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De Zin van Resonantie voor Ecohumanisme
No full textDit artikel kreeg zijn eerste vorm in een engelstalige presentatie die ik gaf aan het Max Weber Kolleg (MWK), 17 april 2023. Het doel was tweeledig: allereerst, een inleiding geven in academische studies over humanisme, zoals het onderzoeksprogramma van de Universiteit voor Humanistiek (UvH) betracht; tegelijkertijd poogde ik te laten zien hoe het onderzoek van het MWK resoneert met deze humanismestudies. Dit veronderstelde weinig kennis van het humanisme (allerminst in relatie tot de praktijken van geestelijke verzorging), maar oppervlakkige kennis van Resonantie (2019) werd wel verondersteld. Voor degenen die een uitstekende inleiding tot Rosa’s oeuvre nodig hebben, raad ik aan het artikel van Frederic Vandenberghe in een eerdere editie van Waardenwerk (2022) te lezen. In deze bijdrage breid ik de responsieve relationaliteit uit Hartmut Rosa’s Resonantie (2019) uit naar het denken over Ecohumanisme – naar leven als ‘Aardbewoners in het Antropoceen’, in Latouriaans jargon. Ik doe dit (1) door humanisme te conceptualiseren en de ambiguïteiten van ‘zin’ te verkennen, (2) door resonantie te interpreteren in lijn met existentiële-fenomenologie, als een filosofisch antropologisch kader dat deze uitdagingen adresseert, en (3) door te engageren met humanistische zorg voor ‘ecologische rouw’. Dit stelt me in staat de implicatiesvoor een eco-humanistisch wereldbeeld te ontwikkelen
Perspectives on the essential skills of healthcare decision making in children and adolescents with intellectual disability
No full textAbstract Background Involvement in healthcare decisions is associated with better health outcomes for patients. For children and adolescents with intellectual disability, parents and healthcare professionals need to balance listening to a child’s wishes with the responsibility of keeping them safe. However, there is a scarcity of literature evaluating how to effectively involve them in decision making. In this context, we review the concept of health literacy, focusing on the skills of healthcare decision making for children and adolescents with intellectual disability. Methods We describe the concept of health literacy and models explaining shared decision making (individuals and healthcare professionals collaborate in decision making process) and supported decision making (when a trusted person supports the individual to collaborate with the healthcare professional in the decision-making process), and a rapid review of the literature evaluating their efficacy. We discuss healthcare decision making for children and adolescents with intellectual disability in the context of relevant recommendations from the recent Disability Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability in Australia. Results Health literacy skills enable individuals to access, understand, appraise, remember and use health information and services. Shared decision making has been described for children with chronic conditions and supported decision making for adults with intellectual disability. Decision-making contributes to how individuals appraise and use healthcare. The rapid review found very limited evidence of outcomes where children and adolescents with intellectual disability have been supported to contribute to their healthcare decisions. Recommendations from the Disability Royal Commission highlight current needs for greater efforts to support and build the capacity of individuals with disability to be involved in the decisions that affect their life, including healthcare decision making. Conclusions Existing rights frameworks and healthcare standards confirm the importance of providing all people with the opportunities to learn and practise health literacy skills including decision making. There is little literature examining interventions for healthcare decision making for children with intellectual disability. Childhood is a critical time for the development of skills and autonomy. Evidence for how children and adolescents with intellectual disability can learn and practice healthcare decision-making skills in preparation for adulthood is needed to reduce inequities in their autonomy
Taking modelling beyond 'teaching morally' and 'teaching morality'
No full textThe central question of this paper is whether and how, from a virtue ethical perspective, teacher modelling and student emulation hang together in moral education. This matters, because philosophers have often focussed either on the moral psychology of emulation or on modelling as a moral educational method, neglecting the interplay between the two. It starts by analysing the conceptual framework underlying the influential Manner in Teaching (MiT) and Moral Work of Teaching (MWT) projects. It reconstructs how modelling is understood as ‘teaching morally’ or ‘teaching morality’. These two interpretations of modelling are developed further by drawing on additional literature on teacher education and moral education. Then, the conceptual framework is extended by focusing on how students may learn from modelling through mimicry, imitation or emulation. This results in several conceptual relations that illuminate the complex dynamics between teacher modelling and student emulation. For example, teacher modelling does not guarantee student emulation, which challenges the common advocacy for teachers as role models. At the same time, students may emulate teachers without teachers being aware of their impact. This results in a more nuanced understanding of what it takes for teachers to be moral role models
Ein Netzwerk-Wir: Religion im Zeitalter der Superdiversität
No full textThe Netherlands has changed profoundly in recent decades. The large cities of the Randstad have be-come ethnically ‘superdiverse’. There has also been a drastic change in the religious sphere, which is also characterised by diversity. What underlies these developments and what social consequences and challenges result from them will be described below. The explanations are based on two multidiscipli-nary research programmes on ‘hybrid religiosity’ and the ‘new we’ in the Netherlands, which were car-ried out atthe Theological Research Institute of the Dutch Dominicans (DSTS) and deal with the chal-lenges and effects of these diversification processes
Art in a Caring Society: An Autoethnographic Narrative
No full textThe World Health Organization (WHO) has recently recognized the significance of expressing experiences through artistic expression in promoting health and well-being. Artistic expression allows individuals to also articulate their feelings and concerns nonverbally. Creating and experiencing art has been a significant aspect of my life throughout my struggles with multiple chronic illnesses. I create art for self-care, and to comprehend and capture my emotions nonverbally. Through narrative and reflection on various experiences, I delve into the meaning of art and artistic expression in my personal life and within the context of a caring society. Additionally, my work includes creating drawings and images for others, providing comfort and support, and attending to their needs during difficult times. Creating art with others establishes a meaningful and creatively challenging connection, fostering joy and enabling contact without words about what resonates with us. Creating art with others and sharing this process with distant others in public spaces promotes solidarity and trust, two cornerstones of a caring society, in line with Joan Tronto’s definition of care. Actively promoting access to artistic expression and exchange, particularly in a care context, is a valuable strategy for fostering a caring society that acknowledges the realm of the experiential beyond words
Samen verder na de crisis:Lessen uit coronatijd over samenwerken en afstemmen in zorgorganisaties voor mensen met EV(M)B
No full textThe views of Dutch primary school principals on contributing to children's upbringing in education and collaborating with parents
No full textThis study focuses on how professionals in primary education contribute to children's upbringing, and engage in upbringing-related collaboration with parents. Eleven Dutch principals are interviewed about views, practices, and leadership. All of them recognise upbringing in education, and describe interwovenness of care, teaching and upbringing. Contributions to upbringing strongly relate to learning. Especially children's school readiness and the establishment of conditions for learning require intensified upbringing support. Teachers’ empathy and attitude of equality support the collaboration with parents on upbringing. The narratives reveal the complexities of leadership on upbringing and teacher-parent collaboration, amid the differing upbringing contexts, interests and views
Cross-national analysis of the prevalence of prolonged grief disorder
No full textBackground: Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is now included as a diagnosis in international classification systems. Most research on PGD is based on Western populations, but first data from non-Western countries have recently become available. Little is still known about country-related effects on PGD's prevalence. Objective: Determining possible causes of variations in the prevalence of PGD as defined by DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 within and between countries. Methods: We retrieved data from 24 prevalence studies, the World Bank and the 2022 World Risk Report. Negative binomial regressions were used to explore methodological, loss-related and country context characteristics as predictors of PGD. The average rate of PGD was calculated using random effects models. Results: The included studies comprised 34 samples from 16 countries (20,347 participants). Non-probability sampling and older mean age of the sample as well as lower country vulnerability were associated with higher PGD rates. The average PGD prevalence was 13 % (95 % CI [11, 22]), varying from 5 % (95 % CI [3, 11]) in probability to 16 % (95 % CI [13, 25]) in non-probability samples. Limitations: Samples from Europe and North America were overrepresented. For about half of the countries, data were available from only one sample. Conclusions: While confirming the importance of studies' methodological quality, the results show that PGD is of public health relevance around the world, but especially common in less vulnerabled countries with better access to daily necessities and healthcare services, highlighting sociocultural impacts on grief processing. Further investigations of cross-national differences are needed
Introduction
No full textThis book adds, from a humanist perspective, new interdisciplinary insights and research results to the current academic debate on aging, which is predominantly biomedical and sociological. In this introductory chapter, the editors first explain the humanist perspectives from which the contributions in this volume are constructed. Essentially, humanism is understood as the pursuit of humanity in the sense of humaneness. This applies to both the humanism that people experience in their everyday lives and humanism in the sense of intellectual and artistic traditions in Western culture. Second, it is explained how, that is, under which conditions, human life can be understood and experienced as meaningful, particularly life in old age: conditions such as purpose, self-worth, connectedness with others, moral justification, certain degrees of understanding, direction and influence, and not to forget, vivid pleasure or excitement. Finally, this introductory chapter concludes with a concise overview of the other chapters