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Renewing Steiner Teacher Education: A Conversation With Florian Osswald
(Other Business, 2021)This article contains an interview between the author and Florian Osswald, one of the co-leaders of the Steiner education movement worldwide, held at the end of the four-day Asian Steiner Teacher Educators’ Conference in ... -
The Ugly Truth About Social Welfare Payments and Households' Subjective Well-being
(Global Labor Organization, 2021)Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate ... -
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-being Data From Twitter. Evidence From Ten Countries
(EconStor - Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2021)In this article we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being ... -
Education for Freedom for All? The Relevance of Contemporary Theory to Steiner Education
(Research on Steiner Education (RoSE), 2021)This article considers three current approaches to education for social justice: culturally responsive pedagogy, critical pedagogy and decolonisation. It is informed by the work of Gloria Ladson-Billings, Paulo Freire, ... -
Fine-dining in Prisons: Online Tripadvisor Reviews of The Clink Training Restaurants
(Elsevier, 2021)This study evaluated customer reviews about The Clink restaurants to understand how they are rated and what experience is gained by fine dining in a prison. The Clink Charity runs training restaurants in four U.K. prisons ... -
Developing Marine Ecotourism for a Sustainable Blue Economy: A Literature Review
(Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge., 2021)Overview Before Covid-19, tourism contributed 9.8% GDP, $40.9 billion and 14.4% national employment (StatsNZ, 2019). While Covid-19 has diminished the country’s most valuable export sector (tourism), it is also a catalyst ... -
To Dine, or Not to Dine on a Cruise Ship in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Tripartite Approach Towards an Understanding of Behavioral Intentions Among Female Passengers
(MDPI AG, 2021)Given that cruise line companies are rushing to restart their operations with modified dining services, the aim of this research is to establish a conceptual framework that precisely outlines female passengers’ behavioral ... -
Wildlife Tourism Resources Development: A Case Study of Beijing Wildlife Park
(Faculty of Management Studies, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2021)In this era of mass tourism, and to create social and financial benefits, it is useful to clarify the positive and negative aspects of animal tourism resources. Following the principles of environmental protection, public ... -
Preschoolers' and Adults' Animism Tendencies Toward a Humanoid Robot
(Elsevier, 2021)This study examined whether three- and five-year-old children and adults changed their perceptions of a robot after a naturalistic interaction with it. We examined whether participants exhibited animism errors (i.e., ... -
Understanding Domestic Tourists to Support COVID-19 Recovery Strategies – The Case of Aotearoa New Zealand
(UCSI University (Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management) and Sarawak Research Society, Supported by Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture (MTAC) Sarawak and RCE (Regional Centre of Expertise) Kuching, 2021)With international tourism at a standstill and domestic tourism being decisive in post-COVID-19 recovery strategies, tourism destinations need to turn their lenses more inwardly again. Pre-COVID-19 destination marketing ... -
Lived Spirituality: Exploring the Richness of Inner Work
(2020)This article investigates and documents inner processes which underlie and support my professional life – a livingeduational- theory based on what I term 'lived spirituality'. Influenced strongly by the work of Rudolf ... -
Flight, Climate Change, and Dangerous Times for Art and Pedagogy
(Brill, 2020)In his last book Chaosmosis, Felix Guattari (1995, p. 129) argues that both “intellectuals and artists have got nothing to teach anyone,” and that they produce “toolkits composed of concepts, percepts and affects, which ... -
Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temple?
(MDPI AG, 2020)This exploratory ethnographic study aims to understand the visitation experience and to identify health hazards at pilgrimage sites in India. Specifically, this research aims to assess the tourism potential of holy Hindu ... -
Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
(MDPI, 2020)The current COVID-19 pandemic has evolved to unprecedented proportions. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological e ects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ship employees stuck at sea. Using ... -
Social Network Sites, Fear of Missing Out, and Psychosocial Correlates
(Masaryk University, 2020)The use of Social Network Sites (SNSs) has grown to become a ubiquitous aspect of daily life in developed countries throughout the world. This rise of social media has resulted in increased public concern regarding the way ... -
Review: Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination, Therèsa Winge (Bloomsbury 2018)
(Iris Publishers, 2020)No abstract. -
Covid-19’s Impact on the Hospitality Workforce – New Crisis or Amplification of the Norm?
(Emerald, 2020)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hospitality workforce in situ between mid-April and June 2020. Design/methodology/approach This is a viewpoint ... -
Beyond Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning: An Attempt with SVM
(The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020)A big challenge in continual learning is avoiding catastrophically forgetting previously learned tasks. The possibility of improving existing knowledge whilst integrating new information has been much less explored. In ... -
Media Images and the Gendered Representation of Chefs
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Images portrayed in online media may influence societal perceptions of chefs, with the potential to perpetuate gender segregation in the professional kitchen. Little scholarly attention in previous research has been given ...