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Title: A Psycho-Cultural Approach to Video Games
Contributor(s): Becker Katrin (author)
Date issued: 2006
Description: Jerome Bruner has helped to shape the notion of constructivism, which is of prime significance when looking at pedagogy in games and much of the learning that occurs in games is constructive. In one of his more recent works, “The Culture of Education” (1996), he discusses the importance of nine tenets to the development and maintenance of culture. Many of these touch on recurring themes in many discussions of games (Beavis, 1999; Kafai, 2001; Wolf & Perron, 2003). Bruner believes that “education is not an island, but part of the continent of culture.” (1996, p11) The same can be said of games. Bruner’s tenets guide such a ‘psycho-cultural’ approach to education and this paper will examine...
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Title: Are you game? : the future of learning with technology
Contributor(s): Becker Katrin (author)
Date issued: 2005
Description: Have you ever watched a child or teenager playing a videogame they really liked? Do you wonder what it is about this game that has them so completely engrossed? Part of the answer is that games are motivating, rewarding, engaging, and challenging, all at the same time. The kids will probably just tell you they’re fun. But when you think about it, fun and engagement are synonymous, and engagement is something we all want for our learners. Games also show us that challenge sells – when was the last time you heard that a game was popular because it was easy? Does a game loose its appeal once it has been won? Rarely. The game looses its appeal when players have learned all they can from it....
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Title: Methods of design, an overview of game design techniques
Contributor(s): Becker Katrin (author); Parker J. R. (author)
Date issued: 2014
Description: Key Summary Points The design of games for learning requires knowledge of game design and of instructional design. One cannot merely be layer on top of the other. A learning game must be designed to meet pre-specified learning objectives. Games have specific characteristics that require specific design skills: they are entertaining as well as instructional, interactive, visually appealing, and often replayable.
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Title: Foreword [to The Grounded Instruction Librarian: Participating in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning]
Contributor(s): MacMillan Margy (author)
Date issued: 2019
Description: The book in your hand represents an exciting moment in academic librarianship. Collectively, the work explicitly recognizes the deep connections between the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and the scholarly work of librarians. Individually, the essays and case studies demonstrate a remarkable range of how these connections support and strengthen our contributions to academic and student learning. SoTL provides a way of grounding our scholarly teaching within theories of learning both established and developing. It is a framework for contextualizing the learning we see (or don’t) through research conducted across the disciplines and a portal through which we can enter wider...
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Title: Mental Health Research and Cultural Dominance: An Analysis of the Social Construction of Knowledge for International Development
Contributor(s): Jakubec Sonya L. (author); Campbell Marie (author)
Date issued: 2003
Description: This institutional ethnographic work uses the first author’s experience as an international development worker, educator, and community mental health nurse in West Africa to illustrate how official research and policy on mental health services reflect Western academic, corporate, economic, and cultural dominance. Focusing on a critical textual analysis of a survey intended to support funding applications to international aid/lending agencies, the authors show how official processes privilege Western policies/research approaches and subordinate local perspectives. If nurses, researchers, and policy-makers are to be effective in carrying out development work in Africa, they must learn to...
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Title: Cutaneous afferent innervation of the human foot sole: What can we learn from single unit recordings?
Contributor(s): Strzalkowski Nicholas (author); Peters Ryan M. (author); Inglis J. Timothy (author); Bent Leah R. (author)
Date issued: 2018
Description: Cutaneous afferents convey exteroceptive information about the interaction of the body with the environment and proprioceptive information about body position and orientation. Four classes of low-threshold mechanoreceptor afferents innervate the foot sole and transmit feedback that facilitates the conscious and reflexive control of standing balance. Experimental manipulation of cutaneous feedback has been shown to alter the control of gait and standing balance. This has led to a growing interest in the design of intervention strategies that enhance cutaneous feedback and improve postural control. The advent of single-unit microneurography has allowed the firing and receptive field...
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Title: Teaching with games: the Minesweeper and Asteroids experience.
Contributor(s): Becker Katrin (author)
Date issued: 2001
Description: The value of games as a vehicle for teaching concepts while inspiring students is now well accepted at almost all levels of education. Video games, arcade and computer games are rarely given the same kind of attention. This paper will describe the value of computer games as a motivator and some of the benefits that can be realized by using known computer games as programming applications, even in the first year of a CS program. The use of two such games as assignments in CS1 and CS2 is outlined and some feedback on the experience is offered.
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Title: An on-line course in critical mental health promotion: teaching and learning at multiple spheres of influence
Contributor(s): Jakubec Sonya L. (author); Mascaro Pattie (author); Nordstrom Pamela M. (author); Judd Lynn (author); Weimand B. (author)
Date issued: 2012
Description: Background: Supportive environments contribute to the mental health of individuals, local and global communities. Ways of thinking “critically” about what we know and ways of accomplishing mental health promotion work have a more contested history however. A critical perspective demands subjective awareness, and an openness to view the world from multiple perspectives. As such, a collaborative, international, and fully on-line course was developed between post-secondary educational institutions in Norway and Canada. This course intends to meet a need for critical awareness and understanding of the connection of diverse perspectives and environments to mental health promotion practices in...
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Title: Decoding the Disciplines as a Hermeneutic Practice
Contributor(s): Yeo Michelle (author)
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter argues that expert practice is an inquiry which surfaces a hermeneutic relationship between theory, practice, and the world, with implications for new lines of questioning in the Decoding interview.
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Title: Evidence Summary: Enhanced Catalogue Records Positively Impact Circulation but Are Not Used to Their Potential in Patron Searching
Contributor(s): Merkley Cari (author)
Date issued: 2012
Description: Objective – To determine how content-enriched catalogue records impact the circulation rates of print resources in four subject areas, and to investigate how this additional metadata influences OPAC searching and item retrieval. Design – Analysis of circulation data, bibliographic records, and OPAC search logs. Setting – A library at a four-year undergraduate residential college in the North-eastern United States. Subjects – Bibliographic records for 88,538 titles; data from 7,782 circulation transactions; and 130 OPAC search strings and related circulation data. Methods – In the first part of the study, bibliographic records for print items published since 1990 were extracted from the...
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Title: Umbanda and Hybridity
Contributor(s): Engler Steven (author)
Date issued: 2009
Description: Scholars of religion continue to talk of syncretism where their colleagues have moved on to talk of hybridity. This paper reviews critiques of the latter concept and argues that ‘hybridity’ can be a useful concept, but only if further specified. I follow Peter Wade in distinguishing between hybridity of origin (the combination of pre-existing forms), and hybridity of encounter (the result of diasporic movements). I propose a third type, hybridity of refraction, in order to highlight the manner in which religiousor cultural phenomena refract social tensions within a specific nation or society, resulting in a spectrum of ritual, doctrinal and/or religious forms. The typology is not meant to...
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Title: Umbanda and Africa
Contributor(s): Engler Steven (author)
Date issued: 2012
Description: This article argues that scholarship on Umbanda (a distinctively Brazilian hybrid of Candomblé, Kardecist Spiritism, and popular Catholicism, with romanticized indigenous elements) manifests certain limitations that lead to insufficient emphasis on the religious tradition’s internal doctrinal, ritual, and organizational variation. It compares the complex and ambivalent place of African traditions in Umbanda and Candomblé, highlighting the extent to which Umbanda has been seen as derivative, more distant from Africa. The article also notes other distorting factors such as centros in the southeast of Brazil being considered normative, and scholars focusing inordinately on the question of...
Appears in collection(s): Arts