July 2020 / Feature Articles
Jaap Geerlof
Jaap GeerlofOn the last day of 2019, health officials from China reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) about a group of 41 patients with similar symptoms of an unknown type of pneumonia. The outbreak in China became world news. On January 7, 2020, Chinese authorities identified a novel coronavirus as the cause of the symptoms. Scientists believe the novel coronavirus jumped from bats to pangolins to humans at the Huan Wholesale Seafood …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Anna Frost
Anna FrostWhen COVID-19 and the subsequent quarantines broke out in the United States beginning in March 2020, the news was unsettling but not incredible. Being that I have completed years of advocacy and research for another zoonotic disease—lyme disease—it was clear to me that lyme patients have insight and tools that may inform people adjusting to this “new normal” of living in isolation and contending with a disease that may affect them, loved ones, or people in …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Tracy Cooper
Tracy Cooper“I’m no artist; I can’t even draw a stick figure!” How many students have you known who say something like this? Too often students, by the time they are graduate students, have effectively sealed off creative thinking as occurring not only solely in the realm of the fine artist but also as something they are not good at, feel insecure about, and that they do not wish to learn more about. In effect, we lose the ability to explore, …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
R. Mark Bell Toxic leadership and followership remain emerging sectors of inquiry within the overall field of leadership study. As a result of the relative paucity of research on both toxic leadership and followership, there remains a continued need for scale refinement in order to ensure valid and reliable scales are available to measure the constructs. The present study is a contribution in this vein specifically focused on refinement of Schmidt’s (2014) Toxic Leadership Scale (TLS) and Kelley’s (1992) Followership …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Melita Balas Rant
Melita Balas Rant, PhDA central regularity discovered by the neo-Piagetian school of constructive human development is that adults (like children) can further evolve in their cognitive, affective and behavioral tendencies. Second, the main tendency is an evolution towards greater complexity, to reconstruct more inclusive identities, and adopt more complex meaning-making and value systems. Third, regularity is that stage of adult development’s impact on the way people interact and form relationships. Thus we derived a premise …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
by Daryl S. Paulson, PhD
BioScience Laboratories, Inc.
Daryl S. PaulsonThe coronavirus has been on this planet for years and changes from time to time. COVID-19 is the strain of coronavirus that is causing the current pandemic. The virus’ original host was animals, but in Wuhan, China, it switched hosts to humans. The virus mutated slightly in its replication process to become the COVID-19 strain, which is formally 2019-nCoV. It is an RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus, meaning that it needs the RNA …
December 2019 / Feature Articles
Devon Almond
Devon AlmondWhen a meditation college from Mainland USA identified the most remote place in the world as an ideal location for higher education study-abroad programs, the college initially looked within for commitment from 10 of its current undergraduate students who together formed the initial cohort of an experimental semester in sustainability education. For the college that pioneered the first Sustainable Living degree in North America, the Big Island of Hawai’i would become home to a series of …
December 2019 / Feature Articles
Alexandre de Faria, Patrick Smytzek, Zsuzsanna Gaspar, and Maximilian Manderscheid
Alexandre de Faria 
Maximilian Manderscheid 
Zsusanna Gaspar
Patrick Smytzek Glossary[2]
| Socio-ecological system: | A socio-ecological system consists of ‘a bio-geo-physical’ unit and its associated social actors and institutions. Socio-ecological systems are complex and adaptive and delimited by spatial or functional boundaries surrounding particular ecosystems and their problem context. |
| Sustainability: | A dynamic equilibrium between a socio-ecological system and its environment, which enables the system to maintain itself and its |
December 2019 / Feature Articles
Robertson Work
Robertson Work More and more people are becoming aware that we live in a critical moment of human history and evolution. We are facing system-wide crises including climate chaos and ecological collapse; patriarchy and misogyny; economic and social deprivation; oligarchy and corporatocracy; racism and xenophobia; and perpetual warfare and violence. In order to save humanity and much of life on Earth, we must do what is necessary to realize a sustainable and regenerative environment, gender equality, socioeconomic justice, …
June 2019 / Feature Articles
Sue L. T. McGregor
Higher education is one of the most important arenas in which the transdisciplinary (TD) approach should be applied (Güvenen, 2016). Fortunately, educational institutions are “evolving [so they can] answer the demand for transdisciplinary skills” (Güvenen, 2016, p. 75). In concert, “educators are recognizing the vital significance of designing a transdisciplinary curriculum” (Smyth, 2017, p. 64). Indeed, it is a growing phenomenon in higher education as evidenced by several recent initiatives (see Albright, 2016; Babadi, Varaki, Khandaghi, …