Sense Of Community Building Research Articles

(Un)Conventional Voyages?—Star Trek: The Cruise and the Themed Cruise Experience

(Un)Conventional Voyages?—<i>Star Trek: The Cruise</i> and the Themed Cruise Experience

An assessment of socially responsible consciousness and multi-level integration of business morals, corporate social obligation and sustainability in higher education

The recent developments have generated the need for sense of community building, social apprehension and inculcation of social-consciousness in the young managers and achieving this requires being a part of curriculum. The current article aims to explore the integration of business morals, corporate social obligations and sustainability principles in B-schools of NCR in India and its impact on social consciousness of budding managers. We propose an integrative and holistic framework to brief the coordination of morals, corporate social responsibility and sustainability in management education through three independent analyses - institutional level, curriculum level and pupil level learning analysis. Our findings reveal that government universities are imparting both compulsory as well as CSR-embedded courses yet it fails to moderate the perception of budding managers. The current article points towards the new paradigm of CSR education in academic institutes and suggestions are made to enhance it further.

About "Building sense of community at a distance"

Rovai, A. (2002). Building sense of community at a distance. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 3(1) from http://www.irrodl.org/content/v3.1/rovai.pdf. Many of us had been arguing since the turn of the last century that there was growing evidence that “community” as both an assemblance of individuals and a distinct social entity, was not restricted to face-to-face interactions. Nearly two decades later, this seems to be an obvious fact given the proliferation of o...

“Understanding my ALS”. Experiences and reflections of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and relatives on participation in peer group rehabilitation

Purpose: The aim of this study was to gain insight into experiences and reflections of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and relatives concerning the peer group rehabilitation programme “More Life – Less Illness”.Methods: This qualitative study used the Interpretive Description methodology with Symbolic Interactionism as the analytical framework. Eighteen programme participants representing persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (n = 8) and relatives (n = 10) were included. Data consisted of individual interviews and participant observation.Results: The analysis revealed two categorical themes, “Sense of Community Building” and “Understanding my ALS”, which represented the participants’ experiences and reflections on peer group rehabilitation. Through the analysis, it became apparent that “Sense of Community Building” gave rise to an increased and personalised understanding of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among the participants. As a part of the continuous processing of the knowledge gained, “Facing Facts” and “Retaining Normality” appeared as subthemes regarding the participants’ ability to live a less dependent and more meaningful life.Conclusions: This study of peer group rehabilitation for persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and relatives indicates that programme participation leads to positive experiences in terms of living a shared meaningful life despite severe disability. The findings may guide practice to develop longitudinal peer group rehabilitation programmes with joint inclusion of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and relatives.Implications for RehabilitationPeer group rehabilitation may facilitate an increased and personalised understanding of what it means to live with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.A programme design with six months of sequential sessions enables a continuous processing of shared experiences and gained knowledge.Joint participation of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their relatives supports both their internal relationship and social networking.Peer group rehabilitation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis should help overcome obstacles concerning the needs of participants, accessibility, and geographical distance.

Building sense of community in youth vacation camps through staff training: a comparative case study

ABSTRACTThis study examines a sense of community developed by and among staff at two diverse youth vacation programmes. In-depth interviews and non-participant observations conducted with counselors and camp directors at each camp were the methods used by this study to collect data. Inclusion boundaries and episodic distinction are the two themes that emerged from the data. The findings reveal that both camps sought to establish a sense of community through the development and use of rituals and traditions established primarily over an intensive staff pre-camp training week that were integrally connected to the natural context in which the camps were located. However, the contemporary camp emphasized community and natural surrounds as a metaphor for life outside of camp, while the traditional camp tended to emphasize the natural context of community as a respite from life outside of camp.

Preparing language teachers for blended teaching of summary writing

Research on preparing language teachers for blended teaching of summary writing, a mix of on-site and online instruction for college students to grasp the gist of the texts, is scarce in higher education. This study examined the problems encountered and solutions proposed by six language teachers, who altogether instructed 214 college students on summary writing. The findings of this study are based on content analyses of the teachers’ interview transcripts, the teachers’ observation of college students’ progress in on-site and online instruction, and the interactions among the students recorded in the log files of the online system. The results show that the language teachers’ problems in blended teaching of summary writing fell into three categories: instructional processes, community concerns, and technical issues. The four main themes that emerged from the three categories include the following: (1) the changing roles of the teachers and students, (2) little sense of community building, (3) lack of training in blended teaching of summary writing, and (4) an unfamiliarity with the new systems or technologies. The language teachers’ perspectives on solving these problems were to (1) distinguish the significant differences between on-site and online language teaching contexts, (2) identify strategies and techniques to facilitate students’ blended learning in summary writing, and (3) develop community building skills to encourage teachers and students to actively participate in collaborative learning. These solutions shed light on the preparation of language teachers in blended teaching of summary writing.

Pursuing Heritage, Engaging Communities

Archaeologists involved in heritage studies and civic engagement movements are working to make a difference in the public lives of communities. They are helping to promote improved quality of life through both political and nonpolitical processes. Meaningful historical awareness coupled with varying kinds and degrees of empowerment can provide a new sense of community building. The articles in this volume provide a variety of approaches that address community, representation, and social-justice issues. They provide strategies for how archaeology can be more engaged in community-heritage building, in some cases providing a sense of place for those who have been forgotten in the dominant narratives.