Making Educator Professional Development More Accessible and Inclusive With Mobile Teacher

This chapter describes how curious and reflective TESOL educators can engage in ongoing appreciative inquiry by participating in a unique global community of practice facilitated through an app called Mobile Teacher that also works offline. With the aim of recognizing and sharing the expertise of non-native English speaker TESOL educators who are primarily BIPOC and women working in the majority world, teachers are encouraged to watch short videos of colleagues' effective teaching practices, try out the practices with their students, and in turn share videos describing or demonstrating their own proven techniques. Through a case study of using Mobile Teacher with teachers in Ecuador, the author provides a self and group reflection guide based on the 4D appreciative inquiry framework to establish a definition and examples of effective teaching practice, and a video script template to complete in preparation for recording and sharing an effective teaching practice.

The Poverty Captivity of Mission in the Churches—and Strategies for Its Liberation

Western world mission initiatives since World War II have become captive to a dominant emphasis on socioeconomic amelioration. The Poverty Captivity of Mission departs from the economically multivalent mission patterns of Jesus, early Christian communities, and the medieval church. It typically recapitulates assumptions of Western and white superiority embedded in colonial emphases on “civilizing” mission. Strategies for its liberation include learning from the Majority World, reaching middle and elite classes as well as the poor, developing relationships of companionship and friendship, and employing asset-based community development.

Open Access Religious Resources for your Students

Open Access (OA) journal collections can add diversity and breadth to a library’s theological resources. I discussed my experience of creating a collection of over 800 OA religion journals in the OCLC Knowledge Base. For OCLC member libraries, these titles may be added to their library catalog. For other libraries, these titles are available through the Open Access Digital Theological Library. We considered OA materials from majority world regions and languages such as Spanish and Korean. The proceedings include a list of OA collections and a bibliography. There was time for questions and sharing experiences.

heologies of Land: Contested Land, Spatial Justice, and Identity

K.K. Yeo and Gene L. Green, eds. Theologies of Land: Contested Land, Spatial Justice, and Identity, Crosscurrents in Majority World and Minority Theology (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021), 194 pp., ISBN 9781725265080, $25.00, eBook.

Editor : Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, K.K. Yeo. The Trinity among the Nations: The Doctrine of God in the Majority World

Buku ini merupakan kumpulan 8 tulisan dari teolog dari berbagai negara, dan beberapa di antaranya berasal atau mewakili kawasan yang bukan Eropa/Amerika. Justru karena itu buku ini menarik untuk disimak, karena banyak di antara tulisan tentang Trinitas atau Allah Tritunggal yang hanya mencerminkan pergumulan seputar imanensi dan transendensi Tuhan, yang merupakan salah satu ciri khas teolog Barat. Di antara tulisan-tulisan yang menarik dalam buku ini, 2 di antaranya yang sangat patut dicatat adalah bab 6 yang merupakan evaluasi terhadap empat upaya reformulasi teologi Trinitas, oleh teolog-teolog Asia.

Gesturing towards broader sexuality-based conceptualisations of HIV assemblages beyond the Minority World

In response to Di Feliciantonio and Brown's intervention on PrEP and TasP assemblages, this commentary considers how it may also be possible to expand the scope of the TasP and PrEP assemblages they discuss related to the Minority World to also encompass the Majority World. In particular, this commentary considers how the entities they highlight and deploy to connect health geographies and the geographies of sexualities literatures may also relate to global HIV policy and programming as well as global biomedical and pharmaceutical assemblages.

General Psychology Otherwise: A Decolonial Articulation

Critics have faulted the project of general psychology for conceptions of general truth that (1) emphasize basic processes abstracted from context and (2) rest on a narrow foundation of research among people in enclaves of Eurocentric modernity. Informed by these critiques, we propose decolonial perspectives as a new scholarly imaginary for general psychology Otherwise. Whereas hegemonic articulations of general psychology tend to ignore life in majority-world communities as something peripheral to its knowledge project, decolonial perspectives regard these communities as a privileged site for general understanding. Indeed, the epistemic standpoint of such communities is especially useful for understanding the coloniality inherent in modern individualist lifeways and the fundamental relationality of human existence. Similarly, whereas hegemonic articulations of general psychology tend to impose particular Eurocentric forms masquerading as general laws, the decolonial vision for general psychology Otherwise exchanges the universalized particular for a more pluralistic (or pluriversal) general.

Application of digital child mental health training to improve capacity in majority world countries: Professional perspectives from Turkey and Pakistan

Digital technology offers opportunities for child mental health capacity building, which is a priority for Majority World Countries (MWC). The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and perspectives of professionals from different disciplines in Turkey ( n=12) and Pakistan ( n=15), who had completed a two-module digital trauma-informed programme on enhancing practice skills and instigating systemic changes. Interview data were analysed through a coding thematic approach. Participants especially valued the interdisciplinary and holistic approach of the training, and its proposed scaled service model. Digital training, particularly in blended format, can enhance reach and capacity in MWC low-resource settings.

Research with children in rural China: Reflecting on the process

Conducting research with children raises significant ethical and practical difficulties; when the context is rural China, where there has been no tradition of qualitative research with children, these become especially heightened. This article, written by a student and her supervisor, introduces a pilot study conducted in 2018 as part of a Master’s degree programme at a Scottish university. The study was designed to trial two child participatory methods with the aim of scaling these up in a full PhD project; the research focused on the experiences and needs of ‘left-behind children’ in a town of South-West China. The study threw up a number of challenges for the student which are explored in the article. Whilst not wishing to over-claim on the basis of a student project, we suggest that these highlight the reality that methodologies and ‘good practice’ guidelines developed in a ‘Western’/’minority world’ context may not always be wholly compatible with a very different research environment such as this one. This conclusion presents a significant challenge for all those who are conducting research with children in the ‘Global South’/’majority world’, as well as for those who are supporting research students who may experience similar dilemmas in the ‘real world’ of research.