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Healthy Aging for Older Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The number of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has increased rapidly in the United States as part of the general “graying” of the country. This has presented challenges in maintaining the quality of life and health for these individuals in later years. Issues including The number of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has increased rapidly in the United States as part of the general “graying” of the country. This has presented challenges in maintaining the quality of life and health for these individuals in later years. Issues including
diagnostic overshadowing
(the tendency to overlook symptoms of mental or physical illness as causes for decline), lack of knowledge about aging in adults with IDD, and health care disparities are discussed in this article along with recommendations for clinicians to help them meet this growing challenge.
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Feminist art activisms and artivisms
The first volume in the new Plural series, this publication seeks to critically dissect the term 'activism,' which today seems to have become a catchword for any woman's empowerment through the arts, and reveal the diversity of practices and realities that it comprises. Presenting a range of critical insights, perspectives, and practices from artists, activists, and academics, it reflects on the role of feminist interventions in the field of contemporary art, the public sphere, and politics. In the process, it touches upon broader questions of cultural difference, history, class, economic standing, ecological issues, and sexual orientation, as well as the ways in which these intersect.
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“Sex matters”: L. M. Montgomery, Friendship, and Sexuality
In L.M. Montgomery’s journals, the figure of Isabel, a spinster schoolteacher who stalked the writer, works to establish Montgomery’s own love for women as normal in an era in which pathologizes women’s same-sex friendships. Moreover, Montgomery’s “heterosexualizing” of herself maintains the centrality and legitimacy of her own long-standing female attachments.
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Indie Publishing?: Broadview Press, Gynocritics, and Anne of Green Gables
According to the Broadview Press mandate, this Canadian publishing house produces high quality scholarly books in paperback so that they are immediately affordable for academics, the general public, and students. In this economic climate where publishers are turning to non-fiction and away from traditional \"liter?ary\" fiction, where large publishing conglomerates such as Penguin mass produce literary \"classics\" in paperback, and where the Canadian media corporations have exploded in size (witness the recent Bell Globemedia's takeover of chum Ltd. to become CTV globemedia), any publishing house that manages to survive is doing well. [...]Devereux presents selected reviews from 1908 to 1913 from various publications, such as the New York Times Saturday Review of Books, the Globe, and the Spectator. [...]Edition.
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Fighting Balkanization (In Bed)
Robinson illustrates the life of a Serbian community. Using a fictional character, she describes how the combat for Balkanization is inevitable.
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Aggressive femininity
InSecret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature(1985), Humphrey Carpenter laments the appearance of Louisa May Alcott’sLittle Womenon the literary scene, not because it is inferior in his eyes, but because it begot a generation of “happy happy” girls’ stories. He suggests that the later writers created “a kind of aggressive femininity, which allowed their heroines to charm hearts and get their own way without playing traitor to their sex. This produced the ‘Pollyanna’ or ‘glad girl’ school of writing, featuring girls of unbearable cheerfulness” (98). In a footnote to this sentence, he
Book Chapter
Healthy aging for older adults with intellectual and development disabilities
The number of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has increased rapidly in the United States as part of the general \"graying\"of the country. This has presented challenges in maintaining the quality of life and health for these individuals in later years. Issues including diagnostic overshadowing (the tendency to overlook symptoms of mental or physical illness as causes for decline), lack of knowledge about aging in adults with IDD, and health care disparities are discussed in this article along with recommendations for clinicians to help them meet this growing challenge.
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Expanding the description of facilitators of adult learning: Workplace facilitator teaching styles, theories of action, and perspectives of teaching
This study identified the espoused teaching modes and teaching perspectives for a sample of facilitators of workplace learning. The study also determined whether differences existed between facilitator espoused teaching mode and learner perception of facilitator teaching mode. The results of this study are significant because there is overwhelming support for the use of the collaborative teaching mode in the adult learning profession, yet little empirical evidence of utilization of this mode by adult learning facilitators. This study examined learning facilitators in the workplace setting, about which even less is reported in previous research. To appropriately answer the research questions posed in this study, a correlational research design was implemented utilizing descriptive and inferential statistics. The Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) was used to measure overall teaching mode of facilitators of adult workplace learning; the Adapted Principles of Adult Learning Scale (APALS) was used to measure learner perception of facilitator teaching mode; and the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) was used to measure facilitator teaching perspective. The sample consisted of 34 facilitators of workplace learning in college and university economic development divisions, public training organizations, and corporate training organizations and their 286 learners. Facilitator variables which have been shown to be associated with espoused and perceived teaching mode were also examined. These included facilitator age, gender, race, occupational field, professional preparation, years teaching experience, and program taught. The following overall findings were reached. Workplace learning facilitators were designated as non-collaborative, but were found to be slightly more collaborative than other groups of instructors and teachers from past studies. There was moderate agreement between facilitator espoused and learner perceived teaching mode, yet generally learners rated facilitators lower on collaborative teaching mode than facilitators rated themselves. Gender and years teaching experience were also found to be significantly associated with facilitator teaching mode. The most common teaching perspectives of facilitators were the Nurturing and Apprenticeship perspectives. Teaching perspective did not predict espoused or perceived teaching mode; however, there were differences in teaching mode scores for the different teaching perspectives—with the Transmission perspective returning the lowest collaborative teaching mode scores of all teaching perspectives (espoused and perceived). Recommendations for practice and future research were provided, which included a current examination of the PALS instrument for use in workplace learning settings.
Dissertation
Kindred Spirits
When L.M. Montgomery’s fictional characters experience a deep connection with another person, as Anne and Captain Jim do in Anne’s House of Dreams, they understand that friendship with reference to biological and physical connections, using phrases such as “the race that knows Joseph,” “kindred spirits,” and “bosom friends.”² Through these sayings, Montgomery’s texts naturalize friendship by emphasizing a belief that deep connection must be based on racial or natural similarity, and yet she also represents these kinship connections as deeply contradictory. In her journals as well as in her fiction, Montgomery’s insistence on clan qualities being bred into people constructs
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