https://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/FASS/issue/feed 2024-06-05T01:37:37+00:00 Open Journal Systems <em><strong>Forum for Anthropological Sciences</strong></em> (FASS) is a scholarly open-access journal that provides a platform for scientists to discuss anthropological perspectives and research. The journal welcomes theoretical explorations based on empirical evidence, local instantiations, and ethnographic studies. It also covers issues related to theoretical paradigms, methodological approaches, and interdisciplinary connections. <em><strong>FASS</strong></em> publishes reviews, original research papers, communications, and short notes, with no restriction on the maximum length of the papers.<br /><br />Currently,<em><strong> FASS</strong></em> is running a Section Collection Project that aims to gather relevant manuscripts from various research areas. The topics include Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Physical Anthropology and Human Genetics, Archaeological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology, Gender Studies and Feminism in Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Anthropological Studies, Ethnography and Field Methods, and Anthropological Theory. It is an excellent opportunity for researchers to showcase their work and contribute to the advancement of anthropological sciences. https://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/FASS/article/view/420 2024-06-03T06:40:31+00:00 Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin egbadegesin@gmail.com

<p>This paper argues that the modern world is living in a period of chaos, anxiety, and tremor, which could be regarded as an era of pandemonium tremendum, a term that fits appropriately to describe the deadly omnipresent and omnipotent virus that has continued to wreak havoc from global north to the global south. This paper uses socio-ethical and content analytical methods of enquiry to identify the immediate cause and incidence of COVID-19 since its eruption in December 2019; examine the adverse effects of this deadly virus on the private and public, sacred and secular spheres; analyze all manners of both sacred and secular responses and efforts geared towards the containment of the deadly virus by the different nations of the world and Nigeria in particular since its upsurge and evaluate the success rates so far recorded by the Nigerian government.</p>

2024-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin https://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/FASS/article/view/224 2024-06-05T01:37:37+00:00 Rob Townsend rob62townsend@gmail.com Gerald Doyle rob.townsend@laurushe.com.au Sharon Sperling rob.townsend@laurushe.com.au

<p>The Asia-Pacific is the most expansive region for social services and health care, ranging from New Zealand in the south to the border of the Russian Federation in the north. Professional education in human services, social work, and allied health is rapidly expanding in this region and globally as the power and influence around these professions ‘swings’ between different countries in the region. The globalization of social and health care issues is challenging professional higher education and accreditation processes to adjust to producing education graduates who are global professionals, multi-lingual, culturally responsive, and able to work in diverse community contexts and within the ‘slippery slopes’ of social and economic change. This article explores the development of a new social work curriculum and course for an international higher education provider that was implemented in 2022 that aims to meet the challenges of intercultural learning and skills development for the new plural lingual and fragmented global contexts. The ethnographic study reveals that education organizations and educators can advocate for, and develop globalized, internationalized social work and social care curricula in this unsteady context when supported to do so by regulatory authorities.</p>

2024-06-05T01:37:36+00:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Rob Townsend, Gerald Doyle, Sharon Sperling