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The weight of a thousand feathers
Seventeen-year-old Bobby Seed, the devoted but exhausted primary caregiver for his terminally-ill mother and difficult younger brother, finds respite in a support group and good friends, but must face his mother's impossible choice alone.
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Exploring Reading Interests of College Students of University of Delhi
This study investigated the reading interests of undergraduate students of select colleges affiliated to University of Delhi by studying the various aspects of reading interests and habits such as reading likeness, preference for various categories of information, purpose of reading, preference for fiction and non-fiction books and time spent on various activities per day.The structured questionnaires were distributed to get the responses from male and female respondents of different disciplines. The collected data was analysed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science, Version-25) applying different statistical tests i.e. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Brown-Forsythe and Welch test and Weighted Mean. The study revealed that majority of 89.9 percent undergraduate students like reading and 68.2 percent respondents were at the age group of 19-20 years from sciences, social sciences and humanities discipline. Female respondents were more inclined towards reading in compare to the male counterparts. Both male and female respondents prefer reading books followed by newspapers and magazines. The maximum number of male and female respondents was found strongly inclined reading information sources for academic purpose followed by general knowledge. Fiction genre read by females include short stories, mystery and adventure. Whereas, male respondents read science fiction and historical fiction. Non-fiction includes self-help books and essays were frequently read by females whereas, the majority of the males read the biographies. It also depicted that female respondents preferred reading more of print resources. Whereas, male respondents read print and online resources equally.
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Tools for the Tough Stuff: Using YA Lit to Support Students Struggling with Eating Disorders
Once a week, the core subject teachers on our academic team would gather with our school counselor, one of our principals, various support teachers (including learning support, emotional support, and reading support), and representatives from our student assistance program (SAP). Considering that eating disorders and struggles with body image for students of all genders were some of the most common conversations to come up in our middle level team meetings, I was intrigued to meet Jen Petro-Roy during the 2018 NCTE Annual Convention. While school counselors or teachers didn't play a role in my recovery (I started struggling with an eating disorder myself during my freshman year of college, unlike Riley, who is in seventh grade), individual therapists and support groups absolutely played a role, as did the treatment centers I attended. [...]while books about eating disorders didn't necessarily help me back then (many were quite graphic and triggering, so I avoided them), books in general helped save my life. First of all, include them in your school library and on your classroom bookshelves!
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Mind the Gap: Do Librarians Understand Service User Perspectives on Bibliotherapy?
Bibliotherapy schemes aim to improve mental health and well-being. Schemes focus on engagement with either imaginative literature or self-help texts and are now commonplace in U.K. public libraries. Impetus for bibliotherapy schemes was influenced by health policy and a drive toward partnership working. There is a recognized need for in-depth evaluation of bibliotherapy services; the lack of evaluation is problematic, as the schemes are designed without reference to service user perspectives. There is a need to identify and analyze usage to assess effectiveness of the schemes. Drawing on data from interviews and focus groups with library and health professionals and service users, this article explores the service provider and service user perspective on bibliotherapy schemes. It concludes that—for service providers—there is a lack of clarity and understanding about how bibliotherapy works, and this impacts on the experience of service users. While service providers and service users share a common goal of improving mental health and well-being, their understandings of bibliotherapy differ, meaning there is a potential gap between service provision and service user needs. The article concludes that in-depth research influenced by user-centered design principles, may help to improve services in practice.
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The Rhetoric of Everyday-Entrepreneurship: Reframing Entrepreneurial Identity & Citizenship
My dissertation forges a response that continues and expands discussions of entrepreneurialism in the 21stcentury. I seek to answer Welter and colleagues’ call to embrace the entrepreneurial diversity offered by the folks that are embedded in local communities. I argue for a reframing of entrepreneurship that acknowledges the work of everyday-entrepreneurs — people that operate in mundane contexts, beyond capitalist agendas, guided by socially aware objectives seeking to promote equity for the greater good. This undertaking is stretched across a three part study informed by feminist perspectives. Tracing the narratives belonging to women of historically marginalized identities reveals not only the exclusionary aspects of mainstream entrepreneurship, but also the innovative practices these women embody as they balance the social variables of identity politics within and across their communities. The participants of this study demonstrate entrepreneurial citizenship, a term I propose as the many ways everyday-entrepreneurs contribute to world-building and history-making for each of the different communities they belong to. Chapter one establishes the exigence for this work and provides commentary on the cultural framework from which entrepreneurship emerged. Chapter two offers a survey of the surrounding literature, and addresses how a bridging of interdisciplinary gaps helps scholars better understand everyday-entrepreneurship. Chapter three presents a case for taking an interdisciplinary approach towards diversifying entrepreneurial scholarship. Chapter four outlines the study design, methods, and methodology. In Chapter five, I present empirical observations that quantify the qualitative data collected for the study. And, finally, chapter six presents participant profiles in conjunction with case study vignettes that highlight snapshots of everyday-entrepreneurship in practice. Ultimately, this project seeks to show that there is much to be learned from the lived realities of everyday-entrepreneurs; widening discourse on entrepreneurship to include these individuals: (1) dismantles grand narratives of entrepreneurship that are intrinsically oppressive, especially for those with intersectional identities, (2) exposes interlocking forms of oppression operating within the obscure, shadowed margins of familiar spaces that render individuals invisible, (3) contributes to new models of entrepreneurial identity, and (4) diversifies entrepreneurial scholarship.
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A child's eye view: dementia in children's literature
This paper explores accounts and understandings of dementia that are encountered infrequently. Children’s views of dementia are under-explored and yet children, too, must be being influenced by the growing public knowledge of dementia as a named disease, particularly of old age. The first section notes that many children will encounter dementia among family members, their grandparents and great-grandparents in particular. The second section considers fictionalized accounts of dementia. These are assuming greater exposure, not so much in the professional welfare domain, but as a plot or character device in contemporary fiction. This paper combines these two areas by discussing a number of publications written for young people where dementia is a central issue, motif or characteristic. These include dementia-related material targeted at a children’s readership. This is followed by development of themes arising from analysis of three novels written for young people, emanating from Canada, Australia and the UK. The paper ends with a series of discussion points for social-work practitioners, educationalists and voluntary-sector support or self-help groups working in dementia care and in older people’s services.
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Webotherapy: reading web resources for problem solving
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to indicate that when webotherapy is applied, it can be of benefit to clients in giving them insight into their problems, resulting in a change of behavior.Design methodology approach - Webotherapy, which can be conducted with individuals or groups, refers to the use of web resources or other online reading material (e.g. e-books, e-journals) to assist clients (especially children and young adults) in their healing process. It may be defined as the use of web resources to help others gain additional insight and to help them cope with everyday life. Most people have probably read web resources to determine how others have approached a delicate issue.Findings - This paper suggests that webotherapy is a potentially powerful method for psychologists, librarians, schoolteachers and counselors to use on many levels. It begins with a brief review of the history of webotherapy, continues with a discussion of some approaches to webotherapy (developmental, clinical, and interactive), then addresses the four basic stages of webotherapy (identification, selection, presentation, and follow-up), and finally discusses the benefits and limitations of webotherapy.Originality value - The paper discusses webotherapy and offers a review of literature on related fields.
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Circ Disrupted
Yet as librarians sought new ways to serve their constituents, especially given increased demand for social justice and political science titles, ebook circulation rose 29.2 percent. Meeting demand for online materials, particularly in tandem with the increased interest in antiracism titles fueled by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, led many librarians to push forward with cost-per-circ (CPC) and metered models. OverDrive, which saw a 33 percent increase in digital circulation for its clients, confirms that digital social justice and BIPOC/#OwnVoices materials achieved 165 percent circulation growth in school and public libraries. [...]many of this year's fiction winners take us to other worlds—a welcome respite from sheltering in place—while thrillers are often realistically grounded in current anxieties, from war to child kidnapping to, yes,
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Readers' Advisory Web Sites
Using the Internet to provide readers' advisory services would seem to be a natural combination of traditional librarianship and new information technology, especially with all the book, author, publisher, and reader information already available. Nordmeyer reports on the way in which a self-help group of Chicago-area readers' advisory librarians drew up criteria for public library readers' advisory Web sites, thus saving the rest of us a lot of work.
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Putting the Pieces Together: Using Jane Smiley's \A Thousand Acres\ in Sociology of Families
Addresses the use of fiction to teach undergraduate students about sociological theories and concepts. Discusses how \"A Thousand Acres\" (Jane Smiley) was used in a sociology of families course. Includes descriptions of the plot and themes in the book and the group work and paper assigned in conjunction with Smiley's novel. (CMK)
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