scholarly journals From crisis to reform? Exploring three post-COVID pathways

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjen Boin ◽  
Paul ‘t Hart
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Change Policy

Abstract Crises are often viewed as catalysts for change. The coronavirus disease crisis is no exception. In many policy sectors, proponents of reform see this global crisis both as a justification and an enabler of necessary change. Policy scholars have paid ample attention to this crisis-reform thesis. Empirical research suggests that these proponents of crisis-induced change should not be too optimistic. The question remains why some crises give rise to reform whereas so many others do not. This paper focuses on one particular factor that crisis researchers have identified as important. Crisis research suggests that the outcome of the meaning-making process—the efforts to impose a dominant frame on a population—shapes the prospects of postcrisis change. The paper offers three ideal-typical framing scripts, which researchers can use to study postcrisis trajectories.

scholarly journals Film as medium for meaning making: A practical theological reflection

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita L. Cloete
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Practical Theological

The reflection on film will be situated within the framework of popular culture and livedreligion as recognised themes within the discipline of practical theology. It is argued that theperspective of viewers is of importance within the process of meaning-making. By focusing onthe experience and meaning-making through the act of film-watching the emphasis is not somuch on the message that the producer wishes to convey but rather on the experience that iscreated within the viewer. Experience is not viewed as only emotional, but rather that, at least,both the cognitive and emotional are key in the act of watching a film. It is therefore arguedthat this experience that is seldom reflected on by viewers could serve as a fruitful platform formeaning-making by the viewer. In a context where there seems to be a decline in institutionalisedforms of religion, it is important to investigate emerging forms of religion. Furthermore, theturn to the self also makes people’s experiences and practices in everyday life valuableresources for theological reflection. This reflection could provide a theoretical framework forespecially empirical research on how film as specific form of media serves as a religiousresource and plays a role in the construction of meaning and religious identity.

scholarly journals Cognitive Semiotics: An emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Zlatev
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Comparative Psychology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Methodological Triangulation ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Synthetic Approaches

The article provides an overview of ongoing research and key characteristics of Cognitive Semiotics, an emerging field dedicated to the “transdiciplinary study of meaning”, involving above all researchers from semiotics, linguistics, developmental and comparative psychology and philosophy. The combination of the following features distinguish it from other synthetic approaches: (a) integration of theoretical and empirical research; (b) ontological pluralism and methodological triangulation; (c) influence of phenomenology; (d) focus on dynamism and (e) the ambition of true transdisciplinarity. Its ultimate goal is to provide new insights into the nature and culture of human beings, as well as other meaning-making creatures.

The Effects of Three Instructor Participatory Roles on a Small Group’s Collaborative Concept Mapping

2021 ◽  
pp. 073563312110572
Author(s):  
Fan Ouyang ◽  
Weiqi Xu
Keyword(s):  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Concept Maps ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Student Group ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Collaborative Concept Mapping

Collaborative concept mapping, as one of the widely used computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) modes, has been used to foster students’ meaning making, problem solving, and knowledge construction. Previous empirical research has used varied instructional scaffoldings and has reported different effects of those scaffoldings on collaboration. To further examine the effects of instructional scaffoldings, this research implements three different instructor participatory roles (i.e., cognitive contributor, group regulator, and social supporter) to support online collaborative concept mapping (CCM). We use multiple learning analytics methods to examine the group’s CCM processes from the social, cognitive, and metacognitive dimensions, supplemented with assessments of the concept maps. The research reveals different effects of three instructor participatory roles on the group’s collaborative behaviors, discourses, and performances. When the instructor engaged as a cognitive contributor, the student group achieved a lowly-interactive, low-level metacognitive engagement and behavior-oriented knowledge construction; when the instructor engaged as a group regulator, the student group achieved a socially-balanced, high-level metacognitive engagement and behavior-communication-interrelated knowledge construction; and when the instructor engaged as a social supporter, the student group achieved a highly-interactive, medium-level metacognitive engagement and communication-oriented knowledge construction. Based on the results, this research proposed pedagogical, analytical, and theoretical implications for future empirical research of CSCL.

scholarly journals Showing/Sharing: Analysing Visual Communication from a Praxeological Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Collaborative Practices

This contribution proposes a methodological framework for empirical research into visual practices on social media. The framework identifies practices, pictures and platforms as relevant dimensions of analysis. It is mainly developed within, and is compatible with qualitative, interpretive approaches which focus on visual communication as part of everyday personal communicative practices. Two screenshots from Instagram and Facebook are introduced as empirical examples to investigate collaborative practices of meaning-making relating to pictures on social media. While social media seems to augment reflexive, processual practices of negotiating identities, visual media, in particular, amps up aesthetic, ambivalent and embodied dimensions within these practices.

scholarly journals An Islamic Spiritual Alternative to Addiction Treatment and Recovery

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-162
Author(s):  
Benaouda Bensaid ◽  
Salah Ben Tahar Machouche ◽  
Mustafa Tekke
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Rehabilitation Therapy ◽  
Treatment Scheme ◽  
Addiction Prevention

The Islamic spirituality permeating the practice of Muslim religious beliefs, values, and norms, is positioned to play a pivotal role in addiction prevention, treatment, rehabilitation therapy and recovery of Muslim addicts. This study seeks to explore potential interconnections between spirituality, addiction treatments, recovery, and the ways and means with which Islamic spirituality may assist addicts in coping with inner urges, relapse, and recovery. This study seeks to lay the groundwork for future theoretical and empirical research on spirituality and addiction, development of spirituality-based addiction programs, and the assessment of related current spiritual philosophies, methods, and strategies. This inquiry discusses spirituality as a source of meaning-making and purpose cultivation, self-discipline, motivation, support, reintegration, and related issues arising in these regards, and highlights the need for utilizing spirituality as a critical instrument in addiction treatment programs. Islamic spirituality however is neither – and should not be considered - a sole treatment scheme, nor does it appreciate absolute reliance on non-spiritual means of recovery in favor of positivistic empirical methods. [Spiritualitas Islam meresap ke pelbagai praktik keberagamaan, nilai dan norma, yang mana hal ini juga berperan penting pada pencegahan, pengobatan, terapi rehabilitasi dan pemulihan kecanduan pada umat muslim. Artikel ini mengeksplorasi potensi keterkaitan antara spiritualitas, penyembuhan kecanduan, pemulihan dan cara serta sarana spiritualitas Islam dalam membantu pecandu mengelola kondisi batin, ketika kambuh dan pemulihan. Studi ini berusaha meletakkan dasar bagi penelitian teoretis dan empiris dimasa depan tentang spiritualitas dan kecanduan, pengembangan program kecanduan berbasis spiritualitas, dan penilaian filosofi, metode, dan strategi spiritual terkait. Artikel ini membahas spiritualitas sebagai sumber pembentukan makna dan penggalian tujuan, disiplin diri, motivasi, dukungan, reintegrasi, dan isu-isu terkait yang timbul dalam hal ini, dan menyoroti kebutuhan untuk memanfaatkan spiritualitas sebagai instrumen penting dalam program perawatan kecanduan. Spiritualitas Islam bagaimanapun juga bukan–dan tidak boleh dianggap–satu-satunya skema pengobatan, tapi juga tidak tergantung mutlak pada sarana pemulihan non-spiritual yang mendukung metode empiris positivistik.]

scholarly journals Changing reading paths in a digital age: What are the consequences for meaning-making?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
Zuzana Petrová ◽  
Rastislav Nemec
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Digital Text ◽  
Text Design ◽  
Paradigmatic Change

Abstract Everyday experience and a growing part of empirical research illustrate the changing reality of reading in our society in recent years. There are many empirical, pedagogical and philosophical studies that reflect on the falling level of general knowledge of the population and the superficiality of young people’s reading comprehension. In this study, we aim to identify and analyse how reading is changing with the emergence of a new text architecture and the replacement of alphabetic, print-based text with screen-based text, and ask whether this new ontological variant could also bring about a change in the epistemological “qualities” of reading. We go beyond the design of digital text itself to ask how changes in text design affect the role of alphabetic text in meaning-making. We then examine specific aspects of the change in the nature of reading itself and how they could lead to a paradigmatic change in pedagogy and literacy.

Design practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik BOHEMIA ◽  
Noémi ZAJZON ◽  
Sharon PRENDEVILLE
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Design Practices

Design practices inherently cope with meaning making, but the semiotic notion of sense seems to be misled. Despite the evolution of Industrial Design over the past years, design research has been widely criticized for its groundlessness. In 2009, we proposed theoretical frameworks to overcome the absence of specific foundations to support empirical research in design semiotics. Funded by Whirlpool Latin America in partnership with Fapemig (2010-2012), such frameworks were built on ethnographic methods and had their assumptions empirically tested. The results showed that carrying out theoretical and empirical research simultaneously is epistemologically effective. In 2013, a theoretical-empirical phase started, yet several issues remain unclear. Some theoretical advancements have been achieved, such as The Trefoil Model, but now there is a need to face further questions, such as: How to cope with evidence in field research within design semiotics? Are we taking on the development of a Theory of Design Consequences?

Dignity Therapy

2021 ◽  
pp. 495-501
Author(s):  
Harvey Max Chochinov ◽  
Maia S. Kredentser
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Dignity Therapy ◽  
Impact Scale ◽  
Desire For Death ◽  
Loss Of Dignity

Maintenance and promotion of patient and family dignity is a core tenet of palliative care and has significant implications for end-of-life experience, with loss of dignity associated with increased suffering and desire for death. This chapter provides an overview of empirical research on dignity at the end of life, including the model of dignity in the terminally ill, measures to assess dignity including the Patient Dignity Inventory and the Dignity Impact Scale, and dignity therapy, an intervention aimed at bolstering dignity, meaning-making, and generativity needs to improve the end-of-life experience for patients and families. These topics are discussed in the context of a proliferation of research in the last decade across a diversity of cultures, languages, and illness groups.

Some Findings of the Empirical Analysis of the 2008—2009 Global Crisis Determinants

2012 ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
M. Stolbov
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
The World ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The paper synthesizes the results of the empirical research of the 2008—2009 global economic crisis determinants. Some of them are additionally tested and specified. In particular, the so called decoupling hypothesis is suggested to be split into weak and strong forms: the developing economies appear to have been vulnerable to the global crisis, but in a lesser degree than the OECD countries. Trade determinants of the crisis haven't proved their dominant significance over financial channel factors. Public debt relative to GDP is a new variable on the crisis determinants list, as it limited the scale of stabilizing policies during the crisis due to growing risks of violating public finance resilience. The paper also shows that the probability of a new crisis comparable to the 2008—2009 global recession has not reduced and poses a serious challenge to the world economy now.

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