scholarly journals Reimagining protection: Dignity, wellbeing and safety

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Core concepts in the humanitarian world are often used in ways that add to confusion rather than provide clarity. Research reports discuss technical details, propose theoretical frameworks or engage in policy debates, but rarely engage directly with key concepts themselves—their meaning, how they are used and understood, and their limitations. Protection is one important concept which begs for unpacking. The objective of this commentary is to spur discussion and reflection, to help clarify thinking around how we understand and use the term ‘protection’. A particular example from the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector is used to propose a more nuanced way of thinking and speaking about protection. Dignity, wellbeing and safety are proposed as useful concepts to embed protection in humanitarian activities.

Leadership Capital

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Jentges
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Analytical Potential ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Core Concepts

The Leadership Capital Index utilizes the conceptual terminology of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. This chapter presents the groundwork for the LCI as it clarifies Bourdieu’s key concepts and traces the evolution from political capital to leadership capital. With an overview of Bourdieu’s three core concepts of economic, cultural, and social capital, plus the more elusive symbolic capital, the chapter assists with an appreciation of the analytical potential of the concept of political capital. The notion of leadership capital integrates many (but not all) aspects of Bourdieu’s field-specific notion of political capital and the LCI succeeds in translating his complex conceptualization into a manageable set of ten indicators. The chapter explains how together Bourdieu’s political sociology and the approach suggested through the LCI create numerous synergies and are promising and useful endeavors in the analysis of political leadership.

scholarly journals The Inclusion of Rights of People with Disabilities and Women and Girls in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Policy Documents and Programs of Bangladesh and Cambodia: Content Analysis Using EquiFrame

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 5087
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Scherer ◽  
Islay Mactaggart ◽  
Chelsea Huggett ◽  
Pharozin Pheng ◽  
Mahfuj-ur Rahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
Gender Inclusion ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
And Gender

People with disabilities and as women and girls face barriers to accessing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services and facilities that fully meet their needs, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Women and girls with disabilities experience double discrimination. WASH policies should support and uphold the concepts of disability and gender inclusion, and they should also act as a guide to inform WASH programs and service delivery. Using a modified version of the EquiFrame content analysis tool, this study investigated the inclusion of 21 core concepts of human rights of people with disabilities and women and girls in 16 WASH policy documents and seven end-line program reports from Bangladesh and Cambodia. Included documents typically focused on issues of accessibility and neglected wider issues, including empowerment and support for caregivers. The rights of children and women with disabilities were scarcely focused on specifically, despite their individual needs, and there was a disconnect in the translation of certain rights from policy to practice. Qualitative research is needed with stakeholders in Bangladesh and Cambodia to investigate the inclusion and omission of core rights of people with disabilities, and women and girls, as well as the factors contributing to the translation of rights from policy to practice.

scholarly journals Is REDD+ Redefining Forest Governance in Nepal?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dil B Khatri
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Design ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institutional Linkages ◽  
Institutional Architecture

In this paper, I argue that the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD)+ readiness process in Nepal has reconfigured forest governance in subtle ways and posed risks of its recentralization. Powerful actors, especially the government, consultants and donor entities, have influenced the REDD+ process and policy debates, and have jointly marginalized local communities and civil society organizations (CSOs). This paper reveals that Nepal’s REDD+ architecture is primarily shaped by imperatives and ambiguities in the international negotiations and funding mechanisms. Building on the theoretical frameworks of institutional interplay, cross-scale institutional linkages, and institutional design, this paper analyses how interplay and interactions of national institutions and stakeholders influence the REDD+ readiness process, its emerging institutional architecture, and decentralized forest governance. The analysis has been informed by evidence from the author's own research and engagement in REDD+ policy processes in Nepal. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v10i1.8602   Journal of Forestry and Livelihood Vol.10(1) 2012 74-87

Management Control Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-49
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Management Control Systems ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Key Concepts

This chapter examines issues about key concepts and aims of management control. Based on a review of relevant academic literature, the chapter provides an overview of some among the most popular definitions of management control, summarizes different approaches to management control and describes some influential theoretical frameworks.

Management Control Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 455-473
Author(s):  
Filippo Zanin ◽  
Eugenio Comuzzi ◽  
Antonio Costantini
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Management Control Systems ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Key Concepts

This chapter examines issues about key concepts and aims of management control. Based on a review of relevant academic literature, the chapter provides an overview of some among the most popular definitions of management control, summarizes different approaches to management control and describes some influential theoretical frameworks.

Why Teach Coding to Early Elementary Learners

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Claudia M. Mihm
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Early Elementary ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Way Of Thinking

As coding and computer science become established domains in K-2 education, researchers and educators understand that children are learning more than skills when they learn to code – they are learning a new way of thinking and organizing thought. While these new skills are beneficial to future programming tasks, they also support the development of other crucial skills in early childhood education. This chapter explores the ways that coding supports computational thinking in young children and connects the core concepts of computational thinking to the broader K-2 context.

Characterizing Conflict, Defining the Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Herman Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Western Democracies

This chapter clarifies key concepts and theoretical frameworks and explains how they will be used to build the book’s central arguments. The chapter asks questions such as: What is meant by “the media”? How is conflict defined? What are the links between media and conflict? Is there a causal relationship between the mediatization of conflict and its outcomes? The chapter also introduces the question of the applicability of normative frameworks inherited from established Western democracies to African societies going through transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. The relationship between media, conflict, and democratization is a complex one that can be approached from different angles. This chapter considers three of these angles—the critical perspective, the contestation perspective, and the cultural perspective.

Perturbations of Thermodynamic State Functions

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Robert H. Swendsen
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Thermodynamic Quantities ◽  
Conservation Of Energy ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
Thermodynamic State ◽  
Integrating Factor ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Small Change ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
Work Done

Because small changes in thermodynamic quantities will play a central role in much of the development of thermodynamics, the key concepts are introduced in this short chapter. The First Law (conservation of energy) can be expressed simply in terms of infinitesimal quantities: a small change in the energy of a system is equal to the heat added plus the work done on the system. The theories of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics deal with the same physical phenomena. Exact and inexact differentials are defined, along with the important concept of an integrating factor that relates them. The useful equation relating small changes in heat to corresponding changes in entropy is derived.

scholarly journals Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessments

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 1857-1864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Börner ◽  
Andreas Bueckle ◽  
Michael Ginda
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Mathematical Literacy ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Assessment Measures ◽  
Data Visualizations ◽  
Write Text

In the information age, the ability to read and construct data visualizations becomes as important as the ability to read and write text. However, while standard definitions and theoretical frameworks to teach and assess textual, mathematical, and visual literacy exist, current data visualization literacy (DVL) definitions and frameworks are not comprehensive enough to guide the design of DVL teaching and assessment. This paper introduces a data visualization literacy framework (DVL-FW) that was specifically developed to define, teach, and assess DVL. The holistic DVL-FW promotes both the reading and construction of data visualizations, a pairing analogous to that of both reading and writing in textual literacy and understanding and applying in mathematical literacy. Specifically, the DVL-FW defines a hierarchical typology of core concepts and details the process steps that are required to extract insights from data. Advancing the state of the art, the DVL-FW interlinks theoretical and procedural knowledge and showcases how both can be combined to design curricula and assessment measures for DVL. Earlier versions of the DVL-FW have been used to teach DVL to more than 8,500 residential and online students, and results from this effort have helped revise and validate the DVL-FW presented here.

scholarly journals Beyond Assimilation and Integration: The Shift to ‘National’ and ‘Transnational’ Inclusion

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Houtkamp
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Minority Literature ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract One of the key concepts of the MIME (Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe) project is, obviously, ‘inclusion’. However, precisely describing what the concept means is not as straightforward as it may seem. It has been used in different contexts in scientific literature. This paper attempts to contribute to the enfolding MIME-framework by critically reflecting upon the definition of ‘inclusion’. Drawing upon theories of acculturation, three core concepts in minority literature, namely ‘assimilation,’ ‘integration,’ and ‘inclusion’ will be examined, and their differences demarcated. In the light of recent developments, such as transnationalism, it will be determined which concept is best suited to analyse contemporary accommodation processes of minorities in their countries of residence. After examining the trade-off between mobility and inclusion, a central topic in all MIMErelated research, some general conclusions about ‘inclusion’ and diversitymanagement will be drawn.

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