In Pursuit of Care, Purpose, and Perspective in Education, Research, and Life

In low-income and middle-income countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, the COVID-19 pandemic has had substantial implications for women's wellbeing. Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities. This Viewpoint is based on collective reflections from research done by the authors on COVID-19 responses by international and regional organisations, and national governments, in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa between June, 2020, and June, 2021. A range of international and regional actors have made important policy recommendations to address the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's health and wellbeing since the start of the pandemic. However, national-level policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been partial and inconsistent with regards to gender in both sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, largely failing to recognise the multiple drivers of gendered health inequalities. This Viewpoint proposes that addressing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in low-income and middle-income countries should adopt a systems thinking approach and be informed by the question of who is affected as opposed to who is infected. In adopting the systems thinking approach, responses will be more able to recognise and address the direct gendered effects of the pandemic and those that emerge indirectly through a combination of long-standing structural inequalities and gendered responses to the pandemic.

(Re‐)Discoveries in a time of disruption

Historiography reveals many visible and latent facts and opinions about how the history of communities and regions and the evolution of their social, environmental, economic, and political systems (SEEPS) are constructed according to the historian's perspective. This paper aims to provide a content analysis on how the historical construction of the discourse of the SEEPS effectively addressed the issues - especially in the textual and historical construction found in a historical text titled The Cultural Roots of the Pesalai Society, authored by S.A. Miranda. The book narrates the arrival and operation of the Western Colonizers resulting in the consequent socio-political transformation in the local community, changes in religious, cultural, and national identities and the ultimate evolution of new changes in the SEEPS. This content analysis focuses on establishing the relationships between the social, political, and environmental systems in the historical discourse of the book and assessing the historiographical representation of the SEEPS and the controlling factors in constructing the history of the Pesalai village and the Mannar District. The text combines integrated SEEPS providing governance-centric, anthropocentric, and eco-centric perspectives, while a theocentric discourse dominates the text. The book presents the information chronologically and thematically. This paper assesses the author's historical construction to study the impacts of the human-nature interface and natural and human-made changes related to the village system comparable to the whole district. It reveals the challenges and the creation of hybrid and multiple-use social and environmental systems, the interaction of the societal relationships with nature, and the village systems aligned to the political and social systems. The discourse reveals an attempt at reconciling a perennial conflict or competition of sustainable SEEPS against each other.

In this review, we draw attention to the potential for social and systemic changes associated with attempts to contain the spread of COVID-19 to precipitate, maintain and exacerbate pain by increasing the social threats faced by individuals with chronic pain. We also suggest strategies for mitigating the social impact of COVID-19 on those living with chronic pain, for instance by learning from the resilience demonstrated by people in pain who have found ways to deal with social threat. Lastly, we suggest several time-critical, high-impact research questions for further investigation.

The COVID-19 pandemic starts from Wuhan city of China resulted in disaster in the lives of human beings through a deadly virus ‘Coronavirus’ in December 2019. Numerous nationalities, various organizations and world economy were affected on account of it. This finally transformed traditional classes of students into an online format in the middle of the academic semester in Higher Education sector in various countries. India is one of the most affecting country where education sector got the disadvantage of this crisis. Consequently, the faculty, researchers as well as students were enabling themselves through on- line teaching using various tools. Our objectives were 1) To study different factors affecting academia’s during COVID-19. 2) To study teaching learning process in higher education in COVID- 19 Pandemic. 3) To study different Key factors impacting the growth of Academia’s. 4) To study the effect of COVID 19 on the growth of Academia’s. 5. To study pedagogical shift in teaching learning process in the pandemic time. Research scholars, Assistant Professors and Professors and students (n= 1220) from rural university in India were taken as a sample. The researcher employed qualitative analysis to describe the effect of COVID- 19 on growth of Academia and teaching learning process. For this, researcher employed structured questionnaires to capture the impact of the pandemic on academia’s issues like research, library, funding and future perspectives in COVID-19 pandemic. Online Google Forms were employed to administer the survey. The frequent communication between students and faculty and research scholars and supervisors from the rural university helps to develop new teaching and learning pedagogy of different content to academia in a different perspective. This paper depicts the existing research on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the faculty, researchers and students by using key resources results in collaboration with research and education perspective.

“Something has to change”

Objective: The COVID-19 is a rapidly ongoing pandemic. 368.513 cases and 10.027 fatalities have been reported in Turkey up to this day. Pregnant women and newborns constitute a special patient group in this disease. In our study, we aimed to measure the knowledge level, attitude to protective measures, perspective of education and medicolegal issues of obstetricians - gynecologists (OB-GYN) and pediatricians on pregnant and newborn health about COVID-19. Material-Methods: A cross-sectional, online-survey consisted of 22 questions. Age, academic degree, duration of the profession in the first three questions, level of knowledge about COVID-19 in the next 14 questions, attitude to protective measures, perspective of education and medicolegal issues in the last five questions were queried. Results: The questionnaire was applied to 145 physicians. 65.5% of them were pediatricians, 34.4% were OB-GYN. The level of having adequate knowledge about COVID-19 was determined as 44% and 34.7% for OB-GYN and pediatricians. No statistically significant relationship was found between the way of acquiring knowledge and academic degree in both physician groups (p>0.05). Positive attitude of OB-GYN about preventive measures during - after the pandemic were 94% - 90%, 96.8% - 92.6% for pediatricians. The positive perspective of education and medicolegal measures were determined 72% and 80 % for OB-GYN, 80% and 94.7% for pediatricians. Conclusion: Current education related to clinic approach- treatment algoritms about COVID-19 on pregnant and newborn health should be increased for OB-GYN and pediatricians, legal arrangements should be made to make them feel safe.

The interrelation between migration and education represents a complex and dynamic process that has been examined in the academic literature from various research perspectives. In modern society educational migration has become a crucial factor in shaping individual opportunities, influencing access to educational resources and the quality of learning outcomes. The expansion of international programs and scholarships opens new prospects for Kazakhstani high school students planning to continue their studies at foreign universities. This article presents the results of a sociological study conducted among high school students from urban and regional schools to explore their educational plans regarding studying abroad. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS software to identify socio-demographic patterns in the formation of educational trajectories after graduation. The findings demonstrate that academic criteria are the key determinant in choosing a foreign university. Information sources on studying abroad are primarily associated with digital channels (the Internet and social media); however, the family remains an influential factor especially for students from regional schools. The study also reveals gender- and location-based differences in the level of awareness of academic mobility programs. Interest in state-sponsored educational programs remains relatively high, though it varies significantly across gender and place of residence. Overall, the educational migration plans of Kazakhstani high school students are shaped by a combination of academic motivations and socio-demographic factors, reflecting the complex nature of decision-making in the field of educational migration. Research value: examining the educational migration plans of Kazakhstani high school students makes it possible to identify differences across various socio-demographic groups and to systematize the preconditions of non-returning educational migration at the macro, meso, and micro levels. Practical significance: the findings provide a basis for designing incentive strategies aimed at minimizing the risk of non-returning migration through a deeper understanding of how high school students’ migration plans are formed. The research methodology can be used in subsequent studies to identify the dynamics of changing migration plans and motives among young people. Keywords: educational perspectives, education, high school students, international programs, urban and regional schools.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic cuts across all spheres of human life, and it has exposed fundamental weaknesses in political values, governance systems, public health and social life in different parts of the world. In Africa, although with relatively less death rates than initially predicted, the pandemic has also exposed weaknesses in the continent’s political and public health systems. This article analyses how Nigeria’s public health sector has fared against the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of a declining social state and an ascending political state within a skewed federal democracy. This is useful for testing the relationship between effective public healthcare delivery and political systems in Africa. Distinguishing between the social and political states, the article argues that the social state in Nigeria has declined further in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dialectically, as the social state declines, the political state ascends, and this is reflected in the considerations that drive the strained intergovernmental relations which characterise the federal and state governments’ responses to the coronavirus. Therefore, like all countries of the world irrespective of ideological leaning and political system, Nigeria needs a strong state with a social component in the long term to combat COVID-19. In the short term, measures aimed at changing the behavior of Nigerians will help arrest the growing tide of infections and death rates.

Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life

The Existence of the Covid-19 pandemic has a serious impact on teaching and learning activities at various levels and types of educational institutions that were originally face-to-face in the classroom shifted into distance education (distance learning) in the network (online) with online systems (direct) and offline (delay). This study aims to find out how distance learning in the perspective of education in Indonesia during the current Covid-19 pandemic? What's the concept? What are the problems and challenges? And what's the solution? To answer the question above, the method used is the study of the library, namely in this case the author tries to study some available literature to get an explanation relevant to the problem so that the problems in this paper can easily be answered.The results of the literature study stated that (1) Distance learning in an educational perspective in Indonesia, is the implementation of education whose learners are separated from educators and their learning by using various learning resources through information and communication technology, and other media, which serves as a form of education for learners who cannot attend face-to-face education and aims to increase the expansion and equitable access to quality and relevant education as needed; (2) Distance learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic through online learning is focused on life skills education by online or online distance learning methods and offline or offline distance learning.In conclusion, during the Covis-19 pandemic, our education system must be ready to make the leap to transform online learning for all students and by all teachers to enter a new era of building creativity, honing students' skills, and improving self-quality with system changes, perspectives and patterns of our interaction with technology.

Perspektiva životnog puta u istraživanjima starenja i migracija

The article analysis major changes in preparation of museums’ educational programs. Such programs’ attractiveness from educational perspective, not only in terms of presenting new way of knowledge, but also as one of the way how to acquire, to learn and to use that knowledge in practical way. Educational sessions are seeking to help schoolchildren to learn in a better way, to remember particular information and strengthen it by completing practical tasks. The purposes of education are: a) to stimulate cultural, cognitive, artistic and other activities; b) to understand, remember and grasp the mea ning of the given information; c) to strengthen the newly acquainted information by completing practical tasks; d) inspirational aspect of given information; e) understanding of process and it’s phenomenon, correlation with the obtained information; f) ones’ interdisciplinary aspect. Educational programs are being modified depending on visitors’ given feedback and ones needs. The article consists of several parts. The first part analysis the spread of educational programs in museums throughout Lithuania’s municipalities. The second part analysis the spread of educational programs in museums depending on a particular educational area. The third part analysis museums’ educational programs’ need and availability in the period of 2008–2014.

Dear readers With the end of 2013 in sight, we are happy to publish this new fully English issue of Envigogika – our second English-only edition this year. The publishing of Envigogika over the last two years has been made possible thanks to project funding for the Interdisciplinary Sustainable Development Network (MOSUR project, OP VK), and we are very grateful for this support. Apart from Envigogika, our team is also preparing a number of events relating to sustainable development (as part of the MOSUR project), which we’d like to draw your attention to. The following events are planned for early 2014: • January 22nd: Practical workshop for educators: The World beyond 2015 – Education for Sustainability, more info here • February 17th and 19th:Academic article writing workshops for young researchers (PhDs, postdocs) with Assoc. Prof. Rodrigo Lozano - Associate Editor of an Elsevier academic journal (the Journal of Cleaner Production), more info here • February 18th: Workshop for academic journal editors with Assoc. Prof. Rodrigo Lozano, more info here • March 30th–April 5th: International Spring School on Sustainable Development 2014 for Bachelor and Master students, more info here. We would be very happy to welcome you to any of these planned events. Now, back to the current English issue of Envigogika, we are very pleased to bring you several interesting and inspiring articles by authors from the Czech Republic, as well as farther afield (Slovenia, Australia). The articles encompass a wide range of themes relating to environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD), as well as sustainable development in more general terms. You can therefore read about: 1) Earthkeepers in the Czech Republic: Experience from the implementation process of an earth education programme (Reviewed Paper) by Jan Činčera and Bruce Johnson. ‘Earthkeepers’ is an earth education programme developed by the international Institute for Earth Education. The authors report on the implementation and subsequent evaluation process of this programme for the first time in the Czech Republic – in the Bohemian Paradise Ecological Education Centre (Středisko ekologické výchovy Český ráj). The results of the study suggested that participation in the programme had a positive impact on pupils’ ecological knowledge and attitudes, and the authors discuss the potential for further dissemination of the programme in the Czech Republic. 2) LET’s start a new LETS: Learning from a case study in Brno, Czech Republic (Reviewed Paper) by Lukáš Kala. The article introduces us to the so-called Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) and the system’s recent history in the Czech Republic, and then reports on RozLEŤSe – a LETS system in the city of Brno, Czech Republic. The authors specifically examine the socio-demographic characteristics, motivations and organisational operations of the group and focus on the potential threats to the continued work of the LETS system. 3) Ethics and Ecoethics by Josef Petr Ondok: Between the Sciences, Philosophy, and Theology (Reviewed Paper) by Zuzana Svobodová. This philosophical text analyses the work of Josef Petr Ondok – Czech theologian, philosopher and biologist – from the perspective of ethics and ecoethics. 4) The Purpose of Education: Australian and Slovenian perspectives in Education for Sustainability (Inspiration) by Phil Smith and Majda Naji. The authors present their view on the purpose of education in the context of sustainable development and include examples of education for sustainable development from their countries – Slovenia and Australia. 5) Environmental mining limits in the North Bohemian Lignite Region. Book review: Říha, M., Stoklasa, J., Lafarová, M., Dejmal, I., Marek, J., Pakosta, P., Beránek, K. Environmental mining limits in the North Bohemian Lignite Region. Společnost pro krajinu, Praha 2005. Translation: Petr Kurfürst. This book review written by Andrew Barton looks at the issue of mining limits in the region of North-West Bohemia in the Czech Republic and briefly summarises from the content of the book originally published in 2005 (in Czech, but later translated into English) supplemented with the most up-to-date information on the current situation. 6) Informational texts: A very interesting article on environmental literacy by Petr Daniš, originally published as a reviewed article in Czech (Envigogika 3/2013), has been translated into English and is now available to our readers. School teachers might be interested in the announcement of a school essay competition run by The Living Rainforest, a UK-based charity. 7) Related announcements: As we feel that dialogue on environmental education and ESD related issues in CZ should be promoted nationally and internationally, this time we are publishing two issues simultaneously (for the content of the Czech issue of Envigogika, see here). We wish you inspirational reading and a peaceful Christmas holiday, as well as a successful New Year. The Envigogika editorial team In Prague on 20. 12. 2013

This article contains elucidation about punctuality issues and discipline in educational perspective. From the discussion that has been done it can be said that punctuality problems and discipline are very important and vital in building good and advanced of human life, because it is related to the basic, function and purpose of education as well as the teachings of Islam. Punctuality and discipline are a fundamental goal of the educational efforts and Islamic Shari'ah. In Islam, there are many concepts related to punctuality and discipline. They are obedience, self-control and behavior, submission and obedience, as well as support for the values and rules of the understanding, comprehension, awareness and responsibility. Being punctuality and discipline have to be owned and improved in education and life, and in turn, the family, society and the environment should support it in order to achieve the progress. Copyright © 2014 by Al-Ta'lim All right reserved