scholarly journals ‘Storying the leading’: curating narratives of leadership in conversation with Vaughan S. Roberts and David Sims, Leading by Story

Holiness ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Andrew Stobart
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Thursday Evening ◽  
The Usa

AbstractThis article has been developed from a conversation held and recorded at the Wesley House community in January 2018, as part of its regular Thursday evening Methodist Studies sessions. The session used Roberts’ and Sims’ recently published book Leading by Story to consider how leadership is embodied in ministry. Sharing stories of leadership in Wesley House's cross-cultural community led to significant insights, which arose as one particular leadership story was explored using Roberts’ and Sims’ central concept of ‘curating stories’. This article offers the conversation as a reflective review of the book. Staff, students and friends of Wesley House present at the conversation represented many different contexts, including Methodist churches in the USA, Britain, Fiji, Hong Kong, Kenya, South Korea and Zambia.Leading by Story: Rethinking Church Leadership, Vaughan S. Roberts and David Sims (London: SCM Press, 2017), 256 pp, £25.00 pbk

scholarly journals Cross-cultural comparisons of psychosocial distress in the USA, South Korea, France, and Hong Kong during the initial phase of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
pp. 113593
Author(s):  
Derek J. Dean ◽  
Ivy F. Tso ◽  
Anne Giersch ◽  
Hyeon-Seung Lee ◽  
Tatiana Baxter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Psychosocial Distress ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Cultural Comparisons

Mechanisms of Gatekeeping in the Social Work Profession: Lessons Learned from Canada, Hong Kong and South Korea

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miu Chung Yan ◽  
Jinah Lee ◽  
Edward Ko Ling Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Work ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Registration System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa

Abstract Striving to be a full-fledged profession with statutorily delegated self-regulatory authority has been a goal of the social work profession in many countries since Abraham Flexner’s (1915 ‘Is social work a profession?’, Paper presented at the Forty-Second Annual Session of The National Conference of Charities and Correction, Baltimore, MD, pp. 581, 584–8, 590. denial of its professional status in the USA. A full self-regulation requires two gatekeeping mechanisms: professional education and registration. Whereas professional social work education has been in place in many parts of the world, the establishment of a mandatory registration system is still limited to a few countries. Although two mechanisms share the same mandate and function as self-regulation, they tend to be discussed separately in the literature. How they connect and work with each other is seldom explored. In this article, by examining the development of these two mechanisms in Canada, Hong Kong and South Korea, we present three different ways of how these mechanisms are connected and discuss observations of those connections.

The Movement ABC: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Preschool Children from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the USA

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna M.K. Chow ◽  
Yung-Wen Hsu ◽  
Sheila E. Henderson ◽  
Anna L. Barnett ◽  
Sing Kai Lo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Chinese Populations ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Movement Assessment

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the suitability of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (M-ABC) for use in Greater China. Chinese children numbering 255 between the ages of 4 and 6 from Hong Kong and 544 from Taiwan were tested individually on the standardized test contained within the M-ABC. Data from these 799 children were compared to that presented in the test manual for the 493 children of the same age comprising the United States standardization sample. Both within-culture and cross-cultural differences were statistically significant when all items of the M-ABC were examined simultaneously, but effect sizes were too low to be considered meaningful. However, descriptive analysis of the cut-off scores used for impairment detection on the test suggested that adjustments to some items would be desirable for these particular Chinese populations.

Cross-Cultural comparisons of psychosocial distress in the USA, South Korea, France, and Hong Kong during the initial phase of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Dean ◽  
Ivy Fei Tso ◽  
Anne Giersch ◽  
Hyeon-seung Lee ◽  
Tatiana Baxter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Outcome ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has resulted in the worldwide disruption of everyday life but the impact and response to the pandemic have not been uniform. Many countries rapidly deployed physical-distancing mandates to curb the spread of the COVID-19; others did not. Whilst social distancing strategies are necessary to reduce the transmission of the virus, it is also important to examine unintended psychiatric consequences of social isolation. We examined psychological distress in four countries with distinct public health strategies (South Korea, Hong Kong, France and the United States) to identify common and region-specific factors that may contribute to mental illness. From March to July June 2020, an online survey of demographics, general health, mental health, loneliness and social networks was conducted. Overall, younger age, greater concern for COVID, and increased loneliness predicted worse psychological outcome, although the magnitudes of the effects were not uniform among the four countries. We also observed notable differences in psychological distress; Hong Kong, with the strictest lockdown mandate, suffered the most drastic worsening of mental health outcome. To explain differential exacerbations of psychological distress around the globe during the pandemic, contributions of social unrest, economic uncertainty, and disruption to regular routine should be considered.

Towards global music digital libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 858-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Hu ◽  
Jin Ha Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Music ◽  
Information Retrieval Evaluation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Music Information

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare music mood perceptions of people with diverse cultural backgrounds when they interact with Chinese music. It also discusses how the results can inform the design of global music digital libraries (MDL). Design/methodology/approach An online survey was designed based on the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) five-cluster mood model, to solicit mood perceptions of listeners in Hong Kong and the USA on a diverse set of Chinese music. Statistical analysis was applied to compare responses from the two user groups, with consideration of different music types and characteristics of listeners. Listeners’ textual responses were also analyzed with content coding. Findings Listeners from the two cultural groups made different mood judgments on all but one type of Chinese music. Hong Kong listeners reached higher levels of agreement on mood judgments than their US counterparts. Gender, age and familiarity with the songs were related to listeners’ mood judgment to some extent. Practical implications The MIREX five-cluster model may not be sufficient for representing the mood of Chinese music. Refinements are suggested. MDL are recommended to differentiate tags given by users from different cultural groups, and to differentiate music types when classifying or recommending Chinese music by mood. Originality/value It is the first study on cross-cultural access to Chinese music in MDL. Methods and the refined mood model can be applied to cross-cultural access to other music types and information objects.

Introduction: ASIA.LIVE: Inaugurating Livestream Studies in Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Ge Zhang ◽  
Gabriele de Seta
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Digital Cultures

Abstract This introduction to the special issue ‘ASIA.LIVE: Inaugurating Livestream Studies in Asia’ briefly summarizes the virtual workshop at which it originated and describes its contributions to the central concept of liveness. After reflecting on the increasingly constitutive role of liveness in digital media, we argue that research on livestreaming should move beyond its focus on gaming and its Eurocentric approach to platforms, drawing on extensive debates over liveness and expanding its scope to the thriving digital economies in the Asian region. To understand how practices such as livestreaming are changing digital cultures in Asia and beyond, it is necessary to account for the ephemeral phenomena and under-documented practices that emerge from these regional contexts. By bringing together articles about China and Taiwan and relating them to workshop contributions about Hong Kong, Indonesia, and South Korea, we inaugurate livestream studies in Asia and offer some directions for future research in this field.

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