scholarly journals Cocreating guide dog partnerships: dog training and interdependence in 1930s America

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Pemberton
Keyword(s):  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Service Dogs ◽  
Dog Training ◽  
Guide Dogs ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Training Methodology ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

This article scrutinises issues around disability and dependent (interdependent) agency, extending these to non-human animals and service dogs, with a sustained reference to the training of guide dogs. It does this through a detailed engagement with the training methodology and philosophy of The Seeing Eye guide dog school in the 1930s, exploring the physical, bodily and instrumental means through which the guide dog partnership, and the identity of the instructor, the guide dog and the guide dog owner, jointly came into being. The novelty of the article lies in how it reconsiders what interdependence meant and means from the perspectives drawing from historical and sociological literature on dog training. In doing so it opens up new ways of thinking about service animals that recognise their historical contingency and the complex processes at work in the creation and development of interdependent agency.

Effects of a Court-Ordered Service Dog Training Program with U.S. Veterans: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Terry Crowe ◽  
Victoria Sanchez ◽  
Chardae Durden ◽  
Margarita Ortega y Gomez ◽  
Melissa Winkle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Service Dogs ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Dog Training ◽  
Service Dog ◽  
Emotional Isolation

Abstract This qualitative study investigated the impacts of a court-ordered service dog training program on justice-involved U.S. veterans. An experienced qualitative research team conducted three focus groups with nine veterans to explore how training service dogs influenced their daily lives. Focus groups were audio recorded, transcribed, and manually coded. Two graduate research assistants developed preliminary themes; the full team generated final themes. Themes illustrated how participation in the program: 1) decreased physical and emotional isolation; 2) assisted veterans with reintegrating into civilian life; 3) improved emotional self-regulation; and 4) helped veterans discover potential; 5) find camaraderie; 6) reconnect with community; and 7) create a sanctuary. In a follow-up session, several participants confirmed that the results accurately captured their experiences. The overall finding suggests the service dog training program served as a rehabilitative process for justice-involved veterans to rediscover their abilities and talents that existed before their experiences in the justice system.

scholarly journals Strategic planning and change management. Examples of Barcelona, Seville and Saragossa (Spain)

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (29) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Jesús González González ◽  
Alejandro López González
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Continuous Line ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Mind

Abstract This work attempts to underline that motivating and managing change in the mentality of its environment, and being in tune with society’s changing needs is the basis of successful strategic planning. Our aim is to highlight planning as a way of learning, that is, planning implies changing ways of thinking, not making plans. Strategic learning requires releasing the mind in order to slip flexibly into the continuous line and to achieve the creation of possible action courses from a fertile dialogue between thought and action. Using our insights from the two literatures, we propose a dynamic, integrative conceptual model of change based on organizational learning. This practice has been analysed in three Spanish cities where important events have taken place.

scholarly journals The game as strategy for approach to sexuality with adolescents: theoretical-methodological reflections

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vânia de Souza ◽  
Maria Flávia Gazzinelli ◽  
Amanda Nathale Soares ◽  
Marconi Moura Fernandes ◽  
Rebeca Nunes Guedes de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Basis Method ◽  
Pedagogic Device

ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the Papo Reto [Straight Talk] game and reflect on its theoretical-methodological basis. Method: Analytical study on the process of elaboration of the Papo Reto online game, destined to adolescents aged 15-18 years, with access to the Game between 2014 and 2015. Results: the interactions of 60 adolescents from Belo Horizonte and São Paulo constituted examples of the potentialities of the Game to favor the approach to sexuality with adolescents through simulation of reality, invention and interaction. Based on those potentialities, four thinking categories were discussed: the game as pedagogic device; the game as simulation of realities; the game as device for inventive learning; and the game empowering the interaction. Conclusion: By permitting that the adolescents take risks on new ways, the Game allows them to become creative and active in the production of senses, in the creation of their discourses and in the ways of thinking, feeling and acting in the sexuality field.

scholarly journals LEXICAL, GRAMMATICAL AND STYLISTIC REDUNDANCY IN ENGLISH TEXT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 154-156
Author(s):  
Yuliya Litkovych ◽  
Vita Sternichuk
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Text ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Foreign Origin ◽  
Linguistic Unit ◽  
Semantic Development ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of

Lexical, grammatical and stylistic pleonasms in contemporary English-language media discourse are analyzed in the article. The definition of pleonasms, especially their types is offered. It is outlined the peculiar features of their usage in contemporary English-language media discourse. It has been proved that the redundancy in lexical pleonasms is expressed by synonyms. It is substantiated that grammatical pleonasms arise due to suffixes, prefixes and adverbs when creating degrees of comparison of adjectives. Pleonasms in contemporary English-language media discourse are used to intensify the utterance and to influence pragmatically on the addressee. Pleonasm is an independent expressive means of language. As a permanent feature of a linguistic unit, it differs not only from the stylistic means of expressing redundancy in speech, but also from grammatical types of redundancy. The autonomy of pleonasms in a language is justified by their purpose to clarify, intensify and add different shades of the meaning of a word or any concept in order to accurately convey information to the addressee. These redundant phrases are understood as absolutely natural phenomenon in English. One of the reasons for the creation of pleonasms is insufficient transparency of one of the components and this component the word of foreign origin. Pleonasm is the result of rather complex processes of semantic development of components that are combined.

scholarly journals Figures of Thought in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Doro Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Graphic Narratives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Productive Function ◽  
Critical Layers ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Line Work ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article takes Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas on art’s inventive function as a point of departure to analyse two graphic narratives that undermine ideas about truthfulness: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future. It is argued that these allegedly autobiographical memoirs undermine genre conventions to create an implied readership who co-witnesses Satrapi’s and Sattouf’s experiences of oppression, racism, and war during their respective childhoods. It is shown how Satrapi and Sattouf undermine the autobiographical pact through graphic narrative’s ‘figures of thought’, a term introduced to capture the formal, thematic, and narrative possibilities of comics and graphic literature to make readers come into contact with unforeseen visions—and to possibly think anew. Specific attention is paid to the narrative voice, which in Satrapi’s and Sattouf’s works often goes beyond the personal perspective to account for collective experiences, as well as to the use of colour and line work that add critical layers to the stories told. In line with Deleuze and Guattari’s arguments, the poetic, which is the productive function of art, is shown to go beyond questions of truthfulness and falseness, allowing for new ways of thinking and for the creation of new worlds.

KINOLOGY CENTER OF BORDER SERVICE BODIES: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
V. V. Zhaldybin ◽  
M. G. Kaputsky
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Training ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Service Dogs ◽  
Dog Training ◽  
Training Unit ◽  
Narcotic Drugs

The dog training center is a training unit of the border service authorities, and is intended for the training, retraining and advanced training of dog handlers and the training of service dogs in various types of services, such as the search (search for a person by odor print), watchdog, and special (search for narcotic drugs and psychotropic sub-stances, weapons, ammunition and explosives), guard (object protection), as well as for breeding and raising dogs of service breeds.

A Criminology of War?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross McGarry ◽  
Sandra Walklate
Keyword(s):  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Academic Study

With the academic study of ‘war’ gaining renewed popularity within criminology in recent years, this book illustrates the long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Within this book, whilst providing an implicit critique of mainstream criminology the authors seek to question if a ‘criminology of war’ is possible, and if so how this seemingly ‘new horizon’ of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.

scholarly journals Disaster Preparedness among Service Dog Puppy- Raisers (Human Subject Sample)

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Sarah E. DeYoung ◽  
Ashley K. Farmer ◽  
Zoe Callaro ◽  
Shelby Naar
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Dog Training ◽  
Service Dog ◽  
Guide Dogs ◽  
Complete Survey ◽  
Evacuation Plan ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
First Time

Little is known about the ways in which puppy raisers engage in disaster preparedness for their puppies (or “guide dogs in training”). The aim of this research is to understand disaster preparedness among service dog puppy raisers. A web-based survey was distributed to people raising puppies in a service dog training program (n = 53 complete survey responses). Questions in the survey included items about disaster preparedness and plans for canine safety in hazards events. Out of those who said they had an evacuation plan for their puppy in training, 59% stated they would put the dog in their vehicles for evacuating to safety in the event of a hurricane or other disaster. The odds of first-time puppy raisers who considered evacuation for Hurricane Irma in 2017 was 15.3 times the odds of repeat raisers. Over half the raisers reported that they did not have a disaster kit. Additionally, 82% of respondents indicated that having a service puppy in training makes them feel safer. These results can be used as a foundation for service dog organizations in disaster preparedness among their puppy raiser volunteers and in designing recruitment messages for new volunteers.

God Makes a World of Difference: The Dialectic of Motivation and Meaning at the Creation of an African Theistic Worldview

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-445
Author(s):  
Gary Burlington
Keyword(s):  
Original Research ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Worldview as a way to understand Christianity (Naugel 2002) and competing accounts of reality (Sire 1997, 2004) focuses on cognitive, rational structures of meaning. But how are worldviews created? What is the relationship of cognition to historical contingency and psychological motivation? To answer these questions, I present original research on the thoughts of Emilio Mulolani Chishimba, founder of Zambia's Mutima Church, and view them through the lens of Charles W. Nuckolls' (1996) theory of culture and myth formation. Missiologists are better prepared to engage the world when they understand the nexus of factors that create specific worldviews.

scholarly journals Do Service Dogs for Veterans with PTSD Mount a Cortisol Response in Response to Training?

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Emmy A. E. van Houtert ◽  
Nienke Endenburg ◽  
T. Bas Rodenburg ◽  
Eric Vermetten
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Cortisol ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Cortisol Response ◽  
Service Dogs ◽  
Dog Training ◽  
Service Dog ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cortisol Levels ◽  
Therapeutic Settings

Only a few studies have investigated the welfare of animals participating in animal-assisted interventions (AAIs). Most of these studies focus on dogs in therapeutic settings. There are, however, also dogs—service dogs—that are employed to continuously support a single human. Because the welfare of these service dogs is important for the sustainability of their role, the aim of this study was to investigate their stress response to service dog training sessions. To do this, we took repeated salivary cortisol samples from dogs who participated in a training session (n = 19). Samples were taken just after arrival at the training ground, before training, after training, and after a period of free play. Our results showed that mean cortisol levels in all samples were relatively low (between 1.55 ± 1.10 and 2.73 ± 1.47 nmol/L) compared to similar studies. Analysis further showed that samples taken before and after participation in the training’s session did not differ from one another. Mean cortisol levels in both situations were additionally lower than those upon arrival at the training site and after a period of free play. This led to the conclusion that the dogs in our study did not seem to experience training as stressful.

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