Problem-Based Learning, Social Sustainability, and Soccer

On Friday, March 13, 2020, academic and sport activities at a Mexican university were happening as on a normal day. However, the following Monday, students and teachers had to stay at home for an undefined period. In this work, we show how a course with problem-based learning (PBL) and social sustainability (SS) approaches was adapted to pandemic times. We start with the COVID-19 context at the Monterrey Metropolitan Area (MMA) and then provide a theoretical overview of PBL, SS, Latin American self-produced quartiers, soccer in vulnerable communities, and general aspects about pandemic times. Following this, we discuss the methodology used for reaching out to vulnerable communities in Monterrey City, Mexico, using soccer as a strategy. The students conducted a project together with a non-governmental organization (NGO) whose main task is to promote this sport practice in vulnerable communities around the world. We conclude from our study that students need pedagogical platforms that allow them to respond to the requirements of different social groups, as well as to develop skills to face real problems.

REFRAMING HATE

The concept and naming of "hate crime," and the adoption of special laws to address it, provoked controversy and raised fundamental questions when they were introduced in the 1980s. In the decades since, neither hate crime itself nor those hotly debated questions have abated. To the contrary, hate crime has increased in recent years-although the prominent target groups have shifted over time-and the debate over hate crime laws has reignited as well. The still-open questions range from the philosophical to the doctrinal to the pragmatic: What justifies the enhanced punishment that hate crime laws impose based on the perpetrator's motivation? Does that enhanced punishment infringe on the perpetrator's rights to freedom of belief and expression? How can we know or prove a perpetrator's motivation? And, most practical of all: Do hate crime laws work? This Essay proposes that we reframe our understanding of what we label as hate crimes. It argues that those crimes are not necessarily the acts of hate-filled extremists motivated by deeply held, fringe beliefs, but instead often reflect the broader, even mainstream, social environment that has marked some social groups as the expected or even acceptable targets for crime and violence. In turn, hate crimes themselves influence the social environment by reinforcing recognizable patterns of discrimination. The Essay maintains that we should broaden our understanding of the motivations for and effects of hate crimes and draws connections between hate crimes and seemingly disparate phenomena that have recently captured the nation's attention.

Delaying or avoiding medical care due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Delaying or avoiding medical treatment is a common and possibly dangerous consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Certain demographic, medical or social groups were found reporting higher rates of avoiding medical care. Patients should be specifically targeted in advertising and interactions that encourage people to return to their previous behavior concerning their health maintenance. Technology advances, especially telemedicine, should be implemented widely to overcome pandemic fears and provide a new platform for treating patients in this complex era. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Power and social control of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic

While people across the globe adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been the center of many news stories. Millions of young people are required to stay home due to school closures, and adults are forced to consider alternative structures to support youths' needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple injustices and forms of oppression experienced by the most vulnerable in our country, which includes young people experiencing poverty, incarceration, foster care, homelessness, and those with marginalized identities. This article will discuss the role of power and social control in the lives of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic and present strategies leisure researchers and practitioners can adopt to overcome the loss of critical support structures and mitigate exponential effects of COVID-19 on our most vulnerable youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Transition to Remote Work: Peculiarities of Social Networks Use

The COVID-19 pandemic created conditions for a change of work style when a transition from stationary to remote work became necessary. This change affected a lot of different professions and social groups. However, the pandemic will come to an end, so not all of them stay in telework mode. It is essential to notice that these two years of remote work experience led to knowing the other side of work organizing specifics and opened new horizons for virtual teams or organizations by finding additional tools in such work management. The purpose of this article is to present the results of research carried out in Lithuania concerning the working environment and social media tools for better communication and remote work management. This aspect was chosen because social media is becoming more popular and engaged in business organizations for external communication and internal environment creation to create a positive atmosphere within the organization. The combined research results indicate that employees felt more stressed in transition to remote work process and that some quite simple solutions could help manage the uncertainties and stress employees think. © 2022 IEEE.

Lockdown and the break from the usual school framework: A teenage fantasy come to life?

The psychoanalytic clinical approach will allow me to read the forced quarantine during the coronavirus crisis as an unforeseeable and disastrous implementation of a recurrent teenage fantasy: the elimination of school. The disappearance of the organizational framework of school, now "non-mute" according to Jose Bleger's theory, would bring to light symbiotic modalities of the pedagogical link that the implementation of continuity of learning by new technologies has sometimes modified. It will therefore be necessary to elaborate the concepts of "power" and "desecration" in the line of Giorgio Agamben's work in order to consider the possibly creative dimension of this crisis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (French) L'approche clinique d'orientation psychanalytique conduit l'auteure a apprehender le confinement impose pendant la crise du coronavirus comme la mise en acte imprevisible et catastrophique d'un fantasme adolescent recurrent : la suppression de l'ecole. La disparition du cadre organisationnel de l'institution scolaire, desormais << non muet , selon la theorisation de Jose Bleger, mettrait au jour certaines modalites symbiotiques du lien pedagogique que la mise en place de la continuite pedagogique par les nouvelles technologies a parfois modifiees. Il s'agira des lors d'elaborer les concepts de << puissance et de << profanation dans la lignee des travaux de Giorgio Agamben pour envisager la dimension eventuellement creatrice de cette crise. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

We need mutual aid too: group work instructors helping each other navigate online teaching

The introduction of COVID-19 disrupted almost every facet of global societies, including institutions of higher education. With limited time to prepare for the emergent shift to virtual instruction, few educators had the time or emotional energy to invest in course redesign to meet established standards of quality online education. Strained by lack of guidance from their institutions and limited confidence in teaching social group work virtually, twelve group work educators initially participated in a weekly mutual aid group of peer members sponsored by the International Association for Social Work with Groups. This paper describes the evolution of a peer-facilitated, international, mutual aid group for group work educators making the transition to an online format – its conception, formation, purpose, structure, facilitation, and process. The authors address the personal experiences of all members, and place the group into a theoretical context.

Administrative Burden as Intermediate Negative Policy Feedback: Explaining Low-Income Migrant Exodus amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

This article describes the social mechanisms that condition the negative policy feedback effects among powerless social groups. It uses the policy feedback theory to explain the role of the administrative burden as the intermediate negative policy feedback that can lead to end negative policy feedback effects. The article elaborates upon the unequal treatment of low-income migrants in cities during pre-pandemic times and how that has led to alienation and civil disobedience during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. It highlights the essential role of democratic mechanisms like media and the judiciary in mitigating the inequality exacerbating effects of public service encounters. The article makes a case for promoting an understanding of the concept of the administrative burden that converges its experience-distant and experience-near meanings.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

We've seen that living in a pandemic time is not easy at all. We had to stop our everyday lives, change the way we worked before, stay physically, but not socially distant to others, to postpone traveling for better times. Also, measures taken by states around the world, to slow the spread of the coronavirus, have shown that guaranteeing human rights and civil liberties during these times are and will be a challenge. The ongoing health crisis asked for extensive lockdowns, becoming also an economic and social crisis. It opened even deeper economic and social differences, affecting vulnerable social groups differently. States should use maximum action to save lives and slow the spread of the coronavirus, but should also minimize the negative consequences.

Rethinking urban green spaces for urban resilience. Do green spaces need adaptation to meet public post-covid expectations?

Based on a social preference survey performed in Warsaw, we assessed the preferences toward alterations in urban green spaces (UGS) that should take place to ensure safe recreation. We identified how peoples' personal characteristics are linked to the preferred changes to formulate recommendations for alterations addressing post-covid challenges while keeping the resident's preferences in mind. We used 1–7 scorings of images of different types of urban landscapes, which we photomanipulated to represent varying levels of crowding, followed by questions regarding recreational behaviour, anxiety towards COVID and preferred changes. Various urban landscapes were, on average, comparably suitable for recreation, only highly urbanized landscapes receiving lower scorings. The respondents declared that vegetation density and overall share of vegetation were of the highest importance in assessing images and claimed that crowding had little effect on their preferences. Those statements were inverse to their choices when assessing recreational preferences based on images: the presence of people in all cases decreased assessment of the scenery. There was a clear respondents' need for more wild and cultivated vegetation and more places for spending time in UGS. Any repressive actions by distancing people spatially in UGS, isolating seniors or introducing entry limits did not meet social approval. We also identified two major behavioural patterns: people who were primarily driven by fear of COVID-19, visiting green spaces closer to their homes and having less need for UGS alterations. The second group was those frequently visiting UGS who did not reveal fear of COVID-19, those who did not favour wide paths or the importance of UGS located nearby, and opted for more wilderness. These two approaches to recreation are likely to persist after the pandemic, which supports the need to increase UGS diversity.

Using Gamified Interactive Experience to Relieve Psychological Pressure in the Post-pandemic Era

The COVID-19 Pandemic brought the whole society to a standstill, which has more significant psychological pressure on children and adolescents. Governments, companies, and social groups are trying to confront COVID-19 and social distancing in a gamified way. However, due to fear of the virus and uncertainty about the future, even after the Pandemic is well controlled in physical space, people are still reluctant to stop and play in public areas and are afraid to engage with others because of their internal sense of alienation. From the perspective of urban renewal and environmental design, creating a series of micro-scale design interventions in public spaces to relieve psychological pressure has urgency and relevant significance. This paper analyzes the symbiotic relationship between public art installations and communities. Then discovers the characteristics of public installations based on emotional healing. Furthermore, create two design prototypes to demonstrate more vividly how gamified interactive experience could relieve the mental pressure of the surrounding residents and help them gradually adapt to the new normal life. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Delaying or avoiding medical care due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Delaying or avoiding medical treatment is a common and possibly dangerous consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Certain demographic, medical or social groups were found reporting higher rates of avoiding medical care. Patients should be specifically targeted in advertising and interactions that encourage people to return to their previous behavior concerning their health maintenance. Technology advances, especially telemedicine, should be implemented widely to overcome pandemic fears and provide a new platform for treating patients in this complex era. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Technology Legitimation and User Resistance: The NHS COVID-19 App

Innovative technologies often face acceptance challenges. This is especially true when they constitute disruptive innovations. Disruptive innovations can forcefully alter the way things are done in the economy and society and have differential impacts for social groups. Legitimacy – the fit between an innovation, and society at large – is an important explanatory factor of the success of disruptive technologies. The micro-judgements of legitimacy that individuals make with regards to a technology, can help understand why some innovations succeed or fail. Likewise, users’ actions when using said innovations may indicate how acceptable the technology is to users. This paper analyses how users judge, and use, the NHS COVID-19 Test & Trace app. Preliminary findings suggest that individuals’ micro-legitimacy judgements are strongly related to the decision to use the app or not, and that users have adopted a number of workaround behaviours to resist or compensate for the app’s functionality. © 2022, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.

Precarious whiteness in pandemic times in China

This special issue of Asian Anthropology gathers five studies that deal with how the Covid-19 pandemic disruptions impacted on a distinctive social group in a particular geopolitical context: white migrants in China. While the articles reveal in fascinating detail how this combination of people and place is in many ways unique in terms of their experiences of, and responses to, the pandemic, the collection also speaks to larger themes of migration, citizenship, inequality, precarity and vulnerability, and the role of race within these. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Asian Anthropology (1683478X) is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Codes and control: explicating pedagogic communication in classroom practice

The impact of State policy to combat educational disadvantage with two iterations of DEIS supports has had a positive influence the patterns of achievement among all social groups with some notable improvements across a range of indicators for students in DEIS schools. Notwithstanding these improvements, research and evaluations continue to identify a persistent achievement gap for large numbers of working-class students compared to their more middle-class peers. Research evidences the inextricable links between class, economic circumstances, and student outcomes. In producing these more system-oriented data, the dynamism of underlying processes that produces these outcomes can be often masked. Student-teacher characteristics and classroom interactions become variables or aggregated performance datasets, rather than signifiers to unpack the mechanisms of how students and teachers construct their classroom world. Pedagogic communication, so central to classroom teaching and learning, is largely unexplored from the perspective of its construction, transmission, acquisition, context and how these are framed by structures of social relationships. This paper intends to explicate a core component of the student/school relational domain by examining specifically the patterns of pedagogic communication that frame teaching and learning in one case study school located in a very marginalised and challenging community in Ireland. The findings are stark. Different linguistic strategies for engaging in pedagogic communication are detailed in the data but in all cases, they fail to lead to rich learning experiences and positive student outcomes. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Irish Educational Studies is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

La résilience du personnel soignant à l’épreuve de la pandémie de COVID-19 : une étude dans un hôpital public en Tunisie

Ce travail cherche à appréhender les déterminants de la résilience du personnel soignant dans le contexte de la crise sanitaire Covid-19. Son but est d’accéder à une compréhension profonde des motifs, des forces et des processus à l’oeuvre dans la dynamique complexe de la résilience. Il paraît d’autant plus crucial de répondre à cette question qu’il semble y avoir des enseignements à tirer pour penser différemment les conditions de travail dans les hôpitaux publics. Plus particulièrement, dans le contexte pandémique actuel, le personnel soignant semble plus que jamais exposer aux risques psychosociaux et à un quotidien professionnel inédit et jonché de tensions. Les résultats de l’étude menée auprès du personnel soignant d’un hôpital public en Tunisie ont révélé que la résilience résulte de l’activation de prédispositions, de facteurs de protection et de ressources autant personnelles qu’interpersonnelles et socioculturelles. Cette recherche a révélé que la résilience n’est pas une réaction spontanée dans un contexte professionnel marqué par l’adversité et l’incertitude. Elle est le fruit d’un mix mettant en jeu les dispositions personnelles, la dynamique de groupe, le soutien social, la stabilité familiale, le style de leadership et les contingences situationnelles. De même, l’étude souligne que la résilience génère une réelle valeur ajoutée pour les patients, les soignants et la pratique des soins aussi bien sur le plan humain, sanitaire, éthique qu’économique. Elle montre que le développement de la résilience constitue une responsabilité partagée entre le personnel soignant, le système hospitalier, les autorités sanitaires, l’encadrement et les dirigeants des établissements de santé.Alternate :Through this study, we sought to understand the determinants of the resilience of healthcare staff during the COVID-19 health crisis. Its goal was to gain a deep understanding of the motives, forces and processes at work in the complex dynamics of resilience. It seems all the more crucial to gain such understanding, given that there seem to be lessons to be learned for a rethinking of working conditions in public hospitals. In particular, during the current pandemic, the healthcare staff seem more than ever exposed to psychosocial risks and to a working life that has never been so stressful. The study was carried out among the healthcare staff at a public hospital in Tunisia, and its findings show that resilience results from the activation of predispositions, protective factors and resources that are as much personal as they are interpersonal and sociocultural. Resilience is not a spontaneous response in a work context marked by adversity and uncertainty. It results from a mix involving personal dispositions, group dynamics, social support, family stability, leadership style and situational contingencies. Our findings further show that resilience generates real added value for patients, for caregivers and for healthcare practice as much in human, healthcare and ethical terms as in economic terms. Developing resilience is a responsibility to be shared between healthcare staff, the hospital system, health authorities, managers and leaders of healthcare institutions.

Travel Behaviour of Vulnerable Social Groups: Pre, during, and Post COVID-19 Pandemic.

Since the emergence of COVID-19, travel restrictions due to the pandemic have influenced several activities, in particular the mobility patterns of individuals. Our main goal is to draw the attention of scholars and policy makers to a specific segment of the population, namely (1) older people, (2) persons with disabilities (PwDs), (3) females, and (4) low-income population that are more vulnerable for travel behaviour change due to crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This article systematically reviews the studies that have explored the implications of COVID-19 for the mobility and activities of individuals pre-, during, and post-pandemic using the PRISMA method. It is found that there are a few studies regarding the travel and mobility needs and challenges of older people and PwDs, and there is no direct study concerning female and low-income individuals while such crisis exist. Questions such as "What are the adverse impacts of restrictions on their travel behaviour?", "How can they travel safely to work, shopping, and medical centres?", "Which transportation modes can be more effective for them?", and "What are the government and policy makers' role in providing accessible and affordable mobility services in the presence of such crisis?" are without relevant answers in the literature.

Evaluation of Herd Behavior Caused by Population-scale Concept Drift in Collaborative Filtering

Concept drift in stream data has been well studied in machine learning applications. In the field of recommender systems, this issue is also widely observed, as known as temporal dynamics in user behavior. Furthermore, in the context of COVID-19 pandemic related contingencies, people shift their behavior patterns extremely and tend to imitate others' opinions. The changes in user behavior may not be always rational. Thus, irrational behavior may impair the knowledge learned by the algorithm. It can cause herd effects and aggravate the popularity bias in recommender systems due to the irrational behavior of users. However, related research usually pays attention to the concept drift of individuals and overlooks the synergistic effect among users in the same social group. We conduct a study on user behavior to detect the collaborative concept drifts among users. Also, we empirically study the increase of experience of individuals can weaken herding effects. Our results suggest the CF models are highly impacted by the herd behavior and our findings could provide useful implications for the design of future recommender algorithms. © 2022 ACM.

США: экономика и социальная структура перед сменой эпох

Dramas of a unique pandemic of COVID-19, an unparalleled sharp recession and critically important presidential elections have put the difficult choices for the American society in 2020. Socio-economic development of the U.S. in XXI century has come through the series of crises, which had major impacts on the global development. The country has retained the leadership in the developed world by general economic might, innovations and dynamics of upturns. In the last three decades the demographics of the U.S. population have experienced the substantial changes, notably the number of citizens of Asian origin and Hispanic group have increased. The latter has surpassed the Afro-American group by a number of families and by an average income per family. Overall growth of income in the country has not eliminated large income disparities among social strata. Statistics of tax declarations indicate the inequality by social groups and by race. These disparities have probably played an important role in 2020 recession and pandemic development. As far as electoral behavior is concerned, the inequality factor is even more visible.Alternate :Драма уникальной пандемии, небывало острой рецессии и критически важных президентских выборов поставила общество США в 2020 г. перед трудным выбором. В социально-экономическом развитии США в XXI в. произошла серия потрясений, которые оказали огромное влияние на мировое развитие. Страна сохранила положение лидера среди развитых стран по совокупности экономической мощи, инновационному развитию, динамичности подъемов. В последние три десятилетия в США значительно изменился демографический состав населения в пользу граждан азиатского происхождения и испаноязычной группы, которая как по своей численности, так и уровню доходов на семью обогнала афроамериканскую. Общий рост благосостояния не ликвидировал большие диспаритеты по доходам между слоями общества. Статистика налоговых деклараций указывает на неравенство семей как социальное, так и по расовому признаку. По-видимому, оно сыграло значительную роль в 2020 г. и в рецессии, и в пандемии. А в электоральном поведении фактор неравенства виден еще резче.