scholarly journals Book review: C. Popan (2019). Bicycle Utopias Imagining Fast and Slow Cycling Futures. Routledge.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aspasia Paltoglou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Slow Cycling ◽  
Virtuous Cycle ◽  
Distance Travel

Cosmin’s book ‘Bicycle Utopias:Imagining Fast and Slow Cycling Futures’ invites us to imagine a different world wherepredominantly bikes are used (at least) for short-distance travel within citiesand claims that the domination of cars is unsustainable and certainly notinevitable.  It also discusses the meritsof slow cycling and warns that the needs for speed and eternal economic growth arenot sustainable. He uses utopia as one of the methods to examine our commonlyheld beliefs and practices, along with auto-ethnography and other methods. Thisbook will certainly make the reader think, question their practices andpriorities, realize that today’s actions can shape the future, and that acar-centric world is not sustainable. A city dominated by slow cycling couldencourage the development of the local economy and small coops for cyclerepairs, deliveries, and generally helps create a virtuous cycle ofsustainable, sociable and healthy living.  

scholarly journals Journeying Through Informing, Reforming and Transforming Teacher Education: Reflections on Curriculum Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Sadruddin Bahadur Qutoshi
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Ways Of Being

This paper aims to address ‘how an auto/ethnographic muse explores informing, reforming and transforming states of teacher education and research practices.’ I critique informing and reforming states of teacher education in Pakistan for the limitations associated with these approaches rooted within the colonial system of education.  Within these two approaches to education, I share the experiences of teaching, learning, research practices, and beliefs, which could not address a broader view of teacher education. To address the research problem, I applied an unconventional approach to research by using auto/ethnography as a methodological referent within a multi-paradigmatic research design space. In so doing, I used the paradigms of interpretivism, criticalism, postmodernism, and integralism as data referents, which enabled me to capture the lived experiences of my professional lifeworld at different stages. Moreover, I used critical reflections on the experiences as a teacher, teacher educator, and researcher as epistemic techniques to explore, explain and construct meaning out of the perceptions, beliefs, and practices. Perhaps, engaging autobiographically as an approach to knowing deep-seated views and practices and critically reflecting on the embodied values of practices open new ways of being and becoming a transformative learner(s). This paper invites readers to reflect critically on their own deep-seated practices by using such unconventional approaches to research that would enable them to experience a paradigm shift in their thinking, believing, viewing, and doing. I believe that in doing so, practitioners as researchers, with their own embodied values of practice in their professional lives, can transform self/others by creating their own living-educational-theories.

A Study on the Impact of Industrial Concentration on the Economic Growth Based on the Analysis of Gini Coefficient of the Construction Regions

2010 ◽  
Vol 29-32 ◽  
pp. 2703-2708
Author(s):  
Xiao Zheng ◽  
Zhen Ning Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Industrial Concentration ◽  
Southeast China ◽  
The Impact

This paper reveals the concentration status of the construction industry in the 8 provinces of southeast China, its impact on the local communities, and proposes a tentative plan to stimulate local economy through industrial concentration based on the measurement and calculation of Gini coefficient in the 8 provinces and regression analysis of their population and output of steel and concrete.

Multiplier Effects and Local Economic Impact

2012 ◽  
pp. 320-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Von Allmen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Employment Benefits ◽  
Sports Team ◽  
Multiplier Effects ◽  
Full Time Employment

This article investigates the multiplier model in the context of the local impact of expenditures on sports infrastructure. There are two fundamental reasons for the lack of empirical evidence of large multiplier effects: inflated estimates of the direct effects, or the “base” increase in spending; and leakage from the local economy that diminishes the multiplier. The appropriate base expenditure of hosting a team in a city is the net new spending on local incomes and businesses plus local taxes paid. The effect of tax rates on the multiplier is less ambiguous. The full-time employment benefits are small, as the ratio of part-time to full-time employment is roughly ten to one. The role of government in stimulating economic growth has always been the subject of debate in macroeconomics. Local economic impact studies argue that stadium projects and playing host to a professional sports team are legitimate engines of economic growth.

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