DIGITAL: multidisciplinary and multidimensional in the classrooms

In this paper our aim is to analyse and present some pedagogical paths that prefigure and guide the teaching-learning devices developed "around" the digital tools. In this context issues related to the implementation with teaching methodologies and teaching techniques acquire a new dimension due to the need of transpose them into online learning environments (technologies to teach to technologies to learn). This starting point is a deep understanding from the analysis of actors in the online learning process: student, teacher, platform and e- contents. Thus, it is our goal in this chapter to promote digital education, think of teaching methods, tools and learning processes, to adapted to eLearninginfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Toward a Process Theory of Making Sustainability Strategies Legitimate in Action

We draw on a three-year qualitative study of the processual dynamics of implementing a sustainability strategy alongside an existing mainstream competitive strategy. We show that despite the legitimacy of the sustainability strategy at the organizational level, actors experience tensions with its implementation at the action level vis-à-vis the mainstream strategy, thus creating the potential for decoupling. Our findings show that working through these tensions on specific tasks, enables actors to legitimate the sustainability strategy in action and to co-enact it with the mainstream strategy within those tasks. Cumulatively, multiple instances of such co-enactment at the action level reinforce the organizational-level legitimacy of the sustainability strategy and its integration with the mainstream strategy. We draw these findings together into a dynamic process model that contributes to the literature on integration of dual strategies at the action and organizational levels as a process of legitimacy making

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Managing the Managerial Availability Paradox

Title: Managing the Managerial Availability Paradox - A Cross-sectional Study of Nine Top Managers’ Views on Their Availability Seminar Date: 16 January 2015 Course: FEKH49, Degree Project in Organization and Leadership, Bachelor Level Authors: Charlotte Borlind, Filippa Järnmarker and Katarina Werder Supervisor: Nadja Sörgärde Key Words: availability, identity, managerial work, paradox, unavailability Purpose: The purpose of this research is to increase the understanding of managerial availability and the relating complexities of managerial availability as an aspect of managerial work. Methodology: This research has an interpretative perspective. It was carried out with a qualitative approach and takes on a social constructionist point of view. The research’s focus on subjective perceptions of managers and their personal views on availability therefore becomes a result of this ontological position where the managers, in relation to their surroundings, construct their realities. Nine semi-structured interviews with nine top managers have been conducted. The collected empirical material has been systematized, categorized and analyzed. Theoretical Perspectives: The field of managerial availability has been examined in this research. Due to the lack of excessive theory and literature within this focus area, other relevant theories have been introduced. These are managerial work, discourse, identity and attachment theory. These have been used as analytical tools in analyzing the empirical material. Empirical Foundations: To collect empirical material, nine semi-structured interviews with top managers in knowledge-intensive organizations situated in or close to the region of Skåne, Sweden, have been conducted. Conclusion: The identified views on managerial availability as being (1) important, (2) inescapable and (3) a challenge help understand what constitute managerial availability and its significance in managerial work. The views are perceived to have a noticeable effect on how managerial work is carried out. The evident complexity of how managerial availability is viewed, defined as the “managerial availability paradox”, was found to risk leading to stress, fragile personal identities and hampering managerial efficiency in managerial work. Three strategies of understanding how to cope with the managerial availability paradox were identified as (1) affect expectations, (2) rewrite the facts and (3) speech of defence

Toward a culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience: participatory research with war-affected communities in northern Uganda

Resilience research with war-affected populations has long conceptualized resilience as the absence of psychopathology and operationalized it by use of standardized measures. However, literature on resilience increasingly highlights the importance of also including indicators of positively valued functioning as well as contextually sensitive indicators of resilience. This study used a participatory approach to examine the contextual conceptualization of youth resilience in the aftermath of war in northern Uganda, as defined by groups of stakeholders (youths, parents, elders, leaders, teachers) in four communities. The results identify 40 indicators covering a multiplicity of domains of functioning. The rationales behind these indicators were clustered into the broad themes: progress, self-reliance, social connectedness, morality, health, and comfort. The findings suggest that positively and negatively valued aspects of functioning are both key to conceptualizing resilience, and indicate the importance of including contextually distinguished indicators. The findings further point to the role of individual and collective processes in the construction of resilience, and to the need to take into account the contexts wherein resilience is conceptualized and observed. This study generated contextually sensitive indicators of young people's resilience, which can be used, complementary to existing measures of functioning, to provide a more comprehensive and culturally sensitive view of youths' resilience in the wake of war adversity

Climate Justice, Gender, and Intersectionality

Women are generally more vulnerable than men to environmental disasters and extreme weather events due to four main factors, which are related to women’s gendered roles in society: women are economically disadvantaged in comparison to men and are more likely to live in poverty; sexual and reproductive health and physical demands on their bodies during pregnancy, child-bearing and rearing, and menopause put them at special risk; their lives tend to be longer and they spend more time as seniors / widows, with resulting economic and health implications; and their social options are restricted so that they often fill paid and unpaid roles related to physical and emotional caring that put them at special risk of environmental injustice. This means that environmental and climate injustice are gendered in both rich and poor countries, and this can be manifested in a variety of ways: housing, transportation, food insecurity, stress, mental illness, disability, heat exposure, interruptions of electricity and water services, violence against women, partner and elder violence, toxic exposure, health vulnerability, worker safety, political voice/agency/leadership, and many others. Gender also intersects with other categories of vulnerability such as ethnicity, ‘race,’ sexuality, dis/ability, etc. to heighten climate risk and injustice. The gendered effects of extreme weather events are often not disaggregated in government statistics and research literature, and an explicit gender focus, including attention to the access of women and marginalized people to participation in climate policy setting, has been minimal. Both at the local level and globally, climate change adaptation and response initiatives can downplay or suppress democratic, equity-enhancing politics.This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, FRN IDRC and SSHRC File Agreement No. 2017-0082 and IDRC GRANT NO. 106002-00