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Planetary Hinterlands:Extraction, Abandonment and Care
This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times and spaces shaped and experienced across the received categories of the urban, rural, wilderness or nature. In straddling these categories, the concept of the hinterland foregrounds the human and more-than-human lively processes and forms of care that go on even in sites defined by capitalist extraction and political abandonment. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the book rethinks hinterland materialities, affectivities, and ecologies across places and cultural imaginations, Global North and South, urban and rural, and land and water
LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volum
A Critical Review Of Post-Secondary Education Writing During A 21st Century Education Revolution
Educational materials are effective instruments which provide information and report new discoveries uncovered by researchers in specific areas of academia. Higher education, like other education institutions, rely on instructional materials to inform its practice of educating adult learners. In post-secondary education, developmental English programs are tasked with meeting the needs of dynamic populations, thus there is a continuous need for research in this area to support its changing landscape. However, the majority of scholarly thought in this area centers on K-12 reading and writing. This paucity presents a phenomenon to the post-secondary community. This research study uses a qualitative content analysis to examine peer-reviewed journals from 2003-2017, developmental online websites, and a government issued document directed toward reforming post-secondary developmental education programs. These highly relevant sources aid educators in discovering informational support to apply best practices for student success. Developmental education serves the purpose of addressing literacy gaps for students transitioning to college-level work. The findings here illuminate the dearth of material offered to developmental educators. This study suggests the field of literacy research is fragmented and highlights an apparent blind spot in scholarly literature with regard to English writing instruction. This poses a quandary for post-secondary literacy researchers in the 21st century and establishes the necessity for the literacy research community to commit future scholarship toward equipping college educators teaching writing instruction to underprepared adult learners
Secondary Students’ Career Development Phenomenarratives
Career education and guidance can support the development of secondary students as they aspire toward their life goals. This research explored the lived experiences of three young people through the creation of phenomenarratives. A narrative co-reflection process was developed as part of the students’ personalised career guidance planning. Findings indicated the importance of career education that supports personalised and holistic learning experiences to develop students’ self-awareness, work skills, networks and confidence in their future direction
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Lessons for the UK on implementation and evaluation of breastfeeding support: evidence syntheses and stakeholder engagement
Background
Breastfeeding impacts multiple health outcomes but less than 50% of UK women breastfeed at 8 weeks. Women with long-term conditions face additional challenges in breastfeeding.
Objectives
To synthesise global and UK evidence to co-create an implementation and evaluation toolkit for cost-effective breastfeeding support in the NHS.
Design
Evidence syntheses with stakeholder engagement.
Review methods
Systematic reviews examined effectiveness of breastfeeding support for i) healthy women, and ii) women with long-term conditions using Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth group methods.
Mixed methods systematic reviews synthesised process evaluations of effective breastfeeding support interventions for healthy women, and experiences of receiving/providing support for breastfeeding women. Cross-study synthesis integrated qualitative and quantitative findings.
Systematic reviews synthesised evidence on the incremental costs and cost-effectiveness of breastfeeding support following NICE guidance. All searches were conducted May 2021 to October 2022.
Stakeholder engagement and toolkit development comprised online discussions, a modified Delphi study, focus groups and four workshops. Participants were: 23 stakeholders, 16 parents in the parents panels, 15 women in the focus groups, and 87 stakeholders attended the workshops.
Results
We found considerably more interventions that were designed for healthy women (Review 1) compared to those aimed at women with long-term conditions (Reviews 1 and 4, approximately half the studies were targeted at groups at higher risk of poor breastfeeding outcomes, and possibly the impact of support may be different in these populations. Despite this, studies from Review 2 found that women perceived the provision of support as positive, important and needed. Studies from Review 5 echoed a range of suggestions from participants regarding potential strategies to improve breastfeeding support, with the most widely reported being the need to acknowledge the role and influence of other sources of support (e.g., partners, family, friends, peers, external professionals, web-based resources) and involving them in the provision of breastfeeding support for women with long-term conditions. In Reviews 3 and 6, there was uncertainty in the cost-effectiveness of breastfeeding support interventions due to the limited number of studies and lack of good quality evidence.
Limitations
There is lack of evidence for effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of breastfeeding interventions in the UK. There was often insufficient information about intervention characteristics reported.
Conclusions
‘Breastfeeding only’ support probably reduces the number of women stopping any or exclusive breastfeeding. The evidence for ‘breastfeeding plus’ interventions is less consistent but may reduce the number of women stopping exclusive breastfeeding at 4-6 weeks and 6 months. We found no evidence of differential intervention effects regarding mode of provision or provider. Cost-effectiveness is uncertain due to the lack of good quality evidence. Key enablers of successful implementation were responsiveness and tailoring of interventions to both women’s and supporters’ needs. Breastfeeding support as delivered in the included studies probably has little to no effect on breastfeeding outcomes for women with long-term conditions. The mixed-methods synthesis and stakeholder work identified that existing interventions may not address the complex needs of these women. The main study output is a co-produced toolkit to guide implementation and evaluation of breastfeeding support services in the UK.
Future work
Evaluation of breastfeeding support for all women, in particular those at risk of poor breastfeeding outcomes (e.g., long-term conditions, deprivation). This could involve tailoring the toolkit to local contexts via implementation and effectiveness studies or using quality improvement studies
Mooring the global archive: a Japanese ship and its migrant histories
Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants who left Japan for work in Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia. These stories bring together transpacific historiographies of settler colonialism, labour history and resource extraction in new ways. Drawing on an unconventional and deeply material archive, from gravestones to government files, paintings to song, and from digitized records to the very earth itself, Dusinberre addresses key questions of method and authorial positionality in the writing of global history. This engaging investigation into archival practice asks, what is the global archive, where is it cited, and who are 'we' as we cite it? This title is also available as Open Access
30th European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2023)
This is the abstract book of 30th European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2023
Nudging towards autonomy:The effect of nudging on autonomous learning behavior in tertiary education
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