scholarly journals Outside Practices: Learning within the borderlands

2009 ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sondra Cuban
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Educational Philosophies ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Us

Social practice research can be seen to illuminate the practices of marginalised learners in ‘borderlands’, areas outside of formal educational frameworks. This paper examines the issues and challenges of social practice researchers as they explore borderlands logic set against a critique of the prevailing skills-based educational philosophies that dominate in the knowledge-based economies of the US and England. Social practice research highlights meaning-making through a wide-angled view of the learning contexts of marginalised groups. This paper introduces the themes and sets the scene in a series of papers in this volume from leading social practice researchers.

scholarly journals Departments and disciplinary gatekeeping: The sociolinguistics of Spanish in US academia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (263) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
José del Valle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Service Departments

AbstractIn his contribution, José del Valle looks at the intersection of the sociolinguistic study of Spanish in the US and the transformations of Spanish language departments in higher education. Del Valle traces the history of the institutionalization of Spanish teaching and study and its effects on linguistic research’s position within Spanish departments. Shifts in approaches to the use of language in social practice, and the growing demands on language units to act as service departments for language learners, has isolated scholars in those institutional homes from broader integration into sociolinguistic research.

scholarly journals Esketamine for treatment resistant depression: a trick of smoke and mirrors?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gastaldon ◽  
D. Papola ◽  
G. Ostuzzi ◽  
C. Barbui
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Treatment Resistant Depression ◽  
Treatment Resistant ◽  
Off Label ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Resistant Depression ◽  
Spray Formulation

Abstract In March 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a nasal spray formulation of esketamine for the treatment of resistant depression in adults. Esketamine is the S-enantiomer of ketamine, an FDA-approved anaesthetic, known to cause dissociation and, occasionally, hallucinations. While ketamine has not been approved for depression in the USA or in any other country, it has been used off-label in cases of severe depression. This commentary critically reviewed the evidence on esketamine submitted to the FDA, aiming to draw implications for clinical practice, research and regulatory science.

scholarly journals Coming to understand the child has autism: A process illustrating parents’ evolving readiness for engaging in care

Autism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 470-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J Gentles ◽  
David B Nicholas ◽  
Susan M Jack ◽  
K Ann McKibbon ◽  
Peter Szatmari
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Early Care ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Personal Process ◽  
Family Centered

We report results from a large qualitative study regarding the process of parents coming to understand the child has autism starting from the time of initial developmental concerns. Specifically, we present findings relevant to understanding how parents become motivated and prepared for engaging in care at this early stage. The study included primary data from 45 intensive interviews with 32 mothers and 9 expert professionals from urban and rural regions of Ontario, Canada. Grounded theory methods were used to guide data collection and analysis. Parents’ readiness (motivation and capacity) for engagement develops progressively at different rates as they follow individual paths of meaning making. Four optional steps account for their varied trajectories: forming an image of difference, starting to question the signs, knowing something is wrong, and being convinced it’s autism. Both the nature of the information and professional help parents seek, and the urgency with which they seek them, evolve in predictable ways depending on how far they have progressed in understanding their child has autism. Results indicate the need for sensitivity to parents’ varying awareness and readiness for involvement when engaging with them in early care, tailoring parent support interventions, and otherwise planning family-centered care pathways. Lay Abstract What is already known about the topic? Parents of children with autism often learn about their child’s autism before diagnosis and can spend long periods seeking care (including assessment) before receiving a diagnosis. Meanwhile, parents’ readiness to engage in care at this early stage can vary from parent to parent. What this paper adds? This study revealed how parents come to understand their child has autism—on their own terms, rather than from just talking to professionals. It also explained how parents’ growing awareness of their child’s autism leads them to feel more motivated to engage in care by seeking information and pursuing services. Four “optional steps” described how parents’ growing readiness to engage in care at this early stage can vary, depending on their personal process. Implications for practice, research, or policy The results suggest ways that professionals can be more sensitive (a) to parents’ varying awareness of autism and (b) to their varying readiness for being involved in early care. They also suggest ways to tailor parent supports to their individual situation and design care that is more family centered. Not all parents want high levels of involvement. Depending on their personal process, some parents may need care and support that is directed at them before feeling ready for professionals to engage them in care directed at the child.

Competitive intelligence: a prescription for US health-care?

foresight ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 617-632
Author(s):  
Shelly L. Freyn ◽  
Fred Farley
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Blue Print

Purpose This paper aims to illustrate how integrating competitive intelligence (CI) into a US health-care firm can aid in information sharing and building knowledge for the organization. Design/methodology/approach This study is exploratory using a systematic literature review to develop a conceptual model applied to the US health-care industry. Findings This research presents key propositions of CI’s role in the CI process along with the C-suite’s role in supporting a process and culture to ultimately, gain competitive advantage through the knowledge-based view. Practical implications With the growing volume of data, a unified system and culture within a firm is paramount. The US health-care system is a privatized industry that has become more competitive stifling information sharing. The need for prompt and accurate decision-making has become an imperative. Crises, like the current COVID-19 pandemic, only exacerbate the issue. This model offers a blue print for executives to build a CI function and encourage information sharing. Originality/value Previous research has focused on the CI process and its value. Yet, little research is found on how to integrate CI into a firm and its role through the CI process. This study builds a conceptual model addressing integration and the flow of information to knowledge along with key firm dynamics to nurture the function. Although the model is applied specifically to US health care, it offers application to most any industry.

INNOVATION, PATENTS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 279-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
RIFAT A. ATUN ◽  
IAN HARVEY ◽  
JOFF WILD
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Enterprise Value ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Eu

Empirical evidence demonstrates the value of intellectual property (IP) in creating economic growth, enhancing productivity and profitability, and increasing enterprise value. Research and Development (R&D) intensive industries, such as the life sciences, where patents are critical to competition, need an enabling environment to institutionalise innovation and IP generation and reward investments in IP. The US has approached IP strategically and created an IP infrastructure. Japan aims to develop into an "IP nation". China has an increasingly well-developed IP system. In contrast, the European Union (EU), which aims to become the world's leading knowledge-based economy, has a fragmented and expensive system of national patents. It lacks an environment which values investment in IP generation and management. Until recently, the EU enjoyed global competitive advantage in the life sciences, but this advantage has been lost. To regain this competitive advantage the EU must invest substantially in R&D, IP generation and commercialisation of these outputs.

scholarly journals #WeareUnited, cyber-nationalism during times of a national crisis: The case of a terrorist attack on a school in Pakistan

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma Kalim ◽  
Fauzia Janjua
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

Seeing language as a social practice and national identities as a product of discourse, the study intends to analyze discursive practices employed on social media to create the discourses of sameness and difference in times of national crisis. Following the discourse historical approach, I have illustrated how argumentative strategies and topos have been strategically employed to draw boundaries between Us and Them. In this exploration of exclusionary rhetoric, I have also underlined the use of images, memes and hashtags in the meaning-making process. The study illustrates not only the ways in which the discourse of national identities are constructed, but also how the existing pillars of Pakistani national identities have been transformed and dismantled on social media following a national tragedy. By investigating the digital practices and discourses, this study seeks to understand the construction of Pakistani national identities from bottom-up discourses.

scholarly journals Contradictory Perspectives on Academic Support: Beyond Linear Logic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Academic Advising ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Linear Logic ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Constrained Systems ◽  
Square Of Opposition ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Heuristic Device

This paper employs a Square of Opposition as an interpretivist heuristic device in order to interrogate perceptions of academic support. The Square of Opposition is used to move beyond binary explanations of academic development subsumed within learner-/discipline-focussed practices or institutionally /epistemologically constrained systems; an exemplar data set is used to achieve this. The results of this analysis demonstrate that positions that might normally be understood as opposed in fact share common features, at least where some key concepts are concerned. In particular, two “contradictories” are explored: the first of these critiques the differences and similarities between contested meaning-making and knowledge dissemination and the second analyses the disjuncture between skills-focussed instruction and academic literacy as a social practice. This form of analysis offers new insights that directly speak to the ways in which we conceive of, and enact, teaching, personal tutoring and academic advising.

scholarly journals Enacting care amid power relations: The role of ‘veiled care’ in organisational life

Organization ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135050842095632
Author(s):  
Clare Mumford ◽  
David Holman ◽  
Leo McCann ◽  
Maurice Nagington ◽  
Laurie Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Care Recipient ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Organisational Research ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
And Control

Traditional understandings of care-giving assume care practices are clear to others and unambiguously altruistic, reflective of the selfless and humane bearing of care professionals. However, a range of organisational research has noted the complex and often contradictory ways in which enactments of care are interwoven into organisational relations of power and control. Through a narrative analysis of interview data, our paper focuses upon practices of inaction and concealment as ‘veiled’ care set within the power-laden complexities and contested meaning-making of organisational life. Our notion of veiled care extends debates about care as a social practice in everyday work relations in two ways. Firstly, it provides a greater focus on the less discernible aspects of care-giving which are significant but possibly overlooked in shaping subjectivities and meanings of care in work relations. Secondly, it develops the discussion of the situated ambiguities and tensions in enacting care that involves overcoming care-recipient resistance and an arguably less heroic but nonetheless important objective of non-maleficence, to avoid, minimise or repair damage.

Arts-Based Pedagogy and Gender Equity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mindi Rhoades
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ability Level ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Multimodal Literacies ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
And Gender

Arts-based pedagogies hold incredible promise for education. Arts-based pedagogies provide unique, compelling pathways for teaching and learning that can permit entry to and support the success of all students regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion, linguistic diversity, ability level, socioeconomic status, and other identity categories. Arts-based pedagogies can form the foundation of a transdisciplinary educational approach that centers contemporary understandings of multiple and multimodal literacies and meaning-making strategies useful to teachers across disciplines and in more integrated teaching and learning contexts. Crucially, when implemented through a critical framework, arts-based pedagogies can be equity-based pedagogies, allowing for the translation of research, teaching, and learning into awareness, understanding, creation, and activism.

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