Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2013-2014 by Title
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(2013-07-10)Conference description The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers whose interests in the digital economy are positioned at the intersection of social media and the engaged university. Social media ... -
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(2013-07-10)CLA is very excited to launch the program for the 68th CLA National Conference and Trade Show. Outstanding sessions, networking opportunities and more await the attendees in Winnipeg. We look forward to welcoming you. ... -
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(2014-01-16)Chair the Section on Women and Psychology (SWAP) annual business meeting, organize and attend the (SWAP) Executive dinner, organize and Chair the (SWAP) Executive Business breakfast meeting at the 74th Annual Convention ... -
Never too Old for Hope: A Group Education Initiative in Long-term Care
(2014-02-06)This presentation provides an overview of a project in which an innovative curriculum designed to foster hope and make hope more visible in long-term care was implemented. An outline of the curriculum and its implementation ... -
Next Stop Recommender
(2014-01-16)User wandering behaviours may involve many location visits in different order. The research team has proposed an algorithm which can provide users recommendation for their next visit according to the behaviour pattern ... -
A Pastoral or Academic approach to wrath in Thomas of Ireland’s dictionary of quotations, the Manipulus florum (1306)?
(2013-07-09)This paper compares the discussion of anger in Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum (1306) with that found in important reference works for preachers from about the same period. Richard and Mary Rouse’s major study of the ... -
Philosophical Critique and Perceived Practical Irrelevance
(2013-07-09)In a fascinating paper, “Ask the Philosopher,” Dimitrios Dentsoras shows how philosophers were once integrally engaged in society as agents of practical advice on how to govern and indeed on how to live. Over the centuries, ... -
The Platonic and Aristotelian Mimetic Paradigms In Light of Gans and Heidegger
(2014-01-16)There is an inherent tension in the imaginal scene of representation between its mediating, violence-diffusing role and its sublimatory rendering of alternative satisfaction. A clearer understanding of the way this is ... -
Pop culture in the classroom: Inspiring students to take action against intimate partner violence
(2013-07-09)Working with families is fraught with complexity, including dealing with issues such as intimate partner violence. Faculty teaching within a family-newborn course with undergraduate nursing students sought innovative ... -
Preparing Learners for Online Doctoral Study: Readiness App
(2014-02-06)The origins of the doctoral degree can be traced back to guilds in the Middle Ages in Europe. There are now a variety of doctoral degrees such as professional, applied, practitioner, and clinical. Completion routes may be ... -
Program Experiences of Men Completing the Reaching for a Good Life Program
(2014-01-16)This presentation will report the findings of a qualitative investigation into the experiences of thirty-one men completing the Reaching for a Good Life program as well as post-group quantitative measures of executive ... -
Reconstructing History in Vassanji's 'The Magic of Saida'
(2014-01-16)M.G. Vassanji's novel, The Magic of Saida (2012) deals with the return journey of Kamal Punja, a Canadian medical doctor searching for his past in Africa. The novel has two narrators: The first is Kamal who recalls the ... -
Sharpest Knives in the Drawer: Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State
(2013-07-09)The infusion of the petroleum industry into the social and cultural imaginary goes deep in Alberta, where the oil economy and provincial governments have together shaped discourses of prosperity, identity and citizenship ... -
Subaltern Approach and the “Sense” of History in Global Studies
(2014-01-16)In the 1980s, the scope of enquiry of Subaltern Studies was applied as a corrective to the dominant Eurocentric history writing, particularly in the South Asian postcolonial historiography. In its early commitment to social ... -
The ‘success’ of formal diversion programs for youth: Understanding why alternatives to court are so popular among youth and law enforcement.
(2014-01-16)The diversion of young people from the traditional court process has been supported for many years. Much of the research on diversion policies and program has focused exclusively on how diversion programs operate, such ... -
Telling Alberta Workers' Story
(2013-07-09)Alvin Finkel, "Telling Alberta Workers' Story": This paper will deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the Alberta Labour History Institute's efforts to work closely with the union movement in "Project 2012" to tell the ... -
Testing under Pressure
(2014-01-16)“For most of us, testing shares more in common with emergency response than with airplane maintenance. In a perfect world we’d check the torque on every bolt, and leave the runway with 100% certainty every flight. Most ... -
Two School-Based Mental Health Services: One Systemic Approach
(2014-01-16)This presentation focuses on the development, operation, and evolution of two school-based, mental health consultation services operating in private and charter schools in Calgary, AB, Canada. First, I describe the ... -
The utility of portable optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) readers in providing temporal contexts in clastic depositional systems: opportunities in geomorphology
(2014-01-16)The recent development ofa functional portable optically stimulated luminescence (POSL) readers has ushered in new opportunities in geomorphology. Although POSL readers do not necessarily provide absolute ages as in regular ... -
Vorkuta: Three Chapters in the Making of a Working Class
(2014-01-16)In the 1930s, Vorkuta in Siberia emerged as one of the Soviet Union’s principle sources of coal. It was also the principal site of the final horror of Stalin’s extermination of the politicized workers who had raised the ...