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  • Una Antígona para tiempos de supervivencia: lo heroico y lo sucio en Antígona del dramaturgo cubano Yerandy Fleites

    Rojo, Roseli (University of Kansas Libraries, 2023-05-01)
    This essay analyzes Antígona (2008) by Yerandy Fleites to show how the author tackles the current Cuban political situation by rewriting the Sophoclean tragedy. Fleites adjusts the Greek myth to the Cuban context by means of parody and an intertextual dialogue with both Jean Anouilh’s Antígona (1944) and Peruvian poet José Watanabe’s Antígona (2000). The study then unpacks the idea of dirtiness and Fleites’ depiction of the female heroine to demonstrate how the dramatist proposes hybris as the main psychological driver behind the Cuban Antigone (and that, to an extent, of the generation she represents) to suggest possible avenues for sociopolitical change. At the same time, this study considers the interpretations of Fleites’ Antígona that Cuban directors Pedro Franco and Julio César Ramírez respectively brought to the stage in 2013 and 2020. Ramírez’s reading in particular provides an understanding of Antígona in the context of the protests that occurred on November 27, 2020, when intellectuals, writers, and artists demanded that the Cuban Ministry of Culture recognize their rights and their freedom as citizens.
  • The Role of Hyperarousal in PTSD

    Smaka, Lindsey (2024-01-01)
    Hyperarousal is a symptom cluster of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This work examines hyperarousal symptoms through a physiological lens and underscores the utility of this viewpoint in informing treatment and conceptualization of PTSD.
  • Professional development and coaching in the science of reading: Impacts on oral reading fluency in comparison to national norms

    Duffy, Michelle A.; Mazzye, Doreen L.; Storie, Michelle; Lamb, Richard L. (International Journal of Instruction, 2024-01-02)
    The purpose of this 5-year longitudinal study was to examine the rate of growth of oral reading fluency (ORF) scores in response to professional development and coaching related to the Science of Reading (SoR) in one urban public school district in the northeast United States. A non-random sample of all grade 1-5 students (n=434) enrolled in the school over a five-year period was used. Analysis of the growth in ORF scores was conducted using a latent growth curve analysis within a structural equation model framework. This model allowed comparison of growth between the sample and established national norms. Results indicate that across the grades over time, the sample demonstrated significantly greater growth (9%) when compared to the national norms (6%), despite interrupted instruction due to the covid-19 pandemic. These results suggest that repeated Professional Development (PD) and ongoing coaching to implement the SoR can lead to longterm growth in student ORF. The implications support SoR as an effective instructional framework which may mitigate against loss of instructional time in the classroom and serve as a protective factor against school interruptions, especially for at-risk learners.
  • Accelerating Reading Growth in the Wake of the Pandemic: Research and Solutions

    Storie, Michelle; Mazzye, Doreen L; Guilds, Lauren (East Carolina University Neurocognition Science Laboratory, 2023-06-01)
    Data is showing that student reading outcomes have been negatively impacted by the pandemic and corresponding disrupted learning. These findings highlight the need for an acceleration in evidence-based learning to foster stronger reading. The Science of Reading (SoR) provides a solution for effective and efficient pedagogy that is proven to produce significant gains in reading. Educational legislation is shifting to support the use of evidence-based approaches based on the SoR through policy changes including funding, professional development, and certification requirements. Districts are exploring innovative programs, such as 1:1 tutoring utilizing pre-service teachers and summer programming, to try to further accelerate learning gains. We recommend a concerted approach for stakeholders involving legislation, higher education, and districts to ensure that evidence-aligned instruction is being effectively used. Only with a unified approach incorporating all of these elements will we be able to counter the impact that the pandemic has had on the reading ability of our students.
  • Transformative Features of Teacher Residency Programs: A Textual Narrative Synthesis

    Mazzye, Doreen L; Duffy, Michelle; Etopio, Elisabeth (School-University Partnerships: The research journal of the National Association for Professional Development Schools, 2022-01-01)
    Although teacher residency programs (TRPs) are increasing in prevalence, the scholarly literature on these programs has not been systematically synthesized to demonstrate consensus regarding benefits of teacher residency programs for teacher preparation over traditional models. This literature review provides a textual narrative synthesis of empirical research on teacher residencies from 2014-2019 and summarizes features of TRPs, including enhanced mentoring, immersive resident learning, and a transformative third space for teacher preparation. The literature synthesis confirmed that TRPs have the potential to transform teacher preparation and improve upon university-school partnerships to bolster theory-to-practice connections. As TRPs innovated and developed their residency programs, the reflective process was essential.
  • Great Lake Review Spring 2022

    Nirdishtha Raj Sapkota; Emily O'Brien; Christopher Eastman; Cambria Gordon; Kiley Kerns; Lauren Royce; Kaitlin Flint; Alexis Santos; Bryce Levac; Te'Zariah Hazell; et al. (2022)
  • Great Lake Review Fall 2022

    Olivia Murphy; Kiley Kerns; Shania Bumbury; Cambria Gordon; Ally Gero; Kirsten Hirt; Rachel Valente; Matthew Smearing; Lexi Wycoff; Lauren Royce; et al. (2022)
  • Great Lake Review Fall 2021

    Emily O'Brien; Emily O'Brien (2021)
  • Great Lake Review Spring 2021

    Alexandra Borowsky; Emily O'Brien; Rachel Janish; Kaitlyn Stork; Rachel Janish; Marissa Specioso; Soma Mei Sheng Frazier; Mary Kate Moylan; Austin Colotti; Athena Lamicela; et al. (2021)
  • Great Lake Review Fall 2020

    Alexandra Borowsky; Emily O'Brien; Kaitlyn Stork; Rachel Janish; Jessica Sforza; Marissa Specioso; Athena Lamicela; Mary-Katherine Moylan; Chelsee Morris; Austin Colotti; et al. (2020)
  • Great Lake Review Spring 2020

    Alexandra Borowsky; Nirdishtha Raj Sapkota; Emily O'Brien; Emilee Crane; Harrison Mark; Samantha V. Zerbinos; Ishara Aryal; Mary-Katherine Moylan; Chelsee Morris; Douglas Tan; et al. (2020)
  • Great Lake Review Spring 2018

    Kirsten Staller; Kirstin Swartz; Francesca Leparik; Joseph Bandru; Lilly Kiel; Marissa Specioso; Emilee Crane; Evelyn Sokolowski; David Drake; Joseph Sigurdson; et al. (2018)
  • Great Lake Review Fall 2018

    Joey Bandru; Lilly Kiel; Merlin Tiisler; Harrison Mark; Sara Costello; Marissa Specioso; Emilee Crane; Evelyn Sokolowski; David Drake; Peter Humphreys; et al. (2018)
  • Great Lake Review Fall 2017

    Kirsten Staller; Kirstin Swartz; Francesca Leparik; Treasurer Alicia Hughes; Lilly Kiel; Marissa Specioso; Bridget Dinan; Evelyn Sokolowski; Nonfiction Joey Bandru; Morgan O�Grady; et al. (2017)
  • Teacher candidate self-efficacy and ability to teach literacy: A comparison of residency and traditional teacher preparation models

    Mazzye, Doreen L; Duffy, Michelle; Lamb, Richard (University of South Florida Libraries, 2023-07)
    This comparative study explored self-efficacy and ability for scientifically-based literacy instruction between a traditional and residency model of teacher preparation. Pre-/post-survey data was collected using the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy for Literacy Scale. Mentor teachers completed a modified version of the survey on candidates’ abilities. Data were analyzed using paired sample t-tests, independent sample t-tests, and a trend analysis. Results revealed that candidates in the Residency Model held higher levels of self-efficacy for literacy instruction than in the Traditional Model. Mentor teachers rated candidates in the Residency Model as more able to teach literacy than those in the Traditional Model. There was alignment amongst the mentor rating and the resident perception of ability. In the Traditional Model, the mentor and student teacher were not as aligned in their perspectives of student teacher ability to teach literacy. Teacher preparation programs should consider the potential of teacher Residency Models to prepare pre-service teachers for the use of the Science of Reading for teaching literacy.
  • The Beast with Two Backs: Bestiality, Sex Between Men, and Byzantine Theology in the Paenitentiale Theodori

    Wade, Erik (University of California Press, 2020-07-29)
    Today, the comparison of male homosexuality to bestiality is unfortunately too well-known from homophobic polemics. Yet this comparison has a history in the Anglophone world, and it emerged in the early European Middle Ages seemingly not in order to dehumanize men who had sex with men but in order to make bestiality appear serious by comparing it to male-male sexual acts. The eighth-century Paenitentiale Theodori—which collects the judgments of the Byzantine-born Archbishop Theodore—is the earliest extant English text to connect male-male sexual acts with bestiality. This comparison does not occur in the previous penitentials, but, after its appearance in the Paenitentiale, this comparison traveled throughout Western Europe. No scholarship to date examines the global origins of such a comparison. This paper argues that later medieval views of bestiality as perverse and as a serious sexual offense emerged from bestiality’s early comparison to same-sex acts (rather than vice-versa). Prior to the Paenitentiale Theodori, European theologians described bestiality as a minor sin akin to masturbation. Theodore borrowed the comparison of bestiality and male-male sex acts from a Latin mistranslation of the 314 Greek Council of Ancyra and from the Byzantine theologian St. Basil the Great. Since the early penitentials accorded male-male sexual acts some of the most serious penances, the comparison of bestiality to these acts elevated bestiality for the first time in Western Europe to the status of a serious and unnatural sin. Through connection to effeminizing male-male sexual acts, bestiality gained a reputation as a serious, boundary-violating sin in its own right.
  • Body-worn cameras: Technological frames and project abandonment

    Koen, Marthinus C.; Newell, Bryce Clayton; Roberts, Melinda R. (Elsevier BV, 2021-01)
    This case study examines the technological frames of administrators and users regarding the implementation of body-worn cameras at the Pennybridge Police Department, a mid-sized police organization (<300) in the Mid-Western United States. Using semi-structured interviews, a patrol survey, and ride-along observations; we found that different actors based on their hierarchy and function framed body-worn cameras differently over time. Administrators implemented body-cameras to protect officers from frivolous complaints while at the same time holding them accountable for their behavior. Users felt, for the most part, that the technology had become a “gotcha mechanism” as body camera footage was used to placate the public, monitor officer behavior, and charge them with minor infractions. Adding to their frustrations, users felt increasingly dispirited by the technical shortcomings of the cameras and the backend storage system provided by the vendor. At the same time, administrators were vexed by the financial and logistical burden of the program, ultimately leading to project abandonment and a search for a new system. Our findings have important implications for policymakers and future research.
  • The Pennybridge pioneers: understanding internal stakeholder perceptions of body-worn camera implementation

    Koen, Marthinus C.; Newell, Bryce Clayton; Roberts, Melinda R. (Informa UK Limited, 2022-08-22)
    Since body-worn cameras (BWCs) were catapulted into mainstream discourse, they have diffused rapidly across police agencies in the United States. Research followed swiftly, providing a wealth of information about how the police and citizens make sense of these technologies. Moreover, we have learned how these technologies have impacted important policing outcomes, such as citizen complaints and the use of coercive force during citizen encounters. However, despite the growing body of research, very little is known about how police stakeholders make sense of the implementation of BWCs and about their decision-making throughout the implementation process. Therefore, this research examines the decision to implement BWCs in one mid-sized municipal police department in the United States through the lens of Rogers (2003) Diffusion of Innovations theoretical framework. We rely on semi-structured interviews and observations with 17 stakeholders to address this question. Our findings show that BWC technology generally posed little uncertainty for stakeholders in terms of what it could offer conceptually. However, because the agency was an early adopter, decision-makers were confronted with significant uncertainty about practical matters such as the financial and logistical costs of implementing the technology, in addition to policy creation. These findings have important implications for scholars and practitioners.
  • Body-Worn Cameras and Internal Accountability at a Police Agency

    Koen, Marthinus; Mathna, Brooke (Modestum Publishing Ltd, 2019-12-16)
    Existing research on body-worn cameras have primarily focused on certain policing outcomes (e.g., citizen complaints and use-of-force), however, only a handful of research to date has considered how the implementation of body-worn cameras have impacted internal organizational processes at police departments. Using semi-structured interviews, a survey, and ride-along observations, we examined how body-worn cameras impacted the way police officers were held or felt accountable for their behavior. The study was conducted at the Sunnyvale Police Department (pseudonym), a small city agency in the United States that had been using cameras for two and a half years. Particularly, we describe how body-worn cameras impacted accountability at Sunnyvale within different organizational contexts that included reporting, citizen interactions, training, and supervision. Consistent with the hopes of reformers, body-worn cameras did seem to raise the general sense of accountability as they became a part of training, citizen encounters, reporting, and supervision. However, these changes were not like reformers would have imagined, as the department did not intently use cameras in a way to hold officers any more accountable for their conduct and performance on the street.

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