Podcasts As a Medium to Foster the Historical Imagination of Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Online learning caused polemics in education, so teachers began showing action in creative pedagogy through the learning media, such as podcasts. This study aims to de-scribe podcast media that can be used to grow students' historical imagination in learning History and Social Sciences. Historical imagination is the cognitive ability to add or fill an insufficient space of historical facts. This research uses qualitative methods with a phenome-nological approach. The subject of this study was an eleventh-grade student of the social studies program at SMA Negeri 1 Tuntang and a teacher—data collection through online interviews via a Google form. The results showed that podcast media is a form of creative learning in history and social studies. Podcasts as a medium to grow students' historical imagination through the material "Stories from the Past” and "Come on Listen” content. The results showed that 74.6% of students responded positively about implementing podcast media. Despite having a high presentation in positive responses, 22.2% of students still have difficulty understanding the material using podcast media, and the rest feel ordinary, so they give advice. Based on this, it can be concluded that podcast media can be used to grow stu-dents' historical imagination despite several internal and external obstacles. An internal bot-tleneck in the podcast creation process takes quite a while. In contrast, external barriers are caused by students' growing demands for podcast-based learning. © 2023, Universitas Negeri Semarang. All rights reserved.

Crisis of the Statehood Culture and the Lessons of the Pandemic

The research subject is the statehood culture. Transformations in the spiritual and material worlds are directly reflected in the system of state-building. Transformations in the spiritual and material worlds are directly reflected in the system of state-building. Never before has a crisis of social order been accompanied by such a devastating pandemic. Crisis phenomena have affected the main human-made attributes—the economy and the government. The government provides security, social protection, law and order, and justice as the common good. The COVID-19 crisis confirmed that even in the face of global shocks, the national economy becomes the guarantor of the well-being of its people and that there is a certain limit to economic security that cannot be left open. The destructive forces of transnational monopolies, who perceive national borders with their customs supervision and trade policies as a hindrance, have descended upon nation-states. The American way of democracy is realized through the destruction of nation-states and the forcible imposition of a single form of statehood on all people. This state of affairs necessitates the reconsideration of the assessment of the experience of countries using other forms of economic and social orientation and getting good results. It is necessary to turn to the historical experience of Russia, whose peoples have an unprecedentedly high national instinct, which allows overcoming the crisis of statehood. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Turning Crisis into Opportunities: New Insights for Academic Experiences During the Pandemic Inspired from a Cultural-Historical and Activity Theory Perspective in an Autoethnography

The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed many academic practices and situations that used to be taken for granted, leaving academia in a state of shock and chaos. As an individual who tried to meet new demands brought by the changing academic environment, I also experienced a sense of crisis. However, as I tried to meet those new demands, I developed new capabilities and employable skills. In this chapter, I will present selected accounts of my personal experiences in academia, both as a Ph.D. candidate and a higher education teacher during the pandemic. Cultural-historical and activity theory concepts, such as the concept of activity and the concept of crisis, are used to provide analytical insights into my experiences. The new insights helped me shift my perception of crises as something negative to opportunities and potential for development. It is argued that the concepts of activity and crisis can be useful conceptual tools to transform our way of perceiving crises and thus find new developmental conditions for ourselves in challenging situations. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.

A brief history of now: The past and present of global power

Exploring the rise and fall of global power from the mid-nineteenth century, this book tracks the long and interrelated trajectories of the most serious challenges facing the world today. Although at first the urgency of the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 seemed to take precedence over other global problems such as socioeconomic inequality and climate change, it has ultimately exacerbated these issues and created opportunities to address them boldly and innovatively. A Brief History of Now provides a bird's-eye view of world hegemony, economic globalization and political regimes as they have evolved and developed over the last two hundred years, providing context and insights into the forces which have shaped the Western world. Presented in an accessible and engaging narrative, the book addresses key contemporary challenges and explores the repercussions of a technological revolution, the potential instability of democracy over the coming years, and the urgent struggle to tackle climate change. With his book, Diego Olstein helps to answer pressing questions about our world today and provides a roadmap for analysing future trajectories. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. All rights reserved.

Derby Hyposaurus: a historical review and update of its whereabouts

The Dyrosauridae Hyposaurus derbianus Cope was loaned by Orville A. Derby in 1880 to Edward D. Cope to be studied. After Cope's death the specimens were not returned and toured several foreign institutions like the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the National History Museum (NHM) in London. We accessed several documents of the Memory and Archive Sector of the National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) to elucidate the real trajectory of the H. derbianus holotype. We noticed several errors in the literature, going from the assignment of the specimen as a syntype, even though it is a holotype according to the ICZN, to registration number problems. In addition, photographs of specimen PV R 8672, previously taken at the NHM, describing it as a cast of H. derbianus in the NHM's official website, were correlated with the original material studied by Cope and recognised through the labels of the Museu Nacional/UFRJ and the Geological Commission of the Brazilian Empire (Comissão Geológica do Império). Lastly, despite the fire at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ and the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to locate the holotypes at the NHM and elucidate its history.

Combination of digital technologies and active methodologies for historical learning

This study seeks to understand the potential of ICT, combined with active learning methodologies for the development of historical awareness and historical learning in 4th grade students of a public school in Portugal. This is a qualitative study, using a multiple case study, based on two realities: a 4th grade class (9-10 years old) and a 6th grade class (11-12 years old), as well as several techniques and instruments for data collection: questionnaire survey, focus group, participant observation, semi-structured interviews and works produced by the students. For the qualitative data analysis we used the analysis techniques of the Grounded Theory methodology, with the support of Nvivo software, and for the quantitative data we used descriptive statistics. Pedagogical interventions were designed to mobilize second order concepts, such as evidence, explanation, change/permanence in the elaboration of their historical ideas, through the use of some digital platforms. In this article we present the didactic intervention session related to the 1st activity of the project about the Black Death and Covid-19 in Portugal, implemented in the 1st cycle of basic education. Preliminary results allow us to conclude that the use of ICT by students in the proposed activities led to the development of their historical awareness, historical learning, as well as digital literacy. © 2023 AUFOP. All rights reserved.

The place of care in a large Belgian modernist complex

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of care, as well as the extent to which it is undervalued in Western societies, emphasising the instrumentalization and neoliberal logic that care is subject to. Since the 1970s, various feminist theorists have developed ethics of care. This evolving and controversial ethic has become a critical tool in sociology, philosophy, economics, and public policy analysis but is still underdeveloped in architecture and urban planning. This paper adopts the feminist ethic of care to analyse and criticise the evolution of a modernist social housing complex. The Cité de Droixhe was built in the 1950s to offer various facilities, 2000 rental social housing units, and vast green areas in Liège (Belgium). However, since its creation, it has undergone major transformations including the demolition of nearly 1000 units. In this qualitative inductive research, an interdisciplinary approach between architecture and social sciences was proposed, combining archival research, semi-structured interviews, and participatory observations. The ethic of care is mobilised both as a research and methodological posture and as an object of analysis. The data collected led to questioning the place of care in the evolution of the large complex under different themes: the facilitation of reproductive work, the valorisation of care professions, and the attention paid to proximity and the daily life of the neighbourhood inhabitants. By highlighting the integration and loss of care within the different transformations of the housing estate, this study shows the importance of reasserting the value of care and making it a collective responsibility, contributing to drawing perspectives for a more feminist, equal, and caring city.

Immigration Law's Boundary Problem: Determining the Scope of Executive Discretion

In immigration law, executive discretion has become contested terrain. Courts, officials, and scholars have rarely distinguished between regulatory discretion, which facilitates exclusion and removal of noncitizens, and protective discretion, which safeguards noncitizens' reliance interests. Moreover, courts have long discerned an internal-external divide in discretion, deferring to executive measures that exclude noncitizens abroad, while reducing deference for measures concerning noncitizens who have already entered the United States. Immigration law needs a cohesive framework for executive discretion. This Article suggests a stewardship model to fill that gap.Recent developments have emphasized the need for a coherent model of discretion. The Trump Administration altered the landscape of executive discretion, seizing every chance to make the law harsher. The Biden Administration's efforts to correct this imbalance have been only partially successful. For example, the Biden Administration has issued a final rule supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and has issued enforcement guidelines that prioritize threats to national security and public safety and address recent irregular entries at the border. The Biden Administration has also sought to end the Trump Administration's "Remain in Mexico " program, which subjects tens of thousands of asylum seekers to peril. However, for over a year, President Biden retained the Title 42 program, which precluded asylum in the name of preventing the introduction of COVID-19. That program undercuts asylum and does not perform its ostensible public health mission. Only an unfavorable court decision in 2022 spurred efforts to terminate Title 42. At that point, another court enjoined Title 42's termination, illustrating yet again the confused state of executive discretion.A workable approach to executive discretion requires returning to first principles. To achieve these goals, the stewardship model highlights three factors: fit with the statutory framework, protection of reliance interests, and avoidance of adverse impacts on foreign relations. This Article applies these values to DACA, the Biden enforcement guidelines, Title 42, and the Remain in Mexico program.

What is the trend after Covid-19? A Political-Economic Analysis of the Pension Systems in Hong Kong and MACAU

The aging trend of the population in Hong Kong and Macau is evident, so the pension system is especially significant. This research paper uses document analysis and a double-case study as the research method. It uses path dependence and critical moments in historical institutionalism theory as the theoretical tools for political economy analysis. The discussion argues that "the social culture shaped by local politics," "the combination of local economic development and economic structure," and "influence from social structure" are the three main factors that influence the pension systems in Hong Kong and Macau, and are the fundamental reasons for the differences between the pension systems in Hong Kong and Macau. We also conclude that the outbreak of COVID-19 is causing the evolution of the pension systems in both regions to be converging.

Cluster Analysis as a Means of Identifying Types of Demographic Characteristics (Russian Rural Population, European Part of Russia, Early 20(th) to Early 21(st) Century)

The object of study is the demographic characteristics of the Russian rural population of the European part of Russia (at the level of individual governorates, regions, and republics) from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. These data are analyzed in the context of general demographic trends. The goal is to identify regions with similar demographic indicators during several chronological periods (1902, 1940, 2002, 2020) and to observe the transformation of demographic characteristics in different periods of history and in different regions of European Russia. This provides the necessary material for making assumptions about the connection between demographic types and natural-geographical, economic-geographical, and ethnogeographical factors. The principal research method, multivariate cluster analysis, is a tool for identifying stable groups of typologically homogeneous objects. The clustering of regions was carried out on the basis of three key demographic indicators: fertility, mortality, and natural growth. The authors came to the conclusion that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian agrarian society was already at different demographic stages, evolving from a traditional to a modernized society. In the middle of the century, discrepancies in the rates of demographic transition became noticeable, manifested in some conventional "dividing" lines such as the ones between Russian oblasts and some national republics;the ones between agro-industrial and industrial-agrarian regions;the ones between southern and northern territories;and, finally, the ones between the regions and republics close to and distant from Moscow. The entwinement of these lines gave rise to various cluster groupings and, apparently, led to some consequent variability in the types of demographic characteristics in different regions, which is also recorded at the beginning of the twentieth century. The authors also pay attention to types of "demographic responses" of different regions to the coronavirus pandemic.

State of the Art: Remote Teaching and Teacher's Mental Health

recent years, there has been evidence of an increasing number of teachers becoming psychically ill in the exercise of their profession. With the pandemic of covid-19, this reality has become even more evident, leading to changes in the routines of these professionals who have had to adapt their work to the use of remote technological resources. Given this, a 'state of the art' study was developed to analyze what current research says about the mental health of higher education teachers and its relation to remote teaching, as well as to investigate which of them adopt Cultural-Historical Psychology as a theoretical reference. A search was conducted for theses, dissertations, and scientific articles published between 2020 and 2021. As a result, 14 studies were selected from the fields of Education, Psychology, and Cultural-Historical Theory. It was found that most of the studies discuss the mental illness of teachers, but few relate mental health and remote teaching to Cultural-Historical Psychology.

The impacts of demand and supply shocks in the dry bulk shipping market

The freight rate is a representative variable in the shipping market and is characterized by a cyclical re-lationship. Even though downturns in the shipping market, such as the shipping industry recession in the 1980s, the global financial crisis in 2008 and COVID-19 crisis in 2020, recur, few studies have analyzed the dynamic relationship between supply and demand in terms of its effect on freight rates. Thus, this study classifies the factors affecting fluctuations in dry cargo freight rates into demand, supply, and freight rate specific demand factors, which play the most important role in managing risk in the shipping market. Based on the recursive structural vector autoregressive (recursive SVAR) model, we analyze the historical con-tributions of the effects of each factor across different time periods. Two main findings are summarized as follows: first, we identify the dynamic relationship between factors affecting BDI in the shipping market, and reveal that the magnitude and direction of factors are different. Second, we verify that in an extreme situation in which freight rates exceed the normal range, the market is overheated, and freight rates are therefore determined by the freight rate specific demand of market participants rather than by the actual supply and demand.(c) 2023 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Korean Association of Shipping and Logistics, Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creative-commons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Breaking down templates and stereotypes in an interdisciplinary manner

During the Covid-19 pandemic the construction of conspiracy theories was rapidly infused by patterns of antisemitic resentment, which reveals a link bet-ween global crises and stoking antisemitism worldwide. From a religious educa-tional perspective, this contribution describes how the problem can be tackled by providing literary texts within an interdisciplinary approach. As certain herme-neutics, which dissociate Christianity from Judaism by using stereotypical anta-gonists, are highly problematic, a discussion of the "Judas Novel" by Amos Oz offers valuable insights to the context. Even though the character of Judas embodies a multifaceted stereotype, the novel's storyline, narrative tone and point of view help to dismantle rigid patterns and break the bias.

Annual Report of the Secretary-Treasurer

The article presents the annual report of the Southern Historical Association secretary-treasurer about the workings of the association amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics include the return of the association to in-person meeting in November 2022 after holding virtual meetings in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid, several innovations showcased at the 2022 meeting such as a mentoring match-up program, the association's support for history education, and its profit and loss from January-December 2022.

A historical narrative on pandemic Patterns of behavior and belief

Given the fractured reality of pandemic, the people's history needs to be written and understood. This paper provides a historical narrative on pandemics based on a literature review and makes inferences from the past and present. This narrative also reflects the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the world and India. The narratives provide a novel perspective to understand public health practices in a global context. It suggests the need for a more synchronized health response in pandemics while highlighting the uncertainties and challenges of using historical diseases as comparisons for the COVID-19 pandemic. The emphasis is on learning from historical evidence and ascertaining how these retrospective diagnoses help make arguments about health and illness in our present moment.

On societal response to pandemics: linking past experiences to present events.

There is a need for a factual understanding of the historical impact of pandemics in the world. Against this backdrop, this study provides a historical understanding of societal behaviour and responses to pandemics. Inferences are primarily drawn from a literature review from the past and present. The present analysis also reflects the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the world and India while providing a novel perspective to understand public health practices in a global context. It suggests the need for a more synchronised health response in pandemics while highlighting the uncertainties and challenges with historical evidence and comparisons to the ongoing pandemic. An emphasis is on learning from historical evidence and ascertaining how these retrospective diagnoses help make arguments about health and illness in our present moment.

Digital Crime Histories and Developing a Public Pedagogy of Criminal Justice

Crime history was a pioneer in the digital arena, democratising access to the past by engaging large public and academic audiences with primary datasets online. This article traces the evolution of digital crime history from 2003 to 2021 in the United Kingdom and Australia. It charts a shift from catering to a passive audience towards projects that actively engage public audiences through crowdsourced transcriptions, interactive data visualisations and other aural, visual and multimedia forms. It has never been easier to access these nations' criminal pasts online, but we must pause to reflect on what the aims of public engagement are. What kinds of digital public pedagogy do we want to build, and how can they be critical, reflective and widely representative? We conclude by considering the challenges to this endeavour, including what roles academics and commercial gatekeepers might play, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uneven geographies of digitisation within the Southern Hemisphere. © The Author/s 2023.

Determination of Dysfunctional Breathing by Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic. What Psychological Variables Mediate This Relationship?

Purpose. Сomparative analysis of personality traits contribution and representations about the coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic in determining the occurrence and severity of dysfunctional breathing (DB) symptoms by psychological distress in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods. The methodological set included socio-demographic questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale-10 questionnaire, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the "Perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic" questionnaire, the Nijmegen Questionnaire to assess the severity of DB, the Russian version of the HEXACO-24 six-factor personality questionnaire. Empirical data collection took place from 04/27/2020 until 12/31/2020. The sample consisted of 1,362 uninfected Russian-speaking respondents (with an average age of 38.3±11.4 years), 85% of which were women. Results. To explain the impact of psychological distress on DB, with the mediating influence of personality traits and representations about the coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, four pathway models were constructed using structural modeling. Models analysis showed that personality traits were more likely to explain the impact of psychological distress on DB compared to representations about the coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic. Personality traits such as "Benevolence", "Extroversion" and "Consciousness" can be considered protective in terms of the occurrence of dysfunctional breathing when stress and anxiety occur, while such traits such as "Emotionality" and "Openness to experience", on the contrary, modulate the influence of psychological distress on DB. It was shown that the model in which psychological disadvantage determines DD in simultaneous mediation by both personality traits and representations about the COVID-19 had the greatest explanatory power. However, when combined with personality traits, only one of the three aspects of the coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic representations, the "Fear of Unknown Disease" component, contributes to explaining this influence of psychological distress on DB. On its positive pole lies the search for bodily sensations of the coronavirus and on its negative pole stands the understanding of the pandemic. Conclusion. The limitations of the research and its prospects are outlined. © 2023, Professionalnye Izdaniya. All rights reserved.

Historical Criminology: Australian and New Zealand Perspectives

The time has never been more appropriate than now for a discussion about the integration of history and criminology in Australia and New Zealand. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the people of both countries were subject to extraordinary government interventions into their daily lives to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. Given a respiratory pandemic of the same scale had not occurred for 100 years, we watched in real time as policymakers fumbled for guidance for the benefits and likely social consequences of imposing police-enforced legal restrictions on otherwise normal behaviours like freedom of movement and gathering with friends. Whether these were ultimately the correct decisions for controlling the disease is perhaps a question for others. Indeed, analysis of the interactions between the public and the state have always been the purview of criminologists and historians, yet we ceded this ground to epidemiologists who have little expertise in key issues of criminalisation and offending, or justice and policing, which are central to any system of state control.

History (still) to eat. The impact of the pandemic on the catering sector in the historical centre of Florence

Especially in the historic centres of the most touristicized cities, catering activities have been one of the most impacted sectors by the containment measures of the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in the interruption of an expanding process that in previous works has been defined as foodification. This concept was intended to express a broader functional transformation of the central areas into places increasingly dedicated to leisure activities and temporary experiences, and where the reference target was largely embodied by occasional visitors and frequenters. Starting from the analysis of data collected over a period of almost twenty years and further updated in the last two, the contribution analyzes the impact of the pandemic on the catering sector in the historic centre of Florence and questions possible post-pandemic scenarios. The results, which show the overall resilience of the sector, reveal the physiological and irreversible nature of the transformations underway in historic centres;nevertheless, some solutions aimed at containing the most disruptive effects of such transformations are also suggested. © 2022 Pacini Editore. All rights reserved.