As HE professional educators in Social Sciences, we teach a curriculum which foregrounds inequalities. This includes inequalities related to diverse social groups and differences of race, class, gender, disability sexuality, underpinned by global approaches. Learners are asked reconsider the world through critical lens with perhaps very different explanations (re)production power. paper illumin...

With the present paper, I intend to bring out key aspects of the practical dynamics that underlies insight meditation in the Theravāda tradition. I start with a brief survey of three modern day insight meditation traditions (I), followed by examining their common roots in the medieval scheme of insight knowledges (II), which in turn I trace back to the early discourses in the Pāli Nikāyas (III).

The use of animals in various fields including biomedical research, product safety testing, and education has increased for the development of medical technology, and advancement of science knowledges. According to the EU and US government statistics (http://www.usda.gov/, http://eur-lex.europa.eu), over 100 million animals, including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pig...

The discipline of international relations (IR) has often been critiqued for geo-centric parochialism with scholars increasingly engaging its colonial origins and legacies. This recent engagement underscores the necessity to unravel disrupt epistemic sites hierarchized power knowledge manifested through dichotomous categorizations like ‘primitive/civilized’, ‘rational-irrational’ ‘traditional-mo...

Social work journals are repositories of disciplinary knowledge. The recent critiques Western and anglophone dominance in knowledge production publication barriers experienced by scholars from the Global South those non-anglophone have implications for knowledges they (re)produce. lack comprehensive lists adds a further obstacle to dissemination non-dominant social knowledges. To deal with this...

INTRODUCTION Despite the impact that training in research could have in postgraduate programs, certain specific knowledge of the trainees may increase their scientific production. We described the scientific production of a pediatric residency, and evaluated its association with specific knowledges and activities. METHODS We developed a cross-sectional study, by self-administered survey to pe...