The purpose of this collective instrumental case study was to examine the experiences of six undergraduate students from traditionally marginalized populations with regard to their preparation for, admission to, and retention within a music education degree program. Analyzed and reported through the lens of critical theory, data sources included semistructured interviews with the participants and structured interviews with their high school music teacher and a university-based mentor. Participants described a lack of resources with regard to their preparation for auditions as well as a lack of information regarding the application and audition process. Such inhibiting factors were mediated by personal initiative, hard work, and dedication. The presence of role models and mentors was considered an important aid to their retention within music education degree programs. Participants also provided suggestions for improving access, admission, and retention of students from traditionally marginalized populations.

Purpose Additive manufacturing (AM) can reduce the process supply chain and encourage manufacturing innovation in remote or austere environments by producing an array of replacement/spare parts from a single raw material source. The wide variety of AM technologies, materials, and potential use cases necessitates decision support that addresses the diverse considerations of deployable manufacturing. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews with potential users are conducted in order to establish a general deployable AM framework. This framework then forms the basis for a decision support tool to help users determine appropriate machines and materials for their desired deployable context. Findings User constraints are separated into process, machine, part, material, environmental, and logistical categories to form a deployable AM framework. These inform a “tiered funnel” selection tool, where each stage requires increased user knowledge of AM and the deployable context. The tool can help users narrow a database of candidate machines and materials to those appropriate for their deployable context. Research limitations/implications Future work will focus on expanding the environments covered by the decision support tool and expanding the user needs pool to incorporate private sector users and users less familiar with AM processes. Practical implications The framework in this paper can influence the growth of existing deployable manufacturing endeavors (e.g. Rapid Equipping Force Expeditionary Lab – Mobile, Army’s Mobile Parts Hospital, etc.) and considerations for future deployable AM systems. Originality/value This work represents novel research to develop both a framework for deployable AM and a user-driven decision support tool to select a process and material for the deployable context.

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Millennials are more likely to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) than students from previous generations, signaling new levels of diversity in society. The purpose of this research to resource article is to provide music teachers with empathic models of teaching that encourage critical reflection and foster respectful interactions within the classroom. Tenets of empathic teaching include (a) seeing the world as others see it, (b) remaining nonjudgmental, (c) understanding another’s feelings, and (d) communicating that understanding. Suggestions for music listening and inclusive discourse are provided.

Tourism is the lifeblood of many small island independent states and those that are categorized as small non-independent jurisdictions (SNIJs) such as Aruba. The question that this paper proposes to address is whether and how tourism helps or hinders island development. Research has been conducted on the economic effects of tourism in a global context; however, our approach is to look at its effect in one destination, Aruba, and to contextualize this research by situating it among other Caribbean islands. The rationale is that tourism is of more significance to the Caribbean in terms of economic dependence and tourism intensity. Because of the density of tourism in Aruba and its mono-economical development paradigm this makes for an ideal case study.1 Our methodology is based on an ontological review of the relationship between tourism and economic development utilizing a contextualized definition of development that fits within the philosophical position of Amartya Sen. In that context defined not just in terms of GDP growth but the enhanced social welfare of its citizens also in the Senian sense as distance from unfreedom. The concept of unfreedom for purposes of this paper is based on the extent to which there is an inertia to shift paradigms even if the existing paradigm enhances vulnerability, fragility and restricts opportunities to its citizenry. Therefore, despite its impact on the economy in terms of foreign exchange, investments, and employment, there are considerable and pervasive externalities which should be considered in conceptualizing the totality of tourism's effect on economic and social development. In this essay, we consider Sen's (2000) definition of development as freedom and situate it in that context and introduce the work of envelopment theory as conceptualized by Sankatsing (2016).

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It is the responsibility of North American psychologists working abroad to involve themselves in the educational system of the host country. We contrast the approaches taken by a "lone-wolf" researcher with those of the institution-based consultant, and outline a plan by which, we believe, the latter can contribute meaningfully to the development of a viable research infrastructure within the local country.II incombe aux psychologues nord-americains travaillant a l'etranger de s'engager eux-memes dans le systeme educatif du pays qui les regoit. L'article met d'abord en contraste la perspective adoptee par un chercheur "solitaire" k celle qu'adopte le consultant integre a une institution et decrit ensuite un plan en vertu duquel ce dernier type de chercheur pourrait apporter une contribution importante au developpement d'une infrastructure viable de recherche au sein du pays concerne.

This paper intends to critically review some of the challenges rooted in Aruba's civil law legal heritage in stimulating a post-corona economic recovery which should ideally be driven towards economic diversification. It also seeks to contextualize the effect of Aruba's civil law system on economic growth compared to other Caribbean states with similar size, population, and tourism dependency but with legal systems rooted in the common law. This paper's methodological approach is meta-analytical and includes a critique of the labor laws as well as the substantive role of the state in driving economic performance that is a normative feature in some civil law states. It posits that Aruba's economic responsiveness, to the coronavirus should consider legal origins as a factor that limits its capacity and capability to execute an effective restructuring of tired economic paradigms and introduce new economic models that would challenge its mono-economic status.