New Norm Research Articles

Replacing place with space: the influences and the challenges of the new norm on the Milan-Cortina Winter Games 2026

ABSTRACT As part of its ongoing review of the processes surrounding the hosting of the Olympic Games (OGs), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set out the Olympic Agenda 2020 and the related New Norm (NN). These reforms, respectively approved in 2014 and 2018 to deal with the growing withdrawal of the bids, are in line with recent management studies highlighting the importance of standardization and replicability in the delivery of physical and social infrastructure. Indeed, they aim to convert development projects, historically-embedded in places, into programmable and transferable spaces of action, in which rules of project management and organization can be applied. The example of the Milano-Cortina Winter Games (MCWG) 2026 is used to assess the first effects and impacts of such IOC's new approach. At the backdrop of the historical evolution of mega-event planning in post-war Italy, the rolling-out of the MCWG is examined at the multiple scales of the Olympic macro-region and of the Milan Olympic Village. The analysis shows that, despite the objectives of the NN to overcome existing tensions and conflicts in the involved places, the Games has only succeeded in amplifying them. Such contradiction demands for a further reflection on this model, that remains under-discussed and under-researched.

RESPONDING TO THE NEW NORM: ANALYSING BUSINESS EDUCATION TEACHER'S TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY AND THE IMPACT ON ONLINE TEACHING

Ponte Academic JournalJul 2022, Volume 78, Issue 7 RESPONDING TO THE NEW NORM: ANALYSING BUSINESS EDUCATION TEACHER'S TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY AND THE IMPACT ON ONLINE TEACHINGAuthor(s): Clinton Chidiebere Anyanwu ,Desmond Wesley Govender, Jabulisile Cynthia NgwenyaJ. Ponte - Jul 2022 - Volume 78 - Issue 7 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2022.7.4 Abstract:The online teaching-and-learning model is progressively becoming the norm globally, with education becoming more convenient and accessible to everyone thanks to the internet. Hence, it was deemed necessary for this study to examine Business Education teachers’ technology proficiency for online teaching. Employing the theoretical framework of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), this study examines Business Education teachers’ levels of technology use in Business Education teaching. Using a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design, probability and purposive sampling, the majority of participants were found to not engage in online teaching; as well not integrate technology in their teaching. Based on a TPACK analysis, the findings suggest the following influencing factors: a low level of technology proficiency; lack of teacher support programmes; and lack of access to modern educational technologies. The pedagogical implication of these findings is that the effective online teaching and learning of Business Education subjects are not being implemented. The study concludes that government investment in educational technologies and teacher development training programmes related to technology integration is critical for Nigerian public secondary schools. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password

Transient twenty-first century changes in daily-scale temperature extremes in the United States

A key question for climate mitigation and adaptation decisions is how quickly significant changes in temperature extremes will emerge as greenhouse gas concentrations increase, and whether that emergence will be uniform between hot and cold extremes and across different geographic areas. We use a high-resolution, multi-member ensemble climate model experiment over the United States (U.S.) to investigate the transient response of the annual frequency, duration and magnitude of 8 daily-scale extreme temperature indices during the twenty-first century of the A1B emissions scenario. We evaluate the time of emergence of a permanent exceedance (PE) above the colder part of the historical (1980–2009) extremes distribution, and the time of emergence of a new norm (NN) centered on the historical maxima (for hot extremes) or minima (for cold extremes). We find that during the twenty-first century, hot extremes permanently exceed the historical distribution’s colder half over large areas of the U.S., and that the hot extremes distribution also becomes centered on or above the historical distribution’s maxima. The changes are particularly robust for the exceedance of the annual 95th percentile of daily maximum temperature over the West and the Northeast (with the earliest emergence of a PE by 2030 and of a NN by 2040), for warm days over the Southwest (with the earliest emergence of a PE by 2020 and of a NN by 2030), and tropical nights over the eastern U.S. (with the earliest emergence of a PE by 2020 and of a NN by 2030). Conversely, no widespread emergence of a PE or a NN is found for most cold extremes. Exceptions include frost day frequency (with a widespread emergence of a PE below the historical median frequency by 2030 and of a NN by 2040 over the western U.S.), and cold night frequency (with an emergence of a PE below the historical median frequency by 2040 and of a NN by 2060 in virtually the entire U.S.). Our analysis implies a transition over the next half century to a climate of recently unprecedented heat stress in many parts of the U.S., along with cold extremes that, although less frequent, remain at times as long and as severe as are found in the current climate.