Browsing by Author "Lenart, Bartlomiej A."

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    A Scoping Review of Text-Matching Software Used for Student Academic Integrity in Higher Education
    (2021-09-21) Hayden, K. Alix; Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Pethrick, Helen; Crossman, Katherine; Lenart, Bartlomiej A.; Penaluna, Lee-Ann
    Text-matching software has been used widely in higher education to reduce student plagiarism and support the development of students’ writing skills. This scoping review provides insights into the extant literature relating to commercial text-matching software (TMS) (e.g., Turnitin) use in postsecondary institutions. Our primary research question was “How is text-matching software used in postsecondary contexts?” Using a scoping review method, we searched 14 databases to find peer-reviewed literature about the use of TMS among postsecondary students. In total, 129 articles were included in the final synthesis, which comprised of data extraction, quality appraisal, and the identification of exemplar articles. We highlight evidence about how TMS is used for teaching and learning purposes to support student success at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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    APA 7th Edition Training
    (2019-11-19) Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Lenart, Bartlomiej A.; Jones, Rhiannon; Premji, Zahra A.
    Materials from the APA 7th Edition training session offered on November 21, 2019. Learning objectives: (1) Describe the major differences between the 6th and 7th editions of the APA manual; (2) Explore how to demystify APA standards for students; (3) Explain how to set clear teaching and learning expectations for students around citing and referencing; (4) Engage in discussion about how to build a culture of integrity broadly in teaching and learning.
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    Enlightened Self-Interest: In Search of the Ecological Self (A Synthesis of Stoicism and Ecosophy)
    (2010-07) Lenart, Bartlomiej A.
    Neass’ Ecosophy and the Stoic attitude towards environmental ethics are often believed to be incompatible primarily because the first is often understood as championing an ecocentric standpoint while the latter espouses an egocentric (as well as an anthropocentric) view. This essay, however, argues that such incompatibility is rooted in a misunderstanding of both Ecosophy and Stoicism. Moreover, the essay argues that a synthesis of both the Ecosophical and Stoic approaches to environmental concerns results in a robust and satisfying attitude toward the environment, namely an enlightened self-interest, which not only guards our fragile environment from abuse, but also provides self-interested reasons and motivations for the protection of our natural surroundings.
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    Review of Humanist geography: An individual’s search for meaning. Staunton, by Yi-Fu Tuan
    (Nature and Human Life, 2014-04) Lenart, Bartlomiej A.
    Review of Yi-Fu Tuan. (2012). Humanist Geography – An Individual’s Search for Meaning. George F. Thompson Publishing. 181 pages.
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    Shaking up story time: A case for shaping the nature of information literacy instruction in public and school libraries through philosophy
    (2019-06) Lenart, Bartlomiej A.; Lewis, Carla J.
    While the Philosophy for Children (P4C) method has been adopted within classrooms by individual teachers and into some school systems by schoolboards, public and school libraries, the ideal users of this sort of programming, have been slow to recognise the benefits of this didactic methodology. This is particularly surprising given that the P4C method integrates perfectly with traditional story-time orientated programming. Not only is the integration of P4C into story-time sessions virtually seamless (as it does not aim to replace, but rather strives to enhance story-telling), but it might also help reinvigorate a well-established feature of library programming with an aim to develop 21st-century information literacy competencies. This paper examines the case for the P4C method, explains the process of integration of the P4C method with traditional story-time, and highlights the potential benefits of incorporating Philosophy for Children in public and school library programming.
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    Why We Shouldn’t Pity Schrödinger’s Kitty: Revisiting David Lewis’ Worry About Quantum Immortality in a Branching Multiverse
    (De Gruyter, 2019-03-08) Lenart, Bartlomiej A.
    David Lewis cautions that although a no-collapse interpretation of quantum mechanics entails immortality for trans-world selves, the nature of the branching leaves us crippled, lonely, deathly ill (although never dead), and mentally infirm, meaning that immortal life, on such terms, amounts to an existence in eternal torment. This paper argues that the problem Lewis points to is in fact one of individuation and that a synthesis of Lewis’ own notion of perdurance and Robert Nozick’s closest continuer theory, when cast in the mould of a deterministic multiverse (as conceived by the Oxford quantum physicist David Deutsch), individuates trans-world selves in such a way as to allow to prune the infinitesimal expectation of a miserable eternal existence from the histories of most trans-world agents. Thus, contrary to Lewis’ warning that if personal identity is a trans-world notion, then we should all shake in our shoes, this paper argues that even if we are trans-world selves, we almost certainly have nothing to worry about.