scholarly journals Exploring University-Community Collaborations

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid ◽  
Gabriel Fillipelli ◽  
Phyllis Boyd ◽  
Paula Brooks ◽  
Aghilah Nadaraj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Central Canal ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
Subsurface Waters ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

The Riverside neighborhood bears multiple burdens of environmental harm. Running the gamut from groundwater contamination in subsurface waters to lead in soils and dust and paint to particulate matter in the air from highways and industry, these environmental insults harm the physical, mental, and economic well-being of the community. The community has also faced an information gap where data was scarce, hard to locate, and sometimes wrong. Activists have long worked to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood, but faced barriers in the form of policies (e.g. Red Lining, zoning variances, disinvestment in public services such as street lights and sidewalks) and practices (e.g. absentee landlords, illegal dumping). Features such as the Central Canal that were developed into recreational amenities in other parts of the city were minimally maintained or restricted from use by residents. In the face of these challenges, IUPUI faculty, students, and community members have partnered on multiple projects to document the history of environmental harms, assess exposure and risk of residents’ exposomes, and share information in ways that are accessible and relevant for residents. The work supports the agency and activism of the community, particularly as it faces pressures of gentrification and university encroachment with the prospect of 16 Tech project expansion. The work also takes place in the context of contested interests and harmful legacies as representatives of an urban university that displaced longtime residents work to partner ethically and transparently with those same communities. As a result, current faculty-community collaborations operate within a space complicated by the problematic legacy of harm and ongoing structural racism. However well-intentioned, faculty, students and community members have to navigate that history and enduring power dynamics as they design their research, identify relevant questions, and share results in ways that are accessible and meaningful to community members.

scholarly journals Growing Together: Advancing Networks for Service-learning Actors in Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 01030
Author(s):  
Wai Ching Angela Wong
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Affective Learning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Whole Person Education

This paper traces the history of United Board‘s engagement with service-learning through higher education in Asia and reflects on the recent discussion about the relevancy of service-learning activities to today‘s higher education system. Through a close review of the experience shared in recent projects sponsored and organized by United Board in the last five years, service learners from colleges and universities around Asia all testified an process that deepens both cognitive and affective learning, generating in service-learning actors-faculty, students and community members-a connection that could inspire and sustain their vision and passion for life. Despite the seemingly still marginalized status of service learning programs and faculty in most higher education institutions, educators believing in whole person education only find service-learning ever more important in the face of higher education that has been increasingly trapped by the ranking race.

Conquest, Continuity, and Creation: Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century Natal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.J. Tallie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Alcohol Production ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
British Colony ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the contested, competing notions of inhabitance and continuity in the British colony of Natal during the nineteenth century. Despite the dislocations and predations of settler colonialism, the history of Natal is often also a history of African survival and adaptation. Colonial power dynamics may have favored settlers, but Africans continued to see themselves as the rightful and permanent occupants of the land. Even after the umuzi (homestead) was no longer able, owing to colonial pressures, to serve as the major vehicle of social and economic reproduction, African people continued to rely upon such earlier concepts as ukukhonza (obligations of service) or the amabutho (Zulu military regiment) to articulate personal connections and obligations to one another. Ideas of chieftaincy or service thus could be reshaped by Africans beyond colonial contexts in pursuit of social survival in Natal. Christianity and marriage, as well as alcohol production and consumption, also offered an arena for African adaptation and cultural continuity in the face of colonial hegemony, as well as a stage on which settlers could make their own claims. The chapter then looks at recent historiography in colonial Natal and identity.

scholarly journals Traditional and biomedical care pathways for mental well‐being in rural Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony V. Pham ◽  
Rishav Koirala ◽  
Brandon A. Kohrt
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Healer ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Medical Providers ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
History Of ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Abstract Background There is increasing access to mental health services in biomedical settings (e.g., primary care and specialty clinics) in low- and middle-income countries. Traditional healing continues to be widely available and used in these settings as well. Our goal was to explore how the general public, traditional healers, and biomedical clinicians perceive the different types of services and make decisions regarding using one or both types of care. Methods We conducted in-depth interviews using a pilot tested semi-structured protocol around the subjects of belief, traditional healers, and seeking care. We conducted 124 interviews comprising 40 traditional healers, 79 general community members, and five physicians. We then performed qualitative analyses according to a grounded theoretical approach. Results A majority of the participants endorsed belief in both supernatural and medical causes of illness and sought care exclusively from healers, medical practitioners, and/or both. Our findings also revealed several pathways and barriers to care that were contingent upon patient-, traditional healer-, and medical practitioner-specific attitudes. Notably, a subset of community members duplicated care across multiple, equally-qualified medical providers before seeing a traditional healer and vice versa. In view of this, the majority of our participants stressed the importance of an efficient, medically plural society. Though participants desired a more collaborative model, no consistent proposal emerged on how to bridge traditional and biomedical practices. Instead, participants offered suggestions which comprised three broad categories: (1) biomedical training of traditional healers, (2) two-way referrals between traditional and biomedical providers, and (3) open-dialogue to foster mutual understanding among traditional and biomedical providers. Conclusion Participants offered several approaches to collaboration between medical providers and traditional healers, however if we compare it to the history of previous attempts, education and understanding between both fields may be the most viable option in low- and middle-income contexts such as Nepal. Further research should expand and investigate opportunities for collaborative learning and/or care across not only Nepal, but other countries with a history of traditional and complimentary medicine.

Traditional water rights, ecology and the public trust doctrine in Hawaii

Water Policy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
C. S. Papacostas
Keyword(s):  
Water Rights ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
The State ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Trust Doctrine ◽  
Subsurface Waters ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

This case study discusses the implications of imposing the doctrine of public trust to ground and surface waters within the State of Hawaii and its effects on traditional rights that had previously evolved based on common law. It traces the major events of the history of water rights and practices beginning with the system devised by the indigenous Hawaiian people prior to the adoption of the doctrine of public trust to the water resources of the State of Hawaii, applied with the most expansive interpretation of the public trust doctrine, encompassing both surface and subsurface waters and a wide assortment of protected uses and purposes. The major decisions that ensued when applying the doctrine, via legal prescriptions and administrative rules, are described. The implications of the interplay between scientific enquiry and research are presented, with legal precedent in the face of potential water shortages, competing uses, sensitivities to comprehensive resource management, considerations of ecological balance and protection of the rights of indigenous people. Many of these findings are transferable to other jurisdictions contemplating the adoption of public trust doctrine principles to their surface and ground waters.

African Americans: Overview

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry E. Davis ◽  
John M. Wallace ◽  
Trina R. Williams Shanks
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Strict Enforcement ◽  
Key Indicators

African Americans have been a part of the nation's history for nearly four hundred years. Although their history includes the forced imposition of chattel slavery, the strict enforcement of legal segregation, and a tenuous acceptance as equal citizens, African Americans have been, and continue to be, major contributors, creators, investors, and builders of America. In this article we summarize briefly the history of African Americans, we examine racial disparities in key indicators of social, mental, and physical well-being, and we highlight persistent strengths that can be built upon and areas that provide hope for the future. The challenge for social work is to simultaneously celebrate the historical successes and ongoing contributions of African Americans to this country while also recognizing the vestiges of structural racism and fighting for greater civil rights and social and economic justice.

scholarly journals Urban River Recovery Inspired by Nature-Based Solutions and Biophilic Design in Albufeira, Portugal

Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Blau ◽  
Frieder Luz ◽  
Thomas Panagopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Mass urbanisation presents one of the most urgent challenges of the 21st century. The development of cities and the related increasing ground sealing are asking even more for the restoration of urban rivers, especially in the face of climate change and its consequences. This paper aims to demonstrate nature-inspired solutions in a recovery of a Southern European river that was canalised and transformed in culvert pipes. The river restoration project naturally tells the history of the city, creates a sense for the place, as well as unifying blue–green infrastructure in a symbolic way by offering areas for recreation. To improve well-being and city resilience in the long term, a regenerative sustainability approach based on biophilic design patterns was proposed. Such actions will provide greater health, social cohesion, and well-being for residents and simultaneously reduce the risks of climate change, such as heat island effect and flash floods, presenting the benefits of the transition to a regenerative economy and holistic thinking.

scholarly journals Documenting Presence

1969 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Jasmin Habib
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Joint Protection ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Indian Affairs ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

This article presents us with a number of letters written by Eeyou that assert their autonomy and their relationships to Eeyou Istchee. The first set of letters were written in the 1930s and reveal not only the sovereign status of the Eeyou and their collective engagements with colonial agents, but the symbiosis that existed between the Hudson's Bay Company and Indian Affairs Canada. In the second set of letters, written in the 1970s by community members John and Maryann Sam and Walter Pachanos, one gains intimate as well as experiential knowledge of the land, and appeals for its joint protection in the face of threats posed by Hydro-Quebec's development plans. These letters not only document Eeyou presence and sovereignty, they alert to the long history of entanglements and of Eeyou-initiated proper relationships with colonial agents in what can be described as a poetics of engagement and resistance.

scholarly journals A Data Model for Medical Schools and their Programs:

2018 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Opalek ◽  
David Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Information

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the information needs of regulators in the face of increasing globalization in medical education and practice, the history of information resources cataloging the world's medical education institutions, and the development of a tool that can fill an information gap concerning where and how physicians around the world are educated — the World Directory of Medical Schools. The World Directory was developed to meet the needs of medical regulators and other stakeholders who rely on specific data about medical schools and their educational programs. Its data model captures information about schools and programs as separate entities, allowing for greater flexibility and utility in the areas of regulation and workforce research.

“You Have Living Legends among You”

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Awartani
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Multiple Generations ◽  
Young Lords ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lincoln Park

In late September 2018, multiple generations of Chicago’s storied social movements marched through Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood as part of the sold-out, three-day Young Lords Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium hosted by DePaul University—an institution that, alongside Mayor Richard J. Daley’s administration, had played a sizeable role in transforming Lincoln Park into a neighborhood “primed for development.” Students, activists, and community members—from throughout Chicago, the Midwest, the East Coast, and even as far as Texas—converged to celebrate the history of Puerto Ricans in Chicago, the legacies of the Young Lords, and the promises and possibilities of resistance. As Elaine Brown, former chairwoman and minister of information for the Black Panther Party, told participants in the second day’s opening plenary, the struggle against racism, poverty, and gentrification and for self-determination and the general empowerment of marginalized people is a protracted one. “You have living legends among you,” Brown insisted, inviting us to associate as equals with the Young Lords members in our midst. Her plea encapsulated the ethos of that weekend’s celebrations: “If we want to be free, let us live the light of the Lords.”

Beérkezett könyvek

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Number Of Genes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Origin Of Mind ◽  
The Mind

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