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Review of Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures by Deborah Berndt, Lauren E. Baker, and Alexandra Gelis with the Earth to Table Legacies Collaborators
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Recognizing The Right to Care: A Key Step in Building the Care Economy
Get PDFThe care crisis stems from the social prescription of women as caregivers, leading to their overrepresentation in unpaid care work. Unpaid is linked to broader structural crises like economic inequality, poverty, and precarity, which are exacerbated by intersecting inequalities. The care crisis perpetuates women’s marginalization in economic and social spheres due to the invisibility of care work in the care economy. The care economy includes non-market and market-based care provision, involving public investments in social infrastructure and protection. According to the International Labour Organization, women perform 76.2% of all unpaid care work globally, dedicating 3.2 times more hours than men. In Latin America, women spend 6.3 to 29.5 more hours per week on unpaid care work than men, totalling 8,417 million weekly hours. Similar trends are observed in Canada, where women undertake more unpaid care work and face greater well-being impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted these issues, creating a policy window to elevate care as a political and social policy priority. This research conducts a comparative policy literature review between Canada and Uruguay— focusing on developing and enforcing the right to care and implementing a National Integrated Care System to address unpaid care work. The research aims to provide actionable recommendations for Canada. Key questions include: What are the advantages and disadvantages of recognizing care as an autonomous right? How can recognizing care as a right help achieve the 5Rs––Recognize, Reduce, Reward, Represent, and Resilience? The welfare state has three pillars: health, social security, and education. Introducing the right to care challenges this model by acknowledging care as a fundamental but previously unrecognized and unenforced pillar. The proposed recommendation is for the Canadian government to follow the pursuit of Uruguay in formulating, adopting and implementing an autonomous right of care in collaboration with multiple stakeholders and creating a National Integrated Care System
A Pilot Study Examining Children’s Evaluations and Reasoning About Concealment and Instrumental Forms of Antisocial Lying
No full textChildren as young as 4 years of age judge self-benefitting lies (i.e., antisocial lying) as wrong. Although this has traditionally been interpreted as evidence that young children view honesty as a moral obligation, contemporary moral development theory and research suggests that right/wrong judgments fail to capture important aspects of children’s social cognition. Research from a perspective known as social domain theory (Smetana et al., 2014; Turiel, 1983) has shown that children’s understanding of morality (i.e., norms concerning others’ rights and wellbeing) is distinct from their understanding of other types of socially unacceptable behaviour. While children judge many social events as similarly wrong, their reasoning draws on different moral (e.g., harm, fairness) and non-moral concepts (e.g., rules and authority), depending on the context and perceived consequences of the event. Thus, from the perspective of SDT, to understand whether children view lying as a moral or non-moral issue, it is necessary to assess their reasoning. Prior lying research has also focused primarily on children’s judgments of concealment lies, even though more opportunistic, instrumental forms of lying are also common in childhood. Thus, the goal of the present study was to develop and pilot a novel semi-structured interview procedure to assess how children reason about concealment and instrumental forms of antisocial lying. The study was conducted in two phases, each with samples of children ages 4 to 8 years. In the initial phase (n = 26), eight broad themes were identified and used to develop a novel coding system and semi-structured interview protocol. In the subsequent application phase, (n = 33), this system was used to classify children’s responses to hypothetical vignettes depicting concealment and instrumental lying. Nearly all children judged lying as wrong, but their reasoning focused on a range of different moral and non-moral concerns. Social-conventional concerns were the most common category of concern overall, but there were differences in reasoning by condition and age. Prudential reasons (i.e., concerns for the liar’s wellbeing or social reputation) were more common in the instrumental condition than the concealment condition. Moral reasons (i.e., concerns for harm or fairness) were commonly used by older children but almost never used by younger children. These results indicate that right/wrong judgments alone do not adequately capture children’s full understanding of antisocial lying. The coding system and interview protocol developed in the present study will be a valuable resource in future research
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES SURROUNDING FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER AMONG HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ACROSS NEW BRUNSWICK
No full textThis study examined healthcare professionals’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) related to fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in New Brunswick. Healthcare providers are central to prevention, intervention, and support for individuals consuming alcohol during pregnancy and people with FASD, yet gaps in KAP can influence how people access care, resources and overall health outcomes. A province-wide online survey (n = 224) and semi-structured interviews (n = 13) were conducted with healthcare professionals to assess baseline understanding, beliefs, engagement in FASD-related practices, training experiences, and preferences for advancing FASD-related work. Findings revealed general awareness of FASD but significant knowledge gaps, particularly regarding how to care and support affected individuals, largely due to limited training opportunities. Expanding access to specialized training is critical for improving healthcare delivery. Results will inform the New Brunswick FASD Centre of Excellence’s strategic action plan, with the aim of reducing stigma, raising awareness, addressing systemic disparities, and strengthening informed, equitable care
Unraveling the Role of Posterior Parietal and Retrosplenial Cortices on Social Approach Behaviours
No full textSocial interaction often requires animals to continuously be aware of the spatial position of others relative to themselves, but little is known about how social-spatial information is initially computed and how it is updated in the moment during movements of self and other. We examined the role of the PPC and RSC in computing and updating interpersonal space, and how this translates into approaching a conspecific. Our hypothesis was that the PPC and RSC are involved in processing location and moment-to-moment expectations about others and that animals use the PPC or RSC to update information about relative distance and position from another. Using excitotoxic lesions targeting either the PPC or RSC, we examined how rats approached, tracked, and maintained distance from a stranger conspecific in a freely moving social interaction. Overall, we found no significant differences between PPC, RSC, and SHAM groups in approach dynamics and face-to-face greetings, or any specific, social movements. Some differences between groups were seen more generally, with a higher velocity and acceleration, more orientation away from conspecifics, and significantly reduced rear-sniffing in RSC lesioned animals. This could be why the stimulus partner oriented towards the RSC animals more, and had a higher velocity when approaching a rear-sniff. PPC lesion did not include deep layers of the area, which could be why they often looked similar to control animals. Although we did not find statistically significant results for our predicted social movements, we saw subtle changes in how RSC lesions effected social interaction, such as a reduction in rear-sniffing, and orienting away from their partner more. Overall, this suggests that the RSC does not have an effect on approaching a conspecific, but does interfere with some aspects of normal social behaviour
Episode 1a: CoP Interview: A Pedagogy of Kindness with Cate Denial
No full textIn this episode, Brenna interviews Cate Denial about her essay-turned-book, A Pedagogy of Kindness. Cate talks about her journey to kindness, the devaluing of teaching and learning in higher education, and the practice of ungrading (including an unessay assignment!). In doing so, Cate addresses what is radical about really assessing learning.https://scholars.wlu.ca/community-of-praxis/1001/thumbnail.jp