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116901.More information
Statistical data indicates that domestic violence in present-day Ukraine is a particularly acute phenomenon. Urgent policy responses are therefore required on the part of state authorities in order to prevent and combat the problem. Moreover, Ukraine must improve its legislation in this regard in order to meet international obligations and achieve legislative approximation with the European Union (EU) in connection with EU membership. But for eleven years until June 2022, Ukraine underwent significant struggles in this sphere and was unable to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention). This article turns to incrementalism and interest-group analysis for an exploration of both the challenges in ratifying the Istanbul Convention in Ukraine and the policy-making process that was adopted on account of those challenges. Using the case of domestic-violence legislation in Ukraine and the issue of the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, the authors contend that incrementalism remains a viable policy-making practice, as it considers a variety of stakeholders (including interest groups) and promotes progress by fostering common-ground approaches and gradual improvements. Ukraine’s trajectory ultimately shifted when the Istanbul Convention was ratified in 2022. Diverging from incrementalism in such a way, though, risks reversing crucial changes because the local opposition of interest groups in relation to a major decision remains unresolved. This article, first, reviews Ukraine’s policy path and show that it was incremental prior to 2022. Then, it looks at interest groups and examines their arguments for and against ratification of the Istanbul Convention. Afterward, the authors address the Europeanization of Ukraine and its impact on the adoption of legislation related to domestic violence. Finally, the article discusses how ratification became possible in 2022 and how EU conditionality both contributed to realizing that goal and created potential risks for the future.
Keywords: domestic violence, incrementalism, interest groups, Europeanization, Ukraine
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This study presents a review of the scientific literature concerning the professional ethics needs of teachers, specifically elementary school teachers in Quebec. Based on the “Quebec” conceptual framework of professional ethics for teachers and an appropriate and presented review methodology, we identify 61 academic writings, published between 2003 and 2021, that discuss these needs (i.e., the resources that teachers lack to respect a desirable professional ethics). The first part of this article presents the results of this review. The second part discusses the difficulty of developing an adequate conceptual framework to analyze the diversity and specific details of the identified needs.
Keywords: Éthique professionnelle enseignante, Professional teaching ethics, literature review, Recension des écrits, professionalism, Professionnalité, Insertion professionnelle, professional insertion, Besoins de soutien, support needs
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Students say that they are more motivated to write with digital tools than with a pencil (Alves-Wold et al., 2023; Camacho et al., 2021). But are they more engaged? Few studies have looked at students’ engagement in writing, much less digital writing (Martins et al., 2022). The objective of this study was to compare the level of behavioural engagement of students in Grades 2, 4, and 6 (N = 255) when producing a narrative text, depending on whether they were writing with a pencil or a keyboard. After each writing session, the students answered a questionnaire (with a Likert scale) in order to report their engagement during the activity. A 3 (grades) X 2 (conditions: handwriting, keyboarding) analysis of variance on the mean engagement score showed that the Grade 2 students were just as engaged in both conditions, but that the students in Grades 4 and 6 were more engaged in the keyboarding activity. The discussion examines the potential of digital tools for countering disengagement at a sensitive time in students’ elementary education path and defines the limits of this study.
Keywords: engagement, engagement, écriture, writing, digital tools, outils numériques, primaire, elementary
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In Tunisia, the 2016 national strategy against terrorism introduced the concept of preventive measures, which legitimized tighter state control over religious discourses and practices. To bring a local perspective to the study of international preventative measures, I build upon the concept of “vernacular security” to examine how Tunisian imams involved in preventing violent extremism (PVE) programs understand security, violent extremism, radicalization, and their role as non-traditional security actors. To achieve this, I observe how imams describe their own experiences of security, in their own words and through their own understandings. Through ethnographic interviews conducted with local imams between 2019 and 2020, this research focuses on the way in which they perceive, re-enact, and influence security practices, with a particular focus on the relationship between religion and security, a central subject in post-revolutionary Tunisia. In so doing, this paper argues that local imams involved in PVE programs reproduce local and global security discourses, while at the same challenging their role in community policing.
Keywords: radicalization, religion, preventing violent extremism, religious leaders, civil society, Tunisia, vernacular security, imams, terrorism
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Various studies in recent times have shown how sociohistorical proclivities played an important role in the acceptance or rejection of cross-cultural ideas in Mughal scientific discourses. The cultural patronage of the Mughal courts financed the production and propagation of certain scientific texts deemed intellectually and politically expedient. Among such texts were two seventeenth-century astronomical table-texts, Mullā Farīd's Persian Zīj-i Šāh Jahānī and its Sanskrit translation in Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu, both produced at the court of the Mughal Emperor Šāh Jahān.In this paper, we present, for the very first time, a comparative survey of the canon (text) of these two works to reveal the intimacy between the translated Sanskrit and its Persian original. The paper includes brief biographies of both astronomers, a summary of the salient features of the canons, a description of the manuscripts utilised and our transcription and transliteration schemes, along with a detailed comparison of the individual chapters in these canons. We also provide separate appendices with discussions on select aspects from these chapters. We note that this paper forms the first part in a two-part study, with a second forthcoming paper surveying the tables in these two texts (accompanied with mathematical annotations).
Keywords: Sanskrit astral sciences, Nityānanda, Siddhāntasindhu, Mullā Farīd, Zīj-i Shāh Jahānī, Persian astronomy, Science in Mughal India
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116906.More information
Keywords: habitar, lugar, modernidad capitalista, cuerpo-territorio, espacio-temporalidad, territorio
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The following article discusses the UN Special Interim Report and its significance to the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The article reviews how the UN Special Interim Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief has been used as a critical tool for promoting and protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples globally by emphasizing the need for meaningful engagement with Indigenous individuals and communities in decision-making processes, notably on issues that affect their traditional lands, waters and resources and their spiritual practices. The article also discusses how the UN Special Interim Report was developed through extensive consultations with Indigenous Peoples, community groups, and various stakeholders with the scope of revealing the challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples. Finally, the article will reflect upon the positive responses generated by the Report and the ongoing discourse to encourage further engagement with the findings.
Keywords: UN Interim Report, Freedom of Religion or Belief, UN Special Procedures, Indigenous Peoples, Engagement, Dialogue
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Most spelling errors made by elementary school students are associated with the production of multigraphemic phonemes and silent letters. To document the best ways of teaching these spelling phenomena, two experimental conditions were tested with two groups of 7-8 year-old students: 1) teaching formal and semantic word properties (n = 43) and 2) teaching formal word properties (n = 44). A third group of students constituted the control group (n = 44). For both experimental conditions, the same 24 words were taught to the students. To assess the students’ learning, they were given a dictation before and after the intervention. The results show that the intervention contributed to the learning of multigraphemic phonemes and silent letters for students who benefited from the experimental conditions tested, although variations were observed depending on the orthographic phenomena.
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This paper presents a reflexion on the potential role of the palliative care physician in addressing and alleviating spiritual distress. First, a definition of spirituality grounded in the concepts of meaning, value and choice is proposed to the reader. Then, the question of meaning and values is examined through the work of Albert Camus on absurdism.
Keywords: Soins palliatifs, Palliative care, Spiritualité, spirituality, end of life, Fin de vie, Albert Camus, Albert Camus, absurdism, Absurde
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The recent salience of immigration as an issue among segments of the population in wealthy countries has often been understood as a product of tension between economic interests and cultural preferences. However, such explanations largely ignore differences in power between immigrant and native communities and the cohesion of local community institutions. This article develops a bargaining model that highlights how power asymmetries between workers and employers interact with community cohesion to result in immigration aversion. Community cohesion among both migrant and native workers is modeled through their fallback positions. We show that the salience of immigration depends on the bargaining power of native and migrant workers. Further, we demonstrate that if the bargaining power of both native and migrant workers are low enough, then immigration aversion can exist even if immigration does not reduce labor demand for native workers.
Keywords: Bargaining Power, community and identity, immigration and labor