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Critical reflection writing in teacher education programmes is often undertaken without appropriate learning support despite the contribution it makes to informing meaningful changes in the early stages of their teaching careers. Students’ attempts at writing critical reflections often lack discursive depth when connecting theory to practice. However, teaching academics may also need to develop conceptual knowledge of critical reflection as a genre of writing to better inform teaching practice...

Informal civil society initiatives have expanded in recent years, leading to more fluid and less hierarchical forms of civic participation. To effectively boost European democracy, these groups must deepen and solidify without moving toward formalization.

This article explores ways that work-integrated learning (WIL) scholarship and the field of writing studies can benefit from intentional engagement in the context of transfer research. This conceptual paper foregrounds writing in WIL contexts, introduces writing transfer and its relationship to writing in WIL contexts, discusses conceptual overlaps of writing transfer research and WIL, and suggests what writing transfer can mean for WIL practitioners. Overall, we argue that intentional engagemen...

Mental Health Recovery Frameworks Often Marginalize Personal Narratives While recovery frameworks challenge traditional psychiatric discourse, this research too often limits lived experience perspectives. 79 For people living with mental health challenges, “recovery” can be a contested and highly personal process, not easily conceptualized through psychological or psychiatric concepts. A new meta-theoretical study by scholars Calvin Swords and Stan Houston from Trinity College Dublin examin...

Innovation 10 May, 2021 Consistent record keeping is an essential part of nursing practice. This article describes a project to improve and provide guidance for record keeping among Admiral Nurses Abstract Admiral Nurses are specialist nurses who support families affected by dementia. It was recognised that the nurses needed further support with the structure and consistency of their record keeping to ensure high standards were met and the complexity of their work was reflected. This article...

April 23, 2021 Registration is open for the annual Faculty Institute on Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT), where Cornell faculty come together to understand the foundations of community-engaged learning (CEL), bounce ideas off one another and share how they’ve used CEL to deepen student learning and connect with community needs. Usually a two-day, in-person event, the 2021 CELT is a series of four online Community Conversations, held weekly June 1–22, from 1 to 1:50 p.m. Staff ...

We thank these scholars for their quick responses. Here are their thoughts: Athena Mutua, professor of law and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar “The conviction of Derek Chauvin is edifying. A jury of his peers and a multitude of diverse protesters saw the arrogance, felt impunity and depraved indifference with which he needlessly murdered George Floyd. But while Chauvin, the individual, must be held accountable, the problem of police violence in the U.S. is deeper. It is historic...

Abstract Rigorous, comprehensive and timely research are the cornerstone of social and transformative change. For researchers responding to femicide, family and intimate partner homicide, there are substantial challenges around accessing robust data that is complete and fully representative of the experiences and social identities of those affected. This raises questions of how certain social identities are privileged and how the lens of intersectionality may be constrained or enabled through r...