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2. Professional development perspectives on Global Citizenship Education in Ghana.
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Parejo, José-Luis, Lomotey, Benedicta A., Reynés-Ramon, Miquel, and Cortón-Heras, Maria-O
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PROFESSIONAL education ,CITIZENSHIP ,CLASSROOMS ,TEACHER education ,DATA analysis - Abstract
Increasingly incorporated into curricula worldwide, Global Citizenship Education (GCE) is a complex and evolving area of education. As the significance of GCE in the classroom grows, so does the need for insight into professional development for GCE educators. Given that many approaches to GCE have typically stemmed from 'global North' contexts, it is particularly important to research this area from 'global South' perspectives. This paper contributes by reporting on a study conducted in an initial teacher education setting in Ghana. The study aimed to investigate prospective teachers' viewpoints on GCE. It sought to explore aspects including how pre-service teachers understood the orientation, meaning and relevance of GCE teaching and their views on the debates surrounding GCE's underlying approaches and values. Participants were 16 pre-service teachers who had taken GCE courses during their degree programmes at a university in Ghana. Data were collected through three focus group discussions and analysed qualitatively. In-depth analysis of the rich data suggested that participants had generally positive perceptions about GCE, whilst observing challenges and tension in the relationships between local, national and global issues. Whereas some were of the opinion that GCE had a neocolonial orientation, focusing on Western elements over other cultures, others expressed the view that GCE content could be reoriented to address local issues as well. Although participants felt that greater practical experience could strengthen their learning, they believed they had obtained adequate skills in terms of content and theory for the teaching of GCE. The study draws attention to the need for educators to be supported from an early stage and throughout their career journeys with professional development in GCE that invites exploration, critical thinking and challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Why citizenship tests are necessarily illiberal: a reply to Blake.
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Sharp, Daniel
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CITIZENSHIP ,EQUALITY ,AUTHORITARIANISM ,LIBERALISM - Abstract
In 'Are Citizenship Tests Necessarily Illiberal?', Michael Blake argues that difficult citizenship tests are not necessarily illiberal, so long as they test for the right things. In this paper, I argue that Blake's attempt to square citizenship tests with liberalism fails. Blake underestimates the burdens citizenship tests impose on immigrants, ignoring in particular the egalitarian claims immigrants have on equal social membership. Moreover, Blake's positive justification of citizenship tests – that they help justify immigrants' coercive voting power – both neglects the fact that such tests are coercively imposed on immigrants and that the citizenship test Blake envisions does little to help ensure immigrants' votes are legitimate. Citizenship tests thus aren't, even in principle, a way of protecting citizens from unjustified coercive power. They are, even under favourable circumstances, an illiberal way of obstructing immigrants' quest for social equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. In defense of citizenship testing: a reply to Daniel Sharp.
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Blake, Michael
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POLITICAL participation ,CITIZENSHIP ,POLITICAL knowledge ,POLITICAL community ,LOCAL knowledge ,LOCAL history - Abstract
I have argued that citizenship tests are not, in principle, unjust, were they to accurately test the acquisition of those particular aspects of local history and vocabulary necessary for participation in the local political community. Daniel Sharp disagrees, and argues that such tests are always unjust; they impose unjustifiable burdens against all and only migrants seeking admission to political citizenship. In this paper, I defend the possibility of a just test. I argue, first, that the burden on prospective citizens is not an undue or unjust one, were we to have some reason available to us by which that burden might be justified; and, second, that some such reason is available, given the relevance of local knowledge to political discourse – a relevance acknowledged in both current law and in theories of public reason. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. To engage or not to engage in organisational citizenship behaviour: that is the question!
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Vázquez-Rodríguez, Paula, Romero-Castro, Noelia, and Pérez-Pico, Ada M.
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ORGANIZATIONAL citizenship behavior ,CITIZENSHIP ,JOB satisfaction ,PRISON personnel ,REWARD (Psychology) ,CIVIL service ,FREE enterprise ,AFFECT (Psychology) - Abstract
Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) can be defined as discretional, voluntary and useful informal behaviour that is not directly acknowledged by the organisation's formal reward system. Such behaviour refers to actions that go beyond performing the tasks defined as part of one's job. Previous studies have shown that organisations that promote OCB can notably improve their productivity and efficiency. It is therefore important to know what causes employees to engage in OCB rather than just limiting themselves to doing what is strictly expected at work. However, it is more important to know why they do not engage in OCB. Using a sample of public prison employees and the fsQCA method, this study examines how the combined effects of organisational characteristics, leadership behaviours and individual characteristics lead to the absence of OCB. The results indicate that the absence of affective commitment, or job satisfaction, or interactional justice is a necessary condition for the absence of OCB. Four conditions are identified as sufficient, and the absence of affective commitment and the presence of laissez-faire leadership are found to be the most relevant conditions for the absence of OCB. Managerial implications and directions for future studies are discussed at the end of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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6. The value of the concept of discrimination in contexts of migration: the case of structural discrimination.
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Owen, David
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MASS migrations ,RIGHT to health ,CITIZENSHIP ,SOCIAL injustice ,TRANSNATIONALISM - Abstract
This article considers the question of the value and limits of the concept of discrimination for the ethics of migration by drawing attention to the need for a conceptualization of discrimination that can encompass forms of group-based disadvantage that are enabled and reproduced by the three central norms of our contemporary regime of global migration governance: the state's right to unilateral control over its border regime, birthright citizenship and rights of (re)entry to one's own state, and the individual right to leave a state. I sketch an historical account of the forging and yoking together of these norms as bound up with the history of European imperialism and argue that they function to enable the reproduction of the advantage of states of the Global North. I illustrate this argument by reference to the example of the transnational migration of medical professionals from sub-Saharan Africa and argue that this may amount to structural discrimination against the human right to health of the populations of these states of emigration before considering two responses to this condition: 'no recruitment' and 'no disadvantage'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe.
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Radhuber, Isabella M., Fiske, Amelia, Galasso, Ilaria, Gessl, Nicolai, Hill, Michael D., Morales, Emma R., Olarte-Sánchez, Lorena E., Pelfini, Alejandro, Saxinger, Gertrude, and Spahl, Wanda
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RESEARCH ,THOUGHT & thinking ,COVID-19 ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,SOCIAL support ,NEGOTIATION ,PRACTICAL politics ,RESEARCH methodology ,SOCIAL media ,GROUNDED theory ,PERSONAL space ,PUBLIC administration ,INTERVIEWING ,WORLD health ,SOCIAL factors ,EXPERIENCE ,QUALITATIVE research ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,INTELLECT ,GOVERNMENT policy ,RESEARCH funding ,PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation ,STATISTICAL sampling ,DATA analysis software ,EMOTIONS ,HEALTH equity ,COVID-19 pandemic ,SPACE perception ,CITIZENSHIP ,LONGITUDINAL method - Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted global interdependencies, accompanied by widespread calls for worldwide cooperation against a virus that knows no borders, but responses were led largely separately by national governments. In this tension between aspiration and reality, people began to grapple with how their own lives were affected by the global nature of the pandemic. In this article, based on 493 qualitative interviews conducted between 2020 and 2021, we explore how people in Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ireland, Italy and Mexico experienced, coped with and navigated the global nature of the pandemic. In dialogue with debates about the parameters of the 'global' in global health, we focus on what we call people's everyday (de)bordering practices to examine how they negotiated (dis)connections between 'us' and 'them' during the pandemic. Our interviewees' reactions moved from national containment to an increasing focus on people's unequal socio-spatial situatedness. Eventually, they began to (de)border their lives beyond national lines of division and to describe a new normal: a growing awareness of global connectedness and a desire for global citizenship. This newfound sense of global interrelatedness could signal support for and encourage transnational political action in times of crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Structural racism and the health of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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Tanous, Osama, Asi, Yara, Hammoudeh, Weeam, Mills, David, and Wispelwey, Bram
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PUBLIC housing -- Law & legislation ,CITIZENSHIP ,EVALUATION of medical care ,HEALTH policy ,RACISM ,MINORITIES ,SOCIAL determinants of health ,LIFE expectancy ,ARABS ,PUBLIC health ,INSTITUTIONAL racism ,CRITICAL race theory ,SEGREGATION ,HEALTH equity ,RESIDENTIAL patterns - Abstract
Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) constitute almost 20% of the Israeli population. Despite having access to one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world, PCI have shorter life expectancy and significantly worse health outcomes compared to the Jewish Israeli population. While several studies have analysed the social and policy determinants driving these health inequities, direct discussion of structural racism as their overarching etiology has been limited. This article situates the social determinants of health of PCI and their health outcomes as stemming from settler colonialism and resultant structural racism by exploring how Palestinians came to be a racialized minority in their homeland. In utilising critical race theory and a settler colonial analysis, we provide a structural and historically responsible reading of the health of PCI and suggest that dismantling legally codified racial discrimination is the first step to achieving health equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. RETHINKING RURAL CITIZENSHIP IN COMMODITY REGIONS. LESSONS FROM THE LOS LAGOS REGION, CHILE.
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Bustos-Gallardo, Beatriz
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POLITICAL participation ,CITIZENSHIP ,POLITICAL systems ,SOCIAL movements ,SOCIAL conflict ,IDENTITY politics - Abstract
Recent literature on commodity frontiers and resource-based economies has reopened the debate surrounding the effects of extractive economies on people's connection to a political system that sustains predominant modes of production. However, the debate has focused on struggles and broader political tensions between social movements and private companies or the State. The present article adopts a different approach, reflecting on the emergence of distinct forms of citizenship in rural territories. Through examining the salmon industry in the Los Lagos region of Chile, I identify connections between commodity production, place-based identity politics, and citizenship performance. I argue that the concept of rural citizenship understood here as the set of practices of relating to the state grounded in a rural sense of belonging and assessment of the place rural areas have in the frontier project is central to understanding political participation in commodity regions and is informed by the trialectic relationship between place identity, commodity production, and the democratic institutions in place. The article concludes with an invitation for further research into frontier politics from a commodity perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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10. Outlining the role of experiential expertise in professional work in health care service co-production.
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Palukka, Hannele, Haapakorpi, Arja, Auvinen, Petra, and Parviainen, Jaana
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TREATMENT of drug addiction ,OCCUPATIONAL roles ,NARCOTICS ,MEETINGS ,TREATMENT programs ,PROBLEM solving ,PROFESSIONS ,LABELING theory ,PATIENT participation ,SUBSTANCE abuse treatment ,ANALGESICS ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,MEDICAL personnel ,GROUP identity ,CREATIVE ability ,EXPERIENTIAL learning ,EXPERTISE ,CLINICAL competence ,NURSES ,DISCOURSE analysis ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,RESEARCH funding ,LABOR market ,THEMATIC analysis ,CITIZENSHIP - Abstract
Patient and public involvement is widely thought to be important in the improvement of health care delivery and in health equity.Purpose: The article examines the role of experiential knowledge in service co-production in order to develop opiate substitution treatment services (OST) for high-risk opioid users.Method: Drawing on social representations theory and the concept of social identity, we explore how experts' by experience and registered nurses' understandings of OST contain discourses about the social representations, identity, and citizenship of the participants and the effects these may have on developing or hindering inclusive and bottom-up forms of patient and public involvement.Results: The meeting sessions that potentially offer room for creativity and problem-solving fail to provide any new propositions for fixing the system. The health care professionals primarily identify themselves as regulators who protect the correctness of their actions and show little interest in considering experiential knowledge on opioid addiction. Conclusion: The participation of patients has been one of the prominent reforms implemented in health care. The goal of client-centered thinking is often emphasised; however, the implementation is not simple due to the strongly institutionalised knowledge and related working patterns and practices in health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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11. Skewing the nation: mobilizing queer citizenship in South Africa.
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van der Wal, Ernst
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CITIZENSHIP ,SEXUAL orientation - Abstract
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- 2021
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