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The Potential of Field Education as Transformative Learning
Sue-Ann MacDonald, Sinthu Srikanthan, Ilyan Ferrer, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Liza Lorenzetti, André-Anne Parent
Oct 28, 2020
Social work field education has reached a crisis point due to the imposition of neoliberal logics in both university and practice settings. As a result, social work programs are faced with challenges such as practicum shortages...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Bio-dispersant produced by a Rhodococcus erythropolis mutant as an oil spill response
Bio-dispersants have been considered as superior alternatives of currently used dispersants as they are generally more biodegradable, less toxic, and better at enhancing biodegradation. However, the application of...
A QCA Crisp Set Study in Matching Cross-Managerial Alignment With ERP Implementation Outcomes
Sheryar Tahirkheli
Jan 01, 2021
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is the most important methodological innovation in management and social science in the last two decades (Fiss et al., 2016). This paper attempts to use this innovative research method to...
Published by: IGI Global
The Rising Veto Power of the Checkbook
This study drew on different streams in the literature to theorize a power shift in favor of parents in the post Covid-19 era. We investigated the impact of parents’ campus site visits on university enrollment decisions by...
Published by: IGI Global
How do we frame singing education and culture?
Sara Clethero
Aug 04, 2017
Cognitive linguist, George Lakoff, in the run-up to the 2004 USA election, wrote a heartfelt plea to progressives to own the “frame”. In an earlier publication, he discussed the metaphor of political discourse. He distinguished...
Published by: The Singing Network
Retention of Regional French Vocabulary
Anne Violin-Wigent
Sep 30, 2014
With the development of mass media and compulsory state education, standardFrench has extended its scope, at the detriment of regional languages and dialects. In this study, I investigate the extent to which regional vocabulary...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Reassessment of weak parent-of-origin expression bias shows it rarely exists outside of known imprinted regions.
Carol A Edwards, William MD Watkinson, Stephanie B Telerman, Lisa C Hulsmann, Russell S Hamilton, Anne C Ferguson-Smith
Apr 12, 2023
My Entire Life is Online
Anne O'Connell
Feb 02, 2016
Research protocols require that informed consent is secured before a project is underway. In the collision of online and offline worlds, researchers continue to offer research participants forms of confidentiality and privacy...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Parent Attitudes Towards the Integration of Digital Learning Games as an Alternative to Traditional Homework
Meital Amzalag
Jul 01, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused children to distance learn at home, but with technical and pedagogic difficulties. Digital learning games offer effective tools for pedagogic difficulties, such as active and relevant learning. Using...
Published by: IGI Global
Reimagining the Audience-Dancer Relationship Through Mobile Augmented Reality
The research and development of an augmented reality (AR) application for Vancouver-based dance company Small Stage challenged a team of students at a graduate digital media program to understand how AR might reinvent the...
Published by: IGI Global
Understanding Knowledge Sharing in an Organization
This paper set out to propose the actor-network theory (ANT) as a lens through which to understand and interpret the sociotechnical knowledge sharing challenges in organisations. The methodology for this study was developed...
Published by: IGI Global
Outdoor Kindergarten
Many educators have come to realize the value of including the outdoor environment in their pedagogy and curricula. This article aims to contribute to the growing field of research on how children may learn through emergent...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Birgejupmi – Life Skills, the Sámi Approach to Inclusion and Adapted Education
This essay explores the Sámi approach to inclusion and adapted education through references to theory about Sámi culture and values concerning child rearing (Balto & Kuhmunen, 2014; Aikio, 2010; Balto, 1997). There are also...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Handling Data Scarcity Through Data Augmentation in Training of Deep Neural Networks for 3D Data Processing
Due to the availability of cheap 3D sensors such as Kinect and LiDAR, the use of 3D data in various domains such as manufacturing, healthcare, and retail to achieve operational safety, improved outcomes, and enhanced customer...
Published by: IGI Global
A Deep Learning-Based Approach to Classification of Baby Sign Language Images
Baby Sign Language is used by hearing parents to hearing infants as a preverbal communication which reduce frustration of parents and accelerated learning in babies, increases parent-child bonding, and lets babies communicate...
Computer Vision & Image Processing Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence
Published by: IGI Global
Review of Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor (eds.), Carnal Hermeneutics, New York
Samuel R. R. Underwood
Jan 04, 2019
Carnal Hermeneutics is a collection of essays published in 2015 in the “Perspectives in Continental Philosophy” series by Fordham University Press. The contributors fall into two categories: established French philosophers...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
Joanna Ruth Fox
Jun 23, 2015
I reflect on how lived experiences that are derived from service user expert knowledge have the potential to confront stigmatization, which is encountered widely by people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The implications...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Why Didn’t Our Boys Just Shoot Him and Leave a Little Note?”
Katie Anne Cranford
Aug 22, 2017
Historically speaking, the trial of former Nazi Adolf Eichmann was an unavoidable spectacle of the 1960s. For some, it could have been seen as a farce due to its inherent impartiality as the accused was illegally kidnapped out...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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