Price control of local foodstuffs in Kumasi, Ghana, 1979

This chapter posted with the permission of Westview Press.This chapter centers on Ghana’s 1979 “housecleaning” anti-corruption exercise led by J.J. Rawlings. Intensified price controls legitimated violent attacks on markets and stores, selling off goods at arbitrary low prices and widespread confiscations. A history of price controls since colonial times shows ideological links emerging to corruption and falling real incomes, and compares the effects of various enforcement episodes and a currency exchange on food supplies and commercial practices. Detailed ethnographic accounts of raids, demolitions, meetings and negotiations in Kumasi Central Market contrast the treatment of women traders with that of men in informal production, and the relative impact on wealthier and poorer traders

Money, sex and cooking: manipulation of the paid/unpaid boundary by Asante market women

This paper analyses how Asante women trading in the Central Market of Kumasi (Ghana’s second largest city) balance the demands of trading and domestic work upon their time and money. Matriliny and duolocal marriage define very different conflicts for childcare and cooking, because of women’s authority as mothers and deference as wives. The evening meal has strong associations with sexual fidelity and financial support, leaving less flexibility for married women in its timing, quality and personal performance. The discussion of life cycle strategies of compromise draws on ethnographic fieldwork 1978-84

Using a Blended Learning Approach to support Women returning to STEM

This paper examines a blended learning model designed to support women returning to STEM after a career break and its delivery in a unique partnership between an online distance education provider and a community based equality organisation. Through this partnership additional activities such as networking events, returnships, career clinics and webinars were used in addition to a structured online Badged Open Course (BOC), which enabled a successful return to employment for many of the participants. This paper outlines the results and implications of an evaluation of this integrated model and argues that blended learning approaches need to be flexible and adaptable to be able to incorporate the needs of different groups of learners at different life-course stages, taking into consideration gender and other diversity characteristics

Gender Dynamics in Midwestern Building Trades: Tokenism and Beyond

Analyses of women’s experiences in building trades confirm that hegemonic male organizational culture continues to discourage women’s entry and retention. Theories of tokenism analyze the effects of race, gender, or other group proportions within organizations, suggesting that higher sex ratios in construction would foster a climate more supportive of women. Kanter’s (1977a) theory of tokenism is tested on 2002-3 interview data from women building trades workers in a central-Midwestern U.S. state. These findings support her hypothesis that skewed gender ratios generate tensions among women, as well as between men and women. The heightened visibility of tokens generates polarization between subgroups and promotes role entrapment, undermining solidarity across gender and among women. While tokenism theory predicts tensions between subgroups and among tokens, it must be supplemented by gender-, race- and class-based analyses of privilege for a fuller account of the complex gender dynamics in construction work. Pre-apprenticeship programs for women, mentoring, networking, and advocacy programs have been shown to contribute to increases in tradeswomen’s recruitment and retention

Formação do Pedagogo para Gestão Escolar: experiência curricular em interface com extensão

Esta pesquisa vislumbra focar em temáticas como formação do(a) pedagogo(a), gestão escolar e trabalho pedagógico. Assim, este estudo buscou dialogar com a formação de pedagogos(as) e suas interfaces para gestão escolar do trabalho pedagógico. A investigação deu-se no transcorrer do componente curricular de estágio supervisionado “Gestão do Trabalho Pedagógico em Ambientes Escolares”, que faz parte da matriz curricular do Projeto Pedagógico do Curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogia da Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Campus Amargosa. Os dados foram produzidos em 2018, a partir de uma pesquisa qualitativa e exploratória-descritiva, com a execução das atividades do estágio supervisionado, na modalidade de extensão, articulada à pesquisa. Desse modo, duas interfaces emergiram a partir do corpus analisado, sendo: 1) Aprendizagens sobre os campos de atuação profissional; 2) Aprendizagens para a atuação profissional. Essas interfaces nos permitiram entender as temáticas da gestão escolar e do trabalho pedagógico, como aprendizagens fundantes na formação do(a) pedagogo(a). Os resultados evidenciaram que, no contexto da atividade de extensão desenvolvida, os/as alunos(as) em formação inicial construíram conhecimentos relacionados às funções desempenhadas pelo(a) pedagogo(a) na escola. Ainda, sobre o trabalho pedagógico desenvolvido no cenário escolar que envolve o trabalho em equipe, a coletividade e a busca por melhorias desse ambiente. Desse modo, entendemos que a concretização do estágio supervisionado como extensão foi salutar para a construção desses conhecimentos. &nbsp

Proximal ulna stress fracture and stress reaction of the proximal radius associated with the use of crutches: a case report and literature review

We report a case of complete stress fracture of the ulna and stress reaction of the radius resulting from the use of crutches in an overweight patient with severe lower extremity arthritis. Plain radiograph showed an undisplaced complete fracture of the proximal metaphysis of the ulna. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed to exclude a pathological cause in view of the unusual fracture site, which confirmed the plain radiographic findings and additionally demonstrated a stress reaction in the proximal radius. There are three cases of stress fracture of the ulnar diaphysis resulting from the use of crutches reported previously in the English literature and a further case of bilaterally symmetrical ulnar diaphysial fracture reported in the Danish literature. We report the first case of ulnar metaphysis stress fracture with concomitant stress reaction of the radius

Amine-functionalized mesoporous silica: A material capable of CO2 adsorption and fast regeneration by microwave heating

The surface of ordered mesoporous (MCM-48) silica has been subjected to covalent grafting with silane molecules containing one to three amino groups. The dielectric properties of the materials were studied in detail, and the functionalized materials were used for CO2 adsorption at room temperature, followed by regeneration under either conventional heating or microwave irradiation. It has been found that, as the intensity of functionalization with amino groups increases (from mono- to tri-amino silanes) both the CO2 load and the dielectric response at microwave frequencies increase. In particular, functionalization with a tri-amino silane derivative gave the highest CO2 adsorption and the fastest microwave heating, resulting in a fourfold acceleration of adsorbent regeneration. The grafted material was fully stable for at least 20 adsorption-regeneration cycles, making it an ideal candidate for microwave-swing adsorption (MWSA) processes. (c) 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 62: 547-555, 2016Financial support from the European Research Council ERC-Advanced Grant HECTOR is gratefully acknowledged. Hakan Nigar also acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education for the FPU grant (Formacion del Profesorado Universitario-FPU12/06864).Nigar, H.; García-Baños, B.; Penaranda-Foix, FL.; Catalá Civera, JM.; Mallada, R.; Santamaria, J. (2016). Amine-functionalized mesoporous silica: A material capable of CO2 adsorption and fast regeneration by microwave heating. AIChE Journal. 62(2):547-555. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.15118S54755562