Culturally Informed Aspects of the Supervisory Relationship in Korea and the United States

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keeyeon Bang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Supervisory Relationship ◽  
Culturally Informed

Forgotten Crime Victims: The Need for a Comprehensive and Focused Reform Effort in Response to Domestic Violence in American Indian Communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Reinikainen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Complete Solution ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Native Women ◽  
Culturally Informed

Those working on behalf of victims of domestic violence crimes in the United States have struggled for decades to create an effective response to victim needs. This movement has achieved some significant victories with respect to legal reform and the creation of effective resources at the local and national level. Yet, all victims are not the same. This article adds to the current discussion regarding American Indian victims of domestic violence by encouraging a more comprehensive and focused approach to reform. Academics and advocates have written on the statutory barriers currently in place and certain problems with United States Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding jurisdiction over crimes committed on Indian land against American Indian women. While an important and recognized part of reform, these issues are not the sole pitfalls in the response thus far. This article posits that, at the same time, any reform must also foster the development of Native prosecutorial resources and guidelines, as well as financial and educational opportunities for Native women. Moreover, a more culturally informed approach to solving the domestic violence plight in American Indian communities is needed and would ideally take into account other factors. By considering the unique social, historical, and cultural circumstances of American Indian victims, advocates and policymakers can create more well-tailored solutions to a complex problem. This article offers many of the factors that should ideally inform the debate surrounding recent legislation in the United States with a hope of spurring more comprehensive action on behalf of victims; however, this article does not represent a complete solution to a uniquely sensitive and complicated issue. More must be accomplished for all victims of domestic violence crimes in the United States and abroad with regard to creating culturally informed solutions.

scholarly journals The Role of Culture in Shaping Health Perceptions and Behaviors of Resettled Karen Refugees

2020 ◽  
pp. 104365962090283
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Lenderts ◽  
Sarah J. Hoffman ◽  
Jaci Stitch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Culturally Influenced ◽  
And Migration

Introduction: While the many health vulnerabilities and challenges experienced by refugees have been previously documented, few studies have addressed the strengths-focused response strategies that women refugees, in particular, engage to navigate health systems and experiences associated with displacement. Our study attempts to document this among members of one group, the Karen, who represent a significant proportion of refugees resettled in the United States over the past decade. The purpose of this study was to explore how a sample of resettled Karen refugee women construct meaning around health, particularly in the context of cultural values, community, and migration. Methodology: This research took place in a series of ethnographic case studies documenting experiences of resilience, identity construction, and mothering among Karen refugee women from Burma. Data were collected through participant interviews with 12 Karen refugee women living in the United States. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed to identify themes relating to culturally influenced and newly emerging perceptions of health, identity, motherhood, and migration. Results: Participants identified correlates of doing, such as the ability to work and physical energy, as positively related to health, while the inability to do things was negatively related to health. Personal health also encompassed the health of family and community. Discussion: Women in this sample drew on broad, culturally informed ways of being to explain their health experiences. Implications of these findings are presented regarding how organizations and health providers can approach their work with refugees in culturally informed and relevant ways.

What Is Culturally Informed Literacy Instruction? A Review of Research in P–5 Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99
Author(s):  
Laura Beth Kelly ◽  
Wendy Wakefield ◽  
Jaclyn Caires-Hurley ◽  
Lynne Watanabe Kganetso ◽  
Lindsey Moses ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Responsive Instruction

This critical, integrative qualitative review explores how researchers approach, describe, and justify culturally relevant, culturally responsive, or culturally sustaining literacy instruction in prekindergarten through fifth-grade (P–5) classrooms. We reviewed 56 studies published between 1995 and 2018. We documented terms researchers use, theorists cited, methods, student outcomes, and student populations. We also analyzed how researchers talked about achievement gaps, addressed their own positionality, and determined that specific literacy instructional practices were culturally informed. We found that researchers most commonly claim to document culturally relevant or responsive instruction, in some cases conflating the terms and related theorists. Most studies were qualitative, occurred with traditionally marginalized students (usually Black or Latinx) in the United States, and involved students reading a text that researchers deem culturally informed. We make recommendations for teachers and researchers to move the field of culturally informed literacy forward.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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