Innovative Educator Research Articles

Electromyographic activity of pelvic floor muscles in different positions during the use an innovative vaginal educator: Cross-sectional study.

The pelvic floor requires an integrated anatomical structure owing to its multiple functions. Therefore, it is necessary to study methods for improving muscle recruitment during training. This study aimed to analyze the effect of using an innovative vaginal trainer on the bioelectrical activity of the pelvic floor muscles. Pelvic positioning and interference factors, such as age, childbirth, sexual activity, urinary incontinence, and menopause, were also analyzed. A cross-sectional study assessed 30 women using an evaluation form, International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Short Form, and surface electromyography. The root mean square of a 5-second contraction period, peak root mean square values, area values, % maximal voluntary contraction (root mean square normalized by peak signal), and median frequency were collected. These findings with and without the use of a vaginal educator were compared in the anteversion, neutral, and retroversion pelvic positions. The use of a vaginal educator was found to increase the electromyographic activity of the pelvic floor muscles in the neutral position. In this position, older women showed an increased peak contraction when using the educator. Multiparas also benefited from increased bioelectric activity (root mean square and area). Sexually active women increased their bioelectric activity in a neutral position when using the trainer, exerting less effort in retroversion (%-maximal voluntary contraction). Incontinent and menopausal women exhibited slower body-building activation (decreased frequency) with the device, which requires further investigation. Our innovative biofeedback device induced greater recruitment of muscle fibers, is more effective in the neutral pelvic position, and may be effective in training the pelvic floor muscles, even in women with a greater tendency toward pelvic floor dysfunction.

Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice

This study explores the relationship between the identity development of a school principal and the concept of social justice leadership. We examine how one African American principal used equity-focused leadership in two different high schools to improve the conditions of all students. Erikson's view of identity and Cross's conception of Negrescence guided the research questions guided the study of the identity development of a Black school principal as a social justice leader, what actions he took, and what supports and barriers he encountered. The principal's case suggested several factors that form a social justice leader. He acknowledged a history of oppression, confronted racial animosity, and showed empathy through action. He had strong role models and received a solid education with Black professors and mentors and formed lifetime friendships. He developed the confidence to believe in himself as an educator and advocate for others. As an innovative educator, he was able to take risks. As a Black man, he fit well into one culture but was limited by racism in another. He became a leader who continued the pursuit of social justice after the principalship.

Reflections on the Lived, Endured, Overcome... (for the 80th birthday of Bohdan Yaremko)

In the article outlined the life path of Professor Bohdan Ivanovych Yaremkо as a researcher of traditional Hutsul and Boyko panpipe-type instruments, a performer, an innovative educator in high school, and a representative of Ukrainian and European organological science. After graduating his studies at the Lviv Conservatory in the clarinet class, Yaremkо began his career in the Department of Wind Instruments of the Rivne Art University. Over the 41 years of his work at this institution, B. Yaremkо evolved as a panpipe (“sopilka”) music performer and, from 1977 onwards, as a researcher of Hutsul and Boyko traditional music. From 1979, he also became the founder of the “sopilka” class. In the article identified key milestones in the perfor- mance activities of Yaremkо’s panpipe class students, who, in different years, became laureates and diploma winners of international, national, regional competitions, and festivals, leaving a lasting impact on their artistic careers. A significant result of 29 B. Yaremkо’s research activity, involving meticulous transcription work, systematic folklore expeditions mainly in the Carpathian region, creative interactions with folk musicians and folklore experts at various scientific events, and laboratory experiments, is his doctoral dissertation “The Role of Performance in the Formation of Musical Tradition (based on the material of Ukrainian sopilka music of the Carpathians)” and the publication of several dozen scientific articles and three study books: “Utorop Sopilka Improvisations”, “Boyko Sopilka Music”, and “Ethnoorganology”. In the article is characterized the final period of B. Yaremkо’s work in Rivne, marked by the same circle of scientific interests, as evidenced by over 20 publications dedicated to “sopilka”, violin, and “trembita” вthemes. From 2013, the Lviv period of B. Yaremkо’s career began, associated with his work at the T. Shevchenko Kremenets Regional Humanities and Pedagogical Academy and the publication of the monograph “Sopilka Music of the Hutsuls”, numerous scientific articles, and participation in online scien- tific conferences.

New Look at Soft Skills Development Through Debate Technology

The article highlights theoretical and practical aspects of the relevant contemporary issue of development of soft skills of pre-service primary school teachers by means of intensification of debate in the classroom. Modern society requires from specialists not only deep knowledge in their fields, but also the ability to effectively communicate and interact with others. Soft skills development through debate technology is a contemporary and innovative approach to enhancing essential interpersonal and communication skills. Debate technologies contribute to the development of argumentation skills, the ability to listen, respond to the arguments of opponents and express one's opinions clearly and convincingly. The approach combines the traditional practice of debate with modern technology to provide a more engaging and effective learning experience. The author analyses the problem from two perspectives: development of students’ soft skills, on the one hand, and pedagogical potential of debate in this context, on the other. The definition of the concepts “soft skills” vs “hard skills” is generalized, the factors of efficient application of debate technologies are outlined. The researcher proved that ability to arrange engaging debate in different academic courses at the university is a characteristic feature of professional competence of an innovative educator as it helps develop students’ key skills. The formation of the latter takes place both in individual subjects teaching and in the process of subjects’ integration.

The relationship between innovative leadership and educator performance in early childhood education

Educators deal with complex difficulties daily due to economic realities. Educational leadership therefore needs to be more creative and innovative to be effective. This study aims to determine whether there is an influence of innovative leadership in improving the performance of educators in early childhood education institutions in Serang District. This research used quantitative data collection through a survey. The analysis utilized statistical software for the determination of the validity test method, simple linear regression test, coefficient of determination, reliability test, product moment correlation test, and hypothesis test. Based on the result, there is a positive and significant influence of the innovative leadership of the ECE principals towards the performance of ECE educators. For early childhood education institutions located in Serang, Banten, this research can be used as a reference material in considering the selection of school principals. Keywords: Early childhood education ; educator; innovative; leadership; performance

Approach With Caution: An Innovative Educator Reviews the Impact AI Could Have on Education

Approach With Caution: An Innovative Educator Reviews the Impact AI Could Have on Education

Innovative Educator`s Impact in The Higher Education System

The Higher Education System in India has grown up in a remarkable way and the demand for higher education will be much higher in the next coming years. With the invent of technology and its use as a pedagogy in the field of higher education system is making it more reliable and the student are prepared out in such a way that they can meet the expectation of the competitive era. Besides, the usage of innovative technology in the educational system, still there are many barriers in its effective implementation in the colleges. This paper mainly focuses on how an innovative educator can really impact in the higher education system. The active role of an innovative educator surely changes the developing educational system into the developed one. It is rightly said that the biggest change in the education will never be a technology; it is an educator who is willing to be innovative. This act of innovative educator will definitely enables in developing the lifelong learners for the nation. The paper also deals in studying the changes taken and the challenges to be faced in the implementation of technology in the higher education system.

EXHIBITION ACTIVITY IN CONTEXT INFORMATION AND ANALYTICAL SUPPORT OF NATIONAL EDUCATION MODERNIZATION

The article systematizes and highlights the role of exhibition processions in the field of national education. The results of the influence of these measures on the formation of the national identity and self-awareness of educators are revealed. Examples of the main educational exhibitions of Ukraine are given. Exhibition activity with the participation of the NAES of Ukraine as a toolkit of information and analytical support for the modernization of the educational sector is presented. The influential role of exhibitions on the formation of the image of an innovative educator and his development as a personality has been determined. The purpose of the publication is to present the current results of the final stage of planned scientific research on the topic «Bibliographic and analytical support of the activities of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine regarding the scientific and methodological support of modernization and reform of education». The authors update the process of studying the problem of educational exhibition activity as one of the effective tools of quality information and analytical support for the modernization and reform of the educational sector of Ukraine. They focus attention on the role of exhibition activity in the formation of the image of both an educator (researcher, innovator, etc.) and directly of an educational institution, a scientific institution. Also, a number of documents of the current legislation of Ukraine regarding the organization of exhibition activities, including in the educational sphere, are given. With the use of content analysis methods of scientific and practical, scientific, informational and reference, etc. sources, as well as event analysis of exhibition activity, systematization and generalization of the obtained research results. Accordingly, the authors present the practical results of analytical investigations regarding the latest publications. Certain aspects from the experience of researchers who focus their own considerations on the study of exhibition processes in their scientific works are also reviewed. In this way, the problem of educational exhibition activity in the context of informational and analytical support and its influence on the formation of the image of both educational institutions and scientific institutions, as well as each researcher, practitioner educator, and everyone who tries to present their own exhibits of practical activity and scientific research in the exhibition environment for positioning the acquired experience and knowledge.

Is ní cheilim, deirim, déarfad: the O’Donovan Rossa funeral, Pearse’s graveside oration and the Irish language context

ABSTRACT Patrick Pearse was a leading figure in the 1916 rising, an armed insurrection which aimed to bring about an Irish Republic. He was also an Irish language scholar, a language activist, a modernising creative writer, an innovative educator and educationalist theorist, and a political polemicist. This article revisits Pearse’s famous graveside oration at the August 1915 funeral of the separatist Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. It considers how the examination of the oration in its Irish language contexts – both historical literary texts and contemporary machinations in the politics of the Gaelic League – can help us to assess the evolution and impact of Pearse’s political thought. In particular, consideration is given to connections with the seventeenth-century texts “An Siogaí Rómhánach” and “Róisín Dubh.” An underlying argument is that texts composed and delivered as declamation need to be considered in their performative contexts. A comparative and contextualising discussion of the oration brings insights into the meaning and import of both the oration and the other texts and contexts alluded to by Pearse.

George Sorter's Influence on Accounting Thought

ABSTRACTThis manuscript is a biography of George H. Sorter. An innovative accounting theorist and educator, Sorter was concerned about how accounting information could be used in financial and management decision-making. He criticized accounting as a profession for failing to own up to the limitations of financial reports, which do not reveal the “value” of the firm, and for hiding behind confusing jargon. As a result, Sorter formulated an “events” approach to provide financial statement users with data useful for decision making. Valuation of the firm is a subjective endeavor, a matter of individual user perception, he maintained. He served as a member of the AAA Committee for “A Statement of Basic Accounting Theory” (ASOBAT) and as the research director of the AICPA's “Objectives of Financial Statements” (AICPA 1973, Trueblood Report). This manuscript focuses primarily on Sorter's contributions to the Trueblood Report.

The Conforming, The Innovating and The Connecting Teacher: A qualitative study of why teachers in lower secondary school adopt physically active learning

This paper explores why teachers adopt physically active learning (PAL). Data were collected through ‘go-alongs’ supplemented by individual interviews with 13 teachers in seven Norwegian lower secondary schools. Data were then analysed thematically. Results indicated that as well as to enhance their teaching and pupils' learning, teachers adopt PAL to adhere to school policy (The Conforming Teacher), to be an innovative educator (The Innovating Teacher), and, because it matches past positive personal experiences (The Connecting Teacher). The findings can be used to shape PAL teacher training programs to increase the likelihood of adoption.

The overshadowed scientific endeavours of Berengario Da Carpi, a renaissance physician and the Forerunner of neurosurgery: a historical vignette

Jacopo Berengario da Carpi was Renaissance-era physician, surgeon, and anatomy lecturer who transformed medieval anatomy and surgery—which were, at the time, dominated mostly by religious dogma—into a modern science based on direct observation, experience, and cadaveric dissection. He was an accomplished and innovative neuroanatomist and educator, a prolific researcher and publisher, and a successful practicing surgeon who treated the head injuries of many renowned patients of that period. He published a landmark commentary on skull fractures that was the first printed book in history devoted to head injuries, which became a model of new medical understanding. Nonetheless, Berengario’s achievements in anatomy, medicine, neuroanatomy, and what would later become neurotraumatology and neurosurgery, would have been more widely known had his work and research not been surpassed by Andreas Vesalius and Ambroise Paré, both of whom advanced anatomic and medical knowledge even further. In this historical vignette, we discuss the political conditions of sixteenth Century Italy and pay a homage to Berengario da Carpi, emphasizing his work in establishing neuroanatomy as a field of medicine that became a precursor to modern neuroscience. We also describe the improvements he made in neurotraumatology technique and instrumentation, and his explanations of skull fractures and other brain injuries outlined in ground-breaking clinical books he published. Finally, we try to elucidate possible reasons why his scientific and professional achievements—despite of their enormous impact—were overshadowed by the achievements of his more famous immediate successors.

A Hopeful Heart: Louisa May Alcott Before by Deborah Noyes

Reviewed by: A Hopeful Heart: Louisa May Alcott Before by Deborah Noyes Elizabeth Bush Noyes, Deborah A Hopeful Heart: Louisa May Alcott Before Little Women. Schwartz & Wade, 2020 [304p] illus. with photographs Trade ed. ISBN 9780525646235 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780525646259 $11.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 5-9 The March sisters are so deeply embedded in the cultural landscape that even kids who haven't read Little Women may know a fair amount about it, including the fact that author Louisa May Alcott drew heavily from her own childhood to create her characters. Here Noyes offers enthusiasts a rich opportunity to compare biography with a beloved text and provides newcomers a vibrant introduction to a family whose quirks and tribulations supplied a lode many a novelist would love to mine. Roughly the first half of this bio is dominated by Bronson and Abby Alcott's strained but loyal marriage, as the paterfamilias tends to his philosophical ideals as an innovative educator at the expense of his family's material well-being, while "Marmee" runs interference with their own children and negotiates continual household moves and grinding poverty. Since Louisa May would be well into adulthood before arriving at Noyes' endpoint, there's plenty of page space to focus on [End Page 95] her struggles to balance family loyalty with a writing career, her wilder tendencies with her deeply instilled determination to achieve self-control, and well-paying publishing demands with her own authorly interests: in short, Jo March to a T. Noyes, however, is not the tour guide who points out Little Women sights at every turn; instead she allows fans to enjoy their own Aha! discoveries of parallels between life and lit. End matter comprises bibliography, source notes, and credits for the photograph interludes between chapters. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Virginia Roth – Innovative Educator

“There has to be a better way.” In 1964, Virginia Roth, then known as Sr. Pacis principal at Ryan High School in Omaha, Nebraska, set out to devise a new system of education. Her goal, as expressed in her essay, “A Model for an Alternate High School” was to, “realize those objectives we defined as essential for education.” The “we” referred to the School Sisters of St. Francis, the religious order to which she belonged at that time. Roth described the period from 1964 to 1966 as a “two year experimentation program of brainstorming, trying new methods, committee work for the whole staff, and some brainwashing to define a school organization.” The resulting system of modular scheduling, individual advising, and independent study continued for two decades before the school closed. Over time, the innovations lost favor with the community and the Catholic hierarchy in Omaha. Roth left Ryan, but remained committed to the ideals and the practice of in 1973 and took her ideas to work for twelve years at another successful, progressive high school in Omaha. She was recognized as an educational expert in progressive education, and at the peak of her activity, spent a considerable amount of time traveling to conferences, teaching education courses and writing about education. In 1972, she was estimated, by Omaha World Herald reporter, Robert McMorris, to have traveled 30,000 miles to-and-from workshops in a six- month period. At conferences, she presented Ryan’s program to school administrators from across the country. The article noted, “Sister Roth’s proposals were for a school that would put into practice a proposition to which educators have always given lip service: students should be treated as individuals.” Roth’s vision for education was bold and progressive; and her ability to translate her ideas into operational practice was ahead of its time.

The Blended Reflective Inquiry Educators Framework; origins, development and utilisation

Reflective practice is widely considered to be an integral part of contemporary pedagogical practice in higher education. The integration of reflection and reflective practice into professional education curricula in areas such as nursing, education and the social sciences, has coincided with an expansion of the reflective practice literature which continues to proliferate within a range of disciplinary fields. However, an interesting paradox is beginning to emerge whereby educators who are charged with developing students reflective ability are often required to do so in the absence of practical educator-focused frameworks and/or guidelines. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate by presenting the ‘Blended Reflective Inquiry Educators Framework’ which is designed for educators who wish to support students to develop their reflective abilities and reflective capacity. This innovative framework was developed following a two stage action research study which was designed to investigate how registered nurses can be facilitated to develop reflective practice skills and abilities. The study resulted in the development of this innovative educator's framework which uses an inquiry based, blended learning approach, to facilitate reflective practice.

Mentor, Scholar, Academic, and a Massage Therapist: an Interview with Amanda Baskwill, PhD(c), MSc, RMT

Amanda Baskwill, PhD(c), RMT is influencing the massage therapy profession from seemingly all angles; she is a researcher, massage therapist, educator, innovator, and mentor. Baskwill previously was a full-time faculty member at Humber College in Ontario, Canada, and now holds the position of Associate Dean in the Allied Health School of Health Sciences at the same institution. She has published widely on research centered on the massage therapy profession, as well as the safety and effectiveness of massage therapy as a treatment for various conditions. This interview explores the development, career, and research of the innovative educator and scholar, Amanda Baskwill.

Group for Research in Pathology Education (GRIPE) Becoming an Innovative Pathology Educator

Group for Research in Pathology Education (GRIPE) Becoming an Innovative Pathology Educator

Inhabiting a Welcoming New Landscape: A First Year Teacher's Voyage of Discovery

How does one successfully launch a teaching career? In what ways do teacher preparation programs, schools, and school districts support an individual's transition into the challenging world of teaching? These questions are addressed through the narrative of one new teacher's successful transition from the University of Calgary's BEd Master of Teaching Program into the teaching profession. The first year teacher, a district administrator, and a teacher preparation educator describe the structures, programs, and forms of learning that have enabled the teacher to "live well" as a novice educator. This successful induction into teaching began in a district with a self-described "mentoring culture." Recruitment, orientation, coaching, and evaluation processes are deliberately fashioned to provide a framework of supportive and learner-focused relationships. With these structures as launching points, the teacher's journey unfolds. Her explorations, discoveries, challenges. and questions encourage inquiry into best practices and foster the evolution as an innovative educator.

The 12 Apps of Christmas: an innovative and effective online student and educator support

The 12 Apps of Christmas course is a free open online course that has run at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland in both 2014 and 2015. The 2014 iteration of this course was aimed specifically at instructors and went on to win the Mobile Learning Division of the International E-Learning Award (iELA), and come joint third-place at the eLearning Excellence Awards run as part of the 14th European Conference on eLearning. The 2015 iteration was aimed primarily at students of all ages undertaking further education, third level education, and/or post-graduate study, but also included additional supporting information for educators. This case study sets out our experiences of designing and delivering the 2015 iteration of this innovative and effective student and educator support.

Ernest S. Griffith: A Renaissance Man, a Pioneering Public Administrator

Abstract In the 1940s and 1950s, Ernest Stacey Griffith was well known on Capitol Hill and frequently featured in major newspaper and magazine articles about the work of Congress. He was also recognized as an influential scholar. Today, few members of Congress and only a handful of the thousands employed by the legislative branch have ever heard of him. Even at the Congressional Research Service—Congress's think tank—which he headed for 18 years, Griffith is mostly an unfamiliar name. During his century‐long life, this Rhodes Scholar left an indelible legacy in several arenas. Griffith was not only a pioneering advisor to the nation's legislators and an astute observer of American democracy, he also achieved acclaim as a public administrator, an innovative teacher and educator, an early supporter of the conservation movement, a prominent community and religious leader, and a record‐setting mountain climber.