Guiding Ethics Review in Pharmacy Education Research and Scholarship at UBC: Clarifying the Unclear

While it goes without saying that ethically sound practices are imperative for high-quality educational scholarship, institutional ethics guidance is often unclear about how to treat educational scholarship generally, and quality improvement/assurance studies and the scholarship of teaching and learning, specifically. Amongst health profession education researchers, including those in pharmacy, this lack of clarity has led to confusion regarding existing ethics governance and ambivalence regarding ethics requirements. Drawing on the experiences of one pharmacy school in western Canada, this commentary describes an ethics vetting guide developed explicitly to address current uncertainty about ethics requirements for pharmacy education scholarship. Clarifying the problem, describing the guide, and exploring what was learned along the way provide a basis for re-centering ethics in the development of scholarly projects and decision-making regarding formal ethics review. The importance of instilling ethical intelligence, delineating research from quality improvement/assurance work, and addressing current gaps in ethics oversight and governance of educational scholarship are among key lessons learned during guide development along with suggestions for new institutional ethics guidance directly targeting educational scholarship to supplement current national guidelines.

From Producing to Reducing Trauma: A Call for “Trauma-Informed” Research(ers) to Interrogate How Schools Harm Students

Although “trauma-informed education” has gained momentum across the United States in recent years, a question remains neglected by the research community: How can education research inform understandings of “trauma-informed” approaches when education itself is trauma-producing for many students? This article (1) explores limitations of traumainformed educational scholarship, particularly its reliance on individualized, biomedical understandings of trauma; (2) articulates theoretical reconceptualizations for subsequent research to account for historical trauma and ways schools and research inflict harm on students; and (3) calls for expansion of relational, participatory, and humanizing methodologies. Overall, we argue for a shift from research that focuses on “trauma-informed education” to scholarship that enacts a sociohistorical trauma-reducing framework to more effectively interrogate the intersections of trauma, schooling, and research.

Pedagogical publics: Creating sustainable educational environments in times of climate change

The paper offers a pedagogical response to the complexity of sustainability challenges that takes the existential and emotional dimensions of climate change seriously. To this end, the paper unfolds in two parts. The first part makes a distinction between ‘public pedagogy’ as an area of educational scholarship and ‘pedagogical publics’ as a theoretical lens for identifying certain qualities within educational environments, exploring what potential this distinction has for rethinking public pedagogy for sustainable development. Turning to Bonnie Honig (2015) and her call for creating ‘holding environments’ in the public sphere as a response to the democratic need of our time, the second part translates her political notion into an educational notion asking what fostering pedagogical publics as holding environments might involve. In relation to sustainability challenges, it is suggested that an environment that ‘holds’ people together as a pedagogical public has three main qualities: a) it makes room for new rituals for sustainable living to be developed in order to offer a sense of permanence; b) it invites narratives that can frame sustainability challenges in more positive registers; and c) it reinstates an intergenerational difference that serves to give back hopes and dreams to adults and children in troubling times.

Understanding community family medicine preceptors’ involvement in educational scholarship: perceptions, influencing factors and promising areas for action

Background: Residency training is increasingly occurring in community settings. The opportunity for community-based scholarship is untapped and substantial. We explored Community Family Medicine Preceptors’ understanding of Educational Scholarship (ES), looked at barriers and enablers to ES, and identified opportunities to promote the growth of ES in this setting. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with fifteen purposively chosen community-based Family Medicine preceptors in a distributed Canadian family medicine program. Results: Community Family Medicine Preceptors strongly self-identify as clinical teachers. They are not well acquainted with the definition of ES, but recognize themselves as scholars. Community Family Medicine Preceptors recognize ES has significant value to themselves, their patients, communities, and learners. Most Community Family Medicine Preceptors were interested and willing to invest in ES, but lack of time and scarcity of primary care research experience were seen as barriers. Research process support and a connection to the academic center were considered enablers. Opportunities to promote the growth of ES include recognition that there are fundamental differences between community and academic sites, the development of a mentorship program, and a process to encourage engagement. Conclusions: Community Family Medicine Preceptors identify foremost as clinician teachers. They are engaged in and recognize the value of ES to their professional community at large and to their patients and learners. There is a growing commitment to the development of ES in the community

Teaching in the Service of Fugitive Learning

In educational scholarship, abolition and fugitivity have been used to theorize youth literacy practices (The Fugitive Literacies Collective, 2020), teaching in solidarity with Black and brown communities (Love, 2019), and learning as an act of rebellion within the oppressive structures of schooling (Patel, 2016; 2019). Additionally, recent works in sociology (Shedd, 2015) and anthropology (Shange, 2020; Sojoyners, 2016) have thoughtfully and comprehensively documented the ways in which the disciplinary mechanisms of schools serve to contain, surveil, and expunge Black students. This paper draws on these recent scholarly interventions as a lens through which educators might engage with the students who and schools in which they teach. Patel (2016) suggests that authentic learning in schools structured by racial capitalism is a “fugitive act”—elusive, subaltern, and, as a result, under-theorized” (Patel, 2016, p. 397). What “fugitive acts of learning” take place in our schools? What relationship to these practices can teachers adopt so that we might “serve and shield” these spaces of “unruly learning” (Patel, 2016, p. 400)?

UPAYA PEMBINAAN KEPRIBADIAN DAN KEMANDIRIAN SANTRI DALAM PELAYANAN KESEJAHTERAAN SANTRI (Studi di Pondok Pesantren Tahfidz Baitul Qur’an Kendari)

This study aims to (1) To find out the efforts made by the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Kendari in fostering personality and independence to students (2) To find out the welfare system of students provided by the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Kendari to students (3 ) To find out the supporting and inhibiting factors in fostering personality and independence to students.This research was conducted at the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Kendari located at Jalan Wua Eha, Anggoeya Village, Poasia District. Analysis of the data used is qualitative analysis while data sources use primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques in this study used observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The results of this study indicate the efforts made by the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an kendari in fostering the Personality and Self-Reliance of Santri, namely by providing moral guidance, religious guidance, memorizing the Qur'an, fostering religious education, entrepreneurship management of shops, shops, making food. And Hadroh Art Skills. Santri Welfare Services System in fostering the Personality and Independence of Santri by providing Servicing Services, Educational Scholarship Services, and Health Services. The supporting and inhibiting factors in fostering the personality and independence of students are supporting factors including Community Concern, adequate Facilities and Infrastructure, and Location of the Baitf Qurzan Islamic Boarding School Baitul Qur'an in a strategic vehicle. In addition, the inhibiting factor was also felt by the Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School in kendari, such as the Irregular Donors.