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Traditional Fresh Markets and the Supermarket Revolution: A Case Study on Châu Long Market
Get PDFIn many middle income countries throughout the world, yet particularly in Asia, public markets face pressure from the simultaneous forces of globalization, commercialization, and urbanization. One such country is Vietnam due to its rapid rates of urban growth since opening its doors to the global economy in 1986. In Hanoi, public markets face particularly intense pressure because the Hanoi People Committee’s Market Redevelopment Plan is systemically redeveloping its traditional fresh markets into commercial centers and building supermarkets and hypermarkets throughout the city. The purpose of this plan is to civilize the city and combat food safety concerns through modernizing retail outlets that distribute food (Geertman 2011) despite evidence illustrating how public markets tackle many of the complex challenges cities face (PPS, 2003).
The purpose of this project is to complete a case study on Châu Long Market, a neighborhood market in Hanoi, Vietnam, that was slated for redevelopment into a commercial trading center in 2007 (Hương 2007). This study sought to understand the role Châu Long Market plays in local people’s daily lives, how local people perceive the market’s redevelopment plan and the rise of supermarkets in Hanoi, and how they envision the market to meet their needs in the future. To complete this study, 26 interviews with vendors, customers, local chefs, and local architecture professionals were conducted. Additionally, guidance was received and work was undertaken through a short-term internship at HealthBridge Vietnam, a Canadian NGO with a program that advocates for the protection of public spaces with public health goals in mind. The combination of these methods led this study to recommend that the Hanoi People’s Committee, its investors, and the local people who rely on Châu Long Market should collaborate to create an alternate plan for the future of the market that preserves and improves the space while keeping its authentic form, function, and character intact
University of Hawaii at Hilo: International Female Student Diversity and Inclusion Workshop
Get PDFThe purpose of the University of Hawaii at Hilo’ Women’s Center is to provide advocacy, access, education, equity and equality to women and minority students on campus. On March 8, 2016, The Women’s Center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo held an International Women’s Day event. During the event, the topic about their experiences here at UH Hilo was brought up. Five of the seven panelists felt like they lacked the knowledge and support of on-campus resources including the Women’s Center. The response to the women’s day event led the Women’s Center staff to investigate further why this was. A needs assessment was conducted by interviewing panelists, reviewing feedback from audience members, discussions from peers and students, discussions with administrators from other offices, an online international female student survey, and on the job observations. The results of our analysis concluded that these women lacked the knowledge and access to equal rights as a UH Hilo student. The UH Hilo Women’s Center created a Diversity and Inclusion workshop designed to address that gap, meet the needs of these students and to fulfill the UH Hilo’s Women’s Center’s vision of creating an inclusive campus. The four-hour workshop will include six topic sessions and will be offered once a year in September. Program design theories will include Tajfel’s Social Identity Theory, Edward Hall’s High/Low Context Culture, and Josselson’s Theory of Identity Development in Women. The curriculum design theory is modeled using Wiggins and McTighe’s Backward Design and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Advocating for In-service Teacher Training in Mexico: English4Mexico
Get PDFThe lack of English language proficiency among Mexican public school students, due to a deficit of skilled English language teachers, can have a profound effect on a students’ university prospects, study abroad opportunities, and earning potential. With the current emphasis on student mobility between the US and Mexico being promoted by the complementary initiatives of the Department of State’s 100,000 Strong in the Americas, of which NAFSA: Association of International Educators (NAFSA) is a partner, and Mexico’s Proyecta 100,000, now is the perfect time to bring together the international education community to help address this injustice.
The English4Mexico advocacy strategy was created using social media platforms, including a website, Facebook page, and Twitter account, to educate and organize the international education community. It encourages action from this community to push important stakeholders to fund and support the inclusion of in-service ESL teacher training in Mexico in these initiatives, with an eye toward the Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE) Intensive English Teacher Training program model as a best practice. English4Mexico calls for transformational change for Mexican teachers, their students, and the country that goes beyond gifting scholarships to a few thousand students to study abroad, and instead begins to create a stronger partner in student mobility, research, and workforce development for decades to come
Water Quality in Relation to Land-use of the upper 62.8 Kilometers of the Santa Maria River, Santa Fe, Veraguas Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Indicators
Get PDFThe Santa Maria River spans approximately 148 kilometers from its headwaters in the district of Santa Fe, Veraguas to its mouth at the Golfo de Parita, Herrera. The objective of this study was to determine the relation between land-use and site-specific water quality using benthic macroinvertebrates as indicators. To assess water quality of the upper portion of the Santa Maria River, benthic macroinvertebrates were collected at 10 points within the river from Santa Fe national park to the town of San Francisco, approximately 62.8 kilometers. This study examines how land-use near the banks of the Santa Maria River effect water quality, taking into consideration both point and non-point sources of pollution within the watershed. Sample areas encompassed a variety of land-uses throughout the watershed. Water quality was assessed at each sample site by measuring dissolved oxygen levels, pH, river flow, percent canopy cover, and water temperature. Benthic macroinvertebrates were collected using a 250-μm mesh D-Frame kicknet in 3 riffle habitats per site and identified and ranked based on pollution tolerance using the EPT index. The site-specific water quality was determined for each location and assessed based on the primary land-use within the immediate area around each river sample site. The water quality at each point was ranked as either very good, good, intermediate, or disturbed according to the EPT index and the benthic macroinvertebrates collected. Land-use and land-cover percentages of the surrounding area of the river were evaluated using geospatial data and direct observation. Generally, percent forest cover decreased with distance from Santa Fe and the area surrounding San Francisco was primarily cattle ranches and farms. It was observed that water quality decreased as distance from Santa Fe increased and as elevation decreased. The analysis of sample site water quality values ranked this portion of the Santa Maria River as good water quality overall, however, some of the sites further downstream near ranches and farms were ranked as disturbed. Therefore, this study supports evidence that the variety of water quality rankings of the upper portion of the Santa Maria River from Santa Fe to San Francisco are dependent on primary land-use of the area surrounding the river
Rapid Evidence Maps as Decision Tools for Evidence-based Policy
Get PDFThe movement to make policy more evidence-based is gaining increasing influence in the field of international development. I argue that, properly understood and executed, evidence-based policy has the promise to make development efforts more effective. However, if policy decisions are to be evidence-based, there must be tools available to policymakers that provide evidence in usable formats. The research community has developed a variety of such tools, but there are some decision-making contexts for which none of the currently-available tools are ideally suited. This paper describes a new type of evidence tool, the rapid evidence map (REM), that provides users with an overview of the evidence base on a particular topic, while adopting a sufficiently narrow scope to allow for rapid completion and applicability to specific policy decisions. In this way, the REM seeks to accommodate both decision-makers’ need for evidence and their real-world time constraints. After presenting the concept of the REM, I outline a pilot REM project for a Peruvian government agency seeking to improve its services for indigenous populations
One Year Later: The Politics and Stories of Post-Earthquake Nepal
Get PDFA 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on April 25th, 2015. This was followed by a second major earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on May 12th , 2015. These disasters took the lives of thousands of Nepali people, destroyed hundreds of thousands of structures, and displaced an estimated two million people. Immediately following the disaster, there was an outpouring of humanitarian aid from around the world. This lead to a conference where $4.1 billion USD of reconstruction funds were pledged to Nepal by international donors. Five months later, a new constitution passed into law and an informal blockade of Indian imports – petroleum products, medicine, and other critical goods – descended upon Nepal. A year after the earthquake, the effects of the political climate and other unique challenges in Nepal have shaped the course of reconstruction. I will explore those factors and seek to understand why Nepal remains in a state of partial destruction, twelve months after disaster struck
Fortaleza\u27s Immigrant Song: Portrait-Narratives and an Identity Needs Analysis of Recent Immigrants\u27 Lived Experiences
Get PDFThis inquiry sheds light on the personal stories and lived experiences of a group of recent immigrants currently living in Fortaleza, the sprawling capital of the Northeastern state of Ceará, Brazil. Utilizing a theoretical framework guided by “Epistemologies of the South,” ethnographic principles, and constructivist grounded theory, this capstones presents five first person portrait-narratives highlighting intimate details of project participants’ lives prior to immigrating, and uncovers four persistent and recurrent themes expressed by project participants: (1) language and communication, (2) professional opportunity, (3) personal growth, and (4) “saudade” and belongingness.
Through the lens of Johan Galtung’s Basic Needs Approach, this inquiry also sought to analyze the relationship between conflict and identity, insofar as it existed, through determinable identity needs and satisfiers while recognizing overlapping themes for further inquiry. This analysis was organized under the four aforementioned themes offering explicit examples of when these identity needs weren’t satisfied, and of how personal or latent interpersonal conflict manifested. These manifestations of conflict often occurred when perceived social equilibrium failed to be respected or when research participants purportedly disrupted it. This inquiry could not determine identity based conflict in more traditional or academic senses, but at times revealed moments of polarization, isolation, and degrees of cultural resistance and friction as a result of a basic immigrant identity.
This inquiry’s findings can be best utilized by local organizations working to provide and improve support related to the aforementioned persistent and recurrent themes to promote better inclusion and integration into Fortalecense society.
Keywords: Immigration, Brazil, Fortaleza, Intra-American, Identity Need
Geospasial Indonesia: The Utilization of Spatial Data Through Geographic Information Systems Across Indonesia in Various Environmental Contexts
Get PDFSpatial planning and mapping in Indonesia have had a precarious history for the past several decades. Laws controlling the creation of maps for land use planning have fluctuated greatly between executive administrations and the country is still struggling to create a single, unified national map. With the One Map Policy the future of mapping is optimistic, but in the meantime spatial data analyses are lacking. Geographic information systems (GIS) is a computerized system for the capture, storage, querying, analysis, and display of spatial data, and is used predominately by the government, private companies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) across Indonesia. Community mapping, the process of sketching out and digitizing community land claims, is also quite common around the archipelago and fills an important gap of information: the local field-based perspective that is often lost when conducting GIS with remote data. This balance of perspective and relation of power are important critiques of GIS and need to be considered with every GIS-related project. Spatial planning is especially important with the onset of climate change and the worsening of Indonesia’s numerous environmental problems. Most environmentally-focused NGOs use GIS routinely because protecting the environment often means proper land use planning. The environmental NGO community in Indonesia – particularly in Bali – is tight-knit, and they often partner with each other on projects. The scope of this project was to explore the way environmental NGOs utilize GIS in their work and to characterize the network between stakeholders
Techniques for Mentoring In-Service Teachers
No full textObservation and feedback, whether obligatory or invited, can be daunting to educators of any level of experience. By forming a strong ongoing bond with mentees, peer teacher- mentors can better facilitate the enhanced awareness, skills and knowledge of colleagues. These techniques promote professional exchange and teacher development for all concerned
Stamp of Approval: The Influence of Parents in the Decision to Study Abroad
Get PDFThrough financial and emotional support, parents are a primary stakeholder in the study abroad process and can either encourage or discourage their student to study abroad during their college experience. This paper seeks to identify the roles of today’s parent in their student’s study abroad experiences and to what extent parents influence their children’s decisions surrounding their decision to study abroad. Qualitative surveys and interviews were conducted with eight study abroad alumni and their parent of choice during this exploratory study. Questions asked and results provided include patterns of communication at home versus abroad, feelings surrounding the support of parents during the study abroad process, and the direct impact of parent influence on the decision to study abroad. Conclusions show that parental support of the general concept of study abroad was an influencer in the decision to study abroad. However, almost all students indicate that they discovered, researched, and chose their specific study abroad program with very little or no assistance from their parent. In most cases students sought their parent’s stamp of approval on their study abroad decision, but not their permission