Co-Production and Educational Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 270-289
Author(s):  
Hanne Jensen ◽  
Aaron Lee Morris
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Program Strategy ◽  
Training Approach ◽  
Sustained Change ◽  
Learning Through Play

For programs promoting responsive practices in education, and in particular learning through play, equating ‘scalable' with ‘formulaic, easily replicable trainings' carries the risk of achieving superficial shifts in participants' attitudes and practices, rather than sustained change. Part of the reason is the fundamental mismatch between the practices in focus (i.e., responsive practices) and the training approach itself (i.e., prescriptive). As an alternative, this chapter explores the merits of co-production for meaningfully and sustainably equipping educators at scale. From a microlevel view of co-productive processes in education settings, the authors illustrate two distinct potentials, which combine to form a flexible program strategy: first, co-production as a sense-making process to contextualize programs, and secondly, co-production as a catalyst for capacity building. The chapter concludes with future research needed to better understand flexible program strategies based on co-production, and the change journeys of educator learners participating in such programs.

Impact and paybacks of biomedical research findings in Malaysia 2005–2015

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Kuan Lai ◽  
S Nalliah ◽  
CL Teng ◽  
NLP Chen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health System ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health System Policy

Background: Impact in research encompasses health, economic, and cultural benefits beyond adding to the knowledge base. Funders are under immense pressure to be accountable for the paybacks from funded research.Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to look into the impact of funded biomedical research between the years 2005 and 2015 in Malaysia from the aspects of knowledge production, research targeting and capacity building, as well as health system policy and decision making.Methods: This study employed a convergent parallel mixed-methods research design. Biomedical projects related to breast cancer, coronary heart disease, and dengue, funded by the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), and Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI) between the years 2005 and 2015, were included.Findings: From the questionnaire responses (n=58), on average each funded project managed to produce two outputs and one higher degree student. More than half (61.4%) of the funded projects led to subsequent future research. However, low citations in systematic reviews (10.3%), health policies (6.9%), and clinical practice guidelines (5.2%) were reported. In-depth interviews with the key opinion leaders also saw that most of the local research findings were found to be irrelevant to be adopted into policies by the policymakers.Discussion and conclusions: Paybacks on knowledge production as well as research targeting and capacity building had been achieved, but impact on health system policy and decision making had not been well attained, due to the lack of relevant research findings needed by the policymakers.<br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Payback on knowledge production was achieved, as there had been a lot of new knowledge generated as captured in academic publications, conference proceedings, policy briefs, technical reports, and research highlights, which is important to advance the frontiers of knowledge.</li><br /><li>Payback on research targeting was achieved, with the current research leading to future study with identification of the knowledge gap and generation of new ideas for new research.</li><br /><li>Payback on capacity building was achieved with the training of researchers, building up research capacity and competencies, production of MSc and PhD graduates, promotion of lecturers, and development of new partnerships and networks.</li><br /><li>Impact on health system policy and decision making was not well attained. There had been a lack of relevant research data and findings being incorporated into policymaking, due to the basic and fundamental nature of most of the funded biomedical research in Malaysia.</li></ul>

Some Pain, Some Gain: Reflections on the Past Two Decades of Neonatal Pain Research and Treatment

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Franck
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Pain Research ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Neonatal Pain ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Infant Pain ◽  
Made In

This review reflects back on the progress that has been made in infant pain research over the past 20 years and how the research has influenced (or has failed to influence) the attitudes and practices of health professionals about infant pain. Progress in understanding of infant pain neurobiology, treatment, and measurement are discussed, and new directions for future research are proposed.

scholarly journals Capacity building for transnationalisation of higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Riad Shams ◽  
Rajibul Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Ecological Development ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Research Domain

Purpose Transnationalism and transnational concept are extensively researched in many social science areas; however, transnational management and transnational marketing is relatively a less explored research domain. Also, knowledge management for transnational education (TNE) marketing is not well-researched. Capacity building is an established research-stream, with a key focus on socio-economic and ecological development; however, prior research on capacity building from the context of TNE’s knowledge management and marketing is scarce. The purpose of this study is to analyse TNE marketing mix, to understand the influence of transnational stakeholders’ causal scope(s) on knowledge management in TNE to uphold their transnatioalisation processes through capacity building in TNEs’ marketing management. Design/methodology/approach An inductive constructivist method is followed. Findings Organisational learning from the context of transnational market and socio-economic competitive factors, based on analysing the transnational stakeholders’ causal scope(s) is imperative for proactive knowledge management capacity in TNE marketing. Following the analysis of transnational stakeholders’ causal scope(s) to learn about the cause and consequence of the transnational stakeholders’ relationships and interactions, an initial conceptual framework of knowledge management for TNE marketing is proposed. Practical insights from different TNE markets are developed in support of this novel knowledge management capacity building framework of TNE, and its generalisation perspectives and future research areas are discussed. Practical implications These insights will be useful for TNE administrators to better align their knowledge management perspectives and propositions with their transnational stakeholders to underpin TNE marketing. Academics will be able to use these insights as a basis for future research. Originality/value This study proposes a novel conceptual stakeholder-centred capacity building framework for TNE’s knowledge management to uphold TNE marketing and supports the framework, based on practical insights from three different transnational markets.

Simulations in Entrepreneurship Education: Serious Games and Learning Through Play

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Fox ◽  
Luke Pittaway ◽  
Ikenna Uzuegbunam
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Learning Through Play

Entrepreneurship education continues to grow and develop worldwide. This article seeks to expand knowledge and understanding of educational practice in entrepreneurship by focusing on serious games, specifically computer simulations which model entrepreneurship. This paper begins by reviewing the entrepreneurship education literature to consider the role of simulations, explores the nature of serious games, and assesses the role of such games in simulating entrepreneurial learning. This research uses systematic literature review techniques to collect data on serious games, analyzes these games and provides five detailed case studies on the games. The paper concludes with a discussion of what serious games currently simulate in entrepreneurial learning, and directions for future research.

scholarly journals Determinants of toilet ownership among rural households in six eastern districts of Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuaki Hirai ◽  
Andrea Kelsey ◽  
Kay Mattson ◽  
Aidan A. Cronin ◽  
Supriya Mukerji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Generalized Linear Models ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
Improved Sanitation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Knowledge Attitudes And Practices

Abstract In 2012, the Government of Indonesia and UNICEF launched a project within eastern provinces of Indonesia to scale up and strengthen a national hygiene and sanitation program called ‘Sanitasi Total Berbasis Masyarakat’. A formative study prior to the project was conducted to characterize sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) among 1,700 households in six rural Indonesian districts in 2014. Separate multivariate analyses for toilet ownership (outcome 1) and improved sanitation (outcome 2) were conducted with generalized linear models to assess the association between potential determinants and sanitation outcomes. Respondents who agreed that most people do not have a toilet in their community were associated with lower levels of toilet ownership compared to respondents who disagreed with the statement (p &lt; 0.001). The perception that building a toilet is expensive was also associated with reduced toilet ownership in contrast to respondents without this perception (p &lt; 0.001). Embarrassment and convenience were associated with ownership of improved sanitation versus those with shared or unimproved toilets. The study suggests that social norms play an important role in changing sanitation behaviors. Future research should aim to clarify the extent to which norms and other psychosocial factors can be used to influence sanitation practices.

scholarly journals Coping with the Subjective Impact of COVID-19 among Older Adults in Puerto Rico

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 1037-1037
Author(s):  
David Camacho ◽  
Yamile Marti ◽  
Sunghwan Cho ◽  
Thomas Buckley ◽  
Julia Vazquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
And Coping

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic poses serious physical and mental health risks for older adults worldwide. To develop culturally and contextually congruent services to mitigate these risks requires understanding their stress and coping processes, which remain understudied in Latin America. This study examines qualitative data from 51 adults aged 60 and over who participated in an ongoing study of older Puerto Ricans’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices about COVID-19. Trained interviewers collected the data by telephone from January to August, 2021. Two-thirds of participants were female, 60% had less than high school education and 90% had poverty-level incomes. Drawing on Lazarus and Folkman’s Stress and Coping Theory, we conducted a thematic analysis of responses to open-ended questions about the nature and extent of COVID-related stressors, stress management, and meanings and guidance they had gleaned from their experience. Participants perceived the pandemic as an added threat to ongoing chronic stressors (e.g., Hurricane Maria, poverty, political instability); disruptions in daily routines, family cohesion, and grief and loss processes; and increased isolation and loneliness. They reported using cognitive, behavioral, socioemotional and spiritual coping, including positive thinking, keeping occupied, relaxation, religious practices and, in a few cases, social media. Participants highlighted a revitalized appreciation for emotional qualities of relationships, freedom and life in general. Consistent with our guiding theory, cultural, contextual, religious, and socio-political factors shaped their appraisals of stress and their coping strategies. Future research should examine how these practices relate to health outcomes and quality of life and how they can inform effective, appropriate interventions.

scholarly journals The role of social media in the creation of brand experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (61) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Losada-Otálora ◽  
Iván D. Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Brand Experience ◽  
Brand Associations ◽  
Content Consumption ◽  
The Creation

The relationship between social media and brand experience remains unclear in spite of the strategic importance of social platforms in marketing. To narrow this gap of knowledge, this paper addresses three research objectives: first, defining what is brand experience on social media. Second, explaining how does brand experience come to life on social media? And, third, understanding how do social media create a brand experience. A set of propositions that comes from sense-making, marketing, and cognitive literature suggests that (a) brand experience on social media is the bundle of brand associations to attributes, emotions, or sensations that result from a sense-making process by which a consumer gives meaning to brand-related content consumption or creation on social media; (b) consumer encodes, stores, and retrieves brand experiences for declarative memory as brand associations to attributes, emotions, or sensations; (c) social media may trigger brand experience creation; however, these media may have challenging effects for brand experiences management (e.g., make difficult the creation of long-term brand experiences). Such a conceptual understanding of the role of social media at customer experience creation, paired with a set proposition for empirical work, provide a guide to future research into this field.

Capacity Building of Gynecologists in Cancer Screening Through Hybrid Training Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1243-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavitha Dhanasekaran ◽  
Roshni Babu ◽  
Vipin Kumar ◽  
Ravi Mehrotra ◽  
Roopa Hariprasad
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Training Approach

Leading entrepreneurial sustainability initiatives in emerging economies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bindu Arya ◽  
Sven Horak ◽  
Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens ◽  
Kiran Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Process Enactment ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
Organizational Focus

PurposeThis conceptual paper develops a theoretical framework to provide insights with respect to enhancing focus on entrepreneurial sustainability initiatives in the context of emerging economies. The unique idiosyncrasies of the institutional environment of emerging economies are identified along the concept of scripts.Design/methodology/approachSense-making and social identity theory are utilized to draw propositions along with the dimensions of the three stages of the sense-making process: enactment, selection and retention, in order to identify factors that are likely to motivate the next generation of business leaders in emerging economies to undertake greater levels of sustainability initiatives.FindingsWhen organizations face competing demands of meeting both social and financial goals, sense-making by next-generation leaders becomes relevant. Leaders with greater entrepreneurial orientation (EO) are more likely to take actions decoupled from local isomorphic pressures, such that they turn opportunities for sustainability into novel sustainable initiatives.Originality/valueThis paper proposes a framework to provide insights and directions for future research with respect to enhancing an organizational focus on sustainability initiatives in the context of emerging economies.

Needs assessment of international capacity building using a Delphi technique

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth David Strang
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Modified Delphi ◽  
Modified Delphi Technique

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to engage African subject matter experts to assist with a needs assessment of international capacity building for developing countries in Africa, to establish a prioritized list of capacity building keywords substantiated by a current literature review. Design/methodology/approach A pragmatic mixed-method research design was used which involved conducting literature reviews and applying a modified Delphi technique to determine future research needs. The credibility of these results was strengthened by selecting a Delphi subject matter expert panel from African countries including Benin, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Cameroon, Congo, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Algeria and Nigeria. Non-parametric statistical techniques were used to objectively analyze the qualitative data and prioritize the findings. Findings The results clearly identified seven literature keywords which could improve future African capacity building research (in order of highest importance first): Trade Union (regional economic integration), Governance, FDI, Emigration, Education, Economic (small business stimulation), and Brain Gain. Additional keywords surfaced in the literature related to these ones, namely healthcare and brain drain (emigrating academics and scholars). Research limitations/implications The results of this study should generalize to government and capacity building policy administrators in Africa as well as to other researchers and practitioners in this field. The use of a novel modified Delphi technique should also be of interest to other researchers. Originality/value The modified Delphi technique commenced with a knowledge sharing conference where pre-selected subject matter experts collaborated to define the initial scope of questions. Another novel aspect of the customized Delphi technique was that the subject matter experts were required to conduct a literature review to substantiate their responses to questions.

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