DSpace Collection:http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/734532024-03-29T11:09:57Z2024-03-29T11:09:57ZStudy on strategic planning for the sustainable and scalable integration of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) in policy and service delivery in ThailandEdet, Rowland Ekpohttp://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/790592023-10-15T07:45:19Z2023-06-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Study on strategic planning for the sustainable and scalable integration of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) in policy and service delivery in Thailand
Authors: Edet, Rowland Ekpo
Abstract: Children are at risk of being victims of violence and mistreatment, with rates assumed to be higher in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), including Thailand. The report focuses on reviewing international literature on frameworks and tools for scaling up social interventions, particularly evidence-based parenting support programs and programs to prevent violence against children, as well as best practices from High-Income Countries (HICs) and LMICs in scaling up social learning theory-based interventions, particularly parenting programs. This scoping review aimed to identify relevant literature on scaling up social interventions and public health programs. The search strategy involved searching academic databases and grey literature from
international organizations, as well as recommendations from experts. Out of 91 identified publications, 77 were deemed relevant and included in the review. The literature was coded and analyzed based on constructs, frameworks, strategies, influencing factors, new tools, and new approaches to scaling up. According to the
analysis of the review, scaling up evidence-based interventions (EBIs) is a complex process that requires careful planning and execution. There are several different frameworks and models that can be used to guide the scaling-up process. The most effective frameworks and models consider the specific context of the intervention and the target population. Scaling up EBIs can be challenging, but it is essential if we want to
improve the lives of people around the world. It was recommended that specific actions to address violence against children in Thailand should include training parents, providing support, developing programs for positive parenting, as well as diversifying approaches to mitigate risks in scaling up efforts.2023-06-01T00:00:00ZTechnology: dilemmas, ethics, and communitiesMuhammad Yasir Alihttp://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/786532023-08-19T07:54:24Z2022-12-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Technology: dilemmas, ethics, and communities
Authors: Muhammad Yasir Ali
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to develop a catalogue of technology enabled sociological transformation in areas of politics, public administration, social and power relations, both intended and inadvertent. The thesis limits its scope to the latest manifestations of the technological epoch i.e. Artificial Intelligence & ICT. The thesis progresses as a compendium of three interrelated papers. The first paper examines the power and knowledge displacements created by algorithms through literature review. The salient findings are the purported efficiency of algorithms is often a make belief because during the development process, the correctness of algorithms is judged by proximity of its predictions to a preconceived normal. Similarly, algorithms constrain social discourses within their logics instead of expanding the scope of debate by utilization of better computational capacity.
The second papers grapples with the essential normative question of justice and fairness in current climate where different permutations and combinations of human and machine agencies are increasingly hybridizing. The paper develops a taxonomy of machine agency and utilized John Rawls theory of justice to examine how conditions of fairness can be met for each hybrid technological agency. The third paper examines the role of ICT in processes of social and civil capital formation by utilizing case of Burmese civil resistance against Tatmadaw. The important findings are that ICT does evolve the repertoire of techniques both for civil activists but also expands the range of suppressive techniques available to repressive regimes.
Important takeaways are that technology is not a mere instrument of human intentionality and given its tremendous scaling capabilities, it can strategically alter the power and social relations between various groups by augmenting or curtailing the existing delicate balance. The question, therefore, what transformations we want to take place, depends on challenging the techno-optimist and techno-fatalist view points by examining the impacts of technologies.2022-12-01T00:00:00ZA study of the association of southeast Asian nations as network governancePushpanathan Sundramhttp://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/785802024-01-17T14:04:01Z2022-12-01T00:00:00ZTitle: A study of the association of southeast Asian nations as network governance
Authors: Pushpanathan Sundram
Abstract: The research aims to study the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a network governance (NG) and establish an alternative framework to understand its policymaking and performance taking into account its norms and principles (underpinnings). Mainstream international relations (IR) and western theories have partly downplayed these underpinnings and attributed ASEAN's failure to them. These theories, driven by the EU as a model for regional integration, often neglect the rationale for ASEAN's light institutionalisation by positioning institutional evolution as a solution to ASEAN's problems. The thesis, therefore, attempts to demystify the western theorisation of ASEAN. It shows that ASEAN is a functioning, legitimate and hybrid intergovernmental organisation with NG at the heart of its policymaking and tiered structures at the front with a different trajectory toward regional integration. Qualitative analysis was undertaken through structured interviews and surveys to examine one case study from each of the three ASEAN communities. Policy network theories were used for the analysis and evaluation. A significant finding of the thesis is that ASEAN operates as a NG at its centre when it mainly involves the region's strategic, political and security interests. The primary purposes are to safeguard ASEAN's centrality, regional resilience and the role of ASEAN as an honest broker in regional and international affairs. Similarly, in the economic and socio cultural communities, the objectives extend beyond wealth creation and meeting society's needs respectively to protect the primary purposes and foster mutual interdependence among member states. They enable ASEAN's relevance as a pivot in the Asia Pacific to the major powers and neighbouring countries. Regarding the role of non-state actors (NSAs) in regional integration, it is more prominent in the economic and social cultural communities and less in the political security community, where the state actors' position is dominant. Despite this, NSAs can still play a role in specific political and security areas. However, the limited role accorded to NSAs by ASEAN impedes their potential contribution to regional integration. There are prospects for dynamic policy outcomes if NSAs participate more, provided there is a convergence in the agendas and a narrowing of mutual distrust between state and non-state actors. The thesis concludes that the hybrid nature, underpinnings (norms and principles) and patterned relations among all actors must be considered when assessing ASEAN's policymaking for a more nuanced and objective evaluation of the Association's performance.2022-12-01T00:00:00ZAnalysis of chinese vocabulary ability through chinese food culture and intercultural communicative competence of chinese as a foreign language learnersXinyan Lianghttp://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/780622023-06-17T02:42:22Z2023-02-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Analysis of chinese vocabulary ability through chinese food culture and intercultural communicative competence of chinese as a foreign language learners
Authors: Xinyan Liang
Abstract: Intercultural communication competence (ICC) is essential to language learning; naturally, cultural learning is inseparable from the Chinese learning process. Chinese culture is extensive and profound, as scholars have increasingly emphasized its role in Chinese teaching. Therefore, this study combined Chinese food culture with Chinese as a foreign language teaching, which can significantly improve students' learning interests and improve intercultural communicative competence skills. This study was a mixed-method approach based on internet-mediated research (IMR) conducted online research on third-year students and teachers majoring in Chinese as a foreign language at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. There are three research objectives: (1) to overview the conceptual ideas of intercultural communicative competence and Chinese food culture; (2) to study Chinese vocabulary ability through Chinese food culture of Chinese as a foreign language learner; (3) to explore intercultural communicative competence of Chinese as a foreign language learners. The researcher designed the questionnaire and the semi-structured in-depth interview based on the theoretical concept of Byram's intercultural communicative competence. The conclusive remarks of the study indicated that CFL students' and teachers' acceptance and perception of enriching students' Chinese vocabulary ability and ICC through Chinese food culture was a positive trend. However, food culture and its changes are a complex phenomenon; due to the sample selection, research design, and other research limitations of this study, research results may get influenced.2023-02-01T00:00:00Z