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The impact of corporate social responsibility on climate change actions for sustainable performance: a survey of private banks in Bangladesh adopting multi-variable analysis
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Pedagogical considerations: facilitating agency in the vocal recording of early career singer-songwriters
Get PDFAudio recording is a much anticipated and integral component in the career trajectories of contemporary singers. This article discusses research undertaken through three in-depth case studies, each of which focused on the recording of original songs by early career singer-songwriters. The research examined the ways that recording techniques, associated technologies and studio interactions affect vocal performance during the recording processes. Participants were purposively sampled for their early career interest in songwriting and recording. The findings identified specific educational considerations relevant to those involved in vocal pedagogy, and in artist training and development. The outcomes detail pedagogical parameters and features designed to facilitate agency in the recording of contemporary vocalists
Changes in teacher education provision: comparative experiences internationally
No full textMany changes have taken place in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes over the last number of years in countries such as Israel, Portugal, Jamaica, Ontario (Canada), and England. This paper outlines some of these changes, why they occurred, and to the extent possible, how effective these changes have been from the experience of the teacher educators who have written this paper. In particular, they describe one significant change that would greatly improve ITE in their respective jurisdictions. In the latter part of the paper, the writers discuss current trends and possible directions for teacher education across international contexts. With its contrasting accounts of ITE in different national contexts across the world, this article argues for high quality initial teacher education to provide a global educational workforce in which teachers and learners can flourish within an equal, yet diverse and decolonialised ecosystem
A framework for building a responsive local government system in Sierra Leone: integrating felt needs fulfilment model with the hybridity of paramount chiefs
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Forests, from the romantic period to the future [group exhibition]
No full textTo this day, people in Germany view forests as the ‘other side’ of culture and everyday life – as a symbol of nature per se. Yet forests are both culturally occupied spaces, used and shaped by humans, as well as complex and vulnerable ecosystems – of which we perceive only a small fraction when
we visit them. The fact that they also trigger positive associations such as beauty, recreation and vitality is partly thanks to the Romantic movement, which discovered the forest as an aesthetic space around 1800. In the following, forests will be artistically explored, made accessible and in some cases reinvented. More than simply depictions, art opens up a realm of possibilities in which the Romantics negotiate different relationships to nature, viewing it
from at least three perspectives: first as an independent, creative force (natura naturans); secondly, the products of nature (natura naturata) – these include not only animal and human bodies but also stones and all ways of being-in-the-world; thirdly as the permanent interweaving between these two natures, forming a wide spectrum of interactions. This understanding of nature as a dynamic fabric, of which humans are a part, can lead the way in today’s search for new relationships with nature.
The exhibition at Museum Sinclair-Haus is dedicated to the arts as a field of experimentation in which new forms of perception, encounters and connections with the forest can be explored. Seen together, the contemporary and Romantic works raise questions such as: What images and assumptions
shape our understanding of forests? To what extent do we consider ourselves as part of them – or the forest as part of us? What roles do woodlands play as elements of our culture and way of life? What can we learn from Romanticism
for modern perceptions of our forests?
The Romantic movement represented not only a new understanding of nature but also enhanced imagination and sensibility, in conjunction with knowledge and reason. Last but not least, the exhibition at the Museum Sinclair-Haus is
a tribute to the beauty and liveliness of forests. A poetic approach based on appreciation, respect and knowledge can help us better understand and feel how inextricably we are linked, how our survival and well-being are bound together
Historicising the Palmwag Tourism Concession, north-west Namibia
No full textThe Palmwag Tourism Concession comprises more than 550,000 hectares of the Damaraland Communal Land Area in Kunene Region. To the west lies the Skeleton Coast National Park. Otherwise, the Concession is situated within a mosaic of differently designated communal lands to which diverse qualifying Namibians have access, habitation and use rights: namely, Sesfontein, Anabeb and Torra communal area conservancies on the Concession’s north, north-east and southern boundaries, with Etendeka Tourism Concession to the east. Established under the pre-Independence Damaraland Regional Authority led by Justus ǁGaroëb, Palmwag Concession lies fully north of the veterinary fence or “Red Line” that marches east to west across Namibia. In the 1950s, however, the Red Line was positioned further north with part of the current concession comprising a former commercial farming area for white settler farmers, the expansion of which was associated with evictions of people living in here. The iterative clearance of people from this area also helped make possible the 1962 western expansion of Etosha Game Park, followed by the establishment of a large trophy hunting concession between the Hoanib and Ugab rivers in the 1970s. Drawing on archive research, interviews with key actors linked with the Concession’s history, and on-site oral history with local elders through much of the Concession’s terrain, this chapter places the Concession more fully within the historical circumstances and effects of its making. In doing so, competing and overlapping colonial, Indigenous and conservation visions of the landscape are explored for their roles in empowering different types of access and exclusion
Conclusion: realising conservation, from Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast
No full textThis final chapter sums up the Etosha-Kunene Histories project’s exploration of colonialism, indigeneity and natural history in Namibia, through a wide-ranging analysis that aims to initiate and inform discussions on conservation policies in the region and beyond. Contributions in the volume from diverse scholars and practitioners have highlighted the complex and often conflicting narratives in conservation efforts, for which Namibia’s northern regions offers a case in point. The history of conservation in Etosha-Kunene spans pre-colonial to post-Independence periods, reflecting shifts from unregulated exploitation to formal conservation policies under German and South African rule, and finally to more inclusive approaches post-Independence. These transitions illustrate the political economy and socio-ecological dynamics of conservation, emphasising the interplay between local communities, colonial legacies, and global environmental trends. The volume addresses themes of belonging, co-existence, inclusion, and exclusion, underscoring the ongoing negotiations and conflicts over land use, wildlife management, and human rights in the region. Through its comprehensive historical and political ecology lens, this book hopes to contribute to understanding the intricate relations between nature, culture and economy in conservation practices