Patrick Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | DILLON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University at Stark |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sacred Places as Cultural Ecologies
Sacred places take many forms and are experienced and understood in many different ways. There are no fixed definitions. For me, a sacred place is somewhere that is recognised for its spiritual significance, usually because of the way people engage with it through ceremony, worship of a deity, or acts of homage. It may be a large tract of landscape or a modest or prominent feature within a landscape. It may have cross-cultural significance or it …
A Meta-Theoretical Systematic Review of the Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication
While the influence of the culture-centered approach (CCA; Dutta, 2008 ) on health communication scholarship is undeniable, there has been no evaluation of its application in the field. Guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines for systematic reviews (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff & Altman, 2009), we analyzed a corpus of empirical, peer-reviewed literature (n = 47) that used the CCA. Our findings demo…
Young people's engagement with their school grounds expressed through colour, symbol and lexical associations
This paper reports a comparative study in a Finnish school and a British school of the emotional associations made by 10–11-year-olds with their school grounds. Colour and symbol associations were used as a stimulus for getting students to engage with their school grounds, describe their feelings about them, and produce a lexicon of ‘emotion words’. The lexicon was used by the students in writing descriptive texts explaining ‘place meanings’ and …
Assessing the 2010 Affordable Care Act
In March of 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (known together as the Affordable Care Act or ACA). The largest legislative overhaul of the US health care system since the expansion of the Social Security Act in the 1960s, it invoked a fierce national debate about the elements required for reform. Many of the ACA's provisions do not take effect u…
Cosmologies and Lifestyles
This essay critiques the majoritarian, post-Enlightenment, scientific worldview, the assumptions it makes about human cosmologies and lifestyles and how, in turn, these assumptions influence the nature of education systems. The critique focuses on how the experiences of minority cultures, particularly those cultures that are nomadic or pastoralist, challenge some of the fundamental premises of majoritarian education. There follows a cultural ecol…
Functional Metabolism
Trajectories and Tensions in the Theory of Information and Communication Technology in Education
For largely historical reasons, information and communication technology in education has been heavily influenced by a form of constructivism based on the transmission and transformation of information. This approach has implications for both learning and teaching in the field. The assumptions underlying the approach are explored and a critique offered. Although the transmission approach is entrenched in procedures and pedagogies, it is increasin…
A Meta-Theoretical Systematic Review of the Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication
While the influence of the culture-centered approach (CCA; Dutta, 2008 ) on health communication scholarship is undeniable, there has been no evaluation of its application in the field. Guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines for systematic reviews (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff & Altman, 2009), we analyzed a corpus of empirical, peer-reviewed literature (n = 47) that used the CCA. Our findings demo…
Young people's engagement with their school grounds expressed through colour, symbol and lexical associations
This paper reports a comparative study in a Finnish school and a British school of the emotional associations made by 10–11-year-olds with their school grounds. Colour and symbol associations were used as a stimulus for getting students to engage with their school grounds, describe their feelings about them, and produce a lexicon of ‘emotion words’. The lexicon was used by the students in writing descriptive texts explaining ‘place meanings’ and …
Trajectories and Tensions in the Theory of Information and Communication Technology in Education
For largely historical reasons, information and communication technology in education has been heavily influenced by a form of constructivism based on the transmission and transformation of information. This approach has implications for both learning and teaching in the field. The assumptions underlying the approach are explored and a critique offered. Although the transmission approach is entrenched in procedures and pedagogies, it is increasin…
Functional Metabolism
Cosmologies and Lifestyles
This essay critiques the majoritarian, post-Enlightenment, scientific worldview, the assumptions it makes about human cosmologies and lifestyles and how, in turn, these assumptions influence the nature of education systems. The critique focuses on how the experiences of minority cultures, particularly those cultures that are nomadic or pastoralist, challenge some of the fundamental premises of majoritarian education. There follows a cultural ecol…
Assessing the 2010 Affordable Care Act
In March of 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (known together as the Affordable Care Act or ACA). The largest legislative overhaul of the US health care system since the expansion of the Social Security Act in the 1960s, it invoked a fierce national debate about the elements required for reform. Many of the ACA's provisions do not take effect u…
Young people's engagement with their school grounds expressed through colour, symbol and lexical associations
This paper reports a comparative study in a Finnish school and a British school of the emotional associations made by 10–11-year-olds with their school grounds. Colour and symbol associations were used as a stimulus for getting students to engage with their school grounds, describe their feelings about them, and produce a lexicon of ‘emotion words’. The lexicon was used by the students in writing descriptive texts explaining ‘place meanings’ and …
A Meta-Theoretical Systematic Review of the Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication
While the influence of the culture-centered approach (CCA; Dutta, 2008 ) on health communication scholarship is undeniable, there has been no evaluation of its application in the field. Guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines for systematic reviews (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff & Altman, 2009), we analyzed a corpus of empirical, peer-reviewed literature (n = 47) that used the CCA. Our findings demo…
Sacred Places as Cultural Ecologies
Sacred places take many forms and are experienced and understood in many different ways. There are no fixed definitions. For me, a sacred place is somewhere that is recognised for its spiritual significance, usually because of the way people engage with it through ceremony, worship of a deity, or acts of homage. It may be a large tract of landscape or a modest or prominent feature within a landscape. It may have cross-cultural significance or it …
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works)