Islamic periods; and Stratum III, when the building served as a dwelling in the Mamluk period. In the Ottoman period, an Algerian village existed on-site. The excavation of the synagogue yielded many finds, including coin deposits dating from the fourth and fifth centuries CE; a treasury …