Face to Face in Ireland

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Brenna Patterson describes her observations during her study abroad program at the National University of Ireland in Galway

Face to Face in Costa Rica

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Felicia Weller describes her observations during her study abroad program at Centro Cultural e Historico Jose Figueres Ferrer, in San Ramón, Costa Rica

Active and passive fields face to face

The statistical properties of active and passive scalar fields transported by the same turbulent flow are investigated. Four examples of active scalar have been considered: temperature in thermal convection, magnetic potential in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics, vorticity in two-dimensional Ekman turbulence and potential temperature in surface flows. In the cases of temperature and vorticity, it is found that the active scalar behavior is akin to that of its co-evolving passive counterpart. The two other cases indicate that this similarity is in fact not generic and differences between passive and active fields can be striking: in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics the magnetic potential performs an inverse cascade while the passive scalar cascades toward the small-scales; in surface flows, albeit both perform a direct cascade, the potential temperature and the passive scalar have different scaling laws already at the level of low-order statistical objects. These dramatic differences are rooted in the correlations between the active scalar input and the particle trajectories. The role of such correlations in the issue of universality in active scalar transport and the behavior of dissipative anomalies is addressed.Comment: 36 pages, 20 eps figures, for the published version see http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/6/1/07

Face-to-face: Social work and evil

The concept of evil continues to feature in public discourses and has been reinvigorated in some academic disciplines and caring professions. This article navigates social workers through the controversy surrounding evil so that they are better equipped to acknowledge, reframe or repudiate attributions of evil in respect of themselves, their service users or the societal contexts impinging upon both. A tour of the landscape of evil brings us face-to-face with moral, administrative, societal and metaphysical evils, although it terminates in an exhortation to cultivate a more metaphorical language. The implications for social work ethics, practice and education are also discussed

Face to Face

This flyer promotes the event Face to Face/ Cara a Cara , an exhibition on the topic of dialogues and border confrontations, and gender, race, and migrations. The exhibition was on display at the Centro Cultural Espanol de Miami in Coral Gables.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1130/thumbnail.jp

WINGS-CF Face-to-Face Meeting 2004

This report focuses mainly on workshop discussions and has been written from detailed notes taken by workshop scribes. Where there was overlap in discussion topics, some points have been combined: this is not just a transcript of the workshop discussions. The report starts with a summary of the implications for WINGS-CF from the meeting, and an overview of the workshops. For anyone who wants to delve more deeply into how a topic was explored at the gathering, Section 4 gives details of discussion, drawn from notes taken by each group and the "post-it" thoughts provided by participants before the working groups started the discussions

Parent’s Perception on Face-to-Face Learning

Throughout Indonesia, parental engagement with schools has mostly been through their involvement in their children’s education. This parental involvement increased during distance learning brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, as parents needed to supervise their children’s studies, monitor their academic progress, ensure the completion of assignments, and maintain communication with teachers. However, parental involvement in school management and the decision making process has remained low, despite the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (MOECRT) mandating the formation of School Committees to support school management, as well as increase transparency and accountability. The majority of parents are satisfied with the face-to-face learning policy, citing that it provides a more conducive learning environment than distance learning. They are also satisfied with the provision of choice within the policy, as parents had the final say in allowing their children to return to school or continue their online education from home. Those who are not satisfied with face-to-face learning have expressed that the policy remains inappropriate given the rising Covid-19 cases as a result of the Omicron wave. This was also linked to parents’ concerns over increased risk of transmission to the rest of the household as well as the school’s capacity to adhere to the safety protocols. MOECRT needs to expand opportunities for parents to engage in school management through the reinforcement of School Committees. School Committees can be reintroduced to school leaders as part of the post-pandemic recovery, as its members can provide additional support to ensure a safe and effective implementation of face-to-face learning, especially in the midst of an ongoing pandemic. In states of emergencies, schools need to be granted greater autonomy to respond appropriately based on their level of resources and capacity. With this policy, therefore, schools would not be as affected by ever-changing policies from the MOECRT, which would be inevitable during crises. Greater autonomy can empower school leaders over their school management and decision-making processes, for example in facilitating smoother transitions between distance learning and face-to-face learning. The barriers to distance learning must continually be addressed, even as the pandemic ends. MOECRT, along with other key ministries such as the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Communication and Informatics must pay attention and boost public-private partnerships with telecommunication and hardware providers, as well as increase appropriately targeted digital literacy programs to bridge the digital divide. These measures are critical to ensure that students have a good support system in the event where distance learning must be reintroduced

Face to Face, Carl Beam and Andy Warhol

Keira Koch ’19 examines representations of indigenous cultures in prints and photographs by American artist Andy Warhol and First Nations artist Carl Beam. In this comparative study, Koch considers the topic of appropriation and re-appropriation of Native imagery. Warhol, as a non-Indigenous artist, is using this imagery to highlight the dominant narrative of the American West. Beam, however, incorporates photographs of Native subjects and traditional narratives by re-appropriating those images to tell a distinctly Native narrative. This exhibition invites discussion about the role of contemporary indigenous artists and how indigenous identities are expressed in contemporary art. This exhibition intersects with the issues and methodologies studied in Koch’s individualized major titled “Indigenous Cultures, History and Identity.” In addition to studying aboriginal arts and indigenous communities in Australia during her Junior year, Koch serves as the Co-President of Students for Indigenous Awareness at Gettysburg College.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/1027/thumbnail.jp