scholarly journals Insider and Outsider Analysis: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Narratives of Seychelles’ Geography Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691984243
Author(s):  
Indra Persaud
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Geography Education ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The Face ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Curriculum Making

Narrative inquiry offers a rich and rigorous approach to making meaning of the everyday. This article extends the present terrain by suggesting that different narrative meaning-making processes can be layered and unlayered across individual and aggregate narratives. To illustrate this novel approach, geography teachers’ curriculum-making stories were constructed, deconstructed, and then reconstructed. The construction of a set of geography curriculum-making narratives required the use of an outsider, and then an insider, lens. A second outsider lens was used to deconstruct the narratives and link them to broader social, cultural, and historical events. The deconstruction exposed that, in the face of curriculum power struggles, teachers often struggled to take ownership of the geography curriculum. Reconstructing their stories revealed potential strategies for understanding and resisting curriculum control and developing a sense of professional self-worth. Overall, the methodological challenges and benefits of doing narrative research in education from both outsider/insider perspectives are demonstrated. The iterative application of different lenses forms part of a “negotiated” analytical approach that offers an innovative way to analyze everyday stories by setting them within the contexts of broader social change.

scholarly journals Non-expert ratings of infant and parent emotion: Concordance with expert coding and relevance to early autism risk

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason K. Baker ◽  
John D. Haltigan ◽  
Ryan Brewster ◽  
James Jaccard ◽  
Daniel Messinger
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Parent Ratings ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Coding Systems ◽  
Behavioral Coding ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Concordance ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Expert Ratings

This study investigated a novel approach to obtaining data on parent and infant emotion during the Face-to-Face/Still-Face paradigm, and examined these data in light of previous findings regarding early autism risk. One-hundred and eighty eight non-expert students rated 38 parents and infant siblings of children who did (20) or did not (18) have autism spectrum disorders. Ratings averaged across 10 non-experts exhibited high concordance with expert facial-action codes for infant emotion, and 20 non-experts were required for reliable parent ratings. Findings replicated the well-established still-face effect and identified subtle risk associations consonant with results from previous investigations. The unique information offered by intuitive non-expert ratings is discussed as an alternative to complex and costly behavioral coding systems.

Searching and Making Meaning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of African Immigrants in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110224
Author(s):  
Angela U. Ekwonye ◽  
Nina Truong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
The Impact

African immigrants continue to be disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is unclear how they are searching for and finding meaning in the face of this adversity. This study sought to understand how African immigrants in the United States are searching for and making meaning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted in-depth interviews remotely with 20 immigrants from West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana), East Africa (Somali and Rwanda), and Central Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo). The meaning-making model was used as a framework to understand the processes of coping during a significant, adverse life event. The study found that some participants attempted to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their global meaning by seeking answers as to why the pandemic occurred and creating positive illusions. Some redefined their priorities and reframed the pandemic in a positive light. Participants found meaning in the form of accepting the pandemic as a reality of life, appreciating events previously taken for granted, and making positive changes in their lives. This study’s findings can inform health care providers of the meaning-making processes of African immigrants’ and the need to assist them in their search for meaning.

scholarly journals How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110355
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Iatridis ◽  
Jean-Pascal Gond ◽  
Effie Kesidou
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Work Meaningfulness ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Corporate Social

Although interest in meaningfulness is mounting in the growing stream of research dedicated to how professionals experience it, research has only just begun to investigate the complex relationships between the search for meaningfulness and the constitution of professional identity for emerging professional groups. This paper investigates how meaningfulness interacts with the formation and enactment of professional identity, focusing on the emerging professional group of corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultants. Relying on interviews with 39 CSR consultants, we induce two social mechanisms bridging meaningfulness and professional identity, namely ‘meaning-making through professional self-identification’ and ‘meaning-making through professional socialization’. Our results explain how these mechanisms produce distinct, and potentially contradictory, professional identities of CSR consultants, which themselves enable contrasted forms of professional identity enactment. The study advances meaningfulness research by clarifying how the self-other tension is played out through identity formation and revealing the gendered nature of meaningfulness. The research also contributes to studies on professional identity through the specification of meaning-focused mechanisms of identity formation, and ultimately to micro-CSR research by offering a nuanced approach to how CSR is involved in the production of work meaningfulness.

scholarly journals What Does It Take for Early Relationships to Remain Secure in the Face of Adversity?

2021 ◽  
pp. 271-290
Author(s):  
Ana Berástegui ◽  
Carlos Pitillas
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
The Face ◽  
Early Relationships

Attachment relationships as bipersonal, dynamic systems of interaction and meaning-making, can be understood as a resilient mechanism, a level of resilience in itself. A resilient early attachment relationship may facilitate resilience across development and interact with other factors to promote healthier, more resilient societies at different ecological levels. In this chapter, first, the concept of attachment resilience and its constituent factors are developed within the framework of resilience literature. Second, the ecological nature of attachment resilience is posited, and a set of four principles for the ecological study and enhancement of attachment resilience is presented and applied to a case study. Finally, a discussion of the implications of these ideas for interventions with families is developed.

scholarly journals A neoteric multidrug combination: novel approach to limited cutaneous systemic scleroderma involving the face

2016 ◽  
pp. bcr2015212787
Author(s):  
M Hari Kumar ◽  
M Siva Kumar ◽  
Sabitha Hari Kumar ◽  
Kingsly Selva Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Scleroderma ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Face

Costruire la resilienza familiare in contesti post bellici

2009 ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Silvia Galvani ◽  
Wilma Binda
Keyword(s):  
Family Functioning ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Family Function ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Face ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Individual Adjustment

- Recent research findings highlight the role of context and family function-ning (Walsh, 2008) in strengthening resilience both individual and familiar. Studies about adolescents in post conflict context (Galvani, 2008) have confirmed the relevance of meanings (considered both as a making process and content) in mobilizing resources in the face of adversities. Literature (Antonovsky, 1987; Almedom e Glandom, 2007) states that Sense of Coherence (event's Comprehensibility, Manageability and Meaningfulness) indicates resilience in face of critical events. This study on Kosovar adolescents who experienced war during childhood (N. 144) suggests the centrality of family support and family functioning in making meaning out of adversities in order to enact individual adjustment. Data confirm family sense of coherence as resilience mediator in wellbeing.

Security of E-Health Systems Using Face Recognition Based on Convolutional Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Zhixian Chen ◽  
Jialin Tang ◽  
Xueyuan Gong ◽  
Qinglang Su
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Activation Function ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Rectified Linear Unit ◽  
The Face

In order to improve the low accuracy of the face recognition methods in the case of e-health, this paper proposed a novel face recognition approach, which is based on convolutional neural network (CNN). In detail, through resolving the convolutional kernel, rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function, dropout, and batch normalization, this novel approach reduces the number of parameters of the CNN model, improves the non-linearity of the CNN model, and alleviates overfitting of the CNN model. In these ways, the accuracy of face recognition is increased. In the experiments, the proposed approach is compared with principal component analysis (PCA) and support vector machine (SVM) on ORL, Cohn-Kanade, and extended Yale-B face recognition data set, and it proves that this approach is promising.

The influence of operational excellence on the culture and agility of organizations: evidence from industry

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
André M. Carvalho ◽  
Paulo Sampaio ◽  
Eric Rebentisch ◽  
João Álvaro Carvalho ◽  
Pedro Saraiva
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Organizational Agility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
Operational Excellence

PurposeThis article offers a novel approach that brings together management, engineering and organizational behavior. It focuses on the understanding of organizational dynamics in an era of technological change, upholding the importance of organizational agility and of the cultural paradigm in the management of organizations.Design/methodology/approachIn this work, the authors present the conclusions from a set of studies carried out in organizations operating in technical and technological industries. The authors assessed the capabilities of these organizations in terms of operational excellence maturity and its impact on the organizational culture and organizational agility.FindingsResults show the importance of operational excellence either in developing or expanding organizational agility capabilities while reinforcing the cruciality of an excellence-oriented culture to sustain these efforts over time.Originality/valueIncreasingly unstable business environments have led to a growing interest in how to develop and maintain operational excellence in the face of continued and disruptive change. However, this interest has, so far, been advanced with little empirical evidence to support the corresponding predictions. This work offers the first practical evidence that continued focus and optimization of operations, with the right cultural alignment, helps organizations survive and thrive in increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments.

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