Category: Other Humanities
PsyAid: Innovating Psycho-Education to Promote Psychological First Aid (PFA) for COVID-19 Pandemic Survivors
This study aims to demonstrate how Psychological First Aid (PFA) can enhance mental health among COVID-19 survivors through psycho-educational tools such as video learning and social media content. Addressing the 25% increase in anxiety and depression among COVID-19 survivors (WHO, 2022), the PFA model provides immediate help and support to individuals in distress due to …
Emotionalism: Deriving a Movement from a Film, a Lecture, and an Interview
The role of emotions in the design and emotional responses to environments occupy a noteworthy place in scientific literature. Contrary, the effects of intensive digitalization and technology on individuals and on the design, management, and resilience of cities need further consideration. The study presents a performative, post-qualitative inquiry of the dichotomy. Three data were analyzed: …
Promoting Social Innovation With Hybrid Company Forms of Social Enterprises
Social innovation provides a way to solve social problems through innovative products/solutions, processes and empowerment strategies. Social enterprise could be considered as a hybrid organization adopting various social innovation measures to achieve social benefits. Putting it this way, social innovation thus happens through social enterprise. Nonetheless, social enterprises do not always involve social innovation. Then, …
The Impact of Rural Women’s Gender Role Perception on Household Food Security: A Study in Kakamega County, Kenya
Against the backdrop of global efforts to achieve food security and gender equality, understanding how women perceive their roles within the food value chain is vital. This paper examines women’s perceptions of gender roles along the food value chain and its impact on household food security. Focusing on women Chama members in Kakamega County, the …
Leaning on Culture: An Original Design Experiment in Post-Earthquake Architecture Studio Education
On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.5 Mw occurred in Kahramanmaraş. These earthquakes caused devastation in modern and historical environments in an area of 35000 km2. Such great destruction and deaths affect the whole geography where they are located and the people living there, as well as the whole of …
Of Miracles, Healings, and Protection: A Study of the Use of Habak in the Tri-City of Cebu
This qualitative study investigates the uses of habak or amulet from the Tri-City of Cebu, Philippines. Anchored on Malinowski’s Functionalist Theory and supported by Dorson’s National Folklore Theory, this study specifically looks into Miracles, Healings, and Protection. It also examines the function of habak in the Philippine culture. Upon analysis, it was revealed that: (1) …
Exploring the Ultimate Causes of Migration: A Peace Studies Approach
This research aims to extend the not so much emphasized but nevertheless direly needed philosophical reflections on the topic of migration. Indeed, this latter is extensively studied from political, economic, socio-cultural, legal, demographical, historical, geographical and psychological approaches but it is quite rare to encounter philosophical dialogues on it. Nevertheless, such philosophical discussion on migration …
Then and Now: Serbian Students’ Attitudes on Megxit
At the time when Harry and Meghan dramatically announced their departure from the UK, that decision came as a surprise even to those who closely observed events on the British Royal Court, and like a bolt out of the blue to others. Although a plethora of articles in the media and even books have been …
Minors’ Engagement in Health-Based Programs: Insights From UNICEF Lesotho’s HIV-Nutrition Intervention
This paper explores strategies to enhance minors’ understanding of program participation, ensuring their active involvement from the program’s inception through its completion, emphasizing the crucial role of sustainability for long-term change. Drawing insights from UNICEF Lesotho’s three-year HIV-nutrition intervention (2019-2022) that spanned all 10 districts and 69 community councils, the project championed the health and …
Committee System in Lagos State Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria
The committee system and its effects on institutional governance are examined in this study for Nigeria’s postsecondary institutions in Lagos State. This study’s objectives were to evaluate the committee system’s integration into Lagos State’s tertiary institutions and to ascertain its effects on institutional governance. The study utilised qualitative and well as qualitative techniques for collecting …
Contribution of Women’s Associations in the Production of Small Projects
Small projects represent an important place in the economy of developing countries, given that they constitute the vast majority of industrial establishments in general, and that the proportions vary from one country to another. With the beginning of the current century, an important shift occurred in the field of investments, and attention began to be …
Self-Concept and Perceived Social Support as Predictors of Self-Esteem Among Students in a Malaysian University
Recent findings have shown that the differences between self-concept and self-esteem are becoming more apparent. Self-concept serves as a cognitive domain of the self, while self- esteem involves emotional and affective stances. Historically, self-concept and self-esteem were used interchangeably. As studies have found, self-concept is not the sole factor that influences self-esteem but social relationships …
The Role of Women Self Help Groups (Chama) in Empowering Rural Women in Kenya
Rural women in developing countries face significant cultural challenges. Notably, women in patriarchal communities are constrained by gendered norms and roles. These norms have contributed to gendered exclusions, high expectations, and inequitable access to resources, leaving most women in these communities disempowered. Kenya is one of the countries whose rural women have been subjected to …
Evolution of Character Culture Through Collaboration in Japan: The Sanrio Case
According to a survey by Yano Research Institute, the size of the character business market in 2021 reached 1,256 billion Japanese Yen. Character culture has spread not only in Japan but also worldwide, and characters from comics such as “Mickey Mouse” have been independently developed. Similarly, characters from Japan such as “Hello Kitty” and “Pokémon” …
The Medium-Term Effects of the Collective Reflexive Coaching Device Catching Your Breath on ECEC Managers Well-Being During COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the workload of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) managers and decreased their well-being at work (Bigras et al., 2021). Quebec’s ECEC managers expressed a need for support in dealing with the challenges encountered during the pandemic (Bigras et al., 2021). A collective reflexive coaching device, called Catching Your …
Online Education During Pandemic and Its Impact in India
The pandemic Covid-19 has spread over the whole world and compelled human society to maintain physical distancing, which has significantly disrupted the education sector. According to a UNESCO report, it had affected more than 90% of the total world’s student population during mid-April 2020. In India, more than 32 crores of students have been affected. …
Resilience in Times of Need: Educational and Social Measures Adopted by the Regional Labour Court of Goiás During the Pandemic
Quarantine, lockdown, social distancing and facemask policies are measures that have been taken worldwide to reduce COVID-19 transmission. In Brazil, while the Executive administration has downplayed the threat of coronavirus infection, the response of Judiciary to COVID-19 crisis occurred immediately after the confirmation of the first cases. Different courts implemented a set of institutional arrangements …
Does Motivation Break the Chains of Desistance?
Desistance, educational mobility, and social theory are fields that aim to promote social mobility and encourage the eradication of delinquency and inequality. Desistance is defined by Maruna and Farrall (2004) as the status where an individual is no longer offending. These are split into defined phases; primary desistance, where the individual has a gap in …
Traditional Practices and Rituals Incorporated in Preparing Maguindanaon Native Delicacies
Food is a reflection of the Maguindanaon beliefs and cultures. This demonstration can be traced back from the roots of this Maguindanaon tribe where practices of food preparation is reflective of their faith in Islam. Evidently, Maguindanaon traditional dishes maker observe practices and rituals which are intertwined with their religiosity. This study employed qualitative descriptive-developmental …
Assessment of Attitude Towards Research
This paper discusses about the attitude of the final year undergraduate students and the post graduate students towards research. The target group is carefully chosen by the author as students are introduced to research through the capstone project which is predominantly a part of the curriculum in the final year undergraduate courses and the post …
Towards an Agency of Dust
In 1987, photographer Peter Wellmer stumbled upon a deserted building with an interior both fully assembled and in working order: the abandoned United Linen Factories at 48a Viktoria Street in Bielefeld, Germany. It had been built in 1913, and, by 1920, Juhl&Helmke employed 164 seamstresses there, who worked on dowry assortments of undergarments and household …