Scholarly Work Research Articles

Helping Fathers in the Perinatal Period: A Mapping Review of Paternal Mental Health Issues for Social Workers

The absence of father-focused perinatal research and the prioritizing of child- and family-focused perinatal research is particularly noticeable within social work literature. While recent social work scholarship on research related to paternal mental health and the experience of fathers exists, it is sparse. Focused on what is currently known about helping fathers in the perinatal period, this mapping review was done to explore existing and relevant knowledge related to practices to better serve fathers and their families. Themes among the existing knowledge related to developmental change, traumatic birth, paternal mental health, interventions, neurobiology, and policy will be discussed before concluding with a focus on emerging focal points for future research related to nurturing fathers during perinatal care.

Protocol for a scoping review study on learning plan use in undergraduate medical education

BackgroundThe current paradigm of competency-based medical education and learner-centredness requires learners to take an active role in their training. However, deliberate and planned continual assessment and performance improvement is hindered by the fragmented nature of many medical training programs. Attempts to bridge this continuity gap between supervision and feedback through learner handover have been controversial. Learning plans are an alternate educational tool that helps trainees identify their learning needs and facilitate longitudinal assessment by providing supervisors with a roadmap of their goals. Informed by self-regulated learning theory, learning plans may be the answer to track trainees’ progress along their learning trajectory. The purpose of this study is to summarise the literature regarding learning plan use specifically in undergraduate medical education and explore the student’s role in all stages of learning plan development and implementation.MethodsFollowing Arksey and O’Malley’s framework, a scoping review will be conducted to explore the use of learning plans in undergraduate medical education. Literature searches will be conducted using multiple databases by a librarian with expertise in scoping reviews. Through an iterative process, inclusion and exclusion criteria will be developed and a data extraction form refined. Data will be analysed using quantitative and qualitative content analyses.DiscussionBy summarising the literature on learning plan use in undergraduate medical education, this study aims to better understand how to support self-regulated learning in undergraduate medical education. The results from this project will inform future scholarly work in competency-based medical education at the undergraduate level and have implications for improving feedback and supporting learners at all levels of competence.Scoping review registration:Open Science Framework osf.io/wvzbx.

Imagining home: Mahtab Hussain’s photography of diaspora and belonging

This paper responds to the works of photographers dealing with questions of diaspora, home, and belonging in the context of South Asia. I offer a close reading of the works and practices of Mahtab Hussain, a British-Kashmiri artist, by placing his photographs and practices in conversation with the work of scholars in the field of diaspora studies and educational research. Hussain’s photographic work offers a curriculum: a rewriting, a creation, an imagination, and a retelling of the story of the Azad Kashmiri diaspora and it is told from multiple axes—the homeland, those who moved, and the ways in which this migration impacted the lives of those who stayed back. Ultimately, Hussain’s artistic work invites educational researchers, theorists, and artists to rethink our notions of home, belonging, and diaspora; to imagine otherwise.

Introduction: minorities and gender in contested urban spaces special issue

ABSTRACT While studies on urban minorities have interested scholars in history, sociology, ethnography and geography for a full century, ‘minorities within minorities’ are more often than not absent. Gendered groups within ethnic or religious minorities in the modern metropolis experienced doubled- or even tripled marginalisation in the urban landscape. This introduction provides an overview of the scholarly work that has been done on ethnic/religious and gendered minorities in the modern era (1750-1950). It points out the strengths and promises of the current field, but more importantly, shows that due to lack of traditional sources, the field needs to push methodological boundaries and find new ways to bring back these voices into scholarly research. Mediating on some possible avenues, the introduction introduces the three articles and how the push the field forwards.

Navigating Emotional Discomfort in Developing Equity-Driven School Leaders: A Conceptual-Pedagogical Framework

Background Given that K-12 schools necessitate leaders who can advance equity and justice, preparation programs in higher education institutions have prioritized the development of equity-oriented school leaders. However, there has been relatively limited exploration of pedagogical approaches that equip educational leaders to navigate adverse emotional responses and utilize their discomforting emotions as a source of transformation toward equity-oriented principles. When negative emotions are suppressed and/or unexplored within leadership development programs, adult learners will likely miss crucial opportunities for personal growth and transformative change. Purpose This theoretical article aims to enhance and expand existing scholarship on the pedagogies of emotional discomfort by developing a conceptual-pedagogical framework for preparing equity-driven school leaders. Conceptual Model We explore the role of emotions in/as learning, drawing insights from the learning science literature, and analyze empirical studies in leadership education to unravel how and why discomforting emotions are triggered and operationalized when learning about racism and inequities. We present a framework, the pedagogy of discomfort toward critical hope, drawing on scholarly work bridging emotional discomfort and critical pedagogy, and exemplified by various examples of pedagogies of discomfort. Building on this foundation, we introduce an emotional scaffolding design centered around three concepts: generating discomfort to make oppression and privilege visible, guided emotion participation for engaging critical reflection and dialogue, and appraising emotions with metacognitive and meta-affect tools. Discussion and Implications This article extends the scholarship on teaching and learning for developing equity leaders by bridging insights from learning science and critical pedagogy.

Rompendo o ciclo de emergência da justiça espacial

This paper examines the critical need to integrate prospective planning into territorial development processes for achieving spatial justice and sustainable urban futures. It highlights the limitations of a reactive approach to urban governance, particularly prevalent in Latin America, where weak institutions and unstable political systems often hinder long-term perspectives. The research emphasizes the importance of strategic foresight as a complementary tool to traditional planning practices. Territorial foresight facilitates the exploration of complex future scenarios, fostering collaborative learning and a shared vision among stakeholders. The study proposes a shift towards a proactive, foresight-driven approach that can help break the vicious cycle of addressing only immediate crises. By embracing prospective studies, urban planners and policymakers can gain insights into potential future trajectories, enabling them to anticipate challenges, adapt strategies, and make informed decisions aligned with long-term goals. This paper draws on discourse analysis to examine the work of Latin American institutions and scholars engaged in foresight studies. Ultimately, the paper advocates for a paradigm shift in urban governance, prioritizing long-term strategic vision. This is essential for overcoming the fragmentation of urban planning, addressing systemic inequalities, and laying the groundwork for more just, resilient, and sustainable urban territories.

Features of Applying Judicial Precedent in the Ukrainian judicial system

The article explores the possibility of future application of judicial precedent in the Ukrainian judicial system and the necessity of normative consolidation of its status as a source of law. Additionally, it is necessary to determine the criteria according to which judicial acts will be classified as sources of law. It is important to consider that the legal force of judicial precedent cannot be equivalent to the legal force of legislation; however, it can play a supplementary role and significantly enhance the quality and effectiveness of justice delivery. It analyzes specific works of scholars on the issue of recognizing judicial precedent as a source of law in Ukraine and its application in modern judicial practice. It is argued that the main questions arising during the investigation of the potential application of judicial precedent in Ukraine as a legal phenomenon should be analyzed through comparative analysis with legal systems where precedent is the primary source of law. It is substantiated that comprehensive and thorough research on precedent as a source of law is necessary for further improvement of the judicial system in Ukraine, driven by several reasons. Firstly, the increasing scientific interest in atypical sources of law for our country is associated with the intensive processes of Ukraine's integration into the European and global communities, as well as military actions in the country. Secondly, at the present stage, there is a significant influence of political, geographical, historical, and other factors on the legal space. The third reason for conducting research on judicial precedent is that both precedent and judicial practice are exclusively applied and legally applicable institutions directly related to the practical activities of the judicial system. It is established that unlike judicial practice, a judicial precedent, which is created by individually adopted court decisions of higher judicial instances, is a type of legal provisions developed as a result of judicial practice and one of its forms aimed at overcoming gaps in legislative regulation.

Prohibitions in criminal law

The article is devoted to the analysis of prohibitions in criminal law (criminal law prohibitions). Despite the fact that the issue of criminal law prohibitions is becoming increasingly relevant, it still remains poorly researched and controversial. This paper lays down the methodological foundations for the study of prohibitions in criminal law. In particular: 1) the author distinguishes between the concepts of «criminal law», «criminal legislation» and «criminal code»; 2) the author examines national criminal law through the prism of the public law branch of Ukraine (analyses certain aspects of criminal law regulation and criminal law relations; expresses the author’s position regarding the powers of entities representing the State in criminal law relations) 3) the author defines the concept of «criminal law provision», identifies its features, studies its structure, and also identifies the criteria for its classification. Taking into account the conclusions on the above issues, the author analyses prohibitions in the criminal law of Ukraine: the author proposes a definition of this term, identifies its features, makes its classification, and studies the legal consequences of violation of domestic criminal law prohibitions. The scientific work also contains the results of a study of foreign experience. Thus, the criminal legislation of the former USSR republics was subjected to a thorough study. The author notes that there are two models of understanding the concept of «prohibition in criminal law». In writing this article, the author used scientific works of Ukrainian and foreign legal scholars, as well as domestic and foreign regulatory legal acts. For a more detailed understanding of the subject matter of the study, the article is illustrated with three author’s diagrams and one map. The research work is a multidimensional analysis of prohibitions in criminal law, which allows for further development of this topic.

“Insensitivity Training”

This essay begins with a brief history of sensitivity training, a therapeutic and organizational protocol for the instrumentalization of empathy that gained traction in the second half of the twentieth century. The reflection on sensitivity training serves as a wind-up to a meditation on the version of insensitivity training that television manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken together, both gestures provide the basis to make a pedagogical call for an alternative, critical version of insensitivity training for contemporary students. The essay then explores how the meanings of in/sensitivity help to set up that pedagogical project and suggest its lineaments, as well as what that project should look and sound like, within the horizon in which the pandemic still very much establishes the terms and conditions for much pedagogical and scholarly work. More generally, the essay considers how the versions of such work altered by the rise and spread of COVID-19 may have made some subjects laboring in higher education become pandemic television—and what sanguine, ingenious responses to that becoming one may embrace. Finally, the essay moves to a concrete television case study that has instructional value for the would-be instigator of insensitivity training: Jann, a series saturated with elaborations and unfoldings of—which is to say, blueprints for—the uses of awkwardness, discomfort, and insensitivity.

‘It’s a delicate topic’: Stigma, capabilities and young people’s mental health in post-conflict Colombia

ABSTRACT Young people in Colombia present high rates of mental health problems, to which the country’s history of armed internal conflict contributes in complex ways. Mental health services in Colombia are fragmented, inadequate, and difficult to access for many. Young people’s help-seeking is often hindered by mental health stigma and/or poor experiences with services. This paper presents a thematic analysis of qualitative data from a mixed-methods study aimed at developing and testing a mental health intervention for Colombian youths. We draw upon theoretical lenses from scholarly work on stigma and Sen’s ‘capabilities approach’ to inform our analysis of interviews and group discussions with staff and young people involved in the state-funded human capital building programme ‘Jovenes en Acción’ (JeA). By illustrating how study participants talked about stigma, vulnerability, mental health services organisation, and the challenges of discussing mental health topics in a learning environment, we illuminate aspects of mental health support and anti-stigma interventions that might need enhancing. In particular, we suggest that more emphasis on ‘community competencies’ as complementary to and interrelated with individual competencies would strengthen young people’s individual and collective resources for mental wellbeing while being in line with the sociocritical principles of existing human capital-enhancing programmes.

Ending the Subsidies Ice Age

Abstract This article explores the potential of leveraging insights from innovation policy studies to enhance the analysis of journalism support, particularly innovation policies for journalism. It adopts a conceptual approach, applying the policy mix concept to media systems literature, yielding three benefits. First, it offers a holistic framework for researchers to consider different building blocks of policymaking supporting journalism innovation. Second, it broadens the conceptualization of journalism support beyond financial assistance. Finally, it develops recommendations for a future research agenda, encouraging both scholarly work and practical solutions for a robust journalism support infrastructure in the digital age.

Introduction: Language ideologies—again? New insights from a flourishing field

Abstract Originally defined as “any sets of beliefs about language articulated by the users as a rationalization or justification of perceived language structure and use” (Silverstein 1979: 193), language ideologies now seem to be “everywhere” (Cavanaugh 2019). Indeed, while language ideological research has moved “from a marginalized topic to an issue of central concern” (Kroskrity 2004: 501), and despite the abundance and regularity of new scholarly work, both theoretically and methodologically, language ideologies are still not very well framed. The Special Issue on ‘Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives’ aims at offering diverse insights on language ideologies with a focus on methodological and theoretical questions. In this introduction in particular, we briefly map out the field by focusing on what distinguishes language ideologies from other close phenomena such as language attitudes. We also describe the methods used to access language ideologies. Finally, we introduce the ten papers that constitute this Special Issue.

An Analysis of Student's Academic Achievement in Genetic Algorithms Based on Mobile Learning Applications

Several scholars have focused on this area due to the significance of mobile technology in the educational process, resulting in a substantial body of scholarly work. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the impact of mobile learning on students’ academic performance. The meta-analysis approach was utilized in this research. The available research was examined using several databases to find the relevant studies that were within the scope of the investigation. The study’s inclusion criteria and components were implemented following a literature review. This research proposes a mobile education system approach based on genetic algorithms to address the issues with the current system. The analysis findings indicate that most of them stay at around 10%. The salary only slightly increases when numerous individuals teach, but it also falls within a regular, appropriate range that can accommodate more complex tasks. According to the factor analysis findings, the influence of mobile educational devices on students’ learning performance varied depending on the course and subject. However, it remained constant regardless of the students’ education level and implementation duration. Apart from the previously mentioned research findings, this article also includes a descriptive analysis of the studies that were part of the meta-analysis.

THE FUSION OF TURKISH RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS IN CENTRAL ASIAN BUDDHISM AND ITS REPERCUSSION TO BENGAL

This academic research is primarily concerned with two fundamental issues. The first objective is to depict Buddhist impacts on Turkic religious thoughts during Islamisation. The second issue is how this syncretic process aided Turks in capturing the Bengal region with the assistance of local Buddhists. The historical tie between Bengal and Central Asia dates to the first century BCE. In it, the northern Indian Maurya empire and the Turkish Huns played an important role. Through their efforts, Buddhism spread throughout Central Asia. Besides, Islam encountered significant opposition from Buddhism in Bengal and Central Asia. Over time, the Turks erected a Sultanate in Delhi and then hailed Bengal for the same purpose. As a result of an exhaustive search of the academic research on the database, applicable works have yet to be found related to running scholarly works. This study will employ a qualitative approach with a thematic focus. In addition, secondary categorical data from Turkish, English, and Bengali literature will be utilized in the current scholarly study.

Using a co-design methodological approach to optimize perioperative nursing care for older adult patients from ethnically diverse backgrounds: a study protocol

ABSTRACT This article outlines the use of a co-design methodological approach aimed at optimizing perioperative care experiences for ethnically diverse older adults and their family carers. The research involved three phases. In Phase 1, the foundation was established with the formation of a Core Advisory Group comprising key informants, including health consumers. This initial phase focused on forming relationships and conducting a literature review to inform subsequent stages of the research. Phase 2 progressed to data collection, where a qualitative survey on perioperative experiences was conducted. Semi-structured interviews were held with patients, their family carers, and perioperative staff. Phase 3 advanced the co-design process through a workshop involving patients, family carers, perioperative staff, and key stakeholders. Workshop participants collaborated on potential practice changes, proposing strategies for future clinical implementation. While data analysis and reporting for Phases 2 and 3 are forthcoming, the continued involvement of the Core Advisory Group ensures ongoing consensus-building on health consumer needs. This methodology article adopts a prospective stance, with findings to be presented in subsequent scholarly works. Use of this methodology will help to determine how the use of a co-design approach may impact the development of culturally responsive perioperative nursing care for those from ethnically diverse communities.

FUTURE OF E-COMMERCE IN INDIA 2024

This observation Investigates the potentialities for E-commerce In India In 2024. In India, E-trade Has Grown considerably due to factors together with growing internet Penetration, phone Use, And shifting client Behaviour. The Paper looks At India's E-commerce state of affairs properly now. It also describes How Omni Channel structures Are Used For Transactions via blockchain, Social Media Composition, and fifth-generation community communication. All events worried in trade, which include the ones within the Public and personal Sectors, internal and external trade, delivery Chain firms, And purchasers, Will surely benefit From This study's know-how Of The Emergence Of The Technology Of Omni Channel structures inside the fifth industrial Revolution (5IR), as well as its prospects And anticipated challenges. In India, the e-trade commercial enterprise is expanding rapidly and indicates no signs and symptoms of slowing down. The creation of clever phones, rising internet penetration, and shifting consumer behavior are some of the factors propelling the increase of e-trade in India. This paper examines the country of e-trade in India now, highlights big trends, talks about capability and issues, and gives predictions for the enterprise's future. The have a look at's foundation is an intensive examination of scholarly works, business courses, and professional judgments. The examination focuses on how E-commerce Is Doing In India right Now, Highlights crucial traits, Talks about ability And troubles, And gives Predictions For the world's destiny. The examiner’s basis Is an intensive exam Of Scholarly Works, commercial enterprise guides, And expert Judgments. E-trade encompasses all forms of exchange that take vicinity entirely in our online world. There are many advantages to shopping for matters online, inclusive of more selection, lower expenses, and greater ease of use. E-commerce can be broken down into awesome areas: sales of goods and services over the net, and the usage of the net for financial and retail transactions. E-commerce, or digital trade, is the instruction of accomplishing enterprise dealings via electronic communique technologies which include the internet, telephones, and fax machines. The banking, tourism, media, and retail sectors are only some examples of online groups that stand to benefit from future enlargement. in which and how diverse styles of global electronic commerce are practiced around the sector is determined with the aid of diffusion of economic, political, cultural, and supranational establishments. The Indian financial system will now not be the handsiest one hurt using this. The net financial system has been in comparison to a "gold rush." E-significance commerce to the expansion of the economy may be attributed to quite several factors. They take a look at checked-out areas all the manner from Australia to the Antarctic and from North us to South the USA. The potential for e-trade to better people's lives and the world at large makes it essential for both B2B and C2C transactions. key phrases: E-commerce, E-commerce traits, client Behaviour, Rural E-trade, Technology Adoption, cellular commerce, Omni Channel, Drop delivery enterprise model, 5IR, Pandemic, supply Chain destiny, B2B, B2C.

‘This thing that we do’: in pursuit of hope-full renewals through hydrofeminist scholarly praxis

ABSTRACT In this paper, we dwell amongst what was agitated from enacting Neimanis' (2012) hydrofeminism in an ‘aqueous-body–writing–reading’ experiment that unfolded in discrete but entangled locations (London and Cape Town) to actively disrupt and reformulate ideas about what it is to do scholarly work. We consider how we might dislodge anthropocentric ways of knowing, being and doing through our swimming–writing–reading. Aligned with emergent hydrofeminist scholarship, our unruly writing experiment has – over 7 months of alternating seasons on two continents – involved exchanging, diffracting and curating words that e/merge together. The multiple, interwoven stories told in this paper are a direct challenge to what and how knowledge gets produced, by whom, where and for what purposes. Working with wit(h)nessing; contact zones; and radical openness, our speculative, enmeshed, multispecies praxis offers glimpses into the possibilities that exist in porous spaces to generate knowledge differently in the spirit of hopeful renewal.

PROMINENT HADITH SCHOLARS OF CENTRAL ASIA

This article provides an in-depth discussion on the distinguished hadith scholars of Central Asia, emphasizing their significant contributions to the field of hadith science. It particularly focuses on the profound impact made by Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim, and Imam Termezi, analyzing their scholarly works and methodologies. Through a detailed examination of their contributions, the article sheds light on how these scholars advanced the compilation, authentication, and interpretation of hadiths, thus playing a crucial role in the development and preservation of Islamic knowledge and tradition.

Динамическая стабильность как категория диалектического взаимодействия хаоса и космоса в онтологии сетевого бытия

The increasing information flow has led to, inter alia, the dominant role of networking in communications. Devirtualization of networking in information and physical networks has made it possible to introduce network discourse into modern philosophy. The study of writings by Laozi, Confucius and their followers demonstrates that network discourse and network thinking were developed in the philosophical works of ancient Chinese scholars as representatives of Eastern philosophical discourse. At the same time, Western philosophical discourse, which can be traced to Plato and Aristotle, rests on linear logic and linear thinking. It is only towards the end of the 20th century that the linear/network thinking opposition weakened with the recognition of network interaction, under the influence of a profound transformation during the transition to a new stage of civilization’s development, that is, to the information/digital society. This can be illustrated by the evolution of the perception of the categories chaos and cosmos in Western (linear) and Eastern (network) philosophical discourse as the basis of the development of the modern representation of dynamic stability of the network interaction system. Using the information and communication method, this paper analyses Western and Eastern philosophical discourse from the Axial Age to the present day and substantiates the introduction of the category of dynamic stability. The latter stands for a dialectically connected process of creation/destruction of communications between actors of a network interaction under the influence of the dynamics of information exchange, which indicates that a network interaction system is autopoietic. Further development of the concept of dynamic stability requires creating a mathematical apparatus for calculating measures, that is, information entropy, of a dynamically stable network. These purely abstract studies are expected to be of practical importance for the development of social networks of interpersonal and intergroup communication.

Between Koenji and Brooklyn: Tokyo, New York, and the Circulations of Experimental Musics in a Global World

Using a group of Japanese‐born experimental musicians who make their lives in Tokyo and New York as a case study, this article examines how new musical genres are created, shared, and mediated through layers of circulations, identities, and locations. The author argues that these musicians’ lives and music have a kind of “noisy” quality, complicating genre boundaries and identity binaries in their wake. Through ethnographic “thick descriptions” and the words of the musicians themselves, the author shows the web of musical genres, languages, geopolitical identities, and gender relations that combine to make up the texture of musical performances. This article is also thinking through and with a sea change in the study of Japanese music. In recent years, building on the work of scholars of Japanese cultural studies, ethnomusicologists have critiqued how monocultural and mono‐ethnic mythologies have influenced the study and production of Japanese music. Ethnomusicology and area studies are Cold War enterprises, designed to create research that would help maintain that world order, educate Americans as global leaders, and change hearts and minds in foreign lands, leading to a cultural conservatism that often led scholars to focus on “traditional” Japanese music. Recently, however, research on Japanese music has increasingly focused on popular and experimental musics and examines how Japanese contemporary identity is created and maintained through music. Thus this article gives readers a view of how US‐based Japanese music scholarship is moving away from such Cold War paradigms and contributes to this shift in studies of Japanese music and culture.