Human Behaviors and Social Dynamics in Primary Prevention Failures During Pandemics: A Narrative Review of Behavioral and Systemic Challenges in Primary Prevention | Chapter 4 | Disease and Health: Research Developments Vol. 6

Aims: This study explores psychosocial and philosophical aspects of pandemic prevention and dissemination, focusing on the current COVID-19 pandemic. It examines why individuals resist primary prevention measures during pandemics despite awareness of the risks and identifies cognitive biases influencing such decisions.

Study Design: This narrative review synthesizes existing literature and integrates findings from our prior research on pandemic psychology and philosophy. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the behavioral and social aspects of pandemic dissemination and integrate it with the current literature on pandemic psychology and philosophy.

Methodology: We conducted a narrative review, combining our previous research with relevant studies to develop a unified model explaining health behaviors related to pandemic prevention. A meta-ethnographical approach helped us condense the relevant literature.

Conclusion: The current literature and our research show that pandemic prevention is not always endorsed by part of the population due to underlying cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors. Our findings reveal that primary prevention of pandemics needs further understanding of peoples’ motives and reasons for declining to adopt measures to protect themselves.

 

Author (s) Details

Carlo Lazzari
International Centre for Healthcare and Medical Education, London, UK.

 

Marco Rabottini
International Centre for Healthcare and Medical Education, London, UK.

 

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A Critical Review on Strategic Planning: Future of an Organization | Chapter 9 | Medical Research and Its Applications Vol. 4

 

Planning is a continuous process, beginning with the setting of goals and objectives and then laying out a plan of action to accomplish them, put them into play, review the process and the outcomes, provide feedback to personnel and modify as needed. Strategic planning in nursing is concerned with what nursing should be doing. Its purpose is to improve the allocation of scarce resources, including time and money, and to manage the agency for performance. With strategic planning, the outlook becomes future oriented, resources are allocated systematically and rapid change is accommodated. Strategic Plans must be dynamic. Strategic plans are the blueprints that are to be updated as the environment changes.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

Dr. Rangappa S. Ashi
Department of Child Health Nursing, SDM Institute of Nursing Sciences, Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara University, Sattur, Dharwad-580009, Karnataka, India.

 

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An Existential Odyssey: A Study of Women Characters in Manju Kapur’s Novels | Book Publisher International

This book analyses the predicament of women characters in the novels of Manju Kapur from an existentialist’s perspective. In this attempt, the author has examined existentialist themes such as freedom, choice, guilt, alienation anxiety and despair. In this study, an attempt has been made to explain the key philosophical ideas of some of the important existential philosophers like Sartre, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Marcel and Camus. The main ideas of these philosophers find an expression in the novels of Manju Kapur. Like the existentialist, Kapur sees man/woman as a free agent who is free to choose his/her action but this freedom is tied with responsibility.
 
The existentialists highlight man’s (no gender bias implied here) existence, his freedom, choice and responsibility in every walk of life. They underlined the facticity’s of life such as anxiety, despair, freedom, and choice. Thy encouraged men/women to face the truth of their lives to realize their individualities. According to the existentialist thinkers, the problems of the modern society can be addressed by the decisions, and choices that man/woman makes as a free and responsible individual.
 
Kapur’s novels mark an important phase in the growth of existential fiction in India. She is essentially an existentialist writer and deals with existential themes. She explores the human predicament and motives responsible for woman’s action. Existential themes such as freedom, choice, guilt, alienation, anxiety, and despair are highlighted in her novels. All her protagonists start their journey with the freedom of choice. They search for new meaning in this quest for self-discovery.
 
This book deals with the works of Manju Kapur from an existentialist perspective. This work is limited to five novels of Kapur, namely, Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, Immigrant and Custody. The book titled “The Existentialist Predicament of Women Characters in Manju Kapur’s Novels – A Critical Study” critically analyses existentialist issues such as freedom of choice, bad faith, guilt, alienation, anxiety and despair in the novels of Kapur. It is an attempt to study the existentialist predicament of women characters in the novels of Kapur.
 
This book consists of six chapters. In the introductory chapter, the significance of Kapur among Indian women novelists has been highlighted. Chapter two titled “Existentialism: A Philosophical – Literary Perspective” has presented the origin and development of the philosophy of existentialism. The chapter has discussed key philosophical concepts related to existentialism and has also mapped the connection between existentialism and literature.
 
Chapter three titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Freedom of Choice and Bad Faith” focuses on the freedom of choice and Bad faith in the novels of Kapur. Chapter four titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Guilt and Alienation” concentrates on the themes of guilt and alienation with special reference to the novels of Kapur. Chapter five, titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Anxiety and Despair, deals with anxiety and despair in the novels of Kapur. The final chapter is in the form of summing up of the major findings of the study.

Author(s) Details:

Dr. D. N. P. Prema Ponmani,
Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College, K. Narayanapura, Bangalore -560077, Karnataka, India.

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An Analysis of the Philosophy behind Sampling in History Education Research | Chapter 2 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 4

 The item lays emphasis on incorporating sipping techniques in a record education research work in order to preserve money and additional resources. In many cases, a history instruction researcher is incapable to cover the whole population of interest at which point case, a sample that is constituent the study population is taken. When a experiences education investigator uses only part of a given people, we refer to the study as a sample survey and in the case place a history education analyst uses the whole populace in a given history instruction research; we say that a past education researcher is completing activity a ‘census’ or ‘bulk survey’. History education research gives us a clear view of the past and present so that predict the future. History education research determines us with a better appreciation of the culture and the act which annals education is to play in the progress of people. The purpose of this item is to guide history instruction researchers believe the philosophy behind sampling in annals education research.

Author(s) Details:

Muleke Paul,
Department of Foundations of Education, Faculty of Education, Mountains of the Moon University Fortportal Tourism City, Uganda.

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The Heart - the Source of All Life | Book Publisher International

 As a radio station, the heart can emit waves to other hearts and receive waves in various frequencies from the sun and other hearts via its electro-magnetic field. Good emotions such as love, forgiveness, gratitude, and joy help to keep the heart healthy, however negative emotions such as anger, fear, hate, and envy can harm the heart and lead to heart disease. In Islam and Sufism, a pure heart is crucial, as it is required to sense Allah's presence. Bad desires must be eradicated from the heart. All religions contain elements of mysticism. Sufism, as a mystical branch of Islam, exemplifies the heart's linking abilities. The heart has a vital role in Islam, as we can see from the Koran. Philosophy, psychology, and medicine must recognize that the soul resides in the heart, not the brain, and that treatment should be directed toward the heart.

Author(s) Details

Kurt Hünting
Building Number: 2, Street Number: Schillerstraße, Any Nearby Landmark: Lower Rhine, Rees, Kreis Kleve, NRW (Nordrhine-Westfalia) 46459, Germany.

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The Philosophy of Outcome Based Teaching of Geography | Chapter 5 | Emerging Challenges in Environment and Earth Science Vol. 1

 Background: Educational reforms and transformations are influenced by the evolving changes that occur in societies and around the world. Education philosophy is a search for ways to improve the way we teach and learn. The research is based on Geography's outcome-based education (OBE), which is informed by realism, idealism, and pragmatism.

The study's goals are as follows: The first goal is to look at how competence-based teaching might help students learn field sketching, observation, and recording skills in geography class.

Objective 2: Evaluate how learners might be given the knowledge and abilities they need to map vegetation.

Objective 3: To investigate how learning philosophy influences competence-based field technique teaching.

Objective 4: To investigate how discussion between learners and facilitators influences teaching and learning in Geography classes.

Methods: An ethnographic approach of data collection was utilised, and this method was pertinent because the researcher would stay among the respondents for an extended period of time, engaging with them and living with them while collecting data. Observation and in-depth semi-structured interviews are the foundations of ethnography.

Discussion and Conclusions: Students' and lecturer's perspectives and perceptions were verbatim recorded. It was discovered that breaking away from traditional Geography teaching methods may be difficult because some respondents did not see the value of outcome-based teaching and learning in higher education institutions. However, some of the student population appreciated being involved in what they learned because they wanted their voices to be heard.

Conclusion: The traditional teaching and learning method depicts schooling as a step-by-step process from the first to the last year. Each stage of the programme is clearly stated in terms of duration. A daily timetable is used to keep track of this. WHEN and HOW students learn is fundamental to conservative teaching. The OBE paradigm focuses on WHERE and HOW students learn rather than WHEN they study.

Recommendation: Teachers at higher education institutions are encouraged to use a competence-based approach when teaching topics like map reading and interpretation. The principles of realism, pragmatism, and idealism underpin competency-based education.

Author(S) Details

Maligana Mathe
Zimbabwe Open University, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Zimbabwe.

Kelebogile Mfolwe
Botho University, Kgale View Gaborone, Department of Higher Education, Botswana.

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Assessing Critical Realism Vs Social Constructionism & Social Constructivism for a Social Housing Research Study | Chapter 5 | Selected Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 3

 This chapter builds on a work released in 2018 that examined the potential impact of the Critical Realist, Social Constructionist, and Social Constructivist paradigms on a planned research study into an area of Social Housing in the United Kingdom. The ensuing research work served as the foundation for a doctoral thesis, which was submitted in 2019 and approved in 2020. The content of the original paper will be revised in part one of this document, and the application of the chosen approach to the research project will be explained in part two. The first section gives an outline of each of the ideologies that were considered. for the purpose of research Critical Realism, Social Constructionism, and Social Constructivism each have a basis and key elements that are described. Each philosophy's strengths and limitations are evaluated in order to determine its fit for study into a specific area of social housing. The Critical Realist philosophy was found to be the most suitable after considering the impact of the various approaches on the suggested research project. The second part of the chapter explains how the Critical Realist philosophical approach was used to the research and provides an update on the research's contribution to the final PhD thesis.

 
Author (s) Details

Dr. Simon P. Taylor
University of Cumbria, UK

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“Legislators and Interpreters”: Le Malheur of Deconstructionism | Chapter 5 | Modern Perspectives in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 3

 When Jacques Derrida accuses the Enlightenment project of being totalitarian, illusive, racist, imperialist, and devoid of any intellectual merit or moral ground, Jürgen Habermas unexpectedly responds that Derrida's deconstruction undermines reason, destroys universality, and renounces any hope of emancipation. From a contemporary perspective, Derrida fails to establish judgmental norms, misunderstands the Enlightenment's roots, and exhibits no critical responsibility; modernity, in Derrida's logic, is logically contradictory and dictatorial in nature. Deconstructionism is more than terrible than the Enlightenment. Accordingly, deconstructionism appears to have a "tragic fate," as no one knows when it began, where it is now, or how it has progressed. This paper presents an epistemic dive into the structures of thinking that lie underlying Derrida's deconstructionism, using an archeological method and a genealogical design. It discusses deconstructionism in relation to its descendants, to put it another way. The concepts of the Enlightenment, modernity, postmodernity, philosophy, literature, post-theory, and the extinction of theory become critical in tracing Derrida's thinking trajectory and growth. Derrida has served as a rebellious interpreter and hunter to history itself, with the tradition of metaphysics serving as the legislator for deconstructionism.

Author (s) Details

Ramzi Marrouchi
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities, University of Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia.

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Monitoring the Upgraded Democracy Adjusted for the 21st Century | Chapter 5 | New Horizons in Education and Social Studies Vol. 7

 The author explores how Democracy, the world's leading system of government, blends with the immense changes that have occurred in the world in the 21st century. Technology induces many changes that have often arisen before individuals and their organisations are able to digest them and competently. The author proposes several approaches and models to help nations carry out the initiative to revise and develop their running systems. The author offers a two-aspect methodology, built from conceptual and psychological approaches, to carry out this task. They are: the philosophical side of the brain-the objective way of thought, and the psychological approach, reflecting the emotions of the inner self-the emotional strategy against real events. This two-aspect approach allows one to evaluate and understand political affairs as well. The principal path and the political establishment objectives would remain elusive and vague without a general philosophical observation. The motives, motors, and human concerns can not be appreciated without a psychological awareness of the participants, both leaders and followers. The picture acknowledged and the information gained are much more complete and important by using these two complementary approaches.

Author(s) Details

Amos Avny

Omnidev International, Yehud, Israel.

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