Evaluation for Arts-Based Research Performance: Audience Perceptions of Rising from the Ashes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Viega
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The purpose of the study is to understand how audiences evaluated an arts-based research performance called Rising from the Ashes. Audience evaluation promises egalitarian and pluralistic perspectives that may assist artist-as-researchers with gaining new insight into out of performative arts-based research results. Rising from the Ashes was performed several times between 2015 and 2019. Evaluations were provided to six different audiences and consisted of rating-scale and open-ended questions based on general criteria for judging arts-based research: incisiveness, concision, generativity, social significance, evocation and illumination, and coherence. Descriptive rating scores and thematic analysis of open-ended questions aided in the artist-as-researcher’s understanding of how audiences responded to the performances. Descriptive scores showed that audiences strongly agreed that the performance was concise, incisive, and evocative and illuminating. The performance was less likely to support audiences’ understanding of the social issues addressed in the study, which implied decreased generativity and social significance. Open-ended questions enhanced and supported rating-scale responses as well as revealed specific elements of the performance that addressed its coherence. The results deepened the artists-as-researcher’s understanding of potential strengths and limitations of Rising from the Ashes based on the audience evaluations. Implications for arts-based research evaluation in music therapy, particularly related to music performance, are discussed.

scholarly journals The Postpartum Tradition of Sawa Mahina in Rural Punjab, Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azher Hameed Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Infant Health ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe Punjabi postpartum tradition is called sawa mahina (‘five weeks’). This study investigates infant health care belief practices in rural Punjab and looks at the social significance of infant care beliefs practiced during sawa mahina. During six months of fieldwork, using participant observation and unstructured interviews as primary research methods, the study explored the prevalent postpartum tradition from a childcare perspective. A Punjabi child holds a social value regarding familial, religious, and emotional values. The five-week traditional postpartum period provides an insight into mother-child attachment, related child care belief practices, and the social construction of infancy. A child’s agency is recognised in the embodied mother-child relationship, and a child is seen in a sympathetic connection with the mother. Establishing an early foundation of ascribed identities is another important part of postpartum belief practices.

scholarly journals Mapeamento das Unidades de Formação Acadêmica – UFAS Região Sul II

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Francisca Rodrigues de Oliveira Pini ◽  
Ana Lívia Adriano
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
Training Research ◽  
The Relationship

A pesquisa “Mapeamento das Unidades de Formação Acadêmica – UFAs Região Sul II”, realizada pela Associação Brasileira de Ensino e Pesquisa em Serviço Social (ABEPSS), na gestão 2009-2010, apresenta a intencionalidade de compreender as particularidades da formação profissional do assistente social, no que tange ao perfil das UFAs, a organização curricular, a relação com a ABEPSS, o estágio supervisionado, a pesquisa e as estratégias para afirmação das Diretrizes Curriculares na formação profissional. Apreender as particularidades da profissão, sua formação e exercício profissional, articulando-os, necessariamente, às determinações históricas em que estes estão inseridos, torna-se condição para a afirmação do projeto profissional, seus princípios, valores e lutas, bem como para a afirmação do significado social da profissão enquanto especialização do trabalho coletivo, que tem como objeto de intervenção as múltiplas expressões da questão social e os sujeitos que convivem com a exploração, a injustiça e a negação da dignidade humana. Abstract: The research “Mapping of Academic Unities of Formation – UFAs II South Region”, held by the Brazilian Association of Education and Research in Social Work (ABEPSS), the management from 2009 to 2010, shows the intention to understand the particularities of the training of social workers, with respect to the profile of UFAs, curricular organization, the relationship with ABEPSS, the supervised training, research and strategies for the affirmation of the curriculum guidelines in the professional training. Grasp the particularities of the profession, professional education and practice, articulating them necessarily to historical factors on which they are inserted, it becomes a condition for the affirmation of professional design, its principles, values and struggles, as well as for the claim the social significance of professional expertise as a collective work, which objective of intervention the multiple expressions of social issues and the individuals who live with the exploitation, injustice and denial of human dignity.

scholarly journals NEWSPAPER PORTRAYAL OF TEACHERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF TEACHERS IN A BRITISH AND A CZECH BROADSHEET

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Dita Trčková
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
The Social

The study compares representations of teachers in the Czech broadsheet Mladá fronta and the British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, aiming to reveal their possible impact on the level of public respect towards teachers. The methodology employed is critical discourse analysis, combining an investigation of semantic macrostructures and recurrent transitivity patterns. It is revealed that both newspapers call attention to problems regarding the teaching profession, advocating social change and higher job prestige. The social significance of a teacher is enhanced in both newspapers by allocating a teacher not only the role of a transmitter of knowledge but also a moral guide concerned with social issues. The main difference between the two broadsheets is that The Daily Telegraph foregrounds teachers’ wrongdoings, while Mladá fronta highlights teachers’ accomplishments. This seems to be mainly due to the inclusion of a section with regional content in the Czech broadsheet.

Wantok and Lain ‐ a look at two Melanesian cultural concepts in two Tok Pisin texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Paweł Kornacki
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Bride Price ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Group Family

Abstract This article looks at salient interpersonal uses and meanings of two prominent Tok Pisin social relations nouns ‐ wantok ('friend', 'same language speaker') and lain ('group', 'family', 'clan') ‐ which it is proposed exemplify key cultural Melanesian concepts in some anthropological literature of the area. Whereas certain aspects of language use in Tok Pisin were identified as potentially divisive and socially harmful, some scholars endeavoured to identify a group of concepts indicative of culturally specific Melanesian values. For example, the words wantok and lain were claimed to jointly represent 'the value of the clan' across Melanesian societies, while embodying and supporting a distinct world-view of the Melanesian peoples. This article studies two Tok Pisin texts which focus on the cultural significance of concepts of wantok and lain in their rural/traditional environment. While the first text offers a native speaker's insight into the social significance of the cultural expression wantok sistem ('system favouring friends'), the other one details the roles of lain in the passage of a bride-price ceremony. Given that both texts presuppose the cultural background of rural Tok Pisin, a brief look at some characteristic usage of the two words in electronic media suggests that certain aspects of traditional uses and meanings of these words may be extended and employed to conceptualize new social and political phenomena.

scholarly journals The Sustainability of Intangible Heritage in the COVID-19 Era—Resilience, Reinvention, and Challenges in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5796
Author(s):  
Xavier Roigé ◽  
Iñaki Arrieta-Urtizberea ◽  
Joan Seguí
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

The public health restrictions and social distancing imposed as a consequence of COVID-19 have not only had a profound impact on intangible heritage, they have also prompted resilience, reinvention, and creativity. This analysis of the period provides an insight into the social significance of intangible heritage and its adaptability and ability to evolve, while also raising questions about its sustainability. This article tackles the impact of lockdown and public health restrictions on the festivals included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Heritage in Spain. Employing qualitative and ethnographic methodology, the study analyzes the effects of restrictions on the 18 elements on the UNESCO list and the responses adopted; it also includes case studies on three elements. The article concludes that in the post-COVID-19 period, it will be necessary to rethink the economic and social sustainability of intangible heritage practices and to discover new ways of managing them. It will also be necessary to go back to more local formats that are less crowded and less dependent on tourism. The pandemic has exposed the fragility of intangible heritage, and it is now time to rethink the perhaps excessive growth it has experienced in recent years.

scholarly journals Coccidioidomycosis: Medical and Spatio-Temporal Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Nikias Sarafoglou ◽  
Rafael Laniado-Laborin ◽  
Menas Kafatos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Atmospheric Science ◽  
Public Health Importance ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Insight Into

Coccidioidomycosis (CM) is a disease of major public health importance due to the challenges in its diagnosis and treatment. To understand CM requires the attributes of a multidisciplinary network analysis to appreciate the complexity of the medical, the environmental and the social issues involved: public health, public policy, geology, atmospheric science, agronomy, social sciences and finally humanities, all which provide insight into this population transformation.In section 1 of this paper, we describe the CM-epidemiology, the clinical features, the diagnosis and finally the treatment.In section 2, we highlight the most important contributions and controversies in the history of the CM-research by using scientometric or bibliometric evaluations of research that are based on Garfield’s work (Garfield.library.upenn.edu) on the propagation of scientific thinking.

scholarly journals Bringing Political Upheaval and Cultural Trauma into Order: A Document-Theoretical Approach to the Social Significance of Bibliographic Classification Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joacim Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
Immediate Function

This paper explores the ability to define bibliographic classification systems as socially significant documents in a way that goes beyond their immediate function in the information retrieval process. It does so in dialog with theory on documents and documentality, and knowledge organization theory. Two examples show how development of new classification systems address social and cultural structures in periods of rapid social and cultural change and crisis. The first example discusses the design of a classification system for Swedish public libraries in the late 1910s, and the second addresses the re-formulation of the Holocaust experience in American Jewish library classification practice in the 1950s and 1960s. Results indicate that social significance to classification systems influence the definition their institutional context in relation to wider social issues and movements. The character of this influence suggests research on documentality needs to address the relation between form and content in documents defined as reifications of social acts.

Possible Applications of Arts-Based Research in Creatology Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Magdalena Sasin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
New Research

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the possibilities of using Arts-Based Research (ABR) in creatology studies. This method, which is sometimes also called a paradigm, attracts an increasing attention of researchers from various disciplines. The author presents examples of studies on issues close to creatology conducted using ABR in Poland and abroad, which lead to the conclusion that the method is highly useful for creatology studies. The work analyzes properties of ABR, which are particularly valuable from the viewpoint of research interests of creatology, such as formulating new research problems, stimulating scientists’ motivation, bringing the roles of the researcher and the subjects closer, empowerment of subjects, relationship with art therapy, attractive communication of research results to the social environment, involvement in social issues, and possibility of generating social change. The paper also discusses changing relationships between science and art, because the fundamental property of ABR, from which all unique advantages of that method result but which, at the same time, raises doubts in scientists with a traditional approach, is the fact that it blurs the distinction between those two areas of human activity. Possible uses of ABR in specific research situations in creatology as well as possible related problems are analyzed. The author concludes that ABR may be an answer to the need of methodological search in creatology on condition that one adopts a courageous and unconventional research attitude and is ready to accept certain methodological risk.

The Layered Life of JE26204: the Construction and Reuse of the Coffins of Henuttawy

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-296
Author(s):  
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod ◽  
Kathlyn M. Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Material Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Dynasty ◽  
Third Intermediate Period ◽  
Insight Into

In the Twenty-first Dynasty, ancient Egypt was facing a number of economic, political, and religious challenges and transformations. To compensate for a lack of imported resources and subsidized incomes, the Egyptian people were robbing and reusing the tombs of their predecessors. Royal coffins and mummies were collected by priests and placed in tomb caches, supposedly for their protection. In this article, the authors show how a detailed material analysis of the coffins in these caches can help reveal the social history of Egypt at this time. The coffins of Queen Henuttawy prove to be a combination of Eighteenth and Twenty-First Dynasty construction and decoration, and may provide insight into the actions of Third Intermediate Period priests. Following these pieces through to their modern excavation and display in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, it is evident that these objects continue to impact lives, acquiring additional layers of history and social significance.

Recent Advances in Medically Assisted Conception: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-361
Author(s):  
Bartha M. Knoppers ◽  
Sonia LeBris
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

AbstractA review of reports, bills and legislation from around the world, during the period from 1987 to 1991, reveals certain areas of consensus on the possible or actual, ethical and legal regulation of medically assisted conception. Other areas remain controversial, due not only to cultural and religious differences but also to the social significance of the very implementation of these new technologies. Irrespective of these differences, the reformulation of certain shared international principles of human rights permits a greater specificity both in their translation and in their application to medically assisted conception. Areas discussed include the dignity of the person, the security of human genetic material, the quality of services, the inviolability of the person and the inalienability of the person.

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