scholarly journals A COVID-19 Pandemic Sustainable Educational Innovation Management Proposal Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6391
Author(s):  
Annibal Scavarda ◽  
Ana Dias ◽  
Augusto Reis ◽  
Haydee Silveira ◽  
Isabel Santos
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Online System ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The City

The COVID-19 pandemic has promoted a big change in the educational sector. Suddenly, teachers, professors, and students had to migrate from presential classes to the online system without prior notice or a training course. This paper aimed to verify how the need of a rapid change to the online system in response to the impossibility of keeping the presential system due to the mandatory social distancing imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic has affected relationships and performance of teachers, professors, and students, as well as review the technologies and procedures adopted by them to innovate and achieve sustainable education. To address the empirical side of this exploratory research, the authors of this paper sent an email questionnaire to kindergarten, elementary and high school teachers in the City of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), as well as to professors of the top 197 Brazilian universities. To address theoretical side of this exploratory research, an investigation was carried out through scientific databases. The data were analyzed with SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), version 22.0, and with Microsoft Excel 2007. As a result, this paper showed that social isolation and transition to the online system greatly affected the work conditions of teachers and professors, as well as the learning process of students. Anyway, sustainable actions were taken to overcome these challenges. Furthermore, this paper proposed a framework that might support the development of new studies, filling the literature gap on the subject.

scholarly journals Pedagogic Alternatives in Italy after the Second World War: the Experience of the Movimento di Cooperazione Educativa and Bruno Ciari’s New School in Bologna

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirella D’Ascenzo
Keyword(s):  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
New School ◽  
School Renewal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World ◽  
And Training

This contribution explores the historical and educational context in Italy after the Second World War, focusing on the pedagogical and educational innovation of the Movimento di Cooperazione Educativa (Educational Cooperation Movement, MCE), founded to promote the techniques of Freinet, and in particular Bruno Ciari, teacher, politician and driving force behind national school renewal in Italy. Using printed sources and archives from the period, the paper looks at the social and pedagogical experiment developed by Bruno Ciari between 1966 and 1970 and promoted in the city of Bologna through «Pedagogic Februaries»; these involved a series of events, conferences and training initiatives, organised with the cooperation of key universities, targeting teachers and families in order to develop an innovative, shared school culture. From the egodocuments of a preschool teacher who worked with Bruno Ciari in the city of Bologna, we enter the heart of the renewal of teaching practices, highlighting the tormented process of change in the teaching profession, in favour of a school that would be a true alternative to the traditional model and open to the democratic demands of all society. 

Sport and Urbanization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Friedman ◽  
Jacob Bustad
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Spectator Sports ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The City

Since the start of the nineteenth century, the processes of urban development and the development of modern sport have been dialectically linked. With critical masses of potential participants, spectators, and media, the city provided the necessary ingredients for the development of sport as a structured activity and viable enterprise. With concerns over the social and public health impacts of rapid urbanization, sport helped to shape urban growth through the development of major metropolitan parks; the creation of small parks, playgrounds, and gymnasiums; the provision of resources for recreation; and the placement of facilities for spectator sports. To better understand the dialectical relationship between sport and urbanization, this chapter focuses on two time periods: 1800–1870 and 1870–1940. The period between 1800–1870 was a time of rapid change with both cities and sport developing into their modern forms. The period between 1870–1940 evinces a more instrumental relationship between sport and the city.

scholarly journals From Ex-Combatants to Citizens: Connecting Everyday Citizenship and Social Reintegration in Colombia

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maivel Rodríguez López ◽  
Eleni Andreouli ◽  
Caroline Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
National Programme ◽  
The Social ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
The City

Citizenship can be understood as a form of civic participation and a means of developing social relations with members of the broader community and, therefore, can act as an important means to help reintegrate ex-combatants back into mainstream society. This paper discusses an exploratory research project conducted with a sample of 23 Colombian ex-combatants from non-state armed groups who are current participants of the national programme of reintegration in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. By collecting their views and opinions about what it is like to become reintegrated, we explored the range of social factors that facilitate as well as obstruct practices of citizenship in everyday life and, subsequently, the ways in which this affects their overall experience of reintegration into Colombian society. Drawing on social psychological literature on citizenship and on the theory of social representations, we explored how citizenship is understood and enacted by this group as part of their reintegration process. A thematic analysis of three focus groups highlights an enabling as well as a limiting social context that affects former combatants’ ability to participate as citizens. This paper also contributes to the social psychology of citizenship by studying the experience of reintegration in conflict-affected societies.

scholarly journals The Online Education System: COVID-19 Demands, Trends, Implications, Challenges, Lessons, Insights, Opportunities, Outlooks, and Directions in the Work from Home

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12197
Author(s):  
Ana Dias ◽  
Annibal Scavarda ◽  
Haydee Silveira ◽  
Luiz Felipe Scavarda ◽  
Kiran Kumar Kondamareddy
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Deviation Coefficient ◽  
City Schools

The aim of this exploratory research is to identify how working from home and the consequent social isolation interfered in teachers’ work and students’ learning and to identify the challenges, difficulties, advantages, opportunities, demands, trends, implications, outlooks, lessons, directions, and feelings of students and teachers in the teaching processes during the COVID-19 pandemic period. To reach its aim, the authors of this paper developed searches and scientific databases and they also sent an email questionnaire to Rio de Janeiro city schools. The descriptive analyses were made by descriptive statistics (proportions, rates, minimum, maximum, mean, median, standard deviation, coefficient of variation—CV). The results show that working from home and the consequent social isolation interfered in the students’ and teachers’ feelings and sensations and highlight the words “frustration”, “hope”, and “strangeness”. From the sample, 96.4% of the teachers affirmed that working from home and the social isolation interfered in their work and 97.4% of the teachers affirmed that working from home and the consequent social isolation interfered in the students’ learning. This research is the starting point to boost discussions on the subjects of COVID-19, working from home, social isolation, and education. This paper will support researchers in the development of future studies related to the subjects.

The York Cycle at Toronto: Staging and Performance Style

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Sheila Lindenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Performance Style ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
York Cycle ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cycle Plays ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
Corpus Christi Cycle ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Craft Guilds ◽  
The City

Because the York Corpus Christi cycle drew so much of its dramatic power from the life of the medieval community, it presents formidable problems to modern producers. One obvious difficulty stems from the anachronistic dramatization of scriptural history. How can one convey to a twentieth-century audience the contemporaneity of a play in which Pilate holds a Parliament with his ‘bishops’ and Christ enters Jerusalem like a king passing in royal procession through the gates of a medieval walled city? The forty-seven separate pageants in which the York cycle treats the story of man from the Creation to the Last Judgment were mounted by the craft guilds of the city under the supervision of the municipal authorities. By what process are these pageants to be produced today without the social and economic structure of the towns that gave to cycle plays the character of a truly civic drama? Finally, what performing style is to be used by modern actors? Even if the modern productions were to employ a historically accurate style (supposing that one could be reconstructed from surviving evidence), this style would only very partially convey to a modern audience the devotional, didactic, and ceremonial purposes of the medieval cycle.

scholarly journals Elements for a Creative City: An Analysis of Kortrijk, Belgium

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Lenice Eli Lunkes Scarpato ◽  
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Mary Sandra Guerra Ashton ◽  
Dusan Schreiber ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Private Initiative ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Creative City ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the case of the city of Kortrijk, Belgium, which in 2017 received the title of Creative City of Design from Unesco, especially the MyMachine, SPEK, and 5X5® Projects. The objective was to identify the main elements responsible for winning the title. To meet this objective, we opted for descriptive exploratory research, through bibliographic research. Among the results, it was possible to show that the city has come over the years, developing socially and economically based on its actions and strategies in the design and education, creative projects, and entrepreneurship, even long before being part of Unesco's World Network of Creative Cities. It was observed that Kortrjik has a driving role, mainly because it manages to create an innovation ecosystem with all the social actors involved in this process, highlighting the MyMachine, SPEK and 5X5® Projects, articulated with governmental, private initiative and civil society, giving the city a potential for relevant social innovation.

scholarly journals Poverty as a predisposing factor of illness tendencies in sugar cane workers

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (spe) ◽  
pp. 736-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ludmilla Rossi Rocha ◽  
Maria Helena Palucci Marziale ◽  
Maria Lucia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Predisposing Factor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Musculoskeletal Problems ◽  
Intense Solar Radiation ◽  
The Individual

This exploratory research based on the Social Ecological Theory aimed to study the health promotion of 39 people working in the harvest of the sugarcane in São Paulo, Brazil. The objectives were to identify the individual, social and environmental factors predisposing the workers to illnesses. The data were collected through direct observation of the labor activity and a questionnaire. The main individual determinant factors were physical effort and hectic work rhythm, and among the environmental factors, intense solar radiation, dust, soot and the presence of venomous animals were highlighted. The conditions of life and work reflect the poverty of these individuals and are the main social determinants of illness. The interaction of these factors can cause respiratory, cutaneous, musculoskeletal problems, occupational accidents. Thus, eradicating poverty and improving work conditions are fundamental for the health promotion of these workers.

scholarly journals EMPREENDEDORISMO SOCIAL E COOPERATIVISMO –UMA ANÁLISE DA ATUAÇÃO DA COOPERLIX NO MUNICÍPIO DE PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE-SP

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lucas Antonio ◽  
Heloisa do Nascimento Eustachio Bezerro ◽  
Edilene Mayumi Murashita Takenaka
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So

Social entrepreneurship is the creation of a business aimed at solving social problems and making society more inclusive, without neglecting to seek the economic side. The process of segregation of recyclable material has a great potential of expansion in the city of Presidente Prudente, in the State of São Paulo. Thus, in this study, the proposal was to define social entrepreneurship and relate the formation and performance of a cooperative of workers in recyclable material, Cooperlix, located in the mentioned municipality. In order to do so, this study was constructed in the collection of data found in existing literature with the accomplishment of bibliographical research through books, magazines and academic research available in the collection of the Unoeste and FCT / Unesp library and in specific sites on the subject.It is concluded that social entrepreneurship and cooperativism are related due to their essences and similar effects, and both have as their starting point the social context and the formation of Cooperlix reiterates these facts.

The Effect of the Political Situation in the City of Jerusalem on the Rights of the Jerusalem Women

1970 ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
Fadwa Al-Labadi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Legislative Processes

The concept of citizenship was introduced to the Arab and Islamic region duringthe colonial period. The law of citizenship, like all other laws and regulations inthe Middle East, was influenced by the colonial legacy that impacted the tribal and paternalistic systems in all aspects of life. In addition to the colonial legacy, most constitutions in the Middle East draw on the Islamic shari’a (law) as a major source of legislation, which in turn enhances the paternalistic system in the social sector in all its dimensions, as manifested in many individual laws and the legislative processes with respect to family status issues. Family is considered the nucleus of society in most Middle Eastern countries, and this is specifically reflected in the personal status codes. In the name of this legal principle, women’s submission is being entrenched, along with censorship over her body, control of her reproductive role, sexual life, and fertility.

Hygienic assessment of learning environment conditions (by the example of higher educational institutions of the city of Ufa)

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-411
Author(s):  
Elena Ju. Gorbatkova
Keyword(s):  
Ionizing Radiation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
Average Relative Humidity ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The City

Introduction. The important factors affecting health and performance of young people are the conditions of education, in particular, a comfortable microclimate in the classrooms of higher educational institutions. Materials and methods. In view of the urgency of this problem, an analysis was made of the microclimate parameters of educational organizations of different profiles (Ufa city, the Republic of Bashkortostan). 294 classrooms were studied in 22 buildings of 4 leading universities in Ufa. A total of 3,822 measurements were taken to determine the parameters of the microclimate. The analysis of ionizing radiation in the aerial environment of classrooms. There was performed determination of radon and its affiliated products content. In order to assess the conditions and lifestyle of students of 4 higher educational institutions of the city of Ufa, we conducted an anonymous survey of 1,820 students of I and IV years of education. Results. The average temperature in the classrooms of all universities studied was 23.9±0.09 C. The average relative humidity in all classrooms was 34.2 ± 0.42%. Analysis of ionizing radiation (radon and its daughter products decay) in the aerial environment of the classrooms and sports halls located in the basement determined that the average annual equivalent equilibrium volumetric activity of the radon daughter products (EROA ± Δ222Rn) ranged from 28 ± 14 to 69 ± 34.5 meter, which meets the requirements established by SanPiN. Conclusion. The hygienic assessment of the microclimate parameters of educational institutions of various profile revealed a number of deviations from the regulated norms. The results indicate the need to control the parameters of the microclimate, both from the administration of universities, and from the professors. According to the results of the study, recommendations were prepared for the management of higher educational institutions in Ufa.

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