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Discussions of the causes of the inequitable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic strike a similar tone as the same discussion of the 2008 financial crisis. In this review of the literature on post-2008 financial crisis and the...

neo-liberalism; COVID-19; global financial crisis; economic recovery

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today, an issue that requires a global solution. It is for this reason that a UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the...

Global Environmental Politics; International Politics; Political Science Copenhagen Summit; COP 15; UN Conference on Climate Change

The purpose of this study was to determine how South African learners compared with their selected international counterparts according to their teachers’ views. The analysis was based on predictor variables that are related to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted universities across the globe to shift to digital platforms. This shift has ensured the minimization of disruption by offering flexible, transparent, and accessible remote learning that aligns...

digital learning; neo-liberalism; ontology, subjectivity, critical social work

In this paper I intend to look at a debate arising in the early Middle Ageswhich focused on the divine names. The topic was so formulated in the 6thcentury by the writer who came to be known as the “pseudo-Dionysius” who wasin...

The concept of eudaemonia originates from neo-Aristotelian philosophy and is associated with human flourishing. Self-determination theory, a means to attain eudaemonia, is examined here as a foundational approach to drive...

Human Aspects of Business Business and Management Human Resources Management Social Sciences and Humanities Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences

Through discussing how the recovery model has become popular within the mental health system in Ontario, Poole offers an outstanding critique of recovery’s rhetoric. Using Foucault’s concepts of “discursive formation”, Poole...

This article explores how COVID-19 has impacted our understanding of our frontline practice and professional identity as four doctoral social work students. When the pandemic unfolded, we were completing a collaborative...

resistance; performativity; doctoral students; frontline workers; COVID-19

Research protocols require that informed consent is secured before a project is underway. In the collision of online and offline worlds, researchers continue to offer research participants forms of confidentiality and privacy...

research ethics; informed consent; big data; surveillance; privacy

Although critiques of participatory development attend to knowledge/power, Anglo- American literature on community-based participatory research (CBPR) is largely silent on the politics of these collaborations. As the “will to...

Foucauldian governmentality; community-based participatory research; power; politics of knowledge production; social work

Healthcare systems worldwide have been facing a value crisis, with expenditure increasing at unsustainable rates and, in many cases, exceeding the real growth of GDP. Furthermore, this substantial increase in spending has not...

Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Healthcare Administration Standards & Standardization

This essay contrasts the so-called emanationism of Neoplatonism, particularly Proclus’s, with the naturephilosophy of F.W.J. Schelling. The contention is that Schelling’s thought is Neo-Platonist because thoroughly Platonist...

Land-based teachings are normatively understood as being unique to Indigenous philosophy, ethics, and politics. Liberal political realities and worldviews, particularly as they appear in normative scholarship on the welfare...

land-based teachings, Indigenous knowledge, reconciliation, social work pedagogy