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Communicating Around Interculturality in Research and Education
No full textThe book instructs readers on how to communicate interculturally and supports them in reflecting on how they can renegotiate and reconstruct knowledge, ideologies, and relationships around the notion of interculturality. Anchored in the author\u27s original and thought-provoking perspectives on interculturality, this interdisciplinary and globally insightful book explores how communicating around such notions cannot exclude ideologism, language, and translation issues or problematizing voice and silence in research and education. Written in an original and stimulating way, relying on a variety of genres and writing styles to mimic the dynamism and flexibility of the ideas under review, the authors urge us to (un)voice, scrutinize, nurture and galvanize our ways of dealing with interculturality ourselves and together with others in academia. The book\u27s very specific focus on communicating around interculturality (rather than \u27doing\u27 interculturality) is a new and important step towards observing, analyzing, talking about, and contributing to today\u27s complex and fragmented world
The Future of Higher Education: A Call for Radical Pedagogical Innovation in Post-Pandemic Times
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic disrupted higher education globally, revealing both traditional pedagogies\u27 strengths and weaknesses. As institutions turned to online learning, significant gaps in accessibility, digital literacy, and adaptability became apparent. This paper argues for a radical transformation of pedagogical innovation in post-pandemic higher education, advocating for a shift towards more flexible, inclusive, and student-centred learning models to bring the sustainable change we all want. It highlights key strategies, such as hybrid models, personalized learning, active and experiential learning, and rethinking assessment methods. These innovations, supported by digital tools, can better address diverse student needs and prepare learners for a rapidly evolving workforce. Nevertheless, institutional resistance to change, addressing the digital divide, and ensuring scalability remain potential barriers and challenges that must be overcome to achieve it. This paper, therefore, calls for collective and coordinated efforts by higher education institutions, stakeholders and policymakers to drive the required systemic change in higher education. By embracing these innovations, universities can build a more flexible, resilient, equitable, and future-ready education system that moves beyond the limitations of traditional pedagogies. The pandemic offers a unique opportunity to rethink the foundations of higher education and prioritize pedagogical practices that promote critical thinking, adaptability, and lifelong learning in an uncertain world
Open Publishing Student Research Projects: A Conversation and Reflection
No full textThis reflective article describes an initiative that created a publicly accessible e-book comprised of digital media (podcast, video, web essay) research assignments produced by Bachelor of Education students at a Canadian university. A teacher- education instructor and a learning specialist designed and undertook the project collaboratively. The article is written as a conversation that moves between our two perspectives on the project. We share the project as an innovative model that encourages students, particularly suited for those in professional programs or graduate studies, to produce assignments that contribute to the scholarly body of knowledge on a given subject
Challenges and Strategies for Online Learning and Teaching during COVID-19 in Indonesia and Afghanistan
No full textThe significant impact of the pandemic has altered many sectors of life, including higher education. The COVID-19 outbreak has created outnumbering challenges for students and lecturers, forcing them to adjust to online learning and teaching. They develop specific strategies to tackle the challenges and study as normally as possible. In this regard, the study investigates the challenges students and lecturers face during COVID-19 online learning and teaching at a private university in Afghanistan and a public university in Indonesia. Furthermore, it explores the strategies they applied during COVID-19 online learning and teaching to deal with these challenges. In addition, it is intended to compare the students\u27 and lecturers\u27 experiences with online learning and teaching in both countries. In order to obtain the data, the study employs open-ended questionnaires using Google Forms. The Google Form is distributed through WhatsApp and emails to students and lecturers at a public university in Indonesia and a private university in Afghanistan. Data analysis uses the online engagement framework for higher education to filter and generate themes into concepts. The study found that during COVID-19, both Indonesian and Afghan students and lecturers faced several challenges, yet the strategies they applied differed according to each country\u27s social and development context. Identifying the challenges and the strategy of online teaching and learning provides practical understanding for students, lecturers, and universities
Cross-Cultural Competence in Pre-Service Teacher Education Towards Global Awareness: A Study in a Pakistani Context
No full textDue to globalization, cultural awareness has been recognized as an essential factor in the context of teacher-education programs. The current research focuses on the role of cross-cultural training in increasing teachers\u27 readiness for multicultural classrooms in Pakistan. This study employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data through surveys and interviews with pre-service teachers. This investigation established a positive relationship between cross-cultural training, cultural diversity knowledge, and teacher self-efficacy in handling diversity. In addition to the above, regression analysis also confirmed that all these factors collectively explain a significant proportion of the variations in teacher preparedness. They integrated cross-cultural competencies in teacher-education curricula to prepare future instructors for diverse learners. The following recommendations are necessary to enhance the quality of teacher-preparation programs: the adoption of standardized assessments, the integration of fieldwork experiences, and regular professional development for teachers. This research contributes to the growing body of literature that advocates for a more cohesive approach to multicultural education, highlighting its significance in the educational process
The Estrangement of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol from its Parent Treaty against Transnational Organized Crime
No full textThe Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Trafficking Protocol) entered into force in 2000. Now, a quarter of a century after its birth, those who wield the Protocol in their work rarely recall its full name. That it ‘supplements’ the Convention is all but forgotten, as it is abbreviated to ‘the Trafficking Protocol’ or even ‘the’ Palermo Protocol as if it is the only one.
The Trafficking Protocol exists alongside siblings on smuggling of migrants and on firearms. The first article of each is identical, stating that it is to be interpreted together with Convention, that the provisions of the Convention apply to it too, and that offences established by each – being that of ‘trafficking in persons’ in the case of the Trafficking Protocol – are to be regarded as offences established in accordance with the Convention.
This paper posits that despite the inviolable connection between the Protocol and its parent Convention that was forged in law, they have been severed in practice. The argument made is that the various agendas brought to the negotiations of the Protocol are evident in how the Protocol is interpreted and implemented. State and non-State counter-trafficking stakeholders approach the Protocol not in line with what that treaty says, but rather according to how they wished the law had landed. Between States using it to securitize borders and criminalize the wrong people, and NGOs using it to advocate for or against sex worker rights and migrant labour rights, are few examples of the Protocol being effectively deployed in service of its primary purpose; being to combat the transnational organized criminal groups involved in trafficking of human beings. Consideration of how the prevention, protection and cooperation purposes of the Protocol have been pursued, reveals how States parties have failed to implement these instruments as they were intended. The bifurcation of the Protocol from the UNTOC has frustrated efforts against organized criminal groups involved in the trafficking in persons, highlighting the urgent need to restore the relationship between these instruments
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMES IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA: SELECTED COUNTRIES
No full textThis report considers the current trends in the field of transnational criminal law in selected countries in Southern and Central Africa and how the region has dealt with them. For the purposes of this report Southern and Central Africa include Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. However, the report focuses on selected countries within the identified region, particularly, Angola, Botswana and Zambia. 
PREFACE TO VOL. 12, NO. 1 (2025) CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY: TOPICS IN PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES
No full textIn this Volume, we are pleased to present five papers, one on a topic which permeates the whole of informational and normative discourse, the “fact-value” distinction, another on the One Health Approach in the Philippines, and three with a Canadian focus. Students of the late Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) will be pleased to know that two of the papers deal with aspects of his philosophy
Canada is Shrinking through Education and Technology
No full textThis paper considers a shrinking of Canada’s sense of identity through two combined forces. First, the competition between the concept of multiculturalism and that of a shared national identity--being Canadian. Is education addressing that competition? Second, the impact of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in education expressed by the input of two elementary school teachers. The paper concludes by suggesting that both multiculturalism and AI need serious attention in education to prevent the concept of Canada being eroded.  
Spokes on a Wheel: Strategies of the United Auto Workers in a Time of Crisis
No full textThis paper examines the labor union perspective of the decline of the American auto industry of the 1970s and 1980s in the face of competitive Japanese companies. To do this, the activity of two leaders of the United Auto Workers Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s, President Douglas Fraser and Vice-President Donald Ephlin, will be outlined. Fraser and Ephlin had a fundamental goal of advancing the interests of auto workers, although they employed different methods. The research paper includes a brief contextualization of Fraser and Ephlin’s activities that discusses how the American auto industry was in decline and auto workers were being laid off in constantly increasing numbers. This article will have sections dedicated to tracking Fraser and Ephlin’s movements during the years between 1977 and 1983. Using documents from the UAW collections at the Walter P. Reuther Library, the two men’s approaches are compared to show how they differ. Fraser took a reform-oriented approach while Ephlin worked behind the scenes in intellectual areas, participating in research studies and reviewing drafted reports. Ephlin was also the one to argue more than Fraser against the view that labor unions and unmotivated and unproductive workers were reasons for the auto industry’s decline. The main point at which their paths cross is also discussed, as both men expressed confidence in American auto companies to recover and made statements before Congressional subcommittees to advocate for local content legislation to help American auto companies be more competitive