Csepregi, Gabor (2019). In Vivo: A Phenomenology of Life-Defining Moments

Csepregi, Gabor (2019)In Vivo: A Phenomenology of Life-Defining MomentsMontreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 216 p.ISBN 978-0773556638

A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE OF PRIMIGRAVIDAE WOMEN REGARDING SELECTED ASPECTS OF SAFE MOTHERHOOD AT UMAID HOSPITAL JODHPUR, RAJASTHAN

INTRODUCTION: A healthy pregnancy, safe delivery of a sound newborn, and an uncomplicated puerperium is the birthright of every expectant mother. Knowledge regarding conception and safe delivery are crucial to every health care provider. Pregnant mother(s) must be cared for professionally and holistically at these defining moments of their lives. Maternal morbidity and mortality are twin scourges that should not be encouraged. AIM OF THE STUDY: Assess the knowledge of primigravidae women regarding selected aspects of safe motherhood. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A descriptive study was carried out to assess the knowledge of primigravidae women, selected by non-probability convenience sampling, at Umaid Hospital, Jodhpur Rajasthan. Their knowledge was assessed by using a structured knowledge questionnaire and descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. RESULT: The findings of the study that approximately half (56%) of primigravidae women had moderately adequate knowledge, the scores ranged between 22-34, 26% had adequate knowledge with scores ranging between 35-44 and 18% had inadequate knowledge having scored between 0-22 regarding selected aspects of safe motherhood. The association between the knowledge level and all the selected demographic variables were found to be highly significant at the level of p<0.001 except with variable of age at marriage of the primigravidae women which was barely significant at the level of p<0.05. CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that primigravidae women had moderately adequate knowledge regarding safe motherhood as per current research recommendations. They require education to enhance their knowledge regarding safe motherhood. . KEY WORDS: Knowledge, primigravidae mother, safe motherhood

Pentru o istorie a P.E.N. Club-ului Român: 3

The article, actually a would-be 3rd chapter of an intended piece of literary history, aims at retrieving, based on novel documents and on our own individual research, other defining moments in the history of the Romanian PEN Club, i.e. the activity with a view to consolidation in the years right after WWI. The recuperated sequences are integrated within the enlarged historical, political, social and cultural context of the time. The figure of Marcu Beza, the Romanian Anglicist and diplomat in London in the 1920s, is in close-up, together with that of Emanoil Bucuţa, the Secretary of the Romanian P.E.N in its first decade of activity, due to their determination in engaging Romanian writers in the emergent circuit of democratic values specific to western societies.

NATIONALISM, SUBVERSIVE HISTORY AND CITIZENSHIP: THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL NATION IN M.G. VASSANJI’S THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL

One must write for one’s age, so says Sartre, arguing that the writer needs to go beyond a passive reflection of his/her age to want to maintain it or change it (1988: 243). But there is no such thing as a passive reflection where history is concerned and the need for constant questioning of held or handed down beliefs, as propagated by the postmodern approaches, re-situates the writer and his/her audience into newer and more dynamic definitions of and reflections on that age. This paper, by looking at M. G. Vassanji’s kaleidoscopic constellation of characters, an other way to look at Kenya’s history around those defining moments of the struggle for independence and thereafter in his novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2005), seeks to discuss the notions of identity and especially how it is informed by nationalist movements. Vassanji, in all his books, has consistently attempted to situate the often-ignored Afro-Asian within the often ethnocentric African history. In this text, this attempt is placed within the backdrop of several histories and as such it reflects, not passively, but actively and questioningly and at certain points even subversively on what it means to be Kenyan.

Navigating a defining moment: COVID-19 and curatorial thinking

The COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a critical moment in education. Questions of equity, engagement, and interaction have been brought into sharper focus as students’ homes became their classrooms. There is a demonstrated need for interdisciplinary thinking, enabling students to work with the resources they have at hand, and helping learners orient themselves in place and time. Defining Moments Canada/Moments Déterminant Canada, using the interdisciplinary framework of curatorial thinking, encourages students to make sense of information, more effectively create a meaningful story, and build a stronger sense of social responsibility and awareness. This framework is operationalized using the S.A.S.S. pedagogy—Selecting, Archiving, Sense-Making, and Sharing—through which students find their personal way into a research question and demonstrate their learning while considering narrative intent, evidence limitations, and their own role as a historical actor. This integrative, critical, and interdisciplinary focus is an approach to a (post)pandemic world that prioritizes creative student responsiveness to upcoming challenges.