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Exploring Acculturative Joy in English Language Education
(2024-04) Siebold, Connie; Fagan, Drew
English language education has frequently centered the voices of educators rather than those of the students we seek to serve. Driven by institutional demands, the learner experience is often flattened into easily quantifiable measures that strip learners of their agency and ownership of the educational process. Rather than positioning students as vessels to be filled and measured, a student-centric narrative approach to research can illuminate critical sociocultural aspects to student success. Using the lens of Acculturative Joy, this study interviews 20 English language learners to understand their experiences of joy in the English language classroom. With an emic understanding of learner needs, we can then critically examine pedagogical practice and shift our focus to improvement of resources, thoughtful student-centric pedagogy, and equitable harm reduction in the English language classroom.
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The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate
(2025-03-07) Sly, Jordan S.
The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate In 1655, the Duke of Savoy ordered the violent removal of Protestants from his territory in Northern Italy in the basin of the Italian Alps. The horrific massacre that resulted provided vivid evidence of the arbitrary cruelty of Catholic European powers in the development of mid-seventeenth-century polemic literature. Specifically, it provided the Cromwellian Protectorate a useful tragedy in conceptualizing and actuating long-standing threads of religious history that provided the backbone justification of military action against their enemies. This presentation focuses on the book commissioned by the Protectorate and compiled by Sir Samuel Morland titled The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont and the complex composition of this book in terms of its religious and political uses. This talk will include descriptions of extant copies of the book in addition to its contents and some history of its use, dissemination, and idiosyncratic elements of specific copies. Content warning: This presentation will contain images from Morland’s work which graphically depict atrocious imagery of extreme violence against men, women, and children.
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The Impacts of Anti-Black Racism in Psychology: How "Whiteness" structurally sustains anti-Blackness in psychology
(Psychology Today, 2024-12-19) Robinson, Ty A; Adelabu, Detris H
This article explores the pervasive impacts of anti-Black racism within the field of psychology, highlighting how the discipline has historically contributed to the marginalization and dehumanization of Black individuals. By examining the legacy of pseudoscientific research and the construction of "Whiteness" as the normative standard, the article demonstrates how these practices have informed harmful policies, including forced sterilization, segregation, biased intelligence testing, and exclusionary immigration laws. Despite contemporary efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, the authors argue that superficial initiatives fail to address the structural foundations of anti-Blackness embedded within psychology. The article calls for a fundamental restructuring of the discipline, advocating for the dismantling of systems that uphold White supremacy and the development of a more equitable and just psychological science. Through this critical analysis, the piece urges a transformative approach that moves beyond performative allyship and toward genuine systemic change.
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COMSOL models for working-electrode/solid-electrolyte under mechanical loadings
(2025) Jung, Taeho; Song, Yueming; Valentino, Gianna M; Albertus, Paul
The attached COMSOL models simulate the mechanical state of a working-electrode/solid-electrolyte system under the following loading conditions. * Scenario I - working electrode under out-of-plane uniaxial compression * Scenario II - solid electrolyte under in-plane uniaxial compression * Scenario III - solid electrolyte under pure shear