scholarly journals Learning from a Living Archive: Rejuvenating Child and Youth Rights and Participation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Johnson ◽  
Tessa Lewin ◽  
Mariah Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The World ◽  
Youth Rights ◽  
User Friendly

This paper reflects the findings of the first phase of the REJUVENATE project, which set out to understand and map approaches to integrating children, youth, and community participation in child rights initiatives. We did this through a scoping of existing practitioner and academic literature (developing a project-based literature review matrix), a mapping of key actors, and the development of a typology of existing approaches. All three of these elements were brought together into a ‘living archive’, which is an evolving database that currently comprises 100 matrices, and a ‘collection’ of key field practitioners (many of whom we have interviewed for this project). In this paper we: (1) present a user-friendly summary of the existing tradition of substantive children’s participation in social change work; (2) share case studies across various sectors and regions of the world; (3) highlight ongoing challenges and evidence gaps; and (4) showcase expert opinions on the inclusion of child rights and, in particular, child/youth-led approaches in project-based work.

Interdisciplinary Faith-Learning Integration for Social Change

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-56
Author(s):  
David C. Ward ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Real World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Learning Evaluation ◽  
The World

Interdisciplinary studies has grown significantly in the last 25 years. The reductionisms of secular modernism and postmodem relativism present an opportunity for an approach to interdisciplinary faith-learning integration that provides a unifying basis for research addressing major challenges. An approach developed at Oxford Graduate School offers promise for interdisciplinary studies comprehensive enough to bridge the three cultures of the natural, social, and humane sciences in the service of bettering the world. The Learning ... to Change the World methodology proceeds through seven stages: problem clarification, literature review, faith-learning integration, interdisciplinary research, contextualization, ethical/social leadership, and lifelong learning evaluation. Grounded in a Creation-Fall-Redemption-Consummation metaphysical worldview, it assumes a critical realist epistemology to engage real-world challenges. The process accommodates multiple research methods and aims for a redemptive-ethical transformation of social problems.

scholarly journals Family Firm Identity Approach: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Beskida S. Dorda ◽  
Eriona M. Shtëmbari
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
General View ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

Family business is created when the family leads commercial activities. This intersection represents emotions and trade within the same entity, driving attention toward intangible resources. History has shown that families can gather together and run successful businesses. Non-financial topics are capturing the attention of the management field, and family firm identity (FFI) is an interesting topic for those who want to study more in-depth this type of business. This paper will give a review of the academic literature about the FFI identified as a field that needs to be explored more in depth. Interested researchers will find a general view of how this approach is developed from scholars around the world. The aim is to present how the family and business identity relate to one another, seen from different perspectives by scholars. Researchers’ invaluable contributions are used to design this review, using databases such as Emerald, ProQuest (ABI/INFORM), EBSCOhost and Science Direct. Keywords used for search are family business identity and family firm identity. The data are gathered during May and June 2019. The review shows that several dimensions can influence on the level of FFI. Some of the dimensions which resulted from this study are generations, boundaries, identity conflict, growth, communication and globalization.

scholarly journals Infrastructural Aspects of Rain-Related Cascading Disasters: A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5175
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Huggins ◽  
Feiyu E ◽  
Kangming Chen ◽  
Wenwu Gong ◽  
Lili Yang
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Frequent Form ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Review Protocol

Cascading disasters progress from one hazard event to a range of interconnected events and impacts, with often devastating consequences. Rain-related cascading disasters are a particularly frequent form of cascading disasters in many parts of the world, and they are likely to become even more frequent due to climate change and accelerating coastal development, among other issues. (1) Background: The current literature review extended previous reviews of documented progressions from one natural hazard event to another, by focusing on linkages between rain-related natural hazard triggers and infrastructural impacts. (2) Methods: A wide range of case studies were reviewed using a systematic literature review protocol. The review quality was enhanced by only including case studies that detailed mechanisms that have led to infrastructural impacts, and which had been published in high-quality academic journals. (3) Results: A sum of 71 articles, concerning 99 case studies of rain-related disasters, were fully reviewed. Twenty-five distinct mechanisms were identified, as the foundation for a matrix running between five different natural hazards and eight types of infrastructural impacts. (4) Conclusion: Relatively complex quantitative methods are needed to generate locality-specific, cascading disaster likelihoods and scenarios. Appropriate methods can leverage the current matrix to structure both Delphi-based approaches and network analysis using longitudinal data.

scholarly journals Stigmergy Leadership: Indirect Digital Coordination for Social Change Based on Autonomous, Reproducible, and Scalable Individual Acts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Starominski-Uehara
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Leadership Traits ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
International Media ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Political Events

This study investigates digital leadership traits observed in recent and relevant political events. It does so by resorting to stigmergy theory on how collective activities are regulated and coordinated based on single decisions that are autonomous, reproducible, and scalable. Case studies selected for this theoretical analysis are political events that gathered international media attention from 2019 and 2021. The main argument emerging from this literature review is that digital platforms connecting like-minded people challenge conventional understandings of leadership.

As an Alternative

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-239
Author(s):  
Canan Tanrisever
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Training Module ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Routes ◽  
Tourist Guides ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Tourist guidance training/education is different in many countries of the world. Tourism types or tourism choices affect the specialization areas of tourist guides. Tourist guides that should be one of the components of an ecologically based integrity are not yet included in all routes. This area, which is not included in the tourist guidance curriculum, has been proposed as a training module for specialization in this study. In this context, the aim of the study is to contribute to the field and literature by creating the infrastructure of the cultural routes education program as a module. The study is a heuristic research. The interview form used in the research was formed by utilizing expert opinions on qualitative data collection methods based on literature review. According to the results of this research, this module is divided into seven main topics.

scholarly journals Responding and Reflecting on Child Rights

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rejuvenate Rejuvenate
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Youth Rights

The series of Rejuvenate dialogues are intended to foster debate across a community of practice working on child and youth rights. Our first dialogue examined the principles that can help support child and youth-centred research and community development. During the dialogue, we highlighted two key REJUVENATE principles: the importance of relationships, and the energy that young people can contribute to building new visions of the future. We met online on 14th September 2021. Presenters and participants joined from around the world, reflecting the diversity and breadth of experience in the field. We invited reflection on what the REJUVENATE principles get right, where they need to expand, and what they could improve on.

Agency

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

‘Agency’ is a beguiling word. It has the immediacy of a call-to-arms and the remoteness and anonymity of a bureaucratic function. Agency, as action in the world, underpins revolutionary social change, and the representation of someone else's interests – usually at a distance – in a governmental or business context. It is implicated in both the agitprop of the Reclaim the Streets network, or Brazil's Homeless Workers Movement, and in state bureaucracies such as the UK Border Agency, or commercial franchises such as the Western Union. The term encapsulates two quite distinctive forms of action: one individuated, collective and immediate; and the other systemic, anonymised and bureaucratic. It is no accident, then, that in academic literature ‘agency’ is often paired with ‘structure’, and in the binarised form, structure/agency, is used to refer to the tension between the creative actions of individuals and the social, political and economic structures that supposedly constrain them. The fact that architects are expected to exercise agency in both of these senses – as creative actors and as representatives of their clients' interests – gives the theme further significance.

HASTANELERİN HİZMET KALİTESİNİN HASTA TATMİN ÖLÇEĞİ İLE ÖLÇÜLMESİ: KARABÜK DEVLET HASTANESİNDE YATAN HASTALAR ÜZERİNDE BİR ARAŞTIRMA THE MEASUREMENT SERVICE QUALITY OF THE HOSPITALS BY THE PATIENT SCALE: A RESEARCH ON THE PATIENTS IN KARABUK STATE HOSP

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Selçuk Yurtsever
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
State Hospital ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors

It has been known that both in the world and in Turkey a continuous change has been experienced in the provision of health services in recent years. In this sense by adopting the customer(client) focused approach of either public or private sector hospitals; it has been seen that they are in the struggle for presenting a right, fast, trustuble, comfy service. The purpose of this research is to measure the satisfaction degree, expectations and perceptions of the patients in Karabük State Hospital through comparison. In this context, the patient satisfaction scale which has been developed as a result of literature review has been used and by this scale it has been tried to measure the satisfaction levels of the patients in terms of material and human factors which are the two main factors of the service that was presented. In the study, with the scales of Servqual and 0-100 Points together, in the part of the analysis MANOVA have been used. The expectations and the perceptions of the patient has been compared first by generally and then by separating to different groups according to the various criterias and in thisway it has been tried to be measured their satisfaction levels. According to the results that were obtained, although, the satisfaction levels of the patients who have taken service from Karabük State Hospital are high in terms of thedoctors and the nurses; it has been reached to the result that their satisfaction levels are low in terms of the materials that have been used at the presenting of the service and the management.

The New Terrain of International Law

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen J. Alter
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Constitutional Review ◽  
Delegation Of Authority ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law

In 1989, when the Cold War ended, there were six permanent international courts. Today there are more than two dozen that have collectively issued over thirty-seven thousand binding legal rulings. This book charts the developments and trends in the creation and role of international courts, and explains how the delegation of authority to international judicial institutions influences global and domestic politics. The book presents an in-depth look at the scope and powers of international courts operating around the world. Focusing on dispute resolution, enforcement, administrative review, and constitutional review, the book argues that international courts alter politics by providing legal, symbolic, and leverage resources that shift the political balance in favor of domestic and international actors who prefer policies more consistent with international law objectives. International courts name violations of the law and perhaps specify remedies. The book explains how this limited power—the power to speak the law—translates into political influence, and it considers eighteen case studies, showing how international courts change state behavior. The case studies, spanning issue areas and regions of the world, collectively elucidate the political factors that often intervene to limit whether or not international courts are invoked and whether international judges dare to demand significant changes in state practices.

India Goes Digital..Smartphone is the New Shopping Destination

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Shankar Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Online Shopping ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
User Friendly

Despite being in nascent stage m-commerce is gaining momentum in India. The explosive growth of smart-phone users has made India much loved business destination for whole world. Indian internet user is becoming the second largest in the world next to China surpassing US, which throws open plenty of e-commerce opportunities, not only for Indian players, offshore players as well. Mobile commerce is likely to overtake e-commerce in the next few years, spurred by the continued uptrend in online shopping and increasing use of mobile apps.The optimism comes from the fact that people accessing the Internet through their mobiles had jumped 33 per cent in 2014 to 173 million and is expected to grow 21 per cent year-on-year till 2019 to touch 457 million. e-Commerce brands are eyeing on the mobile app segment by developing user-friendly and secure mobile apps offering a risk-free and easy shopping experience to its users. Budget 4G smart phones coupled with affordable plans, can very well drive 4G growth in India.

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