The Covid Spectrum Theoretical And Experiential Reflections From India And Beyond

Author : Meher Bhoot,Satishchandra Kumar,Kanchana Mahadevan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 935447151X

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THE COVID SPECTRUM THEORETICAL AND EXPERIENTIAL REFLECTIONS FROM INDIA AND BEYOND by Meher Bhoot,Satishchandra Kumar,Kanchana Mahadevan Pdf

Description The COVID Spectrum brings together a diverse range of essays from five continents on the pandemic that plunged the world into an unprecedented crisis. Important questions raised and sought to be answered in the first section of the book straddle the personal and political, as well as the economic and ethical: How can we prevent social collapse when all human life isn't equally valued? What does it mean to be a more caring society? Are our healthcare systems prepared for another such shock? Can we continue to be driven by the 'market' or do we need a more normative economics? How do we deal with conspiracy theories and misinformation in the digital age, especially in emergencies like this one? And have physical distancing norms and video calls led to a fundamental break in the way we communicate? The second section of the book shows how, through all the chaos COVID has engendered, people across nations and cultures have found it within themselves to courageously wade through the troubles. We see how the Cubans managed the infection, how the citizens of Hong Kong stood by each other, and how the head of state of an East African island nation showed us what it means to be a servant leader. Psychotherapists try to figure out ways of battling isolation-induced stress. Policy experts argue what we can do to alleviate the shocking exclusion suffered by marginalized sections during the pandemic. And regular individuals learn the value of being there for each other. The world changed in 2019. What we collectively witnessed wasn't just a medical emergency, but a social and economic and conceptual breaking point. This anthology expresses the hope that the 'Great Reset' which lies ahead could be a real and enlightened one, if we try.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354471455

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The COVID Spectrum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sabri Kiçmari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811984020

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History Continues by Sabri Kiçmari Pdf

Decades after Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis became famous, the conflicts and turmoil of history have returned; Dr. Kicmari, having seen his own native land erupt in a European civil war in the 1990s, has been thinking about these issues for many years. This book highlights the return of ideology to international relations, presenting harsh ideological models which challenge liberal democracy. This becomes even more relevant in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The publication of this book aims to draw attention to the danger posed to world peace by ideological models alongside the need for commitment to strengthen democracy in the world, and should interest diplomats, journalists, and scholars.

Author : Orlando Fals-Borda,Muhammad Anisur Rahman
Publisher : Intermediate Technology Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015024114582

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Action and Knowledge by Orlando Fals-Borda,Muhammad Anisur Rahman Pdf

Technical problems require technical solutions that are innovative, simple, cheap, robust and easy to maintain. This book lists 100 winning inventions in the first International Inventors Award competition, organized in Stockholm.

Author : Luce Beeckmans,Alessandra Gola,Ashika Singh,Hilde Heynen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462702936

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Making Home(s) in Displacement by Luce Beeckmans,Alessandra Gola,Ashika Singh,Hilde Heynen Pdf

Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264265097

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Educational Research and Innovation Innovating Education and Educating for Innovation The Power of Digital Technologies and Skills by OECD Pdf

OECD’s Innovation Strategy calls upon all sectors in the economy and society to innovate in order to foster productivity, growth and well-being. Education systems are critically important for innovation through the development of skills that nurture new ideas and technologies.

Author : Meryl Altman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004431218

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Beauvoir in Time by Meryl Altman Pdf

Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today.

Author : Sanjay K. Bhardwaj
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000396706

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The Chinese Shadow on India’s Eastward Engagement by Sanjay K. Bhardwaj Pdf

India, one of the largest importers of oil in the world, has been diversifying its energy resource options and moving towards greater energy security. This book analyses India’s potential for building energy ties in the Asia–Pacific considering the global and regional power politics. Facing China’s growing influence in Asia, India’s eastward engagement with its extended neighbours has been entrenched in its Act East Policy and institutional commitments towards Southeast Asia. This volume focuses on diverse facets of energy security beyond the traditional understanding of demand and supply and price and stability. It examines India’s energy sector, its dependence on hydrocarbons, and the push towards renewable and alternate energy resources. It further looks at the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea regions in geopolitical negotiations from an energy perspective and how China’s influence in the region will affect India’s moves towards greater energy cooperation with the countries of East Asia. With contributions by leading experts, the volume seeks to fill a major void in this theme and cater to the needs of a variety of audiences including academics, policymakers and experts in international relations, geopolitics and geoeconomics, and professionals in the field of energy studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0134119851

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Becoming an Experiential Educator by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johnmarshall Reeve
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015037279448

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Motivating Others by Johnmarshall Reeve Pdf

Motivating Others focuses on helping teachers to encourage and nurture their students' natural motivation. With its constructivist, humanistic approach, this book presents theoretical rationale as well as practical 'how-to' applications within a clear, conceptual, organizational framework for the study of motivation.

Author : Susan E. Murphy,Ronald E. Riggio
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780805843422

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The Future of Leadership Development by Susan E. Murphy,Ronald E. Riggio Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811538872

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Educating Students to Improve the World by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensive and multidimensional framework for designing and implementing a global education program that combines cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political perspectives the book integrates an extensive body of empirical literature on the practice of global education. It discusses several global citizenship curricula that have been adopted by schools and school networks, and ties them into an approach to lead school change into the uncharted territory of the future. Given its scope, the book will help teachers, school and district leaders tackle the change management needed in order to introduce global education, and more generally increase the relevancy of education. In addition, the book offers a “bridge” for more productive collaboration and communication between those who lead the process of educational change, and those who study and theorize this important work. At a time when the urgency of our shared global challenges calls for more understanding and collaboration and when the rapid transformation of societies requires that we help students develop a clear sense of relevancy and purpose, this book offers a way to pursue deep and sustainable change in instruction and school culture, so that students learn that nothing human is foreign and that they can find meaning in lives aligned with audacious purposes to make the world better.

Author : Rajagopal,Ramesh Behl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030797096

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Managing Disruptions in Business by Rajagopal,Ramesh Behl Pdf

This volume discusses business disruptions as strategic to gain market competitiveness. It analyzes the convergence of innovation and technology, business practices, public policies, political ideologies, and consumer values to strengthen competitive business practices through disruptions. Bringing together contributions from global experts, the chapters add to knowledge on contemporary business models, business strategies, radical interventions in manufacturing, services, and marketing organizations. Disruptive innovations led by contemporary trends, tend to transform the market and consumers’ landscape. These trends include shifts from closed to open models of innovation, servitization, and moving from conventional manufacturing and marketing paradigms to industry 4.0 business philosophy. Focused on the triadic themes of disruption, innovation, and management in emerging markets, this book serves as a valuable compendium for research in entrepreneurship development, regional business and development, contemporary political ideologies, and changing social values.

Author : Chrissie Bowie,Sioux McKenna
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928502227

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Understanding Higher Education by Chrissie Bowie,Sioux McKenna Pdf

Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as decontextualised learners premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.

Author : Michael Ungar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190095888

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Multisystemic Resilience by Michael Ungar Pdf

"Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However, while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the systems they study (e.g., a natural environment, a community post-disaster, the human mind, a computer network, or the economy), there is a lack of over-arching theory that describes: 1) whether the principles that underpin the resilience of one system are similar or different from the principles that govern resilience of other systems; 2) whether the resilience of one system affects the resilience of other co-occurring systems; and 3) whether a better understanding of resilience can inform the design of interventions, programs and policies that address "wicked" problems that are too complex to solve by changing one system at a time? In other words (and as only one example among many) are there similarities between how a person builds and sustains psychological resilience and how a forest, community or the business where he or she works remains successful and sustainable during periods of extreme adversity? Does psychological resilience in a human being influence the resilience of the forests (through a change in attitude towards conservation), community (through a healthy tolerance for differences) and businesses (by helping a workforce perform better) with which a person interacts? And finally, does this understanding of resilience help build better social and physical ecologies that support individual mental health, a sustainable environment and a successful economy at the same time?"--