Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS)
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Call for Papers: "Child Development: Nurturing Our Humanity"
Get PDFThe Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies publishes a themed issue each fall. The theme for 2019 is "Child Development: Nurturing Our Humanity". The editors of IJPS invite researchers, scholars, authors, and practitioners to submit original writing for publication in our Fall 2019 issue (Vol. 6, No.3). The submission deadline is September 15, 2019. Early submissions are welcome and will receive preference in the publication process.
How children develop is a growing theme across disciplines — and for important reasons. Those seeking improved policies and actions to help families understand that this is a critical issue, not only for children and their families, but for every society on the planet. In this Child Development-themed issue of the IJPS, you are invited to propose perspectives on child development from all disciplines, and to consider how these perspectives relate to domination or partnership; what role child development plays in cultural transformation; and how this role, in turn, relates to fundamental changes in the prevailing paradigm
Forgiveness - The F Word: A Conversation with Louisa Hext
Get PDFIJPS Editor-in-Chief Riane Eisler interviews Louisa Hext, North American Coordinator of The F Word: Stories of Forgiveness, a traveling exhibit presenting stories from The Forgiveness Project
From the Archives: “Untangling Partnership and Domination Morality,” by David Loye
No full textIn the six years since the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies was launched, we have published more than 120 articles from all walks of life. Beginning with this issue, we will occasionally republish one of those articles, in a feature called From the Archive, when the article fits a themed issue or is particularly relevant to current events. “Untangling Partnership and Domination Morality,” by David Loye, is as relevant now as it was when it first appeared in our inaugural issue. True partnership is timeless and yet more timely than ever
An Evaluation of Researcher Motivations and Productivity Outcomes in International Collaboration and Partnerships at a U.S. Research-Intensive University
Get PDFThis paper examines factors that influence faculty at a research-intensive U.S. public land grant university to engage in international collaborations and partnerships. Using a mixed-mode (web, mail, and telephone) survey, we collected data from 764 researchers at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA, to provide a baseline and current context of demographic characteristics, motivations, barriers, and academic outcomes in relation to international research collaboration. Our results suggest that funding, reduced organizational and institutional barriers, effective institutional support, previous global experience, and research outcomes can encourage faculty to engage in international collaboration. We also found that faculty involved in international collaboration, on average, exhibited higher productivity and a positive correlation with scholarly output, especially through joint publications and student training. The results of this study may provide a reference for research-intensive institutions interested in optimizing their internationalization agendas through partnerships, and examining their policies, strategies, and messaging to increase faculty engagement in collaborative research that promotes co-creation, reciprocity, mutually beneficial partnership, and organizational transformation
The Evolved Nest: A Partnership System that Fosters Child and Societal Wellbeing
Get PDFAlthough most people want children to thrive, many adults in industrialized nations have forgotten what that means and how to foster thriving. We review the nature and effects of the evolved developmental system for human offspring, a partnership system that fosters every kind of wellbeing. The environment and the type of care received, particularly in early life, shape neurobiological process that give rise to social and moral capacities. A deep view of history sheds light on converging evidence from the fields of neuroscience, developmental psychology, epigenetics, and ethnographic research that depicts how sociomoral capacities are not hardwired but are biosocially constructed. The Evolved Nest is the ecological system of care that potentiates both physical and psychological thriving, the foundations of cooperative and egalitarian societies. Deprivation of the evolved nest thwarts human development, resulting in sub-optimal, species-atypical outcomes of illbeing, high stress reactivity, dysregulation, and limited sociomoral capabilities. Utilizing a wider lens that incorporates humanity’s deep ancestral history, it becomes clear that deprivation of the evolved nest cuts against the development of human nature and humanity’s cultural heritage. Returning to providing the evolved nest to families and communities holds the potential to revise contemporary understandings of wellbeing and human nature. It can expand current metrics of wellness, beyond resilience to optimization
Caring Economics and the Nordic Model
Get PDFFaced with the current spectrum of global crises, Riane Eisler's suggestions for socio-economic and ecological solutions are embedded in the theoretical concept of caring economics (Eisler, 2017). The concept of caring economics was developed alongside feminist positions, mainly from a United States angle, based on the welfare state systems of the Nordic countries. The study presented in this article focused on the underlying understanding of caring economics from a Nordic perspective. Based on an explanation of the Nordic Model, this article outlines the theoretical presentation of caring economics, which was scrutinized in the framework of a qualitative pilot study. Data was collected from interviews with 20 scientists from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Three central statements of the interviews are presented and discussed with respect to Eisler's theoretical assumptions. Although Eisler's theses have been largely confirmed, the emphasis of the interviewees on the importance of cooperation is in slight contrast to the "caring" elements of empathy and compassion. The study indicates that further research should focus on investigating the importance of cooperation, especially in the context of trust, as a specifically Nordic element of the social state idea
Lessons from the Research Field on Partnership in Pediatric Primary Care with Urban, Low-Income African American Parents
Get PDFQualitative data collection offers a unique opportunity to partner with research participants. Lessons learned through the process of data collection with urban, low-income, African American parents are reflective of the research findings themselves. Carefully designed research studies can remove barriers and empower participants, broadening the reach and results. Recruitment within communities develops trust, and focus groups offer a more empowering method for interviewing marginalized populations. Parents desire to have solid partnerships with their children’s health-care providers so that with their providers’ guidance, their children can flourish. The process of implementing the research itself, and not just the results, reveals strategies for improving partnership between parents and health-care providers
Systemic Collective Impact and Rapid City's Ongoing Success Story
Get PDFCross-sector and inter-disciplinary coordination for complex social change requires the strategic narratives and insights that can come from systemic collective impact, also known as community-based system dynamics. Systemic collective impact is a community engagement approach that uses system dynamics and collective impact to address problems arising in complex social systems. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s website describes system dynamics as helping “us understand, design, and manage change. Using data and technology, System Dynamics models the relationships between all the parts of a system and how those relationships influence the behavior of the system over time” (2019). Rapid City, South Dakota, undertook a systemic collective impact approach in 2015. Results from the work have been excellent and are a tribute to the commitment of a cross-disciplinary collaboration of Native American leadership, nonprofits, government, business, faith communities, and citizens who use the social service systems
Leading Through Partnership for Equitable, Inclusive and Accessible Childhood Education: A Conversation with Renee Sbrocco Corneille
Get PDFStephanie D. Gingerich, nurse leader and a member of the editorial board of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, interviews Renee Sbrocco Corneille, Superintendent of the St. Anthony/New Brighton School District in Minnesota. Corneille and Gingerich discuss the impact of partnerships between the community and the school district on the children learning within the Pre-Kindergarten-12th grades. These partnerships are explored as they review how the school district is incorporating a more equitable, inclusive, and accessible education for all students within the district.  
Planetary Grand Challenges: A Call for Interdisciplinary Partnerships
Get PDFUniversities have traditionally been places where individual scholars work on individual topics, in individual disciplines, with individual funding. Even though large research institutions include all the major disciplines, faculty and students remain in their schools or colleges, rarely crossing the campus to interact. Matters do not improve once knowledge is generated. Each discipline has its own journals, its own conferences, and its own professional organizations. The academy was designed to support unparalleled expertise in specialized knowledge. However, universities are beginning to realize that the greatest challenges we face are systems problems and can only be solved by systems thinking and systems solutions. Climate change, antibiotic resistance, water scarcity, and unsustainable population growth are just a few of the planetary health crises that require interdisciplinary partnerships to solve. Fortunately, we are beginning to see early signs of a shift toward, and even normalization of, interdisciplinary collaboration. In fact, some national grants require team members from different fields as a stipulation for funding. Interdisciplinary research permits cross-field benefits in which the synergy of two or more knowledge sets is greater than the sum of its parts. Innovation increases and previously elusive solutions become possible. The field of partnership studies closely aligns with the vision and mission of interdisciplinarity and offers a philosophical framework to guide teaching and research