Volume 2022 No. 1
Exploring Participant Perceptions of an International Virtual Training for Healthcare Professionals
Tamara Gaolyan, Drexel University; Lynn Kysh, Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Armine Lulejian, University of Southern California; James Dickhoner, Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Abu Sikder, Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Mindy Lee, Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Eyal Ben-Isaac, University of Southern California; and Juan Espinoza, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Understanding and Supporting Women's Leadership Identity Development in Higher Education
Sapna Thwaite, University of Michigan-Flint
Towards a Pedagogy Focused on Sustainability and the Health Benefits of Nature
Larry W. Riggs, Butler University; and Sandra Hellyer-Riggs, Indiana University Purdue University
The De-privatization of Religious Populism: A Look at the Contemporary Phenomena of Modernophobia and Islamophobia
Jorge Botelho Moniz, Lusofona University
Evolution in the Scriptures
Ali Abubakar Sadiq, Newspaper Group
Distance Learning
Houda Boulouiz, Mohamed Premier University; and Nadia Tamouh, Mohamed Premier University
Exploring Participant Perceptions of an International Virtual Training for Healthcare Professionals
Abstract
Medical education plays an important role in establishing global health partnerships and reducing existing inequities in healthcare systems. Virtual medical training conferences targeting healthcare providers in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) address equity issues in global health by reducing financial, political, geographic, and language barriers. This study aimed at exploring participants’ perceptions of the international virtual training for healthcare providers organized by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and The Armenian Eye Care Project (AECP). We collected quantitative data through a post-training survey with 239 participants and qualitative data through four follow-up semi-structured interviews...
Tamara.G.pdf
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Medical education plays an important role in establishing global health partnerships and reducing existing inequities in healthcare systems. Virtual medical training conferences targeting healthcare providers in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) address equity issues in global health by reducing financial, political, geographic, and language barriers. This study aimed at exploring participants’ perceptions of the international virtual training for healthcare providers organized by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and The Armenian Eye Care Project (AECP). We collected quantitative data through a post-training survey with 239 participants and qualitative data through four follow-up semi-structured interviews...
Tamara.G.pdf
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Understanding and Supporting Women's Leadership Identity Development in Higher Education
Abstract
This research study focused on the major challenges that female leaders face that might impact their sense of leadership identity in a higher education context. The participants, five female higher education administrators from both American and German universities, represented a subset of participants from a larger study. Using a relational leadership lens, a theoretical thematic analysis approach was used through individual interviews with each participant to address the following research question: 1) What are the major challenges that female leaders face that might impact their sense of leadership identity in a higher education context? The study’s findings revealed that the important role of others, the influence of one’s supervisor, challenges with feelings of insecurity
Sapna.Twaite.pdf
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This research study focused on the major challenges that female leaders face that might impact their sense of leadership identity in a higher education context. The participants, five female higher education administrators from both American and German universities, represented a subset of participants from a larger study. Using a relational leadership lens, a theoretical thematic analysis approach was used through individual interviews with each participant to address the following research question: 1) What are the major challenges that female leaders face that might impact their sense of leadership identity in a higher education context? The study’s findings revealed that the important role of others, the influence of one’s supervisor, challenges with feelings of insecurity
Sapna.Twaite.pdf
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Toward a Pedagogy Focused on Sustainability and the Health Benefits of Nature
Abstract
Our purpose is to show how making sustainability central to college/university pedagogy can provide a powerful focus to teaching for socio-psychological, cognitive change and can reduce the dissonance between thinking about sustainability and developing sustainable behaviors. Our hypothesis is that building on and going beyond eco-psychology and phenomenology to incorporate research on the verifiable benefits of immersion in nature will enrich the courses we teach and challenge students to think critically about sustainability. Our method is to review literature on the psychological benefits of immersion in nature, to reflect on the implications of that literature for the urgency of sustainability, and to apply these insights to specific courses that we teach. Our contributions ar
Larry.Riggs.pdf
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Our purpose is to show how making sustainability central to college/university pedagogy can provide a powerful focus to teaching for socio-psychological, cognitive change and can reduce the dissonance between thinking about sustainability and developing sustainable behaviors. Our hypothesis is that building on and going beyond eco-psychology and phenomenology to incorporate research on the verifiable benefits of immersion in nature will enrich the courses we teach and challenge students to think critically about sustainability. Our method is to review literature on the psychological benefits of immersion in nature, to reflect on the implications of that literature for the urgency of sustainability, and to apply these insights to specific courses that we teach. Our contributions ar
Larry.Riggs.pdf
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The De-privatization of Religious Populism: A Look at the Contemporary Phenomena of Modernophobia and Islamophobia
Abstract
This work investigates the origins of religious populism, examining it vis-à-vis the advent of secularism and the idea of the privatization of religion. Through a descriptive and analytical methodology, this paper will examine how, contrary to the theories of secularization, the de-privatization of religion has occurred and how, consequently, the politicization of this discourse has deepened. It is with the development and deepening of the politicization of religion that religious populism starts to penetrate and gain preponderance in the public space, assuming a gradually more relevant influence in the current political discourse and in the understanding that individuals make of themselves and of others. This research focuses geographically on the West (Europe and North America)
Jorge.Botelho.Moniz.pdf
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Abstract
This work investigates the origins of religious populism, examining it vis-à-vis the advent of secularism and the idea of the privatization of religion. Through a descriptive and analytical methodology, this paper will examine how, contrary to the theories of secularization, the de-privatization of religion has occurred and how, consequently, the politicization of this discourse has deepened. It is with the development and deepening of the politicization of religion that religious populism starts to penetrate and gain preponderance in the public space, assuming a gradually more relevant influence in the current political discourse and in the understanding that individuals make of themselves and of others. This research focuses geographically on the West (Europe and North America)
Jorge.Botelho.Moniz.pdf
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Evolution in the Scriptures
Abstract
This paper will show that science and religion with regard to evolution are not demarcated as agnostics advocated or as Darwinist’s and Creationist’s polarized. Rather ,by invoking the Bible and Quran, this paper will show that science and religion are friends rather than foes. Are the six days of creation to be taken literally or does it signifies epoch of evolution? Is Adam a human created in Eden or the first living cell representing all created life? Does Darwinism mean Atheism? Do humans evolved along the evolutionary ladder or are they special creation, created de-novo? Five centuries before Darwin, Ibn Khaldun in his monumental book “Muqaddimah” proposes a theory of evolution starting from minerals arguing that the essence of creation (in modern terminology: genetic
Ali.Abubakar.Sadiq.pdf
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This paper will show that science and religion with regard to evolution are not demarcated as agnostics advocated or as Darwinist’s and Creationist’s polarized. Rather ,by invoking the Bible and Quran, this paper will show that science and religion are friends rather than foes. Are the six days of creation to be taken literally or does it signifies epoch of evolution? Is Adam a human created in Eden or the first living cell representing all created life? Does Darwinism mean Atheism? Do humans evolved along the evolutionary ladder or are they special creation, created de-novo? Five centuries before Darwin, Ibn Khaldun in his monumental book “Muqaddimah” proposes a theory of evolution starting from minerals arguing that the essence of creation (in modern terminology: genetic
Ali.Abubakar.Sadiq.pdf
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Distance Learning
Abstract
This article deals with the issue of distance education in training institutions in Morocco during the Covid-19 period, and more particularly in vocational training. It attempts to briefly describe the state of play of distance education at the time of the epidemic by focusing on the difficulties and obstacles encountered by trainers and learners.
We recall that in this work, we have developed two questionnaires, the first is for trainers and the second is for learners, this survey has the main objective of knowing the problems encountered in distance learning during the pandemic. The results of this study show that the majority of trainers and learners were hit by technical and logistical handicaps.
Finally, we believe that this Coronavirus pandemic should serve as a lesson and
Houda.Boulouiz.pdf
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This article deals with the issue of distance education in training institutions in Morocco during the Covid-19 period, and more particularly in vocational training. It attempts to briefly describe the state of play of distance education at the time of the epidemic by focusing on the difficulties and obstacles encountered by trainers and learners.
We recall that in this work, we have developed two questionnaires, the first is for trainers and the second is for learners, this survey has the main objective of knowing the problems encountered in distance learning during the pandemic. The results of this study show that the majority of trainers and learners were hit by technical and logistical handicaps.
Finally, we believe that this Coronavirus pandemic should serve as a lesson and
Houda.Boulouiz.pdf
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