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Journal articles on the topic "Socio-cultural projects"
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Tadlіa, Оlexander. "Directing Art Projects in the System of Training the Future Manager of the Socio-cultural Sphere." Socio-Cultural Management Journal 3, no. 1 (2020): 122–36. https://doi.org/10.31866/2709-846x.1.2020.219804.
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<em>Introduction.</em> Modern transformational processes in the socio-cultural sphere are due to the rapid spread of technologies that shape the personality of the future specialist in art institutions of higher education in Ukraine. A specific feature of directing art projects is the ability to expand the range of a certain worldview, to create conditions for the effective acquisition of professional knowledge and skills in the training future managers of socio-cultural activities. <em>Purpose and methods.</em> The purpose of the article is to identify current trends in the use of directing art projects in the training managers for the socio-cultural sphere. The research used systematic and methodological-didactic approaches, methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison and empirical methods, which proposed the structure of the discipline in the relationship of its main elements and determinants. <em>Results.</em> The main results of the research are to substantiate the need to introduce the direction of art projects in the system training managers of socio-cultural activities and use modern directing technologies in the socio-cultural sphere. <em>Conclusions.</em> In conditions of a modern institution in higher education, scientific provisions on the importance of directing in the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills, which allow to addition, identify and form the value competencies and competitiveness of the future manager of socio-cultural activities. Promising in the future is the study of favorable environment of the institution higher education in which the formation of the future manager of socio-cultural activities by way of directing art projects.
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Andriyanova, T. V., and I. V. Polishchuk. "Mediatization of Regional Socio-Cultural Projects (students opinion)." Communicology 12, no. 4 (2024): 107–19. https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2024-12-4-107-119.
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The implementation of modern socio-cultural projects involves various formats and platforms for information consumption, ranging from television to incentive services. It is especially important to study the involvement of youth from different regions in socio-cultural design in its modern modification, i.e. media projects. The theoretical and methodological basis of this article is the integral approach to the study of culture by P.A. Sorokin and the systematic approach to the study of society by T. Parsons, as well as the theory of the study of mass media by M. McLuhan, R. Debre and other authors. Media projects as a kind of social projects are presented in terms of their systematization and implementation in the regions (Kursk and Chelyabinsk regions, St. Petersburg). The article represents the data of the authors’ empirical study of youth involvement in regional media projects, which revealed the active position of the students youth of the region in relation to the implementation of media projects of various directions with the simultaneous expansion of the space of socio-cultural design
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Babayan, Anzhela. "Socio-cultural design in the preparation of bachelors – future managers of socio-cultural activities." KANT 35, no. 2 (2020): 177–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.24923/2222-243x.2020-35.36.
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The article is devoted to socio-cultural design in the preparation of bachelors – future managers of socio-cultural activities. The relevance of studying theoretical and practical aspects of socio-cultural design by future managers of the socio-cultural sphere is shown.it is argued that socio-cultural design can contribute to achieving the goals of cultural institutions by implementing socio-cultural projects.
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Tulchinskii, Grigorii. "Digitalization and Socio-Cultural Engineering." Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences, no. 6 (October 10, 2018): 100–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.30727/0235-1188-2018-6-100-108.
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Modern digital technologies create new living conditions, but they themselves depend on the socio-cultural context of their development and use. In this regard, it seems important and necessary to talk about socio-cultural engineering (SCI) - the systematization of knowledge, practices of development, examination and implementation of projects related to the transformation of social reality and the socialization of the individual. SCI is able to create a new situation as a framework for integration, convergence and comprehension of these plans. In this case, digitalization can not only generate problems, but can also provide a platform for solving these problems. The topical task is the systematization of the study, interpretation and positioning of the interdisciplinary complex of SCI. The solution of this task includes substantiation of the methodology and positioning of interdisciplinary studies, as well as the substantiation of the methodology and the institutionalization of a complex humanitarian expertise.
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Vishnevskaya, Natalya Alexandrovna. "FINANCING INVESTMENT PROJECTS IN THE REGIONAL SOCIO-CULTURAL SPHERE." Journal of Applied Research 3, no. 7 (2022): 260–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47576/2712-7516_2022_7_3_260.
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Карвицкая, Галина. "Marketing support for socio-cultural projects in the region." Маркетинг и маркетинговые исследования 2 (2023): 138–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36627/2074-5095-2023-2-2-138-146.
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Shcherbina-Yakovleva, Elena, and Mykola Nazarov. "The Manager's Competence of Socio-Cultural Activity in Measuring Socio-Cultural Effects." Bulletin of Kyiv Nаtional University of Culture and Arts: Series in Management of Social and Cultural Activity 2, no. 2 (2019): 32–61. https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7573.2.2019.190620.
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<em>Introduction</em>. Transformational processes in Ukraine lead to increased public demand for the spread of innovative technologies of social and cultural activity. The measuring of the effects of social and cultural activity is a necessary element of many social and cultural technologies. Formation of the competence to measure social and cultural effects of managers of social and cultural activities requires careful theoretical, methodological and methodical substantiation. <em>Purpose and methods.</em> The purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical and methodological components of the educational technology of formation the competence to measure of social and cultural effects in system of abilities of future managers of social and cultural activity. In the course of the research a set of fundamental ideas of the activity approach, general systems theory, structural analysis, social, economic and psychological determinism, as well as methods of pedagogical observation, student testing, interviewing and interrogatory, text analysis of student projects were applied. <em>Results.</em> The expediency of profound formation of competence to measure of social and cultural effects in the professional training of managers of social and cultural activity is revealed. The content of social and cultural influence that makes a shift in the life activity of the individual and the society is shown. The concept of social and cultural effects, which exists as a scientific term and is accessible for scientific measurement, has been clarified. <em>Conclusions and discussion.</em> The scientific novelty of the obtained results is the confirmed expediency of pre-emptive mastery of theoretical approaches to measuring social and cultural effects and supplementing the theory of social and cultural activity with new theoretical definitions of the concepts of “social and cultural influence”, “social and cultural effect” and “measurement of social and cultural effects”. The practical significance of the obtained results is reflected in their direct use in the process of training of managers of social and cultural activities.
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Kamenets, Aleksandr Vladlenovich, Natalia Ivanovna Anufrieva, Eugeny Alexandrovich Anufriev, Elena Ivanovna Grigorieva, and Igor Vladimirovich Batishchev. "Methodology for predictive socio-cultural design." LAPLAGE EM REVISTA 7, Extra-D (2021): 279–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.24115/s2446-622020217extra-d1094p.279-287.
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This article examines the main methodological provisions for the theory and practice of predictive socio-cultural design. The article examines the main problems, which the developers of projects in the socio-cultural sphere are facing; emphasizes the communicative content and project activities focus; analyses the achievements of the Russian school of predictive social design initiated by T.M. Dridze and their significance for modern design practice. The theoretical and activity-related, as well as systematic and situational analyses of project activity in terms of the social interaction paradigm are considered to be the initial methodological requirements. The social levels of this interaction and the corresponding strategies for project activities are of particular attention. The leading role of the cultural content and the cultural context of predictive socio-cultural design is highlighted in the critical analysis of the project experience accumulated during the autonomous sociological approach and social engineering, which remain insufficiently effective in their development and implementation.
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Namzhilova, Elena Sadoevna, and Dulmazhab Tsyngueva. "The value core of the traditional culture of the Buryats as an object of socio-cultural design." Философия и культура, no. 3 (March 2024): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2024.3.70059.
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The authors consider in detail the features of the socio-cultural design of ethnocultural activities based on the actualization of traditional values and heritage in the Aginsky Buryat district. Since the end of the twentieth century, there has been an intensification of activities for the development of ethnic culture in the district, and often the initiative comes from the people, and it is implemented in the form of socio-cultural projects of cultural institutions, education, non-profit organizations. In connection with these features, it becomes relevant to analyze the value core of the Buryat culture, which becomes the object of socio-cultural design at the present stage. To study this issue, methods of external and included observation, content analysis of ongoing socio-cultural projects were used; scientific literature on the topic of socio-cultural design and values of Buryat culture was analyzed. The research material was social practices and projects implemented in the Aginsky Buryat district. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the socio-cultural processes emerging in the social environment, initiated by tribal communities and social groups of peers, are studied. In the Agin Buryat district, these social groups are the subjects initiating innovative social practices aimed at actualizing and reviving the cultural core of the people. On the basis of these practices that have arisen in the popular environment, social projects of government bodies and institutions of the social sphere, culture, and education are being created and implemented. As a result of the conducted research, it was revealed that socio-cultural design at the present stage actualizes the values of the native language, the continuity of the family and tribal community, love for the native land, strengthening friendly ties with fellow countrymen and peers during the implementation of socially significant practices.
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Maring, Prudensius, and Elisabeth Endang Prakosawati. "Affirmation of the Social Approach in the Case of Relocation of Community in Ciliwung Riverbank." KOMUNITAS: International Journal of Indonesian Society and Culture 11, no. 2 (2019): 195–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/komunitas.v11i2.18123.
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Urban development projects often lead to social contraction between the technical-physical approach and the socio-cultural approach. To explain the problem, this paper inspires the concepts of urban anthropology and socio-cultural development. The study was conducted in 2016-2017 in community located in Ciliwung riverbank, Jakarta. The methods used include in-depth interviews, participatory observations, and document analysis. The results of the study show that although river normalization projects and relocation projects have been equipped with a policy framework and technical framework that accommodates the interests of the community, the implementation of the social approach has not been implemented consistently. This condition raises doubts, rejections, and resistance from the community to maintain the social, economic and environmental resources that have been ruled on the riverbanks. This research confirms the importance of affirming socio-cultural approaches in urban development programs and projects that are carried out consistently by fulfilling the prerequisites for freedom in time, financing, and management resources.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Socio-cultural projects"
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Schuch, Brunet Karla. "Network projects and collaboration. Models for socio-cultural changes-on the internet." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7520.
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Esta tesis propone modelos para cambios socio-culturales en Internet. Proyectos en red en colaboración fueran el objeto de este estudio. Fueran elegidos 100 proyectos para una base de datos donde se hizo un análisis detallado. Después de un estudio de los resultados de la base de datos, asimismo basándose en teorías de multitud, resistencia, tolerancia, controle y protocolo, cultura libre y realismo virtual, modelos emergieron. <br/><br/>Los proyectos fueron divididos en 3 áreas: diseño, colaboración, y metas. Diseño como una manera de categorizar proyectos referente a su uso de elementos visuales. Luego, esbozase formatos de cómo las contribuciones son presentadas a los usuarios y cómo está estructurada la toma de decisión. Metas, como foco de esta investigación, apuntaron a cuatro modelos: discutir, reflexionar, expresar y actuar. Estos son útiles para la comprensión de cambios socio-culturales en Internet; además, plantean implicación en el espectro de relaciones y redes sociales.<br>This thesis proposes models for socio-cultural changes on the Internet. Network projects were the object of study, and through collaboration they achieve transformation. I selected 100 projects to be part of a database to a detailed examination. After an analysis of the results of this database, and based on theories of multitude resistance, tolerance, protocol and control, free culture, and virtual realism, models emerged. <br/><br/>The projects were divided in 3 areas: design, collaboration, and goals. Design as a way to categorize projects in relation to their use of visual aesthetics elements. Shortly, it is outlined formats on how the contributions are displayed to users and how is decision-making structuralized. Goals, the focus of this investigation, suggested four models: discuss, reflect, express, and act. These models are helpful to the understanding of socio-cultural changes on the Internet; moreover, they have implication on the spectrum of social relations and networks.
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Majali, Vuyiseka. "The socio-cultural factors affecting the participation of women in agricultural development: Khezana village in Alice district." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/557.
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The study sought to investigate socio-cultural factors that contribute to the invisibility of women in agricultural activities at Khwezana village, Alice district. The present study was underpinned by a people’s –centered developmental approach paired with the feminist perspective based of ethnographic research methods, participant observation and basic individual interviews. The study mainly focused on female residents of the village, those who are active in agriculture and also those who are not practicing crop production. Rural women of South Africa have historically played a significant role by contributing in the sustainable livelihoods of the country as well as their communities. However, it has been revealed that there are factors that impede the participation of women in agricultural development. The study revealed that socio-cultural factors such as limited access to land, access to credit (due to tradition and culture circumstances), limited education and culture change in general are the major factors that significantly influence the low agricultural activity in the study village.
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Garel, Stefan Jack. "Queer bodies and settlements : the pertinence of queer theory in the fields of queer history and trans politics, disability and 'curative education', quantum physics and experimental art : an interdisciplinary and transnational account of three socio-cultural and filmic research projects." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/55613.
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What is queer? What is queer? What is queer theory? Where can it go from here? This thesis sets out to explore the origins and influences of queer theory before investigating the present and the future spaces (ie, bodies and settlements) it can potentially move into. Three distinct experiments of fieldwork and ethnographic filmmaking test the truths and potentialities of queer theory when relating to queer bodies and settlements. That is to say that each chapter balances a film and its supporting text by embracing the value and urgency of practice led research. The first chapter questions queer history and details the importance of emerging trans politics in the post-gender, leftist, avant-garde, queer activist and militant space of Bologna. Queer bodies, case one: transgender and transsexual perspectives. Settlements, case one: Bologna and Lido di Classe (Italy). The second chapter considers the interface between disability theory and queer theory with particular attention paid to the practical theory of ‘curative education’. Defined by Rudolf Steiner in 1922 and further developed by Karl König with the foundation of the Camphill movement in 1944, curative education privileges the social model over the medical model in the field of disability so that disability is in fact ability. Queer bodies, case two: learning differences and disabilities perspectives. Settlements, case two: Berlin (Germany), Chatou and La Rochelle (France), Barry and Glasallt Fawr (Wales, United Kingdom). The third chapter uses queer perspectives to promote the relevance of quantum physics to the human body, thus involving contemporary dance, physical theatre and the arts more generally to address and redress the chiasm between science and technology on the one hand, and arts, humanities and socio-cultural sciences on the other. Queer bodies, case three: the inescapably queer reality of the physical world. Settlements, case three: multiple locations in Tuscany (Italy), and Thamesmead, London (England, United Kingdom). This thesis brings notions of queer and otherness deceptively close to notions of the self. Otherness and queerness become mirrors in which our own queerness comes into view.
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Tsao, Chia-Lin. "A street life project : walking on main streets in Hsin-Chu City Centre, Taiwan : a socio-cultural approach." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490489.
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Alghadeer, Abdulaziz Ibrahim. "Influence of Socio-Cultural and Technological Factors on the Adoption of the Project Management Office (PMO) in Saudia Arabia: An Innovation Diffusion Perspective." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365914.
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Innovation is regarded as one of the key drivers of national economic growth. It is defined as the adoption of a system, policy, program, device, process, product or service that is new to the adopting organisation. A must-have core competency for the adopting organisation is the ability to manage the innovation-adoption process (e.g. awareness of the innovation, attitude formation, intention to adopt, rate of adoption, evaluation, implementation, etc.). The link between innovativeness and projects undertaken is intimate, therefore, integrated advanced project management is recommended to address challenges faced by project management in improving organisations’ performance. Many organisations plan to adopt or have already adopted the Project Management Office (PMO) which is perceived as an organisational innovation because it is an effort to adopt new project management practices. Previous studies have indicated that the successful adoption of innovations often needs an effective diffusion process. This thesis argues that a combination of contextual factors (e.g. social, cultural, technological and organisational) and various innovation characteristics has the potential to influence the organisation’s intention to adopt innovation. Drawing upon the Diffusion of Innovation theory, and a stream of research that has focused on national culture, organisational climate, and technology and innovation management, the thesis introduces a conceptual model featuring seven unique constructs–each construct represents a single theoretical variable of interest. The thesis hypothesises upon how socio-cultural and technological factors (two constructs at the country level), organisational climate for innovation (single construct at the organisation level), and innovation characteristics (three constructs capturing perceived relative advantages, compatibility and complexity) influence the intention-to-adopt decision (single construct).<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Griffith School of Engineering<br>Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology<br>Full Text
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Pires, Rita Abreu da Fonseca. "Projectar com a diversidade. O equipamento como estratégia de ligar o bairro à cidade." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6938.
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Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitetura.<br>O Bairro do Barruncho é um bairro de habitações clandestinas, marcado por uma profunda degradação física e social e pela inexistência de um conjunto de infraestruturas básicas. A população é relativamente jovem, com baixas qualificações académicas, baixos rendimentos, e marcada por uma certa diversidade, já que aí residem vários grupos étnico-culturais. A partir do estudo das expectativas e necessidades dos moradores, concluiu-se que uma das principais carências é a inexistência de espaços públicos e equipamentos relacionados com atividades de convívio, bem como a vontade de partilha desses equipamentos com pessoas exteriores ao Bairro.
O propósito deste trabalho é a proposta de um equipamento que responda a estas mesmas carências expressas pela população, a par com uma fundamentação teórica que permita melhor compreender e equacionar a complexidade do bairro em análise. Este trabalho abrange o projeto do equipamento e toda a reflexão que esteve na base do desenvolvimento desse mesmo projeto, pressupondo a continuação do plano urbano previamente desenvolvido para a zona.
A aposta na multifuncionalidade do espaço e a sua implantação na zona de fronteira entre o Bairro e a sua envolvente são a procura da criação de um lugar de encontro, de interconhecimento e de manifestação das referências identitárias dos seus residentes. Este espaço integra tanto atividades mais direcionadas para a população do Bairro, como a associação de moradores, como também outras atividades de âmbito mais abrangente, como o centro de formação, o espaço de leitura e a cantina.
O equipamento deve ser aqui encarado não apenas como um lugar funcional, mas como uma modalidade de gestão das diversidades em contextos pluriculturais e um instrumento de atuação nas dinâmicas sociais locais, sendo parte integrante da estratégia de ligar o Bairro à cidade, não apenas em termos da sua continuidade com a estrutura urbana envolvente mas também da aceitação social dos seus moradores.<br>ABSTRACT- The Barruncho neighborhood is a clandestine housing neighborhood, marked by a profound physical and social degradation and by the lack of a set of basic infrastructures. The population is relatively young, with low academic skills, low incomes, and marked by a certain diversity, since there live various ethno-cultural groups. From the study of the residents expectations and needs, it was concluded that one of the main shortcomings is the lack of public spaces and others related to socializing activities as well as the desire to share these spaces with people outside the neighborhood.
The purpose of this paper is to propose a place that responds to these needs, along with a theoretical basis that allows better understand and equate the complexity of the neighborhood in analysis. This paper covers the design of the public space and all the reflection on the basis of that same project, assuming the continuation of the previously developed urban plan for this area.
The focus on the multifunctionality of the space and its deployment in the border area between the neighborhood and its surroundings, seek the creation of a meeting place of inter-knowledge and expression of the identity references of its residents. It integrates both activities more towards the neighborhood population, such as the neighborhood association, as well as other activities broader in scope, as the vocational training center, the reading room and canteen.
The proposed place should be here regarded not just as a functional place, but as a management modality of the diversity in multicultural contexts and as an instrument of action in the local social dynamics, being an integral part of the strategy to connect the neighborhood to the city, not only in terms of its continuity with the surrounding urban structure but also social acceptance of its residents.
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Gibson, Laila. "Learning Destinations : The complexity of tourism development." Doctoral thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-435.
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<p>Our world is becoming increasingly complex, and is rapidly changingwith distances being reduced. Societies today are also in atransition from traditional production industries to increasingreliance on communication, consumption, services and experience. Asone of these emerging ‘new industries’, tourism is part of thismovement. Globalisation also makes further development of tourismpossible through, amongst other things, the spreading of languages;the development of low-cost carriers; international monetary systems;telecommunications and other technological innovations. Tourismcontributes to the globalisation of society and at the same time is aproduct of it. This is confirmed by complexity theories that stressthe systematic and dynamic nature of globalisation and theinterdependence of the global and the local. Hence, in this thesis,it is argued that acknowledging the complexity of tourism isnecessary for understanding tourism development, and more knowledgeabout tourism also leads to greater knowledge of our society.</p><p>The main aim of this thesis is to understand the complexity of localand regional tourist destination development, by exploring social andcultural factors that influence this development. In order to fulfilthis aim, analysis has been conducted at three different levels:places, projects and people. More specifically, by examining placesand how they develop as destinations; investigating the structure of,and processes within, groups and networks important for destinationdevelopment and by exploring the roles, resources and attitudes ofenterprising people who are seen as key for development. The thesisis based on a research project including three studies of tourismdestinations and projects in Northern Sweden and Scotland.</p><p>The social and cultural factors connected to tourism development arein turn part of learning processes, which in this thesis are seen asfundamental mechanisms for processes of development. A frameworkcalled ‘Learning Destinations’ is introduced that demonstrates howimportant social and cultural factors manifest themselves at each ofthe three levels: places, projects and people. History and heritageand rationales are the main cultural factors discussed, whilstinteraction and boundaries are prominent social factors found toinfluence tourism development. It is suggested that the framework of‘Learning Destinations’ may serve as a tool for understanding thecomplexity of local and regional tourism development.</p>
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Guéguen, Perrin Anaïs. "BUEN VIVIR ET VIVRE-ENSEMBLE : possitopies d'habitats alter-hégémoniques dans l'Anthropocène : Regards croisés entre des communautés guarani au Brésil et des habitats participatifs en France." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Grenoble Alpes, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024GRALH009.
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Cette recherche prend source dans le contexte de l'Anthropocène, aujourd'hui fortement marqué par l'héritage d'un système colonial d'exploitation des territoires, et du constat de l'impact des modes de vie modernes sur le système Terre, mettant en risque son habitabilité pour l'ensemble des populations, humaines et autres qu'humaines. Le problème est abordé par l'habitat au sens large, qui, au-delà de l'habitation, inclut partie de l'espace territorial et des espèces qui le composent, permettant à une population spécifique de subvenir à ses besoins matériels et immatériels. Dans ce travail, nous explorons les possibilités de transformer nos modes de vie et d’habiter pour mettre en œuvre les nécessaires transitions sociales et écologiques et pour s'adapter aux changements climatiques, notamment en limitant les impacts de certains modes de vie sur le système Terre.Cette recherche se focalise sur les habitats alter-hégémoniques, qui se positionnent comme d'autres possibles face aux modes d'habiter induits par un système moderne capitaliste tendant à invisibiliser les aspects endogènes de cultures et cultures constructives locales. Pour cela, nous avons donc étudié deux types d'habitats alter-hégémoniques qui présentent des contextes socio-économiques et historiques différents, appartenant aux deux extrémités du système colonial, et induisant des questionnements quant aux revendications actuelles de décolonisation (culturelle, politique, économiques, épistémologiques) : l'habitat des indigènes Guarani au Brésil et les habitats participatifs en France.Plus spécifiquement, cette recherche vise à explorer comment la matérialisation du Buen Vivir et des propositions alternatives dans la production de l'habitat indiquent des pratiques inspiratrices pour s'adapter à l'évolution actuelle et future des écosystèmes qui puissent minimiser l'impact des modes de vie au niveau local et global et contribuer ainsi à l'habitabilité du système Terre.Nous nous appuyons sur la compréhension du Buen Vivir, philosophie de peuples indigènes des Andes, puis sur celle du Nhanderekó, le Buen Vivir des Guarani du Brésil. Dans les habitats guarani, les matérialisation socio-spatiales du Nhanderekó sont identifiées, que ce soit dans l'architecture, l'occupation des territoires ou les systèmes de gouvernance déclinés à différentes échelles. Dans les habitats participatifs en France, nous nous basons sur l'identification de leurs valeurs et modes de gouvernance, pour comprendre comment leurs organisations spatiales contribuent à ces dynamiques qui cherchent également à tisser du lien avec leurs territoires.Nous cherchons à montrer comment, d'un point de vue élargi, ces deux habitats alter hégémoniques présentent des convergences et complémentarités constituant des pistes de réflexion pour penser des habitats propices à des modes de vie en adéquation avec le système Terre. Nous relevons notamment les aspects de collectif et de mutualisation en interne, l'activation des réseaux en externe, l'intergénérationnel et l'éducation, la résilience constructive et alimentaire, la mise en commun des savoir et savoir-faire, entre autres. La prise en compte de ces aspects représente une diversité de pistes à suivre pour envisager de mettre en place de manière effective de nouvelles pratiques endogènes de conception, de production, d'usage de l'habitat vers un mieux vivre ensemble, viabilisé par des gouvernances dynamiques, voire des cosmopolitiques spécifiques à chaque contexte<br>This research is taking place in the context of the Anthropocene, which is today strongly marked by the legacy of a colonial system of territorial exploitation, and by the impact of modern lifestyles on the Earth system, putting its habitability at risk for all populations, both human and non-human. The problem is tackled through habitat in the broadest sense, which, beyond habitation, includes part of the territorial space and the species that make it up, enabling a specific population to meet its material and immaterial needs. In this work, we are exploring the possibilities of transforming our ways of living and inhabiting in order to implement the necessary social and ecological transitions and to adapt to climate change, in particular by limiting the impact of certain lifestyles on the Earth system.This research focuses on alter-hegemonic habitats, which are positioned as possible alternatives to the ways of living induced by a modern capitalist system that tends to invisibilise the endogenous aspects of local cultures and building cultures. To this end, we have studied two types of alter-hegemonic habitat with different socio-economic and historical contexts, belonging to both ends of the colonial system, and raising questions about current demands for decolonisation (cultural, political, economic and epistemological): the habitat of the Guarani indigenous people in Brazil and participatory habitats in France.More specifically, this research aims to explore how the materialisation of Buen Vivir and alternative proposals in habitat production point to inspirational practices for adapting to the current and future evolution of ecosystems that can minimise the impact of lifestyles at local and global level and thus contribute to the habitability of the Earth system.Our approach is based on an understanding of Buen Vivir, the philosophy of the indigenous peoples of the Andes, and Nhanderekó, the Buen Vivir of the Guarani people of Brazil. In the Guarani habitats, the socio-spatial materialisations of the Nhanderekó are identified, whether in the architecture, the occupation of territories or the systems of governance at different scales. In the case of participatory housing in France, we are basing ourselves on the identification of their values and modes of governance, in order to understand how their spatial organisations contribute to these dynamics, which also seek to forge links with their territories.Our aim is to show how, from a broader perspective, these two alter-hegemonic habitats have convergences and complementarities that provide food for thought for designing habitats conducive to lifestyles in tune with the Earth system. In particular, we note the aspects of collective and mutualisation internally, the activation of networks externally, intergenerational and educational aspects, constructive and food resilience, and the pooling of knowledge and know-how, among others. Taking these aspects into account represents a diversity of avenues to follow if we are to envisage effectively implementing new endogenous practices in the design, production and use of housing, with a view to better living together, supported by dynamic governance and even cosmopolitics specific to each context
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Broman, Erika. "Introduktion och förövning i bildprojekt : som redskap för att utveckla elevers kreativitet och intresse för att skapa." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-62746.
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The purpose of this study has been to investigate visual art teachers’ experiences of using pre-exercises in art class, and to what extent they promote the students’ creativity and interest for creating. In order to limit the study, focus was directed at the introduction of new art assignments, and how the teacher presents the task. The study aims to contribute with knowledge and guidance for art teachers who seek to encourage students to work creatively, and to invoke greater interest for creating. The study has its foundation in the socio-cultural perspective on teaching and development, including its communicative processes. The method was qualitative in character. Eleven art teachers were interviewed, in order to get empirical knowledge of their experience of introduction and pre-exercise in art projects.The results showed that the teachers’ experience of working with pre-exercises had several aims and goals. One of those goals were that the exercise would provide students with tools for getting started with the creative process, and promote their creativity. A challenge mentioned was lack of time, and the teachers experienced that pre-exercises were frequently skipped because of it.
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Vice, President Research Office of the. "Culture Clash." Office of the Vice President Research, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2769.
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Milimo, J. T. The socio-cultural dimension in development assistance: The case of the Village Agricultural Programme in northern Zambia and the Luangwa Integrated Resource Programme in lower Luangwa River Basin, Zambia. [s.n., 1989.
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C, Soper R., University of Nairobi. Institute of African Studies., and Kenya. Ministry of Finance and Planning., eds. A Socio-cultural profile of Turkana District: A report of the District Socio-Cultural Profiles Project. Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1985.
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R, Chamberlain James, and CARE/International, eds. Socio-economic and cultural survey: Nam Theun 2 Project Area, Lao People's Democratic Republic. CARE International, 1996.
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SCVCS, Conference (2000 Phnom Penh Cambodia). Findings and lessons learned from the Socio-Cultural Vulnerability and Coping Strategies Research Project: SCVCS Conference proceedings. Socio-Cultural Vulnerability and Coping Strategies Research Project, 2000.
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Ivanova, Valeriya, Elena Alyab'eva, Marina Bogdanova, et al. Organization of educational work in a modern university: traditions and innovations. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1893199.
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The monograph examines the features of the organization of the modern process of educating students at the university. The authors pay special attention to the study of professional socialization and adaptation of university students. Some practical approaches to the process of education are presented.
 The education of students is considered as a complex, integrated, multidimensional process, including educational, project, scientific, professional and other activities. The tasks related to the creation of comfortable socio-psychological conditions and a socio-cultural educational environment conducive to the formation of general cultural competencies are also discussed.
 It is intended for teachers, students and postgraduates, as well as persons interested in the theory and practice of educating students.
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1934-, Were Gideon S., Akong'a Joshua Jason 1949-, Kenya. Ministry of Planning and National Development., and University of Nairobi. Institute of African Studies., eds. Socio-cultural profiles, Baringo District: [a joint research and training project of the Ministry of Planning and National Development, and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi]. The Ministry, 1986.
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Chris, Wanjala, Nyamwaya David, Kenya. Ministry of Planning and National Development., and University of Nairobi. Institute of African Studies., eds. Socio-cultural profiles, Baringo District: A joint research and training project of the Ministry of Planning and National Development, and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi. The Ministry, 1986.
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1919-, Kipkorir B. E., Ssennyonga J. W, Kenya. Ministry of Planning and National Development., and University of Nairobi. Institute of African Studies., eds. Socio-cultural profiles, Busia District: A joint research and training project of the Ministry of Planning and Natural Development, and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi. The Ministry, 1986.
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1939-, Kipkorir B. E., Ssennyonga J. W, Were Gideon S. 1934-, Wanjala Chris, Kenya. Ministry of Planning and National Development., and University of Nairobi. Institute of African Studies., eds. Socio-cultural profiles, Marsabit District: A joint research and training project of the Ministry of Planning and National Development and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi. The Ministry, 1986.
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1939-, Kipkorir B. E., Ssennyonga J. W, Kenya. Ministry of Planning and National Development., and University of Nairobi. Institute of African Studies., eds. Socio-cultural profiles, Marsabit District: A joint research and training project of the Ministry of Planning and National Development and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi. The Ministry, 1986.
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Żbikowska, Agata, Magdalena Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, Bartosz Ślosarski, and Anna Domaradzka. "Social Sustainability Framework for Measuring Socio-cultural Impacts of Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse." In Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67628-4_10.
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AbstractThis chapter argues that successfully applying circularity frameworks in cultural heritage projects, especially those tied to local identity, shared history, and a sense of place, often requires ongoing monitoring of the socio-cultural environment, with particular attention to social sustainability. This is crucial for two main reasons: first, the socio-cultural context plays a significant role in shaping how adaptive reuse efforts are perceived and embraced, influencing changes both in the physical environment and within the local community’s mindset. Second, adaptive reuse projects themselves impact the socio-cultural landscape by introducing new ideas and solutions. This dynamic creates a feedback loop, which can either reinforce community cohesion and make the reuse project a success, or, conversely, result in minimal changes or even unintended negative consequences for the neighborhood.
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Miret-Pastor, Lluís, Paloma Herrera-Racionero, and Andrea Márquez Escamilla. "Analysis of the Socio-cultural Projects Carried Out in Spain by the FLAGs." In Transcending Borders in Tourism Through Innovation and Cultural Heritage. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92491-1_35.
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Correia, Vitor, José Romão, and Pavlos Tyrologou. "Empowering Citizen Science Through Stakeholder Engagement." In Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53371-6_3.
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Abstract The chapter examines how citizen science projects, particularly in geohazard monitoring, can be strengthened through systematic stakeholder engagement. Using the AGEO project as a case study, with five established Citizen Observatories across Europe, it details how stakeholders were identified, classified, and engaged across political, economic, knowledge and socio-cultural systems. The paper identifies five crucial factors for successful engagement: relevance, accessibility, trust, recognition/incentives, and sustainability. It concludes that citizen science, supported by technological advances and proper stakeholder engagement, can make significant contributions to disaster preparedness and risk reduction, particularly in the context of climate change, by fostering collaboration between experts and communities.
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Fernandes, Natália, Marlene Barra, Fernanda Martins, et al. "The Challenges of Children’s Participation, Sharing, Collaboration, and Care in Non-formal Education Contexts: Insights from the SMOOTH Project." In Educational Commons. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51837-9_5.
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AbstractThe SMOOTH project is grounded in the collaboration between children, youth, children/youth and adults for the establishment of shared spaces that enable the co-production of knowledge and foster alternative modes of thinking among children, youth, and adults as interdependent subjects, considering both intra-generational and intergenerational relationships. Building upon the concept of Education as a Common Good, the project embraces dimensions such as collective freedom and experimentation, equal participation, solidarity, unity, care, and sharing. These dimensions will influence a set of objectives, including challenging dominant discourses regarding the role of education and inclusion, childhood, and youth; fostering a critical perspective on normative frameworks pertaining to childhood and youth; promoting shared governance where children and adults are subjected to less control, opening up new possibilities for a balanced exercise of power; and learning through co-construction (local and emancipatory knowledge). Specifically, at the University of Minho, in collaboration with a non-governmental institution, two projects were developed: the Children’s Club and the Children’s Advisory Board. These projects involved children aged 8–12 years, from disadvantaged socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, characterized by a disruptive interaction and a lack of material resources. This text brings up the dynamics and challenges of participation, sharing, collaboration, and care in those non-formal education contexts during the projects’ implementation.
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Loda, Mirella, and Manfred Hinz. "Framing Planning and Conservation Activities in the Local Socio-Cultural Context: Ethnicity and Gender in Bamiyan." In Research for Development. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54816-1_8.
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AbstractThis article illustrates the critical importance of research into the socio-cultural reality of Bamiyan (Afghanistan) for the cooperation projects aimed at preserving cultural heritage. The case study shows that exploring and ultimately deconstructing the categories of ethnicity and gender has helped overcome the impasse created by tensions and competition among different social and interest groups. As for the ethnic issue, a way out of this impasse might be found in putting ethnic self-definitions aside and searching for a reasonable compromise apropos the underlying economic interests. In regard to gender—a particularly sensitive issue in Islamic countries—the article questions the standardized way that urban planning addresses public spaces. It illustrates first that in the local context private dwellings de facto function as public spaces, especially for the female segment of the population, and therefore should be arranged more generously. Moreover, the article draws attention to the fact that the Islamic pilgrimage shrines (ziaratgah) play a crucial role for women, as the almost only public space (except the market) that they can attend without male company. It is, therefore of paramount importance to improve their quality as public spaces even if they are not included in the list of World Heritage assets.
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De Meulder, Bruno, Julie Marin, and Kelly Shannon. "Evolving Relations of Landscape, Infrastructure and Urbanization Toward Circularity: Flanders and Vietnam." In Regenerative Territories. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78536-9_6.
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AbstractA great deal of the contemporary discourse around circularity revolves around waste—the elimination of waste (and wastelands) through recycling, renewing and reuse (3Rs). In line with industrial ecological thinking, the discourse often focuses on resource efficiency and the shift toward renewables. The reconstitution of numerous previous ecologies is at most a byproduct of the deliberate design of today’s cyclic systems. Individual projects are often heralded for their innovative aspects (both high- and low-tech) and the concept has become popularly embraced in much of the Western world. Nevertheless, contemporary spatial circularity practices appear often to be detached from their particular socio-cultural and landscape ecologies. There is an emphasis on performative aspects and far too often a series of normative tools create cookie-cutter solutions that disregard locational assets—spatial as well as socio-cultural. The re-prefix is evident for developed economies and geographies, but not as obvious in the context of rapidly transforming and newly urbanizing territories. At the same time, the notion of circularity has been deeply embedded in indigenous, pre-modern and non-Western worldviews and strongly mirrored in historic constellations of urban, rural and territorial development. This contribution focuses on two contexts, Flanders in Belgium and the rural highlands, the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, which reveal that in spite of the near-universal prevalence of the Western development paradigm, there are fundamentally different notions of circularity in history and regarding present-day urbanization. Historically, in both contexts, the city and its larger territory formed a social, economic and ecological unity. There was a focus is on the interdependent development of notions of circularity in the ever-evolving relations of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization. In the development of contemporary circularity, there are clear insights that can be drawn from the deep understandings of historic interdependencies and the particular mechanisms and typologies utilized. The research questions addressed are in line with territorial ecology’s call to incorporate socio-cultural and spatial dimensions when trying to understand how territorial metabolisms function (Barles, Revue D’économie Régionale and Urbaine:819–836, 2017). They are as follows: how can case studies from two seemingly disparate regions in the world inform the present-day wave of homogenized research on circularity? How can specific socio-cultural contexts, through their historical trajectories, nuance the discourse and even give insights with regard to broadened and contextualized understandings of circularity? The case studies firstly focus on past site-specific cyclic interplays between landscape, infrastructure and urbanization and their gradual dissolution into linearity. Secondly, the case studies explicitly focus on multi-year design research projects by OSA (Research Urbanism and Architecture, KU Leuven), which underscore new relations of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization and emphasize the resourcefulness of the territory itself. The design research has been elaborated in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and experts and at the request of governmental agencies.
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da Costa, Natália Meireles Santos, Maria Clotilde Rossetti-Ferreira, and Ana Maria de Araujo Mello. "Providing Outdoor Experiences for Infants and Toddlers: Pedagogical Possibilities and Challenges from a Brazilian Early Childhood Education Centre Case Study." In International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72595-2_3.
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AbstractIntense urbanization process in Brazil and Latin America has increasingly limited young children, since birth, to access outdoor spaces, especially green areas. Moreover, as conceptions of babies in domestic care support confinement practices, apprehending infants’ constitutive specificities as being intertwined with broader socio-cultural contexts requires further investigation. Notwithstanding the challenges, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) institutions can be promising places to provide babies with daily contacts and appropriation of external areas amid an expanded collective experience. This chapter tackles the process of insertion and appropriation of outdoor spaces for infants and toddlers. We bring a case study from a Brazilian daycare centre with planned multiple outdoor environments, diversified spatial arrangements and natural elements. The empirical material, referring to the transition year of a group of under-twos, includes monthly recordings of everyday routine, interviews, field notes, institutional documents. We describe and analyze various outdoor spaces and socio-spatial practices of the daycare centre based on the cultural-historical perspective of the Network of Meanings. In the first semester, environments organized in semi-open areas connected to closed spaces were more frequently used. Whereas mainly in the second semester, given walking onset and greater motor resourcefulness, the going and appropriation of green areas unfolded as a gradual process not short of struggles. Substantial planning, projects and educational situations put forward by multiple social actors within a multidisciplinary approach modulated alternation of spaces and facilitated exchanges with peers, older children and adults – including family members.
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Jarke, Juliane. "Learning from Co-creation Practice." In Public Administration and Information Technology. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52873-7_8.
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Abstract This chapter reflects on the learnings from the three co-creation projects featured in this book and attends to the central research questions posed in the introduction. In sum, the chapter presents nine learning points. These cover very different aspects of co-creation ranging from the different roles local government, social care service providers, intermediaries and older citizens may assume, to the implications of embedding co-creation processes in existing service portfolios and strategic policies. The chapter furthermore reflects on different types of co-creation methods (e.g. cultural probes, data tables, data walks) and how they allow for meaningful participation and sharing of knowledge. Ultimately the chapter considers to what extent the openness of a co-creation process impacts on the sustainability of its results and the ways in which co-creation may contribute to joint socio-technical future-making.
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Ribeiro, Artur, Claas Lattmann, Jan-Eric Schlicht, et al. "Conceptualising an Anatomy of Transformations: DPSIR, Theorisation, Semiotics and Emergence." In Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53314-3_3.
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AbstractTransformation processes that affect past societies can be complex and difficult to understand when observed at larger scales, especially when many factors are involved. Furthermore, researching transformations can often become reductive, with too much focus on only some factors or aspects of past societies, to the detriment of others. This has been the challenge of large-scale socio-environmental projects of recent years, including our own.In order to address this issue, this chapter develops a model of the anatomy of transformations that is built upon four main pillars. The first pillar is DPSIR (Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response). Originally used in ecological studies, DPSIR provides a flexible framework that allows us to recognise how societies and ecosystems affect one another in a dynamic manner. Within the DPSIR framework, a second pillar based on theorization allows us to contextualise human behaviour at different scales, for example, through practice theory or cultural evolutionary theory. The third pillar presupposes that human societies are built on meaning and uses semiotics to help us uncover the semantic dimension of past transformations. Finally, the fourth pillar is emergence, which conceives of transformations as diachronic processes in which ecosystems and societies develop new properties based on their interaction.This anatomy has the aim of assembling different aspects of socio-environmental and archaeological research in order to produce a comprehensive picture of past transformations. At the same time, this overall framework is open-ended, which both makes it possible to adapt it to different chronological and geographical circumstances and allows adopters to add or remove elements as they see fit.
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Abenante, Paola, and Fabio Strinati. "The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. Culture as a People-Centered Path to Development: Best Practices from Fragile Areas—An Overview of Actions in Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan." In Research for Development. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54816-1_13.
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AbstractThis text outlines the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation’s approach to culture as a tool of Prosperity, which contributes to the creation of favourable conditions for socio-economic development. It argues that such an approach must necessarily be people-centred and attentive to ownership and inclusivity, especially when dealing with culture, understood as a process and product of human expression. To promote culture in development involves prioritizing people’s meanings, goals, tools and, more broadly, societies’ right to self-determination and to establishing their own development priorities. An attention to culture and cultural diversity in development favors a process in which multiple parties come together and leverage their respective tools to achieve shared and more sustainable results. An array of projects carried out by AICS in the Region focused on in this volume, exemplify how, from a methodological and operational standpoint, Italian actions are designed to generate economic activity and participation for and through culture, placing people at the center.
Conference papers on the topic "Socio-cultural projects"
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Tikhonova, Irina. "STRATEGIC SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: KEY APPROACHES AND PROSPECTS IN THE PETROLEUM EXPLORATION SECTOR." In 24th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 2024. STEF92 Technology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2024v/3.2/s06.50.
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The article considers the Strategic Socio-Environmental Assessment (SSEA), which aims to contribute to the integration of social and environmental considerations into the preparation, adoption and implementation of strategies, plans, and programmes, with a view of promoting sustainable development. The Environmental Impact Assessment of individual projects does not necessarily guarantee that at the regional level, the state of the environment as well as social and cultural characteristics do not deteriorate due to the economic development. At present, no official regulations govern SSEA procedures in Russia. Certain practices do exist, and the article considers such cases as the environmental assessment of rationales of new protected areas, territorial development plans and collaborative international programmes in the field of hydrocarbons exploration. Most researchers focus attention on the stakeholder involvement and the necessity to run special studies rather than use statistical data on the state of the environment. The article presents a new case study and recommends implementing SSEA for making decisions of the remediation of older petroleum exploration sites. The author emphasises that the primary goal of economic development should be to generate real value within socio-economic systems while accounting for the ecological limits of natural environments, and concludes that there is a necessity to work out a special SSEA-related legislative act and practical recommendations.
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Vyrovtseva, Ekaterina. "Commercial Success Of Copyright Media Projects As Socio-Cultural Phenomenon." In IV International Scientific Conference "Competitiveness and the development of socio-economic systems" dedicated to the memory of Alexander Tatarkin. European Publisher, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.04.12.
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Kostina, V. A. "DEPARTMENT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE LIBRARY STRUCTURE (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE OMSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY)." In Dynamics of library and information support for education, science and culture. Omsk State Technical University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.25206/978-5-8149-3568-7-2022-49-59.
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Sociocultural communication is considered as a process of interaction between the library and its users. The content of the work of the Department of Socio-Cultural Communications of the Library of Omsk State Technical University is analyzed: the prerequisites for the formation of the department, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities of employees are described. The main directions of the department's work are outlined, including cultural and educational activities, promotion of the library in the information space, and information and library services. Three aspects of the department's activities at different stages of project implementation are considered: delegation of authority, functionality, planning. The work plan of the Department of Socio-Cultural Communications of the OmSTU Library in the preparation of one of the projects is given.
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Vaitsekhovich, N. Yu. "Minsk Libraries' Projects on the Great Patriotic War." In Berkov Readings. Book Culture in the Context of International Contacts. Scientific and Publishing Center "Science" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2025. https://doi.org/10.52929/9785605111085_42.
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Educational, socio-cultural and artistic projects of Minsk libraries, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, are considered. The main activities of libraries are highlighted, including the organisation of special events, literary programs, thematic exhibitions, educational events and the creation of specialised resources aimed at preserving historical memory. Special attention is paid to the interaction with young people, the introduction of modern technologies and the formation of new approaches to the popularisation of knowledge about the war.
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Borisova, Nina A. "Beginning of soviet broadcasting and first soviet radar projects as example of state influence on innovations." In 2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/histelcon.2015.7307320.
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Маркова, С. В. "EXPERIENCE OF EXHIBITION ACTIVITY OF VSMU N.N. BURDENKO." In OPERA MEDICA HISTORICA. ТРУДЫ ПО ИСТОРИИ МЕДИЦИНЫ. Альманах. Crossref, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35113/7971.2022.67.13.053.
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Статья посвящена анализу выставочной деятельности музея медицинского вуза, опыту и задачам реализации социокультурных проектов. The article is devoted to the analysis of the exhibition activities of the museum of the medical university, the experience and tasks of implementing socio-cultural projects.
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Mazza, Barbara, and Elena Valentini. "The Quid Sapienza model: methods, tools and quality in the innovation of university teaching 4.0." In Tenth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head24.2024.17218.
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The paper presents the approach adopted by Sapienza University to guide its professors through didactic transformation, analysing findings from a 2022 survey involving 465 professors who participated in the project on the Quality of Educational Innovation (Quid). The data have been analysed to identify commonly used teaching methods and learning strategies related to three approaches outlined in the theoretical framework (constructionist, interactionist, and socio-cultural approach). The results are also discussed in light of limits and critical issues on innovative didactics and digital transformation that emerged from interviews with figures responsible for innovative teaching projects in selected Italian and European universities. Digital transformation in the academic field does not imply introducing one digital or multimedia tool over another. Instead, it involves a cultural redefinition of the training objectives of the university system, recognising its potential in the face of social and cultural transformations in this millennium. The paper is also part of the studies conducted within the European Virtual Auditorium project (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PI-FORWARD-LOT1; 2024-2027) on the evolution of innovative teaching.
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Воробьева, В. Д. "Participatory practices in the context of socio-cultural revitalization (on the example of the "Artkommunalka Museum-Residence. Erofeev and others" in Kolomna)." In Современное социально-гуманитарное образование: векторы развития в год науки и технологий: материалы VI международной конференции (г. Москва, МПГУ, 22–23 апреля 2021 г.). Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37492/etno.2021.46.35.077.
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в статье рассматриваются проекты по ревитализации наследия, влияющие на культурные процессы в городе. Организация деятельности подразумевает работу с локальным сообществом и развитие креативной среды путем создания арт-резиденций, включающих население города в партисипативную коммуникацию. Активное соучастие, основанное на общих интересах, ведет к позитивным преобразованиям в регионе, влияющих на улучшение экономических и социокультурных показателей. the article discusses projects for the revitalization of heritage that affect the cultural processes in the city. The organization of activities includes work with the local community and the development of the creative environment, through the creation of art residences that include the population of the city in participatory communication. Active participation based on common interests leads to positive transformations in the region, affecting the improvement of economic and socio-cultural indicators.
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Živančev, Nevena, Maja Petrović, Zorica Mirosavljević, and Nemanja Stanisavljević. "INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLANS IN SUSTAINABLE HYDROMELIORATION PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF THE VOJVODINA REGION." In INTERNATIONAL Conference on Business, Management, and Economics Engineering Future-BME. Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, 2025. https://doi.org/10.24867/future-bme-2024-123.
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Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMP) play a crucial role in promoting sustainable environmental practices within hydromelioration systems. By integrating environmental conservation and development objectives, these plans help mitigate adverse impacts and ensure the long-term sustainability of water resource management initiatives. This paper critically analyzes the ESMP implemented for a hydromelioration project in the Vojvodina region, aimed at minimizing ecological, societal, and cultural impacts during the reconstruction and operation of pumping stations. The ESMP emphasizes sustainable environmental practices to mitigate pollution and preserve biodiversity. It addresses occupational health and safety risks, as well as public health concerns. Socio-economic considerations encompass temporary disruptions to livelihoods and social-economic activities, localized primarily around the pumping station sites, workforce presence, machinery deployment, organizational protocols, and technological applications. The study highlights effective strategies for harmonizing developmental imperatives with environmental and social priorities in hydromelioration projects.
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Urošević, Nataša, and Kristina Afrić Rakitovac. "Sustainable valorisation of Adriatic fortified heritage through transnational networks, the case of Pula, Croatia." In FORTMED2025 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. edUPV. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2025.2025.20412.
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The paper presents a preliminary research conducted in the framework of the current project FORTIC – “From remains of the war to the aRchiTecture of peace in cross-border area of Italy-Croatia”, which deals with participatory models of valorization of coastal defensive systems in the Adriatic region through transnational networking and cooperation. The research focuses on the well-preserved Adriatic fortified coastal systems as witnesses of the turbulent past and common European heritage and their transformation into spaces of scientific and cultural cooperation, civil and peace initiatives, intercultural dialogue and promotion of European values. To elaborate the optimal solution for revitalization, participatory research was conducted that included interviews and workshops with representatives of key stakeholders in the project partner cities of Pula, Šibenik, Korčula, Venice, Vieste and Cervia. The analysis of European and national best practice and the field research results confirmed exceptional socio-economic benefits of transnational networking and transfer of knowledge in the framework of European projects.
Reports on the topic "Socio-cultural projects"
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Mejía, María Clara, and William L. Partridge. Guide to Critical Issues for Socio-Cultural Analysis. Inter-American Development Bank, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006974.
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This document focuses on four sectors where socio-cultural analysis is particularly critical for addressing issues of reducing poverty and exclusion. In the case of major infrastructure projects, the primary concern is to minimize or mitigate their impacts on local communities. For projects in the areas of urban and rural development, the aim is to both minimize impacts and to ensure access to project benefits by poor and excluded groups. The primary challenge for social projects is to ensure maximum benefits to target groups and their sustainability over the long term.
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Mejía, María Clara, and William L. Partridge. Socio-Cultural Analysis in IDB Projects: A Discussion Paper. Inter-American Development Bank, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006960.
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This paper presents the principal issues related to socio-cultural analyses carried out in conjunction with IDB operations as a tool for maximizing project benefits to poor and excluded groups and for ensuring compliance with many of the Bank's safeguard policies. A companion manual to this paper contains checklists for applying socio-cultural analysis in specific project areas.
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Pavlyuk, Ihor. MEDIACULTURE AS A NECESSARY FACTOR OF THE CONSERVATION, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION OF ETHNIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11071.
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The article deals with the mental-existential relationship between ethnoculture, national identity and media culture as a necessary factor for their preservation, transformation, on the example of national original algorithms, matrix models, taking into account global tendencies and Ukrainian archetypal-specific features in Ukraine. the media actively serve the domestic oligarchs in their information-virtual and real wars among themselves and the same expansive alien humanitarian acts by curtailing ethno-cultural programs-projects on national radio, on television, in the press, or offering the recipient instead of a pop pointer, without even communicating to the audience the information stipulated in the media laws − information support-protection-development of ethno-culture national product in the domestic and foreign/diaspora mass media, the support of ethnoculture by NGOs and the state institutions themselves. In the context of the study of the cultural national socio-humanitarian space, the article diagnoses and predicts the model of creating and preserving in it the dynamic equilibrium of the ethno-cultural space, in which the nation must remember the struggle for access to information and its primary sources both as an individual and the state as a whole, culture the transfer of information, which in the process of globalization is becoming a paramount commodity, an egregore, and in the post-traumatic, interrupted-compensatory cultural-information space close rehabilitation mechanisms for national identity to become a real factor in strengthening the state − and vice versa in the context of adequate laws («Law about press and other mass media», Law «About printed media (press) in Ukraine», Law «About Information», «Law about Languages», etc.) and their actual effect in creating motivational mechanisms for preserving/protecting the Ukrainian language, as one of the main identifiers of national identity, information support for its expansion as labels cultural and geostrategic areas.
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Billing, Suzannah-Lynn, Shannon Anderson, Andrew Parker, Martin Eichhorn, Lindsay Louise Vare, and Emily Thomson. Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS): work package 4 final report assessment of socio-economic and cultural characteristics of Scottish inshore fisheries. Edited by Mark James and Hannah Ladd-Jones. Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15664/10023.23450.
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[Extract from Executive Summary] The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) has funded the ‘Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System’ (SIFIDS) project, which aims to integrate data collection and analysis for the Scottish inshore fishing industry. SIFIDS Work Package 4 was tasked with assessing the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of Scottish Inshore Fisheries. The aim was to develop replicable frameworks for collecting and analysing cultural data in combination with defining and analysing already available socio-economic datasets. An overview of the current available socio-economic data is presented and used to identify the data gaps. Primary socio-economic and cultural research was conducted to fill these gaps in order to capture complex cultural, social and economic relationships in a usable and useful manner. Some of the results from this Work Package will be incorporated into the platform that SIFIDS Work Package 6 is building. All primary research conducted within this work package followed the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Research Ethics Framework and was granted Ethical Approval by the UHI Research Ethics Committee under code ETH895.
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Mai Phuong, Nguyen, Hanna North, Duong Minh Tuan, and Nguyen Manh Cuong. Assessment of women’s benefits and constraints in participating in agroforestry exemplar landscapes. World Agroforestry, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5716/wp21015.pdf.
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Participating in the exemplar landscapes of the Developing and Promoting Market-Based Agroforestry and Forest Rehabilitation Options for Northwest Vietnam project has had positive impacts on ethnic women, such as increasing their networks and decision-making and public speaking skills. However, the rate of female farmers accessing and using project extension material or participating in project nurseries and applying agroforestry techniques was limited. This requires understanding of the real needs and interests grounded in the socio-cultural contexts of the ethnic groups living in the Northern Mountain Region in Viet Nam, who have unique social and cultural norms and values. The case studies show that agricultural activities are highly gendered: men and women play specific roles and have different, particular constraints and interests. Women are highly constrained by gender norms, access to resources, decision-making power and a prevailing positive-feedback loop of time poverty, especially in the Hmong community. A holistic, timesaving approach to addressing women’s daily activities could reduce the effects of time poverty and increase project participation. As women were highly willing to share project information, the project’s impacts would be more successful with increased participation by women through utilizing informal channels of communication and knowledge dissemination. Extension material designed for ethnic women should have less text and more visuals. Access to information is a critical constraint that perpetuates the norm that men are decision-makers, thereby, enhancing their perceived ownership, whereas women have limited access to information and so leave final decisions to men, especially in Hmong families. Older Hmong women have a Vietnamese (Kinh) language barrier, which further prevents them from accessing the project’s material. Further research into an adaptive framework that can be applied in a variety of contexts is recommended. This framework should prioritize time-saving activities for women and include material highlighting key considerations to maintain accountability among the project’s support staff.
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Arora, Sanjana, Hulda Mjöll Gunnarsdottir, and Kristin Sørung Scharffscher. Gendered dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic. University of Stavanger, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/usps.255.
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This report forms part of the deliverables produced by the international research project Fighting pandemics with enhanced risk communication: Messages, compliance and vulnerability during the COVID-19 outbreak (PAN-FIGHT), funded by the Norwegian Research Council. It provides an overview of project findings pertaining the gender dimensions of the pandemic, with a particular focus on risk perceptions, compliance and vulnerability. The COVID-19 pandemic has reiterated that the impacts of a crisis are not homogenous. Gender, which encapsulates both biological and socio-cultural ways of being, plays a role in how crises are experienced. This is evidenced by the health, economic as well as societal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic which have affected women and men, girls and boys differently. Knowledge about gendered implications of the pandemic is thus vital for designing equitable policy responses. This report draws on evidence from former research as well as on findings from an online survey conducted as part of the project’s data collection in 2021. The survey, reaching out to respondents in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, investigated public risk perceptions, reactions to governmental of risk communication about COVID-19, compliance with governmental restrictions and risk mitigation measures and vulnerability during the pandemic (N=4206).
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Zeba, Mattia, Roberta Medda-Windischer, Andrea Carlà, and Alexandra Cosima Budabin. Civic Education as Preventive Measure and Inclusionary Practice. Glasgow Caledonian University, 2025. https://doi.org/10.59019/ddzh5n65.
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In the framework of the D.Rad project, WP10 – entitled Civic education as preventive measure and inclusionary practice – seeks to prevent youth radicalisation through civic education and to identify new pedagogical methods and interactive, participatory tools for building pro-social resilience to radical ideologies. We consider as ‘civic education programs’ all those initiatives of instruction that aim at affecting “people’s beliefs, commitments, capabilities, and actions as members or prospective members of communities”1, as well as foster critical thinking and promoting “civic engagement and support democratic and participatory governance”2. Such programs have been found “to help shape personal efficacy (i.e., an individual’s belief in their ability to effect change, political participation, and tolerance”3. Furthermore, “educational tools as such have proven to foster individuals' desistance from terrorist groups and ideologies by broadening the scope of their political values, ideals, and concepts (e.g., justice, honor, freedom) and by introducing alternative perspectives and worldviews”4. In D.rad’s WP10, the focus is on civic education programs that adopt a participatory approach. This means involving all participants in expressing their ideas and bringing about change. Specifically, these methods empower marginalized voices, promoting civic engagement, problem-solving, and networking. Using techniques like role-plays and interactive tools, these programs foster critical thinking, empathy, democratic literacy, active citizenship, resilience, and socio-emotional learning. Critical thinking involves making reliable judgments based on sound information. It includes steps like asking questions, gathering relevant data, and considering various perspectives. Research shows a positive link between critical thinking and personal efficacy. Empathy is vital in civic and peace education. It means understanding and resonating with others' emotions. Pedagogical approaches like group work and cooperative tasks nurture empathy, as well as exposure to diverse choices and scenarios. Democratic literacy involves recognizing, valuing, and respecting all individuals as legitimate members of society. Non-formal education, like theatre, is a powerful way to engage communities in raising awareness and fostering democratic literacy. Active citizenship means actively participating in one's local community with values like respect, inclusion, and assistance. Educational programs equip participants with skills and knowledge for resilient societies built on trust. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from challenges, a crucial skill in personal development against extremist ideologies. Research links resilience to pro-social behaviour and life satisfaction. Civic education fosters pro-social behaviour through empathy and voluntary actions that benefit others. Socio-emotional learning (SEL) includes five key components: self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, social awareness, and relationship skills. Through SEL, individuals understand and regulate emotions, set positive goals, show empathy, build healthy relationships, and make responsible choices. Effective SEL training leads to improved academic performance and positive attitudes. It reduces disruptive behaviours and disciplinary issues. Educators prioritize SEL through activities that encourage communication, cooperation, emotional regulation, empathy, and self-control. Against this background, the final goal of WP10 was to foster social cohesion, democratic literacy, active citizenship and a shared sense of belonging to counteract tendencies of grievance, alienation and polarisation through the development of a participatory role-play targeting community organizations, youth centres, social/educational workers and interested citizens. WP10 was carried out in three parallel and complementary phases:- project partners involved in the WP (EURAC – Bolzano/Bozen, AUP – Paris, FUB – Berlin, BILGI – Istanbul and PRONI – Brcko) analysed civic education programs implemented in their countries to combat radicalisation and violent extremism in order to highlight approaches, practices and challenges that needed to be taken into account in the development of WP10’s toolkit; EURAC complemented such analysis with an overall recognition of existing programmes at EU level and beyond; - WP partners also contacted experts (academics, practitioners, NGO-leaders, public officers at the Ministry of Justice, social workers) in the field of de-radicalisation, civic-education, cultural mediation and theatrical methods to provide both feedback on challenges faced in past projects and opinions on the role-play developed in the framework of WP10; - EURAC, assisted by project partners and external experts developed a role-play as a preventive tool for youth radicalisation; WP partners then tested the role-play in their respective countries to collect feedback on its implementation and effectiveness. The role-play thus developed, called “In Search of the Lost Past”, is a civic education game encourages participants to reflect on available choices, avoiding adverse and/or violent outcomes. It aims to enhance critical thinking skills in problem-solving and understanding diverse perspectives. Accordingly, it fosters open-mindedness and respect for diversities and alternative worldviews while expanding participants' understanding of values, ideals, and concepts like justice, honour, and freedom. Participants collectively reconstruct stories through backwards journeys, starting from possible endings and envisioning earlier events from assigned character viewpoints. Through embodying diverse profiles and exploring various choice pathways, this reverse storytelling method prompts contemplation on decisions and their nuanced repercussions. Although all stories share a common finale, participants shape unique, parallel narratives based on distinct character perspectives. This imaginative process elucidates how personal experiences shape worldviews and life trajectories. This imaginative process serves to illuminate how personal experiences contribute to the formation of worldviews and life trajectories. Post-activity discussions centre around the decisions made and their far-reaching implications, emphasizing alternative approaches to challenging issues. Stepping into different mindsets not only cultivates empathy but also fortifies critical analysis skills among participants. "In Search of the Lost Past" serves as a dynamic platform for exploring and understanding the complex interplay of choices, perspectives, and outcomes. Reconstructing the past helps us be open to new and diverse futures.
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Tek, Muytieng, Sorsesekha Nok, and Phal Chea. Faculty Engagement in Cambodian Higher Education Internationalisation. Cambodia Development Resource Institute, 2022. https://doi.org/10.64202/wp.135.202212.
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Internationalisation is known to contribute to higher education development, particularly through the integration of international, inter-cultural or global dimensions into the purpose, functions, or delivery of higher education institutions (Knight 2004). Within this inter-connected world, higher education institutions are pressured to produce quality human resources with global citizenship characteristics. Students have benefited greatly from this process as they can have access to international/regional standards of education services and the opportunity to be exposed to other countries, people, and cultures. Academics likewise benefit as they are able to exchange knowledge and experience with their peers in other countries and have chances to collaborate with them on research projects. At the institutional level, four rationales lead higher education institutions to internationalise themselves. They are: academic (to improve education service delivery), socio-cultural (to discuss local cultural identity, intercultural understanding, and global citizenship), political (to support foreign policies and international technical assistance) and economic (to generate extra revenue and to compete globally). With these stated benefits, it is crucial to have active participation from all relevant stakeholders, especially the faculty members, whom Childress (2018, 37) recognises as the “steward[s]” of the teaching, research, and services of the institutions of higher education. Therefore, it is the purpose of this study to explore the engagement of Cambodian faculty members in higher education internationalisation. The specific objectives of the study are to examine faculty members’ attitudes toward internationalisation, to identify internationalisation activities that they have been engaged in, and to explore factors influencing their participation in those internationalisation activities. This study employed a two-stage purposive sampling technique to recruit the participants. First, the research team identified target higher education institutions using reputational sampling and information on the institutions’ websites and social media pages. Then, the team requested the participating HEIs to nominate their faculty members and administrators for the study. The participants should have international experience and have at least two years of working experience at the current institution. Between May and July 2021, interviews were conducted virtually with 26 faculty members and 23 university administrators in eight HEIs in Phnom Penh, Battambang, and Svay Rieng. The interviews were recorded and transformed into text data using the edited transcription technique. Data were then imported into NVivo 12 for reflective thematic analysis. The study finds that faculty members have a positive attitude towards higher education internationalisation as they perceive it as bringing benefits to the institution, particularly to teaching, learning, and research. However, their understanding of higher education internationalisation is limited to their roles and experience engaging in internationalisation activities and mostly focused on outbound mobility. Not many mentioned on-campus or inbound activities. A variety of faculty international engagements were reported throughout the study, and they have been categorised into three distinct types: capacity development programs, internationalising curriculum and teaching, and international research collaboration. Although there are various types of activities, the most visible is the capacity development program, particularly through short-course training or scholarships for post-graduate studies. The internationalisation of curricula has also been raised by the respondents, with a limited scope related to the use of foreign languages and the integration of international context into teaching and learning. Although research collaboration with foreign partners exists in Cambodia’s higher education, it is still scarce, considering that it is mainly concentrated in public higher education institutions. Further, this study grouped factors that determine faculty engagement in internationalisation-related activities into individual factors, institutional factors, and Covid- 19-related factors. The individual factors consist of intrinsic motivation, faculty employment nature (full-time or part-time), competencies, and demographic characteristics (gender and age). The institutional factors found in the study include leadership, institutional policies, human resources, and the type of institution (public or private). Last, the Covid-19 pandemic strongly affected internationalisation, as it caused a majority of activities to be cancelled or postponed, affecting faculty’s internationalisation activities. However, respondents also noted that Covid-19 helps reduce the time and costs required to implement internationalisation. Faculty engagements in internationalisation are still limited in Cambodia. It is vital that both the government and HEIs put more effort into promoting internationalisation if the internationalisation goal and targets set in the Higher Education Roadmap are to be realised. MoEYS should dedicate extra funding to push the actions described in the roadmap. Lack of human resources is also found to be a hindrance to faculty engagement. Although this issue can be partially solved through the capacity development programs reported in the study, not many competent individuals are willing to commit to this profession full-time. An academic partnership is an effective way to promote academic mobility (inbound and outbound), and collaboration and establishing regional and international partnerships have been proposed in the roadmap. However, the study found insufficient activities under this strategy. Therefore, more actions should be taken to build the capacity of HEIs, both public and private, to succeed in seeking and sustaining international partnerships. Moreover, a proper reward system and an enabling environment are keys to the promotion of faculty engagement in internationalisation. Hence, it is imperative that university management develop and put into practice an internal policy incentivising faculty members to actively involve themselves in and initiate more internationalised activities and, at the same time, provide a supportive environment where faculty members can efficiently implement activities. Different from many other countries, Cambodian faculty members are paid by teaching hours. This explains why they are reluctant to be involved in activities not directly related to teaching or in any engagements that affect their teaching hours. Thus, HEIs should reconsider the current salary structure if they wish to increase faculty involvement in internationalisation. Even after several public reforms and interventions, the lack of research culture and research capacities continues to be an issue in Cambodian higher education. There should be a practicable mechanism to implement professional progress that is based on merit and knowledge generation, not only knowledge transfer. It is time for Cambodian HEIs to move from teaching-based to research-based institutions. University salaries need to be much more competitive to attract more talented and experienced full-time researchers.
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Werny, Rafaela, Marie Reich, Miranda Leontowitsch, and Frank Oswald. EQualCare Policy Report Germany : Alone but connected? Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people living alone. Frankfurter Forum für interdisziplinäre Alternsforschung, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/gups.69905.
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The policy review is part of the project EQualCare: Alone but connected? Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people living alone, a three-year international project involving four countries: Finland, Germany, Latvia and Sweden. EQualCare interrogates inequalities by gender, cultural and socio-economic background between countries, with their different demographics and policy backgrounds. As a first step into empirical analysis, the policy review aims to set the stage for a better understanding of, and policy development on, the intersections of digitalisation with intergenerational care work and care relationships of older people living alone in Germany. The policy review follows a critical approach, in which the problems policy documents address are not considered objective entities, but rather discursively produced knowledge that renders visible some parts of the problem which is to be solved as other possible perspectives are simultaneously excluded. Twenty publicly available documents were studied to analyse the processes in which definitions of care work and digital (in)equalities are circulated, translated and negotiated between the different levels of national government, regional governments and municipalities as well as other agencies in Germany. The policy review consists of two parts: a background chapter providing information on the social structure of Germany, including the historical development of Germany after the Second World War, its political structure, information on the demographic situation with a focus on the 60+ age group, and the income of this age group. In addition, the background presents the structure of work and welfare, the organisation of care for old people, and the state of digitalisation in Germany. The analysis chapter includes a description of the method used as well as an overview of the documents chosen and analysed. The focus of this chapter is on the analysis of official documents that deal with the interplay of living alone in old age, care, and digitalisation. The analysis identified four themes: firstly, ageing is framed largely as a challenge to society, whereas digitalisation is framed as a potential way to tackle social challenges, such as an ageing society. Secondly, challenges of ageing, such as need of care, are set at the individual level, requiring people to organise their care within their own families and immediate social networks, with state support following a principle of subsidiarity. Thirdly, voluntary peer support provides the basis for addressing digital support needs and strategies. Publications by lobby organisations highlight the important work done by voluntary peer support for digital training and the benefits this approach has; they also draw attention to the over-reliance on this form of unpaid support and call for an increase in professional support in ensuring all older people are supported in digital life. Fourthly, ageing as a hinderance to participation in digital life is seen as an interim challenge among younger old people already online.
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Zarate, Sebastian, Ilaria Cimadori, Maria Mercedes Roca, Michael S. Jones, and Katie Barnhill-Dilling. Assessment of the Regulatory and Institutional Framework for Agricultural Gene Editing via CRISPR-based Technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004904.
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Genome editing tools have promised tremendous opportunities in agriculture for breeding crops and livestock across the food supply chain. Potentially addressing issues associated with a growing global population, sustainability concerns, and possibly helping address the effects of climate change (Kuiken, Barrangou, and Grieger 2021). These promises come alongside environmental, cultural, and socio-economic risks. Including concerns that governance systems are not keeping pace with technological developments and are ill-equipped, or not well suited to evaluate risks new genome editing tools may introduce. Understanding these complex, dynamic interactions across the LAC region is important to inform appropriate and acceptable regional governance and investment strategies. The power and promise of gene editing, CRISPR specifically, were first realized with the discovery of CRISPR loci in the 1980s (Anzalone, Koblan, and Liu 2020). Since that time, CRISPR-Cas systems have been further developed enabling genome editing in virtually all organisms across the tree of life (Anzalone, Koblan, and Liu 2020). Gene editing is not a singular technology or technique; it refers most often to a set of techniques that enable the manipulation of a genome with greater precision than previous iterations of genetic engineering (Shukla-Jones, Friedrichs, and Winickoff 2018b). The Inter-American Development Bank partnered with North Carolina State Universitys Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center to assess the regulatory and institutional frameworks surrounding gene-editing via CRISPR-based technologies in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regions. The project studied the following core components: Current Policy Evaluation: Understanding what the future may hold requires a critical examination of the current status of the regulatory landscape. Analysis of the existing regulatory systems for agricultural biotechnologies throughout Latin America and how they included considerations for novel biotechnology strategies such as gene editing through CRISPR technologies were done. Forecasting and Future Policy Scenario Analysis: Potential products created through gene editing may face very different situations on the ground, depending on countries diverse regulations and market structures. To clarify the potential impacts of regulatory reforms, we included concrete case studies in our analysis. Identifying investment priorities: The diversity of the region naturally means that countries will have unique priorities and needs with respect to investment in agricultural biotechnology development and regulatory infrastructure. The document evaluates the accomplishments of the region in the development of gene edited products, highlighting both private and public sector innovations.