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Co-development and Innovation in Global Health: A case study of educational change
Get PDFAim. Ten years ago, Ghana’s mental health services were severely lacking, accelerated through ‘brain drain’ as trained psychiatrists and mental health nurses left the country to work overseas. A group of UK global health workers was closely involved in a ten-year large-scale innovation aimed at helping to improve mental health services in Ghana at community level. A new generation of mental health workers in Ghana was created adding hundreds of practitioners to the workforce, meaning that thousands of Ghanaians would potentially receive support. The research reported here explored the UK group’s involvement to identify significant lessons learnt. Method. An ‘ideological narrative’ was obtained through engaging the research participants in insider practitioner research. They were supported in this process by a university-based researcher, who offered an ‘outsider’ perspective. This novel type of narrative meant participants could not only give account of their own practice and an awareness of their own learning, but also become more aware of the significance of the often unstated, and possibly unconscious, values informing their stories. Results. The lessons learnt by the UK global health workers from involvement in this innovation are explored within five themes: Curriculum development as an ongoing process; ‘we are all learning’ and the notion of ‘co-development’; timescales and the importance of culture; the interconnected nature of practice; and education as development. Conclusion. This research is intended to help shape individual and group efforts that are involved in global health projects generally through project participants articulating the significant lessons learnt about educational change and the nature of development associated with such projects as ongoing ‘co-development’. It also has the potential to contribute to a wider dialogue with curriculum developers, educators, and others involved in practice innovation, all of which inevitably involve others and are never ended. <br/
Ecospirituality and sustainability transitions: agency towards degrowth
No full text‘Sustainability transitions’ has emerged as one of the most important and influential literatures on understanding the pathways towards a more sustainable future. Yet, most approaches in this literature privilege technological and regime-wide innovations, while people’s agencies, grassroots innovations, and social factors more generally are often underrepresented. This article focuses on the role of ecospirituality as worldview, aiming to understand how spiritual and religious beliefs play an important role in practical, everyday sustainability transitions. In an extensive desk-based study, literature across disciplines is reviewed to explore connections between spirituality, pro-environmental behaviour, climate policy, and sustainability agencies. Showing the importance of ecospiritual practice, the purpose of this article is to make a case for the inclusion of ecospirituality, as worldview, in the study of sustainability transitions. We argue that ecospirituality is a significant dimension to understanding people’s contemporary agencies that shift away from endless economic growth and resource efficiency mantras towards more radical worldviews of degrowth and different ways of achieving happiness and fulfilment in life
Lucy K. Pick, Her Father’s Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 274; 8 black-and-white figures, 2 maps, 6 genealogical charts, and 3 tables. $65. ISBN: 978-1-5017-1432-0.
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Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final
No full textConcussion is a growing issue within sport, including within soccer. Despite the developing medical understanding of concussion, there is still an array of sociocultural discourses and misconceptions around it. In the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Liverpool Football Club goalkeeper Loris Karius suffered a head collision in the 48th minute. Postmatch, he was subsequently diagnosed as being concussed. As a result of his concussion, Karius’ performance was arguably impeded, with suggestions that this may have resulted in him making some key errors in the game. Through an analysis of media framing in 52 news articles in the days following the incident, four dominant frames were identified: deflection away from concussion, misunderstanding concussion, education on concussion, and recommendations. Frames that focussed on the lack of awareness and preventative measures that are present in soccer served to highlight the lack of significance afforded to concussion at this particular point in time. In particular, we highlight differences in concussion discourses between those working inside and outside the soccer industry. Overall, these findings contribute to the growing body of sociological work examining concussion in sport
Sartre and somatics for the pedagogy of movement in contemporary dance
No full textDrawing on somatic practice, psychology, philosophy and the dance experience, this article operationalizes Sartre’s ideological response to movement pedagogy. The ‘thisness’ experience of embodiment during traditional dance styles negatively impacts on the realization of our body’s somatic potential. However, Sartre’s ‘body-for-itself’ mode can be stimulated with certain somatic practices, due to the concentration on the inner experience and sensations present in the body. In this sense, the body becomes a learning outcome in itself, through a deep and respectful connection with the dancer’s inner being. Pedagogically, this combination of Sartre’s theory with holistic techniques of the self, specifically the fundamental principles of Feldenkrais and dance literacy, can benefit the realization of individual potential during dance, and optimize positive embodiment. This article discusses initial materializations of the learning experiences of the dance student, informed by Sartre’s thinking on embodiment, and a theoretical discussion of the pedagogical implications of Sartre’s ideas for somatic pedagogy in contemporary dance
Enhancing coach understanding of mental ill health through the identification of temporal themes in athletes’ stories
Get PDFIn elite sport, research has highlighted significant incidence of athletes experiencing mental ill health. The aim of the present study was to make sense of stories that elite athletes tell about experiencing mental ill health, through sampling the autobiographies of four male, elite cricketers. In each book, the player spoke in detail about mental ill health, and how this impacted on their international career. Horizontal and vertical analyses of the data resulted in six progressive themes being identified, from Early Warning Signs, Fluctuations of Mental Health, Build-up to the Severe Incident, the Severe Incident, the Recovery Process, to Relapsing. Findings are considered in line with how they might be used to meet the call to develop mental health literacy, in aiming to help coaches and other psychology support staff understand more about the process of athletes who experience mental ill health across their career
(Continuing) Inspiration from Stafford's Innovative Approach to Queenship
No full textPart of a 'Forum' special on Pauline Stafford's landmark work 'Queens, Concubines and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages' on the 35th anniversary of its publication
Responsible Tourism: The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Empowering Children
Get PDFChildren empowerment should be a core component of any responsible tourism initiatives and their involvement and support is required to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing on a theory adaptation research approach, this study proposes a framework for children's empowerment for responsible and sustainable tourism, inside and outside of the family context. The study sought to answer two key questions: Why children should be engaged in responsible tourism? How should children be engaged in responsible tourism? In addressing these key questions, the study developed a Future Responsible Tourist Capital Development (FRTCD) framework that advises on a prospective process of developing and nurturing children to have the essential skills, education and experience required for the responsible and sustainable development of the tourism industry. The findings of this study propose a new perspective on children empowerment inside and outside of the family context, and highlight the significance of children as sustainability thinkers, actioners, and transformers. Overall, the study contributes to the growing research on empowerment in sustainability discourse in general and children's empowerment in particular
There's a Long Year to be Spent:Cosa Nostra and Football in Palermo
No full textThis article focuses on the relations between the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and football in Palermo. Through the analysis of the judicial file of a case dating back to 2007, the author shows how the control of the territory, through extortions against the Palermo football club, matter to the Sicilian mafia more than an involvement in the football business. The article highlights two level of relations between the mafia and football: the intermediation for the mafia, which is made by legal actors to grant Cosa Nostra its territorial sovereignty; the intermediation by the mafia, when Cosa Nostra intervenes on behalf of some actors who are part of the mafia network