Conceptualizing impact in academic development: finding a way through

Finding Our Way through Phenotypes

Despite a large and multifaceted effort to understand the vast landscape of phenotypic data, their current form inhibits productive data analysis. The lack of a community-wide, consensus-based, human- and machine-interpretable language for describing phenotypes and their genomic and environmental contexts is perhaps the most pressing scientific bottleneck to integration across many key fields i...

'finding One's Way' through a Radical Critical Pedagogy

Drawing on McLaren's notion of radical critical pedagogy, I begin this essay by examining the refle Wayne-a 21-year-old, African American university student. His reflections, as those arose in autobiographica essays, not only illuminated a particular stance towards teaching and curriculum, but also directed attention t was teaching. By naming his environment 'racist,' he reveals the uneasy mean...

Finding a Better Way.

Our patient was Mary (please note that the name has been changed to protect confidentiality). She was a mother to one daughter and 3 sons and a grandmother to 5 young children. She was a sister, a daughter, and a dear friend to many. She was a physical therapist whose patients adored her. We, her daughter and sister, were her caregivers. We experienced Mary’s slow demise firsthand, from October...

Mentoring through scholarship-based academic development projects

While there is definitely a place for centrally delivered Professional Development (PD), staff often don’t transfer what they have learned in the PD sessions and return to their workspace usually continuing as before. This paper describes an evidenceand scholarship-based model of PD, where academic developers work closely with teaching staff on projects designed to address teaching needs specif...

Home range and the development of children's way finding.