scholarly journals Crises and disruptions: Educational reflections, (re)imaginings, and (re)vitalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Yusuf Sayed ◽  
Adam Cooper ◽  
Vaughn M. John
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Learning Loss ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Critical Essay ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Usual Approach ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Development Paradigm

COVID-19 has illuminated and exacerbated inequities, yet, as a crisis, it is not exceptional in its effect on education. We start this critical essay by situating the crisis in its historical, economic, and political contexts, illustrating how crisis and violence intersect as structural conditions of late modernity, capitalism, and their education systems. Situating the current crisis contextually lays the foundation to analyse how it has been interpreted through three sets of policy imaginaries, characterised by the notions of learning loss and building back better and by solutions primarily based on techno-education. These concepts reflect and are reflective of the international aid and development paradigm during the pandemic. Building on this analysis, we present, in the final section, an alternative radical vision that calls on a sociology of possibilities and pedagogies of hope that we see to be central to a new people-centred education imaginary to disrupt current inequalities and provide a new way of doing rather than a return to a business-as-usual approach in and through education.

scholarly journals Technology: Increasing Citizen Engagement and Access to Information

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Usual Approach ◽  
Dog Food ◽  
Government Leader ◽  
Business As Usual

The greater potential for engagement is enabling citizens to build new services on top of government systems, and to analyze the same data that government maintains for its internal use. This lets citizens not only comment to government, but co-produce government. To enable this, government leaders should:* Welcome the Civic Hackers - Local government leaders have had some notable successes cooperating with civic hackers to leapfrog the business-as-usual approach of government and its contractors.* Eat Your Own Dog Food - When a government leader makes her agency’s databases shareable with citizens, this will also make the databases more reliable for the agency.* Don’t Panic about Guerrilla Government - Technology is making off-the-clock engagement by government employees both inevitable and productive.Related informatoin is at www.PubAdmin.org

scholarly journals Ciało w procesie konstruowania tożsamości

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław Marzec
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The Body ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Cultural Forces

The main intention of my text is to describe the specific of the somatic turn of cultural studies and, to follow Chris Barker’s proposition, “the desire to understand the ways in which the body becomes the object of shaping and disciplining by social and cultural forces – i.e. how the body acquires meaning in contemporary culture”. The above problem provokes the consideration of the mutual relationships between the culture of late modernity and the category of identity (especially the body in the process of identity construction). The goal outlined in this way aims to present contexts and space for the manifestation of the issues of the body in contemporary culture, The aim of the proposed deliberations is to present the problem of the body from the perspective of reflexive identity (A. Giddens), constructivism perspective (Z. Melosik, A. Gromkowska, M. Bogunia-Borowska), in selected therapeutic systems (J. Kabat-Zinn, A. Lowen, S.&C. Block) and in the final section I present the category of the body in the integral approach to development (K. Wilber). Also, I shortly summarize my analysis and I point to the dangers of the presented approaches especially in the dominant instant culture practices.

scholarly journals Economic Cascades and the Costs of a Business-as-Usual Approach to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Roopnarine ◽  
David Goodwin ◽  
Maricela Abarca ◽  
Joseph Russack
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Usual Approach ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The Impact

Shelter-in-place policies and the closure of non-essential workplaces intended to disrupt transmission of the SARS-COV-2 virus are effective approaches to combating COVID-19. They have, however, caused record levels of unemployment in the United States, raising questions of whether mitigation is more societally damaging than the disease. Here we use a coupled epidemiological-economic model to estimate the impact on employment of an unmitigated, business-as-usual approach to the pandemic. We compared unemployment between March-August 2020 in ten Californian socio-economic systems (SESs) to unemployment forecast by a model of industrial sector inter-dependencies subjected to unmitigated outbreaks of COVID-19. We found that economic losses are unavoidable because disease-driven losses propagate economically through SESs, amplifying losses to the disease. While model forecasts are generally lower than actual unemployment, jobs savings would come at the cost of greatly increased worker mortality. The costs would also be disproportionately greater among smaller and inland SESs.

Realigning Theory, Practice, and Justice in Global South Youth Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Cooper ◽  
Sharlene Swartz ◽  
Clarence M. Batan ◽  
Laura Kropff Causa
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Global South ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
Relevant Theory ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Business As Usual

This essay outlines an agenda for youth studies from the vantage point of the Global South and describes the structure of the Oxford handbook of Global South Youth Studies. Youth in the Global South emerge in the postcolonial world in relation to material and social precarity, with their everyday practices constituting embodied forms of knowing, responses to their social, material, economic, and political circumstances. Research with Southern youth therefore involves working alongside, documenting, and acknowledging these practices, an exercise that constitutes a form of ‘epistepraxis’: a knowledge creation endeavor underpinned by contextually relevant theory, aligned with people’s innovative practices, in search of social justice. This approach is reflected in the structure of the handbook. An introductory section distils the conditions that precipitated the Global South and the characteristics of youthful populations that inhabit it. The second part grapples with features of life for youth in the Global South, unpacking eleven relevant concepts, using Southern theory. The final section continues to explore the intersections of theory, practice, and politics, shifting focus to look specifically at examples of methodological, practical, and policy-related interventions, in an attempt to disrupt business-as-usual knowledge production.

Natural Disasters, Economic Development, and Humanitarian Aid

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Strömberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Societal Factors ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Over Time

Natural disasters are one of the major problems facing humankind. Between 1980 and 2004, two million people were reported killed and five billion people cumulatively affected by around 7,000 natural disasters, according to the dataset maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at University of Louvain (Belgium). The economic costs are considerable and rising. The direct economic damage from natural disasters between 1980–2004 is estimated at around $1 trillion. This paper starts by describing the incidence of natural disasters, where they strike, and their development over time. It then discusses how societal factors act to protect people from or expose them to natural hazards. The final section discusses the determinants and targets of international aid to disaster victims.

scholarly journals Politiske identiteter i senmoderniteten: Belyst gennem unge kvinders fortællinger om politik og identitet

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Anne-Dorte Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Communities

Ann-Dorte Christensen: Political Identities in Late Modernity: young women’s stories about politics and identity The first part of this article examines various approaches to political identities that have been inspired by sociological discussions of identity construction as well as by discussions within political sociology about new forms of politics and power in late modernity. In the second part of the article, political identities among young women are analyzed. The results indicate that the processes of individualization and the constructions of life politics have a variety of meanings and different implications for the women. This means that it is crucial to construct more sensitive theories about gender and political identities in contemporary societies. These new theories must take into account political learning in individual life courses as well as feelings of belonging and participation in multiple political communities in relation to both political institutions and organizations in civil society. The final section of the article discusses the contents of the political identities attempting to renew the theoretical understanding of political identities in late modernity and the potential for renewal of politics and political institutions in a gender perspective.

scholarly journals Shifting away from the business-as-usual approach to research conferences

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. bio056705
Author(s):  
Chelsie W. W. Counsell ◽  
Franziska Elmer ◽  
Judith C. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Usual Approach ◽  
Research Conference ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Climate Crisis

ABSTRACTTo combat the climate crisis, we need rapid, unprecedented social change. Scientists can play a lead role by signaling to society that we recognize the critical importance of redesigning our business-as-usual approach to research conferences. Traditional research conferences have high CO2 emissions as well as significant financial and travel time costs for participants. Using available technology, early career scientists Chelsie Counsell and Franziska Elmer created a global, virtual, coral reef research conference with live talks, recorded contributions, and networking events. Funding from The Company of Biologists allowed this event to be free, supporting attendance of 2700 subscribers and content contributions from 165 participants from diverse backgrounds and career stages. We provide metrics on content viewership and participation in networking activities, note the success of incorporating regionally focused sub-events, and discuss the emergence of a collaborative research project. We highlight the broad accessibility of virtual conferences as well as their increased flexibility in programming, health benefits, and cost savings. Our approach to organizing and hosting a global, low-carbon emission research conference is documented. Finally, we propose a hybrid approach to future conferences with virtually connected remote (sub-regional or local) hubs.

Concluding Remarks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Coghlan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Usual Approach ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

I hope that by now you can see that ‘sustainability’, a deceptively simple word, is a journey itself. The guiding principles of sustainability are to strategically plan using a holistic and adaptive approach; preserve essential ecological processes as well as protect human heritage and biodiversity; develop in a way that sustains productivity over the long-term for all generations; and achieve a better balance of fairness and opportunity between nations. No small task and one that defies our current business-as-usual approach. According to the UNWTO, the end goal for sustainable tourism as a sector is to “take full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities”. It’s a constant process of measuring your impacts, adjusting your practices, working with stakeholders and supply chains, keeping abreast of sustainability-oriented innovations, and scanning your social, technological, environmental, economic and political environments to be able to manage the changes that are inevitably coming your way. In this way, we move from linear thinking to a more systems-based approach that sees tourism as part of a wider, complex whole.

scholarly journals Research and Practice in Language Policy and Planning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Tollefson ◽  
Miguel Pérez-Milans
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Policy And Planning

The opening chapter of The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning addresses many of the current questions that researchers face under contemporary conditions of change tied to so-called late modernity, with an ambition to better understand the current period in which the field of language policy and planning (LPP) operates. Against the background of the academic journey of the editors of the Handbook, the chapter first provides an overview of the foundations of the field of LPP. After this, it details the specific questions that have guided the organization of this volume. In the final section, the chapter maps out some of the different threads of recent LPP research evident in this Handbook, highlighting the issues that scholarly analysis seeks to understand and the approaches to research used in the investigation, and anticipating some of the generalizations that emerge.

scholarly journals Comparing Policies in a Globalizing World: methodological reflections

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 859-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Robertson ◽  
Roger Dale
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Globalizing World

Abstract: This paper explores the methodological challenges in comparing education policies in a globalizing world. It will be developed in the following ways. We begin with sketching out the contours of the changes that have taken place in the governance of education systems as a result of global processes and the challenges to presents us with regarding how we study, and compare, education policies. We do this by way of four ‘isms’ which we problematise as litmusses of global educational change. We then raise the question of comparison, and point to two conflicting ways that it can be used in studying education policy. In the final section of the paper we offer three (not exhaustive) methodological reflections - each with a different dimension through which to explore global education processes - time, space, and logics of governing in education policymaking.

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