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Making Leadership Development Accessible Through Reflexive, First-Person Practice: Increasing Awareness of Interconnection, Wise Action, and Conscious Living
Get PDF2024This first-person study explored the question, “How might developing my reflexive, conscious, and wise relational leadership enhance my capacities to support others’ leadership in the world?” In support of collective wellness and equitable action, the study emphasizes Etuaptmumk, the Mi’kmaw concept of two-eyed seeing or the gift of multiple perspectives. With an emphasis on diverse viewpoints, interdisciplinary streams of thought are integrated throughout the research design. To balance structure and autonomy, the study is underpinned by a theoretical framework inspired by an Indigenist approach of relationality, Theory U presencing, and Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry. Relevant literature investigated three interconnected aspects of how individuals come to know and act in the world, including how we construct knowledge through worldview and ways of knowing, evaluate knowledge through critical thinking and epistemic cognition, and understand ourselves through self-concept and self-awareness. Adhering to the Royal Roads University Research Ethics Policy, various qualitative methods were used, including prompted and free-flowing journalling, video self-interviews, and feedback partner dialogue. The research suggests that questioning internalized beliefs, fostering wise learning, and partnering learning with frameworks and intentional action can make leadership development more accessible and effective. Specific tools to foster wise, relational learning are included. Keywords: first-person action research; relational leadership, Etuaptmumk; accessible leadership development; conscious leadership; leadership development tools.
On Intra-Becoming: Beyond Egoic Individualism. A Decolonizing and Phenomenological Exploration of Youth Climate Justice Activists’ Lessons for Transformative Eco-Social Change on Turtle Island
Get PDFAt the heart of the intertwining eco-social crises we are currently facing on Turtle Island is a crisis of disconnect. Enacted by individualist and ego-centric lifeways, anthropocentric, capitalist and colonial institutions animate the dominant economic, cultural, political and social sphere in ways that systemically distort and structurally thwart the inherent relationality of existence. (Up)rooted in an us/them ontology of individualist disconnect, these individualist institutions generate hierarchies and structures of violence that dominate, extract from, and exploit peoples and earth.
This notwithstanding, a potent ontology of inter-connectedness remains in our midst. For millennia, Indigenous nations and communities on Turtle Island have enacted eco-centric and relational lifeways rooted in Indigenous knowledges. Additionally, a growing turn towards the “relational” is observable across a diversity of social, economic, political and climate justice movements. Everyday acts of Indigenous resurgence and pluralistic expressions of citizenship challenge the settledness, naturalization, legitimacy and adequacy of hegemonic institutions: if they perpetuate the same ontology of disconnect responsible for the eco-social crises we face, how can they generate the solutions?
Standing at the threshold of the wildly divergent futures that the above lifeways promise, youth climate justice activists are non-consenting heirs who refuse ego-centric lifeways and their logic of disconnect. This dissertation analytically considers the critical lessons and insights that young Indigenous and non-Indigenous climate justice activists across Turtle Island (Canada, Mexico, US) offer to decolonizing lifeways and institutions. Specifically, it examines the wisdom and demands of 200 Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth, adults and Elders articulated through a regional consultation on the rights of children and youth to a healthy environment – the Phoenix Consultation – held in 2021 – to inform the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment.
These youth climate activists articulate relational ontologies in ways that chart pathways for decolonizing hegemonic institutions, leveraging the institutions themselves to do so. Specifically, they utilize children’s rights to advance counter-hegemonic lexicons of Indigenous sovereignty, eco-social justice and deep diversity. Children’s rights, when transformed by these youth climate activists, become the inherent rights of all beings to enact and live in relationship. Drawing on the teachings of Indigenous theorists and scholars, “connection” emerges as the experience of enacting ourselves as nature and relationships (not as humans or individuals) in ways that render visible individualist lifeways and systems. Within an eco-social intra-subjective lifeworld that entails both ontological dimensions of connection and disconnect, youth climate activists affirm that the shift from ego-centric to eco-centric is not a process across time, but a possibility always already available to all. However, they show that this relationality must be enacted in ways that structurally disrupt individualist orders to be transformative of self, relationality and world. Connection thus offers a basis through which the interpellative power of individualism is defused and hegemonic consent might be withdrawn or refused.
Transdisciplinary in scope, this dissertation humbly draws on the wisdom of Indigenous theorists and scholars on Turtle Island, youth climate activists engaged in the Phoenix Consultation, decolonizing and Southern epistemologists, phenomenologists, deep ecologists, political sociologists, eco-socialist and political theorists, (com)post-humanists, and nature. It proposes a theoretical framework of intra-becoming to explore the relationships between eco-centric and ego-centric lifeways on relational grounds. This dissertation also examines the role that decolonizing, relational modes of engagement play in eco-social transformative change.Graduat
Evaluation Synthesis: Outcomes and lessons learned from Oxfam GB's livelihoods programme evaluations 2006-2008
No full textThis report synthesises the results and lessons learned in 40 evaluations of Oxfam GB's Sustainable Livelihoods programmes in the calendar years 2006 to 2008. It constitutes part of Oxfam GB's newly instituted annual process of programme evaluation syntheses that summarise outcomes and identify good practices' for different programme areas with a view to informing organisational decision-making, strategy and focus for future programme design
A Child-Centered Evaluation of a Psychosocial Program: Promoting Children’s Healing, Safety and Well-Being in Post-Disaster Contexts
No full textThis article reports on a child-centered evaluation of a psychosocial, school-based program for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program, Journey of Hope: Coping with and Normalizing Emotions, was initiated to promote children’s safety and well-being and to help mitigate a range of violence-related risks facing children in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (which hit the south east United States in August 2005). The approach centered on building children’s resilience by supporting them to better understand their emotions, reflect on their contexts with respect to child safety and well-being, and give them opportunities to develop their own positive, non-violent coping strategies in their lives. Using a mixed-methods approach including interviews, a survey questionnaire, and observation notes, the evaluation assessed the program’s impact on and relevance to participants. Despite the short duration of the program, the evaluation suggested the program had enhanced the social well-being, knowledge, skills, emotional well-being of participants. The program’s relevance came from its adaptable design and child-centered delivery. This article addresses the value of locally-developed curricula and the role of school-based programs in promoting children’s healing and safety from violence in post-disaster contexts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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