scholarly journals High quality television and autoregulations of the messages for children and youth

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Ramón Reig
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Subsequent Risk

Quality TV is immersed in a cultural context which is yet to be clarified. In this sense, this paper contemplates the concept of culture from an anthropological and journalistic perspective. Then it offers some data that show how a debate about quality television has developed lately. This debate has faced (and kept busy) public administrations, TV networks and audiences. However we are at a decisive moment due to the fact thatnew mindsets have been acting upon the human beings with the subsequent risk. Finally, a discussion is presented in which a reflection is synthesized with the conclusion given along with the facts. La televisión de calidad está inmersa en un contexto cultural cuyo significado hay que aclarar. En este sentido, este texto contempla el concepto de cultura desde su perspectiva antropológica y desde su perspectiva periodística. Pasa después a ofrecer algunos datos que demuestran cómo se ha desarrollado últimamente en España un debate sobre la televisión de calidad que ha ocupado –y enfrentado– a administración pública, cadenas de televisión y públicos. Se pone de relieve asimismo que estamos en un momento decisivo ya que nuevas educaciones mentales hace tiempo que actúan sobre los seres humanos con el consiguiente riesgo. Para terminar, se aborda un apartado que trata de sintetizar la reflexión con la conclusión a la vista de los hechos.

scholarly journals Exploring patient-provider interactions and the health system’s responsiveness to street-connected children and youth in Kenya: a qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Embleton Lonnie ◽  
Shah Pooja ◽  
Gayapersad Allison ◽  
Kiptui Reuben ◽  
Ayuku David ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Prompt Attention

Abstract Background In Kenya, street-connected children and youth (SCY) have poor health outcomes and die prematurely due to preventable causes. This suggests they are not accessing or receiving adequately responsive healthcare to prevent morbidity and mortality. We sought to gain insight into the health systems responsiveness to SCY in Kenya through an in-depth exploration of SCY’s and healthcare provider’s reflections on their interactions with each other. Methods This qualitative study was conducted across 5 counties in western Kenya between May 2017 and September 2018 using multiple methods to explore and describe the public perceptions of, and proposed and existing responses to, the phenomenon of SCY in Kenya. The present analysis focuses on a subset of data from focus group discussions and in-depth interviews concerning the delivery of healthcare to SCY, interactions between SCY and providers, and SCY’s experiences in the health system. We conducted a thematic analysis situated in a conceptual framework for health systems responsiveness. Results Through three themes, context, negative patient-provider interactions, and positive patient-provider interactions, we identified factors that shape health systems responsiveness to SCY in Kenya. Economic factors influenced and limited SCY’s interactions with the health system and shaped their experiences of dignity, quality of basic amenities, choice of provider, and prompt attention. The stigmatization and discrimination of SCY, a sociological process shaped by the social-cultural context in Kenya, resulted in experiences of indignity and a lack of prompt attention when interacting with the health system. Patient-provider interactions were highly influenced by healthcare providers’ adverse personal emotions and attitudes towards SCY, resulting in negative interactions and a lack of health systems responsiveness. Conclusions This study suggests that the health system in Kenya is inadequately responsive to SCY. Increasing public health expenditures and expanding universal health coverage may begin to address economic factors, such as the inability to pay for care, which influence SCY’s experiences of choice of provider, prompt attention, and dignity. The deeply embedded adverse emotional responses expressed by providers about SCY, associated with the socially constructed stigmatization of this population, need to be addressed to improve patient-provider interactions.

Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenda Wall
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Parental Roles ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
Parenting Expectations ◽  
Parent Relationship ◽  
Intensive Parenting

Social concern about online behaviour and safety of children and youth has increased dramatically in the last decade and has resulted in an abundance of parenting advice on ways to manage and protect children online. The cultural context in which this is happening is one characterised by intensive parenting norms, heightened risk awareness, and growing concerns about the effects of ‘over-parenting’, especially in the teenage years. Using contemporary advice to parents on managing adolescents’ digital experiences, this study investigates the ways that parenting, youth and the youth–parent relationship are depicted. Parental roles, in this material, are portrayed as instrumental and pedagogical while youth are assumed to lack agency and judgement. Intensive parenting expectations are extended as parents face advice to be both highly vigilant agents of surveillance and trusted confidantes of their children, with an overall goal of shaping children’s subjectivity in ways that allow them to become self-governing.

scholarly journals THE STATE OF FORMATION OF ADOLESCENTS’ COORDINATION QUALITIES IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING MODERN DANCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
N. M. Кholchenkova
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Biomechanical Features

In the article modern dance is defined as an effective means of healthcare of children and youth in the educational process. The development of physical qualities, such as motor coordination, has a great importance for the high-quality performing of modern dance techniques and skills.The pedagogical and biomechanical features of teaching the basic motor elements of modern dance are revealed in the work. The results of the formation of statodynamic stability’s parameters in the structure of coordination qualities of younger adolescents are presented. The control took place with the use of a modern stabilographic complex at the ascertaining stage of the experimental research using the author's method of teaching modern dance.Key words: healthcare, coordination qualities, stability, modern dance, physical health.

scholarly journals The Subject of Theatre in the Lithuanian School: Relationships within the General Educational Cultural Context

Pedagogika ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Vida Kazragytė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Theatre Education ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theatre Pedagogy ◽  
The Impact

The article investigates the rather new educational phenomenon – about twenty years ago under the impact of educational reform the theatre subject teaching was introduced. In many neighbor’s countries there is no such separate theatre subject still yet. The focus of the article is on the relationships between the curricula of theatre subject (2008, 2001) and the practice of long-lived non-formal education of children and youth of Lithuania. The curricula of theatre subject were prepared according to comprehensive discipline-arts education conception formed in United States of Amerika. Taking into account the notion of M. Lukšienė, that experience of other cultures, as well as the educational innovations must be adopted according to “own cultural model”, the attention is paid to analysis how curricula of theatre subject are grounded on traditions of Lithuanian non-formal education, especially its artistic trend. The self-expression paradigm or psychological trend of theatre education is less evident in our context. The roots of artistic trend are in Jesuit’s school theatre that existed in Lithuania 1570–1843. The artistic trend was recreated at the end of 20th century in non-formal theatre education in Lithuania by relaying on the professional theatre pedagogy (the training of professional theatre pedagogues started, the first books of methodology of theatre education appeared). Analysis showed that common concepts, as “theatre” and “education through theatre” are those which relate artistic trend of non-formal theatre education with curricula of theatre subject, accordingly, which are grounded on discipline-based art education conception. Especially that is clear from the revealing of content of “education through theatre” concept and explaining its formative and cognitive impacts on children and youth who are acting the roles created by dramaturge. The biggest challenge related with coming of theatre subject as separate, is the creating of theatre knowledge appropriated for school children. Now the theatre subject curricula describe the knowledge which are known in professional theatre pedagogy and in artistic trend of non-formal theatre education, but only in part. Thy must be expanded by new knowledge which will be get by way of externalization from direct practice. Also, there is a need of artistic orientation of theatre didactics – that can guarantee the succession of the best traditions of Lithuanian‘s theatre education and encourage their development.

scholarly journals Tolerance – a Culturally Dependent Concept?

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trond Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Moral Environment ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This article presents research on Japanese interpretations of the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a point of departure for discussing how the Japanese cultural contexts present an alternative understanding of tolerance to the Western liberal. According to Rainer Forst, tolerance is a normatively dependent concept (Forst 2010). This implies that the specific cultural values or the ‘normative context’ and environment become relevant. Since the praxis of tolerance always takes place in a specific cultural and moral environment, the cultural context influences how tolerance is carried out in practice as well as the norms defining its limits. Japanese informants held that cultural norms and values in Japan differ somewhat from those in the West. They perceived the human rights discourse as culturally dependent and culturally marked and clearly considered the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be a product of Western thought. It states that ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in the spirit of brotherhood’ (United Nations 1948). While the role of tolerance in Western political philosophy seems to be attached to liberal values of autonomy and freedom, the Confucian-influenced environment in Japan places more emphasis on inter-dependency, cultivation, and learning social rules and proper-place-occupation as bases for moral conduct and deserving of respect. According to the Japanese informants, people are not ‘born with rights’ or ‘born free and equal’. Maintaining harmony, consensus, and proper behaviour according to relationships and hierarchy creates a different kind of setting for tolerance. The inter-dependent perspectives of Japanese culture may restrain freedom and can thus be expected to limit toleration of divergent views or behaviour. The culture-specific perception of human nature with an ‘inter-dependent construal of self’, counts as a context for tolerance. Also, it could be argued that Japanese religion is less doctrinal and absolute, and particularistic morality prevails. In the Japanese setting, the coexistence of competing truth systems seems to be more easily tolerated. This may broaden the room for tolerance. The cultural values defining ‘the good’ vary, implying that culture counts when the limits for tolerance are drawn. What is valued is culturally dependent, thus directing what is tolerated.        

Lead-Free High Refractive Index Glasses Produced from Local Raw Materials

2008 ◽  
Vol 39-40 ◽  
pp. 257-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pisutti Dararutana ◽  
Prukswan Chetanachan ◽  
J. Dutchaneephet ◽  
Narin Sirikulrat
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
High Refractive Index ◽  
Radiation Shielding ◽  
Lead Free ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Barium Compounds ◽  
Set Up

Many difference useful and decorative articles have been made from glasses over the centuries, especially lead-containing glasses. Due to harmful effects of lead from glass fabrication process on human beings and considering the health as well as the environmental issues, many researchers tried to produce leadless glasses using some heavy chemical elements such as barium, bismuth and zirconium. Nowadays, barium compounds seemed to be satisfactory and to be able to increase the refractive index. For production of high quality crystal glasses with high refractive index in Thailand, most raw materials including high quality sand have been imported. Because, Thailand, in fact, is rich in many kinds of raw materials for glass manufacturing, therefore, this work is set up to study the fabrication of the lead-free high refractive index glasses using local sand and barite as the main raw materials. After complete melting, the physical and optical properties of the prepared glass samples were determined to compare these properties with those of glasses prepared from foreign sand. It was found that the prepared glasses produced from local raw materials were suitably for restoration, decoration, radiation shielding, as well as glass jewelry. These glasses can be considered as one of the environmental friendly materials.

The Politics of Sound and the Biopolitics of Music: Weaving together sound-making, irreducible listening, and the physical and cultural environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agostino Di Scipio
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
Auditory Experience ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Methodological Position

The ever-increasing focus on sound in recent creative practices has ideological implications and seems to reframe and problematise ontological perspectives on music. Today it is possible to contrast notions of music as identical with sound (as in the discursive framework of ‘audio culture’) with artistic practices where sound and music arenot at allidentical, and the usually implicit hierarchy between them is probably twisted. This article discusses such matters from a methodological position that weaves together issues usually discussed in different areas of concern: it understands ecologically informed notions of sound and auditory experience as strictly intertwined with critical and inventive attitudes on technology, particularly as their intertwining is elaborated through performative practices. It suggests that, in music as well as in sound art, what we hearassound andinsound is the dynamics of anecology of situated and mediated actions, as a process that binds together (1) human beings (practitioners and listeners, their auditory inclinations), (2) technical agencies (the domain where means and ends are dialectically negotiated as practitioners strive to achieve a certain freedom in action across the public space of technological mediations and delegations) and (3) the environment (the physicalandcultural context where sound-making and listening practices take place). The general idea is that the manners by which we shape up our relationship to sound and appropriate the technical mediations involved in working with it, are ofbiopoliticalrelevance for social endeavours that might (still) be ‘music’

Cultural Context in Architecture of Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 126-131
Author(s):  
De Xiang Deng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Human Beings

It is the human intelligent enlightenments, particularly presented by that of Moshe Safdie that has constructed the world’s groundbreaking architectural work--Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. The designer’s appropriate interpretation of cultural context of this architecture has endowed it with vitality and energy, making it the paradigm of soul dwelling and spiritual home of human beings. It ushers a door for modern architectures to be built with rich flavor of spirituality.

scholarly journals Provider Perspectives of High-Quality Pediatric Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Children and Youth With Chronic Disease

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 649-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn C. Foster ◽  
Elizabeth Jacob-Files ◽  
Kimberly C. Arthur ◽  
Stephanie A. Hillman ◽  
Todd C. Edwards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Pediatric Hospital ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Provider Perspectives ◽  
Hospital To Home

From Avoiding Bias to Social Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Anne E. Lundquist ◽  
Gavin Henning
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Assessment Decisions ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Research Based Practices ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

The demographics of U.S. colleges and universities continue to evolve and higher education is being called to reinvent itself in order to ensure that all students have high quality learning experiences. An equity-minded approach to assessment helps determine the effectiveness of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and programs as well as embodies practices and procedures that themselves are socially just. This text share many research-based practices that value, prioritize, and develop diversity, intercultural fluency, and equity in campus specific settings. This chapter describes the higher education and cultural context in which the equitable assessment conversation is taking place; reviews how research paradigms, methods, and culture impact assessment decisions and methods; describes a socially just assessment continuum; and offers tips for implementing equity-minded assessment.

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