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Teaching Global Development: Practical Approaches for Inclusive, Critical, and Decolonized Pedagogy.
(Bloomsbury Publishing., 2026-05-25) Elisheva Cohen; John-Michael Davis; Ruth Murumba; Мary Jane Parmntier; Marylynn Steckley
The first volume of its kind, Teaching Global Development offers a unique open access collection of current approaches to teaching development in ways that foreground core ethical issues. Hailing from a range of disciplines and from across the world, the contributors gathered here describe what global development means in their context, offer strategies for more ethical syllabi, describe innovative ways to explore equity and diversity through readings and activities, and provide detailed case studies of GDS-related programs. Throughout, these chapters showcase new and innovative approaches to service learning, lesson plans, and activities that demonstrate what critical, decolonized, DEI-sensitive
knowledge actually looks like. For its topical breadth, theoretical sophistication, and uniquely concrete examples and suggestions, this book is a must-read for scholars, instructors, and students interested in the ethics not only of global development, but also of curriculum-setting and pedagogy more broadly. The ebook editions of this book are available open accessunder a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on Bloomsbury collections. com. Open access was funded by Indiana University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Food Security and Safety: The Role of Knowledge Coproduction and Sustainable Food Production in Africa. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2026-05-25) Olugbenga Samuel Falase; Alexis Beyuo; Ruth N. Murumba
Food insecurity remains a scar on the conscience of humanity given that approximately one billion people on earth suffer from malnutrition and hunger with Africa bearing this brunt. The myriad challenges associated with attaining food security have been the impetus for formulating Goal 2 of the UN SDGs. In keeping with the desired goal of zero hunger by 2030, the need to both support and enlist the expertise of small-scale farmers in knowledge coproduction is paramount. This chapter examines avenues for knowledge coproduction between small-scale food crop growers and agro-technocrats for sustainable food production in Africa by curating and synthesizing relevant tertiary literature from online repositories. Findings show that food security is hindered by government policy support for cash crop production to the neglect of perishable food crops. Other challenges identified were prevalence of pests, postharvest losses and lack of access to land given that landless farmers had to give two-thirds of their harvest to landlords. The chapter therefore recommends instilling knowledge coproduction among agro-technocrats and recalibrating land laws in favor of the food-poor in the study areas.
Investing in Social Innovation For Sustainability: Identifying the Causal Effects in Pharmaceutical Distributors Targeting Informal Settlement Areas in Nairobi City, Kenya
(Pac University, 2026-05-23) Naomi M. Gaitho, Doctoral Fellow in Organizational Leadership, PAC University, Kenya, James M. Kilika, PhD, Nancy Muriuki, PhD,
This study reports empirical findings of a survey conducted among pharmaceutical distributors serving informal settlement areas in Nairobi city county. The pharmaceutical distributors face several challenges when serving these areas calling the management of the distributors to resort to social innovation as a viable strategy for business survival. The concern however is how sustainable such a strategy is to the survival of the business undertaken by the pharmaceutical distributors. The study was guided by the postulates of the Three Cycle and Tripple Bottom Line models to answer three objectives that sought to address how social innovation has been adopted, the level of sustainability attained as well as the effect of the level of social innovation
on the level of sustainability attained. The study drew its population from 30 pharmaceutical distributors targeting informal settlement areas in Nairobi and obtained primary data from managers heading 7 key departments in each distributor. The study was responded to by 168 managers from 30 pharmaceuticals representing 80.4% response rate. Two components of social innovation, namely promoting social values and community empowerment were extracted through Exploratory Factor Analysis and were found to be practiced to a moderate extent (M=3.6; SD=1.36) and contributed to high level of sustainability (M=3.808; S.D=1.025). A path analysis constructed using structural equation modelling indicated that the two components of
Social innovation have varying degrees of contribution to the three pillars of sustainability (planet, people & profit) with the highest being that on people (R2=4.03) and the least on profit(R2=3.46). Overall social innovation has a negative effect on sustainability (β=-0.13; p<0.05). The findings provide useful insights on the role of social innovation as a viable strategy for the sustainability of the pharmaceutical industry and makes suggestions on how it can be deployed to enhance sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry. The findings raise important implications on the relevance of the Three Cycle and Triple Bottom Line Models in explaining the role of social innovation in attaining the goal of sustainability in organizations.
MDV606 SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 1
(Pac University, 2026-05-23) Pac University
MDV506 EARLY CHURCH HISTORY AND REFORMATION
(Pac University, 2026-05-21) Pac University