New Directions for School & Community Initiatives to Address Barriers to Learning: Two Examples of Concept Papers to Inform and Guide Policy Makers

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
School Community ◽  
Barriers To Learning ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
New Directions

scholarly journals Making Society Climate Resilient: International Progress under the Global Framework for Climate Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. E237-E252 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Hewitt ◽  
E. Allis ◽  
S. J. Mason ◽  
M. Muth ◽  
R. Pulwarty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Climate Information ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Available Information

Abstract There is growing awareness among governments, businesses, and the general public of risks arising from changes to our climate on time scales from months through to decades. Some climatic changes could be unprecedented in their harmful socioeconomic impacts, while others with adequate forewarning and planning could offer benefits. There is therefore a pressing need for decision-makers, including policy-makers, to have access to and to use high-quality, accessible, relevant, and credible climate information about the past, present, and future to help make better-informed decisions and policies. We refer to the provision and use of such information as climate services. Established programs of research and operational activities are improving observations and climate monitoring, our understanding of climate processes, climate variability and change, and predictions and projections of the future climate. Delivering climate information (including data and knowledge) in a way that is usable and useful for decision-makers has had less attention, and society has yet to optimally benefit from the available information. While weather services routinely help weather-sensitive decision-making, similar services for decisions on longer time scales are less well established. Many organizations are now actively developing climate services, and a growing number of decision-makers are keen to benefit from such services. This article describes progress made over the past decade developing, delivering, and using climate services, in particular from the worldwide effort galvanizing around the Global Framework for Climate Services under the coordination of UN agencies. The article highlights challenges in making further progress and proposes potential new directions to address such challenges.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC CRISES AND HEALTH

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIRSTY WALKER
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
History Of Public Health ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTDuring periods of recession, both historians and policy-makers have tended to revisit the multi-faceted relationship between health and economic crisis. It seems likely that the current economic downturn will trigger a new revival of efforts to gauge its implications for people's health around the world. This review will reflect on aspects of the relationship between health and economic crisis, exploring some of the unanswered questions within the historiography of the Great Depression and health, and suggest new directions that this work might take. Within a broadly transnational framework, I will reassess the diverse historiographies of interwar public health, in order to highlight ways in which the methodologies used could inspire future studies for neglected areas within this field, such as Southeast Asia. In doing so, I will illustrate that the effects of the interwar economic fluctuations on health status remain imprecise and difficult to define, but marked a transitional moment in the history of public health.

I, THE WIFE’S CARER. MEN FROM THE TRADITIONALISTS/SILENT GENERATION ON THEIR (NEW) IDENTITY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Rosochacka-Gmitrzak
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Silent Generation ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Desk Research

Despite transformations of culture of ageing taking place and pinpointing lesser trivialization of ageing, in many CEE countries and globally, further-reaching approach to ageing experiences and meanings attributed by individuals of either gender have not come of age. Neither has it gained enough attention to cause a significant change towards truly inclusive perspectives or practices. This problem applies to men remaining to a certain extent imperceptible as prime caregivers to their chronically ill wives or partners.. By desk research, own research interpretation and literature review, the paper addressed men caregivers identity. Findings suggest the identity to be shaped by a relationship, and its story, with caregiven wife, identity spoiling as a result of stigma associated with caregiving experience and low social recognition of it. The study recognizes matters to be further assessed and may lay foundations for new directions. It also translates onto gerontological practice by recognizing factors which may assist caregiving professionals and possibly policy makers in better addressing the needs of caregiving individuals.

scholarly journals Loneliness and social isolation of older adults: Why it is important to examine these social aspects together

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 925-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy E. G. Newall ◽  
Verena H. Menec
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Socially Isolated

Research shows that social isolation and loneliness are important health issues for older adults. This message is increasingly being recognized by policy makers and service providers. Although the concepts of loneliness and social isolation are often discussed and compared with one another, they are largely examined separately, even if they are both included in the same study. In the present article, we argue for bringing together these two related concepts. For example, focusing only on social isolation overlooks differences between those older adults who are socially isolated and lonely versus socially isolated but not lonely. Consequently, we discuss four groups of older adults: isolated, but not lonely; lonely in a crowd; isolated and lonely; and not isolated or lonely. We argue that considering loneliness and social isolation together will aid in the understanding of the social situation of older adults and can provide new directions for research and intervention programs for older adults.

scholarly journals Review: The case for Community Wealth Building by Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Wall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Wealth Building

Drawing on innovative local government and community initiatives from the United Kingdom and the United States, Guinan and O’Neill’s 'The Case for Community Wealth Building' is a timely and optimistically critical contribution to discussions on inclusive community-owned local economic development. This short thesis aimed at practitioners, policy-makers and theorists alike, looks at alternative models of local economic ownership. At just 116 pages, this accessible book, whilst drawing on a good if limited range of academic and case study literature, reads more in the tradition of a radical political pamphlet than a dense academic text.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Routledge International Handbook of Philosophy for Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Gatley
Keyword(s):  
School Leaders ◽  
Philosophy For Children ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Field School ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
Critical Perspectives

The Routledge international handbook of philosophy for children offers ‘a wide variety of critical perspectives on this diverse and controversial field, in order to generate new discussions and to identify emerging questions and themes’ (xxi). As a collection of scholarly papers on Philosophy for Children (P4C), the volume is a thorough and detailed handbook which highlights the distance P4C has travelled since its inception 50 years ago. Several uses of this volume spring to mind. Somebody new to P4C would do well to read the concise introduction which covers the history and thematic strands which shape P4C. Experienced practitioners or researchers could use the handbook to explore new directions and ideas in the field. School leaders and policy makers could refer to the section headings to identify uses of P4C that would pertain to their particular situations. The editors have identified a fairly definitive list of key questions for P4C; while the papers do not form a cohesive whole, they do function as a useful handbook to give readers a taste of some of the answers currently available to these questions. 

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
New Directions ◽  
American Diplomacy ◽  
Citizen Diplomacy ◽  
Domestic Affairs

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book brings together work that focuses on understudied and contemporarily resonant topics—scholarship that illuminates trends in the study of African American diplomacy, attempts to (re)open lines of theoretical inquiry, demonstrates creative use of archival materials, and motivates questions for further research. Topics range from consideration of early diplomatic appointees to assessments of those leaders who have served as policy makers, performers, and cultural ambassadors from the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters are informed by scholarship on African Americans as formal diplomatic appointees, studies of citizen diplomacy, and research that seeks to bring a global context to domestic affairs. The volume synthesizes the extant literature and, in so doing, bridges the scholarly gap between institutional and extra-institutional (i.e., sociocultural) forms of African American diplomacy throughout American history and suggests new directions in historiography.

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