{"title":"Acting Responsibly in Nepal: Some Anthropological Remarks on Women’s Experience of Pelvic Organ Prolapse","authors":"K. Dahal","doi":"10.3126/mef.v14i01.67898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mef.v14i01.67898","url":null,"abstract":"Often, it is taken for granted that individual ‘act responsibly’ in their health-related behaviour. However, while minutely observing people’s behaviours and practices that directly and indirectly affect their health and well-being, it appears that such seemingly inherent ideas and practices do not always remain valid, and we can see individuals performing at par below rationality. In this article, I examine whether this notion is an innate quality of human beings and intrinsic to individuals or is it a socially constructed phenomenon? If so, this paper interrogates and highlights, in what kinds of cultural and social contexts individuals cannot act responsibly in a way that eventually promotes their health and well-being or reduces their vulnerability to problematic health situations. This paper is based on some ethnographic information generated through multiple research studies conducted in different periods in Nepal, aiming to understand women’s lived experiences of and the health care provisions regarding uterine prolapsed in Nepal. Various forms of interactions and observations techniques were employed to generate information for these studies. Thematic analysis has been employed in the process of navigating through the qualitative information acquired through these studies.","PeriodicalId":488641,"journal":{"name":"Molung educational frontier","volume":"11 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141815914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Context-Specific Dynamics of Centrally Planned Macro Program for School Infrastructure Reform","authors":"Karna Bahadur Chongbang, Rabindra Siwakoti","doi":"10.3126/mef.v14i01.67901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mef.v14i01.67901","url":null,"abstract":"The educational program evolved at the national level manifests in a general macro program. The school infrastructure development program through the President’s Education Reform Program (PERP) is one of the centrally developed educational programs in Nepal, as the case of this research article. The objective of this article is to analyze the context dynamics of centrally evolved school infrastructure (ICT and classroom building) program installation. The primary data employed in this article were drawn from the stakeholders of three program school cases situated in Sarlahi and Rautahat districts belonging to an embedded multiple-case study design of qualitative research methodology. FGD, key informant (KI) interviews, and general observation methods were used for information elicitation. The research findings reveal that centrally developed macro program policy interacts with school system-specific micro-contexts or central policy contexts which make program policy be implemented irrespective of the prioritized need, adapted with a modified technical design responding to the school-specific resources, and practiced with diverse school leadership styles. In the lapses of coordination and commitment of the tiered governance systems, the PERP or any other macro-program policy becomes strange for the implementers. The complex interaction of school-specific systems dynamics consisting of school infrastructural needs, stakeholder involvement, established school leadership styles, and initiation of local government authority make central macro policy be enacted and adapted rather than be linearly implemented. This implies incorporating the school-specific dynamics as a core component of the education plan for the formation of pragmatic program policy to enact effectively.","PeriodicalId":488641,"journal":{"name":"Molung educational frontier","volume":"15 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141817253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}