Students’ Perceptions of Content- and Language- Integrated Learning in Vietnam: A Survey Study

Content- and language-integrated learning (CLIL), an educational approach, in which the subject matter is taught in a foreign language. This has become popular in tertiary education. Many research studies have shown its benefits and discussed the favorable effects, especially with respect to L2 language gains. Yet, critical voices, also from the primary stakeholders, namely the students taking part in such integrated programs, have also been heard. In an effort to integrate into the international academic and scientific community, universities in Vietnam have also started to teach academic courses in English. The main objective of this cross-sectional survey study (N=104) was to explore Vietnamese students’ perceptions of such dual-training programs and to investigate to what extent they feel the program currently meets their needs. Our findings show that both lecturers and students are struggling in these courses, for one thing, because of insufficient levels of mastery of the English language; while for another reason, since courses cannot be characterized as courses in which disciplinary contents and the foreign language are taught in an integrated way. The way forward seems to be to educate the lecturers and the students well, before allowing them to participate in CLIL English courses. All these issues need to be considered in the context of local Vietnamese educational realities and traditions.

Mitigating Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gorilla Conservation: Lessons From Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

The COVID-19 pandemic, affecting all countries, with millions of cases and deaths, and economic disruptions due to lockdowns, also threatens the health and conservation of endangered mountain gorillas. For example, increased poaching due to absence of tourism income, led to the killing on 1st June 2020 of a gorillaby a hungry community member hunting duiker and bush pigs. Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), a grassroots NGO and non-profit founded in 2003 promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people to co-exist with wildlife through integrated programs that improve animal health, community health, and livelihoods in and around Africa's protected areas and wildlife rich habitats. Through these programs, we have helped to mitigate these impacts. CTPH worked with Uganda Wildlife Authority and other NGOs to improve great ape viewing guidelines and prevent transmission of COVID-19 between people and gorillas. Park staff, Gorilla Guardians herding gorillas from community land to the park and Village Health and Conservation Teams were trained to put on protective face masks, enforce hand hygiene and a 10-meter great ape viewing distance. To reduce the communities' need to poach, CTPH found a UK-based distributor, for its Gorilla Conservation Coffee social enterprise enabling coffee farmers to earn revenue in the absence of tourism and provided fast growing seedlings to reduce hunger in vulnerable community members. Lessons learned show the need to support non-tourism dependent community livelihoods, and more responsible tourism to the great apes, which CTPH is advocating to governments, donors and tour companies through an Africa CSO Biodiversity Alliance policy brief.

Cooperation for Sustainable Development: a University Transport Model

The transportation system generally contributes with the largest share of Greenhouse Gases Emissions (GHG) among economic activities, which includes the high level of gas emissions from the transport system in the GHC Inventory from Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Guided by its socio-environmental agenda, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), has sought to implement integrated programs to encourage the use of alternative transportation in order to mitigate the impacts of urban mobility on the atmosphere since 2010. Free parking and shower facilities for cyclists, as well as pedestrian friendly sites and limited vehicle parking area inside the campus are some of the welcomed interventions implemented by PUC-Rio. In addition, the institution has collaborated technically with the public authorities to enable the arrival of good quality mass transportation to the University neighborhood. Even facing limited mass public transportation in the surroundings of the main campus, PUC-Rio has implemented a series of transportation initiatives that rely on the commitment and partnership of its community (students, professors and staff), who strongly support new solutions for sustainable development and contribute to the improvement of PUC-Rio transportation performance

Nutritional Strategies for Childhood Obesity Prevention

Background: Reducing the spread of obesity represents a challenge for clinicians in which obesity prevention plays a key role in achieving this purpose. The aim of this review is to analyze the nutritional interventions that can be implemented to prevent childhood obesity. Methods: Searching PubMed and Cochrane Library between 2019 and 2021. Further searching with no date range for articles selected for their specific relevance in the pediatric area or for their scientific relevance. A total of 871 articles were identified and 90 were included. Results: We organized the results of the selected articles into age groups, and according to the subjects targeted for interventions or to the site of interventions, reserving an in-depth analysis on specific nutritional aspects. Promotion of breastfeeding, reduction of protein content of formulated milks, and diet of the first 12–24 months, involving family and schools in interventions that promote physical activity and healthy diet, are promising strategies for reduction of the risk of obesity. To increase the efficacy of interventions, a multidimensional approach is crucial. Conclusions: A multidimensional approach, which takes into consideration different areas of intervention, is pivotal for childhood obesity prevention. Integrated programs involving several components (nutrition and physical activity at first) at different levels (individual, family, school, and institutional) are crucial.

Unemployment – the Macroeconomic Imbalance

Through the socio-economic generated implications, unemployment is a very complex social phenomenon. The economic reality showed there is no single solution for unemployment. There are no pure and perfect solutions, only integrated programs in the anti-crisis political system. The phenomenon itself cannot be eliminated, it can only be addressed. Through the socio-economic generated implications, the unemployment is a very complex social phenomenon, being related with poverty. Unemployment induces a drastic decrease of the living standards. As a macroeconomic complex imbalance, it impacts all the compartments of the national economy. The economic history of our century reveals that unemployment has become a mass nature. The financial difficulties of the companies, inlet by covid-19 global crises, caused a mass disorder of all the economic activity, impacting the labour market and a concern of the government to find ideal solutions to increase employment.

PENDEKATAN PRAGMATIS DALAM PERANCANGAN PERUMAHAN TERPADU DI BINTARO

The future is a predictable yet uncertain period of time. Every human being in this world will always try any possible things to survive and try to make their existence real, this behavior is called dwelling. Architecture comes in form of buildings and space as a place for human to dwell. The way human dwell will always change following their environment and follow the development of technology. Technology has become the biggest driver in the change of human evolution, every sector of human life keeps revolving and try to adapt to the development of technology for hope of a better life. A city is one of the product of this evolution, a place considered modern and high-technology, but with the imbalance between the technology development, infrastructure, and human needs, a city also generate some problems. A city as an area also has an effective number of population density for it to work effectively. The more densely populated a city is, the bigger the need of a housing buildings. Because of the incapability to provide a proper and affordable housing in the city, the irregular housing development plan around the periphery of the city is spreading, causing a phenomenon called urban sprawl. The project Integrated Housing has a goal to transform the existing urban sprawl area to be more compact and effective. Through pragmatic approach, this project will be focusing on users’ needs, effective space used, and integrated programs which wil be achieved by analysing people’s needs and way of life today and tomorrow. Another goal is to also pay attention and to lessen the negative impact of urban sprawl to the environment to achieve a sustainable future. Keywords: Dwelling; Environment; Future; Technology; Urban sprawl.Abstrak Masa depan adalah bingkai waktu yang tidak pasti, namun dapat diprediksi. Setiap manusia yang hidup di dunia ini mencoba melakukan segala hal untuk dapat bertahan hidup dan mencoba membuat eksistensinya nyata, sikap ini juga disebut berhuni. Arsitektur hadir dalam bentuk bangunan atau ruang yang dirancang untuk mewadahi kegiatan berhuni manusia. Cara manusia berhuni selalu berubah mengikuti lingkungannya dan mengikuti perkembangan penemuan teknologi. Teknologi telah menjadi pendorong terbesar dalam perubahan evolusi manusia, segala sektor kehidupan terus berputar dan beradaptasi dengan teknologi demi mendapatkan kehidupan yang lebih mudah. Sebuah kota adalah hasil dari perkembangan evolusi manusia ini, sebuah tempat yang dianggap canggih dan modern, namun karena ketidakseimbangan antara perkembangan teknologi, infrastruktur, dan kebutuhan manusia, kota juga menimbulkan beberapa permasalahan. Kota sebagai sebuah area dengan batasan pengembangan memiliki sebuah batas kepadatan yang efektif untuk dihuni. Semakin padat, kebutuhan bangunan untuk tempat tinggal pun meningkat. Kota yang tidak mampu menyediakan tempat tinggal yang terjangkau dan layak pun mendorong terjadinya penyebaran pembangunan yang tidak tersusun ke daerah sekitar kota. Fenomena ini disebut juga sebagai urban sprawl. Perumahan Terpadu ini adalah proyek yang memiliki tujuan untuk mentransformasi area urban sprawl yang sudah ada menjadi area yang lebih kompak dan efektif guna. Dengan pendekatan pragmatis, proyek ini berfokus pada kebutuhan pengguna, efektivitas ruang dan integrasi antar fungsi yang akan dikembangkan dari hasil analisis kebutuhan dan cara hidup masyarakat saat ini dan prediksi kedepannya. Proyek ini juga mengedepankan keberlanjutan lingkungan dengan memperhatikan dampak yang dihasilkan terhadap lingkungan supaya tidak memperburuk kondisi saat ini.

Analysis of the Gyeonggi Bay Ecomuseum as a Wide-Area Ecomuseum

This study aims to examine the features of the creation and operation of ecomuseums at wide-area and (metropolitan) local government levels and to analyze their improvements and limitations based on an analysis of a case study on the “Gyeonggi Bay Ecomuseum.” This study also reveals the necessity and direction for ecomuseums led by metropolitan local governments. It attempts to find ways to expand the Gyeonggi Bay Ecomuseum and apply lessons from this ecomuseum to other planned wide-area ecomuseums in South Korea. Overall, this study intends to derive the sustainability of wide-area ecomuseums, and their utility and potential as a means to revitalize the region. The Gyeonggi Bay Ecomuseum is a meaningful case study as it was created in a wide area called the Gyeonggi Bay and was led by a metropolitan local government, along with the official claim as an ecomuseum; the museum creation project also progressed in a phased approach. However, there are issues such as organization problems of the ecomuseum and the absence of resident participation, integrated programs, and an archive center. Therefore, this study presents measures to overcome these obstacles: the establishment of a core ecomuseum and an exhibition center, the development of joint programs, the continuous security of funds and human resources, and measures to generate economic benefits for residents. This study also suggests spatial/functional expansion from being the “Gyeonggi Bay Ecomuseum” to the “Gyeonggi Province Ecomuseum.” Keywords: Ecomuseum, Wide-area unit, Lead of local governments, Gyeonggi Bay, Regional revitalization