scholarly journals Initiatives and Responses to Migrant Workers during the Lockdown

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candy Cunha ◽  
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Francis Xavier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Southern State ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Migrant Laborers ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Engineering And Technology

This narrative describes an initiative of the National Service Scheme team at Andhra Loyola Institute of Engineering and Technology. It highlights initiatives to address the situation of migrant workers during the pandemic lockdown in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. In the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, migrant laborers were forced to walk home, sometimes hundreds, even thousands of kilometers, to reunite with their families. It was hard to ignore these images, especially those who carried the elderly on their shoulders, and small children slumped over rolling suitcases. Most used any means of transport they found, even bicycles. Some succumbed to accidents and exposure to heat. In the midst of the lockdown, the NSS team quickly came together and planned an outreach/relief camp for migrants in Krishna District. It was chosen since many villagers were migrants and the lockdown had affected in multiple ways. The relief camp took place in the month of April, a time when temperatures soar in southern India. The students and the faculty members joined hands to reach out to the Migrants in the most despairing moments. The students commented that they saw their education from a different perspective, one that integrated curriculum and good citizenship for marginalized persons. One of the ways of infusing relevance into education is to embed it within meaningful service learning. This paper is an attempt to exhibit the Initiative and Responses to the Migrant workers during the Lockdown.

scholarly journals Service Learning Collaborations: A Formula for Reciprocity

2010 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Lowe ◽  
Victoria L. Medina
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mixed Methodology ◽  
Educational Institutions

Service learning offers opportunities for both educational institutions and the community. To demonstrate the possibilities this pedagogy can offer, this article discusses a service learning experience partnering students with a hospice agency. Using mixed methodology, impact on students, patients, and staff are examined. Results indicate that students improved their attitudes toward the elderly, and death and dying; they also believed the experience caused personal and professional growth. Interviews with patients highlighted the importance of relationships and recognition, and staff identified benefits to students, patients, and the hospice agency. The conclusion is made that service learning is best perceived in a light of reciprocity and that this method of engagement offers opportunities for educators and practitioners. Finally, some tips are given for practitioners interested in developing such collaborations.

Letter to the British Medical Journal

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-36
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
British Medical Journal ◽  
Physical Treatment ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
At Home

In this letter to the British Medical Journal, Winnicott discusses how good citizenship comes from the life of the child in his own home, including the first relationship between infant and mother. On the basis of this relationship, more complex relationships are developed at home and in the wider world. If these things fail, citizenship (or something else) has to be taught. Among other issues, he insists that professionals should refrain from interference with infants and small children, that avoidable physical treatment should not be undertaken, nor should infants and small children be taken from home except in case of dire necessity. He reminds the reader that no-one can tell a mother how to be a mother or a teacher how to teach; parents and teachers have to carry on intuitively.

scholarly journals Service Learning on Inclusive Design: Sidewalk Redesign for Siwalankerto, Surabaya, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 01013
Author(s):  
Gunawan Tanuwidjaja ◽  
Claudia Levina ◽  
Cynthia Tandiono ◽  
Christian Tandiono
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Vision Disability

Public facilities and transportation infrastructure were very important for all residents including Persons with Disabilities (PwDs). Sidewalk should be safe and easy to use for all kind of users, ranging from the elderly, children, and the PwDs including wheelchair users, visual impairment, low vision disability, etc. The sidewalk should be safe, which means it should be inclusive yet also meets the standards. The Service Learning and research program in Petra Christian University’s Architecture Program was conducted with literature study, observation, discussion and interviews with users at Siwalankerto street’s sidewalks. The design would be implemented in Petra's area in the following year.

scholarly journals India’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Frontal Assault on the “Historically Dispossessed”

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
Malu Mohan ◽  
Sapna Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
State Response ◽  
Migrant Laborers ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Informal Labor Market

During the nationwide lockdown as part of the state response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the predicament of interstate migrant laborers in India, caught in crowded cities without means of livelihood and basic resources needed to sustain life, gained national and international attention. This article explores the context of the current migrant crisis through the historical trajectories and political roots of internal migration in India and its relationship with the urban informal labor market and the structural determinants of precarious employment. We argue that the both the response to the pandemic and the disproportionate impact on migrant laborers are reflections and consequences of an established pattern of neglect and poor accountability of the state toward the employment and living conditions of migrant workers who toil precariously in the informal labor market.

scholarly journals What kind of citizen? Political choices and educational goals

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Westheimer ◽  
Joseph Kahne
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Curriculum Evaluation ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Political Choices

The notion of democracy occupies a privileged place in our society. Educators and policymakers are increasingly pursuing a broad variety of programs that aim to promote democracy through civic education, service learning, and other pedagogies. The nature of their underlying beliefs, however, differs. “What Kind of Citizen?” calls attention to the spectrum of ideas represented in education programs about what good citizenship is and what good citizens do. Our argument derives from an analysis of both democratic theory and a two year study of educational programs in the U.S. that aim to promote democracy. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative data from observations and interviews with analysis of program documents and quantitative analysis of pre/post survey data. We detail three conceptions of the “good” citizen: personally responsible, participatory, and justice oriented that emerged from literature analysis and from our study. We argue that these three conceptions embody significantly different beliefs regarding the capacities and commitments citizens need in order for democracy to flourish; and they carry significantly different implications for pedagogy, curriculum, evaluation, and educational policy. We underscore the political implications of education for democracy and suggest that the narrow and often ideologically conservative conception of citizenship embedded in many current efforts at teaching for democracy reflects not arbitrary choices but rather political choices with political consequences.

Service Learning: Advocating for Reduction of Fall Risks in the Elderly

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Barry Michaels ◽  
Barbara Billek-Sawhney
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Fall Risks

scholarly journals Preface

2021 ◽  
Vol 1197 (1) ◽  
pp. 011001
Keyword(s):  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Technical Committee ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Editorial Committee ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Oral Presentations

The “3rd International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE-2021)” conducted virtually on 25th and 26th June 2021 by the Civil Engineering Department KL Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh, India. The ICACE-2021 provided a two-day research extravagance with the perfect blend of keynote addresses by prominent speakers from premier institution across the globe, followed by oral presentations by the authors which became the platform in networking the opportunities for collaborations and partnerships which will drive wide recognition and adds value to the enlisted career profiles from the world’s brightest minds in engineering and technology. This platform will eventually benefit the young research mind to bring forth the ideas and develop them into a solution for the future world. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field. The IC-ACE 2021 received 250 papers in the regular and industrial tracks and based on over 450 reviews from the program committee and external reviewers, 115 papers have been accepted for proceedings. The entire proceedings include 115 papers published as part of the ICACE-2021. Each paper, regardless of track, received at least 2 reviews. The success of ICACE-2021 depends completely on the effort, talent, and energy of researchers in the field of Civil Engineering who have written and submitted papers on a variety of topics. Praise is also deserved for the program committee members and external reviewers who have invested significant time in analyzing and assessing multiple papers, who hold and maintain a high standard of quality for this conference. Additional thanks are given to the ICACE-2021 organization staff, the members of the program committees, and reviewers. These Proceedings will furnish the researchers, academicians, and industry persons of the world with an excellent reference book. We trust also that this will be an impetus to stimulate further study and research in all these areas. We thank all authors and participants for their contributions. List of Chief Patrons, Patrons, Conference Chairs, Convenors, Organizing Secretaries, Advisory Board, Technical Committee, Organizing Committee and Editorial Committee are available in this pdf.

scholarly journals Household pollution and COVID-19: irrelevant association?

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
Marilyn Urrutia-Pereira ◽  
Carlos Augusto Mello-da-Silva ◽  
Dirceu Solé
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Lung Disease ◽  
Chronic Lung Disease ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Indoor Pollution ◽  
Underlying Factor ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Relationship

Evidence supports the link between air pollution and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Therefore, exposure to indoor pollution (IDP) is likely to be associated with the disease. The poor, refugees, and migrant workers who live in feeble conditions are the most vulnerable. The pandemic has caused many people to remain indoors, especially at-risk individuals (e.g., the elderly, diabetics, obese, cardiac, and chronic lung disease patients). Home isolation may be an underlying factor to other health problems among these populations if the place where they are socially isolating is not adequately ventilated. Therefore, understanding the consequences of the relationship between IDP and the COVID-19 pandemic is essential.

scholarly journals The Status Quo, Dilemma and Path Innovation of the Citizenization of the New Generation of Migrant Workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Ge Nannan
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Housing Security ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Employment Quality ◽  
New Generation

The citizenization of the new generation of migrant workers is the only way to promote China’s urbanization. Based on the development status of the new generation of migrant workers, this paper summarizes the difficulties encountered in the four aspects of employment, housing, social security and the education of migrant workers' children in the process of citizenization, finally explores four innovative ways of citizenization of the new generation of migrant workers, such as, strengthening vocational skills training to improve the employment quality of the new generation of migrant workers, improving the housing security mechanism to ensure that they have a place to live, improving the social security system to safeguard that they can be treated for their illnesses and the elderly, improving the distribution of educational resources to promote fair education for the children of them.

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