scholarly journals Discarded Identities/Inspiring Just Sustainability with Reuse Persona Dolls

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8623
Author(s):  
Michelle Domingues
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Curricular Innovation ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Just Sustainability

The author identifies as a mixed-race Chicana teacher/educator, bridging ecology, culture, and learning situated within an early learning center on a university campus. This inquiry integrates Gloria Anzaldúa’s autohistoria teoría/autobiographical theory and documents (1) the social construction of a gender-fluid persona doll named “Logan” during a focus group with REMIDA Reggio-inspired educators, (2) a (dis)rupture that took place after engaging the persona doll to introduce the term “transgender” during a preschool circle time, and (3) lessons learned to move early childhood education for social sustainability forward. During this disrupture in our learning community, the question of whether or not to discard Logan’s (gender non-binary) identity emerged. Logan’s story is one of curricular innovation in the examination of topics and concepts of ecological sustainability, equity-based pedagogy, and creative reuse through the construction and use of persona dolls. The dolls themselves are created from reuse materials, and they adopt personas and social backgrounds reflecting awareness of ecological and social injustice while co-developing ideas of actions for equity with the input of children.

scholarly journals MODEL DESA TERPADU PAUDNI MEWUJUDKAN MASYARAKAT PEMBELAJAR SEPANJANG HAYAT

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Agus Sadid
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village ◽  
Informal Groups

The pattern of rural development should move towards an integral-concept of development. Early childhood education program, (PAUDNI) has a huge potential to enhance people’s welfare. The village model of PAUDNI would be the best alternative solution of empowering community. The problem is how to develop the integrated village model that establishes a life-long learning community. This article describes, discusses, and explores the integrated village model of PUDNI. The conclusion is (1) the PAUDNI village is constructed by the andragogy theory by Knowles and Pannen, emphasizing the community empowerment on integral and integrated aspects; (2) the construction of PAUDNI village model includes community participations, cooperation, commitment, and integrity; (3) the implementation of the model should consider data and analysis, community participation, PAUDNI Units such as PKBM, LKP, PAUD and other non-formal and informal groups; (4) in supervision and guidance process, the model of PAUNI village should involve some related people or institutions. Implementing such a village model properly would create a life-long learning community and enhance the social welfare and the life quality of the community.

Seeing Similarity or Distance?

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Wilton ◽  
Diana T. Sanchez ◽  
Lisa Giamo
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intergroup Perception ◽  
Intergroup Perceptions ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Biracial individuals threaten the distinctiveness of racial groups because they have mixed-race ancestry, but recent findings suggest that exposure to biracial-labeled, racially ambiguous faces may positively influence intergroup perception by reducing essentialist thinking among Whites ( Young, Sanchez, & Wilton, 2013 ). However, biracial exposure may not lead to positive intergroup perceptions for Whites who are highly racially identified and thus motivated to preserve the social distance between racial groups. We exposed Whites to racially ambiguous Asian/White biracial faces and measured the perceived similarity between Asians and Whites. We found that exposure to racially ambiguous, biracial-labeled targets may improve perceptions of intergroup similarity, but only for Whites who are less racially identified. Results are discussed in terms of motivated intergroup perception.

Dissemination and Implementation in Social Service Settings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Curtis McMillen ◽  
Danielle R. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Implementation Models ◽  
Complex Settings

Social service settings offer numerous complexities in their staffing, consumers, and payer mix that require careful consideration in designing dissemination and implementation efforts. However, social services’ unique access to vulnerable populations with health problems may prove vital in efforts to improve the health status of many of our citizens and reduce health disparities. While a number of well-developed, blended dissemination and implementation models are being used in social service settings, they all require additional documentation, research, and field experience. Nonetheless, the lessons learned in the social services may help organizations in other sectors better implement health interventions with complex consumers in complex settings.

scholarly journals Methodological and Measurement Advances in Social Determinants of HIV: View from NIH

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Greenwood ◽  
Paul Gaist ◽  
Ann Namkung ◽  
Dianne Rausch
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Suboptimal Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hiv Acquisition ◽  
Ecological Momentary

AbstractSocial determinants are increasingly understood as key contributors to patterns of heightened risk for HIV acquisition and suboptimal care and treatment outcomes. Yet, the ability to rigorously model, map and measure these nuanced social dynamics has been a challenge, resulting in limited examples of effective interventions and resource allocation. In 2016, the United States National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) issued a Request for Applications calling for methodological innovations around the social determinants of HIV. In May of 2019, NIMH, in collaboration with American University’s Center on Health, Risk and Society and the DC Center for AIDS Research, sponsored a symposium to bring together the funded teams to share accomplishments, distill lessons learned and reflect on the state of the science with other key stakeholders. Presentations focused on causal inference, multi-level analysis and mathematical modeling (Models); geospatial analytics and ecological momentary assessments (Maps); and measurement of social and structural determinants including inequalities and stigmas (Measures). Cross-cutting and higher-level themes were discussed and largely focused on the importance of critical and careful integration of social theory, community engagement and mixed methodologies into research on the social determinants of HIV.

scholarly journals Working Perspectives within Feminism and Early Childhood Education

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Anne De Lair ◽  
Eric Erwin
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Childhood Education

The authors describe a model for feminist-based early childhood practice from two perspectives: the classroom teacher and the teacher educator. Using examples from their own work, the authors outline the assumptions and the principles which guide their work with children and adults. Implications for the field are discussed.

Racial Slurs and Whispers in Situated Testimonies of Dutch Imperial Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-91
Author(s):  
Laurie J. Sears
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Significant Time ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Dutch Colonial

Storytelling brings into vivid focus the emotions and affects that different classes and races of people experienced in the imperial Dutch Indies island worlds. The storyteller explored in this article is Maria Dermoût (1888–1962), a mixed-race Dutch woman (Indo) who was born and raised on Java in the Dutch East Indies and who spent more than thirty years there. This article argues that Dermoût is a key writer for understanding affective economies, because she devotes significant time and effort in her fiction to fleshing out Native characters, something that few writers of her time did. The novella Toetie, one of Dermoût’s last works, uncovers Indies and Dutch attitudes toward race and color, moving her work from the genre of Indies Letters, or Dutch colonial literature, to that of postcolonial critique, with an exploration of forms of servitude, affect, and the social relations of her time.

Lessons Learned … About Curriculum: Five Years on and Half a World Away

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doune Macdonald ◽  
Lisa Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Primary Field ◽  
Health And Physical Education ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The knowledge, skills, and attitudes manifested in health and physical education school curricula are an arbitrary selection of that which is known and valued at a particular place and time. Bernstein’s (2000) theories of the social construction of knowledge offer a way to better understand the relationship between the production, selection, and reproduction of curricular knowledge. This article overviews contemporary knowledge in the primary field (production) upon which curriculum writers in the recontextualizing field may draw. It highlights tensions in the knowledge generated within the primary field and, using a case of the USA’s National Standards for Physical Education (NASPE), demonstrates how particular discourses become privileged when translated into curriculum documents in the recontextualizing field.

scholarly journals An evaluation of factors affecting the management of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed S.M Sadrul Huda ◽  
Afsana Akhtar ◽  
Segufta Dilshad ◽  
Syeeda Raisa Maliha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Health Care Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social

PurposeThe study aims to gain insights into the management of COVID-19 in Bangladesh to identify the factors that are relevant to managing the pandemic in a developing country.Design/methodology/approachThe study was carried out by pursuing the archival method. The information was collected from credible newspaper reports over the previous months, as well as articles published on the subject of COVID-19.FindingsThe research revealed important and relevant dimensions of the health sector in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. The major factors were doctors, nurses (health service providers), patients, (customers) and society. This is a pioneering paper, which documents the major lessons learned from the management of COVID-19 in Bangladesh concerning three stakeholders of the health-care system, i.e. providers, patients and society. This paper covers the situation regarding the ongoing pandemic from three perspectives – provider, customers and society, and thus, may help to develop future research regarding the development of health-care management models for addressing the pandemic.Research limitations/implicationsThe major limitations of this paper is its over dependence on secondary sources for collecting the information.Practical implicationsThis paper presents the learnings from the pandemic in health-care management in different categories (e.g. social, doctor/nurse, patients), which can help the managers in understanding different dimensions of the health-care sector from different perspectives. The problems as well as the learnings stated in the paper can help the policy makers implement such strategies to ensure better delivery of the medical health-care service during a pandemic.Social implicationsThis paper clearly reveals the social dimensions of the COVID-19 by assessing the social aspects of COVID-19 management. Both social stigma and support are traced out during evaluating the situation. Thus, the social forces will be able to rethink about their role in addressing the social costs of pandemic.Originality/valueThis is a commentary piece.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN TARI KREATIF DENGAN EKSPLORASI IMAGERY LINGKUNGAN HIDUP ANAK USIA DINI

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Arni Apriani
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Creative Dance ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Exploration

Abstract Early childhood is an individual figure who is always active, enthusiastic, and curious about what is seen, heard, felt. They never stop to explore, learn and easy to absorb information. They have feelings that are formed by the situation (happy, sad, angry, disappointed, appreciated, and so on). This is the time when they need friends to play with the socio-cultural environment where he is. In early childhood education must relate to the value of art, beauty and harmony that leads to happiness in the child's life according to the cultural roots in which they live (aesthetics) as well as the religious values ​​it embraces. The concept of learning: learning while playing, doing, through stimulation, with the core experience of exploring the social environment of culture, which produces knowledge and understanding by observing, imitating and experimenting. Environmental exploration for early childhood is important because they are excellent explorers. Creative dance with the exploration of environmental imagery can provide an aesthetic experience, learning experience, social experience, and can foster children's creativity to explore the elements of dance.

scholarly journals A Project-Centric Curriculum Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Dennis Drinka ◽  
Minnie Yi-Miin Yen
Keyword(s):  
Student Success ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Individual Project ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control ◽  
Small Team

Student success was the motivation for evolving an individual project-based course into a project-centric curriculum. A one semester project was first extended across a sequence of three interrelated courses tied together through their focus on the success of small team projects that spanned those courses. This sequence was then targeted as the core of a redesign of the entire program curriculum focused on project and student success. Currently, the department is in the process of introducing the measurement of project success as a tool for assessment and control of the departments learning objectives. An overview of the design of this curriculum, lessons learned from developing it, and benefits of this type of curriculum in quality of student learning, community engagement, and reputation of the university, will be discussed.

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