Hope For Future Research Articles

Recent advances in head and neck surgical oncology.

In recent years, the field of head and neck oncology has witnessed a remarkable transformation with unprecedented advances that have revolutionized the management of complex tumors in this region. As an intricate subspecialty within oncology, head and neck surgical procedures demand detailed knowledge of the complex anatomy meticulous precision in surgical technique, and expertise to preserve vital functions while ensuring optimal oncological outcomes. With the relentless pursuit of improved patient outcomes, the integration of innovative technologies has significantly enhanced the surgical armamentarium. Robotics, endoscopic platforms, and image-guided navigation have revolutionized the surgical approach, enabling precise tumor resection and sparing healthy tissues. Furthermore, the application of advanced imaging modalities and molecular biomarker profiling has opened new avenues for personalized treatment strategies. From targeted therapies and immunotherapies to adaptive radiation techniques, clinicians are now equipped with an array of tailored options, ushering in a new era of personalized care for patients with head and neck malignancies. This article delves into the unfolding narratives of clinical triumphs, exploring the transformative potential of emerging therapies and the collaborative efforts propelling head and neck surgical oncology toward a future of hope and healing.

Peace education in a time of war: the Museum of Peace in Rivne, Ukraine as a space of memory making and hope

ABSTRACT Peace museums play an important role in peace education by offering visitors informal and non-formal education. As sites of remembrance, peace museums are rich pedagogical spaces for experiential learning and reflection. Educating children in the spirit of peace, tolerance and harmony between nations has been central to the work of the Museum of Peace in Rivne in Ukraine. Whilst peace museums usually engage in peacebuilding and memory making in times of peace, post conflict, this article reports on the work of the Museum in Rivne in a time of war. Wartime brings difficult questions about engaging in peacebuilding in the face of military aggression and about sustaining memory-making work when violent conflict makes memories too immediate and painful. As explained in the article, the reinvigorated peacebuilding effort at the Museum in Rivne demonstrates that, in a time of war, it is even more important to promote peace, in opposition to war. Through the annual event ‘I Vote for Peace’, the Museum has sought to create a network of schools committed to global tolerance and peacekeeping, as well as offer Ukrainian children a space for talking about their experiences and their hope for a peaceful future.

Analisis Muatan Nilai Karakter dalam Buku Teks Pendidikan Pancasila SMP Kelas VII

Basically, one strategy in shaping the character of the nation's next generation is through instilling character values ??in students at school, which can be implemented using the Pancasila Education textbook. This research aims to strengthen students' values ??and ethics, so that they become individuals who are honest, empathetic and responsible, who in turn are expected to be pioneers of change that bring hope for a better future. This research methodology is a qualitative approach with content analysis methods. The results of the research show that the character values ??contained in the Pancasila Education textbook are spread throughout the book's chapters, including (1) the introductory section which contains an invitation or exclamation, (2) the content of the material which includes students' activities in searching for information and reading discourse, as well as (3) a closing section which includes reflection, individual and group assessment.

Universalizing science literacy: How to transcend deficit models of teaching and learning

Student attrition figures are a hidden metric in universities. They signify institutional failure, inhibit branding and marketing campaigns, and displace blame onto individual students. Behind the thousands of cases of attrition are individual stories of shame, guilt, failure, confusion, and lost future hopes and aspirations. This article explores how students' in and through their diversity - can be supported to succeed. Critiquing the deficit model of teaching and learning and deploying both universal design and the abundance model of teaching and learning, this article provides new strategies for student success. We offer innovative methodologies to understand and enable productive pathways by students through a curriculum. The goal is to enhance and enliven science education and demonstrate the gift and power of well-qualified university academics aligning innovative research and teaching.

Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures

AbstractArchaeology in 2022 features more calls than ever for a socially and politically engaged, progressive discipline. Archaeologists increasingly respect and integrate decolonizing and Indigenous knowledge in theory and practice. They acknowledge and embrace the fluidity and diversity of sexes and genders, past and present. They document patterns of migration, ancient as well as contemporary, to combat retrograde and racist narratives that remain pervasive in the public sphere. At the same time, the field has a deep‐seated conservative bastion toward which many scholars retreat, arguing for an “objective” past that is free of political implications or interpretive ambiguity. As anarchist archaeologists, we see the myth of the objective past as one of many interconnected myths that have provided the basis for an archaeology that reifies and proliferates the current social order. We deconstruct myths relating to capitalist and colonialist ideologies of “human nature,” the assumed inevitability of the current order, and fatalistic commitment to dystopian or utopian futures. As alternatives, we present counter‐myths that emphasize the contingent and political nature of archaeological praxis, the creative and collaborative foundation of communities, the alternative orders that archaeology uncovers, and the role of a hopeful past for constructing the possibilities of different futures.

Environmental Governance and International Relations: A Systematic Review of Theories, Methods, and Issues in Latin American Publications

Home to the Amazon and other important biomes and to countries with long coastlines, most of Latin America faces a variety of enduring environmental challenges. Nonetheless, the region’s academic production on international environmental policy is fragmented and dispersed. This study aims to systematically analyze the literature on environmental governance in Latin America (2004–2023), with a special focus on theoretical approaches, methods, and issues. Our sample includes papers published in indexed academic journals written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish to answer the following question: How can Latin American literature on environmental policy help us understand environmental governance in the region and globally? Complementarily, we ask the following: What topics have been prioritized? What theories and methods have been used? What gaps remain? We suggest a future research agenda and hope to help strengthen the international relations (IR) environmental governance literature by providing subsidies to improve research in the region.

Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House

Understood as a direct claiming and remaking of vacant space by marginalized urban residents, occupations claim the right to housing and disrupt property relations, surfacing conflicting rationalities between different valorizations of land and infrastructure. We are interested in occupation as a reparative practice, intervening into the socio-material fabric of the city, with the potential to remake urban life-worlds. We draw inspiration from scholarship on infrastructural repair, conceived as the necessary labor of sustaining and filling in the gaps of fragile systems of provisioning that would otherwise be abandoned or left to decay. We situate our reflection in Cape Town, at the Cissie Gool House occupation, a former hospital that was vacant when it was occupied in 2017. In paying attention to the labors of endurance at CGH, this paper advances an expanded conceptual framework of repair, conceiving of occupations as a reparative urban infrastructure that includes material and affective practices. Our concern is with the enactment of more emancipatory forms of reparative practices that prefigure more hopeful futures. In thinking with CGH, we draw out a set of practices that can be read as central to sustaining, reclaiming, and future-making, naming these: infrastructural repair, prefiguration, defiant endurance, and refusal.

Memoryscapes of liberation: activist mnemonic labour in the queer press

ABSTRACT In this article, I will explore the role of memory in the context of homosexual liberation movements. I will do this through the lens of the queer press, which will serve as a doorway for the exploration of activist mnemonic labour. Activists undertake mnemonic labour to craft narratives that weave together historical oppression and resistance with hopes for a better future. These narratives are used to motivate and sustain activists in their present struggles. The queer press helps spread narratives across borders and creates shared memoryscapes for activism. My proposal is to view memoryscapes as schemata that inform activist mnemonic labour. On one hand, memoryscapes offer a shared purpose and direction for activists spread across different countries. On the other hand, they serve as arenas for mediation and comparison, linking distinct histories from diverse social groups and revealing their shared threads. This turns memory into a resource for building alliances across borders, and among different political and social groups. I will adopt this perspective to study two Argentinian homosexual liberation groups from the 1960s-70s: Nuestro Mundo and Frente de Liberación Homosexual (FLH). I will explore activist mnemonic labour on Nuestro Mundo’s bulletins and the FLH’s periodicals: Homosexuales and Somos. I will focus on two main aspects: (1) how activists adapt transnational narratives to the local context, and (2) how Argentinian activists weave narratives that blend historical oppression and resistance with visions of a different future.

Khalifa Al-Yazia's "The mango tree": tree of life archetype

The subject of the study is the "world tree" concept, coined by the young writer from the United Arab Emirates, Al-Yazia Khalifa, “The Mango Tree” (2021). The authors are interested in this symbol interpretation. Using the example of an Arab family, the artist creates a picture of the quiet and measured life of Arabs in the province of al-Ain. Through the eyes of a little girl, she describes one sultry day spent in the house of her beloved grandmother, in whose yard a magnificent mango grows. The aspects of life of a large Emirati family are depicted - work, prayer, and meals. The methods of historical and systemic analysis allow the authors to prove that the mango tree is a symbol of the cycle of life continuity. A seed planted in the ground becomes a sprout of hope for a bright future and faith in the inviolability of the traditional family way of life. Cicadas chirping on a tree are the embodiment of the element of air. The fish that family members eat at dinner symbolize water, while cats in the yard represent fire. In the game, the heroine tames four natural elements, beating her fears. Thanks to the fragrant and juicy “king of fruits,” an atmosphere of comfort, prosperity and harmony is created in which several generations of the family grew up. That is why the little girl would not break away from their native roots and would follow their parents’ measured pattern of life.

From disenfranchisement to hope through youth-adult participatory action research

This paper proposes dovetailing the concept of youth-adult partnership with youth participatory action research to generate a methodology of youth-adult participatory action research. Within contemporary education, deficit-oriented discourses of hopelessness and demoralisation among ‘at risk’ young people and their teachers, particularly those in marginalised and/or high poverty communities, pervade the literature. However, scholarship suggests that negative emotions do not tend to stem from a sense of hopelessness but one of uncertainty, which is typically caused by a lack of accurate information and thus provides a starting point for investigations through integrating reason and emotion. Embedded in Fraser’s conceptualisation of justice as parity of participation, coupled with Freire’s notion of intergenerational dialogue and a critical-democratic conceptualisation of engagement, youth-adult participatory action research seeks to generate communities of praxis in which students, teachers and researchers form explicit tripartite partnerships as co-investigators and co-learners. As they jointly explore their shared concerns, the members of the community mobilise their collective power and agency to co-design context-specific solutions and in so doing, transform the negative emotion and disenfranchisement stemming from uncertainty into a critical hope for more optimistic futures than those alluded to by the ‘at risk’ and ‘disengaged’ policy tags.

Artificial Intelligence: A Ray of Hope for a Sustainable Future

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on the global economy. From eradicating hunger and poverty to establishing sustainable energy and gender equality, AI plays a crucial role in achieving environmental sustainability. Artificial intelligence is undeniably the best course of action for the protection and preservation of biodiversity. The rapid development of artificial intelligence and its wide-ranging effects on numerous industries call for an assessment of how these factors will affect the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The three subcategories of the SDGs are society, economics, and the environment. AI is used in a variety of environmental fields, including waste management, pollution control, agriculture, energy management, wildlife preservation, and natural resource conservation. In the long run, AI will assist energy systems that are more energy efficient and have a low carbon footprint, which is necessary to combat climate change. AI can assist in properly regulating the intricate ecosystem's structure and activities. In addition to the aforementioned uses, it can aid in decision-making and environmental planning by spotting trends in desertification across vast areas. Due to the development of numerous new technologies, AI can now be used in nations with diverse cultural values and economic statuses. The technique has become more well-known as a result, worldwide. Advanced AI-based product design, technology, and research may need a lot of computer power, which can be provided by big data centres. Such facilities have a significant carbon footprint and a high energy need. Although this kind of resource abuse has not been extensively reported, AI-based ecosystem knowledge may lead to resource exploitation.

The State of Sport Science Around the World: A Roundtable Discussion

ABSTRACT Although sport science as a profession has advanced in some countries, there are other countries where it is still in its infancy. This roundtable was designed to identify the perceived state of sport science in different countries around the world, including common themes that may be used to help further advance an emerging profession. Several international panelists discussed the sports that most commonly use sport science services, their opinions about the sport scientist job task and responsibilities, the role of education in preparing sport scientists for the field, and sport science career opportunities around the world. Furthermore, the panelists shared their opinions about the current state of sport science, and their hopes for a brighter future of sport science.

Carving Lines through Melting Lands: A Diffractive Engagement with Troubled and Troubling Relations of Alpine Skiing in the Anthropocene

This study conceptualizes alpine skiing as a troubled and troubling leisure practice in the context of the Anthropocene. It employs a critical feminist new materialist lens and a diffractive methodology to unravel, critique, and undo the multifaceted more-than-human relations with snow and landscapes in alpine skiing. The study contends that alpine skiing is troubled by its capitalist, extractive, and exploitative relations with nature. Diffraction disrupts these relations by cutting through dualities and boundaries. Through diffractive vignettes of contaminating, collaborating, annihilating, and speculating, the findings illustrate the tensions and entanglement at the core of alpine skiing and how they matter for more-than-human relations. The study contributes by demonstrating how a diffractive engagement with leisure can be productive of troubling, caring, and thinking-with more-than-humans in hopeful futures beyond the Anthropocene.

고등학생 예비부모의 영유아기 자녀교육에 대한 인식

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of parents of prospective high school students on the education of their children in early childhood. The subjects of the study were 245 high school students enrolled in G Metropolitan High School. The research questionnaire consisted of the number of children expected, the gender of the desired child, the reason why the child is needed, the desired form of education for infants and toddlers, the most important points when educating infants and toddlers, the education that should be given the most priority to infants and toddlers, the best way to educate infants and toddlers about basic lifestyle habits and personality, the cost of education for infants and toddlers for one month, the future hope that our child will become the most, and the most influential for infants and toddlers to grow. As a result of the analysis using SPSS 23.0, the respondents showed a tendency to expect two children and want them regardless of gender, and emphasized bonding and a sense of creation and achievement as reasons for needing children. The desired form of education for children in early childhood appeared to be parents, and character education was considered the most important. In addition, personality education and basic lifestyle habits were shown to be the education that should be given the highest priority, and the opinion that it should be carried out naturally at home was emphasized. The monthly cost of children's education was less than 50 to 1 million won, and the children's future hopes were mainly what the children wanted, and the parents' education and upbringing methods had a great influence on the growth of children. This study will be used as an important basic data for the education of infants and toddlers in Korea.

The psychological contract of women athletes in semi-professional team sports

ABSTRACT Within the dynamic landscape of women’s semi-professional and professional leagues, athletes and their employers are negotiating their employment relationship parameters. Positioning our research in a postfeminist sensibility, we explore both parties’ expectations and obligations through psychological contract (PC) theory. We conducted interviews across two semi-professional sports leagues, with 30 athletes, 20 coaches and managers and two league-level representatives. The data analysis identified three themes: 1. Obligations, commitment, and choice; 2. Expectations of conformity and power relations; 3. Fulfilling organisational goals. Many athletes spoke about power imbalances in the PC with employers “exploiting” athletes’ desire to be play in the league at almost any cost. Athletes felt they had little choice but to accept the current state of employment, endure sacrifices and hope for a better future where they could reach their potential through viable career pathways and a living wage. Our research provides a better understanding of the PC employment relationship and associated implications. Greater knowledge about PCs could be used to develop work practices and relations that enhance and benefit athletes and employers.

Democratic Spirit, Emotions, Help, and Hope during the Russian war against Ukraine: Experience from the Czech Republic.

This study is based on an original eight-wave longitudinal survey conducted in the Czech Republic (N= 1622, national quota sample). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to create a mediation model to test whether democratic spirit assessed in March 2021 (1 year before the Russian invasion) predicted responses to the major crisis (measured immediately, 2 months, and 9 months after the invasion). The Russian invasion of February 2022 deeply impacted Czech democrats. They reacted by a strong increase in positive emotions toward Ukraine/Ukrainians (e.g., compassion, admiration to courage), a milder increase in negative emotions (e.g., anger) and physiological discomfort. The Russian invasion further strengthened the democratic identity of the Czech citizens which increased their willingness to help Ukraine, both personally and by government. Finally, the democratic spirit of 2021 predicted hope for Ukraine and for Czechia in late 2022 when various crises cumulated. Notably, the direct effect of democratic spirit on future hope was non-significant unless respondents were concerned with some aid to Ukrainians. Help completely mediated the democratic spirit and was linked to hope. The relationship between democratic values and hope was strong and spanned almost 2 years and cumulated crises. The study suggests that democratic values are significantly related to positive reactions to stressful conditions. The protective effect of the democratic spirit seemed beneficial both to one's health and delivering help to victims.

Restor(y)ing commitment to a failing organization: how narratives and forecasts mitigate anxiety

PurposeThis research interrogates how the construction of narratives and accounting forecasts contributes to managing the emotional state of actors involved in reporting meetings by promoting discourses of hope in their organization's future, mitigating their anxiety. This study shows how narratives are built from multiple antenarratives and accounting forecasts, which restore and strengthen organizational actors' commitment to their organizations. This study contributes to a better understanding of the role played by narratives and accounting documents in mitigating organizational members' anxiety.Design/methodology/approachOver eight months, an interventionist research design method gave one of the authors the opportunity to record discussions held during reporting meetings in a business incubator. These recordings captured the production of narratives and forecasts in these meetings.FindingsThis study shows how the production of multiple antenarratives and accounting forecasts helps organizational actors who attend reporting meetings mitigate the anxiety triggered by disappointing performance figures and restore collective discourses full of hope for the organization's future. This case highlights how personal antenarratives and successive versions of accounting forecasts contribute to restoring a collective commitment to a failing organization.Originality/valueThis study refines current understanding of the under-explored links between accounting forecasts, narratives and anxiety management. The study provides insight into how accounting practices contribute to the production of narratives that successfully restore organizational members' commitment to working for a failing organization. The study also exemplifies the original insights gained from interventionist research protocols.

Hopeful new worlds: Narrating another Maputo at the interface between visceral experience of place and visceral empathy

There is a certain lure to storied alternatives of the future, whether hopeful or otherwise, which rests on their potential to unsettle particular ways of dwelling and narrating the city. In this paper, we draw on visceral geographies and speculative fiction to stage a critical and imaginative exploration of Maputo's streetscapes. Through an empirical focus on the sites of Polana Caniço A, the Marginal, and Triunfo, we reflect on the changing relations between the body and the streetscape, as to the clues they offer about more hopeful futures. Based on the explored affordances of the streetscape, we propose a speculative fiction vignette that unveils new modes of ordering and cohabitation redolent with the workings of counter-cities and their potentialities. In the concluding part, we further the counter-cities line of thinking by reflecting on the transformative potential of speculative fiction as a critical mode of enquiry.

The future-oriented hopes and goals of adolescent student-athletes in Finnish sport high schools

ABSTRACT As most young athletes do not end up making a living in sport, and professional athletic careers are relatively short, adolescent athletes need to think about and plan their future outside of sport. The present longitudinal study examined the future-oriented hopes and goals of adolescent student-athletes in Finland at the beginning and end of sport high school. Gender differences in these hopes and goals were also examined. The sample consisted of 381 student-athletes (51% females, 49% males) in the autumn of the first year of high school and 351 student-athletes (50% females, 50% males) in the spring of the third year, who filled in a questionnaire at both measurement points. A total of 11 goal categories consisting of 49 subcategories were identified using directed content analysis. Changes across time and gender differences in these hopes and goals were examined using the “N-1” chi-squared test. The results showed that sport-related hopes and goals were the most common at both measurement points. However, only 51% and 27% of the participants mentioned dual careers in their goals for the future at the beginning and end of high school, respectively. The female participants reported statistically significantly more goals related to education and a dual career and statistically significantly fewer goals related to sport than males. Further, male participants reported statistically significantly more often not knowing their future hopes and goals than females.

Cultural Consensus Modeling to identify culturally relevant reasons for and against suicide among Black adolescents.

The development of evidence-based treatments relies on accurate theoretical frameworks sensitive to the lived realities of the populations from which they are derived. Yet, the perspectives of Black youth are vastly underrepresented in extant theories of suicidal behavior. Cultural Consensus Modeling provides an evidence-based approach for developing a culturally informed understanding of suicide risk among Black youth. Participants were 50 Black adolescents (Mage = 16.20 years; 76.0% male) who completed Phase 1 of a Cultural Consensus Modeling study. Participants freely listed reasons for suicide and reasons for living among similar peer Black youth. Responses were synthesized and coded for major themes. The most common reasons for suicide were racism (40%), depression (32%), poverty (26%), and bullying (22%). The most common reasons for living were family (58%), having a purpose or goals (36%), friends (30%), and hope for a better future (26%). Responses highlighted issues of racism and social justice, depression, and poverty, as well as the protective role of relationships, living for the future, and contributing to Black empowerment. Future research should utilize Cultural Consensus Modeling to elevate the voices of Black youth, improving extant theories of suicide, and identifying unique mechanisms or opportunities for prevention.