Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024)

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Article ID: 420

Mystery, chaos and anxiety in the era of COVID-19 pandemic virus in Nigeria

by Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin

Forum for Anthropological Sciences, Vol.1, No.1, 2024; 15 Views, 19 PDF Downloads

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.

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Article ID: 224

Swings and slippery slopes: Reflecting on processes of higher education curriculum in the space of globalization and a pandemic

by Rob Townsend, Gerald Doyle, Sharon Sperling

Forum for Anthropological Sciences, Vol.1, No.1, 2024; 296 Views, 27 PDF Downloads

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.