scholarly journals Online Restorative Mediation Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 1510-1516
Author(s):  
Anton Iu. Konovalov
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Network Communities ◽  
Penal Institutions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Online Mediation

In 2019–2020, the COVID threat has changed ordinary life in many countries, including Russia. The fear of epidemic has affected people’s condition and caused anxiety. Many people have found themselves isolated, unable to leave their homes and go to work, which further increased tensions. Those minors, who were shifted to distance learning format and forced to stay at home, also felt vulnerable. The specialists of the “helpline” note growing number of calls, including those related to family and child-parental conflicts. The author organized a series of expert webinars, where the features of restorative practices and online mediation were discussed. The participants were practicing mediators, restorative justice specialists, children’s helpline psychologists, members of the All-Russian Association for Restorative Mediation, and other specialists from Russia, Latvia and Ukraine. The results of these discussions have formed this research. The most important result is that when it is impossible to use the means of face-to-face communication, then the mediator (facilitator) needs to develop and master other methods and techniques for successful communication management, as well as trust and sincerity between the participants. Let us imagine it in a way: an author of a fiction book and a director of a film based on the same book will use different means to convey its meaning and states of the participants, but in the book through descriptions, and in the film through music and other cinematographic techniques, there will be a single content and the essence of the work. The ideas and recommendations for online mediation described here can be useful not only for the isolation period, but also when working with those people who are difficult to access directly. For example, for those who live in closed institutions: hospitals, specialized educational institutions, temporary detention centers, penal institutions with remote location without an opportunity to come to a meeting, homeschooled students and their parents, if the parties do not want to communicate in direct contact with the members of network communities, etc. Moreover, Russia has already such experience and it needs to be expanded further

COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS DURING THE CRISIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Madina T. Gurieva ◽  
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Ekaterina A. Trofilenkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Products ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Product Portfolio ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Continuous Mode ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Restrictive Measures

The purpose of the article is to analyze specifics of the communication construction and adaptation of cultural institutions products during the crisis. The pandemic associated with the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus had a serious impact on all spheres of life and required a revision of many familiar processes. In particular, the system of communication with consumers in the spheres of culture and education had to be substantially restructured. Also in those areas the development and implementation of new products and projects, adapted to the restrictions conditions, became urgent. On that basis, the article deals with the specifics of creating and promoting educational products in a period of quarantine restrictions as well as of the most crisis-prone areas of work. The key outcome can be defined as the conclusion that an important factor in the effectiveness of communications is the study of the consumer needs, and in a continuous mode. The spheres of education and culture, in that case, are no exception. The prospects of the study are associated with the fact that new products related to the crisis and restrictive measures do not disappear with the return to “ordinary” life, but remain in the product line of many organizations. However the ratio of traditional and new products in the assortment portfolio of different organizations will be different, which depends on many factors. Studying the factors and thus effectively managing the product portfolio are tasks for future periods. It is thereupon (along with the study of needs) that it is necessary to develop a communication strategy for the organizations of the spheres of culture and education.

Pagdihon: The Art and Language of Pottery Making in Bari, Sibalom, Antique

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edbert Jay M. Cabrillos ◽  
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Rowena S. Cabrillos ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Photo Documentation ◽  
Language Pattern ◽  
Art And Language

Pottery is seen as creation of ornamentals, cooking and storing materials. Yet, while economic gains are often considered from producing these materials, the artistic and linguistic aspects have been ignored. This study discusses the factors influencing the culture of pottery, the processes of pottery making, and seeks to uncover the language used in processes of pottery making in Bari, Sibalom, Antique. A qualitative research employing ethnographic study with participant observation and face to face interviews using photo documentation, video recording and open-ended questions in gathering the data was employed. There were five manugdihon, or potters, purposively selected as key informants of the study. The study revealed that environmental factors influenced the culture of pottery making in the barangay. There were seven main processes in pottery making. These included gathering and preparing of materials, mixing the needed materials, cleaning the mixed clay, forming of desired shape, detaching, drying, and polishing and varnishing. Further findings indicate that, together the other processes, the language used in poterry making was archaic Kinaray-a, the language of the province. This language pattern suggests a specialized pottery making. Ultimately, the study suggest that the manugdihon should continue their artistic talents so that the language may be preserved. The educational institutions of the province may provide ways to include pottery making in the curriculum so that the art and language of pottery making will be preserved and promoted.

scholarly journals Pemberdayaan Masyarakat pada Budi Daya dan Pengembangan Produk Pohon Gaharu (Aquilaria sp.) di Kabupaten Tolitoli, Sulawesi Tengah

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Triadiati Triadiati ◽  
Miftahudin Miftahudin
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Tree Breeding ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Face To Face

Tolitoli District has a potential for agarwood trees in the forests, but it has not been optimally utilized and preserved by the local communities. Therefore, efforts are needed to increase understanding and community involvement in cultivation and product development of agarwood trees. The objectives of this activity are: to explore agarwood tree species in the forest and sources of local inoculums using a purposive sampling method for agarwood production, to assess the suitability of agro-climates for agarwood tree cultivation, to conduct face-to-face training and practice for agarwood tree breeding and bio-induction by injection, and to identify socio-economic conditions to support agarwood tree cultivation for community empowerment through product development and cultivation in Kabupaten Tolitoli. The project was implementated by exploring and identifying the existence of natural agarwood trees and agarwood farmers, training, and mentoring. The results of exploration and identification showed that Kabupaten Tolitoli has natural resources of agarwood trees in the forest and local inoculums for the bio-induction of agarwood formation. Also, the local community, including the local government, practitioners, farmers, and educational institutions, have great interest and desire for product development and cultivation of agarwood trees. Thus, it can be concluded that community empowerment through product development and cultivation of agarwood trees in Kabupaten Tolitoli can be implemented.

scholarly journals A Needs Assessment for Indigenous African Language-Based Programming Languages

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ezekiel K. Olatunji ◽  
John B. Oladosu ◽  
Odetunji A. Odejobi ◽  
Stephen O. Olabiyisi
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
African Languages ◽  
European Languages ◽  
To Come ◽  
High Degree

AbstractThe development of an African native language-based programming language, using Yoruba as a case study, is envisioned. Programming languages based on the lexicons of indigenous African languages are rare to come by unlike those based on Asian and / or European languages. Availability of programming languages based on lexicons of African indigenous language would facilitate comprehension of problem-solving processes using computer by indigenous learners and teachers as confirmed by research results. In order to further assess the relevance, usefulness and needfulness of such a programming language, a preliminary needs assessment survey was carried out. The needs assessment was carried out through design of a structured questionnaire which was administered to 130 stakeholders in computer profession and computer education; including some staffers and learners of some primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions in Oyo and Osun states of Nigeria, Africa. The responses to the questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The analysis of the responses to the questionnaire shows that 89% of the respondents to the questionnaire expressed excitement and willingness to program or learn programming in their mother tongue-based programming language, if such a programming language is developed. This result shows the high degree of relevance, usefulness and needfulness of a native language-based programming language as well as the worthwhileness of embarking on development of such a programming language.

scholarly journals The Digitalization of Self-Access and Advising Services in Times of a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 248-265
Author(s):  
Tarik Uzun ◽  
Gamze Guven-Yalcin
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
Advisory Program ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Advising Services ◽  
Academic Year

The global pandemic forced educational institutions worldwide to adapt to a new, fully online concept of education and a rapid digitalization to keep providing their services to learners. This paper reports on the digitalization process of the Independent Learning Center (ILC) and the Learning Advisory Program (LAP) unit at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU), Turkey. The interrelated digitalization stories of the two units include the provision of learning resources and activities to learners with digital tools and their responses to the new format. Despite the challenges involved, the ILC has offered a considerably higher number of extracurricular activities than in face-to-face education days and reached a higher number of learners in the 2020-2021 academic year. As for the LAP, the participants’ reflections showed how opportunities for offering engaging activities in the LAP created a cascading impact of affordances for both the individual learners and the members of the larger community.

Designing for Social Connectivity (Not Everyone Likes Webcams)

eLearn ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
William P Lord
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Complex Solutions ◽  
To Come

COVID-19 has forced vast numbers of educational institutions to shift their operations from being delivered face-to-face to being delivered online. As a result, academic institutions have had to scramble to find complex solutions that meet systems-wide online teaching and learning needs. The quality of interaction that occurs between the educator and the student is crucial to the success of delivering education via online technologies, and it is incumbent on the host institution to provide a usable, effective, and satisfying form of communication all participants may communicate with while maintaining a sense of social presence. It requires little effort to compile a list of potential benefits of using webcams in educational settings. It is more challenging to come up with a list of conditions as to when you may not require all learners to communicate using webcams. This article explores the benefits and challenges of incorporating webcams in teaching and learning in the online learning environment.

Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
Yoshiki Tajiri
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Samuel Beckett ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Ordinary Objects ◽  
To Come ◽  
Shed Light

In this chapter, Yoshiki Tajiri focuses on the connection between trauma and everyday life: a traumatised subject needs to come to terms with everyday life and can find ordinary objects in it unexpectedly significant. By discussing such aspects of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, this chapter will illuminate the ways in which trauma and ordinary life are correlated rather than opposed. It also demonstrates that trauma theory and everyday life studies can stimulate each other: trauma is far from an everyday phenomenon, but it can shed light on the nature of everyday life after calamities of modernity as in the cases of Woolf and Beckett; conversely, there may be ways of enriching trauma studies by incorporating reflections on everyday life.

Human Computer Interaction and the Best Mix of Face-to- Face and E-Interactions in Educational Settings

2009 ◽  
pp. 1423-1435
Author(s):  
Bolanle A. Olaniran
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Rapid Improvement ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
And Control ◽  
Computer Interaction

Recent trends and rapid improvement in technology such as computer-mediated communication (CMC) and increasing bandwidth in the Internet are facilitating increased electronic interactions (i.e., e-interactions otherwise known as or commonly referred to as the human computer interaction (HCI)). CMC technology systems are a common occurrence in educational institutions as administrators attempt to encourage technology usage and instructors race to learn and implement CMC use in their classrooms and students demand greater flexibility and control in how they learn. Notwithstanding is the need to decide which forms of HCI technology to use, how to use them, and what benefits can accrue from such usage. The discussion here explores each of these issues, but more specifically will focus on addressing the case for blending e-interactions with the traditional face-to-face (FTF) communication medium while addressing the appropriateness of such combination.

Virtual Research Conferences

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamna Malik
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Web Tools ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Virtual Conference ◽  
Potential Use

Research conferences provide an important platform for idea exchange and validation as well as for social networking and talent hunt. Online social networks and collaborative web tools can make conferences budget friendly for sponsors, flexible for attendees, and environment friendly for the society without loss of effectiveness. While many conferences have adopted such tools during pre and post conferencing stages, their use during actual meeting hours is very limited. This paper deliberates on the current and potential use of such technologies on various stages of a conference. It then presents the case of a pure virtual conference in comparison with a face to face conference with an aim to analyze the immediate benefits that virtual conferencing brings for organizers and participants. Perceived deterrents and potential benefits for various stakeholders are discussed. Suggestions are made for educational institutions to review their norms for conference sponsorships.

The Application of Web and Educational Technologies in Supporting Web-Enabled Self-Regulated Learning in Different Computing Course Orientations

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Wen Tsai ◽  
Pei-Di Shen
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Packaged Software ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Computing Skills ◽  
The Face

Many educational institutions provide online courses; however, the question whether they can be as effective as those offered in the face-to-face classroom format still exists. In addition, it also remains unclear whether every subject is appropriate to be delivered in web-based learning environments. Thus, the authors redesigned two courses with different orientations and conducted a quasi-experiment to examine the effects of web-enabled self-regulated learning (SRL) in different course orientations on students’ computing skills. Four classes with 173 students from the courses ‘Database Management System’ and ‘Packaged Software and Application’ were divided into 2 (Design-oriented vs. Procedural-oriented) × 2 (SRL vs. non-SRL) experimental groups. The results showed that students who received the intervention of web-enabled SRL had significantly higher grades on the examination for certificates than those that did not receive this intervention, whether in design-oriented or procedural-oriented computing courses. Moreover, students in the two different courses had very similar scores, which resulted in non-significant differences in their end-of-term computing skills.

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