Academic and Professional Development Fund (APDF) Awards: Recent submissions
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More than Workers, Less than Bosses: Participatory Organizing in Five Buenos Aires Worker Coops
(2010-06-23)It’s impossible to understand how to organize cooperatively without focusing on ‘sexual difference’, the French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s category for what has not yet been thought within our symbolic structures, but ... -
Remembering our Future: A Practitioner’s Perspective on the ‘Crisis’ in Cultural Studies”
(2010-06-23)I teach in something called an open university. Probably this would not be possible were it not for the ground-breaking work of the early practitioners of British Cultural Studies. From its inception, cultural studies was ... -
Harvestmen of Canada
(2010-06-23)Harvestmen are the third largest Order of Arachnida. Biological information, other than morphology used for taxonomy, is very limited. Canada has at least 43 species, mostly Euponi (Caddidae 3, Phalangiidae 12, Sclerosomatidae ... -
1) Singing the Unspeakable: from ‘Sheath and Knife’ to ‘O Bondage, Up Yours! and 2) Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folksong Revival, 1889-1904
(2010-06-23)1) In their desire to shock their listeners, the British punk bands of the mid-late 1970s delighted in performing lyrics that extolled mob violence and sexual deviance. The Sex Pistols, the Clash, X-Ray Spex and Wire (among ... -
Cultural vs. Social Theory
(2010-06-23)This paper will explore the need for a distinctive methodological approach to interdisciplinary inquiry in the cultural as distinct from the social sphere. The challenge of multidisciplinary research within a complex nexus ... -
1) Historicizing Discourses of Individualism in Alberta, Canada and 2) Discourses of Youth and Sexuality in the Province of the ‘Severely Normal’: Alberta in the 1990’s
(2010-06-23)1) Historicizing Discourses of Individualism in Alberta, Canada Discourses of individualism dominate popular narratives of Alberta identity and identification. One enduring story is of Albertans as rugged pioneers ... -
Social Justice and Career Development Practices
(2010-06-23)Through attending this workshop, participants will gain knowledge about the concept of social justice, how this concept is connected to cultural diversity and systemic influences on career development, and how career ... -
Universalism as Production of the Same: St. Paul’s Path Through Law to Love
(2010-06-23)According to Giorgio Agamben, it is only through the lens of Walter Benjamin's "Messianic Marxism” that the truly revolutionary message of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans becomes apparent. In his The Time That Remains: A ... -
Attended
(2010-06-23)Canadian Association of University Business Officials annual conference. I have recently taken on the position of Administrative Officer for the MAIS program and, as such, this is my relevent Canadian professional ... -
Expanding Role for a Distance Education Lab Management System: Athabasca University Experience with Reagents Database
(2010-06-23)Ongoing research and development of a distance education lab management system has revealed new and unexpected potential. After teaching science labs in a print based mode for the past thirty plus years, the transition ... -
Attended
(2010-06-23)AU Library is currently implementing ERM as part of our Library system. Attendance and moderating the roundtable will help me know what is going on in other places and enable me to make changes in our system as ... -
Attended
(2010-06-23)My level of involvement include attending pre-forum workshops as listed above where those institutional and enrolment management topics would be taught, conference sessions where papers on the above-listed topics would be ... -
The Heart of the Matter: Connecting with Clients on Antidepressants
(2010-06-23)This presentation is specifically intended for all counselors, in all practice setting, that work with depressed clients who take antidepressant medication or are potential candidates for this type of medication. However, ... -
Toward a Cree Understanding of Colonialism: A Teaching Model
(2010-06-23)It is a common truth that in order to understand were we are at today we need to understand how we got here—we need to understand our history. More than ever our youth need the understanding and empowerment that comes from ... -
An Intelligent System for Generating and Managing FAQs in Online Education
(2010-06-23)With the development of the Web, online course delivery is gaining its popularity everyday. But no matter how courses delivered, there is one thing that never changes in education. For students, they will have to get all ... -
Virtual Stability: Constructing a Simulation Model”
(2010-06-23)After a discussion of the importance of stability and instability for complex systems theory we define the concept of virtual stability as a state in which a system employs self-monitoring and adaptive control to maintain ... -
The Struggle for Rights at Work: Electrical Workers, Shop-Floor Action and Industrial Legality, 1940s-1960s
(2010-06-23)One of the central elements of post-World War II Canadian labour legislation is the ban on strikes and lockouts during the term of a collective agreement. Unions and employers are expected to settle any disputes over ... -
Making Content Connections: issues in the use of Print Versus Digital Course Content
(2010-06-23)Recent program changes in an online graduate program created questions regarding the delivery of materials in distance education programs. One hundred and thirty-seven students responded to a survey regarding the difference ... -
When Retailers are More Powerful
(2010-06-23)The long-term effects of promotions on sales are increasingly linked to the supposed shift of economic power within channels from manufacturers to retailers. However, formal knowledge about how they influence channel ... -
Computer Science: Where (and why) have all the women gone?
(2010-06-23)Like other post-secondary institutions in North America, Athabasca University has not been successful in either recruiting or retaining women to its Computing and Information Science programmes. The gradual decline in ...