Intermediary workers: Narratives of supervision and support work within the halfway house setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-426
Author(s):  
Katharina Maier
Keyword(s):  
House Staff ◽  
Halfway House ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Parole Officers ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
State Agents ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Support Work

Drawing on interviews with halfway house staff, this article provides insight into how these workers conceive of their work and occupational identities within the specific context of the halfway house. Specifically, I examine how halfway house workers seek to differentiate their work and approach to governing former prisoners from that of parole officers. I demonstrate how halfway house workers in this study capitalized on their intermediary position as quasi-state agents, using meso-level complications and struggle to carve out a space in which they felt empowered to carry out multiple, and sometimes conflicting, agendas in their everyday work with halfway house residents.

Understanding Hospice Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Baron ◽  
John Hassard ◽  
Fiona Cheetham ◽  
Sudi Sharifi
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter presents a reflexive account of life in a hospice—one that will reveal how the members see, feel, and think about the culture of their organization. During the period of data collection the authors had extended conversations with staff from all disciplines and with a number of people who regularly volunteer at the Hospice. They also attended many meetings and observed working practices to give a greater insight into what the Hospice means to those who work there. The chapter examines how dealing with issues of death and dying as part of everyday work can impact on the members and stakeholders of the Hospice. Wider discussion of some of the major ideas in the literature, and their application to the Hospice setting, provides evidence to support some of the main theories reviewed.

scholarly journals Situační analýza a role diskurzů v sociálněvědním výzkumu

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Markéta Košatková
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into

The article introduces situation analysis (cf. Clarke 2005) as an epistemologicalontological basis for science freed of the positivistic paradigm. Situation analysis in a broader perspective dives into present discourses as well as discourses that have been concealed. At the meso-level, the analysis offers insight into social and discursive arenas formed by collective actors, key material elements, social organizations and institutions. At the micro-level it is aimed at the position of individual actors in a situation. Situational analysis provides multidimensional research resonating marginalized discourses and supports the everydayness of knowledge in a socially engaged, emic research of social reality. The focus on language constructions in the humanities allows for the re-definition of one’s own entities, formulas, and rules. Their (im)possible transgression is a necessary response to the accelerated and diverse shape of the recent globalized and particularized society.

scholarly journals A Neuro Linguistic Programming’s modelling process for the development of and guidance to congregations: An adaptive ministry

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Bester ◽  
Johann A. Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Modelling Process ◽  
The Way

Several congregations in the workspace of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa are losing viability and sustainability. This can be attributed to various factors, the most prominent being isolation. Isolation is defined here as the inability of some congregations to move away from maintenance and an inward focus towards making necessary adjustments on the way to a dimension of missional focus. While commitment and enthusiasm are present in the work of all congregations, some find it difficult to adapt their established ideas and in some cases obsolete customs and traditions. Other congregations have made the necessary adjustments by defining themselves as missional. In congregations where constructive change occurs, the focus moves to undertake congregational ministries. The congregation not only gains insight into their own situation but also becomes aware of God’s calling for that specific congregation within a specific context. The focus shifts from their own situation and needs to the needs and challenges of the context surrounding the specific congregation. A consequence of this change in focus is that the whole ministry of the congregation adjusts accordingly. These congregations discover their own unique spirituality and begin to ask: For whom do we exist? The article is based on a PhD thesis, where Osmer’s four questions of practical theology were brought into the conversation with the modelling process of neuro-linguistic programming, in an attempt to sojourn with congregations towards a contextual missional focus. This research was undertaken to expand Osmer’s four questions of practical theology by using the modelling process of neuro-linguistic programming so that congregations may succeed in making the necessary adjustments.

scholarly journals TOWARDS A GENERIC 3D STANDARDISATION APPROACH FOR THE NETHERLANDS SUPPORTING DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS AND ENCODINGS

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W15 ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Stoter ◽  
H. Ledoux ◽  
F. Penninga ◽  
L. van den Brink ◽  
M. Reuvers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Small Area ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Flexible Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
3D Data ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
3D Representations

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In this paper we present an open and flexible approach for the standardisation of 3D geographical data, describing our physical environment in such a way that it can serve different applications. The aim of our approach is to keep the standard as simple as possible so that implementation in different software is straightforward and the reuse of once collected 3D data in different domains is optimally supported. Therefore, we propose to model the semantics of real-world objects independent from their application and we distinguish between the conceptual model and encoding. The result is a 3-layer approach, in which the first layer contains the conceptual model: the object types with their definitions and properties. This layer reuses definitions of various existing models (national and international) as much as possible. The second layer contains the modelling constraints: the set of rules that define how the objects from the conceptual model are represented in 3D as needed for a specific context or application. This second layer contains additional (3D) requirements to standardise the 3D representations of the objects. The third layer contains encoding profiles, thus specifying how different formats can best be encoded; these formats could be JSON or XML/GML.</p><p>In this paper we motivate and describe our approach. For a small area we have developed a prototype that implements the 3 different layers. The prototype shows how the approach can be implemented for one specific application and additionally it provides insight into further development.</p>

scholarly journals How theory and design-based research can mature PBL practice and research

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 879-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana H. J. M. Dolmans
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Single Solution ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Many educational institutions in higher education switched to problem-based learning (PBL) in the last 5 decades. Despite its’ successful implementation worldwide, many institutions still encounter problems in their daily teaching practices that limit deep learning in students. This raises the question: How else can we look at PBL practice and research? The main argument of this reflective paper is to better align PBL practice with the theories or principles of contextual, constructive, self-directed and collaborative learning. This paper explains what these principles or theories are. In addition, it discusses a new way to bridge theory and practice: design-based research (DBR), which combines redesigning theory-based teaching practices with investigating these practices in close collaboration with various stakeholders. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to address the problems encountered in PBL. We should be very careful in drawing conclusions about which PBL approach works best. No single solution works optimally under all conditions. At most, DBR can help us gain better insight into why PBL with certain characteristics, preferably based on theory, might work in a specific context with particular goals in mind.

scholarly journals The Garden Collective : a short documentary film

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Wylie
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
The Many ◽  
Past Injustices ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Women ◽  
Insight Into

This paper is written in support of The Garden Collective, a short documentary film exploring the memorialization of the former Prison for Women (P4W) in Kingston, Ontario. The film documents the P4W Memorial Collective, a group of formerly incarcerated women, activists and academics, working to establish a memorial garden to honour the many women who lost their lives inside P4W. The Garden Collective features interviews with the Collective and other former prisoners of P4W to provide insight into prisoners’ experiences and past injustices, as well as call into question the ways in which the prison is currently being remembered and historicized by the surrounding community. This paper begins with a chapter analyzing the historical and political context of P4W, followed by a chapter exploring the content within the film from an abolitionist approach. The final chapter of this paper is dedicated to the film’s methodology, visual techniques and ethical challenges.

Migration Infrastructure and Brokerage in Victorian Female Emigration Societies

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-50
Author(s):  
Marie Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract In the nineteenth century, female mobility was eased by a variety of intermediary structures, which interacted to direct the migration of British women to the Empire. Among these migration infrastructures were female emigration societies such as the Female Middle Class Emigration Society (1861–1886). This organisation was the first to assist gentlewomen in emigrating. It adopted a holistic approach to British female emigration by promoting women’s departure, selecting candidates, arranging their protection on the voyage, as well as their reception in the colonies. Grounded in a multifactorial perspective, this article offers an insight into how female migration brokerage came into being in the Victorian context. It intersects migration with gender and labour perspectives in a trans-sectorial approach of the history of female migration infrastructures in the British Empire, and reveals the diversity of transnational migration intermediaries interacting at meso level between female emigrants, non-state actors, and state institutions.

BORN TOO SOON—THE STORY OF EMILY, OUR PREMATURE BABY

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 925-925
Author(s):  
JEROLD F. LUCEY
Keyword(s):  
Premature Infant ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Premature Baby ◽  
House Staff ◽  
Insight Into

I bought this book with the hope that it might help parents deal with the problems of having a premature infant. It doesn't. The author is a talented reporter and a very articulate, angry parent. Her story and that of Emily, her 760 gram daughter with NEC, is tragic. Once again, neonatologists and others are cold distant figures who inhabit NICU-land. They are about as friendly as a high frequency ventilator! Mrs. Butterfield's (E. Mehren's) views of our strange world are fascinating. One can learn a lot from her about our many failures in communication. Her description of a father's ordeal in NICU-land is particularly moving. He's a famous author under pressure, trying to do his best to be a good father. He nearly fails in Mrs. Butterfield's eyes. In my eyes he was nearly heroic! This book will give you some insight into the incredible problems parents face in dealing with the NICU environment and its staff, other parents and visitors. Neonatologists, house staff, obstetrical nurses and social workers will cringe when they read this, but if they can take it, they can learn a lot. Most of the parents of premature infants are very young, frightened and completely overwhelmed. Do many feel like Mrs. Butterfield? I hope not. I'd like to think that the painful things described don't happen very often in NICUs. If they do, we're in more trouble than I realized. After you've read this book, give it to your house staff. Its painful but educational.

scholarly journals Leadership practices in collaborative innovation: A study among Dutch school principals

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114322096209
Author(s):  
WA de Jong ◽  
D Lockhorst ◽  
RAM de Kleijn ◽  
M Noordegraaf ◽  
JWF van Tartwijk
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Practices ◽  
School Principals ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Collaborative Innovation ◽  
Team Player ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Insight Into

School principals and teachers are expected to continuously innovate their practices in changing school environments. These innovation processes can be shared more widely through collaboration between principals and teachers, i.e. collaborative innovation. In order to gain more insight into how school principals enact their leadership practices in leading collaborative innovation, we interviewed 22 school principals of primary, secondary and vocational education in the Netherlands. All participants have implemented the same collaborative innovation programme, aimed at enhancement of collaboration between teachers and school principals within schools, that has already been implemented by 900 Dutch schools. They were interviewed twice during the implementation year. Interview transcripts were analysed using an open coding strategy looking for leadership practices. Based on 11 leadership practices, we described two main leadership patterns: school principals enacting leadership practices as either a team player or as a facilitator. We conclude that our findings suggest a wider repertoire of leadership practices than is reported in previous studies. Future studies would need to address the generalisability of the practices and patterns as found in this specific context of collaborative innovation.

scholarly journals Architects of happiness: Notes on the mindwork of migration

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Alexandra Dantzer
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of this paper is to propose an alternative take on the phenomena of migration by discussing the notion of happiness seen as technology of the self that is oriented towards the future and therefore connecting different times and places. This understanding is predicated upon the comprehension that happiness shapes what coheres as a world and that it is always anticipated, rather than actual. I want to argue that migration, instead as simple crossing of the border and settling for “better life”, is an on-going mental process that I refer to as mindwork. Through the proposed framework mobility is understood as a way of achieving happy life. In contrast to previous theories, emotions are not seen as vehicles making the migration process easier or harder, but vice versa. By inverting the process anthropologist can refine their approaches in both fields, anthropology of emotions/happiness and migration studies and gain deeper insight into questions such as: what does it mean to be happy in a specific context, how does happiness enter the lives of people and last but not least why do some people migrate and what do they invest into this process marked with ambiguity?

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