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Live music performance provides a source of income and opportunities for musicians to develop creative and performance skills as well as engage with peers. The Australian live music sector, however, was shuttered as part of the public health measures enacted during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on findings from a multi-year national study into the portfolio careers of Australian musicians (2016–2019), this article reports findings related to live music performance and considers them in relation to the sector’s shuttering. It argues for the consideration of the role and nuance of performance as we re-emerge in a post-pandemic world so that the diversity of formats and opportunities are sustained.
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This paper examines and critiques top-down institutional EDI policies and plans from Canadian academic libraries. Using David James Hudson’s critique of how the diversity model overemphasizes representation over meaningful action, this paper explores how the EDI plans and policies at Canadian academic libraries facilitate the exchange of racial capital, thereby reducing racialized identities to currency. To explore pathways forward, I conducted a thematic analysis of EDI plans and policies from all Canadian academic libraries. This thematic analysis informs strategies for how people within Canadian academic institutions can move beyond the diversity model to recentre meaningful and effective equity work. The paper closes with a call towards embedded EDI practices informed by Indigenous concepts of decolonial indigenization and relationality.
Keywords: academic libraries, bibliothèques universitaires, capital humain, equity, diversity, capital racial, équité, and inclusion, human capital, diversité et inclusion, neoliberalism, néolibéralisme, racial capital
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This paper examines how university policies are written to regulate the conduct of academics on social media, particularly the extent to which academics are discouraged from acting as public intellectuals on social media. Drawing on Michel Foucault, we analyze the social media guidelines developed by Canada’s 15 research-intensive universities, known as the U15. Our analysis illuminates that the guidelines articulate particular power relations between academics and their universities – relations that are increasingly influenced by the corporatization of higher education in the era of neoliberalism. We argue that social media guidelines represent emblematic discourses that discipline academics working in highly corporatized universities. Faculty may thus be less inclined to act as public intellectuals.
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Digital storytelling is a narrative technique that combines audio, video and animation elements. It can be used to provide opportunities for the promotion of cultural understanding in the university language classroom. In this study, pedagogy that combines digital storytelling techniques and computational technologies are explored, as part of language studies that can allow instructors to create an intercultural experience. The outcomes of an undergraduate learning exercise have been evaluated, along with this researcher’s experience as an instructor who used digital storytelling in a French-as-a-second-language classroom, and includes these students’ solicited feedback. In this case study, a group of students conducted internet research to explore the online cultural diversity and cultural differences of Francophone culture. They then created digital stories to represent this diversity. The findings have been analysed to evaluate the potential place of inclusivity and diversity tools in French-as-a-second-language learning, and to share the potential of this practical pedagogy approach for other university educators.
Keywords: Diversity, Language, Digital Storytelling
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There is a scarcity of research that documents the use of technology-based educational counseling services specifically targeting students. This study’s aim is to compile and conduct a comprehensive review of the literature on the efficacy of technology in enhancing educational counseling services. Searches were conducted using the Publish or Perish (PoP) method throughout, along with Scopus, Crossref, PubMed, ACA, Web of Science, Springer, Emerald, as well as the Taylor and Francis databases. Data gathering was done in October and November 2023. The evaluation included a total of 19 papers, and the results indicated that technology has been proven to improve educational counseling services, where it is used in mental health that is dominated by MHAs, mobile well-being apps, mHEALTH, SMS, FER, and mindfulness apps. Computer-assisted and CD-ROM tools are used in personal counseling, while CAI is used in providing learning counseling. Social counseling used two technologies: a safety decision-aid smartphone app and a virtual message app. Counseling for learning was used with CAI, MCO, and video modeling. Career counseling employed a mobile-based career counseling app along with career counseling websites. The investigation included the countries of Indonesia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Türkiye (Turkey), the Philippines, and Iran.
Keywords: Technology, Counseling Services
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Cute videos are everywhere online. Many of these videos increasingly come from footage taken by doorbell cameras. Amazon’s Ring, and related connected camera devices, introduce new sociotechnical relations into domestic environments. First, I outline “squeeveillance” as the affective and performative dimensions of cuteness within surveillance. I explore the Ring surveillant assemblage and why it needs the power of cuteness. Then, I examine squeeveillance as the use of cuteness in the way Ring operates. I use the TV show Ring Nation (2022–present) to discuss the remediation of cute footage from doorbell cameras onto other media, before discussing the ways in which cuteness is performed as a normalisation of surveillance power. The article draws on theories of cuteness in conjunction with surveillance studies of power relations. In presenting squeeveillance as a lens through which to assess the expanding scope of Ring, I offer a discussion of the interconnected role of surveillance in contemporary domestic and media settings and its relation to current forms of power in surveillant assemblages.
Keywords: surveillant assemblages, cuteness, Ring, doorbell cameras, performativity, cute videos
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Background: Medical school involves high expectations of medical students, which may increase their risk for burnout. Physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) are modifiable risk factors for burnout. However, medical students are insufficiently taught about PA and SB and may therefore be less likely to meet guideline-recommended levels of these two movement behaviours or promote them in practice. Few studies have examined the relationships between medical students’ PA intensity, SB, and burnout; such examination could help clarify educational needs for improving levels of movement behaviours and their promotion.Purpose: This study investigated (1) the relationships between light, moderate, vigorous, and total PA, SB, and burnout among medical students, and (2) moderate-to-vigorous PA as a moderator of the relationship between SB and burnout, to guide future curriculum renewal.Methods: Medical students (N = 129) at two Canadian institutions completed online validated questionnaires assessing light, moderate, vigorous, and total PA, SB, and burnout.Results: Regression analyses indicated that light PA (β = -.191, p = .039) and SB (β=-.230, p = .013) were negatively associated with burnout. Moderate-to-vigorous PA did not significantly moderate the relationship between SB and burnout.Conclusions: Engaging in lighter forms of PA and SB within guideline recommendations may help mitigate medical student burnout. Competencies to promote movement behaviours may dually target medical student burnout and curriculum gaps.
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This article describes the Awikhiganisaskak project, a collaboration between the Abenaki nation, one of the eleven Aboriginal nations of Quebec, and a number of researchers associated with the Université de Sherbrooke. Intended as an initiative to enhance the documentation of Aboriginal languages and cultures, the first phase of the project focused on the Abenaki language, a member of the Algonquian linguistic family. Faced with the rapid decline of native languages over the course of the 20th century, Abenaki being no exception, various preservation initiatives have been attempted by the nation, mainly through the teaching of the language. The project presented here focuses on the collection and processing of written and oral documentation related to the language. Two examples of the work carried out by the Awikhiganisaskak project are discussed in the article: firstly, the study of the translation into French-Abenaki of an English-Abenaki work entitled New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, by Joseph Laurent (1884) and the creation of an audio recording of the work read by speakers of the language; secondly, the study of the transcription, translation into English and oral recording of Joseph Aubéry's French-Abenaki dictionary (1715) by Étienne (Stephen) Laurent, son of Joseph Laurent. Finally, one of the project's research interests focuses on translation from and into native languages, and attempts to document the many facets of the phenomenon.
Keywords: Abenakis, Abénakis, indigenous language, langue autochtone, indigenous translation, traduction autochtone, archives, archives, Awikhiganisaskak project, projet Awikhiganisaskak
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This article aims to describe home-based childcare providers’ conceptions of quality interactions. Based on a meaning-making approach, participants’ conceptions were collected through semi-structured interviews and then analyzed through a cultural lens. The conceptions were also compared to the domains and dimensions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System Toddler, a standardized instrument designed to measure the quality of interactions as a normative concept in childcare centers. The results show that there are mainly differences in the conceptions regarding interactions as experienced in home-based childcare and in childcare centers. A diversity of languages is necessary to consider the distinct cultural context of home-based childcare.
Keywords: Quality of interactions, Qualité des interactions, Childcare, Service de garde en milieu familial, Service de garde en installation, Home-based childcare, Approche normative, Childcare center, Faire sens, Conceptions, Normative approach, Analyse culturelle, Meaning making approach, Classroom Assessment Scoring System, Conceptions, Cultural analysis, Classroom Assessment Scoring System, Contexte éducatif
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This article examines first-year students’ use and perception of a chatbot in higher education in Belgium. With education now being accessible to most people, pedagogical adaptations are becoming necessary in modern universities. As digital tools, chatbots offer an opportunity to diversify access to educational content, offering a possible solution to the challenge of providing quality education for all. The study addresses two research questions. How do students (N=89) perceive the use of chatbots as course tutors? What is its role according to Bernatchez’s typology (2003)? The results, in line with other studies, reveal a positive evaluation in terms of effectiveness, usability, acceptability and user experience, although lower scores were observed for motivation and behaviour. The analysis shows the students’ preference for pedagogical-cognitive support from the chatbot rather than technical support. These results are in line with other studies, highlighting the effective use of chatbots in education, with few irrelevant interactions. In conclusion, the study highlights the effectiveness and acceptability of chatbots as tutors and suggests ways in which they can be integrated into personalised learning paths.
Keywords: chatbot, chatbot, chatbot, chatbot, tuteur, tutor, tutor, tutor, perceções, percepciones, perceptions, perceptions, usos, uses, usages, utilizações, robot conversationnel