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‘How do you know that?’ The impact of adult-child interactions when investigating children’s thought processes
No full textEcologies of creative music practice: mattering music
No full textThis book explores music as a dynamic practice embedded in contemporary ecological contexts, one that both responds to, and creates change within, the ecologies in which it is created and consumed. This highly interdisciplinary analysis includes theoretical and practical considerations – from blockchain technology and digital platform commerce to artificial intelligence and the future of work, to sustainability and political ecology – as well as contemporary philosophical paradigms, guiding its investigation through three main lenses: How can music work as a conceptual tool to interrogate and respond to our changing global environment? How have transformations in our digital environment affected how we produce, distribute and consume music? How does music relate to matters of political ecology and environmental change? Within this framework, music is positioned as a starting point from which to examine a range of contexts and environments, offering new perspectives on contemporary technological and ecological discourse
Critical data literacy in higher education: teaching and research for data ethics and justice
No full textNavigating the turbulent waters of data and algorithms, in order to participate in today’s datafied society, requires a series of transversal skills. Educators, students and citizens need both technical abilities and a set of literacies, interwoven with a critical approach, to understand the sociopolitical and cultural mechanisms governing, shaping and transforming our lives. Our chapter will reflect on the impact of datafication in society and address some questions about embracing the concept of ethics as a method for working with data towards addressing bias, ensuring that the demands of data justice are adopted in teaching and research. Our open and critical pedagogic approach calls for educators to explore data issues from a social justice perspective and through research-based learning activities. To exemplify our model, we showcase an academic development programme piloted in Uruguay which was part of a bigger research project, Understanding Data: Praxis and Politics. As part of the project, we have developed a critical pedagogic approach to support academics in teaching critical data literacies. This approach bridges research and real-world problems, using open data as open educational resources (OER) to support learners and educators to co-create knowledge in an interdisciplinary manner through research-based learning activities. Our curriculum provides academics with a data ethics framework and solid theoretical background, alongside analytical tools, and activities to develop lifelong learning. This approach enables participants to understand and challenge datafication and support informed and transformative democratic practices and dialogue, empowering citizens to address social justice concerns
Hybrid equals accessibility
No full textWhile for the majority of people the world became smaller during the pandemic, for a sizeable minority it opened up. Dr Alexia Casale discusses why the new virtual world is full of positives
The gift of reading
No full textThe chapter analyses multiple facets of the relationships between gifts and books, with a focus on the gift as a site of tension. Its focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on books held in the collection and archives of the Bodleian Library
An investigation into the protection and inheritance of Hezhe culture through the development and innovation of the local cultural industry
No full textEnforcing the legal principle of duty of care in corporate human rights violations and environmental damage cases in developing countries
Get PDFCorporate accountability for human rights violations in international legal
systems has proven to be a watershed. This is because there are inadequacies in
the existing accountability mechanisms as well as several other legal problems
and factual obstacles that hinder the enforcement of human rights law and
international criminal law. This is also attributed to the problematic issues that
persist, particularly with respect to the following: corporate criminal liability,
the extraterritorial application of law, the attribution of criminal actions to
specific agents, the requirements of accountability, the difficulties of
extraterritorial investigations, and obtaining sufficient evidence for human
rights violations. This article examines corporate accountability in the concept
of the principle of duty of care. It is argued that the duty of care principle will
help breach the gap in corporate liability for human rights abuses and
environmental damages. Furthermore, the article analyses the definition of
accountability, the mechanism of accountability, and the components of
accountability are extensively discussed. It is also observed that the legal
concept of corporate accountability should include responsibility, answerability,
blameworthiness, liability and sanctions. Therefore, this article examines the
key elements that are required for establishing accountability for non-state
actors. A diagram is used to explain the components of the various forms of
accountability and how accountability creates a legal duty of care for non-state
actors, such as corporations
