Experiential Process Research Articles

‘나다움’을 찾아가는 과정에서 겪는 의복행동의 교육적 경험에 관한 연구

Objectives The purpose of this study is to explore the experience process of learners who complete ‘myself’ and to reveal that the aesthetic experience sensed by learners in the process is an educational experience that helps the individual’s qualitative growth. Methods First, we explore clothing behavior as a process of finding ‘myself’ through theoretical consideration of John Dewey’s experiential philosophy of ‘an experience’ and educational experience. Second, by describing, analyzing, and interpreting clothing behavior based on ‘one experience,’ it helps understand the aesthetic experience for true clothing behavior that reveals ‘myself.’ Third, by revealing that the aesthetic experience of clothing behavior is what Dewey calls ‘an experience,’ we explore how the learner’s experiential process of completing his or her self through clothing behavior, which is interpreted as ‘an experience,’ is reborn as an educational experience. Results Educational experience as a clothing behavior is ‘an experience’ that promotes the overall and continuous growth and development of humans by not only promoting the process of understanding one’s identity but also immersing oneself in the process of discovering ‘myself.’ Conclusions By revealing that clothing behavior interpreted in light of Dewey's ‘an experience’ is an educational experience for discovering ‘myeself’, it differs from the conventional view that interprets clothing behavior as pursuing external beauty by focusing only on physical appearance. Provides an alternative logic for approach. It is meaningful in attempting to establish a basis for an educational approach to clothing behavior as self-discovery in pursuit of a happy experience of change.

접근가능한 관광관점에서 본 영유아 동반 관광자에 관한 연구

This study aimed to investigate the tourist experience of individuals who travel with infants and young children from the perspective of accessible tourism using online written interviews. Colaizzi's (1978) descriptive phenomenology was used as the research method, categorizing data into 6 categories, 17 theme clusters, and 73 themes. Specifically, the study examined reasons for participating in tourism, satisfaction with tourism activities, the usefulness of parents' prior experience, considerations when engaging in tourism with infants, difficulties encountered, and strategies for overcoming these difficulties. Difficulties and strategies for overcoming them were identified within the 17 theme clusters. The findings revealed that individuals participate in tourism activities to escape their daily routines, seek new experiences, and fulfill their parental roles. Although challenges such as limited mobility and lack of convenient facilities were noted, these were viewed as obstacles that could be easily overcome by the accompanying parents. This research highlights that individuals traveling with infants and young children perceive the limitations of tourism activities as unique conditions associated with traveling with young ones, differing from previous studies. Effective strategies for overcoming difficulties included diversifying information acquisition, engaging in actions to relax psychologically, and recognizing the uniqueness of the situation. Through this experiential process, parents were able to strengthen family bonds and derive satisfaction from the joy experienced by their children, resulting in a positive and fulfilling experience. These research findings contribute to a better understanding of the tourist experience for individuals traveling with infants and young children and offer important academic implications.

Connecting Mindfulness Practice to Generative Semiotic Activity—Self-Other Referent in Umwelt and Semiosphere

In this comment paper on von Fircks (2023a), I would like to focus on four issues and offer some reflections on them: first, what is happening in the process of a new I arising through mindfulness meditation practice? I would like to supplement the dialogue between Buber and Rogers in 1957 on the dynamism of I and Me, which is the basis of Mead's theory of self formation, in which I and Me separate, discover and meet a new self. The second, is that meditation, which at first glance appears to be an internal meditation practice and a personal activity, leads to a semiotic mediated social process. The Tao and early Buddhist ideas that form the background to the experiential process of mindfulness meditation will be reviewed, and the significance of people experiencing the interdependence of non-human nature and the environment through the practice will be discussed. Third, connecting this to the idea of Umwelt (Uexküll) and the semiosphere (Lotman), an attempt is made to extend the otherness as a collating body of self formation to Umwelt. Fourth, mindfulness meditation focuses attention on the breath. In relation to Mead's focus on the environment under the skin, i.e. corporeality, I will supplement the psychological meaning of cultivating the body's sense of interoception through the sensing of repetitive movements of tension and relaxation. Through the above, what kind of semiotic mediating function does mindfulness meditation have in relation to the construction of the new I, and how does it lead to the creation of social meaning? We would like to discuss these points.Clinical Trial RegistrationThe article does not contain any studies with clinical trial. This, clinical Trial registration is not applicable.

Verbatim theatre as a creative approach to health professions education research translation.

Traditionally, the impact and outcomes from health professions education research (HPER) have focused on academic outputs, whereas in the humanities, research translation is conceptualised more broadly and creatively, including research-based performances like verbatim theatre. Translating HPER findings through the emotive and embodied nature of a verbatim theatre performance provides a unique opportunity to translate research data and create alternative learning spaces for rich and valuable insights that aligns with transformative pedagogy. In this paper, we describe the background of verbatim theatre, a form of performance, which draws on a research participants' testimony and lived experience and how we used this creative approach to translate HPER findings. We discuss the experiential process of bringing an interdisciplinary team together, health professions academics and an academic playwright to craft a verbatim theatre script that provided space to honour the breadth, depth and diversity of participant voices from a large (n = 100) qualitative research study exploring professionalism and sociocultural factors in health professions education (HPE). Furthermore, we discuss the powerful potential of drawing on research-based performance to create alternative, safe and non-threatening learning spaces to resonate with and experience HPER in new and transformative ways. Finally, we offer reflexive insights on the key opportunities and challenges we encountered in translating HPER into a verbatim theatre performance. Verbatim theatre presents an innovative and creative way to communicate and translate HPER. This paper offers research and pedagogical insights in translating research into verbatim theatre to support transformative pedagogy and practice in HPE. In conclusion, we encourage other health professions researchers to consider this dynamic and creative approach to transforming HPE.

Immersive VR experience based on virtual robots in decorative material environment design simulation

Virtual robot and immersive VR experiences provide consumers with new ways of perception in the design process of decorative material environments. This experiential process is virtual, intuitive, and entertaining, and is widely recognized by consumers.The purpose of this study is to improve the processing effect of virtual images of decorative materials by image denoising algorithm. In this paper, the image acquisition and modeling technology based on sensor network and image denoising algorithm are used to process the acquired image data, and the processed image is applied to the virtual system of decorative materials. Through the application of image denoising algorithm, the noise in the image is reduced, and the clarity and authenticity of the virtual image of decorative materials are improved. This makes it possible to select the best decoration scheme more accurately when comprehensive calculation is carried out from various aspects such as aesthetic and functional data, and provides a new feasibility and method for environmental design and decoration material selection. The research results demonstrate that the system can achieve virtual image processing in environmental decoration scene design, thereby improving the level of indoor environmental art design.

Comparison of the Predictors of Smoking Cessation Plans between Adolescent Conventional Cigarette Smokers and E-Cigarette Smokers Using the Transtheoretical Model

Recently, there has been a shift in smoking patterns among adolescents, with a decrease in the prevalence of conventional cigarette smoking and an increase in the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). The harmful effects of e-cigarettes are remarkable, highlighting the need for proactive interventions for adolescent users and smoking cessation that consider the characteristics of both conventional cigarette smokers and e-cigarette users. This study aims to investigate the smoking status of adolescent conventional cigarette and e-cigarette smokers and to analyze the predictors of their smoking cessation plans (SCPs) based on the transtheoretical model. Self-rated health, prior smoking cessation education, consciousness-raising, and dramatic relief as types of experiential processes of change, and formation of helping relationships as a type of behavioral process of change significantly differed according to the type of cigarette behavior among adolescents. The predictors of SCP among adolescents were perceived pros of smoking and academic performance among conventional cigarette smokers and behavioral process of change, perceived pros of smoking, and economic status among e-cigarette users. This study identified differences in the characteristics and predictors of SCP. Strategies tailored to each specific adolescent smoking population are further required to promote smoking cessation.

The Conscious Experience of Being Hypnotized with a Metaphorical Story Script: A Case Study

<p>背景與目的：催眠為一經驗現象，但研究者一直無法獲得完整的第一人稱經驗描述，也就無從對其進行研究分析，這阻礙了催眠研究的進展。本研究的目的即在於獲得催眠經驗之意識過程的精細且精確描述，並分析其中的意識經驗現象。方法：本研究採取以催眠現象為標的的案例研究，設計由隱喻故事構成之催眠腳本所進行的催眠歷程，訪談參與者經驗，最後以現象學方法分析之。結果：本研究結果揭示了催眠意識經驗歷程的形式結構與內容結構。催眠意識經驗的歷程形式結構是由本研究所得之催眠經驗描述與意識三重構作理論對話後所得到的理解。催眠意識經驗的意義內容歷程則是可以用經驗生成為主題來提顯其核心意涵。本研究也從催眠過程中的無意義視覺現象獲得意識與生理作用之間關係的假設性理解。結論與建議：本研究不但揭露了催眠過程的形式結構與內容結構，也推進了對意識性質與特徵的討論，可作為意識研究的一項基礎。</p> <p> </p><p>Context and Objective: Hypnosis refers to a state of deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility that either occurs spontaneously or is induced through guidance by others. Hypnosis is a topic of academic interest because it could help researchers understand the composition and operation of human consciousness. A major question in the study of hypnotic experience is how to obtain first-person reports and how to determine the relationship between its experiential content and external processes, that is, the relationship between hypnotic experience and hypnotic methods. This question arises because hypnosis is characterized by dissociation, and subjects are often unable to clearly describe what they experienced when under hypnosis; even if there are fragmentary content reports, it is not easy to determine their temporal sequence. This lack of first-person description has hindered the progress of hypnosis research. In an attempt to reduce this research gap, this study aimed to obtain a detailed and accurate description of the conscious process of hypnotic experience and to analyze the consciousness phenomena therein. Method: A case-study framework was adopted. The study implementation relied on three research maneuvers: a research design that can obtain first-person reports of hypnotic experiences, a phenomenological method for analyzing first-person experiences, and a theoretical model of consciousness operation obtained from Taiwan’s indigenous psychological healing phenomena, the tripartite theory of consciousness. The research design was as follows. Before conducting the hypnosis session and experiential interviews, the researcher and the research participant co-wrote a hypnosis script with three parts: guidance into a hypnotic state, metaphorical stories, and guidance out of a hypnotic state. It was read word-for-word to the research participant during the hypnosis session, and the entire session was videotaped. An experiential interview was conducted immediately after hypnosis. Through the hypnosis script and video playback, the research participant could identify the correspondence between the hypnotic guidance and her experience and report her experiential process in sequence. Thus, by transcribing the interview recording into a verbatim transcript, this study obtained a first-person report of hypnotic experience that could be matched with the content and sequence of the script. Second, after obtaining the first person report of the hypnotic experience, a phenomenological method was used to analyze the data. Third, the analysis results were examined based on the tripartite theory of consciousness to gain a structural understanding of the hypnotic consciousness process. The function of the tripartite theory of consciousness in this study was to serve as an aid to expand understanding rather than as theoretical conceptualization prior to research analysis. Result: The results can be presented in two parts: the formal structural process of hypnotic consciousness experience and the meaning content process. The formal structural process of hypnosis is the understanding obtained after the participant’s description of the hypnosis experience and the analysis through the lens of the tripartite theory of consciousness. The function of the utterance of hypnotic guidance was significantly demonstrated. Through the three dimensions of content, speaking speed, and rhythm, hypnotic guidance can make different connections and influences on the conscious acts toward the significative, the imaginal, and the somatic. The meaning content process of hypnosis can be described by the theme of experience generation. This study describes the characteristic of openness of consciousness, the phenomenon and function of experiential adhesion and saturation, and the conscious operation structure that can change the texture of the hypnotized person’s experience through experiential interweaving and experiential rewriting. In this way, the hypnotic consciousness experience process carried out with a metaphorical story script is presented as a process of generating meaningful experiences, and the tripartite construction of consciousness is the basic structure for generating experiences. Finally, this study also obtained a hypothetical understanding of the relationship between consciousness and physiological effects during hypnosis. Conclusion and Suggestion: The present study does not just disclose the structure of the processes of conscious experience in hypnosis, but also provides a discussion on the features and qualities of consciousness, which can serve as a basis for future exploration.</p> <p> </p>

Learning the Meaning of Song Lyrics through the Elements of Ideational Metafunction: A Case on Systemic Functional Linguistics

The focus of the analysis is to identify and describe the various types of processes within the Experiential Function in the song's lyrics. Data source for this study is the song's lyrics, obtained from reliable sources such as the artist's official YouTube channel, Google, and various music applications. The lyrics are transcribed and used for identifying and categorizing the experiential processes found in the song. The data analysis method used in this research is qualitative analysis. It involves analyzing each clause in the lyrics and classifying them based on the Experiential Function's categories. The Experiential Function analysis helps to understand how the songwriter expresses their experiences, emotions, and perceptions through language in the song. This analysis of the Experiential Function in the song "A Year Ago" provides a comprehensive understanding of the songwriter's expressions of experiences and emotions, contributing to a deeper appreciation and interpretation of the song's lyrics. Keywords: Ideational Metafunction, Lyrics Songs, Systemic Functional Linguistics

Visual Literacy as a tool to explore what lays behind and beyond our anticipations

Visual Literacy enriches the field of anticipatory assumptions and Futures Literacy by taking into account basic biological premises of our brains and minds related to images. It explores why our individual and public spheres act as sources of authority conditioning assumed realities and ‘staging’ a limited world in our consciousness. The study unravels where our perceptions originate from, their ramifications with our cultural frameworks, memory mechanisms and ensuing identities, and their direct effect on how we assume and anticipate. Visual Literacy workshops broaden the alternative storytelling Futures Literacy Labs apply. They provide the tools for user-friendly iconological analysis that make explicit and ‘visible’ the role of culturally mediated visuals in the construction of thought patterns. The experiential process of the workshops make tangible the ‘subtexts’ behind the visuals, and answers, as well, why and how they shape perceptions and regulate deriving assumptions and anticipations.

Exploring spirituality, religion and life philosophy among parents of children receiving palliative care: a qualitative study

BackgroundFew studies have examined the spiritual environment of parents of children receiving palliative care in Southern European countries, which are mostly characterized by secularization (or the abandonment of traditional religiosity) and an increase of cultural and religious diversities resulting in a much broader spectrum of spiritual and religious beliefs. This study aimed to explore the parents’ own spirituality, religiosity, and philosophy of life in coping with the care of their child with palliative needs.MethodsQualitative interviews of 14 parents of children included in a palliative care program in a pediatric hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Inclusion criteria were parents of children who have been cared for the palliative care program for a minimum of 3 months and who displayed a willingness to talk about their personal experiences and gave written consent. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed by an independent service, and analyzed on a case-by-case basis using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.ResultsThe three domains identified were life philosophy, relational, and transcendent. Life philosophy included principles that guided parents’ decision-making, and how the onset of their child’s serious illness had promoted a change in their values. Relational was focused on how they perceived themselves (e.g. motherhood), others (e.g. one’s own child exceptionality), and the way they believed others perceived and supported them (e.g. relatives, friends, and healthcare providers). The transcendent domain involved God-related concepts, divinity and divine intervention (e.g. a miracle as an interpretive framework for that which cannot be explained within scientific knowledge limitations).ConclusionsInflexible categories identifying parents as having a particular religious faith tradition are not sufficient to capture the interrelation of knowledges (ethical, religious, scientific) that each parent generates when faced with their child receiving palliative care. Clinicians should explore parents’ spirituality in an individualized way that responds to the uniqueness of their experiential process.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE TEXT USING THE TRANSITIVITY SYSTEM AND ITS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Teaching text has been an issue in the EFL context, especially narrative text that is frequently used in the coursebooks. This study compares a model narrative text from a coursebook with a student narrative text utilizing the transitivity system. The example student imitated the model text when writing her narrative. The analysis results show that despite the similarity of both texts that employ material processes at most in their stories, the student’s text involves more mental processes as the author expresses her mental states throughout the story. This might be caused by two possibilities: (1) The author of the model text uses many subtexts (Seger, 2011) and focuses more on the material process to give the readers an opportunity to interpret the participants' mental states in the story, while the author of the student text has not cognitively reached the use of subtext in a story as she is still a young learner and still in the early developmental phase. Or (2) the author of the student text tries to make the story more personal to engage with the reader as closely as possible. However, as the model text fulfills the social function, generic structure, lexico-grammatical, and experiential process, it influences the sample student's ability to compose a representative narrative text in general. Lastly, these results suggest that EFL teachers should examine the sample text before distributing it to students as a model text and conduct the teaching-learning process with the right genre-based approach stages.

Patterns before recognition: the historical ascendance of an extractive empiricism of forms

This article explores the complex convergence between cybernetics and Gestalt theory and its influence on the concept of pattern recognition. It finds a departure in the analogous ways each discipline extends their core frameworks toward social and anthropological objects. However, this shared ground is not without tensions. In the post-war American context, what is formalizable and realizable in mechanical structures has a certain explanatory authority—even if often misplaced-- concerning perception and human intelligence. Cultural patterns feed into mechanical recognition of patterns, exemplifying “extractive empiricism” or the process of outsourcing experiential processes to mechanical systems. This mode of “proof” is also evident in cybernetic and cognitive psychological strategies toward Gestalt theory, leaving a significant legacy for contemporary machine learning approaches. By examining the early interactions between these rival paradigms, known for their quest for generalization, and disentangling their source status, this inquiry contributes to understanding the broad conceptual possibilities of pattern recognition beyond its narrow confines in engineering perspectives and machine learning discourse.

The New Ecology of Chinese Language and Literature in the Digital Age--Cultural Inheritance and Innovation

Abstract Digital media is perpetually evolving, significantly impacting the Chinese language and literature. Concurrently, the rapid pace of modern lifestyles poses challenges to the transmission of cultural heritage within Chinese literary traditions. Accordingly, this study explores the pathways for digital innovation in Chinese literature, focusing on the integration of key virtual technologies to facilitate the cultural inheritance of the Chinese language. This research highlights the application of advanced virtual technologies in preserving and transmitting Chinese linguistic culture. It involves designing an experiential process for cultural inheritance, utilizing these technologies to process graphic and textual information pertinent to the Chinese language and literature. Furthermore, the study innovates cultural transmission methods through the synthesis of virtual 3D scenes and the implementation of human-computer interaction functionalities. An experimental evaluation approach was employed to assess the impact of virtual reality technology on the learning outcomes in Chinese literature and its cultural transmission. The findings indicate that users who interactively engage with the content in a virtual environment achieve a learning effect score that is 0.6528 points higher than those using traditional browsing methods. This underscores the enhanced efficacy of interactive experiences in facilitating the learning of Chinese literature. The regression analysis further demonstrates the significant promotional effects of the number of virtual experiences in Chinese literature (P1) and the rate of user interaction with computers (P2) on the dissemination of Chinese cultural content. The fixed and random effects for the number of virtual experiences are 0.9428 and 0.9784, respectively, while those for user interaction rates are 0.8945 and 0.8835. These results suggest a substantial impact on the broader dissemination and transmission of Chinese language literature, reinforcing the value of integrating virtual reality technologies in cultural education.

“Heed the Mute Language of Nature”: An Ecosemiotic Approach to Urban Wildlife Photography as Translation of Solastalgia1

ABSTRACT This paper attempts to conceptualise urban wildlife photography as so-called intersemiotic translation by reconceptualising the photographer as a translator who acts as “a mediator in an experiential process that allows the recipient (viewer, listener, reader or participant) to re-create the sense […] of the source artefact for him or herself” (Cultural Literacy in Europe, in [Bennett, K. 2019. “Editor’s Introduction. The New Iconicity: Challenges for Translation Theory and Practice.” Translation Matters 1 (2): 1–8], 3). By reframing the focus from an anthropocentric ethic to a biocentric ethic on the loss of place and belonging experienced by non-human animals in urban ecologies, in particular, this paper intends to explore the role of urban wildlife photography as translation of solastalgia in re-evaluating our current human values towards the natural world. Originally defined as “distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment” [Albrecht, G., Sartore, G.-M., Connor, L., Higginbotham, N., Freeman, S., Kelly, B., Stain, H., Tonna, A. and Pollard, G. (2007) “Solastalgia: The Distress Caused by Environmental Change”, Australasian Psychiatry, 15(1_suppl), pp. S95–S98], solastalgia, it is argued in this paper, should be extended to include the experience of the non-human as well. Photography, it is argued here, is one way in which this experience can be critically depicted and translated to a human audience. By means of an interdisciplinary discussion between Translation Studies and Critical Theory (through Walter Benjamin and Bernard Stiegler), we attempt to provide an ecosemiotic exploration of the conceptual grounding of urban wildlife photography as intersemiotic translation.

Augmented reality in the metaverse market: the role of multimodal sensory interaction

PurposeIn the growing information systems (IS) literature on metaverse, augmented reality (AR) technology is regarded as a cornerstone of the metaverse which enables interaction services. Interaction has been identified as a core technology characteristic of metaverse shopping environments. Based on previous human–technology interaction research, the authors further explicate interaction to be multimodal sensory. The purpose of this study is thus to better understand the unique nature of interaction in AR technology and highlight the technology's benefits for shopping in metaverse spaces.Design/methodology/approachAn experiment has been conducted to empirically examine the authors' research model. The authors use the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach to analyze the collected data.FindingsThis study conceptualizes image, motion and touchscreen interactions as the three dimensions of multimodal sensory interaction, which can reflect visual-, kinesthetic- and haptic-based sensation stimulation. The authors' findings show that multimodal sensory interaction of AR activates consumers' intention to purchase via a psychological process. To delineate this psychological process, the authors use feelings-as-information theory to posit that experiential factors can influence cognitive factors. More specifically, multimodal sensory interaction is shown to increase multisensory experience and spatial presence, which can effectively reduce product uncertainty and information overload. The two outcomes have been considered to be key issues in online shopping environments.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first ones that shed light on the multimodal sensory peculiarity of AR interactions in the extant IS literature. The authors further highlight the benefits of AR in addressing major online shopping concerns about product uncertainty and information overload, which are largely overlooked by prior research. This study uses feelings-as-information theory to explain the impacts of AR interactions, which reveal the essential role of the experiential process in sensory-enabling technologies. This study enriches the existing theoretical frameworks that mostly focus on the cognitive process. The authors' findings about AR interactions provide noteworthy guidelines for the design of metaverse environments and extend the authors' understanding of how the metaverse may bring benefits beyond traditional online shopping settings.

Effects of Mindful Engagement and Attention on Reciprocal Caregiver and Client Interactions: A Behavioral Analysis of Moment-to-Moment Changes During Mindfulness Practice

ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to examine the effects of Mindfulness-Based Positive Behavior Support (MBPBS) training on the nature of caregiver and client reciprocal interactions at a moment-by-moment level using behavior analytic methodology. Specifically, we compared the behavior of caregivers and clients before and after MBPBS training for the caregivers in terms of caregiver-client engagement, percent of learning and leisure interactions during caregiver-client engagement, and percent of the clients’ challenging behaviors and socially acceptable behaviors during learning and leisure interactions. In addition, we examined the effects of specific conditionality of attentional responses of the caregivers to the clients’ challenging or socially acceptable behavior in terms of frequency, latency, duration, and quality.MethodCaregiver and client engagements were videotaped before and after MBPBS training for the caregivers. The percent of caregiver-client engagement was analyzed using partial-interval recording for overall engagement and the clients’ challenging behaviors and socially acceptable behaviors during learning and leisure interactions. The effects of the caregivers’ attentional responses to the clients’ challenging behaviors and socially acceptable behaviors were analyzed using whole-interval recording.ResultsTraining caregivers in MBPBS significantly increased caregiver-client engagement during learning and leisure activities, which resulted in the clients exhibiting fewer challenging behaviors and more socially appropriate behaviors. Furthermore, an analysis of the effects of different types of caregiver attention showed differential effects on the clients’ challenging behaviors and socially acceptable behaviors.ConclusionsThe results indicated that behavior analytic methods can be used as an objective and reliable way of capturing the nature of changes in predefined behaviors of both caregivers and clients at a moment-by-moment level following training of the caregivers in a mindfulness-based program. Using such an analytic method may provide an effective way of objectively measuring some experiential processes involved in mindfulness training.

Knowledge Management From Research Processes

Research conducted at universities may not be merely academic, that is, it must not only comply with internal indicators related to teacher evaluation. The research focuses its purpose on generating a theorization on knowledge management in the university context from the research processes developed by teachers who are leaders of research groups. It was developed methodologically from a qualitative experiential process of the researchers with the study phenomenon. It is necessary to build a university where knowledge management is observed from research as a fundamental axis of the curriculum, in order to constitute an institution based on the generation of innovation from the contribution made by each of the people who make it up. The university from its parts must build a curriculum focused on research, permeable to social realities, inclusive, intercultural, ethical; in recognition of the other as an epistemic subject generator of knowledge and in permanent training from a subject - subject perspective, in order to transcend the content repetition model, concerned with the reproduction of professionals, but not researchers concerned with social transformation.

Follow-Up: A Neglected Experiential Process within a Transformational Learning Community for Teachers as Adult Learners during the Pandemic

Follow-Up: A Neglected Experiential Process within a Transformational Learning Community for Teachers as Adult Learners during the Pandemic

Australians' perceptions about health risks associated with climate change: Exploring the role of media in a comprehensive climate change risk perception model

We advance a recent comprehensive model of climate change risk perceptions by investigating the role of media in shaping individuals’ health risk perceptions. Results from a national survey in Australia (n = 1023) show that perceived health risks associated with climate change are related but distinct from perceived harm to self and society as measured in previous risk perception studies. Moreover, the full model explains 47% variance in health risks and 74% in perceived harm; While experiential processes (21%) account for about half of the variance in health risks, cognitive factors explain the largest share of variance in perceived harm (32%). Media processes explain a 10% variance in health risks and a 14% variance in perceived harm. News interest and media exposure to extreme weather events are significant to understand public health risks and harm perceptions, even after accounting for several other socio-demographic, cognitive, experiential, and socio-cultural factors. Findings support a conditional media effects model. Media can, directly and indirectly, affect public health risk perceptions by providing vicarious experience opportunities and information that Australians are looking for in the media about climate change.

Orientalism, Disorientation, and the “Other Side of the World”

This paper examines orientalism and its repercussions in the field of Late Antiquity. Instead of treating orientalism as a textual phenomenon, I argue that it is a continuous experiential process that comes as a result of encountering texts, objects, and others. I take examples from familiar academic practices and institutions—translations, editions, archeology, museums, digitization, etc.—all of which are related to access to this field. Discourses on progress sometimes cloud the ethical and moral issues of these practices, which we have inherited from older generations of Western scholars. I show how modern efforts and approaches remain insufficient in some cases, and more importantly how they primarily benefit scholars from or located in the West. This article, thus, aims to point out their shortcomings and critique the prevailing optimistic narrative of justice and progress in the hopes of inciting a more productive dialogue about access and knowledge production.