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A Uganda Case Study: Using Non-Formal Education to Increase the Quality of Education
No full textEducation is a universal right because it determines a person’s future. Education is becoming more important as the youth population continues to increase exponentially in sub-Saharan Africa. Current research shows that the international community needs to focus on the education sector to improve development. One type of education proven to aid in low-resource countries is non-formal education because it is flexible enough to fit the needs of students in communities. Youth empowerment has become a popular method for non-formal education because of its ability to transform a community. Uganda is a developing country with one of the largest youth populations in the world and education is lagging to improve quality of life. The project in this study will discover if non-formal education can become a solution for increasing the quality of education at Musana Nursery and Primary School by having a flexible afterschool program curriculum catered to students’ needs as they continue their education pathway
Water Governance in Haiti: An Assessment of Laws and Institutional Capacities
No full textThe Republic of Haiti struggles to sustainably manage its water resources. Public health is compromised by low levels of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene, and water resources are often contaminated and unsustainably allocated. While poor governance is often blamed for these shortcomings, the laws and institutions regulating water resources in Haiti are poorly understood, especially by the international community. This study brings together and analyzes Haitian water laws, assesses institutional capacities, and provides a case study of water management in northern Haiti in order to provide a more complete picture of the sector. Funded by the Inter-American Development Bank as part of the Water Availability, Quality and Integrated Water Resources Management in Northern Haiti (HA-T1179) Project, this study took place from January-July 2015, with the help of local experts and participating stakeholders. The results indicate that Haiti’s water law framework is highly fragmented, with overlapping mandates and little coordination between ministries at the national level, and ambiguous but unrealistic roles for subnational governments. A capacity assessment of institutions in northern Haiti illustrates that while local stakeholders are engaged, human and financial resources are insufficient to carry out statutory responsibilities. The findings suggest that water resources management planning should engage local governments and community fixtures while supplementing capacities with national or international support
Collaborative inquiry and the shared workspace of professional learning communities
No full textAn exploration of an educator collaborative inquiry in the shared workspace of professional learning communities reveals that the educator collaborative inquiry enables the leaders to focus on increasing student achievement scores
Trinity 7 One Year Series 2017
No full textThis PDF comments on the Propers for the Seventh Sunday of Trinity in the One Year Series and offers ideas for preaching
Transformative Mediation Twenty Years Later: An Invitation to Discuss Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Legal Ethics
No full textTransformative mediation is substantially based on an ideology of postmodern nihilism and relativism called social constructionism that rejects Enlightenment traditions of science and law. Transformative mediation adopts a relational theory of emotions that teaches emotions are not based in biology, but rather are products of social interaction. Because the transformative model rejects neuroscience in favor of unfounded ideological assumptions, it is unsafe to apply it to disputes involving victims of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially returning combat veterans.
The attorney-mediator who has sworn to uphold the law cannot ethically apply the transformative mediation model based on social constructionism that rejects Enlightenment legal principles. Transformative mediation should reinvent itself by jettisoning social constructionism and redefining itself in terms of postmodern pragmatism that acknowledges Enlightenment traditions of science and law. Thus reinvented, transformative mediation, like problem-solving mediation, would be safe to use with victims of PTSD and ethically acceptable for attorney-mediators
