Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2013-2014 by Title
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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 ... -
Working Anytime Anywhere: Mobile Knowledge Workers
(2014-01-16)Recent advances in mobile technologies and the popular use of mobile devices in our daily lives suggest that knowledge worker can now work from anywhere at any time, or while on the move. Is this true? Research suggests ... -
World and Nation in Humanitarian Writing
(2013-07-09)In spite of the imperialist spectre that continues to haunt the environment of cosmopolitanism, the desire to locate a “genuine” strand of human interconnection beyond neo-liberal defenses of globalization and official ... -
Writing for Publication and Nurse Practitioners Readiness for Practice
(2014-01-16)Writing for Publication: Debbie Fraser An integral component of furthering nursing knowledge, scholarly writing is a part of any advanced practice nursing role. Too often however, as busy professionals we find reasons to ...