Reading practices implemented in children’s schools in Latin American countries: a portrait through scientific papers published during the covid-19 pandemic

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Education is an international human right and a condition for the free development of peoples and individualities. Therefore, reading should also be recognized as a human right, as it is a structural element in the process of humanizing individuals and a condition for appropriating humanity's cultural, theoretical, and scientific heritage. During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in Brazil and worldwide had to adopt new pedagogical strategies and restructure those previously used, including reading practices. Thus, a question arises: what reading practices were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic by Children’s School teachers to form readers? This study is based on scientific papers in the Education field published between 2020 and 2022 and aims to identify the reading practices implemented by Children’s School (0 to 10 years old) teachers in Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a bibliographical research with a qualitative data analysis, using a critical-dialectical approach. Although the results are still incipient, the following practices were identified: the use of diverse literary genres, pleasure reading, reading of literary texts, discussions via WhatsApp, storytelling via Google Meet, and broadcasting on Facebook. Furthermore, given the lack of scientific works on this subject, new research is essential to understand the reading practices employed during this period, in an attempt to understand the challenges faced and develop strategies for the post-pandemic context.

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This reading revealed that the modern could also be traced to a café in Marseilles, some thirty years before Charles Baudelaire's “À une passante,” wherein an Egyptian Imam turns to poetry as a repoussoir as he experiences fragmentation.9 Decolonizing psychoanalysis or theory more generally doesn't mean to extract or remove it in a futile quest for cultural or literary authenticity, but rather to take it on a journey that makes it lose itself, misrecognize itself, in the double meaning of the term. The comparative framework in El Shakry proliferates with critical associations. This proliferation makes connections when least expected and enables the deconstructive work to become truly generative, truly decolonial. The aim is to wonder, at the end, are we in Freud or in Ibn ‘Arabi?This comparative framework that can never reduce a complex and multifaceted relation between Arab-Islamic and European traditions allows us to rethink the question of modernity. The history of the subject and its trials and collapses at the intersection of literature and politics, East and West, the classical and the modern, is present in El Shakry's and Pinto's works as well. Modernity in its Western constellation involving the subject, the novel, and the nation-state to name a few is not produced in Europe and then imported to the global South but rather emerges in between, read from the perspective of a Sudanese village and its prodigal son who has returned after a long trip.10 To engage with this legacy is to look at selfhood and its development by examining the narratives and fictions of subjectivity and the genres to which these fictions give rise.More broadly, El Shakry's and Pinto's works raise the question of theory and of its application or histories beyond the Western context. Theory has been used or applied to the non-Western object—and to the object, period—be it a literary work or a cultural context or a time period. Theory has also been understood as a hegemonic structure that neutralizes or at least permanently reshapes in its own image works that are outside of its context. Few are those critics who are able to activate the kinds of dialogue that truly intervene in theoretical genealogies, excavating connections and stakes that reverberate beyond the particular trajectories with which theory is associated in its Euro-American context. This is the work that El Shakry, Pinto, and others do. It is meant to expose, upend, and imagine new intellectual trajectories and reading practices. Specifically, these practices deconstruct and decolonize epistemological formations not by extracting the foreign and framing its presence as a hegemonizing structure from psychology to madness to sexuality, but rather by initiating dialogues and identifying new critical trajectories. More important, as these practices meander and associate, they show vulnerability, which gives Freud's attempt at vulnerability in Interpretation of Dreams a new meaning. At a time when calls for purity in all forms unleash a violent and utopian cribble that seeks to split and isolate, El Shakry's and Pinto's works lead the way toward rigorous intellectual projects and political interventions.

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With the Covid-19 pandemic, students must learn to adapt. The application of e-learning is a form of learning adjustment in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. This learning is aimed at students' interest in learning and motivation to learn. To achieve this quality, students must of course have a lecturer role in learning, one of which is the use of appropriate and fun learning strategies, namely Google meet. Based on this statement, this study aims to examine and determine the effect of online learning "google meet" on student interest in learning and motivation to learn. This research is an associative research that uses a quantitative approach. This research was conducted at Unindra in April – May 2021. The research population was Unindra's economic education students. The sample used the non-probability section with purposive sampling technique which obtained 179 students as participants. The source of the data used in this research is the primary data source which is obtained directly. Data collection techniques using a questionnaire. The data analysis technique used regression test and hypothesis testing with the help of SPSS 24.0 program. for windows. The results of the study revealed that there was an effect of online learning "google meet" on student learning interest and there was an effect of online learning "google meet" on student learning motivation.

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  • 10.29119/1641-3466.2021.154.21
The restrictions of human rights – COVID-19 pandemic and ethical issue
  • Jan 1, 2021
  • Scientific Papers of Silesian University of Technology. Organization and Management Series
  • Lukáš Siegel

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyze some of the most significant ethical and human rights impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis aims to demonstrate the failures of many political decision that lead to restriction and limitation of human rights. Design/methodology/approach: We analyze various documents, reports and news articles that provide essential information about the different governmental restrictions that may lead to controversial human rights issues. We also use some philosophical texts to support our theoretical basis for the defence of human rights. Overall, we aim to find some of the groups that were vulnerable during COVID-19 pandemic and describe some of the human rights concerns and ethical issues. Social implications: We hope that our article will impact political regulations and restrictions that can have severe human rights implications. We also hope to inspire citizens, scientists and politicians to uphold and protect human rights and dignity during COVID-19 pandemic. Findings: In our article, we have found that many countries had problems with creating rules, restriction and regulations that are upholding and protecting human rights or did not have ethical implications. We have also found that many vulnerable groups were disadvantaged because regulations did not take into account their precarious position. Originality/value: We have analyzed the ongoing ethical and human rights problems with the COVID-19 pandemic because we believe that they present some of the most fundamental challenges to our society. Our analysis tries to demonstrate some of the most fundamental human rights issues and proposes to address these issues to avoid any future failures.

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  • 10.37287/jlh.v2i2.787
The Analysis of the Effectiveness of Online Learning Media for the Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Oct 28, 2021
  • Journal of Language and Health
  • Maria Theresia Priyastuti + 2 more

This study discusses the analysis of the effectiveness of online learning media for the students during the covid-19 pandemic. This research is to know the effectiveness of online media for the students during the covid 19 pandemic. The method used is quantitative descriptive research with a total sampling of students of Stikes St. Elisabeth Semarang during the online learning process by giving questionnaires related to online learning media during the covid-19 period. The results obtained that most of the students at Stikes St. Elisabeth often uses Google Meet (GM) learning media and likes online learning through Google Meet (GM). The most frequently used feature of GM is the presentation form. The conclusion is that GM is an effective and efficient learning media during the covid-19 pandemic.

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  • 10.5114/jhi.2021.112343
Closing remarks from Calisia Conference sessions: (1) Family healthcare in Poland, Israel, Mozambique, and Ukraine, (2) COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Human rights in time of armed conflicts
  • Jan 1, 2021
  • Journal of Health Inequalities
  • Andrzej Trybusz

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Trybusz A. Closing remarks from Calisia Conference sessions: (1) Family healthcare in Poland, Israel, Mozambique, and Ukraine, (2) COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Human rights in time of armed conflicts. Journal of Health Inequalities. 2022. doi:10.5114/jhi.2021.112343. APA Trybusz, A. (2022). Closing remarks from Calisia Conference sessions: (1) Family healthcare in Poland, Israel, Mozambique, and Ukraine, (2) COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Human rights in time of armed conflicts. Journal of Health Inequalities. https://doi.org/10.5114/jhi.2021.112343 Chicago Trybusz, Andrzej. 2022. "Closing remarks from Calisia Conference sessions: (1) Family healthcare in Poland, Israel, Mozambique, and Ukraine, (2) COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Human rights in time of armed conflicts". Journal of Health Inequalities. doi:10.5114/jhi.2021.112343. Harvard Trybusz, A. (2022). Closing remarks from Calisia Conference sessions: (1) Family healthcare in Poland, Israel, Mozambique, and Ukraine, (2) COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Human rights in time of armed conflicts. Journal of Health Inequalities. https://doi.org/10.5114/jhi.2021.112343 MLA Trybusz, Andrzej. "Closing remarks from Calisia Conference sessions: (1) Family healthcare in Poland, Israel, Mozambique, and Ukraine, (2) COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Human rights in time of armed conflicts." Journal of Health Inequalities, 2022. doi:10.5114/jhi.2021.112343. Vancouver Trybusz A. Closing remarks from Calisia Conference sessions: (1) Family healthcare in Poland, Israel, Mozambique, and Ukraine, (2) COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) Human rights in time of armed conflicts. Journal of Health Inequalities. 2022. doi:10.5114/jhi.2021.112343.

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  • Cite Count Icon 6
  • 10.1108/ijhrh-11-2020-0097
Human rights violations during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Jun 10, 2021
  • International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare
  • Mohammed R.M Elshobake

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the most prominent human rights violations during the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with international human rights law.Design/methodology/approachThrough doctrinal and legal study and content analysis, this paper analyses the important relevant legal provisions under International human rights law and applies these provisions to the reality of managing the COVID-19 crisis to identify the most prominent human rights violations during the COVID-19 outbreak. This research paper considered as a review paper in that it provides a review of the most prominent measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis, which constitutes violations of international human rights law.FindingsIt is concluded that some measures that have been taken by countries to confront the COVID-19 pandemic have constituted violations of human rights and did not comply with the legal conditions to restrict human rights. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the ugly fractures in health-care systems, health inequities, racism and discrimination, Undermining the right to freedom of expression and the right to access information, gross negligence in protecting detainees from COVID-19 infection, all of these constitute clear violations of the principles of international human rights law.Research limitations/implicationsThe spread of COVID-19 has not stopped, and its effects still continue, including human rights violations. Therefore, this paper cannot enumerate all human rights violations that occur during the spread of COVID-19.Practical implicationsBased on the results in this paper, governments need to be more prepared to face any health crisis at all levels including health care, which would reduce human rights violations.Social implicationsThis research paper reflects positively on the social reality, as the adoption of its recommendations leads to the provision of adequate health care to all members of society in accordance with the principles of human rights, granting them the right to access information, protecting their right to freedom of expression, reducing the phenomenon of racism and discrimination and providing adequate health care to all detainees.Originality/valueThis paper studies an up-to-date topic that we are still living and seeing its effects. The benefit of this paper is to provide recommendations that protect human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • 10.5204/mcj.2983
Reading in Uncertain Times
  • Aug 25, 2023
  • M/C Journal
  • Juliane Roemhild + 1 more

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