Designing Counter-Narratives

2021 ◽  
pp. 625-640
Author(s):  
Xeturah M. Woodley ◽  
Gaspard Mucundanyi ◽  
Megan Lockard
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Online Curriculum ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Racial Ethnic

The growing field of online education has developed inside a cultural context rooted in racism, classism, sexism, and other forms of inherent bias. Likewise, the design and development of online curriculum is not excluded from the biases that have historically plagued face-to-face curriculum. In this article, the authors call online teachers into action by encouraging them to adopt an engaged instructional design praxis that builds learning environments inclusive of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. Through the use of culturally responsive teaching, online teachers can create spaces of counter narrative that address curricular blindnesses and promote social justice.

Designing Counter-Narratives

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xeturah M. Woodley ◽  
Gaspard Mucundanyi ◽  
Megan Lockard
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Online Curriculum ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
And Gender

The growing field of online education has developed inside a cultural context rooted in racism, classism, sexism, and other forms of inherent bias. Likewise, the design and development of online curriculum is not excluded from the biases that have historically plagued face-to-face curriculum. In this article, the authors call online teachers into action by encouraging them to adopt an engaged instructional design praxis that builds learning environments inclusive of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. Through the use of culturally responsive teaching, online teachers can create spaces of counter narrative that address curricular blindnesses and promote social justice.

scholarly journals Mutual conditioning of gender and love: Towards a non-gendered idea of humanity

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Slater
Keyword(s):  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
Cultural Constructions

It is a presumed opinion that gender and love mutually condition each other and that this presumption ought to be embraced by cultural norms, religion, human rights and the ethic of freedom. The notion of mutual conditioning presupposes a healthy and principled environment that facilitates the free dynamic interaction between gender and love. It is the purpose of this article to explore the outcomes of the gender revolution and the additional strands of complexities that it contributed to the human condition. Although feminism has created terminologies such as sex and gender, it is believed that these words have outlived their usefulness to make way for the present-day evolution towards a non-gendered idea of humanity. Gender diversity seeks mutuality, and true love accommodates multiplicity; hence, the interacting and intra-acting of gender and love inevitably come face-to-face with cultural, legal, social, religious and moral milieus that hamper or even contradict the concept of mutual conditioning. This article seeks to trace the evolution of gender within diverse cultural constructions created by new liberal living conditions, but which have not yet infiltrated the diverse cultural domains where gender remains an entity without cultural freedom and therefore undermines the process of mutual conditioning of gender and love. The idea of gender as transcending bodily sex forms part of an old theological and philosophical debate; it, however, resurfaces here while revisiting Aristotle’s idea of a non-gendered society or humanity. A degendered society implies a society that is free from dependence on gender, whereas a non-gendered humanity transcends gender divisions and associations, with its aspirations linked to the transcendence or consciousness of human nature. Love, in this sense, transcends all human dissections, and this article ascertains its capacity to mutually condition the diversity of gender and love.

Conclusions and Recommendations

2011 ◽  
pp. 268-293
Author(s):  
Sorin Walter Gudea
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Direct Application ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Online Curriculum ◽  
Positive Effect

This chapter concludes the discussion of the online teaching experience by making a few suggestions and offering advice presumably valuable to school administrators, online teachers, online curriculum and course developers as well as to educational technology professionals. It discusses ways to influence teachers to teach online—a direct application of the theory presented in the previous chapter. The intent of the chapter is to help these constituencies adjust to and be able to exert a positive effect on online education and online teaching in particular.

scholarly journals Prioritization of Diversity During the Residency Match: Trends for a New Workforce

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie V. Dinh ◽  
Eduardo Salas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Geographic Diversity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Attention To Diversity ◽  
Racial Ethnic

ABSTRACT Background The medical community has been paying increasing attention to diversity. Nascent research suggests that the physician workforce may be experiencing value shifts in this area. Objective This study aims to understand how residency applicant perspectives toward diversity may be evolving. Methods The National Resident Matching Program surveys all applicants regarding factors they consider important when ranking residency programs. Survey data from 2008–2017 were analyzed for changes in respondent perceptions of cultural, racial, and ethnic diversity of geographic location (geographic diversity) and cultural, racial, ethnic, and gender diversity at the destination institution (institutional diversity). We calculated weighted averages and visualized: percentage of respondents citing diversity as a factor when applying for interviews; and mean applicant ratings of diversity when ranking programs, using a 5-point scale (1, not important, to 5, extremely important). Results Respondents at 5 time points ranged from 13 156 to 16 575, with response rates from 42.4% to 58.5%. Between 2008 and 2017, the percentage of applicants citing diversity as a consideration when applying to interview increased from 27.8% to 33.2% for geographic diversity and from 22.3% to 33.8% for institutional diversity. Applicants' mean ratings of importance of diversity when ranking programs increased from 2.7 to 4.2 for geographic diversity and from 2.4 to 4.2 for institutional diversity. Conclusions Over the past 9 years and across specialties, a growing percentage of applicants are considering geographic and institutional diversity when applying to interview at residency programs. Applicants report that both forms of diversity are increasingly important when ranking programs.

How Gender and Religion Influence Alcohol Use in Elderly Korean Immigrants

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wooksoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Korean Immigrants ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Current Drinker ◽  
Drinking Behaviors ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Gender

This study examined the effects of religion and gender on drinking behaviors among a sample of 148 older Korean immigrants living in a metropolitan area in Canada. Face-to-face interviews were conducted using standardized questions. The mean age of the participants was 74 years (range: 60-97 years). Logistic regression models were used to assess the effects of religion on drinking and heavier drinking and gender differences in correlates of current drinking and heavier drinking. Results revealed that being married and having lower religiosity were significant correlates that increased the odds of being a current drinker. Older Korean men tend to engage in heavier drinking behavior. Higher religiosity, not mere affiliation to Protestant churches, decreased the odds of heavier drinking for both men and women. The odds of heavier drinking increased for depressed men. Study limitations and implications are presented in a cultural context.

scholarly journals Faculty Training for Online Teaching: Roles, Competences, Contents

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansur F. Galikhanov ◽  
Gulnara F. Khasanova
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Training Faculty

An important trend in higher education is an increasing use of digital technologies and an expansion of online-learning formats, which poses new challenges for university faculty to master the pedagogical competences in teaching online.Universities are forced to expand their educational activities in the online environment, and to involve an increasing number of teachers in the design and delivery of online courses. However, faculty members often do not have the necessary skills and competencies, and their experience in the use of digital technology is insufficient. Meanwhile, the success of online teaching depends not only on advanced methods and technologies, but first of all on the quality of faculty involved. An important issue is how teachers are trained to perform these tasks. To ensure the effectiveness of online education, the Institute of Further Professional Education of the Kazan National Research Technological University is developing approaches to training faculty for the transition to virtual learning environment. They should take into account factors, incentives and barriers affecting faculty’s participation in online teaching, and analyze changes in the activities of teaching stuff in the online environment.The paper dwells on the foreign experience in training faculty for online teaching. We analyzed publications considering new roles and competencies of online teachers, barriers and motivations that encourage faculty to participate in online learning. The paper gives an overview of the content of foreign training courses aimed at the formation of a complex of subject, pedagogical and technological competences of faculty related to online teaching. The main goal of the analysis was to determine the core competencies of online teachers, so that to reflect them in the program of training faculty for teaching online.

The Gender Feeling Amplitude: an instrument to assist clinicians with the assessment of gender diverse adolescents

Sexual Health ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Riley
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Health Practitioner ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Gender Transition ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Item List ◽  
And Gender

Background The Gender Feeling Amplitude (GFA) is a 68-item list of words and phrases with which to identify the feelings and severity of a young person’s distress regarding their gender identity and gender diversity, and takes ~1 min to administer. Method: For this pilot study, 67 adolescents and youth who sought support, confirmation or intervention (either via themselves or their parents) regarding gender diversity or gender transition were given the GFA in a face-to-face meeting before the beginning of an assessment procedure for gender diversity. Forty-three assigned females and 24 assigned males aged between 10 and 20 years were analysed by frequency of item, age and assigned gender. Results: Of the 68 items, those circled by close to 50% or more of the participants were ‘self-conscious’, ‘awkward’ and ‘don’t fit in’. One-third or more circled the words ‘shy’, ‘supported’, ‘hopeful’, ‘discomfort’, ‘as if I’m not being seen properly’, ‘forced to be something I’m not’, ‘depressed’ and ‘stressed’. Conclusion: Comparisons showed some variations in responses by both assigned gender and age, and the discussion includes ways the GFA may be able to assist a health practitioner with explorations of gender diversity and interventions for counselling.

The Evolution of Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Diversity in US Otolaryngology Residency Programs

2013 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph S. Schwartz ◽  
Meredith Young ◽  
Ana M. Velly ◽  
Lily H. P. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Racial Ethnic

The Ever-Evolving Educator

2015 ◽  
pp. 1494-1515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Larson ◽  
Leanna Archambault
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Virtual Schools ◽  
Teacher Preparation Programs ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
K 12

This chapter reviews the current research on the educational, training, and demographic characteristics of those involved in teaching K-12 online. Although very few colleges of education incorporate any aspect of teaching online into their curricula, the existing online teacher preparation programs are discussed. Past and ongoing research reveals a dramatic disconnect between: (a) the rapidly expanding expectations for and implementation of online education at the K-12 levels and (b) the surprisingly limited extent to which teachers are actually being educated, trained, and otherwise prepared to function in this challenging new educational environment. The implications for teacher education programs and current K-12 virtual schools are clear. Effective online teaching techniques must be defined, empirically proven, and efficiently implemented by both future and current K-12 online teachers.

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