scholarly journals ‘Look under the sheets!’ Fighting with the senses in relation to defecation and bodily care in hospitals and care institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. medhum-2019-011766
Author(s):  
Sjaak van der Geest ◽  
Shahaduz Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Sensory Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Sensory Activity ◽  
Emotional Effects

This essay focuses on sensory aspects of care in situations surrounding defecation in hospitals and other care institutions. Sensory activity does not merely encompass pleasant experiences that enhance healing and well-being. Anthropologists—and other disciplines as well—have paid little attention to unpleasant and disgusting experiences that our senses meet and that may rather increase pain and suffering in the context of care. Our essay therefore reflects on a common but highly uncomfortable aspect of being a—sometimes bedridden—patient: defecation. The sensory effects of human defecation are well known. They affect at least four of the five traditional senses. But equally repulsive are the social and emotional effects that defecation in a hospital context has on both patients and professional and other care providers. The essay is based on anthropological observations and the authors’ personal experiences in Bangladesh, Ghana and the Netherlands and covers a wide variety of cultural and politicoeconomic conditions. It further draws on (scarce) scientific publications as well as on fictional sources. Extensive quotations from these various sources are presented to convey the lived sensorial experience of disgust and overcoming disgust more directly to the reader.

Transforming Personal Narratives: An Evaluation of a Songwriting Workshop for Rural Women

2019 ◽  
pp. 154134461986654
Author(s):  
Wendy Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Transformative Learning Theory ◽  
Reflective Journals ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences

The purpose of this article was to evaluate the contribution to the social and emotional well-being of rural women of a 3-day songwriting workshop. Six participants wrote songs and performed these locally and at the Women of the World Festival. Guided by narrative inquiry and transformative learning theory, this case study included data from reflective journals, one-on-one interviews, and written songs. Vignettes of the women’s key life moments were constructed and analyzed thematically. Four themes were identified: the importance and influence of personal experiences on songwriting, learning from process and one another, intrapersonal benefits, and interpersonal benefits. The article argued songwriting workshops provide opportunities for participants to reflect on experiences and to transform their worldviews. That is, songs and the songwriting process can help participants to restory their lives and enhance their sense of social and emotional well-being.

scholarly journals Beyond Virtual Classrooms: Exploring Feelings in the Social World

2021 ◽  
pp. 104837132098516
Author(s):  
Chiao-Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Supportive Relationships ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Chronic Stressor

In this column, I continue to focus on creating supportive relationships in the virtual classroom amid the pandemic and growing social unrest. As many schools continue to shift between hybrid and remote learning, I ask, how do we address our own and students’ emotional well-being to promote active learning during the pandemic? How can we as teachers help students cope with this chronic stressor, be it the COVID-19 pandemic or the racial inequality? I share my own personal experiences and argue that affect/feelings/emotions are embodied thoughts imbricated with social values and often involved in the preservation of social expectations and power relations. I suggest that educators recognize affect/feelings/emotions as a critical part of students’ embodied experiences, encourage students to attend to their surrounding world and live their life with heightened consciousness and reflectiveness. I end this column with a few curriculum ideas for readers to consider.

Social bonding and music: Evidence from lesions to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Belfi
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Neurobiological Model ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Effects

Abstract The music and social bonding (MSB) hypothesis suggests that damage to brain regions in the proposed neurobiological model, including the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), would disrupt the social and emotional effects of music. This commentary evaluates prior research in persons with vmPFC damage in light of the predictions put forth by the MSB hypothesis.

The social and emotional well-being of divorced residential parents

Sex Roles ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 247-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Buehler
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals The Implementation of the Whole School Approach on Social and Emotional Guidance in Rural Primary Schools in Sarawak, Malaysia: The Perspectives of Regular Teachers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Koh Sing Tnay ◽  
Shahren Ahmad Zaidi Adruce ◽  
Chuo Yew Ting ◽  
Omar Haji Mahli
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Whole School ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regular Teachers ◽  
Whole School Approach

This study explored the implementation of the whole school approach (WSA) on social and emotional guidance (SEG) in rural primary schools in Sarawak, Malaysia. Regular teachers (<i>N</i> = 2,532) in Sarawak responded to an electronic survey. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the socio-emotional guidance model were employed to explore the level of implementing the WSA on SEG among the respondents. Factors affecting the intention to be involved in SEG were also explored. This paper provides insights for policymakers and educational administrators to promote the social and emotional well-being of rural students in a developing country.

scholarly journals Curriculum Design for Building and Developing the Social-Emotional Skills of Preschoolers

Educatia 21 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
Irina-Mihaela Trifan ◽  
Olga Chiș
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Early Years ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Emotional Skills ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Social And Emotional Skills ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comparative Results

"The present study investigates the theoretical, methodical and practical aspects which emphasize the importance of the formation and development of social and emotional skills during early years, which have a major impact over children’s long-term growth, while also assuring their adjustment in society, the cut down of unwanted behaviours and provides social and emotional well-being for the preschooler. The steps dedicated for the pedagogical experiment have had the purpose of verifying the efficacy of the application of the project - The Development of Social and Emotional Skills Curriculum (DeCo - SE)- and was targeted towards building and growing said skills for the last year preschoolers. The results of the research revealed that the efficiency of applying a curriculum based on building and developing the social and emotional skills of preschoolers. We conclude that the study gave promising results on the prevention and reduction of undesirable behaviors, the identification of emotions, tolerance to frustration, relaxation through deep breathing techniques, methods of controlling anger and destructive behaviors among preschoolers. The comparative results presented in this study reinforce the findings of other international studies (Merrell et al., 2008), according to which the implementation of The Development of Social and Emotional Skills Curriculum (DeCo - SE) contributes to reducing undesirable behaviors, children being modeled in a positive way, having a positive social attitude, managing to easily adjust their emotions."

scholarly journals Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aileen Moreton-Robinson ◽  
Mark McMillan ◽  
David Singh
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Extractive Industries ◽  
Interpretive Phenomenology ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
United Nations Declaration

The articles in this edition again attest to the broad range of scholarly concerns that signify the growing disciplinary maturity of critical Indigenous studies. The first article, by Mary Goslett and Vanessa Beavan, draws on empirical research concerning improving the social and emotional well being (SEWB) of Aboriginal women through listening to their experiences of identity and culture. Deploying interpretive phenomenology in their analysis of the women's accounts, they discerned interdependent themes that captured their experiences. They conclude by reiterating the need for decolonising approaches to SEWB, informed by the very people whose experiences are being canvassed in our efforts at amelioration. The second article, by Valmaine Toki, notes the optimism that greeted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. However, Toki further illuminates the routine violations and breaches that followed, particularly those by extractive industries and business activity generally. The article examines the fraught relationship between Indigenous rights, the state and business imperatives.

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