Observations of PCST2014

Attendance at any large conference is highly personal and every registrant has a unique experience. The value to the individual depends on which sessions they attend, whom they connect with and what outcomes eventuate from what they learn and the networking they do. The networking and feedback can be life changing as it was for me when I attended PCST in 1996 in Melbourne. PCST2014 was a successful conference that provided many options for delegates. This was my fifth PCST and I was glad to have made the long trip to Brazil. One of the most successful aspects of PCST2014 was the opportunity to hear voices that I had not heard at previous PCSTs. The opportunity to hear about interesting work and different perspectives is one of the main advantages of this large, diverse, international network. Some reflective presentations eloquently articulated the familiar but evolving framework of the science communication discipline. Some provocative presentations pushed me to consider new and different perspectives or methodologies. Some case study presentations illustrated that good science communication is happening around the world. All types are particularly useful to those of us at a crossroad in our career, considering where to invest our energy, expertise and time.

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Drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness: Linguistic insights into Sylvia Plath’s experience of depression

Communication & Medicine ◽

10.1558/cam.v11i1.18478 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 41-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zsófia Demjén

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Medical Humanities ◽

Sylvia Plath ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

The World ◽

The Individual ◽

Linguistic Methods ◽

Linguistic Approach

This paper demonstrates how a range of linguistic methods can be harnessed in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘lived experience’ of psychological disorders. It argues that such methods should be applied more in medical contexts, especially in medical humanities. Key extracts from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath are examined, as a case study of the experience of depression. Combinations of qualitative and quantitative linguistic methods, and inter- and intra-textual comparisons are used to consider distinctive patterns in the use of metaphor, personal pronouns and (the semantics of) verbs, as well as other relevant aspects of language. Qualitative techniques provide in-depth insights, while quantitative corpus methods make the analyses more robust and ensure the breadth necessary to gain insights into the individual experience. Depression emerges as a highly complex and sometimes potentially contradictory experience for Plath, involving both a sense of apathy and inner turmoil. It involves a sense of a split self, trapped in a state that one cannot overcome, and intense self-focus, a turning in on oneself and a view of the world that is both more negative and more polarized than the norm. It is argued that a linguistic approach is useful beyond this specific case.

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A Comparative Analysis of Dam Safety Assurance Laws

European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance ◽

10.1163/22134514-00101009 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 29-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John Dean Pisaniello

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Large Scale ◽

Safety Management ◽

Dam Safety ◽

Safety Issues ◽

Safety Assurance ◽

The World ◽

The Individual ◽

Privately Owned

A number of horrific failures of both public and privately owned dams in recent decades has triggered serious concern over the safety of dams throughout the world. However, in Australia, although much Government attention is being devoted to the medium- to large-scale dams, minimal attention is being paid to the serious potential cumulative, catchment-wide problems associated with smaller private dams. The paper determines how to consider addressing hazardous private dam safety issues generally through a comparative analysis of international dam safety policy/law systems. The analysis has identified elements of best and minimum practice that can and do exist successfully to provide deserved assurance to the community of the proper safety management of hazardous private dams at both the individual and cumulative, catchment-wide levels. These elements provide benchmarks that enable ‘appropriate’ legislative arrangements to be determined for different jurisdictional circumstances as illustrated with an Australian policy-deficient case study.

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UNDERSTANDING THE DESERTION OF SOUTH CAROLINIAN SOLDIERS DURING THE FINAL YEARS OF THE CONFEDERACY

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x13000046 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 657-679 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

PATRICK J. DOYLE

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Civil War ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Thought Process ◽

Simple Representation ◽

The World ◽

Return Home ◽

The Individual ◽

Socio Economic Factors

ABSTRACTAlthough the American Civil War is perhaps the most written about event in American history, the issue of desertion has often retained a neglected position in the conflict's dense historiography. Those historians who have studied military absenteeism during the war have tended to emphasize socio-economic factors as motivating men to leave the army and return home. The Register of Confederate Deserters, a list of southern soldiers who crossed into Union lines and took an oath of loyalty in order to try and return home, can provide a different look at these men. By studying the South Carolinian men on the Register, as a case-study, we can see that ideological, as well as socio-economic, motivations occupied the thought process of Civil War deserters. Moreover, the act of desertion was rarely a simple representation of the thoughts of the individual but of the opinions and feelings of his family and community as well. As such, studying Confederate desertion not only helps us understand the issues of loyalty and nationalism during the Civil War, but also the way in which nineteenth-century southerners conceptualized the world around them.

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Techno-scientific hybrids. Science communication in pursuit of an academic identity

Journal of Science Communication ◽

10.22323/2.08010501 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 08 (01) ◽

pp. E

Author(s):

Nico Pitrelli ◽

Yuri Castelfranchi

Keyword(s):

Science Communication ◽

A INEVITABILIDADE DA MUDANÇA: GERADORA DE CONFLITO OU DE COMPLEMENTARIEDADE NOS AMBIENTES ORGANIZACIONAIS?

Revista Visão Gestão Organizacional ◽

10.33362/visao.v8i1.1908 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 144-156

Author(s):

Noemi Bonina ◽

Jofrina Zinaenda Patrício

Keyword(s):

Competitive Markets ◽

Organizational Environments ◽

Social Pressures ◽

Technological Advances ◽

The World ◽

Competence Training ◽

Current Scenario ◽

Major Factors ◽

The Individual

Através de um estudo de caso realizado na área da saúde desenvolvemos um trabalho que busca explanar sobre a inevitabilidade da mudança nos contextos de “ser e estar” no mundo, onde a globalização, a competição, os avanços tecnológicos, as mudanças dos consumidores, as novas pressões sociais, reflectem o cenário actual. Através de um olhar sobre as atitudes individuais perante a mudança e suas perspectivas, a aceitação e a resistência ao “novo”, traz-se a reflexão sobre a formação e o seu papel para o desenvolvimento das competências, onde um de seus objectivos é desenvolver e aperfeiçoar o indivíduo no melhor desempenho de produtividade e eficiência que as empresas necessitam para actuar nos seus mercados globais e competitivos. Assim, buscamos lançar esse olhar sobre a interligação entre quatro factores importantes: competência, formação, mudança e competição, que podem ser entendidos como factores de conflito ou como complementares aos ambientes organizacionais.Palavras-Chave: Transformação. Formação. Competências. INEVITABILITY OF CHANGE: GENERATOR OF CONFLICT OR COMPLEMENTARITY IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS?Abstract: Through a case study in health developed a work that seeks to explain about the inevitability of change in the contexts of "being and be" in the world, where globalization, competition, technological advances, changes of consumers, new social pressures, reflect the current scenario. Through a look at the individual attitudes towards change and its prospects, acceptance and resistance to the "new" brings to reflection on education and its role in the development of skills, where one of his objectives is to develop and improve the individual in the best performance of productivity and efficiency that businesses need to act in their global and competitive markets. Thus, we seek to launch this look on linking four major factors: competence, training, change and competition, which can be understood as factors of conflict or as complementary to organizational environments.Keywords: Transformation. Formation. Skills.

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Geoscience on television: a review of science communication literature in the context of geosciences

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ◽

10.5194/hess-20-2507-2016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 2507-2518 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rolf Hut ◽

Anne M. Land-Zandstra ◽

Ionica Smeets ◽

Cathelijne R. Stoof

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Natural Hazards ◽

Information Transfer ◽

Science Communication ◽

Knowledge Gaps ◽

Relevant Theory ◽

The World ◽

Effective Science ◽

Formal Science

Abstract. Geoscience communication is becoming increasingly important as climate change increases the occurrence of natural hazards around the world. Few geoscientists are trained in effective science communication, and awareness of the formal science communication literature is also low. This can be challenging when interacting with journalists on a powerful medium like TV. To provide geoscience communicators with background knowledge on effective science communication on television, we reviewed relevant theory in the context of geosciences and discuss six major themes: scientist motivation, target audience, narratives and storytelling, jargon and information transfer, relationship between scientists and journalists, and stereotypes of scientists on TV. We illustrate each theme with a case study of geosciences on TV and discuss relevant science communication literature. We then highlight how this literature applies to the geosciences and identify knowledge gaps related to science communication in the geosciences. As TV offers a unique opportunity to reach many viewers, we hope this review can not only positively contribute to effective geoscience communication but also to the wider geoscience debate in society.

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Factors That Hinders Student’s Motivation – A Case Study Of Albania

European Scientific Journal ESJ ◽

10.19044/esj.2016.v12n16p237 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (16) ◽

pp. 237

Author(s):

Bukurie Lila

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Teachers ◽

Future Generation ◽

School Teachers ◽

Technical School ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

The World ◽

The Individual ◽

Personal Success

Not everyone can invent theories to change the world forever. However, everyone can use motivation to achieve personal success beginning from a young age. One of the most difficult and most important aspect of a teacher’s work is the student’s motivation. Students who are not motivated cannot learn effectively. They fail to take the information provided, and are not willing to participate in the lessons. Also, some of them may become problematic in the course of the learning process. The aim of this study is to show the role teachers should play with regards to the students, the methods that he should use, and the techniques and teaching strategies that teachers should use in the classroom so that students will be motivated. The study is focused on the high school classes. Thus, they are also the most problematic category to focus on learning if there are no good techniques to motivate them. The methodology followed in this work is qualitative and quantitative. We interviewed 15 high school teachers in Tirana Economic Technical School and had a survey of about 80 students of this school, classes 10, 11, and 12. The purpose of the theme is to identify the gaps that exist in the motivation of the students in the classroom. This study provides recommendations on how to use the process of motivation to meet the individual needs of each student and to increase their productivity. Therefore, this will result to a future generation of people who are eager to go to school.

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Geoscience on television: a review of science communication literature in the context of geosciences

10.5194/hess-2015-518 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. W. Hut ◽

A. M. Land-Zandstra ◽

I. Smeets ◽

C. Stoof

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Natural Hazards ◽

Information Transfer ◽

Science Communication ◽

Knowledge Gaps ◽

Relevant Theory ◽

The World ◽

Effective Science ◽

Formal Science

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A Korean perspective on megachurches as missional churches

Verbum et Ecclesia ◽

10.4102/ve.v36i1.1421 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Cornelius J.P. Niemandt ◽

Yongsoo Lee

Keyword(s):

Kingdom Of God ◽

Missional Church ◽

Physical Size ◽

Korean Churches ◽

Mission Of God ◽

The World ◽

The Individual ◽

Missional Churches ◽

The Church

Both the megachurch and the missional church are on-going global phenomena. Working from the premise that the church has to be missional, this article operates from a Korean perspective and researches whether a megachurch can be missional. The megachurch is not simply a very large church in terms of membership or the physical size of its building(s) � because of the influence of the interaction between socio-cultural, historical, and theological backgrounds, the megachurch has its own missiological and ecclesiological perspectives. The megachurch understands that the growth of an individual church implies the expansion of the kingdom of God, which means that the individual church has a responsibility to be both functionally and structurally sound, in order to ensure the efficient growth of the kingdom. This is an influential tendency that is found not only in larger size churches, but in all churches who are trying to achieve the quantitative growth of the church by way of evangelisation. The Korean megachurches, represented by the Poongsunghan Church, display these characteristics. The missional church is not simply a mission-driven church, sending many missionaries to other countries; the missional church believes that all churches are sent to the world by God, who wants to reconcile the whole universe with himself. The implication of this is that the church has to restore its missional essence in order to be able to participate in the mission of God. Thus, the missional church is a reforming movement that witnesses to God�s rule by recovering its apostolic nature. The characteristics of this movement are clearly visible in one of the case studies � the Bundang Woori Church. The importance of the missional movement for Korean churches is emphasised.Interdisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The research is a case study of Korean megachurches from a missional perspective. The research represents a critique of practises in Korean megachurches and a contrarian view of the mainline discourse in terms of the popularised view of Korean megachurches. The research may result in new insights in the missional possibilities open to megachurches.

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Breaking the Culture Barrier

Practical Anthropology ◽

10.1177/009182966701400104 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol os-14 (1) ◽

pp. 44-48

Author(s):

John B. Quick

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Human Case ◽

Behavior Patterns ◽

The West ◽

Common Experience ◽

Rates Of Change ◽

The World ◽

Material Goods ◽

The Individual

Whether we like it or not, the world is moving more and more in the direction of a standard, universal culture, at least in some parts of life. The changes which take place in this direction usually come about through adopting behavior patterns learned from the West, or material goods from Western technology. Such changes are often known in the different languages of the world by such words as “development” “progress” “improvement.” Because of the unevenness of rates of change it is a common experience in Asia and Africa to see young people who are in many respects highly westernized, side by side with their parents or other contemporaries who have not been so highly affected by this change. And even though some change is wanted, by and large, all over the world, not all aspects of westernization are equally wanted. Attitudes, furthermore, may be ambivalent, and the individual who moves faster than his contemporaries may be subjected to severe pressures. The following article is a brief human case study of the difficulties which one young man faced for a few hours in just such an ambivalent situation.

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