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Archives often preserve materials that reinforce privileged identities and marginalize LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled communities. Furthermore, there is only limited theoretical work addressing how to ethically document intersectional identities, especially the dual embodiments of Asianness and queerness. Inspired by K.J. Rawson’s theorizing of accessing transgender//desiring queer archival logics, we employ critical case studies to analyze how Asian/queer//queer/Asian identities are represented in archival collections. Our study finds that Asian/queer//queer/Asian theory offers a new lens and new tools to combat archival erasure and misrepresentation resulting from heteronormativity, white supremacy, and cisgender misogyny. This article develops three critical case studies focusing on the white queer gaze toward Asian queer bodies in archives, the disidentification of Asian/queer//queer/Asian identities within archival records, and the use of archival speculation to explore Asian/queer//queer/Asian identities. This work makes both practical and theoretical contributions. Practically, we advocate for proactive archival practices that better represent such identities, avoiding essentialist representations. We also highlight the importance of embodied knowledge and the positionality of scholars and practitioners whose lived experiences centre Asian queer identities along with approaches like revisiting collections, creating reparative descriptions, and reading against the archival grain. Theoretically, we argue for archival speculation as a legitimate mode of inquiry and a process of knowledge production, positioning archives as sites that encourage disidentification.

The Four R principles (4Rs) of respect, responsibility, relevance, and reciprocity were developed in the field of education by Kirkness and Barnhardt and have guided respectful approaches in research. Our purpose was to adapt the 4Rs for storytelling methods in Indigenous health research and identify associated exemplary research practices. Indigenous team members drew on their traditional Cree and Anishinaabemowin languages to formulate revised 4R definitions tailored to storytelling in health research and our location on Turtle Island, Treaty One territory. We used this adapted 4R framework to identify and analyze patterns of exemplary practices in studies (N=178) using storytelling methods. Our findings can guide respectful storytelling research to meaningfully incorporate Indigenous perspectives for the well-being and benefit of Indigenous communities.

Keywords: Four Rs, Indigenous Health Research, Decolinizing health research, Storytelling and health, the 4 Rs

Homelessness and inadequate housing affect approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide. Despite making up a fraction of the population, people experiencing homelessness (PEH) have higher rates of physical and mental health complications compared to the rest of the population with increased barriers to accessing necessary health care services. Therefore, this comparative policy analysis explores healthcare access for PEH and how this differs in low-, middle-, and high-income countries using the representative countries of Rwanda, Colombia, and Canada respectively. Comparisons and contrasts were made by analyzing the homelessness situation and the healthcare access barriers for PEH in each of these nations. Analysis was conducted using a combination of scientific and grey literature to understand each country’s experiences and the Voluntary National Review (VNR) reports to understand governmental perspectives. Through analysis, it became evident that the challenges PEH face regarding healthcare access are similar across countries. However, legal regulations and attitudes by the public and governmental bodies influence specific situational treatments and what is being done to combat these barriers, creating differences in PEH’s experiences.

Keywords: homelessness, healthcare access, social determinants of health, policy analysis

Among child care policymakers, government officials, and providers alike, there is growing interest in mitigating the impacts of adversity and trauma in children’s early years. While emerging literature examines the prevalence and impacts of traumatic events on the lives of children and families, a focus on trauma-informed approaches within the early learning and child care sector remains nascent. This scoping review examines the current state of knowledge in peer-reviewed and grey literature on trauma-informed approaches in the early learning and child care sector in Canada. Critical analysis of the findings highlights a concerning gap in the empirical evidence on trauma-informed approaches, obscure and individualistic understandings of trauma, and considerable variance in how trauma-informed approaches are implemented. We call for explicit shifts toward understanding trauma as inclusive of interpersonal and structural forms of trauma and violence and a broader scope of “trauma- and violence-informed child care” (TVICC).

Keywords: early childhood education, trauma- and violence-informed care, cultural safety, structural violence, adverse childhood experiences, decolonial analysis

What does it mean to cite generative AI (GenAI) tools—both in an instrumental, information retrieval sense, and in a symbolic sense that has more to do with recognition? What does it mean that GenAI tools are also able to produce plausible-looking yet false citations? This theoretical article critically explores the possibility of citational justice in the GenAI era through an analysis of two sets of examples: (1) the existing citation guidance to GenAI output as articulated by the major style guides, and (2) the issue of “hallucinated” (or fabricated) citations produced by GenAI large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT. Using ideas from Robert K. Merton, Eugene Garfield, Emily M. Bender, Robert J. Connors, and Sam Popowich, I argue that GenAI, across both sets of examples, is antithetical to citational justice. In the first set of examples, I make the case that the human authors and their works, the real source of GenAI tools’ textual output, have been “obliterated”—a term that I borrow from Merton—as part of LLM training. This renders the official style guides’ recommendations for how to cite GenAI tools—particularly APA’s guidance—deeply inadequate. In the second set of examples, I see the fabricated citations produced by GenAI as antithetical to citational justice because they decentre the human. Crucially, though, these fabricated citations are actually perfectly suited to the irrelational context of contemporary higher education transformed by neoliberalism, where commodified student outputs are made to stand as evidence of students’ internal transformation. As a closing gesture, I contend that the issues brought to the fore by GenAI and citation could present a pedagogical opportunity to radically reconceive of library instruction, focusing it on the importance of attribution and relationality in academic work if we so chose, and I offer some questions to guide that reimagined pedagogy.

Keywords: generative artificial intelligence, GenAI, large language models, ChatGPT, citational justice, hallucination, citation styles, APA, MLA, Chicago

Criminal recidivism among adolescents who have a history of sexual offending (ASO) represents a contentious subject. Recent studies suggest that their rates of sexual recidivism are in decline, which contrasts with the perception of the public, policymakers, and professionals in terms of the risk this population present. This raises questions regarding the response from the juvenile justice system, which tends to rely on the assumption that all ASO are at risk to become adult sexual offenders. The current study consists of a meta-analysis aiming at determining rates of general and sexual recidivism of ASO while using data from international studies between 1940 and 2019 (k = 158). Results show that the risk of general recidivism has been declining in recent years, whereas the risk of sexual recidivism has remained low since the onset of this line of research. These observations suggest that using community protection strategies developed for adults to intervene with ASO is not appropriate. Not only sexual recidivism among ASO represents a rare phenomenon, these strategies are also not adapted to meet the general criminogenic needs of this population of adolescents.

Keywords: adolescence, adolescence, meta-analysis, recherche longitudinale, méta-analyse, longitudinal research, délinquance sexuelle, recidivism, récidive, sexual offending

Human resources and employment are issues related to achieving two of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDGs 4 and 8, which focus on sustainable education and decent work, respectively. The purpose of this study is to create contextual stimulation that can address various learning barriers in accounting subjects. The implementation of this index-card match model aims to foster group cooperation, mutual appreciation, and learning correction. This research employs a statistical method, specifically a combination of the paired T-test and the 4-D Thiagarajan model. The instrument for collecting research data utilizes an open questionnaire validated through expert review. The research results indicate that, overall, students exhibit high motivation towards the accounting material studied in class when using contextual index-card matching, and that there is a significant difference between using a card-match index and not using one. The findings reveal that learning through the index-card match-type active learning method positively affects learning activities and achievement compared with the talking stick method. This suggests that the index-card match-type active learning model offers students opportunities to improve their learning outcomes.

Keywords: Index Card Match, SDG, Media

Documenting Indigenous patient voices through safe and culturally appropriate patient-reported outcome (PROMs) and experience measures (PREMs) is essential for monitoring impacts of health care programming and policies. We explored the literature in order to understand the current landscape of PROMs and PREMs that have been developed for and with Indigenous Peoples in Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand. From our exploration a number of key themes regarding the development of PROMs and PREMs emerged including, applying a wholistic perspective, a relational framework with an emphasis on the role of the family, ensuring cultural fit (reflecting a resilience, strength-based and cultural approach to health), being sensitive to the ethics of survey tools, and ensuring decolonizing approaches in their development. In addition, the scarcity and the need for developing Indigenous-specific PREMs are highlighted.

Keywords: patient-reported outcome measures, patient-reported experience measures, scoping review, PROMs, PREMs, cultural safety, measurement tools, Indigenous healthcare

This annotated bibliography responds to and contextualizes the growing ‘Open' movements and recent institutional reorientation towards social, public-facing scholarship. The aim of this document is to present a working definition of open social scholarship through the aggregation and summation of critical resources in the field. Our work surveys foundational publications, innovative research projects, and global organizations that enact the theories and practices of open social scholarship. The bibliography builds on the knowledge creation principles outlined in previous research by broadening the focus beyond conventional academic spaces and reinvigorating central, defining themes with recently published research.

Keywords: community, open, scholarship, social, technology