Disciplinary Perspectives Research Articles

The Construction of Localized Teaching Model of Orff Music Teaching Method Based on Big Data Analysis

This paper discusses how Orff's music education system is combined with the localized teaching mode under the background of globalization, especially with the support of big data analysis to realize the innovation of music education. Orff's music education has attracted worldwide attention for its openness, diversity and innovation. In China, its localization practice aims to balance the international educational concept with the local cultural needs. The innovations of this paper are as follows: firstly, the big data analysis technology is integrated into the localized teaching mode, and the new mode of music teaching is analyzed; Secondly, advocate students' active participation, get rid of the shackles of traditional teaching and make music learning lively and interesting; Thirdly, from a new discipline perspective, combined with the frontier concept of national music education, this paper interprets Orff's localization theory and practice in order to push Orff's music education in China out of the dependent development mode.

Statistical models and implant customization in hip arthroplasty: Seeking patient satisfaction through design

ObjectivesThis study conducts a systematic literature review to explore the role of statistical models and methods in the design of orthopedic implants, with a specific focus on hip arthroplasty. Through a comprehensive analysis of the scientific literature, it aims to understand the relevance and applicability of these models in implant development and research trends in the field of design. MethodsData analysis and co-occurrence mapping techniques were employed to investigate the statistical models used as predictors of satisfaction in hip arthroplasty and in implant design. This approach facilitated a detailed and objective assessment of existing literature, revealing key trends and identifying gaps in current knowledge. Key findingsThe review's findings underscore a burgeoning interest in implant customization, with a significant emphasis on leveraging statistical techniques for optimal design. The logistic model methodology was applied to analyze a survey of hip surgery specialists, revealing that the physician's age does not influence the decision to use a customized implant. Furthermore, the review highlighted a knowledge gap at the intersection of statistics and design discipline concerning implant customization. SignificanceDespite the recognized importance of customization in implant design, there remains a dearth of contributions from the design discipline perspective in the existing literature, indicating substantial room for improvement and the need for interdisciplinary integration. ConclusionThe integration of statistical methods in implant design is crucial, emphasizing the need for multidisciplinary approaches and customization to enhance patient satisfaction. This study provides a foundation for future research that could transform the field of hip arthroplasty through more personalized and effective solutions.

Collaborative strategies for designing employability curriculum in a liberal arts context

In Australian higher education, the push for curriculum innovation to enhance graduate employability is crucial but faces contention and debate. While the importance of integrating employability skills is widely recognised, perspectives on how and whether to incorporate these as curricular objectives vary, especially in liberal arts programs. This paper explores a multidisciplinary academic team’s experiences of embedding employability units into the Bachelor of Arts and undergraduate Communication and Creative Arts degrees at one Australian university. It addresses the challenges of diverse disciplinary perspectives on employability, career education, and work-integrated learning (WIL), and the design for a diverse student cohort, including career starters, career advancers, and career changers from multiple disciplinary contexts. Utilising Tuckman’s ‘forming, storming, norming, and performing’ model, the paper evaluates the team’s dynamics, offering insights and guidance for academics and institutions undertaking similar curriculum innovation projects to enhance graduate employability. This case study highlights the institutional support necessary for fostering sustainable curriculum reforms and the positive effects of collaborative curriculum design on the professional development and teaching capabilities of the educators involved.

Accounting for informalization in Africa's extractive industry: Evidence from Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector during the colonial period

AbstractIn this paper, we draw on the accountability and institutional theories to explicate the informalized state of Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector as an exemplar of informalization of the extractive industry in Africa during the colonial period. We present a critical and historical perspective on the role of colonial subjugation that took the form of discriminatory policies and lack of accountability, in laying the foundations for the current challenges of continuous informalization of the indigenous gold mining sector and its implications on livelihoods, the economy and the environment in Ghana. We analyzed archival data on the mining industry in Ghana, consisting of official correspondences between colonial bureaucrats in Britain and Ghana, as well as colonial policies on mining, interpreted through the lenses of institutional theory. Specifically, we used records comprising letters, mineral policies, mineral output, and labor relations in the Gold Coast during the colonial period as well as minutes of meetings held by those governing mining enterprises that operated in Ghana before 1957. We also drew on periodic reports of the Ghana Chamber of Mines and their member enterprises, Government of Ghana white papers, parliamentary records among others. We found that the colonial authority, as the new institutional power with vested interest in the extractive industry, adopted discriminatory policies that banned small‐scale gold mining by indigenous population in Ghana, marginalizing the sector's operation to the advantage of foreign large‐scale gold miners. We demonstrate that the control of mineral resources by the colonial authority under new ownership structures disenfranchised the indigenous population and their right to the mineral resources of the Gold Coast. We argue that this institutionalized discriminatory policy, and the resulting lack of accountability is largely responsible for the ongoing informalization of Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector. This paper contributes to the corpus of critical and historical scholarship that investigates the role of racialization and accountability during colonial period, but with notable distinction that departs from specific professional or disciplinary perspectives. Instead, it focuses on the colonial subjugation and exploitation of the small‐scale gold mining sector and its ongoing informalization that traces its roots to the era of British colonial rule in Ghana. It reiterates the need for accountability for these historical inequalities affecting the small‐scale mining operators, to facilitate the sector's formalization and to effectively control and manage the myriads of negative impacts associated with it.

Understanding disciplinary perspectives: a framework to develop skills for interdisciplinary research collaborations of medical experts and engineers

BackgroundHealth professionals need to be prepared for interdisciplinary research collaborations aimed at the development and implementation of medical technology. Expertise is highly domain-specific, and learned by being immersed in professional practice. Therefore, the approaches and results from one domain are not easily understood by experts from another domain. Interdisciplinary collaboration in medical research faces not only institutional, but also cognitive and epistemological barriers. This is one of the reasons why interdisciplinary and interprofessional research collaborations are so difficult. To explain the cognitive and epistemological barriers, we introduce the concept of disciplinary perspectives. Making explicit the disciplinary perspectives of experts participating in interdisciplinary collaborations helps to clarify the specific approach of each expert, thereby improving mutual understanding.MethodWe developed a framework for making disciplinary perspectives of experts participating in an interdisciplinary research collaboration explicit. The applicability of the framework has been tested in an interdisciplinary medical research project aimed at the development and implementation of diffusion MRI for the diagnosis of kidney cancer, where the framework was applied to analyse and articulate the disciplinary perspectives of the experts involved.ResultsWe propose a general framework, in the form of a series of questions, based on new insights from the philosophy of science into the epistemology of interdisciplinary research. We explain these philosophical underpinnings in order to clarify the cognitive and epistemological barriers of interdisciplinary research collaborations. In addition, we present a detailed example of the use of the framework in a concrete interdisciplinary research project aimed at developing a diagnostic technology. This case study demonstrates the applicability of the framework in interdisciplinary research projects.ConclusionInterdisciplinary research collaborations can be facilitated by a better understanding of how an expert’s disciplinary perspectives enables and guides their specific approach to a problem. Implicit disciplinary perspectives can and should be made explicit in a systematic manner, for which we propose a framework that can be used by disciplinary experts participating in interdisciplinary research project. Furthermore, we suggest that educators can explore how the framework and philosophical underpinning can be implemented in HPE to support the development of students’ interdisciplinary expertise.

Architectural Evaluation of Eco-Industrial Parks within the Scope of Sustainable Human Development Goals

This study makes an architectural evaluation of eco-industrial parks within the scope of sustainable human development goals. Eco-industrial parks are areas of critical importance in reducing the environmental impacts of industrial activities. These parks offer innovative and effective solutions to reduce industrial pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In this direction, the study evaluates the performance of eco-industrial parks according to criteria such as energy efficiency, material use, water management, waste management, indoor quality, landscape-green areas, social participation and economic sustainability. The sample structures of the research are Kokkola Eco-Industrial Park, Kalundborg Eco-Industrial Park, The Ecofactorij, Tianjin Economic Development Zone, Eco3 Industrial Park and Daedeok Technovalley Park, which are pioneers in the field of eco-industrial parks in the world. The findings of the study show that taking architectural criteria into consideration within the scope of sustainable development goals in the design of eco-industrial parks leads to more efficient results. Although pioneering eco-industrial parks have positive features in many aspects, they are inadequate in terms of interior quality, transportation, accessibility and innovative design. On the other hand, material selection, water and waste management are the criteria in which parks are most successful. According to the research findings, the parks with the highest scores were Kalundborg and TEDA, while the parks with the lowest scores were Ecofactorij and Kokkola. As a result, this study provides guidance to architects, urban planners and politicians on improving existing parks and shaping new designs. In the future, more comprehensive studies can be conducted on the design and planning of eco-industrial parks from the perspectives of different disciplines.

Creating Edinburgh: diffracting interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the contemporary city

This article follows an experimental interdisciplinary undergraduate course in the busy, unpredictable space of the contemporary city. It locates practice-based research of interdisciplinary higher education in a dynamic learning environment, which is comprised of unpredictable connections between disciplinary perspectives. Following Karen Barad, the aim is to diffract interdisciplinary higher education in order to recognise and work with a multiplicity of meanings and experiences. This article explores an alternative to the dominant model of challenge-based learning in the interdisciplinary classroom. Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City is an undergraduate elective offered by Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh. It provides students with opportunities to explore the city of Edinburgh in small groups of students from a wide range of degree programmes. Groups are invited to engage with a selection of themed fieldwork topics throughout the 11 weeks of the course, visiting specific sites and responding to a series of tasks and questions. These include themes such as Sustainability, Decolonisation and Wildness, which are presented as interdisciplinary field topics to explore rather than problems to solve. This article develops a research methodology that sets out to travel with students as they navigate their way through the city during their weekly field trips. Combining first-hand autoethnographic accounts with walking interviews, it offers an insight into interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the expanded field of the contemporary city. Conceiving urban space as an assemblage of digital and non-digital objects, events and activities, members of the research team accompany students during their fieldwork, equipped with audio recorders, cameras and notebooks. The documents of these research journeys are then diffracted within a new materialist framework. The article concludes with questions and prompts for working with the agency and the affordances of a field-based education practice.

An Introduction to Late Antique Cross-Craft Studies

The study of crafts and trades in the ancient Mediterranean world has garnered increased attention over the last decade, including through the investigation of cross-craft or inter-industry relations among craft producers. This body of literature represents a range of distinct approaches – including co-production, cross-craft interaction, skeuomorphism, and multicraft – each derived from different disciplinary perspectives, yet collectively these inter-industry approaches are offering new and important perspectives on social and professional networks of artisans, technological developments, and economic organisation of ancient industries. In this introductory chapter, we outline the current trajectories in cross-craft studies and their too often overlooked significance for the study of Late Antiquity.

Strengthening collaboration for interprofessional primary care teams: Insights and key learnings from six disciplinary perspectives.

We provide a case example of the collaborative process required to plan and implement initiatives to enhance team-based primary care, drawing on experiences of six disciplines working together to create new curricula as part of Team Primary Care. Recommendations to strengthen collaboration from our team include building capacity requires an understanding of unique disciplinary roles and understanding of unique elements of primary care; competencies have to be specifically articulated and demonstrated within a primary care context; interprofessional education within and across disciplines is needed; establishing primary care competencies would provide a common set of skills, knowledge, values, and attitudes to form a foundation in which to build the capacity of the interprofessional primary care workforce; and interprofessional collaboration is needed in implementing team-based primary care in practice and in preparing an interprofessional workforce prepared to leverage the expertise of the entire team.

Bring digital twins back to Earth

AbstractWe reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of complexity and uncertainty, and does not engage with critical and interpretative social sciences. We contest the utility of digital twins for addressing climate change issues and discuss societal risks associated with the concept, including the twins' potential to reinforce economicism and governance by numbers, emphasizing concerns about democratic accountability. We propose a more balanced alternative, advocating for independent institutions to develop diverse models, prioritize communication with simple heuristic‐based models, collect comprehensive data from various sources, including traditional knowledge, and shift focus away from physics‐centered variables to inform climate action. We argue that the advancement of digital twins should hinge on stringent controls, favoring a nuanced, interdisciplinary, and democratic approach that prioritizes societal well‐being over blind pursuit of computational sophistication.This article is categorized under: Climate Models and Modeling > Earth System Models Climate Models and Modeling > Knowledge Generation with Models Climate, History, Society, Culture > Disciplinary Perspectives

Alternatives to Establishing Conducive Learning Environment (AECLE) Model for Schools: Assertive Discipline Perspective

Alternatives to Establishing Conducive Learning Environment (AECLE) Model for Schools: Assertive Discipline Perspective

Exploring the Phenomenon of Commercial Branding and Art Co-branding in China Based on Interdisciplinary Perspectives

With the continuous development of China's consumer market, art, and commercial brand co-branding in the era of the commodity economy has become an important development strategy in the commercial field, the brand enriches the connotation of the brand with the power of the artist, and the art also goes to the public with the influence of the brand to broaden the road of art development. However, at the same time, it also exposes many problems in the phenomenon of art and commercial brand co-branding. This study adopts the literature research method, comparative and inductive method, and case study method to analyse the phenomenon of co-branding between art and commercial brands based on different disciplinary perspectives of brand visual image design, art commercialization, and aesthetic education. Through the study, the co-branding of brand and art needs to grasp and deepen the connotation of the brand and explore the potential of cooperation. In addition, the artwork needs to highlight the aesthetic value and return to the heart of art. Finally, people should pay attention to the purpose of aesthetic education and cooperate to create an aesthetic environment. Thus, the characteristics and commonalities between the two can be better grasped and utilised to seek more interdisciplinary and diversified co-branding paths. While creating a favourable atmosphere for art and business brands they should actively take on more social responsibility and continue the vitality of both.

Science of science: A multidisciplinary field studying science

Science and knowledge are studied by researchers across many disciplines, examining how they are developed, what their current boundaries are and how we can advance them. By integrating evidence across disparate disciplines, the holistic field of science of science can address these foundational questions. This field illustrates how science is shaped by many interconnected factors: the cognitive processes of scientists, the historical evolution of science, economic incentives, institutional influences, computational approaches, statistical, mathematical and instrumental foundations of scientific inference, scientometric measures, philosophical and ethical dimensions of scientific concepts, among other influences. Achieving a comprehensive overview of a multifaceted field like the science of science requires pulling together evidence from the many sub-fields studying science across the natural and social sciences and humanities. This enables developing an interdisciplinary perspective of scientific practice, a more holistic understanding of scientific processes and outcomes, and more nuanced perspectives to how scientific research is conducted, influenced and evolves. It enables leveraging the strengths of various disciplines to create a holistic view of the foundations of science. Different researchers study science from their own disciplinary perspective and use their own methods, and there is a large divide between quantitative and qualitative researchers as they commonly do not read or cite research using other methodological approaches. A broader, synthesizing paper employing a qualitative approach can however help provide a bridge between disciplines by pulling together aspects of science (economic, scientometric, psychological, philosophical etc.). Such an approach enables identifying, across the range of fields, the powerful role of our scientific methods and instruments in shaping most aspects of our knowledge and science, whereas economic, social and historical influences help shape what knowledge we pursue. A unifying theory is then outlined for science of science – the new-methods-drive-science theory.

Analisis Peran Keuangan Syariah dalam Pembangunan Ekonomi

The role of Shariah finance in economic development has been the subject of increasing research and policy discourse. Although empirical evidence of the sharia financial impact remains varied and contextual, sharia finance has the potential to make a positive contribution to economic growth, financial stability, and social well-being. Nevertheless, there are still significant challenges and complexities in realizing the Sharia financial potential as a catalyst for economic development. The study aims to explain the multi-faceted contribution of Islamic finance to economic development. In this research the method used is qualitative method. A systematic review of literature is carried out to build a theoretical foundation, conceptual framework, and empirical evidence related to the role of Shariah finance in economic development. The review includes scientific articles, books, reports, and policy documents from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, finance, Islamic studies, and development studies. The results of this study conclude that Islamic finance plays a role in promoting financial inclusion, encouraging investment in sustainable infrastructure and business, enhancing stability through risk-sharing mechanisms, and promoting ethical and socially responsible financial practices. By providing financial products and services in line with Sharia principles, Sharia financial institutions can meet the unique financial needs of various segments of society, thereby helping to reduce gaps in access to finance and enhance economic empowerment

“These two worlds are antithetical”: epistemic tensions in integrating computational thinking in K12 humanities and arts

ABSTRACT Background While advocates for integrating Computational Thinking (CT) into existing K12 classrooms have acknowledged and aimed to address various barriers to implementation, we contend that a more foundational issue – tensions between the epistemology of computing and those of existing disciplines – has largely been overlooked. Studies of contact between heterogeneous disciplinary perspectives in both pedagogical and real world professional settings point to other risks, and harms, that educators may need to consider as they attempt to integrate CT into their teaching. As such, designing for integrated CT pedagogies does not simply require addressing functional problems such as teacher professional learning and limited classroom time, but rather implicates complex epistemological navigations. Objective This manuscript explores epistemic tensions between Computational Thinking (CT) and K12 humanities and arts disciplines and possibilities for their resolution. Method Based on a Delphi study with 43 experts from three disciplines – language arts, social studies, and arts – as they engaged in 20 hours of focus group conversations exploring potential approaches to integrating CT these disciplines, analysis focused on identifying perceived epistemic tensions that can arise in the context of instruction and directions for their resolution. Findings We found 5 epistemic tensions that are explored in detail: contextual reductionism, procedural reductionism, epistemic chauvinism, threats to epistemic identities, and epistemic convergence, as well as a number of potential directions for navigating them. Implications The study’s findings provide insights that bear on both scholarship and pedagogical design aimed at promoting substantive interdisciplinary learning with CT, and, critically, navigating potential tensions that can arise within it.

РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ НА ПРОЕКТНО-БАЗИРАНО ОБУЧЕНИЕ И БИНАРЕН УРОК ПРИ РАБОТА С МАЛЦИНСТВЕНИ ГРУПИ В ПЪРВИ И ВТОРИ ГИМНАЗИАЛЕН ЕТАП НА СРЕДНОТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ

Project-based learning and binary lessons off er innovative approaches to improving the educational process, especially when working with minority groups. They provide opportunities for active participation, collaboration, and integration of cultural diff erences, leading to higher quality and more effective education. By implementing these methods, we can create a more inclusive and stimulating learning environment that encourages all students to achieve their potential. The goal of the implemented innovative project is to create an interdisciplinary link between two subjects – ‘Information Technology’ and ‘Organization and Operation of the Food and Beverage Sector’ to motivate students to learn both inside and outside the classroom. Interdisciplinary learning will not replace individual subjects but will bring them closer, complement, develop, and enhance the education. In the development of a specific project, students use their theoretical knowledge in various practical activities. The lessons that are actually conducted are binary because two mentor teachers unite two classes from the first and second high school stages, two academic subjects from the curriculum, in one real classroom with digital conditions. Finding common ground in solving real didactic cases is a process where students are encouraged to perceive, discuss, and reason from the perspective of multiple disciplines, find answers and present results. Acquiring teamwork skills and building clear logical connections between different thematic units are of essential importance for the subsequent life realization of students from minority groups.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on multimorbidity in Africa: Developing an expanded conceptual model.

Multimorbidity is an emerging challenge for health systems globally. It is commonly defined as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions in one person, but its meaning remains a lively area of academic debate, and the utility of the concept beyond high-income settings is uncertain. This article presents the findings from an interdisciplinary research initiative that drew together 60 academic and applied partners working in 10 African countries to answer the questions: how useful is the concept of multimorbidity within Africa? Can the concept be adapted to context to optimise its transformative potentials? During a three-day concept-building workshop, we investigated how the definition of multimorbidity was understood across diverse disciplinary and regional perspectives, evaluated the utility and limitations of existing concepts and definitions, and considered how to build a more context-sensitive, cross-cutting description of multimorbidity. This iterative process was guided by the principles of grounded theory and involved focus- and whole-group discussions during the workshop, thematic coding of workshop discussions, and further post-workshop development and refinement. Three thematic domains emerged from workshop discussions: the current focus of multimorbidity on constituent diseases; the potential for revised concepts to centre the priorities, needs, and social context of people living with multimorbidity (PLWMM); and the need for revised concepts to respond to varied conceptual priorities amongst stakeholders. These themes fed into the development of an expanded conceptual model that centres the catastrophic impacts multimorbidity can have for PLWMM, families and support structures, service providers, and health systems.

The limits of “resilience”: Relationalities, contradictions, and re‐appropriations

AbstractThe concept of “resilience” is ubiquitous in global governance, extending from climate and ecological issues to practically all spheres of human endeavor. However, post‐pandemic discourses suggest that the concept may no longer be capable of synthesizing diverse and diverging geopolitical interests into common policy goals. Responding to what we see as an emerging “crisis of resilience,” we reconsider the utility of the concept and advance “irresilience” as its critical relational “other.” We argue that to make resilience meaningful in a “polycrisis,” it is necessary to think about it dialectically and consider how it is undermined by the very actors that evangelize it.This article is categorized under: International Policy Framework > Policy and Governance Climate, History, Society, Culture > Disciplinary Perspectives The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Knowledge and Practice Climate and Development > Sustainability and Human Well‐Being

КОНСТИТУЦИОННЫЕ ОСНОВЫ ПРЕДОТВРАЩЕНИЯ ЧРЕЗВЫЧАЙНЫХ СИТУАЦИЙ

Some norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation are considered, which together form the basis for the prevention of natural and man-made emergencies, as a legal foundation for the protection of human life and health, and other legally protected values. The mapping of constitutional norms to some provisions of the main federal laws, acts of the President of the Russian Federation and resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation, their connection with the functional and territorial systems of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of consequences of emergency situations is carried out. The powers of the highest institutions of state power – the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation – are considered from the perspective of state discipline. The constitutional principle of harmonization of mutual relations at the federal level and at the level of Russian regions is touched upon. Possession of the constitutional legal apparatus is presented as a condition for preventing cases of discrepancies and conflicts in legislative acts or departmental regulatory legal acts. The directions of development and improvement of regulatory segments that require a new scientific and legal rethinking and revision in the course of further legal work in the field of regulation are presented.

Experiences of healthcare staff caring for hospitalised people with delirium: a qualitative systematic review.

Inpatient delirium is common and associated with poor outcomes. Although most organisations have evidence-based guidelines to improve delirium prevention and management, delirium rates and outcomes have remained relatively unchanged over time. A lack of understanding of healthcare providers' experience of caring for people with delirium and its integration into existing guidance may explain some of the slow progress in improving delirium care. To review and synthesise existing qualitative evidence on healthcare providers' experience of caring for inpatients with delirium within and across disciplines. We systematically searched OVID Medline, CINAHL, Embase, Emcare, PsychINFO, AMED and Web of Science databases for articles published between January 1990 and November 2022. Article inclusion and study quality were assessed by two independent reviewers. Both thematic synthesis and content analysis were then conducted to synthesise findings from included studies. Within the 25 included studies, the experience of nurses was the most commonly studied perspective, followed by medical and allied health. Nursing, medical and allied health staff all reported that their experience of caring for people with delirium was challenging, highlighting difficulties in delirium recognition and that they felt unsupported at organisational and local levels. Attitudes towards older people and the importance of delirium influenced identification and prioritisation. Healthcare providers often find caring for hospitalised patients with delirium challenging and complex. Although good communication within multidisciplinary teams was deemed helpful, more work is required to understand how to achieve this, recognising the unique perspectives of individual disciplines.