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It’s National Wellness Month and to mark the occasion, we asked Kevin Hawkins and Amy Burke - authors of The Mindful Teacher’s Toolkit - and Elizabeth Holmes - author of A Practical Guide to Teacher Wellbeing and The Primary Teacher's School Year Planner – on what they believe wellness in education to be.
Read MoreSince our special issue on human trafficking in The ANNALS (Volume 653 in 2014), we are happy to report that there has been significant growth in both the quantity and quality of research on human trafficking. Here are our findings.
Read MoreAs we consider the re-centering of Indigenous People being visible throughout the world, one must also consider how this visibility has impacted education systems and statistics.
Read MoreThere is a place for everyone in the beautiful process of supporting Indigenous self-determination. Here are four ways you can support Indigenous self-determination today.
Read MoreAll of us, on every continent of the world, is standing, sitting, or working on Indigenous land. Let’s begin to honor this day by moving beyond curiosity that ‘others’, exotifies, and misplaces Indigenous peoples as foreign or removed from common aspects of everyday life.
Read MoreI conceive this post as a public invitation for us to think about Indigenous youth, Uvalde Texas, and our role as educators as we approach the International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples. I ask that you consider the following: Why do we write? Why write now?
Read MoreFor decades, educational leaders and school staff have made significant investments in practices or programs that claim to be effective in supporting our children’s learning. Yet, despite leaders’ and teachers’ best-efforts to use a given program, students often do not benefit, especially our students with disabilities. Perhaps this scenario sounds familiar as you reflect on the investments your organization has made in programs that were abandoned, only to adopt and abandon another, and then another. Unfortunately, this cycle of adoption and abandonment of programs is not unusual in K-12 education. Some have taken pause and wondered, what is keeping us stuck in this cycle and why? Is it the programs we are using or are critical elements consistently missing in the selection, ongoing professional learning, monitoring of program effectiveness, and other critical system elements?
Read MoreWe need a diverse STEM workforce so that innovation and technologies meet the needs of our diverse population. Our study challenges the idea that people with neurodevelopmental disabilities lack potential or interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We use national data on more than 15,000 young adults to find that undergraduates with autism or medicated ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) are actually more likely to select a STEM major than undergraduates without neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Read MoreEvidence shows that we have increasingly been turning to social media groups for advice on health, wellness and many other life matters. Most academic studies have documented the positive social dynamics of virtual support, but connections are not always constructive - here are our findings.
Read MoreAs you begin the submission process by searching for relevant journals, you might find certain journals or disciplines require authors to connect their research to an international audience - here’s how to do it.
Read MoreTo counter and eventually eliminate human trafficking (HT) requires not only a strong response from the criminal justice system, but also a comprehensive, rigorous public health response. We’ve come a long way in the past 20 years, but there’s still much to be done - here are recommendations for future research.
Read MoreA preacher once described the mobile phone as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. While some people may dismiss the preacher for being rather dramatic, most people would admit that the mobile phone nowadays has a personality of its own. And it has become an inexorable part of everyday life, including religion.
Read MoreGiven the lack of research into the link between the individual cultural values of the millennial generation mediated by religious commitment (RC) and brand love (BL), this research intends to the following: (a) identify the individual cultural values of the millennial generation and (b) explain how these values influence BL when mediated by RC.
Read MoreHow do we account for repeated cases of unlawful police violence in multicultural neighborhoods of Europe? Is the police explanation that these are isolated incidents, a few ‘rotten apples’ in an otherwise perfect barrel, adequate? The head of the Institute of Race Relations’ European Research Programme shares her findings.
Read MoreProstate cancer is the most common malignancy among men in the United States and Canada. Traditional factors such as cancer extent (stage) and differentiation grade are employed to assess prostate cancer prognosis, but they lack accuracy. In this study recently published in International Journal of Surgical Pathology, we highlight additional risk factors in prostate cancer: the sieve-like shape of the cancer under the microscope (cribriform pattern) and the number of the cancerous foci within the vascular spaces. We hope to increase men’s awareness of prostate cancer and to provide clinicians with valuable measures to consider when treating their patients.
Read MoreNumerous researchers have examined various aspects of privacy concern and information-sharing behaviour for online social networking sites; few past researches stated that social media users' privacy concern behavior influenced by their demographic profile. This article attempts to analyse social networking users’ privacy concerns and information-sharing behaviours for urban and rural areas of India. It additionally investigates privacy concerns among users with distinctive levels of Internet addiction.
Read MoreNegotiating peace agreements should ideally be a means of ending violence. The political reality in Latin America and many other places around the globe, however, teaches us that political violence and polarization tend to surge after armed fighting comes to an end. The 2016 peace agreement in Colombia promised a different path as it has been applauded for its unique inclusive and comprehensive spirit. The stalled implementation of key reform projects and the systematic killing of community leaders, former combatants, and human rights defenders (HRDs), nevertheless, seem to have cast the same violent shadow over this peace process five years after the ceremonial signing of the agreement.
Read MoreMore people die in auto accidents if they live in the “wrong time zone,” according to new research published in Time & Society. Erratically-drawn time zones in the U.S. may be to blame.
Over twelve years of data, our research team found a 21.8% higher vehicle-fatality rate (VFR) in U.S. counties where the clock says 12 pm well before “high noon.” More than 53 million Americans live in these “eccentric time localities” (ETLs), where social time is severed from solar time.
Read MoreKidney cancer is a disease that affects over 400,000 patients worldwide each year. However, there are at least 15 different subtypes of renal cell tumors, called renal cell carcinomas, that arise from epithelial structures (tubules) within the kidney. Some of these renal cell carcinoma subtypes are associated with aggressive behavior and spread to other organs, leading to death in a subset of patients; whereas other are more indolent and are cured when surgically removed. It is the pathologist’s job to accurately diagnose and subtype specific kidney tumors so that the urologist and/or oncologist can treat the patients with appropriate therapies. After surgical removal, treatment may range from no further therapy to specific chemotherapy depending on the tumor type
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