scholarly journals Introduction to the special issue: a conceptual framework for researching the risks to early leaving

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 723-739
Author(s):  
Ceri Brown ◽  
Patricia Olmos Rueda ◽  
Ioannis Costas Batlle ◽  
Joaquín Gairín Sallán
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in Higher Education (HE) Practice. RRI as a Tool for Research, Reflection, and Curricula Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
Réka Matolay ◽  
Andrea Toarniczky ◽  
Judit Gáspár
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Responsible Research And Innovation ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

Our special issue provides insights into how the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can fertilise our educational practices in business and management higher education. The articles in the issue analyse teaching practices from various fields of business and management through the lenses of RRI and take us to Bachelor’s, Master’s and MBA levels of HE. As an introduction to this set of conceptual and research articles, we are providing a brief overview of RRI and a conceptual framework of pedagogical approaches as well as a comparative outline of the articles.

scholarly journals From the Trees to the Wood: Alternative Spirituality as an Emergent ‘Official Religion’?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 187-213
Author(s):  
Jan Kapusta ◽  
Zuzana Marie Kostićová
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Context ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Alternative Spirituality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Existential Issues

Abstract In this introductory study, we place the articles collected in this special issue on ‘spirituality’ in a more general context. In so doing, we contest the idea that alternative spirituality is best studied within the conceptual framework of the ‘vernacular.’ We argue that such an approach tends to unintentionally overstate the empirical particularities and overlook the broader aspects of the subject in question, which results in unreflexively accepting alternative spirituality’s own claim that it is ‘doctrine-free’ and ‘non-institutional’ by nature. Contrary to this claim, we show that alternative spirituality is (a) pregnant with a distinguishable doctrine despite being glocal and inventive; (b) profoundly social and effectively socialized; (c) about to be visibly socially organized and institutionalized; and (d) a way of addressing and redressing the key existential issues of human life, just as any other religion.

scholarly journals Figuring Families: Generation, Situation and Narrative in Contemporary Mothering

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jane Kehily ◽  
Rachel Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Life History ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Maternal Experience ◽  
First Time

This paper contributes to the theme of the special issue by identifying concepts that both embody relationality and have the capacity to address and articulate temporal processes. Based on an empirical study of first time motherhood, we offer a sensitising conceptual framework which privileges the temporal, scaffolding the macro socio-historical with the micro personal and subjective. The study combines longitudinal and intergenerational approaches to develop an understanding of maternal experience as it unfolds, while forging connections between individual biography, generational investments and intergenerational dynamics. Drawing on a conceptual tool kit from life history, cultural studies, social psychology and sociology, we profile two biographical case studies as an illustration of our approach. Our analysis of their contrasting experiences as ‘young’ and ‘old' mothers demonstrates the salience of key conceptual terms including ‘generation’, ‘situation' and ‘narrative' and how this conceptual framework can both map and animate accounts of contemporary mothering.

Conclusion: Digitization and the Continuities of Change in Administrative Information Processing

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 1335-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fleer
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Broad Field ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative Information ◽  
Information Media

This article summarizes the findings of the contributions collected in the special issue “The Technology of Information, Communication, and Administration—An Entwined History” dedicated to the accelerated mechanization and the later digitization of administrative information processing in the 20th century. It develops a conceptual framework around the notions of administration, process, information, media, and power that allow for situating the contributions within the broad field of interaction spanned by the materiality of hybrid administrative processes and the ideological dynamics in society. It suggests promising lines of research for further studies in the history of administration and information.

Attributions and peer harassment

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Causal Beliefs ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peer Harassment

Attribution theory is used as a conceptual framework for examining how causal beliefs about peer harassment influence how victims think and feel about themselves. Evidence is presented that victims who make characterological self-blaming attributions (“it must be me”) are particularly at risk of negative self-views. Also examined is the influence of social context, particularly the ethnic composition of schools and classrooms. It was found that students who were both victims of harassment and members of the majority ethnic group were more vulnerable to self-blaming attributions. In contrast, greater ethnic diversity, that is, classrooms where no one group was in the majority, tended to ward off self-blaming tendencies. Studies of peer harassment are a good context for examining one of the main themes of the special issue, which is how the social context (e.g., peer groups, ethnic groups) influences the way individuals think and feel about themselves.

Brokerage from within: A conceptual framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 092137402110112
Author(s):  
Birgit Bräuchler ◽  
Kathrin Knodel ◽  
Ute Röschenthaler
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Individual Contributions

Situated between various social worlds, brokers are highly mobile figures, in a physical and an ideational sense; they channel scarce information and resources, translate different languages and jargons, and mediate and facilitate between individuals and/or organisations, the local and the global, in a wide range of settings. Taking an in-depth ethnographic look at the actual work of brokers and their particular life stories, contributions to this special issue examine brokers’ successes and failures, their vulnerabilities and limitations, (changing) interests and motivations within the cultural contexts that these brokers are part of. By adopting a comparative perspective in a thematic and a geographic sense, this special issue discusses the role of brokerage in diverse settings such as the transnational world of trade and development, peacebuilding and activism, refugee care and health care, government services and colonialism. In preparing the ground for our individual contributions, this introductory article identifies gaps in the existing brokerage literature and develops the conceptual framework for the special issue.

scholarly journals Making Homes in Limbo? A Conceptual Framework

Refuge ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathrine Brun ◽  
Anita Fábos
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Policies And Practices

This article aims to conceptualize home and homemaking for people in protracted displacement. The article serves three purposes: to present an overview of the area of inquiry; to develop an analytical framework for under- standing home and homemaking for forced migrants in protracted displacement; and to introduce the special issue. It explores how protracted displacement has been defined—from policy definitions to people’s experiences of protractedness, including “waiting” and “the permanence of temporariness.” The article identifies the ambivalence embedded in experiences and practices of homemaking in long-term displacement, demonstrating how static notions of home and displacement might be unsettled. It achieves this through examining relationships between mobility and stasis, the material and symbolic, between the past, present, and future, and multiple places and scales. The article proposes a conceptual framework—a triadic constellation of home—that enables an analysis of home in different contexts of protracted displacement. The framework helps to explore home both as an idea and a practice, distinguishing among three elements: “home” as the day-to-day practices of homemaking, “Home” as representing values, traditions, memories, and feelings of home, and the broader political and historical contexts in which “HOME” is understood in the current global order and embedded in institutions. In conclusion, the article argues that a feminist and dynamic understanding of home-Home-HOME provides a more holistic perspective of making home in protracted displacement that promotes a more extensive and more sophisticated academic work, policies, and practices.

Introduction: Cultural History Goes Global

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-155
Author(s):  
Marek Tamm
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conceptual Mapping ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Cultural Movements ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
History Of

This introduction to the special issue on ‘Global Cultural History’ proposes a historiographic and conceptual framework for a ‘global turn’ in cultural history and for the articles gathered in the special issue. It discusses first the ‘archaeology of global cultural history’, i.e. the previous attempts to expand the scope of cultural history and to focus on connections and comparisons. Next, it proposes a conceptual mapping of global cultural history, concentrating especially on two conceptual triads: comparisons, connections and circulations, and scopes, scales and spaces. Third, the global challenge to the Eurocentric periodization of history is addressed, particularly the various attempts to ‘globalize’ these cultural movements and epochs which are traditionally considered genuinely European. Finally, the introduction argues for a cultural history of the globe, for considering ‘the global’ and ‘the globe’ not only as conceptual tools but also as historical objects.

scholarly journals Creative Mitigation: Alternative Strategies for Resources, Stakeholders, and the Public

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
John G. Douglass ◽  
Shelby A. Manney
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Data Recovery ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Options ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Artifact Analysis

ABSTRACTStandard mitigation treatment for adverse effects to significant cultural resources has historically been a combination of data recovery excavation along with artifact analysis, reporting, and curation, whose purpose is to move the undertaking forward. Over the past several decades, there has been increased interest and understanding of alternative, or creative, mitigation options in these situations, which may, in the end, be the best option for the resource and more meaningful to both project stakeholders and the public. This article, the first in this special issue on creative mitigation, introduces the regulatory and conceptual framework for creative mitigation and weaves themes introduced in subsequent articles in this issue.

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