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Two Regions, One Vision: The Cross-Border Mission of the Via Carpatia EGTC
No full textThis article illustrates how the organization European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Via Carpatia (from here on referred to as Via Carpatia EGTC) with limited liability exemplifies the potential of EGTCs to act as effective platforms for overcoming administrative borders and fostering meaningful, results-oriented cooperation that responds to local needs while aligning with broader EU objectives. The Via Carpatia EGTC has played an important role since 2013 in promoting cross-border cooperation between Slovakia’s Košice Self-governing Region and Hungary’s Borsod–Abaúj–Zemplén County. Its activities contribute to regional development through coordinated projects and initiatives focused on infrastructure, culture, and economic growth. The Via Carpatia EGTC serves as a key policy instrument for fostering territorial cohesion, addressing regional disparities, and enhancing cooperation in various thematic areas including education, ecology, social policy, and infrastructure. A significant component of Via Carpatia EGTC’s work is the Small Project Fund (SPF), through which numerous local initiatives such as cultural events, sports programs, and support for regional producers have been financed. In this article, we also highlight several international collaborations aimed at improving digitalization in elderly care, promoting environmental awareness among youth, and advancing circular economy models. Since 2013, Via Carpatia EGTC has mobilized more than €19 million in investments, contributed to the creation and support of over 1,100 jobs, and implemented more than 40 successful projects.
Key words: cross-border cooperation, European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation, small project fund, regional development, interregional partnership, building partnerships
Embracing Transformation: Ethical Practices in Pedagogical Documentation
No full textThis article explores pedagogical documentation as a situated and speculative practice in early childhood education. Drawing on philosophical concepts including Heidegger’s Dasein, Deleuze and Guattari’s becoming-minoritarian, and the idea of decentering the child, the paper examines how documentation shapes educators’ pedagogical thinking and relational ethics. Rather than focusing on how documentation shifts public views of early education, the article centers transformation as a lived, ethical, and pedagogical process. Through the Fishpond curriculum project, we attune to moments of pedagogical intra-action where documentation participates in the material-discursive reconfiguring of relations, generating speculative possibilities for thinking-with children, educators, and a pedagogist. The article positions documentation as a generative site of struggle that unsettles normative representational logics and sustains pedagogical matterings as ongoing processes of becoming
How have Asians experienced discrimination differently during COVID-19? The role of nativity
No full textIn this article, we consider differences in how native-born Asians and foreign-born Asians may have experienced rising anti-Asian attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze Canadian data from a national survey (two waves conducted in April and December 2020) that includes a subsample of 464 Asians (native-born=178; foreign-born=286). Results from negative binomial regressions suggest that perception of anti-Asian racism is highly conditioned by nativity. Specifically, native-born Asians are significantly more likely than foreign-born Asians to report having encountered instances of acute discrimination during the pandemic. To explain the perceived discrimination gap, we test whether a stronger sense of cultural belonging and ethnic pride among native-born Asians contributes to their greater sensitivity to discrimination and thereby higher perceptions of discrimination. We measure sense of cultural belonging and ethnic pride using in-group trust (ethnic trust in Asian people). Although we do find native-born Asians show greater in-group trust, it does not seem to explain away the higher levels of discrimination perceived by native-born Asians
In The Beginning There Was Violence: Epic Emplotment and the Sorelian Myth
No full textIn his infamous publication, Reflections on Violence, French syndicalist Georges Sorel explores the social ails of his contemporary France at the beginning of the twentieth century. Following the rise of enlightened pacifism and diffusion of class tensions, the socialist revolution promised by Marx appeared to drift ever further from Sorel’s reach. In Reflections, Sorel argues that these challenges may be overcome through the use of the myth to spur the working class into violent action. Despite its centrality to Sorel’s work, the myth itself remains nebulous in its construction and provides a challenge to later scholars’ attempts to understand Sorel. For this reason, the nature of the myth and its capacity to spur the working class into action is examined in this paper against Hayden White’s “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact”. In reading Sorel through the lens of White’s literary emplotment of historical events, this paper offers a new understanding of the Sorelian myth’s method of action as the creation of a future history using culturally-bound literary structures
Alberto L. Siani, \u27Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology\u27.
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FICE INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT ON PROMOTING APPROPRIATE AND QUALITY ALTERNATIVE CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
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The editors are pleased to be able to include in this issue the FICE International Statement on Promoting Appropriate and Quality Alternative Care Options for Children and Youth. The statement reflects the continuing commitment of FICE International to the provision of quality residential care for children, a commitment that began when FICE was founded under UNESCO after World War II for the purpose of caring for the children left orphaned, disabled, and traumatized by the war
THE “WHAT’S UP?” SURVEY OF ADOLESCENTS IN RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES DURING THE ISRAEL–HAMAS WAR
No full textOn October 7, 2023, the Hamas organization launched a surprise terrorist attack, to which Israel responded by declaring war on Hamas. The aim of this study was to examine the status and needs of adolescents in residential care facilities (RCFs) throughout Israel in light of the ongoing war. An additional aim was to show that our survey itself conveyed the message to the adolescents that the professionals and administrative staff of the RCFs are concerned about them. The study relied on a quantitative research approach, using a self-report online survey among adolescents in RCFs; 340 questionnaires were collected. The adolescents reported emotional needs that surfaced because of the war: 58% felt sad or depressed, 50% were worried or stressed, and 49% were angry or irritable. However, 62% reported feeling safe in their RCF. A multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that a feeling on the part of the adolescents that (a) the RCF staff care about their well-being and (b) they listen to and support them are predictors of the adolescents’ sense of security in the RCF. The findings suggest that developing policies aimed at strengthening the connection between RCF staff and the adolescents in their care, and enhancing strategies of partnership, are essential for increasing the adolescents’ sense of security