Navigating the “delicate relationship between empathy and critical distance”

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-449
Author(s):  
Rob Simon ◽  
Sarah Evis ◽  
Ty Walkland ◽  
Amir Kalan ◽  
Pamela Baer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

Purpose This paper features artwork and artists’ statements by middle school students who participated in a research collaboration that involved co-authoring critical literacy curriculum for Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus: A Survivors Tale (1986) with teacher candidates from the University of Toronto. Design/methodology/approach Youth explored personal and social justice issues through writing and artwork produced in response to Maus. In the process, they navigated what historian Dominick LaCapra (1998) has referred to as the “delicate relationship between empathy and critical distance” (pp. 4-5), between closely identifying with the agonizing experiences Spiegelman documents and using their inquiries to cultivate more critical positionalities and assume activist stances on historical and contemporary social justice issues. Findings As they describe in their brief statements included alongside their artwork, creating these projects allowed youth to bear witness to a terrible moment in human history and to envision how they can make a difference in their own communities. Originality/value This work suggests how the arts can be mobilized in critical literacy as a vehicle to interrogate difficult historical moments and multifaceted identity issues.

International perspectives on English teaching

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Locke
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a personalised overview of the content of English Teaching: Practice and Critique for the years it was hosted at the Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research (WMIER) at the University of Waikato (2002-2014). Design/methodology/approach – It notes trends in relationship to the context of origin of 335 articles published in this period (excluding editorials), including significant increases in articles originating in the USA and Pacific Rim Asian nations, particularly South Korea and Taiwan. It comments on articles that relate to the original vision of the editors’ founders, especially their emphasis on practice, criticality and social justice. Findings – Prevailing themes across 13 years are mapped and in some cases discussed. Originality/value – A number of reflections are shared in relation to the future of the journal and some challenges currently facing subject English.

Trust and dynamic governance mechanisms in the university-industry R&D alliances

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Somchai Ruangpermpool ◽  
Barbara Igel ◽  
Sununta Siengthai
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Informal Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Case Research ◽  
Thai Government ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose This paper aims to examine how the dynamic interplay of governance mechanisms of the university-firm R&D alliance reduces obstacles and enables the successful commercialization of research collaboration output. Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal case research and retrospective strategy were used to collect relevant data and information in the four university-and-firm alliance teams collaborating on R&D projects in Thailand during 2008-2014. In-depth interviews and meetings were conducted with representatives of all partners and R&D project teams. Findings The authors found that formal and informal control mechanisms act as complementary forms of governance. The informal control (trust) serves as the frame of intentions whether the formal control is interpreted as a guideline or a commitment. Both formal and informal control mechanisms must be put in place to successfully and sustainably develop collaborative research into a commercial product. Research limitations/implications This study investigated four Thai government-funded research collaboration teams from a single industry. It would be worth investigating such research collaboration in other industries and those without any government funding. Originality/value This study applied an exploratory case research method which is rarely used in research on R&D alliance teams. It generates cross-functional insights on how to build trust in such R&D context, especially in an emerging economy.

scholarly journals Community-University Partnerships: Achieving continuity in the face of change

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 128-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Silka ◽  
Robert Forrant ◽  
Brenda Bond ◽  
Patricia Coffey ◽  
Robin Toof ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
School Students ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Action Project ◽  
The Face ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

A challenge that community-university partnerships everywhere will face is how to maintain continuity in the face of change. The problems besetting communities continually shift and the goals of the university partners often fluctuate. This article describes a decade-long strategy one university has successfully used to address this problem. Over the past ten years, a community-university partnership at the University of Massachusetts Lowell has used summer content funding to respond creativity to shifting priorities. Each summer a research-action project is developed that targets a different content issue that has emerged with unexpected urgency. Teams of graduate students and high school students are charged with investigating this issue under the auspices of the partnership. These highly varied topics have included immigrant businesses, youth asset mapping, women owned businesses, the housing crisis, social program cutbacks, sustainability, and economic development and the arts. Despite their obvious differences, these topics share underlying features that further partnership commitment and continuity. Each has an urgency: the information is needed quickly, often because some immediate policy change is under consideration. Each topic has the advantage of drawing on multiple domains: the topics are inherently interdisciplinary and because they do not “belong” to any single field, they lend themselves to disciplines pooling their efforts to achieve greater understanding. Each also has high visibility: their salience has meant that people were often willing to devote scarce resources to the issues and also that media attention could easily be gained to highlight the advantages of students, partners, and the university working together. And the topics themselves are generative: they have the potential to contribute in many different ways to teaching, research, and outreach. This paper ends with a broader consideration of how partnerships can implement this model for establishing continuity in the face of rapidly shifting priorities and needs.

Research, Collaboration, Experimentation: Creating a Digital Scholarship Unit in an Academic Library Setting

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Rousseau ◽  
Elizabeth O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The University ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Donne Lieu

Changes in traditional approaches to scholarship prompt new possibilities for the convergence of digital collections and scholarly communication. To meet the changing needs of its users, the University of Toronto Scarborough Library began a Digital Scholarship unit. The poster will describe both the rationale and practical considerations for establishing this unit.Des changements dans l’approche traditionnelle à l’enseignement donne lieu à de nouvelles occasions pour la convergence des collections numériques et la communication savante. Pour répondre aux besoins changeants de ses usagers, la bibliothèque du campus de Scarborough de l’Université de Toronto a mis sur pied une unité d’enseignement numérique. L’affiche présente les raisons et les considérations pratiques ayant mené à la création de l’unité. 

scholarly journals Making connections while earning an MLIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-172
Author(s):  
Sarah Loor ◽  
Michael A. Crumpton
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Real ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The University ◽  
Learning Connections

Purpose This purpose of this paper is to discuss a collaboration with a non-profit organization conducted as part of the Real Learning Connections project at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The authors discuss their experiences working with a non-profit partner from outside the university and the benefits gained from collaboration. Design/methodology/approach This is a reflection based on the personal experiences of the authors as collaborators in the project. Findings Through their experience with the Real Learning Connections project, the authors found that collaborating with a non-profit organization provides a unique opportunity for library school students to learn practical skills while also providing value to the non-profit organization in the form of expertise in information services. Originality/value This piece discusses the benefits of collaboration from the perspective of both an Library and Information Studies (LIS) student and a professional librarian, as well as considering the experiences of an external non-profit organization.

Teachers’ perspectives of a new food literacy curriculum in Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janandani Nanayakkara ◽  
Claire Margerison ◽  
Anthony Worsley
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Food Literacy ◽  
Future Design ◽  
New Curriculum ◽  
Barriers And Challenges

Purpose Implementation of a new food literacy curriculum provides multiple health and social benefits to school students. The success of any new curriculum execution is partly determined by teachers’ perceptions about the new curriculum contents, and barriers and challenges for its delivery. The purpose of this paper is to explore teachers’ views of a new food literacy curriculum named Victorian Certificate of Education Food Studies for senior secondary school students in Victoria, Australia. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative study design was used in this study. In total, 14 teachers who were planning to teach the new curriculum were individually interviewed in October-December 2016. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using the template analysis technique. Findings The majority of teachers appreciated the inclusion of food literacy and nutrition concepts in the new curriculum. However, half of the teachers had doubts about their readiness to teach it. Most teachers mentioned that they needed more training and resources to increase their confidence in teaching the curriculum. Practical implications These findings reveal that teachers need more awareness, resources, and guidance to increase their confidence in delivering the new curriculum. Provision of more resources and opportunities for training in food literacy concepts and instructional methods could facilitate its implementation. Originality/value These findings serve as an important first step to gain the perspectives of secondary school teachers’ opinions about the new curriculum. Moreover, these opinions and suggestions could inform the future design and implementation of similar food literacy curricula in Australia or elsewhere.

scholarly journals Educating Engineering Students in the Arts

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Tallman
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
The University

The presentation will discuss a third-year engineering elective course, Engineering and Science inthe Arts, offered by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. The presentation will detail the unique course deliverables, which require the engineering students to, first, create original works of art, and, secondly, to explain how these works connect to engineering and/or science. A key objective in the course was that the students eradicate the boundaries separating engineers and artists, and this presentation will consider the course’s success in this regard.

Exploring exemplars in elementary teacher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Asher Dobrick ◽  
Laura Fattal
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Elementary Teacher ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Elementary Teacher Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World

PurposeEducators who teach for social justice connect what and how they teach in the classroom directly to humanity’s critical problems. Teacher education at the elementary level must center such themes of social justice in order to prepare today’s teachers to lead their students in developing an understanding of how to make the world a better place to live. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents three case studies of exemplary, pre-service teacher-created lessons that integrate the arts, social studies, and language arts around themes of social justice. Teacher-candidates envisioned, planned and taught effective, engaging, standards-based learning experiences that began with children’s literature and led to artistic expression.FindingsThrough lessons like these, teacher-candidates learned to meet arts, social studies, and literacy standards while building the skills and attitudes their students need as “citizens of the world.”Research limitations/implicationsElementary teacher education programs can help teacher-candidates to prepare for the challenge of teaching for social justice by integrating the arts with core academic areas, including social studies.Practical implicationsThis integrated model suitably serves our current, mathematics- and literacy-focused, assessment-saturated school system. Pre-service teachers learn to plan and teach integrated learning activities. They learn practical ways to infuse the arts in both their field experience and future classrooms.Social implicationsWhen the arts are central in education, students benefit in numerous important ways, developing critical and creative thinking skills, empathy, self-awareness, and the ability to collaborate with others productively. The arts, essential to humanity since the dawn of civilization, thus serve as a natural focal point for education for social justice.Originality/valueThe innovative methods involved in this study, in which subject areas throughout the elementary teacher education program are integrated in one meaningful, practical, applied lesson on social justice, represent a practical, original, and valuable way to enhance teacher education programs’ focus on social justice.

Biographical sketch of Kenneth G. McKenzie (1892–1964)

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Morley
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
Toronto General Hospital ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
75Th Anniversary ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Biographical Study ◽  
The University ◽  
Opening Address ◽  
Fine Print

✓ This article is an expanded version of the opening address Dr. Morley delivered at a University of Toronto symposium, “Seventy-Five Years of Neurosurgery in Canada,” celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the appointment of Kenneth G. McKenzie, Canada's first career neurosurgeon, to the University of Toronto and the Toronto General Hospital in 1923.Kenneth G. McKenzie (1892–1964) was the first surgeon in Canada to limit his practice to neurosurgery. This article contains a brief biographical study of the man, his upbringing, and management of his professional life at Toronto General Hospital. Some of his published neurosurgical articles are also reviewed.

An investigation into the core appeals for nation branding to attract and retain talent to enhance a country’s competitiveness

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 584-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Silvanto ◽  
Jason Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Nation Branding ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

PurposeThis study aims to empirically examine the most common appeals recommended for use in nation branding campaigns to attract and retain skilled professionals from abroad to enhance a country’s economic competitiveness. To assess this, the authors examine how the image and reputation of a country as a destination and location for talent compare to its actual performance in terms of attracting and retaining skilled professionals. This comparison provides useful insights into the aspects of a country’s reputation that matter most for attracting the talent it needs to enhance its competitiveness.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a multivariate analysis to examine a sample of 122 countries using secondary data from the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the UNDP and other non-governmental sources, such as the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. It then tests the results using a sample of 35 OECD countries to assess whether they apply to all types of countries equally.FindingsThe study finds that the two most important factors for ensuring that a country is maximizing its potential to attract skilled professionals are the availability of employment and the degree of ethnic and cultural diversity within the host country. The most important factor for ensuring that a country is maximizing its potential to retain talent, the study finds, is the availability of employment. This does not mean that other factors do not matter, but employment and diversity are crucial for attracting talent from abroad.Research limitations/implicationsThe study also tests the overall results of the study by using a smaller sample of 35 OECD countries. It finds that the availability of employment and high levels of GDP per capita (i.e. wealth) is important for attracting and retaining skilled professionals in more industrially developed countries.Originality/valueThis paper is one of the few empirical studies to examine nation branding to attract and retain talent from abroad to enhance national competitiveness. Its findings suggest that a multifaceted and holistic framework-based approach to nation branding to attract talent, such as that recommended by Silvanto and Ryan (2014), is less likely to work in the short term than an approach which primarily emphasizes employment and diversity.

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