Circle Of Concern Research Articles

"My Mother Makes Films to Cope with Her Demons": Confronting Normality

My daughter’s mental health condition had raised several questions about her diagnosis and recovery, and I wanted to make a film about it. I had a rich family archive which I choose to call a ‘record’ of all that was going on around me. In addition, I was carrying my own lived experience and several years of struggle with my daughter’s condition: her hospitalizations and encounters with her doctors and therapists. I was filming her because I didn’t know how else to cope with my situation. I couldn’t watch the 2007 footage that I had shot during her episode until ten years after. I began questioning the ethical reasons for documenting my daughter in that state; I also wanted to investigate the circumstances that led to her diagnosis. Would she have ever been diagnosed if we had continued to live in India? Could the triggers be related to her being the product of a broken home? How can family history of mental illness be controlled? Can the impact of illness be reversed? Is mental illness a reality or is it a construct of society? What is Normal? How can my daughter claim agency in charting strategies for her own wellness? How can she participate effectively in mainstream communities overcoming the stigma and labels? Can art truly be instrumental in coping with mental illness and facilitate the healing process? I could address some of the questions in the film, while others continue to be a driving force in our commitment to advocacy work through film screenings and panels.[1] This has not only proven to be a very empowering experience for both my daughter and myself, but also strengthened our relationship beyond the filial bond – giving us a strong purpose outside of our immediate circle of concern.
 
 [1] You will find on-line links to several panels since the film’s release in 2021.

Relevance of Stephen Covey's theory on the circle of life in the context of student decision-making to enroll for higher education

PurposeThis study attempts to elucidate the role of key influencers impacting the student decision-making process of enrollment for higher education in India from the lenses of Stephen Covey's theory on circles of life.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 556 students of Delhi NCR, India was selected based on a multi-staged sampling method. PLS-SEM was subsequently applied for statistical data analysis.FindingsThis quantitative finding voiced the relationships among the constructs in the proposed theoretical framework, i.e. Stephen Covey's circle of life theory. Additionally, it tinted the crucial role of “College attributes” in reconnoitering the relationship dynamics between key influencers (Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern) and student college choice (Circle of Control).Research limitations/implicationsThe present study incorporates only the first-year student population of undergraduate management courses in private universities from Delhi NCR, India limiting the generalization of findings substantially.Practical implicationsThe study garners the attention of education policymakers on the cognizance of the role played by parents and cohorts in driving the student's decision-making process of college choice under the circle of influence.Originality/valueThis study is pioneering research disseminating a comprehensive outlook of the circle of life theory of great Stephen Covey engrained upon a compendious conceptual model which enlightens the landscape of the decision-making process of student on enrollment under the influence of key influencers.

Social and emotional learning for the greater good: Expanding the circle of human concern

The central argument of this article is that educators can empower young people to address global challenges by actively helping them to expand their circle of concern beyond themselves and their social circles. Using the example of a recently developed SEL program called Samvedana, a Sanskrit word for care and concern for others, this article describes an approach to steer SEL toward promoting the welfare of others beyond the immediate circle of the learner. The article provides a brief history and benefits of SEL, describes the Samvedana program, and presents possible ways of developing concern-building SEL programs.

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction

From Memory to Memorial: Shanksville, America, and Flight 93

From Memory to Memorial: Shanksville, America, and Flight 93

Leading Hand Hygiene from the Circle of Concern to the Circle of Influence

Leading Hand Hygiene from the Circle of Concern to the Circle of Influence

Water injustices and potential remedies in indigenous rural contexts: A water justice analysis

This paper examines Indigenous water rights in rural and remote Australia and how water justice seems to be elusive in many of these spaces. The purpose of this literature review is to link water justice theory and practices to the way different water cultures are valued in Australia while simultaneously critiquing the water justice movement. This paper situates the notion of water justice as a specific kind of environmental justice to cater for the unique qualities that define this resource. In doing so, this paper draws on Schlosberg’s (2004) conception of environmental justice with its trivalent approach that describes the following three ‘circles of concern’: recognition of difference, plurality of participation, and finally equitable distribution of resources and costs and benefits. This framework provides that if the first two ‘circles of concern’ are not in existence in a natural resource management process, then inequitable distribution of that resource is a likely outcome. This paper presents two areas where water injustices exist in the context of Indigenous rural and remote Australia. The first relates to how Indigenous rights to water have been inadequately recognized and the second presents empirical data on water supply and sanitation in rural and remote Indigenous communities that demonstrates ongoing dilemmas around securing this basic human right. The undervaluing of cultural differences relating to water is argued to be antecedent to the injustice manifest in poor water supply and sanitation provision for Indigenous rural contexts. This paper does not attempt to survey the body of ethnographic work on society-water relations in rural and remote Indigenous Australian contexts but reviews the gaps in current mainstream acknowledgement of Indigenous water cultures. In exploring water justice in rural and remote Indigenous Australia, this paper offers a novel approach to a dilemma more frequently analysed solely as a health development issue.

The Importance of Being Human

I wish from my Heart, I could avoid concluding, that since Morality, according to your Opinion as well as mine, is determin'd merely by Sentiment, it regards only human Nature & human Life. … If Morality were determin'd by Reason, that is the same to all rational Beings: But nothing but Experience can assure us, that the Sentiments are the same. What Experience have we with regard to superior Beings? How can we ascribe to them any Sentiments at all? They have implanted those Sentiments in us for the Conduct of Life like our bodily Sensations, which they possess not themselves. (Letter from Hume to Hutcheson: March 16, 1740)When we ask whether morality ‘regards only human nature and human life’ we might be concerned with one of two kinds of question. We may be asking what kinds of being could share our moral point of view. What is the potential scope of the community of moral agents and assessors? Is the moral point of view essentially a human point of view? Could we, or should we, adopt a wider standpoint (say that of rational agency as such) which would leave room for a significant moral dialogue with non-human moral agents, if there are any? Alternatively, we could be asking whether only human beings should be the objects of moral concern or whether we should widen the circle of concern to include other kinds of being. We may make the same point using a helpful device of Cora Diamond's. We may be concerned with what should replace x or with what should replace y in the formula: We xs assess together conduct and character in so far as it affects ourselves and our fellow ys.

Spectral lines: Enlarging the circle

A few years back we wrote about individuals' ?circles of concern,? suggesting that each human being is surrounded by an invisible boundary that defines his or her interests. The circles may be small or large.

Book Review: Concentric Circles of Concern

Book Review: Concentric Circles of Concern

Spectral lines: Our circles of concern

One's powers of observation need not be excessively keen to notice that each person and every institution tends to develop its own "circles of concern" regarding specific topics. Although such circles of concern are often geographic in nature, rarely are they literally circles. Sometime they are time-related, in which case they might better be likened to an antenna pattern, one lobe extending backward into history and the other forward into the future.