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Evaluation of a hybrid peer-teaching method for undergraduate medical microbiology
Background Microbiology in undergraduate medical education has been traditionally taught through didactic lectures. However, alternative educational strategies such as case-based learning and peer-teaching can be effective...
Embracing Polyphony
Lori F. Clarke
Dec 20, 2016
This paper theorizes at the intersection of practices of improvisation and the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) approach—two ways of being with others that embrace polyphonic identity, democratic participation, and polyculture. The...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Reviewing the Ethics and Philosophy Behind Social Media's Crowdsourced Panopticon
Amanda Furiasse
Jan 01, 2022
Philosopher Jeremy Weissman theorizes a new approach to social media surveillance by utilizing a familiar theoretical model: the Panopticon. In effect, Weissman argues that social media has transformed ordinary people into...
Published by: IGI Global
FROM SHOE-CROPS TO MOSQUITO HAWKS
Sandra Clarke
Apr 24, 2014
NEWFOUNDLAND ENGLISH IS WITHOUT DOUBT the best-described of any variety of Canadian English. Yet though this observation may be true for the island portion of the province, research into the English spoken in Labrador has lagged...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
VOICES OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
Sandra Clarke
Sep 21, 2015
This paper reports on the history and progress of Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador, a website that will build and expand upon work initiated by affiliates of the English Language Research Centre in 1999. Voices is intended as...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Brought, Sought, and Taught
Skillification is a powerful concept that can drive better outcomes for students, employers, and institutions of higher education (IHEs). Successful use, however, requires IHEs to adopt a systems thinking mindset more than...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
On Trampled Ground
Amanda Warner
Mar 24, 2021
In her work, Rossiter (2011) considered the violence inherent in representation and called for a critical social work that is committed to an unsettled practice. In following Rossiter’s call to action , this article works to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of Eric L. Jenkins, Free to Say No? Free Will and Augustine’s Evolving Doctrines of Grace and Election (Cambridge
Seamus O'Neill
Mar 23, 2016
Eric Jenkins’ Free to Say No? Free Will and Augustine’s Evolving Doctrines of Grace and Election is a relatively concise and highly readable investigation into Augustine’s changing position on the freedom of the will and various...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
UPDATE ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTRE
This is an update on the activities of the English Language Research Centre, Memorial University.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
STOP AND GO (AWAY)
TO UNDERSTAND THE LINGUISTIC CLIMATE of Newfoundland, one must look not only at the linguistic variation that exists among Newfoundland speakers, but also at what underlies and drives this variation. It is clear that social...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Civic Value of National Service
Research from one large public university highlights that on average, of the 10,000 students who graduate, 650 students, or 8% of participating graduates, indicate ‘volunteering' or ‘taking time off' as their immediate next step...
Published by: IGI Global
Ekphrastic Inquiry into the Neolithic Mind in the Islands of Scotland and Wales
Amanda Nicole Gulla
Apr 09, 2021
In a world of schooling that is increasingly driven by the measurable and quantifiable, poetry provides a rare experience of the ineffable. While there are indeed many other things teachers need to learn besides the reading and...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Navigating the Brick Wall
For newcomer students, inequities exacerbated by COVID-19, including racism, unfold within their educational landscapes. School settlement workers perform a critical role in newcomer students’ educational trajectories. COVID-19...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mapping Out Indigenous and Racialized Critical Community-Based Perspectives and Experiences in the Time of COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many implications for the lives, health, and well-being of Indigenous and racialized queer individuals and communities across the globe. In this article, three queer social workers (two Indigenous...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Impact on alcohol selection and online purchasing of changing the proportion of available non-alcoholic versus alcoholic drinks
Natasha Clarke, Anna K M Blackwell, Jennifer Ferrar, Katie De-loyde, Mark A Pilling, Marcus R Munafò, Theresa M Marteau, Gareth J Hollands
Apr 17, 2023
Background
Increasing the availability of non-alcoholic options is a promising population-level intervention to reduce alcohol consumption, currently unassessed in naturalistic settings. This study in an online retail...
Published by: PLoS Medicine
Exercise improves depression through positive modulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A review based on 100 manuscripts over 20 years.
Monèm Jemni, Rashid Zaman, Frederick Robert Carrick, Neil David Clarke, Michel Marina, Lindsay Bottoms, Jagdeep Singh Matharoo, Roger Ramsbottom, Norman Hoffman, Shad James Groves, Yaodong Gu, Ferman Konukman
Apr 17, 2023
The aim of this review was to explore the relevant neurobiology and the association between peripheral levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and acute and short to long-term exercise regimes, as well as its relation...
Published by: Frontiers in Physiology
Pedagogical Innovation in Higher Education
Bernadette Knewstubb, Jae Major, Sandi Tait-McCutcheon, Robin Averill, Amanda Gilbert, Anita Mortlock, Liz Jones
Jul 01, 2020
Quality teaching in higher education (HE) is gaining increasing international attention and pedagogical innovation is seen as an important construct of quality teaching. The drivers for pedagogical innovation include the need...
Published by: IGI Global
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