Ecologically Sustaining Research Partnerships

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa M. Jozwiak ◽  
Karen L. B. Burgard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Ecological Systems Model

It is essential that universities and local or government agencies begin to work together to do unconventional and impactful research that is mutually sustaining to both partners. When done well, the partnerships will strengthen the positions of each institution to continue to do their work and create new opportunities for equity and advancement. The challenges associated with building these types of partnerships are numerous, but even more challenges exist when the partnerships are committed to working in solidarity. To create partnerships that are examples of solidarity leading to mutual sustainability, partners must be intentional about using an ecological-systems model to shape the decision-making process. In doing so, the partners enact an Ecologically Sustaining Research Partnership (ESRP), which ensures that both partners are strengthened by and exist beyond the life of the partnership. Importantly, ESRPs are committed to equity and empowerment and use the ecological-systems model to shift the basis of power in favor of commonly oppressed groups. This emancipatory approach to research is essential for the field of early childhood, but it can also be expanded to guide partnerships between universities and communities across disciplines.

Top Down or Bottom Up? A Study of Grassroots NGOs’ Approach

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biswambhar Panda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Advocacy Activity ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Government Authority

NGOs deploy multiple approaches to achieve their objectives. These may broadly be classified as bottom up and top down. While a bottom-up approach emphasises local decision making, community participation and grassroots mobilisation/movements, the top-down approach focuses on lobbying and bargaining with the decision-making authorities such as government agencies, building up of pressures through various campaign mechanisms, advocacy activities, etc. This article draws insights from the literature and begins with a discussion on approaches undertaken by grassroots NGOs to meet their objectives. At the outset, the article ponders over a set of questions such as whether grassroots NGOs essentially follow a bottom-up approach. If so, why? Do they also intend to establish rapport with the state officials and thereby have say in the decision-making process? If so, how do they pursue it? This article, however, operationalises the bottom-up approach in terms of an array of indicators such as awareness building efforts of NGOs, people's participation in different phases of projects, and people's involvement in creating people's institutions. Similarly, it defines top-down approach on the basis of indicators such as NGOs’ participation in advocacy activity, obtaining support from government authority and obtaining favourable court verdicts. Despite the rhetoric, this article conclusively finds that no grassroots NGO practices either a bottom-up or top-down approach exclusively.

scholarly journals “Walking in Two Worlds”: Towards an Indigenist Ecological Systems Model for Group Therapy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Fish ◽  
Glenn Hirsch ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Ecological Systems Model

Walking in two worlds is a common metaphor Indigenous peoples use to describe their experiences navigating the differences between Indigenous and Western epistemological and ontological worldviews across various contexts. Despite wide support for this phenomena, there have been few attempts to address Indigenous-Western cultural incongruities through structural changes in counseling psychology, though we are well-equipped as a profession to do so. Thus, we propose for counseling psychology to move towards an Indigenist Ecological Systems Model (IESM; MASKED, 2018) as an integrative framework for promoting Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies in science and practice. We provide a brief overview of IESM and a direct application of the model through a case illustration of Walking in Two Worlds, a psychotherapy group for Indigenous peoples. With IESM, we describe creating an Indigenous-informed clinical intervention that leverages Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, prompting real ecological change. We conclude with implications IESM has for counseling psychology.

Policy Consultation in Malaysia Public Service

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Fazni Mat Arifin ◽  
Nooraini Othman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Consultative Process

The aim of this article is to discuss the process of public policymaking and how the policy consultation helps to elaborate the processes involved in enhancing cooperation among government agencies. Existing literature indicates that there has never been any research that studies in detail on the consultative process of the process of policymaking in the country’s public service. The only available guidance is in the National Policy on the Development and Implementation of Regulations to improve the decision-making process for policy implementation. Therefore, a further reference has been done to a qualitative study on the policymaking process of the proposed National Halal Policy. The study indicates that an effective consultative approach must be able to act as either a vehicle of communication or stakeholder management in the policy process. The framework of negotiation-based policy consultative informs clearly on what types of consultative process practiced by the country and how does it operate in promoting wider participation in the policy process.

Place-Consciousness and Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Model: A Discussion of Recurring Issues that Undermine the Teaching of Indigenous Histories in New Zealand and Australian Schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Manning
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Tasman Sea ◽  
Ecological Systems Model ◽  
Indigenous Land

This article draws upon a ‘tale from the field’ (Van Maanen, 1988) to encourage New Zealand and Australian teachers of history and social studies to appraise how their own perceptions of place and teaching about Indigenous peoples’ histories impact upon their students’ learning. Moreover, it explains why Uri Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological systems model (despite its limitations) can assist the process of critiquing the teaching of Indigenous histories in schools on both sides of the Tasman Sea. It concludes that place conscious Indigenous land-based learning experiences, resulting from mutually beneficial collaborations with Indigenous communities, are needed to enhance the teaching of Indigenous peoples’ histories in both countries.

scholarly journals The Role of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory in Enhancing Interpretive Consistency in Mixed Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony John Onwuegbuzie ◽  
Kathleen M. T. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Sampling Design ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Systems Theory ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Ecological Systems Model

One of the nine major threats to legitimation (i.e., the degree that integration of findings leads to credible and defensible meta-inferences) is sample legitimation integration (Onwuegbuzie & Johnson, 2006). Addressing this form of legitimation requires the researcher to maintain interpretive consistency between the selected sampling design and the inferences made from the ensuing findings.  To facilitate researchers’ efforts to address interpretive consistency, in this article, we provide a meta-sampling framework that is structured in accordance to the dimensions of Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological systems model. In this meta-framework, the four dimensions of the model are juxtaposed to various types of generalizations, sampling-based considerations, and mixed sampling criteria. Application of this inclusive framework is appropriate for the conduct of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research. 

scholarly journals An ecological systems model of trait resilience: Cross-cultural and clinical relevance

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 96-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Maltby ◽  
Liz Day ◽  
Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska ◽  
Jarosław Piotrowski ◽  
Hidefumi Hitokoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Relevance ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Ecological Systems Model ◽  
Trait Resilience
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