Robert Howes
Biographic Data
| ID | 658289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Howes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Howes |
| SIGNATURE | HOWES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cape Breton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1344-5530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beliefs and engagement in an institution-wide pedagogic shift
This study addresses the attitudes of academic staff towards a large-scale pedagogic shift to Active Blended Learning (ABL). Beliefs about the shift and how it is translated into practice are explored. Four main categories are derived: ‘Active Innovators’ who believe change is positive and apply it to their academic practice; ‘Lagging Innovators’ who hold positive beliefs but fail to fully implement it; ‘Sceptical but obliging’ who hold negative …
Student Perspectives on Learning Experiences in a Higher Education Active Blended Learning Context
This article focuses on university students’ perceptions of their learning and social experiences in the context of an institution-wide pedagogic shift to Active Blended Learning (ABL). It explores students’ perceived enablers and barriers to learning in the new environment. Thematic analysis was conducted on data collected through focus groups involving 60 students. Three key categories emerged: (1) learning experiences, (2) social experiences a…
Latin America and the Marshall Plan
The conservative use of civil society in Brazil
This article reassesses the Brazilian intellectual and publicist Oliveira Vianna’s reputation as an authoritarian, arguing that he should be understood as a conservative thinker, whose main priority was to render change safe for the existing hierarchical social order. Vianna’s little-known early newspaper articles show that the First World War was a key event in his intellectual formation, raising fears of a threat to Brazil’s sovereignty and int…
Market conditions
This article charts the way that an idea originating in the United States - that homosexuals should be considered not as a marginalised minority but as a valuable niche market - was brought to Brazil by means of the glossy printed magazine, with its promise of attracting lucrative brand advertising. It examines two major titles -SuiGeneris and G Magazine - to show how the format was adapted in different ways to Brazilian conditions. This led to i…
Raising the Flag
This article describes the beginnings of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) periodical press in Brazil. Structured around Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities and Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, it shows how a marginalized group constructed a positive sense of identity and set out to change popular culture by challenging prejudice and discrimination. The analysis concentrates on the mimeograph journals circ…
Changing attitudes towards economic development and democracy in Brazil
A Seat at the Table
A Seat at the Table documents the participation of disability activists and organizations in public policy making in Canada. The authors combine studies of contemporary federal and provincial policy making with a historical perspective on the progress made by disability groups since World War I. The cases they discuss illustrate the tension between issues of human rights and personal capacities that the disability movement must deal with, but whi…
The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada
Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children's rights. What are Canada's obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian society that children's rights be met? Prompted by the gap between the promise of children's rights and the reality of their continuing denial, Katherine Cov…
Introducing a New Grade 8 Curriculum in Children's Rights
Existing research indicates that the effective implementation of new curricula depends on several variables including teachers' agreement with the goals of a new program, its impact on workload, and opportunities for professional development. The purpose of this research was to assess how far 31 grade 8 teachers implemented a new children s rights curriculum, whether the implementation of the curriculum changed their and their students' attitudes…
Concerning the Eccentricities of the Marquis of Valada
This article describes three homosexual scandals in Portugal in the 1880s, including one involving a prominent politician, the Marquis of Valada. It shows how these scandals were publicized by the cartoonist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and later served as the inspiration for two novels by Abel Botelho and Alfredo Gallis, which dealt openly with the subject of homosexuality. It describes theoretical developments in the debate among historians between …
Do Parents have Fundamental Rights
This article addresses the question of whether parents have fundamental rights in relations with their children. Against the claim that parents have fundamental rights, and in reference to the evolution of Canadian public policy and Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is argued that it is children — not parents — who have basic rights. In so far as parents have rights, they are conditional rights — not fundam…
Restraining Equality
The authors blend public policy analysis,historical research, and legal analysis as they address the contemporary financial, social, legal, and policy pressures currently experienced by human rights commissions across Canada
Human Rights Commissions in Canada
This paper addresses current tensions and initiatives respecting the manner by which provincial human rights commissions are confronting the pressures of financial restraint. It also focuses attention on theoretical debates respecting the reform or reinvention of governmental bodies. As such agencies are forced to do more with less, we can witness them engaging in an important process of institutional and administrative reconfiguration. This proc…
Public attitudes and juvenile justice in Canada
345 Public attitudes and juvenile justice in Canada KATHERINE COVELL and R. BRIAN HOWE* Children's Rights Centre, University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Canada The issue of juvenile justice in Canada has, since the 1984 enactment of the Young Offenders Act, continued to evoke antithetical responses from the general public and from professionals. Whereas professionals express concern about increased youth incarceration rates and insufficient t…
Variations in support for children's rights among Canadian youth
Variations in enforcing equality
This paper reports on a study of public funding for provincial human rights legislation and programs across Canada. In the field of human rights legislation, much has been said of legal cases but little of funding and enforcement issues. Our purpose was to identify factors responsible for different levels of human rights funding on the basis of a per capita spending comparison among the provinces. The aim was also to link our findings to the appl…
The Reputations of Human Rights Commissions in Canada
The purpose of this paper is to report on a study of the reputations of provincial human rights commissions in Canada among interested community organizations, women's groups, and minority groups. The focus of the study was on the reputations of commissions for effectiveness, responsiveness, and fairness in handling human rights complaints and implementing programmes against discrimination. The study was designed to test for an hypothesized relat…
Human rights in hard times
Do human rights suffer in hard times? Does the implementation of programs against discrimination weaken during periods of economic decline, showing rights to be a relative luxury available only in good times? This paper seeks to answer the above questions by comparing human rights developments in Canada during the hard times period of the early 1980s to ones during periods immediately before and after. The comparison shows that human rights indee…
The Evolution of Human Rights Policy in Ontario
Since the Second World War, a public policy on human rights has been put into place in Canada to control discrimination through human rights legislation and human rights commissions. This policy has changed over time, incorporating elements both of expansion in human rights protections and of restraint in the enforcement of the legislation. This study seeks to explain this change by examining the evolution of the policy in the province of Ontario…
The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada
Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children's rights. What are Canada's obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian society that children's rights be met? Prompted by the gap between the promise of children's rights and the reality of their continuing denial, Katherine Cov…
The Evolution of Human Rights Policy in Ontario
Since the Second World War, a public policy on human rights has been put into place in Canada to control discrimination through human rights legislation and human rights commissions. This policy has changed over time, incorporating elements both of expansion in human rights protections and of restraint in the enforcement of the legislation. This study seeks to explain this change by examining the evolution of the policy in the province of Ontario…
A Seat at the Table
A Seat at the Table documents the participation of disability activists and organizations in public policy making in Canada. The authors combine studies of contemporary federal and provincial policy making with a historical perspective on the progress made by disability groups since World War I. The cases they discuss illustrate the tension between issues of human rights and personal capacities that the disability movement must deal with, but whi…
Variations in support for children's rights among Canadian youth
The Reputations of Human Rights Commissions in Canada
The purpose of this paper is to report on a study of the reputations of provincial human rights commissions in Canada among interested community organizations, women's groups, and minority groups. The focus of the study was on the reputations of commissions for effectiveness, responsiveness, and fairness in handling human rights complaints and implementing programmes against discrimination. The study was designed to test for an hypothesized relat…
Concerning the Eccentricities of the Marquis of Valada
This article describes three homosexual scandals in Portugal in the 1880s, including one involving a prominent politician, the Marquis of Valada. It shows how these scandals were publicized by the cartoonist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and later served as the inspiration for two novels by Abel Botelho and Alfredo Gallis, which dealt openly with the subject of homosexuality. It describes theoretical developments in the debate among historians between …
Do Parents have Fundamental Rights
This article addresses the question of whether parents have fundamental rights in relations with their children. Against the claim that parents have fundamental rights, and in reference to the evolution of Canadian public policy and Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is argued that it is children — not parents — who have basic rights. In so far as parents have rights, they are conditional rights — not fundam…
Variations in enforcing equality
This paper reports on a study of public funding for provincial human rights legislation and programs across Canada. In the field of human rights legislation, much has been said of legal cases but little of funding and enforcement issues. Our purpose was to identify factors responsible for different levels of human rights funding on the basis of a per capita spending comparison among the provinces. The aim was also to link our findings to the appl…
Human rights in hard times
Do human rights suffer in hard times? Does the implementation of programs against discrimination weaken during periods of economic decline, showing rights to be a relative luxury available only in good times? This paper seeks to answer the above questions by comparing human rights developments in Canada during the hard times period of the early 1980s to ones during periods immediately before and after. The comparison shows that human rights indee…
The Evolution of Human Rights Policy in Ontario
Since the Second World War, a public policy on human rights has been put into place in Canada to control discrimination through human rights legislation and human rights commissions. This policy has changed over time, incorporating elements both of expansion in human rights protections and of restraint in the enforcement of the legislation. This study seeks to explain this change by examining the evolution of the policy in the province of Ontario…
Human rights in hard times
Do human rights suffer in hard times? Does the implementation of programs against discrimination weaken during periods of economic decline, showing rights to be a relative luxury available only in good times? This paper seeks to answer the above questions by comparing human rights developments in Canada during the hard times period of the early 1980s to ones during periods immediately before and after. The comparison shows that human rights indee…
The Reputations of Human Rights Commissions in Canada
The purpose of this paper is to report on a study of the reputations of provincial human rights commissions in Canada among interested community organizations, women's groups, and minority groups. The focus of the study was on the reputations of commissions for effectiveness, responsiveness, and fairness in handling human rights complaints and implementing programmes against discrimination. The study was designed to test for an hypothesized relat…
Variations in support for children's rights among Canadian youth
Variations in enforcing equality
This paper reports on a study of public funding for provincial human rights legislation and programs across Canada. In the field of human rights legislation, much has been said of legal cases but little of funding and enforcement issues. Our purpose was to identify factors responsible for different levels of human rights funding on the basis of a per capita spending comparison among the provinces. The aim was also to link our findings to the appl…
Public attitudes and juvenile justice in Canada
345 Public attitudes and juvenile justice in Canada KATHERINE COVELL and R. BRIAN HOWE* Children's Rights Centre, University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Canada The issue of juvenile justice in Canada has, since the 1984 enactment of the Young Offenders Act, continued to evoke antithetical responses from the general public and from professionals. Whereas professionals express concern about increased youth incarceration rates and insufficient t…
Human Rights Commissions in Canada
This paper addresses current tensions and initiatives respecting the manner by which provincial human rights commissions are confronting the pressures of financial restraint. It also focuses attention on theoretical debates respecting the reform or reinvention of governmental bodies. As such agencies are forced to do more with less, we can witness them engaging in an important process of institutional and administrative reconfiguration. This proc…
Restraining Equality
The authors blend public policy analysis,historical research, and legal analysis as they address the contemporary financial, social, legal, and policy pressures currently experienced by human rights commissions across Canada
Do Parents have Fundamental Rights
This article addresses the question of whether parents have fundamental rights in relations with their children. Against the claim that parents have fundamental rights, and in reference to the evolution of Canadian public policy and Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is argued that it is children — not parents — who have basic rights. In so far as parents have rights, they are conditional rights — not fundam…
A Seat at the Table
A Seat at the Table documents the participation of disability activists and organizations in public policy making in Canada. The authors combine studies of contemporary federal and provincial policy making with a historical perspective on the progress made by disability groups since World War I. The cases they discuss illustrate the tension between issues of human rights and personal capacities that the disability movement must deal with, but whi…
The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada
Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children's rights. What are Canada's obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian society that children's rights be met? Prompted by the gap between the promise of children's rights and the reality of their continuing denial, Katherine Cov…
Introducing a New Grade 8 Curriculum in Children's Rights
Existing research indicates that the effective implementation of new curricula depends on several variables including teachers' agreement with the goals of a new program, its impact on workload, and opportunities for professional development. The purpose of this research was to assess how far 31 grade 8 teachers implemented a new children s rights curriculum, whether the implementation of the curriculum changed their and their students' attitudes…
Concerning the Eccentricities of the Marquis of Valada
This article describes three homosexual scandals in Portugal in the 1880s, including one involving a prominent politician, the Marquis of Valada. It shows how these scandals were publicized by the cartoonist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and later served as the inspiration for two novels by Abel Botelho and Alfredo Gallis, which dealt openly with the subject of homosexuality. It describes theoretical developments in the debate among historians between …
Changing attitudes towards economic development and democracy in Brazil
Raising the Flag
This article describes the beginnings of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) periodical press in Brazil. Structured around Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities and Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, it shows how a marginalized group constructed a positive sense of identity and set out to change popular culture by challenging prejudice and discrimination. The analysis concentrates on the mimeograph journals circ…
The conservative use of civil society in Brazil
This article reassesses the Brazilian intellectual and publicist Oliveira Vianna’s reputation as an authoritarian, arguing that he should be understood as a conservative thinker, whose main priority was to render change safe for the existing hierarchical social order. Vianna’s little-known early newspaper articles show that the First World War was a key event in his intellectual formation, raising fears of a threat to Brazil’s sovereignty and int…
Market conditions
This article charts the way that an idea originating in the United States - that homosexuals should be considered not as a marginalised minority but as a valuable niche market - was brought to Brazil by means of the glossy printed magazine, with its promise of attracting lucrative brand advertising. It examines two major titles -SuiGeneris and G Magazine - to show how the format was adapted in different ways to Brazilian conditions. This led to i…
Student Perspectives on Learning Experiences in a Higher Education Active Blended Learning Context
This article focuses on university students’ perceptions of their learning and social experiences in the context of an institution-wide pedagogic shift to Active Blended Learning (ABL). It explores students’ perceived enablers and barriers to learning in the new environment. Thematic analysis was conducted on data collected through focus groups involving 60 students. Three key categories emerged: (1) learning experiences, (2) social experiences a…
Latin America and the Marshall Plan
Beliefs and engagement in an institution-wide pedagogic shift
This study addresses the attitudes of academic staff towards a large-scale pedagogic shift to Active Blended Learning (ABL). Beliefs about the shift and how it is translated into practice are explored. Four main categories are derived: ‘Active Innovators’ who believe change is positive and apply it to their academic practice; ‘Lagging Innovators’ who hold positive beliefs but fail to fully implement it; ‘Sceptical but obliging’ who hold negative …
Political science (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Art (3 works)