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This article draws on my connection with sewing threads, and explores how the 2020 Massive Microscopic Sensemaking (MMS) online challenge contributed to an emergent entanglement of timespacemattering related to COVID-19, teaching and researching medical learning in obstetrics, and thinking further with my PhD. It explores affirmative processes enacted during times of anxiety, when my thoughts needled through in-between spaces with different times and materials that were generative and productive. I explain my rhizomatic movements that bleed through conventional separations and boundary-making assumptions. I draw on Karen Barad’s agential realism to theorize the emergence of creative relationalities with artful artifacts enacted with medical undergraduate students, with participants in the MMS project, and with my own PhD during times of tension.
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Keywords: cinéma autochtone, recherche collaborative, savoirs autochtones, colloque international, Montréal, Kahnawake
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From the viewpoint of information and communication sciences and in line with the sociocritical approach proposing to analyze digital uses in education with regard to their sociocultural contexts of production (Collin et al., 2015; Denouël, 2019), this study raises the question of the reality of the teacher’s empowerment with the available sociotechnical devices and what the specific episode of “emergency distance education” (Bozkurt et al., 2020) linked to the COVID-19 pandemic reveals. This study involved identifying the technical objects actually used for teaching purposes. We question the pedagogical possibilities associated with these devices: what do they actually allow teachers to do, and what don’t they allow them to do, from the point of view of their pedagogical intentions? This study is based on 50 individual semi-directive interviews with elementary school teachers in France, recently equipped by the Ministry of Education. Our results underline the strong technical materiality of the teaching work, both in class and at home, as well as the tendency of our participants to hypertrophy the potentialities of digital devices (in the sense of benefits for learning as well as dangers for children) to the detriment of their own pedagogical creativity.
Keywords: empowerment, pouvoir d’agir, elementary school, école élémentaire, teacher, enseignant, digital education, numérique, pandemic, crise sanitaire
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Introduction: To provide competent care to patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual developmental disorder (IDD), healthcare professionals must recognize the needs of neurodivergent populations and adapt their clinical approach. We assessed the perceived preparedness of medical students to adapt care delivery for patients with ASD/IDD, as well as their perceptions on neurodiversity education.Methods: We conducted a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study on undergraduate medical students at McGill University during the academic year 2020-2021. We administered an online survey, followed by semi-structured interviews. We analyzed data using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. We integrated findings at the interpretation level.Results: We included two-hundred-ten survey responses (~29% of class), and 12 interviews. Few students felt prepared to adjust care for patients with ASD/IDD despite most indicating doing so was important. Ninety-seven percent desired more training regarding care accommodation for neurodivergent patients. Thematic analysis unveiled the perception of current insufficient education, and the value of experiential learning.Discussion/Conclusions: This study highlights low perceived preparedness of medical students to accommodate care for neurodivergent patients, and a desire for more instruction. Incorporating interactive training in medical school curricula regarding modifying care delivery for neurodivergent individuals may improve the perceived preparedness of medical trainees to work with these patients and care quality.
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Learners who learn from OER often cannot have their learning assessed or receive a credential. Open credentials offer a potential solution to this problem, combining badges or micro-credentials with competence frameworks and digital seals. This study identified the current situation of open credentials in post-secondary education in Europe, the main themes of the discourse, and the points of agreement and divergence surrounding them. The data comprised a corpus of transcriptions from 12 expert interviews and a focus group. Qualitative text analysis identified the principal themes. Findings included the following: (a) few assessments are available as open content; (b) linking OER and credentials requires detailed and expensive work on learning outcomes and assessment; (c) the aggregation of open credentials to create higher-level qualifications is a widely accepted ambition; (d) the European Union’s infrastructure to support open credentials is appropriate and effective and can foster trust; (e) the outstanding challenges are organisational and practical, not technological; (f) assessment and content provisions should belong to separate organisational functions; and finally, (g) funding and support for open credentials in professional accreditation are essential for further progress.
Keywords: OER, assessment, micro-credentials, badges, competence, specifications, infrastructure, business model
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Stories provide listeners or readers a doorway to understand the storyteller’s context and live in the telling. We, as Māori Indigenous scholars (doctoral students, researchers, and academics), bring together our stories, in the forms of creative nonfiction and poetry located in Aotearoa New Zealand and Te Whenua Moemoeā Australia, to tell the ways we navigate colonial spaces while also imagining our desired future. Centring Indigenous storytelling methods and sensory ethnography, we bring together the interrelatedness that situates our stories across time and place. The next wave of Indigenous researchers will be stepping into these spaces that we now walk, so it is timely and crucial that we find creative ways to provide clearer direction for them. We tell our stories in this paper as an act of hope that our stories might spark a fire in the reader’s heart to also tell theirs.
Keywords: Indigenous, storytelling, storying, storywork, poetry, sensory ethnography, academia
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Objective – Following a rapid increase in student population over a five-year period, Cape Breton University leased additional teaching space from a nearby cinema chain but did not account for students’ library needs. The local nature of the venue, combined with issues in transit to the main campus, created “local-distance” students. These students were surveyed on awareness and use of library resources and services to inform future services.Methods – Students whose classes were primarily located at the cinema chain were engaged in an anonymous survey regarding their knowledge and use of library services. These data were then analyzed for common themes and recommendations.Results – There were notable gaps in student knowledge and use of library resources and services, perhaps owing to the primary source of information regarding these – namely, friends, professors, and the website. The need for further outreach and onsite library workers was highlighted, as was the importance of library as space.Conclusion – While the library handled the new venue as well as possible, it is crucial for administrators involved in change management to remember that student learning involves more than individuals in a classroom seat.
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The prevalence of post-COVID telework requires a study of its various aspects, particularly the relational ones, and their impacts on teleworkers. It is thought that teleworking impoverishes both formal and informal exchanges at the expense of the workers’ wellbeing (Ruiller et al., 2017). This study of telework post-COVID investigates the link between the quality of relationships with colleagues and supervisors and psychological well-being at work, as well as the moderating effects of job seniority and the number of teleworking days per week. The study, using a self-reported questionnaire, was conducted with 123 workers who telework at least one day a week. The following were questioned: the quality of relationships with colleagues (TMX; Seers et al., 1995), the quality of relationships with superiors (LMX-MDM; Liden et Maslyn, 1998) and psychological well-being while teleworking (PWB; Dagenais-Desmarais, 2010), as well as the number of teleworking days per week, and the number of years of professional experience. Results from moderations showed that the higher the quality of relationships with co-workers and the supervisor during teleworking days, the more workers thrived, felt competent, and had a willingness to commit, especially when the number of days teleworked was high. The results suggest, among other things, that offering intensive teleworking would only make sense if relationships with co-workers and the supervisor remain of good quality during the teleworking periods
Keywords: Bien-être psychologique, Psychological well-being, Télétravail, Telework, Travail hybride, Hybrid work, LMX, LMX, TMX, TMX
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This study examines how Spanish author Gabriela Ybarra and Colombian Héctor Abad Faciolince tackle the parallel deaths of family members due to cancer and to the violence of armed conflict in their autobiographical novels El comensal (Spain, 2015) and El olvido que seremos (Colombia, 2006), respectively. Looking beyond the trope of cancer as metaphor, Ybarra and Abad Faciolince employ medical language to articulate the intergenerational mysteries surrounding instances of untimely death within their families. Cancer, thus, moves beyond a metaphor for violence and destruction, becoming a mode of representation for studying and articulating the unknown.
Keywords: cáncer, cancer, memoria, memory, conflicto armado, armed conflict, familia, family, cuerpo, body