Five-year Journey Research Articles

A Five-Year Journey Towards Strengthening Nursing Professional Development Capabilities in Eastern Health Cluster, Saudi Arabia

A Five-Year Journey Towards Strengthening Nursing Professional Development Capabilities in Eastern Health Cluster, Saudi Arabia

Turbulence throughout teacher education: a case study of negotiating teacher identity

ABSTRACT Becoming a teacher is a tricky road paved with struggles. The purpose of this reconstructive educational case study is to exemplify the complex construction of teacher identity by following the five-year journey of one student teacher in the process of qualifying as a primary schoolteacher in Finland. With the heuristic analysis of longitudinal thematic narrative interviews in the frame of Dialogical Self Theory (DST), the key results of the study make a substantial contribution by illustrating how struggles are entrenched in various I-positions of teacher identity. According to our results, we conclude that four I-positions should be carefully supported in teacher education: I as a person, I as a foreigner, I as an academic student and I as a teacher. The role of teacher education in supporting student teachers in this respect is discussed in light of the results.

NT Aplenty: NT Government Clears the Path for a Gas Empire in the Beetaloo

Empire Energy has reached an inflection point on its five-year journey to securing a key foothold following the Northern Territory Government’s approval of recommendations proposed by the Pepper Inquiry into unconventional gas production in the Top End.

Mites

There is increasing interest in deploying building-scale, general-purpose, and high-fidelity sensing to drive emerging smart building applications. However, the real-world deployment of such systems is challenging due to the lack of system and architectural support. Most existing sensing systems are purpose-built, consisting of hardware that senses a limited set of environmental facets, typically at low fidelity and for short-term deployment. Furthermore, prior systems with high-fidelity sensing and machine learning fail to scale effectively and have fewer primitives, if any, for privacy and security. For these reasons, IoT deployments in buildings are generally short-lived or done as a proof of concept. We present the design of Mites, a scalable end-to-end hardware-software system for supporting and managing distributed general-purpose sensors in buildings. Our design includes robust primitives for privacy and security, essential features for scalable data management, as well as machine learning to support diverse applications in buildings. We deployed our Mites system and 314 Mites devices in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Hall at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a fully occupied, five-story university building. We present a set of comprehensive evaluations of our system using a series of microbenchmarks and end-to-end evaluations to show how we achieved our stated design goals. We include five proof-of-concept applications to demonstrate the extensibility of the Mites system to support compelling IoT applications. Finally, we discuss the real-world challenges we faced and the lessons we learned over the five-year journey of our stack's iterative design, development, and deployment.

The Complete Turnaround of a Boutique Bank: A Practical Guide to Leading a Complex Transformation

In a remarkable five-year journey, Bank Leumi USA completed a major transformation with a range of dramatic effects. Through a close examination of the Leumi case, Karen Ayas illustrates an approach designed to increase the odds of success in transformation and offers practical guidance to those embarking on similar journeys.

Early Language Development of a Child with Expressive Language Disorder: A Parents’ Narration

Mainstream children generally experience typical stages throughout the milestones of their language development, from crying, cooing, babbling, until mature speech. Nevertheless, children with special condition usually have difficulties in getting through each phase of the development, such as those having expressive language disorder. These children usually encounter problems in communicating their needs and ideas verbally or non-verbally. This study attempts to present a story of the first five-year journey of Zaid’s language development, a child with expressive language disorder. Through interview, observation, and documentation, the study informs that Zaid was a late talker and experience difficulties in structuring well-ordered sentences.

Disruptive Innovation through Military Design: A Collaboration between the US Joint Special Operations University and the Polish Army

ABSTRACT This article presents a five-year journey for the Polish Armed Forces and U.S. Special Operations Command’s Joint Special Operations University in establishing military design education, theory, and practice within the Polish military. Military design is presented as a significant development in defense theory that draws from complexity theory, systems theory, scenario planning, postmodern theory as well as social paradigm theory as applied to security contexts and war. Military design is a recent development and in part a reaction to traditional, mechanistic, and linear planning and strategy methodologies becoming insufficient in contemporary security environments. The increasing complexity of modern security challenges coupled with institutional barriers to challenging well-established military doctrine, decision-making methodologies, and belief systems concerning war and warfare have ushered “military design” to the forefront of numerous militaries; designing for war is not without controversy and debate over methodological application and relation to existing warfare methods. JSOU and a small team of Polish Army educators would work in tandem to implement military design theory as currently provided within the SOCOM enterprise to international partner nations such as the Polish Armed Forces and Polish Special Forces. The JSOU andragogic approach to design education emphasizes building design facilitation capacity within the partnered organization, and this article explains the five-year process to stand up Polish-centric design concepts and customized education oriented toward Polish security challenges and attuned to cultural as well as geopolitical considerations.

REFLECTING ON THE USE OF DESIGN METHODOLOGY IN ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION

In the teaching of engineering design, it may be common to use design methodology (DM), as documented in several textbooks, in the course delivery. However, considerable drawbacks could be observed in our case when DM is taken as the major guidance for a capstone design course. We argue that DM tends to prescribe some context-free methods and procedures, which cannot be easily applied by students to their capstone design projects. At the same time, we observe that students need support to characterize a design problem, integrate technical knowledge in design activities and verify design ideas. These aspects require analytical and critical thinking, where DM may not be particularly helpful for students. In the five-year journey of deemphasizing DM in a capstone design course, we have explored and examined various pedagogical approaches such as online modules, design labs and peer evaluations. Without the teaching of DM, the pedagogical strategy needs to be carefully planned to deliver specific learning in engineering design.

ACTIVE RESEARCH IN THE AGE OF RECONCILIATION: A RELATIONSHIP-BASED APPROACH FOR NON-INDIGENOUS RESEARCHERS

This article recounts a five-year journey connecting Acadian and Mi’kmaw schools in Nova Scotia, Canada. We trace the unfolding of relationships between minority school students and administrators through both natural and semi-structured dialogues. We believe this work contributes to the emerging field of research called for by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, TRC (2015) “to advance understanding of reconciliation” (p. 331). Drawing upon Battiste (2000), our research design represents a journey in the four directions of the Medicine Wheel. This journey is superimposed on an action research cycle. Three primary recommendations are offered for future research, whether it is collaborative, community-based, or for independent academic requirements.

On my honor: creating space for thinking and living Girl Scouts differently in (post)colonial Hawai‘i

ABSTRACTGirl Scouts aims to foster leadership by encouraging girls to discover themselves, make connections, and take action to make the world better. This paper chronicles the five-year journey of eight professional mothers of color who sought to provide their daughters with a space to ‘think and live differently’ as Girl Scouts and young women of color in (post)colonial Hawai‘i. Through questionnaires and a semi-structured focus group interview, mothers reflect on their original intentions to create a ‘safe space’ for their daughters to engage with the politics of gender, race, and class and to rethink, review, and rework their identities. Mothers’ reflections reveal success in creating safe spaces for the critical analysis of gender, but comparatively less success in critical analyses of race and class – a phenomenon that the mothers suggest may have been complicated by (1) the enduring myth of Hawai‘i as a multicultural paradise, (2) Girl Scouts’ assimilationist history, and (3) the mothers’ own relatively privileged positions.

Traveling with Charlie: The Voyage of the Beagle as an Introduction to the Natural History of South America

Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle is a very readable, insightful travelogue that provides a detailed description of the habitats, organisms, and people he encountered on the five-year journey. In this exercise, students read passages corresponding to one of Darwin's principal inland expeditions in South America and write short response papers about the passage, which they then discuss in class. Through this exercise, students gain an appreciation for the diversity of terrestrial habitats and organisms in South America as well as for the young Darwin's interpretations of his experience. His insights include the negative impact of invasive and introduced species on native organisms and the anthropogenic effects on species’ distributions. Thus students will also recognize the foundations of many important principles of modern ecology and conservation biology in this historic narrative.

Digging Up: A Five-Year Journey to Instructional-Design Stability in a Postsecondary Distance Education Unit

This report of practice describes a five-year process to establish and implement quality standards for a substantial portfolio of distancedelivered courses at the Centre for Continuing and Distance Education, University of Saskatchewan. The report describes an analysis of the issues and the solutions found that led to our current curriculum design standards and procedures, the implementation of learning technologies, and the identification of issues and solutions regarding copyright law. Lastly, the future prospects of these distance-delivered postsecondary courses are considered. Focusing on the issues and solutions for each category of challenges, this report describes the five-year journey of a small instructional-design team that faced roadblocks and barriers common to many postsecondary continuing and distance education units.

“Travels of an American Indian into the Hinterlands of Soviet Russia”: Rethinking Indigenous Modernity and the Popular Front in the Work of Archie Phinney and D’Arcy McNickle

After returning from a five-year journey to the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, Nez Perce anthropologist Archie Phinney urged formally educated Indians to go “beyond old tribal horizons toward a racial identity” to link Native struggles for self-determination with racial struggles for justice in the United States and abroad. Pan-Indian, cosmopolitan, and self-reflexively modern, Phinney represented a crucial link between Native American intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s and other radical intellectuals of color. While Phinney was perhaps the most prominent Native American to openly support the Soviet Union, a small but nonetheless visible presence of Native Americans in socialist organizations created unemployed councils on reservations, agitated for extended federal aide to Native communities, fought against the deportation of Mexican Americans in San Francisco, and even ran for the US Senate on the Communist Party ticket. These social movements suggests ways we can reread the first modern Native American novel, D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded , in context of the 1930s transnational movements, deploying theories of minority self-determination to suggest an indigenous nationalism in conversation with third-world liberation movements around the world. Together, these sources shed light on how Native American contributions helped shape the “radical modernity” of the Popular Front era, as well as how Native American intellectuals deployed ideas of modernity to fashion new forms of indigenous sovereignty.

Amazon and cordillera: Humboldt's tropical American quest

In his day, Alexander von Humboldt was hugely famed for the journey he made between 1799 and 1804 with the botanist Bonpland through the mainland tropics of America and the Caribbean. The account he gave of it, the 30-volume Voyages aux régions équinoxiale du Nouveau Continent, published over as many years, is interestingly shaped by the Atlas pittoresque of 1810, which comprises volumes XV and XVI. Better known under the title Vues des Cordillères et monuments indigènes de l’Amérique, this latter text consists of 69 engraved plates, several in colour, balanced between the terms of the title, on which the author offers commentaries. Contrasted, the two statements (Voyages and Vues) reveal much about Humboldt's ambitions and strategies as a travel writer, about his changing sense of the continent's cultural geography and even the general direction of his own five-year journey.

Interplanetary navigation along the low-thrust trajectory of BepiColombo

For BepiColombo's five-year journey into the inner solar system, a combination of low-thrust arcs and six flybys (one at Moon and Earth, two at Venus and two at Mercury) will be used to reach Mercury with low relative velocity. At arrival a gravitational capture approach is foreseen, in which the Sun perturbation is exploited to get weakly captured around Mercury for a number of orbits. This trajectory imposes severe constraints from a navigational point of view. Very precise navigation is required due to the low flyby altitudes planned for Venus (300 km) and Mercury (200 km) and the level of accuracy needed for the final arrival through the vicinity of the Sun–Mercury L1 point. Besides that, the solar plasma effect severely degrades the quality of the radiometric measurements near superior solar conjunctions, which are more frequent for missions to the inner solar system. Moreover, perturbations, as the ones introduced by momentum wheel desaturation burns, entry into safe modes or solar radiation pressure, must also be taken into account. Delta-differential one-way range measurements are found to be required in periods of poor orbit determination prior to some gravity assists. Nevertheless, if a safe mode is triggered at a critical moment that produces a change in velocity in an unfavourable direction, the mission could be jeopardised. To avoid that risk, an increase in the flyby altitude and possibly a partial or total redesign of the trajectory to avoid flybys near solar conjunctions are considered.

Teaching People to Fish? Building the Evaluation Capability of Public Sector Organizations

In response to an increasing demand for public sector accountability, many government agencies have sought to develop their internal evaluation capabilities. Often these efforts have focused on increasing the capacity to supply credible evaluations, yet addressing demand is just as important. This article focuses on a government agency and tracks its five-year journey towards developing such a capability. It documents contextual matters, drivers for change, the actions taken by the agency, and its response to emergent challenges during four phases. Based on feedback from project staff and managers and those involved in the capability development project, it offers seven recommendations. These are: start small and grow evaluation; address both supply and demand; work top-down and bottom-up simultaneously; use a theory of change behaviour; develop a common evaluation framework, including a generic programme theory; build knowledge of what works within the agency's context; and systematically and visibly evaluate each stage.

Independent Film and Video in Boston

Boston has long had a reputation as a center for documentary work and deservedly so. Avant-garde documentarian Errol Morris, whose latest film Fast, Cheap and Out of Control was screened at The Sundance Film Festival in 1997, shaves a zipcode with Cambridge Documentary Films, established in 1974, whose Defending Our Lives won an Academy Award in 1994. Public television powerhouse WGBH airs programs by Blackside Inc., Eyes on the Prize (1986) and Malcolm X: Make it Plain (1994), while the Harvard Film Archives offers innovative documentary programming such as the recent series Reverse Angle: Approaches to Autobiography in Contemporary Film and Video. Talented documentarians, including broadcasters, academics and independent producers have helped shape Boston's international reputation. For just a glimpse into the diversity of documentarians, production circumstances and projects underway in the area, I attended the April 1997 meeting of the Mass Media Alliance (MMA). MMA is a member organization dedicated to bringing together area media professionals and fostering a climate in which media projects can succeed. The guest speakers included film activists Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich, cofounders of Cambridge Documentary Films. I call them activists because for over 20 years they have been producing original documentary projects that have spotlighted important and often controversial social issues. They have actively tackled issues important to the women's movement, Killing Us Softly (1979) and Rape Culture (1983), and to the gay and lesbian community, Pink Triangles (1982), and their most recent success, Defending Our Lives (1993), took a determined stance of the issue of battered women who kill their abusers. Their current project tentatively titled Turning it Around Transforming Trauma, offers portraits of ordinary people who have become social activists because of personal trauma. Also present was Steven Ascher who, with his wife Jeanne Jordan, produced and directed Troublesome Creek: a Midwestern (1996). An Academy Award nominated documentary that garnered the Grand Prize and Audience Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, Troublesome Creek is a personal and compelling documentary narrated by Jordan that deals with her family's struggle to keep their Iowa farm from being repossessed by the bank. Ascher spoke directly to every independent film and videomaker in the audience as he shared details of the five-year journey it took to finish the project. As Boston continues its tradition of producing nationally recognized documentarians, narrative film production is on the rise. Following on the heels of Edward Burns's success with The Brothers McMullen (1995), independent producers have been able to call on a collaborative environment to pull together their projects. Robert Patton-Spruill, a graduate of Boston University's film program, raised $400,000 from local investors to help produce Squeeze (1997), an urban coming-of-age story about three boys from Boston's tough Field's Corner neighborhood. Working with cinematographer and editor Richard Moos, Patton-Spruill found his film's inspiration and actors at the Dorchester Youth Collaborative, a youth center formed to offer an alternative to gang activity, In addition to screenings in national festivals, distribution rights to the film have been acquired by Miramax, which intends to run a limited national release this coming summer. Thanks to Boston's cooperative atmosphere, such high profile productions are not the only narrative film work being successfully produced and screened. Love, lust and lunatics are all on the menu at .... the Last Night At Eddie's (1997), a collaboratively produced film, premiered at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in February. Home before Dark (1997), a locally produced film by Maureen Foley, was one of many films featured during the Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema in April-May 1997 and Local Sightings, founded by David Kleiler, features a variety of locally produced projects, including The Darian Gap (1995) by Brad Anderson. …

A Five-Year Journey: Integrating Teacher Education Methods Courses

Abstract For the past five years, students preparing to be elementary teachers at this four-year college have taken all their elementary teaching methods courses in an integrated block during the semester prior to student teaching. The authors describe the advantages, planning challenges, and pitfalls of creating such a network of classes. Additionally, this paper discusses the resulting level of preparation for the students who experienced this integrated approach, by reporting data collected from the cooperating classroom teachers. These data were collected in order to help assess the effectiveness of such a teacher training approach for K-8 classrooms. Finally, the pros and cons of an integrated approach are weighed and recommendations are made.

Economic plants encountered on the voyage of the beagle

The literature regarding Charles Darwin's life, publications and letters is extensive. Nevertheless, apparently no one has attempted a botanical analysis of the Beagle voyage. For this reason, an account of the economic plants enumerated by Darwin on his five-year journey around the world has been prepared. The data have been obtained largely from five sources (Darwin, 1839, 1846, 1870; Barlow, 1933, 1946). Additions and deletions have been made to each of Darwin's works; hence, none is complete, at least botanically speaking. This is probably due to two facts. First, Darwin, on the voyage of the Beagle, was primarily a geologist, then a zoologist and an anthropologist, and only lastly a botanist. He admitted this himself by saying several times, "I am not botanist enough to say . " Secondly, Darwin published his observations, taken from his journals, in a "piecemeal" fashion, and he allowed at least three professional botanists to work up various special aspects of the Beagle's botany (Berkeley, 1857; Henslow, 1838; Hooker, 1847, 1851). The following presentation is organized by categories of uses. Consequently the reader is forewarned that the discussion, which is limited to those plants which Darwin found particularly important or interesting, will often change from one geographic area to another. However, a checklist of all identifiable economic planits encountered has been included also. In some cases, where no name was mentioned by Darwin and only a description was given by him, "reasonable" assumptions as to their correct genus and species have been made. These are indicated by an asterisk.