Making the Passionate Mind: An Inquiry into Mental Health and Crisis in Education

This dissertation investigates the passionate qualities of emotional life for the challenges they pose to theories of teaching, learning, and mental health in education. While orientations to mental health frequently manifest in the phantasy of mastery over the mind and the body, this dissertation offers an orientation that conceives of the unknown qualities of the mind from the vantage of unconscious life. Drawing on Julia Kristevas study of passion and maladies and Deborah Britzmans theory of education as an emotional situation, the dissertation offers a study of breakdowns in emotional life as a site for investigating the passionate qualities of teaching and learning. This research investigates such moments of breakdown through a study of three figurations: the mad student, the mad group, and the mad teacher. Through each, the research interprets phantasies of mastery, compliance, omnipotence, control, and cure as unconscious responses to narratives of passionate object relating. Methodologically, the investigation makes use of aesthetic objects, namely film, to interpret phantasies that passionately drive meaning-making even as they also threaten this creative work. The research posits the passionate mind as what binds education to its unconscious underside and argues that education may support mental health by allowing both time and space for its symbolization

Concert recording 2016-04-26a

[Track 01]. Il lacerato spirito from Simon Boccanegra / Giuseppe Verdi -- [Track 02]. Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni from La sonnambula / Vincenzo Bellini -- [Track 03]. Non piu andrai from Le Nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [Track 04]. Madamina from Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- [Track 05]. Lamento / Henri Duparc -- [Track 06]. Give me Jesus / anonymous ; arranged by Moses Hogan -- [Track 07]. Ol\u27 Jim / Clara Edwards

Influential Article Review - Exploring Innovation Provisions in Private School Institutions

This paper examines education. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: This study proposes an efficient service delivery system using a blueprinting approach to service innovation in private educational institutions. This case study presents a flow chart based on administration blueprinting of a private preparatory school for college entrance examination, located in South Korea, to streamline process criteria based on administrative procedures for students and their parents. The results of the case study provide useful planning information for successful implementation of service blueprinting in private educational institutions. The study results are expected to help improve customer encounters as the service provider can employ effective processes. The study also sheds light on new operational management strategies for service innovation. By continuously improving information sharing, service encounters are expected to enhance customer satisfaction. The blueprinting technique can streamline the sequence of customer activities in a service process to meet customer expectations and needs. Thus, the approach could help researchers and administrators as certain how they might implement the system to correct failure points to successfully resolve difficulties. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

Internalized Shame as a Moderating Variable for Inhibited Sexual Difficulties in Adult Women Resulting From Childhood Sexual Abuse

An adult female sample of childhood sexual abuse survivors (N=467) were surveyed to determine whether internalized shame moderated the effects of sexual inhibited difficulties. Other variables such as severity, duration, and frequency of sexual abuse, as well as whether physical abuse was also part of their experience, were examined to determine their role in later sexual inhibition. It was predicted that there would be a significant positive relationship between 1) Scores on variables of physical abuse, severity of abuse, frequency of abuse, duration of abuse, identity of the perpetrator and scores on the variable of inhibited sexual difficulties; 2) Scores of internalized shame and scores of inhibited sexual difficulties and 3) Scores on variable of physical abuse, severity of abuse, frequency of abuse, duration of abuse, identity of the perpetrator and scores on the variables of internalized shame. Through Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS, the results indicated a statistically significant positive relationship between severity, frequency and inhibited sexual disturbances but found no direct relationship between physical abuse, the identity of the perpetrator, the duration of the abuse and inhibited sexual disturbances. Results also indicated that shame had a direct positive relationship to inhibited sexual disturbances. The third finding was that physical abuse and severity of abuse had a significant positive relationship with shame which implies that shame is a moderating variable for inhibited sexual disturbances in adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Internalized shame may be an important factor for therapists to consider in helping survivors overcome sexual inhibition as a result of childhood sexual abuse. If a woman develops a shame-prone identity she may be at risk for experiencing inhibition in her sexuality

Concert recording 2016-04-22

[Track 01]. Ombra mai fu from Xerxes / George Frideric Handel -- [Track 02]. Adam and Eve duet from The creation / Joseph Haydn -- [Track 03]. Morire ; Sole e amore ; Salve Regina / Giacomo Puccini -- [Track 04]. Ó mon cher amant from La périchole ; Ah, what a feast ; You are not rich / Jacques Offenbach -- [Track 05]. Spiel auf deiner Geige from Venus in Seide / Robert Stolz -- [Track 06]. Belle nuit, ô nuit d\u27amour from Les contes d\u27Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach -- [Track 07]. O wär ich schon from Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [Track 08]. Orlofsky\u27s aria from Die Fledermaus / Johann Strauss II -- [Track 09]. He\u27s got the whole world in his hands / Moses Hogan -- [Track 10]. This little light of mine / Jacqueline B. Hariston -- [Track 11]. Take my hand, precious lord / Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey

Stress in native grasses under ecologically relevant heat waves

Future increases in the intensity of heat waves (high heat and low water availability) are predicted to be one of the most significant impacts on organisms. Using six native grasses from Eastern Australia, we assessed their capacity to tolerate heat waves with low water availability. We were interested in understanding differential response between native grasses of differing photosynthetic pathways in terms of physiological and some molecular parameters to ecologically relevant summer heat waves that are associated with low rainfall. We used a simulation heatwave event in controlled temperature cabinets and investigated effects of the different treatments on four stress indicators: leaf senescence, leaf water content, photosynthetic efficiency and the relative expression of two heat shock proteins, Hsp70 and smHsp17.6. Leaf senescence was significantly greater under the combined stress treatment, while declines in leaf water content and photosynthetic efficiency were much larger for C3 than C4 plants, particularly under the combined stress treatment. Species showed an increase in expression of Hsp70 associated with heat treatment, rather than drought stress. In contrast Hsp17.6 was only detected in two species, responding to heat rather than drought, although species\u27 responses were variable. Overall, the C3 species were less tolerant than C4 species. Variation in individual plants within species was evident, especially under multiple stresses, and indicates that losses of individual plants may occur during a heat wave associated with this variability in tolerance. Heat waves will impose significant stress on plant communities that would not otherwise occur when heat and drought stress are experienced singly. Using ecologically relevant heat stress is likely to yield better predictability of how native plants will cope under a hotter, drier future

Finding Our Voice: Highly Flexible ED for the HyFlex World

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented changes in our approach to delivering educational development (ED) programming. In this article we discuss how our dual ED centers pivoted during the sudden switch to online learning, highlighting how we overcame challenges such as a small staff, tight timelines, and faculty anxieties. Particularly, we explore how we adapted to the university’s investment in technologically advanced Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) classroom spaces and utilized a multi-pronged team approach to provide effective and timely ED to faculty. By identifying key faculty leaders, identifying multiple sources of data, and using multiple modalities, we supported the faculty in their mission to effectively serve their students during this difficult and stressful time. In pivoting from a triage approach to more tactically focused development, the two ED centers discovered that they could more effectively serve faculty (and by extension students) by shattering the structural silos that had previously defined them and instead working as a unified entity

The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change was established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the health dimensions of the impacts of, and the response to, climate change. The Lancet Countdown tracks 41 indicators across five domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; finance and economics; and public and political engagement. This report is the product of a collaboration of 27 leading academic institutions, the UN, and intergovernmental agencies from every continent. The report draws on world-class expertise from climate scientists, ecologists, mathematicians, geographers, engineers, energy, food, livestock, and transport experts, economists, social and political scientists, public health professionals, and. doctors. The Lancet Countdown’s work builds on decades of research in this field, and was first proposed in the 2015 Lancet Commission on health and climate change,1 which documented the human impacts of climate change and provided ten global recommendations to respond to this public health emergency and secure the public health benefits available (panel 1)

Human Early Life Exposome (HELIX) study: a European population-based exposome cohort

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