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The ancient burial rituals that have shaped how we treat our dead
No full textRoger Luckhurst on the Varied Funerary Practices Within Our Cultures—And Histor
I. facing resistance: the challenges of embracing new pedagogical practices
No full textThe sudden shift to online learning and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities for innovation but also brought colossal disruptions. Engaging students online was one of the most pressing challenges, a problem that persists post-pandemic with the return to on-campus teaching and is now exacerbated by the phenomenal rise of generative artificial intelligence. Demands for introducing innovative teaching and learning practices in higher education have, therefore, become more urgent. Yet, innovating pedagogical practices can be fraught with challenges. It is often met with resistance from teachers and students. Teachers fear increased workload and disruption to their routines. Students may view new methods as gimmicky and divergent from their expectations. The implementation and adoption of innovative pedagogical approaches depends on overcoming these obstacles. This paper explores ways to address these challenges in order to effectively implement innovative, high-quality teaching and learning practices
Harnessing community value co-creation: reactivating an external operant actor’s sense of self-improvement
Get PDFSince COVID-19, there has been an increase in the utilization of food banks owing to a number of factors, including a reduction in household income due to job losses and an increase in the cost of living, which has affected people on low incomes. In this paper, we
explain how people that are in need of assistance and have limited knowledge of service provision can be remotivated through regaining their self-esteem. This is achieved through various forms of intervention. By adopting a metaphorical approach, we conceptually explore how intervention provided by a social inclusion community center stimulates recipients to re-ignite their desire for self-improvement. This is achieved through an analogy
made, comparing a Formula 1 motor racing team servicing a car during a pit-stop and a person (recipient) in need of food visiting a food bank to collect a food parcel. Based on a conceptual analysis, we propose a framework outlining the interactional process involving the social inclusion community center staff and a recipient, whereby the recipient becomes, through empowerment, an external operant actor and resource integrator for the social
inclusion community center. This is achieved through a circular value co-creation process. Through the circular motion of the value co-creation, an external operant actor regains self-confidence due to gaining a sense of belonging and feeling inspired to contribute to the community they are associated with
Symposium introduction: pedagogical reflection across distance and disciplines through dialogical notebooks
No full textIn this Commentary Symposium, four authors from diverse fields and geographic locations collaboratively explore problems of pedagogical practice through the medium of a dialogical notebook, a form of collaborative writing. From teaching innovation to classroom participation, to questions of assessment and finally, evaluation of teaching, the papers in this collection question underlying assumptions and reflect on the complexities of different teaching environments. In this Introduction, we chart the origins of the project, and reflect on the dialogical notebook approach as a model for reflexive practice in community. This symposium is intended for educators in higher education, particularly those interested in reflective, student-centred pedagogy and collaborative writing practices. We hope that it will resonate with teachers working across diverse geographic and disciplinary contexts. Scholars of educational theory, pedagogy, and cross-disciplinary collaboration will also find value in the dialogical notebook approach, which foregrounds multivocality and reflexive engagement with both theory and practice
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Innovation, graduate labour markets and regional economic development
Get PDFThis paper uses Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) (now part of South East Technological University, SETU) as a case study to explore the extent to which graduates from HEIs contribute to the innovative capability and capacity in the region in which they are educated. The overall focus is on how HEIs contribute to regional human capital and knowledge endowments in their own and neighbouring regions through retention, inflows and outflows. When these impacts happen, as in the case of WIT, HEIs contribute to the growth and development of high-tech, knowledge-driven, high-growth enterprises in their home region
A novel metric for assessing climatological surface habitability
Get PDFPlanetary surface habitability has so far been considered, in the main, on a global scale. The increasing number of 3D modelling studies of (exo)planetary climate has highlighted the need for a more nuanced understanding of surface habitability. Using satellite-derived data of photosynthetic life to represent the observed surface habitability of modern Earth, we validate a set of climatologically defined metrics previously used in habitability studies. The comparison finds that the metrics defined by surface temperature alone show spatial patterns of habitability distinct to those defined by aridity or water availability, with no metric able to completely replicate the observed habitability. We build upon these results to introduce a new metric defined by the observed thermal limits of modern Earth-based life, along with surface water fluxes as an analog for water and nutrient availability. Furthermore, we pay attention to not only the thermal bounds of macroscopic complex life, but additionally the limits of microbial life which have been vital to the generation of Earth’s biosignatures, thus expanding considerations of climatic habitability out of a historically binary definition. Repeating the validation for our metric, along with another that uses a similar definition that incorporates conditions for both temperature and water availability, shows a significant improvement in capturing the broad patterns of surface habitability, laying the groundwork for more comprehensive assessments of potential life-supporting climates upon other planets
Repensar la historia desde lo marginal e itinerante: consideraciones generales y el caso del psiquiatra exiliado Josep Solanes/ Rethinking history from the marginal and itinerant: general considerations and the case of exile psychiatrist Josep Solanes
Get PDFThis article argues that, in order to value the contributions of exile, one needs to start from questioning hegemonic epistemological and historiographic frameworks, both national and supranational. More specifically, the article focuses on considering what is at stake in attempting to integrate the cultural and social outputs of exiles within frameworks that invoke universality and transnationality. Using as an example the life and professional career of the Catalan psychiatrist from Republican exile Josep Solanes, the article points out the importance of interpreting some key contributions in the history of psychiatry as produced thanks to, and not despite, marginality and itinerancy. In doing this, the possibility opens up to think global and transnational discourses otherwise, in a critically de-centred or re-centred fashion
Muthu De Silva’s contribution as member of working group to: The importance of social investment for UK economic strategy
No full textThe UK’s economic, social and environmental systems are deeply interconnected. Policymakers are aware of these interconnections, and that there are tools out there for better accounting for them in the economic strategy of government.
However, shifting from narrower and more traditional ways of thinking about and measuring the economy and growth is complex and requires a careful, evidence-led, and joined-up approach.
With the support of multidisciplinary insights from the research community, policymakers have an opportunity to make these interconnections the basis of a long-term, holistic economic strategy, in which investments in health, education, wellbeing and social cohesion are a powerful foundation to improve the nation’s economic performance while also enabling greater fundamental strengthening of societal resilience and capacity for change.
These kinds of investments can not only reduce costs to the state, but also provide economic gains from improving long-run productivity. Such an approach will connect up and enable the Government’s stated Missions and milestones, including its ambition to raise living standards across the whole country.
While the pursuit of economic growth is rightly a critical policy objective, it is essential to understand more than the single dimension that is captured by economic metrics alone.
Accounting properly for social value doesn't diminish the importance of the pursuit of economic growth, but instead enhances it, revealing the strategies which create a range of co-benefits across the wide portfolio of challenging public policy issues within the purview of government. Societal and environmental well-being are fundamental to a well-functioning, prosperous society, and efforts to enhance them are essential if improvements in productivity and growth are to be realised.
The good news is that the UK already collects a great deal of robust data against a variety of broader economic, social and environmental indicators, all of which are supported by an extensive body of literature already. These indicators, when analysed in the most effective ways, can be integrated and enhanced to provide a more comprehensive and longer view of the trajectory of citizen wellbeing and the nation’s overall economic, social and environmental health.
The more effective use of these existing indicators would be supported by the adoption of a systems approach within government to join-up strategies cutting across departmental policy agendas, to better recognise and integrate within policymaking the understanding that our economic prosperity, societal wellbeing and environmental sustainability are tied closely together. Such an approach would need to be underpinned by a more proactive and inclusive policymaking process that is sensitive to how different groups are affected by different policies.
It is important to recognise that there are two lines of argument here that are distinct and complementary.
The first is an argument for why a wider set of dimensions linked to social, environmental, health and wellbeing, are crucial for economic growth.
The second is an underpinning and foundational argument setting out the interconnections between these dimensions, and why this broader understanding of social value in its most holistic sense is critical for long-term prosperity in all its forms.
The Working Group’s discussions considered both, and the paper tries to draw out the interplay and evidence bases for these arguments throughout.
We identify a number of policy considerations that will help to enable the shift in approach to economic policymaking set out in the paper, that holds social and environmental value as key pillars for economic prosperity
Resilience as a tool for interpreting the Hellenistic polis: beyond 'survival' and 'vitality'
Get PDFThis paper evaluates ‘resilience’ as a tool for analysing the polis (city-state) in the Hellenistic period (c. 323–31 BC). Can ‘resilience’ capture, better than dominant paradigms of ‘survival’ or ‘vitality’, both existential threats to the Hellenistic poleis and their often successful surmounting of them? How can it help to analyse Hellenistic poleis’ complex combination of conservatism with change? The paper approaches these questions by analysing responses of individual Hellenistic poleis to varied crises: civil war and civic breakdown (Telos); great-power war, city destruction and displacement (Abdera); and intense demographic and ecological pressures (Abdera, Herakleia, Antiocheia-in-Persis). The paper analyses the public inscriptions in which these communities commemorated acute shocks, as evidence for resilience practices as well as ‘narratives of resilience’ in themselves. It then asks to what extent these inscriptions can be used to build a broader picture of a ‘resilient’ network of Hellenistic poleis, co-existing with Hellenistic monarchies and empires (including eventually the Roman Empire).
Keywords: Hellenistic, polis, resilience, civil war, war, demography, environment, citizenship
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