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Developing lab activities for an introductory anatomy course: Reflections and recommendations from a student-faculty partnership
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From NDC to national long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies compatible with a 2 °C target
No full textGiven the lack of collective ambition resulting from the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the objective ofthe Paris Agreement, countries must submit revised and more ambitious NDCs. Countries are invited to formulate longtermlow greenhouse gas emission development strategies that should be designed within the context of otherdevelopment goals and co-benefits. This article addresses the issues related to the evaluation of national trajectoriesdeveloped in a cooperative framework aiming at collectively reaching 2°C and based on the integration of developmentpriorities and co-benefits into national trajectories. The national decarbonization trajectories discussed in this articlewere developed as part of the Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project (DDPP) by the 16 major GHG emitting countries.These 16 bottom-up decarbonization strategies are implemented in the POLES model, a partial equilibrium model of theglobal energy sector, which is an appropriate tool to provide a harmonized contextual framework for assessing thesetrajectories. The results make it possible to evaluate the gap between, on the one hand, national DDPP trajectories andNDCs and, on the other hand, national DDPP trajectories and a scenario resulting from a minimization of abatement costs.They allow to feed a discussion on the development of NDCs and the move away from national trajectories of trajectoriesminimizing the overall reduction cost and produced with integrated assessment models
Precarious Work and the Gendered Individualisation of Risk in the South African Manufacturing Sector, 2002–2017
Get PDFAgainst the backdrop of workplace restructuring globally, post-apartheid South Africa is experiencing consistently high levels of unemployment, the deterioration of employment security and limited improvements in earnings. This article investigates the changing nature of labour-intensive production in the South African labour market and the gendered individualisation of risk associated with precarious or non-standard forms of employment. The article expands on the critical theoretical narrative about the challenges of labour under neo-liberalism by applying a gendered political economy analysis to the experiences of precariousness among workers in the South African manufacturing sector. By focusing on the interconnections between gender and political economy, this article delinks questions about the crisis of labour from a narrow focus on skills and refocuses our understanding in terms of the structural determinants of vulnerabilities in the labour market. The article argues that the gender composition of informal and precarious work in the post-apartheid labour market has significant implications for addressing the persistent racialised and gendered inequalities in the South African economy.
KEYWORDS: labour market restructuring; informal employment; precarious work; gender
JEL CLASSIFICATION: J21; J30; J71; J8
Review of: Trevor Ngwane and Malehoko Tshoaedi (eds) (2021) The Fourth industrial Revolution: A Sociological Critique
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No full textPassing the (proverbial) baton: Engaging students as partners in module design
Get PDFStudent-staff partnership, understood as the situation when students and staff work together on a project, contributing equally but in potentially different ways, is an innovation that is gaining traction on university campuses worldwide. This case study details my first foray into the partnership arena. I invited undergraduate students from the Schools of Law and Geography, Geology, and the Environment at Keele University to partner with me in designing a new optional module–Contemporary Issues in Environmental Law. My aim here is to provide an honest warts-and-all account of the experience, written from my perspective. I will document the positive outcomes for both the students and staff participating, of which there were many, but also some of the challenges faced. Despite these challenges, there can be no doubt that student-staff partnership is a worthwhile endeavour, and I hope others can view this as an example that can be adapted to suit their specific contexts
Student and faculty as pedagogical partners
Get PDFThis reflective case study describes the benefits of a pedagogical partnership between a student and a faculty member of a professional practice child and youth care counsellor program. Reflecting on data collected from their pedagogical partnership experiences, the authors present a case study of the process they used and draw data from their reflective journals. This case study aims to provide insight into a pedagogical partnership through reflective evaluation of the method used, key learnings, results, and unintended results resulting in a significant positive outcome
