bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
THE DANISH SERIAL ODA OMVENDT (‘ODA UPSIDE DOWN’) IS MAKING REBELLIOUS LIVE ACTION CHILDREN’S FICTION FOR 3-6-YEAR-OLDS TRAVEL BEYOND THE NORDICS
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

By Eva Novrup Redvall     As analyzed in the recent research project “What Makes Danish TV Drama Series Travel?” certain kinds of television fiction from small nations cross borders more easily than others.
Making the invisible visible: storytelling the health impacts of climate change
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

On March 18, 2024, the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosted a workshop bringing together 553 health workers from 55 countries with TGLF’s First Fellow of Photography and award-winning photographer Chris de Bode. Watch the workshop in English and in French. Poor connectivity? Get the audio-only podcast.
A SUITABLE BOY – THE DEMANDS OF CROSS-CULTURAL VIEWING
Authors: Stafford Christine Geraghty with Roy
Published: November 2024

Back in July 2020, the BBC began screening its new Sunday night serial on BBC One in an attempt to bring an adaptation of Vikram Seth’s very long, 1993 novel to a mainstream British audience. This blog is not a review of the serial, nor of the critical response to it, which, for reasons which will become clear, would take a lot more time and effort than I currently have.
Pandemic preparedness through connected transnational digital networks of local actors
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In the Geneva Learning Foundation’s approach to effective humanitarian learning, knowledge acquisition and competency development are both necessary but insufficient. This is why, in July 2019, we built the first Impact Accelerator, to support local practitioners beyond learning outcomes all the way to achieving actual health outcomes.
CfP: conference “The Witch Institute”. Aug 16-22, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Jan 25, 2021.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

August 16-22, 2021; Virtual Event Queen’s University* Katarokwi/Kingston, Canada *Queen’s University is situated on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories

What is the Witch Institute? In the last few years, the witch has re-emerged as a powerful political symbol.
Teach to Reach’s new leadership network connects health organizations tackling common challenges
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The Geneva Learning Foundation is launching REACH (Relate, Engage, Act, Connect, Help), a new leadership network to connect local, national, and international leaders of health organizations who are solving similar problems in different countries.
Why participate in Teach to Reach?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In global health, where challenges are as diverse as they are complex, we need new ways for health professionals to connect, learn, and drive change. Imagine a digital space where a nurse from rural Nigeria, a policymaker from India, and a WHO expert can share experiences, learn from each other, and collectively tackle global health challenges. That’s the essence of Teach to Reach.
Learn health, but beware of the behaviorist trap
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The global health community has long grappled with the challenge of providing effective, scalable training to health workers, particularly in resource-constrained settings. In recent years, digital learning platforms have emerged as a potential solution, promising to deliver accessible, engaging, and impactful training at scale. Imagine a digital platform intended to train health workers at scale.
EMOTIONAL CONSOLATION, POLITICAL ESCAPISM AND POST-OBJECT FANDOM: RE-WATCHING AND RE-STAGING THE WEST WING IN 2020
Authors: Williams Rebecca
Published: November 2024

Writing in April 2020, Joke Hermes and Annette Hill note that audiences turned to television during the coronavirus pandemic “because of its particular affordances: its affective, material and ontological elements which become central in lockdown Culture” (2020: 656). There are clear links between the pandemic experience, media texts, and our sense of what sociologist Anthony Giddens calls ontological security (Giddens 1991), which “arises out
Taking the pulse: why and how we change everything in response to learner signals
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The ability to analyze and respond to learner behavior as it happens is crucial for educators. In complex learning that takes place in digital spaces, task separation between the design of instruction and its delivery does not make sense.
CfP: CJoC special issue “Confronting Covid-19: Constructing and Contesting Legitimacy through the Media in Chinese Contexts”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2021.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Legitimacy justifies the acts and authority of social groups and organisations and makes them acceptable to other social members. As a global health crisis that sweeps the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked a crisis of legitimacy that social actors and institutions face over their responses to or roles in the pandemic. Meanwhile, however, the pandemic may also open up opportunities for them to gain legitimacy.
Making sense of sensemaking
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In her article “A Shared Lens for Sensemaking in Learning Analytics”, Sasha Poquet argues that the field of learning analytics lacks a shared conceptual language to describe the process of sensemaking around educational data. She reviews prominent theories of sensemaking, delineating tensions between assumptions in dominant paradigms.
Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub’s innovative model for inter-country peer learning and knowledge translation
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This article about inter-country peer learning and knowledge translation is excerpted from the Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub publication “Knowledge Translation for Zero-Dose Immunization Research”. The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) hosted the first ZDLH Inter-Country Peer Learning Exchange session (ZDLH-X), in May 2023 with a focus on Bangladesh and Mali.
Climate change and health: Health workers on climate, community, and the urgent need for action
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

As world leaders gathered for the COP28 climate conference, the Geneva Learning Foundation called for the insights of health workers on the frontlines of climate and health to be heard amidst the global dialogue.
Protect, invest, together: strengthening health workforce through new learning models
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In “Prioritising the health and care workforce shortage: protect, invest, together,” Agyeman-Manu et al. assert that the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated longstanding health workforce deficiencies globally, especially in under-resourced nations.
Why health leaders who are critical thinkers choose rote learning for others
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Many health leaders are highly analytical, adaptive learners who thrive on solving complex problems in dynamic, real-world contexts. Their expertise is grounded in years of field experience, where they have honed their ability to rapidly generate insights, test ideas, and innovate solutions in collaboration with diverse stakeholders.
How will we turn a climate change and health resolution at the World Health Assembly into local action?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This video was prepared by the World Health Organization with voices of health workers speaking at the Special Event “From community to planet” hosted by The Geneva Learning Foundation. The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) has developed a new model that could help address the urgent challenge of climate change impacts on health by empowering and connecting health workers who serve communities on the receiving end of those impacts.
Visual storytelling for health
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Do you work for health? Your are invited to a visual storytelling workshop with health care workers from 44 countries. The Geneva Learning Foundation’s first Fellow of Photography, Chris de Bode, will lead this workshop. 544 health care workers from 44 countries have already confirmed their participation. 80% of participants are sub-national staff working in fragile contexts. Most work for their country’s ministry of health.
Metaphors of global health: jazz improvisation ensemble or classical orchestra?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In the realm of classical music, the orchestra stands as a formidable emblem of aesthetic grandeur and refinement. However, beneath the veneer of sophistication lies a deeply entrenched system that stymies the potential for creative exploration and spontaneity.
World Immunization Week: What do you see?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

English version

| Version française This is the preface of the new publication

The many faces of immunization

. Learn more… Download the collection… Every day, thousands of health workers, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, get up and go to work with a single goal in mind ­ to ensure that vaccines reach those who need them.
CfP: SERIES Vol 7 No 1 (June-July 2021). Deadline: Feb 28, 2021.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

“SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, with ISSN and, indexed in major international databases. It publishes 2 issues per year and is mainly devoted to television seriality. It is a joint project by Universitat Politècnica de València (Escola Politècnica Superior de Gandia/DCADHA) and Università di Bologna.
What is a “rubric” and why use rubrics in global health education?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Rubrics are well-established, evidence-based tools in education, but largely unknown in global health. At the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), the rubric is a key tool that we use – as part of a comprehensive package of interventions – to transform high-cost, low-volume training dependent on the limited availability of global experts into scalable peer learning to improve access, quality, and outcomes.
Why does cascade training fail?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Cascade training remains widely used in global health. Cascade training can look great on paper: an expert trains a small group who, in turn, train others, thereby theoretically scaling the knowledge across an organization. It attempts to combine the advantages of expert coaching and peer learning by passing knowledge down a hierarchy.
50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In two articles published during the fiftieth year of the World Health Organization’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Samarasekera and Shattock provide valuable insights into EPI’s remarkable impact on reducing childhood mortality and morbidity since its launch in 1974. Shattock et al. present a detailed quantitative analysis of the lives saved and health gains attributed to vaccination.
CfP: edited collection “Global Horror Production in the Twenty-First Century”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2021.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

co-edited by Eddie Falvey and Alice Haylett Bryan Call for Book Chapters   As we move into the third decade of the twenty-first century, it becomes increasingly clear that the taste for horror has not abated.
Reinventing the path from knowledge to action in global health
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

At the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), we have just begun to share a publication like no other. It is titled

Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers

. You can access the full report here in French and in English.
Five examples of double-loop learning in global health
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Read this first: What is double-loop learning in global health? Example 1: Addressing low uptake of a vaccine program

Single–Loop Learning

: Improve logistics and supply chain management to ensure consistent vaccine availability at clinics.
Integrating community-based monitoring (CBM) into a comprehensive learning-to-action model
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

According to Gavi, “community-based monitoring” or “CBM” is a process where service users collect data on various aspects of health service provision to monitor program implementation, identify gaps, and collaboratively develop solutions with providers. Community-based monitoring (CBM) has emerged as a promising strategy for enhancing immunization program performance and equity.
Journée mondiale contre le paludisme: nous avons besoin de nouvelles façons de mener le changement
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

English version |

Version française

Aujourd’hui, à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale contre le paludisme, la Fondation Apprendre Genève est fière de se tenir aux côtés des travailleurs de la santé en première ligne dans la lutte contre cette maladie. Le paludisme reste un problème de santé majeure, affectant de manière disproportionnée les communautés d’Afrique et d’Asie.
Controller of the Universe
Authors:   Atarraya
Published: November 2024

Damián Ortega, DR ©

Herramientas encontradas y alambre 285 x 405 x 455 cm 2007 Parte de la exhibición

Pico y elote

en el museo de Bellas Artes Sitio del autor Instagram Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original, todos los derechos de autor y reproducción están reservados por el artista.
Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030): National EPI leaders from 31 countries share experience of HPV vaccination
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

What difference can peer-led learning and action make for national EPI planners seeking new strategies to support HPV vaccine introduction or reintroduction?

The stakes are high: HPV vaccination efforts, if successful, will avert 3.4 million deaths by 2030.
How do we reframe health performance management within complex adaptive systems?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We need a conceptual framework that situates health performance management within complex adaptive systems. This is a summary of an important paper by Tom Newton-Lewis et al. It describes such a conceptual framework that identifies the factors that determine the appropriate balance between directive and enabling approaches to performance management in a given context.
International Nurses Day 2024: Climate change and health
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

English version

| Version française On International Nurses Day 2024, The Geneva Learning Foundation stands in solidarity with the over 28 million nurses worldwide who form the backbone of health systems globally.As an organization dedicated to researching, developing, and implementing new approaches to learning and leadership for health, we recognize the vital role of nurses in driving progress towards global health goals,
WHY ‘THE MANDALORIAN’ IS PURE ‘STAR WARS’
Authors: Siegel Larry
Published: November 2024

The circle is now complete.
Klepac and colleagues‘ scoping review of climate change, malaria and neglected tropical diseases: what about the epistemic significance of health worker knowledge?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

By Luchuo E. Bain and Reda Sadki The scoping review by Klepac et al. provides a comprehensive overview of codified academic knowledge about the complex interplay between climate change and a wide range of infectious diseases, including malaria and 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The review synthesized findings from 511 papers published between 2010 and 2023, revealing that the vast majority of studies focused on malaria, dengue,
What is norms-shifting in immunization and global health?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The concept of “norms shifting perspective”, in the field of immunization and global health focuses on strategies that aim to alter norms and attitudes towards vaccination to promote uptake and acceptance. This perspective acknowledges the influence that social norms have on individuals decisions regarding vaccination. Aims to utilize this insight to enhance acceptance through well crafted policies, messaging and interventions.
Heidi Larson: “So much remains determined by the capacity of people on the frontlines to explain, advocate, and respond in ways that are almost entirely dictated by context”
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is the preface by Heidi Larson for the report “Overcoming barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community: Key learning from the experiences of 734 frontline health workers”. This report is presented today by The Geneva Learning Foundation (LinkedIn | YouTube | Podcast | Twitter) at the International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit 2022 (#SBCCSummit) held 5-9 December 2022 in Marrakech,
How to overcome limitations of expert-led fellowships for global health
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Coaching and mentoring programs sometimes called “fellowships” have been upheld as the gold standard for developing leaders in global health. For example, a fellowship in the field of immunization was recently advertised in the following manner.
CfP: The 17th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar, theme “Monstrosity”. April 20-22, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Jan 15, 2021.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The theme for the 2021 Spring Seminar is monstrosity. This theme explores the role of monsters and monstrosity in games, play, game cultures, and other forms of playful media and popular cultures. The figure of the ‘monster’ is a crucial area for development in game studies. Recent scholarship has opened important trajectories for examining how such figures can embed problematic world views (Stang & Trammel 2019;
Ahead of Teach to Reach 11, organizational leaders share experience of ‘what works’ for health
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Over 730 organizations have already confirmed their participation in Teach to Reach 11, a peer learning platform, network, and community for health workers facilitated by the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF). This announcement came during TGLF’s first partnership briefing held on 16 October 2024.
Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030): grounding action in local realities to reach the unreached
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

WHO’s 154th Executive Board meeting provided a sobering picture of how the COVID-19 pandemic reversed decades of progress in expanding global immunization coverage and controlling vaccine-preventable diseases. Over 3 million more zero-dose children in 2022 compared to 2019 and widening inequities between and within countries. Africa in particular suffered a 25% increase in children missing out on basic vaccines.
SUPERNATURAL: “THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN QUEERBAIT”
Authors: Pearce Rebecca
Published: November 2024

I decided to write this because I felt an almost divine force compelling me to have everybody in TV studies aware of what is happening in a certain corner of the internet. Where to begin. I’ll start with the show itself.
CfP: ICA preconference “Exclusions in the History and Historiography of Communication Studies”. May 27, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Dec 20, 2020.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

International Communication Association Remote Preconference May 27, 2021 Organizers: David W. Park, Jefferson Pooley, Peter Simonson The broader field of communication studies is in a moment when we are—or should be—intensively interrogating patterns of exclusion and hegemony that have continued to constitute it: around global region (de-Westernizing, theory from the South, persistent patterns of American […]
Recommendations to support knowledge translation of evidence to identify and reach zero-dose children
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This article is excerpted from the Gavi Zero-Dose Learning Hub publication “Knowledge Translation for Zero-Dose Immunization Research”. In its role as the Learning Innovation Unit (LIU) lead, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) conceptualized a baseline strategy for knowledge translation (KT). TGLF developed the following recommendations to support the Country Learning Hubs’ (CLH) KT work.
CfA: Annual IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History 2021. Jan 7, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Dec 18, 2020.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Are you a graduate or doctoral student, post-doc, or early career professional currently working on a project in which you engage issues concerning historical film, radio or television or issues in media history? Are you interested in presenting your project to a small group of experts and peers? Then this master class of the International Association for Media and History may be just what you are looking for.
MIPCOM 2020 – KEY TAKEAWAYS
Authors: Vermilä Heidi Keinonen and Eerika
Published: November 2024

The annual MIPCOM market was organized in mid-October as a virtual event. We composed a summary on what is happening in the TV industry at the moment:

1) COVID-19 transformed television for good

The topic that we could not avoid even in MIPCOM was the global pandemic and how it has affected the television industry.
Journée internationale des infirmières 2024 : Changement climatique et santé
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

English version |

Version française

À l’occasion de la Journée internationale des infirmières 2024, La Fondation Apprendre Genève est solidaire des plus de 28 millions d’infirmières et d’infirmiers dans le monde qui constituent l’épine dorsale des systèmes de santé à l’échelle internationale.
LIGHTING MUSIC TELEVISION: AN INTERVIEW WITH STUART PRING
Authors: Pillai Nicolas
Published: November 2024

The last time I’d seen Stu, we were both in tuxedos. It was a packed hotel ballroom in London, the evening Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only (Somethin’ Else/BBC Four, 2019) won Best Music Programme at the Broadcast Awards. Weird to think of that now, rubbing elbows with tipsy celebrities. A month later, we’d be in lockdown.
What is double-loop learning in global health?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Argyris (1976) defines double-loop learning as occurring “when errors are corrected by changing the governing values and then the actions.” He contrasts this with single-loop learning, where “errors are corrected without altering the underlying governing values.” Double-loop learning involves questioning “not only the objective facts but also the reasons and motives behind those facts”. It requires becoming aware of one’s own “theories-in-use” –
How does the scalability of peer learning compare to expert-led coaching ‘fellowships’?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

By connecting practitioners to learn from each other, peer learning facilitates collaborative development. ow does it compare to expert-led coaching and mentoring “fellowships” that are seen as the ‘gold standard’ for professional development in global health? Scalability in global health matters.
Digital bridges cannot cross analog gates
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about an interesting question, as I’ve observed myself and colleagues starting to travel again: “Why are we again funding high-cost, low-volume face-to-face conferences that yield, at best, uncertain outcomes?” I am surprised to have to ask this question.
Learning from Frontline Health Workers in the Climate Change Era
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

By Julie Jacobson, Alan Brooks, Charlotte Mbuh, and Reda Sadki The escalating threats of climate change cast long shadows over global health, including increases in disease epidemics, profound impacts on mental health, disruptions to health infrastructure, and alterations in the severity and geographical distribution of diseases.
Towards reimagined technical assistance: thinking beyond the current policy options
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In the article “Towards reimagined technical assistance: the current policy options and opportunities for change”, Alexandra Nastase and her colleagues argues that technical assistance should be framed as a policy option for governments. It outlines different models of technical assistance:

Capacity substitution

: Technical advisers perform government functions due to urgent needs or lack of in-house expertise.
What did we learn from the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) in its first two years?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

At a World Health Organization conference in Panama, The Geneva Learning Foundation is hosting an Innovations Café today.
RERUNS: NORMAL PEOPLE AND OUTRAGE DISCOURSE ACROSS TIME
Authors: Wait Morgan
Published: November 2024

Towards the end of April — into what we can now call Lockdown 1.0 as Ireland has recently entered Lockdown 2.0 (The Remix) — the smash hit

Normal People

was unleashed onto Irish screens. The BBC/Hulu production, based on the best-selling novel by Sally Rooney, was released all at once in the UK and the US a few days earlier making it prime binge watch material.
RECONFIGURING TELEVISUALITY: THE CONTINUING RE-DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS OF UNPREDICTABILITY
Authors: Sexton Max
Published: November 2024

This account builds on an earlier blog, ‘Problems of Style in High-end Drama’ and an article published in

Critical Studies in Television

. It deals with ideas in a new book that accounts for contemporary US television drama’s formal strategies, due to the growing complexity of television narrative.
Why become a Teach to Reach Partner?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We need new ways to tackle global health challenges that impact local communities. It is obvious that technology alone is not enough. We need human ingenuity, collaboration, and the ability to share across borders and boundaries. That is why I am excited about Teach to Reach. Imagine if we could tap into the collective intelligence of over 20,000 health professionals working on the front lines in low- and middle-income countries.
Learning culture: the missing link in global health between learning and performance
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Read this first

: What is double-loop learning in global health? Learning culture is a critical concept missing from health systems research. It provides a practical and actionable framework to operationalize the notion of ‘learning health systems’ and drive transformative change. Watkins and Marsick describe learning culture as the capacity for change.
What learning science underpins peer learning for Global Health?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Watch Reda Sadki’s presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Symposium on 19 October 2023 Most significant learning that contributes to improved performance takes place outside of formal training. It occurs through informal and incidental forms of learning between peers.
Teach to Reach: peer learning at scale
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Teach to Reach are fast-paced, dynamic digital events connecting local and global practitioners to each other in a new, potentially transformative shared dialogue.
Can Teach to Reach help your organization?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Teach to Reach stands as a unique nexus in the global health landscape, offering unprecedented opportunities for diverse stakeholders to engage, learn, and drive meaningful change. With over 60,000 participants from more than 90 countries, this platform, network, and community bring together a mix of frontline health workers, policymakers, and key decision-makers.
Learning about mental health and psychosocial needs in Ukraine and affected countries
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The report “Two years on: mental health and psychosocial needs in Ukraine and affected countries” is from the Psychosocial Support Centre, a specialized hub of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) with the mission to “enhance psychosocial support initiatives”. Key points from the report include: Nearly “one in ten of those affected by war grapple with moderate to severe mental health issues.” This refers
Education as a system of systems: rethinking learning theory to tackle complex threats to our societies
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In their 2014 article, Jacobson, Kapur, and Reimann propose shifting the paradigm of learning theory towards the conceptual framework of complexity science. They argue that the longstanding dichotomy between cognitive and situative theories of learning fails to capture the intricate dynamics at play.
Women’s voices from the frontlines of health and humanitarian action
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

English version | Version française GENEVA, Switzerland, 8 March 2024 – The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is sharing a collection of stories titled “Women inspiring women”, shared by 177 women on the frontlines of health and humanitarian action. Download: The Geneva Learning Foundation.
Ten eyewitness reports from the frontline of climate change and health
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) has created a platform enabling health workers to describe the impacts of climate change on their local communities. Here are ten of the most striking reports. Published on

30 November 2023

on the Gavi #VaccinesWork blog. Written by Ian Jones for Gavi.
CURRENT AFFAIRS OR COMFORT TV?: VOD OFFERINGS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19
Authors: Kelly JP
Published: November 2024

It’s been just over nine months since the UK entered its first COVID-19 lockdown (time flies when you’re stuck indoors…) With significant restrictions on how we can spend our leisure time, it’s not surprising to hear that we are watching more television than we have done in years. TV studies scholars rejoice – we’ve never been more relevant!
CfP: edited collection “Falling off a Cliff? Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries”. Deadline: Jan 15, 2021.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Scholars researching (self-identifying) women and ageing in the screen industries are invited to send chapter abstracts for an edited collection provisionally entitled

Falling off a Cliff? Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries

. The book will explore the gendered challenges facing women over 50 yrs. as they attempt to carve out and/or maintain a career in the screen industries, in front of and behind the camera.
NON-HUMAN PERFORMANCE, MISE-EN-SCENE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL: SKIPPY THE BUSH KANGAROO
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

How might we describe and evaluate non-human “performances” in television fiction? I blogged a while ago about the performances by puppets and machines in

Thunderbirds

(ITV 1965-66) and wrote a chapter (Bignell 2019) about them and other non-human actors.
ALL ABOUT SCORING, INNIT?
Authors: Pixley Andrew
Published: November 2024

Dear Santa, That’s 2020 almost over and done with. Again, I’ve tried very hard to be good. When Boris has told me not to go out, I’ve not gone out. And I’ve done my best to see if I can help people who are struggling. So – and you’re probably expecting this already – would it be possible to get La La Land Records’ four-disc set of the

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

(1964-1968) soundtrack please?
World Malaria Day 2024: We need new ways to support health workers leading change with local communities
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

English version

| Version française Today, on World Malaria Day, the Geneva Learning Foundation is proud to stand with health workers on the frontlines of the fight against this deadly disease. Malaria remains a critical global health challenge, disproportionately affecting communities in Africa and Asia.
Climate change and health: perspectives from developing countries
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Today, the Geneva Learning Foundation’s Charlotte Mbuh delivered a scientific presentation titled “On the frontline of climate change and health: A health worker eyewitness report” at the University of Hamburg’s Online Expert Seminar on Climate Change and Health: Perspectives from Developing Countries.
Mastodon, RSS, BlueSky
Authors: Willighagen Egon
Published: November 2024

The x-odus continues and there is a wave of researchers moving from X to another walled-garden called Bluesky. This is good and bad. First, it is good that people are leaving X (imho) and it is good that they move to a platform that supports open standards, the AT Protocol. But I am less sure, about moving to another closed source platform. I prefer Mastodon.
Mental health and psychosocial support in Ukraine: insights from an interdisciplinary review
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

A new interdisciplinary review from the ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre and VU Amsterdam provides an in-depth analysis of the mental health impacts, cultural and historical factors shaping coping and help-seeking, the evolving humanitarian response, and recommendations for strengthening mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in Ukraine. The report is an interdisciplinary literature review supplemented by key informant interviews.
Pourquoi un manifeste open-source pour la santé globale?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Read this in English: Why an open-source manifesto for global health?
Support of children affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine: Bridging practice and learning through the sharing of experience
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“Do you have an experience supporting children affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine that you would like to share with colleagues? Tell us what happened and how it turned out.
THE MAGIC OF THE DANISH CHRISTMAS CALENDAR
Authors: Agger Gunhild
Published: November 2024

Counting down In October or November, every TV and radio channel in Denmark announces its special version of the yearly Christmas calendar. Looking back on highlights from previous years, social media, magazines and newspapers cover the event, bringing clips, quotations, pictures and evaluations.
What is the pedagogy of Teach to Reach?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In a rural health center in Kenya, a community health worker develops an innovative approach to reaching families who have been hesitant about vaccination. Meanwhile, in a Brazilian city, a nurse has gotten everyone involved – including families and communities – onboard to integrate information about HPV vaccination into cervical cancer screening.
The critical impact of remote pilot modelling in evaluation of detect-and-avoid systems explained for ACAS Xu
Authors: Stroeve Sybert , Villanueva-Cañizares Carmelo-Javier , Dean Garfield
Published: November 2024

Detect-and-avoid (DAA) systems for remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) can provide remain well clear (RWC) guidance as well as shorter term resolution advisories (RAs) for collision avoidance, which are both provided in the vertical and horizontal planes. Simulation-based studies for large sets of encounter scenarios are used in the development and evaluation of DAA systems, which encompass safety and operational acceptability of the DAA supported operations. Given the key role of the remote pilot (RP) in responding to RWC guidance and RAs, a RP model is an essential element in such simulations. This paper describes the development of a RP model for evaluation of encounter scenarios involving the ACAS Xu DAA system. The model describes RP situation awareness (perception, comprehension, projection) as basis for decision-making, modes for responding to RAs and/or RWC guidance, response delays, response strengths, and the flight control actions. The RP model includes deterministic and stochastic settings. It is integrated in a simulation environment for encounters of manned and/or unmanned aircraft, the involved DAA and airborne collision avoidance systems, the surveillance and communication systems, and the human operators. Simulation results are provided for a set of encounters between pairs of RPAS both having ACAS Xu for various configurations of the RP model, and for cases with and without sensor errors. The results show that there can be large differences between the results of deterministic and Monte Carlo simulations, indicating that limited sensor errors can have a large impact on the nonlinear system dynamics. Furthermore it is shown that deadlock conditions can exist where the RPAS show oscillatory behaviour and do not manage to effectively pass each other, dependent on the encounter geometry and RP model settings. It is advised to perform a broad sensitively study for RP performance and to study extending the scope of DAA systems to include guidance for efficiently returning to mission without triggering new conflicts.
Roadmap for a European Open Science Alliance for ATM Research
Authors: Bolic Tatjana , Cook Andrew , Koelle Rainer , Spinielli Enrico , Goens Quinten , Strohmeier Martin
Published: November 2024

To meet the future challenges of air transport and air traffic management (ATM), higher levels of transparency and access to the underlying data will be a key enabler.
We here propose an Open Science Alliance for ATM, advocating for open data in such a framework. The benefits of adopting an open science approach are to be found, inter alia, through the independent verification and validation of reported impacts/results and achieved performance levels, i.e., through reproducibility. We consider that this can only be achieved through: (1) open access to scientific methods and data utilised; (2) open access to (analytical) code and methods; (3) open review of reported analyses/research. The proper application of such practices will reduce the innovation cycles in ATM, which is much needed by industry and society. Steps for forming an Open Science Alliance for ATM are described. We propose further initial, specific recommendations for supporting open data and improved access for research.
IDENTIDADE CULTURAL E ABORDAGENS HISTÓRICAS: O HEAVY METAL COMO VETOR DE ENSINO NA ERA DIGITAL
Authors: Rosado Ana Maria da Cunha
Published: November 2024

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar a música, especificamente o gênero Heavy Metal, como instrumento interdisciplinar para o ensino de História e mostrar como a música aproxima a população de sua história auxiliando na preservação de culturas e identidades. Em um contexto geral o ambiente digital facilita o uso da música como vetor de ensino, tanto pelo fator da globalização quanto pela facilidade de acesso que promove. Como metodologia utiliza-se de revisão bibliográfica, análise da discografia da banda Angra e de composições do gênero Heavy Metal  para dar base ao debate apresentado, além de pesquisa em mídias e redes digitais. A banda brasileira Angra desponta como foco para análise e potencial uso para ensino de História do Brasil atrelada à interdisciplinaridade junto a outras disciplinas, o debate no presente texto apresenta a riqueza cultural através de um gênero estrangeiro adaptado a nossa cultura.
O PESO DA POLÍTICA NAS LETRAS DA BANDA METALLICA
Authors: Silva de Oliveira Lucas
Published: November 2024

Formada em 1981, o Metallica é uma banda estadunidense precursora do Thrash Metal, um estilo que é caracterizado pelo seu ritmo agressivo, com guitarras distorcidas, solos rápidos, muito presente durante a década de 1980. Ao todo, eles lançaram onze álbuns de estúdio e se tornaram uma das bandas mais bem-sucedidas da história. Apesar de seu sucesso, o grupo foi envolto em polêmicas recentes acerca de sua postura “apolítica”, defendida principalmente por seu vocalista e frontman James Hetfield. Essa imagem contrata com o conteúdo de suas músicas. Nosso trabalho se concentrou na análise das letras compostas em seus álbuns lançados entre 1981 a 1991, assim como clipes lançados a partir de 2008. Identificamos que a discografia da banda está permeada de músicas com temas políticos, principalmente críticos à guerra. Tais temas eram quase onipresentes nas letras. Assim, este trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar as representações políticas na discografia do Metallica e como suas letras podem ajudar a entender o contexto político dos Estados Unidos.
JOGOS ELETRÔNICOS E NARRATIVA HISTÓRICA: COMO PARATEXTOS EM THE LAST OF US FUNCIONAM COMO MEMÓRIA?
Authors: Carvalho Vinicius Marino , Carvalho Marina Luz de
Published: November 2024

Esse artigo procura relacionar a narrativa histórica aos jogos da franquia The Last of Us utilizando-se de paratextos internos, que podem ser encontrados durante o próprio enredo do jogo, para mobilizar questões relacionadas à memória e história contemporânea. Ao mobilizar conceitos dos campos de historical game studies e memória, será possível analisar e historicizar o universo presente nos jogos da franquia. O enredo aborda questões que forçam o jogador a pensar sua relação com o tempo, fundamental ao estudo histórico. Por isso, trazer os jogos como fonte se mostra como um interessante caminho a fim de contribuir com os estudos de memória histórica na era contemporânea.
CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS: COLD WAR (2020) – A DEFESA DO “MUNDO LIVRE” FRENTE AO SOCIALISMO SOVIÉTICO
Authors: Durante Alexandre
Published: November 2024

Este artigo busca discutir como jogos eletrônicos podem representar contextos históricos, considerando sua expansão a partir das décadas de 60 e 70 nos Estados Unidos da América. O objetivo se detém em analisar as produções midiáticas e audiovisuais em jogos eletrônicos da franquia Call of Duty, mais especificamente, em Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, produzidos pela Raven Software e pela Treyarch e lançados no ano de 2020. Para tal, entende-se a importância da história política e da história cultural para realizar esta análise, buscando compreender como se dão tais representações e suas intencionalidades, já que o jogo é uma representação de um fato do passado. A Guerra Fria (1947 – 1991) foi um período marcado pela tensão mundial frente às duas grandes potências: os norte-americanos (capitalista) e os soviéticos (socialista) na busca pela consagração de seus respectivos sistemas políticos. Considerando o consumo de consoles e jogos eletrônicos, torna-se fundamental abordar e analisar as representações desse período histórico nas mídias e suas intencionalidades.
É... A NOSSA VIDA CONTINUA, E AÍ? QUEM SE IMPORTA? PÂNICO MORAL, IDENTIDADES E REPRESENTAÇÕES DE JUVENTUDES NEGRAS NA PRODUÇÃO CINEMATOGRÁFICA RACIONAIS: DAS RUAS DE SÃO PAULO PARA O MUNDO (2022), DA DIRETORA JULIANA VICENTE
Authors: Muniz Andresa Reus Santos , Massola Gisele
Published: November 2024

Diferenças entre juventudes são acentuadas em abordagens policiais quando se tratam de jovens negros. Tal truculência do Estado, em operações nas periferias, revelam efeitos do pânico moral. Assumindo a perspectiva teórica dos Estudos Culturais, significados são forjados no interior de uma determinada cultura, fornecendo ferramentas para a análise de acontecimentos que permeiam arenas culturais. Busca-se enunciar representações de juventudes negras e a denúncia das opressões na produção fílmica, do gênero documentário, Racionais: Das Ruas de São Paulo pro Mundo (2022), da diretora Juliana Vicente. Autores como: Hall (2016, 2002), Balestrin; Soares (2012) e Wortmann (2010) são centrais. A metodologia valeu-se da etnografia de tela, dando visibilidade ao lugar de fala em depoimentos e entrevistas do grupo musical de rap, Racionais MC’s. Os excertos evidenciam a promoção de discursos em torno de denúncia, protesto e resistência, expressos, sobretudo, pelas desigualdades em que vivem os jovens periféricos.
REFLEXÕES SOBRE OS POTENCIAIS COMUNICACIONAIS HEUTAGÓGICOS DO LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CHATGPT-4
Authors: Batista Carlos
Published: November 2024

Lançada em março de 2023 o ChatGPT-4 contava com aprimoramentos que o popularizaram mais, à vista disto o presente estudo propôs, utilizando-se de um levantamento bibliográfico a análise de conteúdo comparativa entre a heutagogia e o ChatGPT, o objetivo foi investigar as relações comunicacionais dos conceitos associadas às concepções algorítmicas do chat perante a hipótese que seu uso pode acarretar em dependência. As bases teóricas principais foram Hase, Kenyon, Carraro, Barros e Santaella. Como resultado observou-se a capacidade comunicacional adaptativa e bem sucedida da ferramenta. Discutiu-se sobre a questão ética e se os algoritmos são suscetíveis às “alucinações”, fora aliciamentos. Conclui-se que o seu sucesso pode potencializar práticas autodidatas incitando a compulsão de uso.
IMPLICAÇÕES DO CAPITALISMO DE VIGILÂNCIA NA CONSTITUIÇÃO DO SUJEITO
Authors: Melo Samuel Cerqueira
Published: November 2024

A arquitetura digital concebe modelos de sociabilidade e individualidade no mundo físico e on-line. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é discutir os cenários das big techs do Vale do Silício, da União Europeia e da China, que desenvolvem tecnologias a partir de seus interesses ideológicos próprios, em um movimento definido por Shoshana Zuboff (2019) como “capitalismo de vigilância”. Para isso, utilizaremos o conceito de ban-óptico de Bauman e Lyon (2013) para analisar como a materialização dessas relações produz implicações na fundação do sujeito, constituindo-o como mercadoria vendável dentro deste ecossistema, tornando-o objeto de extração de matéria-prima. Nesse contexto, presume-se que seja essencial reconsiderar as perspectivas desconexas de si mesmas, bem como valorizar o pensamento sobre quem somos e em que nos tornamos na atualidade.
DESAFIOS E POSSIBILIDADES DA PESQUISA DE REGISTROS MUSICAIS EM FORMATO DIGITAL ENQUANTO FONTES PARA O ESTUDO DA HISTÓRIA E DA MUSICOLOGIA HISTÓRICA: OBSERVAÇÕES A PARTIR DE UMA PESQUISA DE CAMPO
Authors: Lacerda Simões Duarte Fernando
Published: November 2024

O estudo das práticas musicais do passado e do presente a partir das abordagens histórica e musicológica perpassa a investigação das fontes e poderia avançar consideravelmente caso estas estivessem digitalizadas e disponíveis online. Neste trabalho busca-se compreender, a partir da pesquisa bibliográfica e da investigação de campo em quase duzentas cidades, quais os avanços no sentido da digitalização das fontes e da produção de metadados que as situem nos contextos dos acervos aos quais estão recolhidas, e quais os desafios para efetivar este avanço. Os resultados apontam para avanços pontuais em algumas entidades custodiadoras, mas grandes desafios, que variam desde a falta de reconhecimento de documentos musicográficos enquanto fontes até a escassez de recursos tecnológicos e humanos.
USO DE GAMEPLAYS COMO RECURSO AO LETRAMENTO ALGORÍTMICO
Authors: Ferreira Santana Maurício
Published: November 2024

O Akasha, dentro da cultura indiana, é o espaço que permeia tudo (SOUSSUMI, 2018). Essa expressão é utilizada no jogo de RPG (Role-Playing Game, ou Jogo de Representação de Papeis) eletrônico Genshin Impact para representar o que problematizamos nesta pesquisa como uma espécie de inteligência artificial de caráter onisciente, com uma arquitetura baseada em machine learning e algoritmos que se assemelham a chatbots.  A história específica (dentro do jogo, chamada “missão”) que envolve o Akasha é o cenário ideal para o uso da metodologia ativa de gamificação com base na utilização de gameplays como recurso lúdico para o ensino de humanidades.  Especificamente nesta pesquisa nos é cara a questão do letramento digital, em especial o letramento algorítmico, assunto restrito praticamente aos cursos voltados às ciências exatas e tecnológicas.  Discordamos desta restrição e propomos, com o recurso da gamificação, uma abordagem introdutória em sala de aula – tanto no ensino fundamental como médio e mesmo o superior, com ênfase em humanidades – que, ludicamente, através do uso de gameplays, contextualize a importância do letramento digital/algorítmico para a compreensão e identificação tanto dos usos corretos como incorretos da inteligência artificial e de seus desdobramentos como, por exemplo, a possibilidade de estudantes identificarem corretamente fake news. Nossa metodologia é exploratória-qualitativa para se chegar ao modelo de algoritmo construído em fluxograma; o arcabouço teórico tem foco nas ciências da comunicação (GUNKEL, 2017; SANTAELLA, 2013, 2023).