The Imperative of Diverse and Distinctive Musical Creativities as Practices of Social Justice

2015 ◽  
pp. 356-371
Author(s):  
Pamela Burnard
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cultural Stereotyping ◽  
Memory Conflicts

Social injustice and intercultural tensions are often bound up with conflicts that create intolerances: conflicts of memory, conflicts of value, and conflicts of cultural stereotyping, which serve to demarcate one group from the alien “other.” Raising awareness through research needs to position academics, researchers, non-academics, and arts organizations as collaborative partners for deliberating about and developing intercultural translation; this requires dialogue, exchange, and co-construction. What forms the core of this chapter, then, are findings of ongoing research, presented as a layered story interlocking elements in theory and practice relating to how different types of creativities are recognized and communicated in the diverse practices of a particular organization, Musicians without Borders, whose projects work with the power of music to connect communities. This chapter presents an exploration of the empathic and intercultural creativities that emerge in the songwriting and improvisational practices of musical creativities, empathy, interculturality, practices, improvisation, and songwriting.

The Nature of Degrowth: Theorising the Core of Nature for the Degrowth Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi Heikkurinen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Nature Experience ◽  
Matter Energy

This article investigates human–nature relations in the light of the recent call for degrowth, a radical reduction of matter–energy throughput in over-producing and over-consuming cultures. It outlines a culturally sensitive response to a (conceived) paradox where humans embedded in nature experience alienation and estrangement from it. The article finds that if nature has a core, then the experienced distance makes sense. To describe the core of nature, three temporal lenses are employed: the core of nature as ‘the past’, ‘the future’, and ‘the present’. It is proposed that while the degrowth movement should be inclusive of temporal perspectives, the lens of the present should be emphasised to balance out the prevailing romanticism and futurism in the theory and practice of degrowth.

scholarly journals In the midst of theory and practice: a foreword

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Hannes Peltonen ◽  
Knut Traisbach
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
World Society ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

Abstract This foreword frames the Symposium in two ways. It summarises the core themes running through the nine ‘meditations’ in The Status of Law in World Society. Moreover, it places these themes in the wider context of Kratochwil's critical engagement with how we pursue knowledge of and in the social world and translate this knowledge into action. Ultimately, also his pragmatic approach cannot escape the tensions between theory and practice. Instead, we are in the midst of both.

Use “cross-border E-commerce” multi-dimensional teaching to enhance the core competence of international economics and trade students

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092110134
Author(s):  
Ying Liu
Keyword(s):  
Core Competence ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Operating Mode ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Core Competence ◽  
Employment Quality

For some trade majors who only focus on theoretical studies, they no longer have an advantage in the market. If they do not pay attention to practical training, it will be difficult to gain a foothold in business. In education, people are paying more and more attention to e-commerce. Many schools take “cross-border e-commerce (CBEC)” as a course. This article uses CBEC to implement multi-dimensional teaching, so as to enhance the core competence of trade majors. This research is mainly based on the analysis of the existing teaching program model, and proposes a multi-level, all-round and multi-dimensional teaching method. This article analyzes the current teaching mode of trade major and various related problems in this mode, and proposes a teaching method based on theory and practice in response to the requirements of trade major. In teaching, many teachers will use traditional teaching methods to analyze trade and help students learn about CBEC. If students cannot learn the operating mode of CBEC as soon as possible, it will cause many students to walk out of the school very much. It is difficult to adapt to the requirements of work, and it is also difficult to accept the new CBEC model. This not only affects the employment rate and employment quality of students, but also is not conducive to the transformation and development of foreign trade enterprises. Therefore, we need to teach students based on the market’s demand for CBEC compound talents, let them have close contact with enterprise development, and use school-enterprise cooperation to realize CBEC practical and multi-dimensional teaching in schools, so as to generate training to meet the needs of the cross-e-commerce market Technical personnel.

scholarly journals The Genomics Education Partnership: Successful Integration of Research into Laboratory Classes at a Diverse Group of Undergraduate Institutions

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Shaffer ◽  
Consuelo Alvarez ◽  
Cheryl Bailey ◽  
Daron Barnard ◽  
Satish Bhalla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genomic Sequence ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Bioinformatic Analysis ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Undergraduate Institutions ◽  
Genomics Research ◽  
Genomics Education ◽  
Washington University ◽  
Genome Center

Genomics is not only essential for students to understand biology but also provides unprecedented opportunities for undergraduate research. The goal of the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP), a collaboration between a growing number of colleges and universities around the country and the Department of Biology and Genome Center of Washington University in St. Louis, is to provide such research opportunities. Using a versatile curriculum that has been adapted to many different class settings, GEP undergraduates undertake projects to bring draft-quality genomic sequence up to high quality and/or participate in the annotation of these sequences. GEP undergraduates have improved more than 2 million bases of draft genomic sequence from several species of Drosophila and have produced hundreds of gene models using evidence-based manual annotation. Students appreciate their ability to make a contribution to ongoing research, and report increased independence and a more active learning approach after participation in GEP projects. They show knowledge gains on pre- and postcourse quizzes about genes and genomes and in bioinformatic analysis. Participating faculty also report professional gains, increased access to genomics-related technology, and an overall positive experience. We have found that using a genomics research project as the core of a laboratory course is rewarding for both faculty and students.

Parent-Reported Medication Use in a Head Start Population

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 319-325
Author(s):  
Tara M. Brinkman ◽  
John S. Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
Hispanic Children ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Head Start Children ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Reported Data

This study investigates the prevalence of medication use within a Head Start population. Parent-reported data ( N = 1,397) from initial enrollment information indicated 6.8% of children were taking 34 different types of medication. More than two thirds (69%) of those on medication were prescribed more than one medication, and more than one third (37%) were taking three or more medications. The majority of children were reported to be taking medications that were asthma (88%) or allergy (17%) related. Psychotropic medications accounted for 4% of the medications, indicating a prevalence of less than 0.3%. African American and Hispanic children were overrepresented in those taking medicines. School nurses can work with parents and caregivers of Head Start children by raising awareness of (1) the benefits and side effects of medications commonly taken within this population, (2) the significant role that asthma medications play in low-income areas, and (3) the issues and challenges associated with polypharmacy practices.

scholarly journals The reflective information literacy educator

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Whitworth
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Way

The shift in perception, from librarians as providers of information to librarians as educators in the effective use of information, requires the profession to become aware of differing approaches to the development of teaching and of the professional consciousness of educators: also of the way certain forms of teaching and CPD are privileged over others within higher education institutions, and why. This paper reports on and synthesises a range of theoretical works in this area, to explain how becoming an effective information literacy educator requires not just an awareness of practice, but developing it, through a continous interaction between theory and practice. The librarian-as-educator must engage in professional development practices which, ultimately, require the continuous questioning of the very foundations of IL, and work actively towards raising awareness of these processes throughout their institutions.

scholarly journals Towards the Design of a Community-Engaged Data Visualization Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
Sharon Bratt
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Engaged Learning ◽  
The Core ◽  
Teacher As Researcher ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Assessment Matrix

Educational action research bridges the gap between theory and practice; where the learning design is the proposed hypothesis and the classroom is where it is field-tested by the teacher as researcher (McKernan, 2007; Stenhouse, 1975). Through this lens we see inquiry as a deepened understanding of one’s own practice. The purpose of this study was to critically evaluate the design of an introduction to data visualization course with community-engaged learning as its core pedagogy.  Results show that many of the core elements of community-engaged learning were achieved at the exemplary level, based on the assessment matrix developed by Dahan and Seligsohn (2003). Several recommendations emerged, both situational and generalizable, which could enhance the redesign and improve the experience for practitioners who use community-engaged learning as a core pedagogy.

scholarly journals Online resources of the World Tourism Organization: fostering knowledge and raising awareness in society during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kozińska
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Website Evaluation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Interactive Tools ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Core Mission ◽  
Tourism Organization

The purpose of the article is to explore and describe the resources made available by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss their role in fostering knowledge and promoting awareness in society. The resources are examined using a conceptual model of website evaluation proposed by Li and Wang (2010), which has been adapted to be applicable to the organizational context of UNWTO. The findings show that the UNWTO website resources can be divided into two categories: resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic, e.g. information about existing special groups, and resources connected with the core mission of the UNWTO, e.g. important events from before the pandemic or the organization’s main goals. There are new interactive tools, developed specifically in relation to the pandemic, with relevant data for those involved or interested in the tourism sector. The resources are freely available, easily accessible, abundant, varied and highly informative. The UNWTO website is a gateway to knowledge, providing information about, reasons for and effects of relevant actions of the organization, e.g. raising awareness of the importance of both the pandemic problem but also tourism itself, securing considerable funding for the tourism sector by making world leaders aware of the facts and the importance of tourism, or promoting safe travel measures and encouraging actions aimed at accelerating the recovery of the tourism sector.

scholarly journals White affects and sociolinguistic activism

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Bucholtz
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
The Public ◽  
Raising Awareness

This year, undergraduates in my class ‘Language, race, and ethnicity’ carried out collaborative sociolinguistic activism projects addressing a range of issues in our community, such as racist street signs and California's ban on diacritics in personal names on official documents. Despite my and my teaching assistants’ explicit instructions that the projects should aim to effect some tangible change—the replacement of the street signs, the legalization of diacritics—many students focused instead on the more amorphous goal of ‘raising awareness’ of these issues on our campus and in the local community. As we explained, while raising the public profile of a social injustice is a necessary step toward changing it, this act alone cannot bring about change.

CLUSTERS OF PRINCIPLES OF LEXICAL UNITS CODIFICATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-159
Author(s):  
Larisa Alimpieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Cluster ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Suggested Classification

The article presents the classification of principles of lexical units codification. For objective consideration the principles should be divided into two clusters:1) the realized/ being realized, and 2) the projected ones. Analysis of the principles of codification of lexical units in theoretical lexicographic literature and in dictionaries of different types has shown that the following principles should be included into the cluster of the realized/being realized principles: 1) universal; 2) palliative (peripheral); 3) accessory ones; and 4) principles of educational lexicography. The following principles can be included into the cluster of projected principles of codification of lexical units: 1) theoretical; 2) aspect; 3) practical ones: a) modernized, b) innovative principles. The projective principles are an open cluster which is filled as innovations in theory and practice of dictionary studies are developed. Verification of the suggested classification is possible in the course of further theoretical research.

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