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Back on track: exploring how a Further Education college re-motivates learners to re-sit previously failed qualifications at GCSE
No full textUnderachievement at GCSE level has significant effects on an individual?s life chances.Each year, around half of 16-year-olds leave school without having achieved a full level two qualification (five GCSEs at A*-C including English and maths). Many of these students enrol on a programme of study at local Further Education (FE) colleges. Recent Coalition government reforms, including Raising the Participation Age (RPA) and compulsory English and Maths study up to aged 19, have reaffirmed FE as an agent to improve students' life chances andact as a catalyst to reduce youth unemployment. FE colleges provide a 'second chance' for learners who have failed at school. This research shows students who have previously attended low-performing schools, arrive with low motivation, low levels of self-efficacy and a negative perception of education. Focus group discussions with GCSE resit students studying at FE, followed by individual interviews, revealed that school experience of unprofessional teacher-pupil relationships, a lack of discipline, inconsistently applied sanctions, a lack of academic support and prevalent low level disruption all contributed to demotivating the students. The data revealed students? experience at college was significantly different when compared to secondary school. Professional and supportive relationships with teachers, classroom management strategies leading to learner ownership and autonomy, consistently applied behaviour management practices and visible senior leadership, enabled learners to reengage in education at FE and successfully resit their GCSE qualifications
Baby was a black sheep : digit ratio (2D:4D), maternal bonding and primary and secondary psychopathy
No full textPsychopathy is generally considered to be a male adaptation. While studies have elucidated a relationship to freely circulating testosterone, less is known about the role of prenatal testosterone (PT) in the development of primary and secondary psychopathy and how this pertains to sex differences. In this study (N = 148), digit ratio (2D:4D) was used to investigate the relationship between prenatal testosterone and primary and secondary psychopathy. In addition, quality of recalled maternal bonding was measured to see if postnatal experience could affect the influence of PT on psychopathic behaviours. Low LH2D:4D predicted primary and secondary psychopathy in women. In men, low maternal care predicted primary psychopathy and high maternal protection predicted secondary psychopathy. Low maternal care also predicted primary psychopathy in women. Lower levels of maternal care and higher levels of maternal control contributed to primary psychopathy above and beyond PT. Lower levels of maternal care were also an influential factor for secondary psychopathy above and beyond PT, although higher levels of mother control were not
The cooperative movement and the education of working men and women: provision by a local society in Lincoln, England, 1861–1914
No full textIn the second half of the nineteenth century the provision of better education for working-class men and women became one of the various and broad-ranging set of preoccupations of the cooperative movement in Britain. Much early cooperation was economic, concerning alternative means of production and distribution. However, local societies also turned themselves toward other forms of societal improvement, including creating the facilities and contexts that would promote and support the education and learning of adults. The archive of the Lincoln Equitable Co-operative Industrial Society offers a rich body of source material for a microhistorical investigation of the expansion and diversification of one local cooperative up to the First World War. The members’ magazine of this local society in particular records the evolution of its purpose—economic, political, social, and cultural. This included achieving progress through various forms of educational provision—although the opportunities for men contrasted with those made available for women. This research illuminates what is a relatively underresearched area—that is, exploration of the complexities, dynamism, and phenomenology of local cooperative adult education and the significance of what it had to offer the development of the labor movement in particular places
Crying Out
No full textMack is a Grade One: Grade Ones are the best: they are the future. When he sees a Grade Three boy being attacked in the street, Mack doesn't help him. After all, Grade Threes don't matter. Then Mack starts hearing voices in his head. And the face in the mirror isn't his. What is going on?
Part of the new Fresh Shades series, this is a shorter version of the original book. The Sharp Shades stories are illustrated and have simpler language and a larger font than the original book. They are perfect for older readers who may find longer books too daunting, but who still want the excitement of a great story told with pace and style
Youth sport, ‘race’ and ethnicity
No full textIn this chapter I provide a brief overview of the background to the current understanding of how experiences of youth sport are shaped by ‘race’, racism and ethnicity. It reflects my own research interests in this area that go back almost 30 years, and my commitment to anti-racism informed by aspects of critical race theory (see Hylton & Long, 2005; Hylton, 2010). Following an attempt to bring some operational clarity of key concepts, the chapter has three further sections: an account of landmark edited collections that highlight the neglect of youth sport in studies of ethnicity and racism; a policy overview again illustrating the absence of careful and considered approaches to sport development and educational policy for minority ethnic groups; and a summary of what is known about particular contemporary themes and issues
Breast cancer as a multi-diagnosis spectrum: implications for practice and families
No full textBreast cancer (BC) in women is the second most common cancer after lung cancer. It has been estimated that in developing nations 70 % of new BC cases would be seen by 2020. Breast cancer survivorship is a complex and dynamic process that starts from the moment of diagnosis and continues until the end of one’s life. It has implications for both cancer survivors and their social networks, and medical practices. Provided the complex illness and treatment related symptoms, and patients’ psychological responses to these, breast cancer can be treated nowadays as a multi-diagnosis spectrum, and not a single medical condition. However, some symptoms need years to develop, are omitted from medical protocols, remain unknown or unaddressed. Due to the increasing number of BC survivors, the medical practice needs a readjustment to be potentially able to enhance patient compliance with treatment and quality of life. This review aims to reconcile the existing evidence on BC and to heighten awareness of healthcare professionals to the current situation, with a view of improving the health care and education of BC women and their families
Does religious education as an examination subject work to promote community cohesion? An empirical enquiry among 14- to 15-year-old adolescents in England and Wales
No full textThis study begins by examining the way in which, in both England and Wales, Religious Education has become implicated in political discussion regarding the role of education in promoting community cohesion. The relationship between taking Religious Education as an examination subject and attitude towards religious diversity (as an affective indicator of community cohesion) is then explored among 3052 14- to 15-year-old students. After controlling for contextual factors (school type and geographical location), personal factors (sex and age), psychological factors (psychoticism, neuroticism and extraversion) and religious factors (Christian affiliation, worship attendance, personal prayer and belief in God), a small but significant positive association was found between taking Religious Education as an examination subject and attitude towards religious diversity. This finding may be interpreted as supporting the view that Religious Education works to promote community cohesion, although the wider debate that the community cohesion agenda has generated among religious educators needs further exploration
Empirical theology and biblical hermeneutics : exploring lessons for discipleship from the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24: 13-35)
No full textThis study engages the scientific approach of empirical theology with the investigation and evaluation of the reader perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics rooted in psychological type theory. By engaging participants attending the 2015 annual conference of the Institution for Socio-Biblical Studies, this empirical investigation tests whether individual psychological type preferences influence how academically-trained scholars within the field of biblical studies read, interpret and proclaim scripture. Eleven participants were invited in type-alike groups to engage in a conversation between the Lucan post-resurrection narrative concerning the Road to Emmaus journey and encounter and the contemporary theme of discipleship. The data clearly demonstrated how the distinctive voices of sensing, intuition, feeling, and thinking emerged from the ways in which academically-trained biblical scholars managed the exercise
Robert Grosseteste on transcendentals
No full textIn 1996 Jan Aertesen stated that the core of Medieval Philosophy – starting from the Summa de Bono (c. 1225) by Philip the Chancellor – is the doctrine of the transcendentals. This chapter will verify if Grosseteste belonged to the tradition of transcendental thought. After a brief discussion of Aertsen’s thesis, it will focus on some elements of the transcendental theory before and during Grosseteste’s time. In particular it will trace the elements of this doctrine in the twelfth century then those in the first treatises on transcendentals in the thirteenth century. We will then outline five features of the transcendental theory before we discuss Grosseteste’s elaboration of those five characteristics. That is the list of the transcendentals, the introduction of ‘truth’ among them in the thirteenth century, the analogical nature of transcendental names, the primacy of ‘good’ among them and finally considerations about the differences among the transcendentals. This chapter concludes that even though Grosseteste did not develop a systematic account of transcendentals, he did however possess the core ideas of it courtesy of his Neoplatonic sources