Case studies of the legal and institutional obstacles and incentives to the development of small-scale hydroelectric power. Executive summary

Each of the 65 inhabited islands of Vanuatu hosts its own unique linguistic environment in which varying degrees of multilingualism are found. This paper defines various types of small-scale multilingual settings in Vanuatu and explores what sociohistorical factors have led to them. This paper is based on first-hand observations and primary data collected by the authors in four locations in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu since 2016: two neighboring villages of Emae Island (Makatu and Tongamea), North Malekula, and on Maewo Island. The assessments of multilingualism in these examples from Vanuatu were qualitative, based on observations of sociolinguistic practices in each of these areas, as well as data from language history and language use surveys carried out in each place. Through defining and comparing the types of multilingualism present in the four case studies, we identify patterns in the social and historical processes that lead to various kinds of multilingualism: (a) interaction of linguistic and sociocultural identities and (b) mobility of both individuals and entire speech communities. The examples described in this paper are used to highlight the diversity of multilingualism found in Vanuatu and to explore how their differing linguistic environments and histories have contributed to their varying degrees of multilingualism. This paper makes an original contribution to knowledge about the small-scale multilingual situations in Vanuatu, offering descriptions of previously undocumented and endangered multilingual environments. Through an examination of the sociocultural motivations for multilingualism, alongside historical migrations of speaker groups and marked sociolinguistic identities, this paper contributes to research on why and how small-scale multilingualism can develop. Furthermore, this paper provides the foundation for future, more rigorous investigations into the small-scale multilingual situations of this highly understudied region.

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Social License to Automate: Emerging Approaches to Demand Side Management - Executive Summary

10.47568/4xr123 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sophie Adams ◽

Lisa Diamond ◽

Tara Esterl ◽

Peter Fröhlich ◽

Rishabh Ghotge ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Electric Vehicles ◽

Demand Side Management ◽

Heat Pumps ◽

Final Report ◽

Demand Side ◽

Executive Summary ◽

Air Conditioners ◽

Social License

Executive Summary of the final report of the Users TCP Social License to Automate Task findings from a 2 year project with 16 researchers in 6 countries, 26 Case studies spanning electric vehicles, home and precinct batteries, air conditioners and other heat pumps.

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Investigating deaf children’s plural and diverse use of sign and spoken languages in a super diverse context

Applied Linguistics Review ◽

10.1515/applirev-2016-0009 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 117-147 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Ruth Swanwick ◽

Sue Wright ◽

Jackie Salter

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Deaf Education ◽

Individual Case ◽

Deaf Children ◽

Small Scale ◽

Unique Type ◽

The North ◽

Context Data ◽

Language Exposure ◽

Diverse Context

AbstractThis paper examines the meaning of plurality and diversity with respect to deaf children’s sign and spoken language exposure and repertoire within a super diverse context. Data is drawn from a small-scale project that took place in the North of England in a Local Authority (LA) site for deaf education. The project documented the language landscape of this site and gathered five individual case studies of deaf children to examine their plural and diverse language practices at home and at school. Analysis of the language landscape and case studies from this context is undertaken in order to define and exemplify deaf children’s language plurality and diversity in terms of context and individual experience. Concepts of repertoire are explored with particular reference to the unique type of translanguaging that the plural use of sign and spoken languages affords. Implications of these preliminary insights are discussed in terms of the development of methodologies that are sensitive to the particular translanguaging practices of deaf children, and approaches to pedagogy that are appropriately nuanced and responsive to deaf children’s language plurality and diversity.

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Practice-Focused Research in Initial Teacher Education

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.578 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jane Abbiss ◽

Eline Vanassche

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Teacher Education ◽

Student Teachers ◽

Case Studies ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Teacher Educator ◽

Initial Teacher Education ◽

Small Scale ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Theoretical Contribution

A review of the field of practice-focused research in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) reveals four broad genres of qualitative research: case studies of teacher education programs and developments; research into student teacher experience and learning; inquiry into teacher educators’ own learning, identity, and beliefs; and conceptual or theory-building research. This is an eclectic field that is defined by variation in methodologies rather than by a few clearly identifiable research approaches. What practice-focused research in ITE has in common, though, is a desire on the behalf of teacher educator researchers to understand the complexity of teacher education and contribute to shifts in practice, for the benefit of student teachers and, ultimately, for learners in schools and early childhood education. In this endeavor, teacher educator researchers are presented with a challenge to achieve a balance between goals of local relevance and making a theoretical contribution to the broader field. This is a persistent tension. Notwithstanding the capacity for practice-focused research to achieve a stronger balance and greater relevance beyond the local, key contributions of practice-focused research in ITE include: highlighting the importance of context, questioning what might be understood by “improvement” in teacher education and schooling, and pushing back against research power structures that undervalue practice-focused research. Drawing on a painting metaphor, each genre represents a collection of sketches of practice-focused research in ITE that together provide the viewer with an overview of the field. However, these genres are not mutually exclusive categories as any particular research study (or sketch) might be placed within one or more groupings; for example, inquiry into teacher educators’ own learning often also includes attention to student teachers’ experiences and case studies of teacher education initiatives inevitably draw on theory to frame the research and make sense of findings. Also, overviewing the field and identifying relevant research is not as simple as it might first appear, given challenges in identifying research undertaken by teacher educators, differences in the positioning of teacher educators within different educational systems, and privileging of American (US) views of teacher education in published research, which was counteracted in a small way in this review by explicitly including voices located outside this dominant setting. Examples of different types of qualitative research projects illustrate issues in teacher education that matter to teacher educator researchers globally and locally and how they have sought to use a variety of methodologies to understand them. The examples also show how teacher educators themselves define what is important in teacher education research, often through small-scale studies of context-specific teacher education problems and practices, and how there is value in “smaller story” research that supports understanding of both universals and particularities along with the grand narratives of teacher education.

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Decentralized sanitation implementation in Vietnam: a peri-urban case study

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.2007.565 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 56 (5) ◽

pp. 133-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

J. Beausejour ◽

A.V. Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Management System ◽

Small Towns ◽

Small Scale ◽

Community Management ◽

Wastewater Management ◽

Local Resources ◽

Management Project

This research presents one of the first comprehensive case studies of a small-scale wastewater management project in Vietnam. The research demonstrates how the community integrated a small-scale wastewater management system based on household participation and community management. It is argued that local resources of peri-urban and small towns could be used more efficiently to contribute to wastewater management in Vietnam if appropriate technologies are used and if their management and technical capacities are reinforced.

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Marriages, Norms and Structures

The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813054315.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

Computer Simulation ◽

Case Studies ◽

Formal System ◽

Small Scale ◽

Ideal Model ◽

Personal Interests ◽

The Ideal ◽

Formal Rules

Mansutti adopts Needham’s scheme of distinguishing three analytical levels; the jural rules; the statistical-behavioural, and the categorical. He includes a computer simulation to gain a time depth in his model of Piaroa kinship and marriage, which demonstrates that the exceptions to the marriage rules are not residual and inexplicable but are necessary to maintain the ideal model anticipated by the formal rules. Although violations of the rules are motivated by personal desires and not a desire to save the formal system, they are in fact necessary to its preservation. Moreover, he employs Bourdieu’s distinction between official and private kinship, and illustrates his approach with apposite case studies. For instance, he describes how personal interests can be transmuted into community interests, and genealogical relationships between two people in small-scale societies can be “read” along different routes with telling results.

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Educational Podcasts at University Campus Suffolk

Mobile Technologies and Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-849-0.ch011 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 187-208 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tim Goodchild ◽

Sam Chenery-Morris

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Developmental Process ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Small Scale ◽

University Campus ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Evaluative Research

This chapter will explore the introduction and development of podcasts at University Campus Suffolk (UCS). The podcasts discussed in this chapter have all been developed in relation to pre-registration health and social care courses within the Faculty of Health at UCS. UCS is a relatively new university, and has a wide range of professional courses including nursing, midwifery, radiography, operating department practice and social work. The chapter will begin with a discussion of where podcasts sit in the paradigm of mobile learning and then a brief history of podcasting. The introduction of podcasts at UCS has been ad-hoc and mostly in response to ideas for developing the wider student learning experience. This ad-hoc approach has led to the development of a model for their educational use. Three case studies will be outlined, followed by presentation of the model. These case studies will show how podcasts came to be utilised, and the progression of our thoughts and experiences which have informed their current and future development at UCS. Small scale evaluations throughout the developmental period, and informal student feedback have helped inform the progression of podcasting at UCS. These evaluations have driven the increased use of podcasts at UCS, with students enjoying the experience of using podcasts, and also the ability to digest the podcasts at a time of their choosing. However, it should be noted that because of the nature of the developmental process, full scale evaluative research is only now being undertaken.

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