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Special educational needs and youth justice: How effective is the code of practice at supporting the resettlement population? A conceptual review
No full textThis paper is a conceptual evaluation of the 2014 code of practice for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The focus of the evaluation is the efficacy of the code for the youth justice population of England, with an emphasis on the resettlement cohort of young people leaving prison. The resettlement cohort has a range of complex needs, including SEND. These needs are reflected in the code of practice, which creates statutory expectations regarding SEND support for young people transitioning through resettlement. The paper uses secondary evidence to consider the efficacy of the code of practice
Unleashing economic potential: the business case for a combined film office and screen industries sector development agency in the Solent region of the UK
No full textMaking Waves Film Festival: 11th Edition
No full textMaking Waves Film Festival: 11th Edition, 23-24 Mar 2023 - Funded by BFI Film Audience Fund via Film Hub South West, featured a screening of County Lines (2019) curated by a group of young people from MOTIV8 and featuring a Q&A with the film's producer David Broder hosted by the young people
Implementation of a virtual student placement to improve the application of theory to practice
Get PDFBACKGROUND: The primary aim of undergraduate, pre-registration nursing education is to prepare students to be nurses who can apply theory to practice, with clinical placements to support the practice element of the clinical programme. However, the theory-practice gap is a longstanding problem within nurse education, as nurses continue to practise with incomplete knowledge to support their actions. PROBLEM: In April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a reduction in clinical placement capacity that affected student learning opportunities. APPROACH: Based on Miller's pyramid of learning, a virtual placement was created using evidence-based learning theories and an array of multimedia technologies with the intention of replicating real-life experiences and promoting problem-based learning. Scenarios and case studies were collated from clinical experiences and mapped against student proficiencies to produce an authentic and immersive learning environment. CONCLUSION: This innovative pedagogy provides an alternative to the placement experience while enhancing the application of theory to practice
English (Men’s) Football, Masculinity and Homophobia: From Hegemonic to Inclusive Masculinity
Get PDFEnglish men’s football has traditionally been a hostile environment for sexual minorities. Gay male footballers – or even those suspected of being gay – have been excluded, marginalised and subordinated from the game by men attempting to (re)prove and (re)establish their heteromasculine identities. Over the past two decades, however, attitudes towards homosexuality have seen a remarkable improvement across much of the Western world. Despite claims that sport – and football, in particular – is slower to adopt broader social change, and that homophobia remains an endemic social problem affecting the game, a significant body of research has documented how football is becoming increasingly acceptant and inclusive of homosexuality. In this chapter, we explore how this scholarly work has departed from previous, outdated attempts at theorising masculinities – notably Connell’s notion of hegemonic masculinity; and has, instead, employed Eric Anderson’s theoretical lens, inclusive masculinity. We discuss how inclusive masculinity has evolved into the most dominant paradigm for theorising contemporary masculinities
The Eccentric:Concentric Strength Ratio of Human Skeletal Muscle In Vivo:Meta-analysis of the Influences of Sex, Age, Joint Action, and Velocity
Get PDFFor decades, researchers have observed that eccentric (ECC) muscle strength is greater than concentric (CON) muscle strength. However, knowledge of the ECC:CON strength ratio is incomplete and might inform resistance exercise prescriptions. Our purposes were to determine the magnitude of the ECC:CON ratio of human skeletal muscle in vivo and explore if sex, age, joint actions/exercises, and movement velocity impact it. A total of 340 studies were identified through searches. It was possible to analyse 1516 ECC:CON ratios, aggregated from 12,546 individuals who made up 564 groups in 335 of the identified studies. Approximately 98% of measurements occurred on isokinetic machines. Bayesian meta-analyses were performed using log-ratios as response variables then exponentiated back to raw ratios. The overall main model estimate for the ECC:CON ratio was 1.41 (95% credible interval [CI] 1.38-1.44). The ECC:CON ratio was slightly less in men (1.38 [CI 1.34-1.41]) than women (1.47 [CI 1.43-1.51]), and greater in older adults (1.62 [CI 1.57-1.68]) than younger adults (1.39 [CI 1.36-1.42]). The ratio was similar between grouped upper-body (1.42 [CI 1.38-1.46]) and lower-body joint actions/exercises (1.40 [CI 1.37-1.44]). However, heterogeneity in the ratio existed across joint actions/exercises, with point estimates ranging from 1.32 to 2.61. The ECC:CON ratio was most greatly impacted by movement velocity, with a 0.20% increase in the ratio for every 1°/s increase in velocity. The results show that ECC muscle strength is ~ 40% greater than CON muscle strength. However, the ECC:CON ratio is greatly affected by movement velocity and to lesser extents age and sex. Differences between joint actions/exercises likely exist, but more data are needed to provide more precise estimates.</p
Power, creativity and service user involvement in social work and health and social care education
No full textJourneys through the self: pathways to leadership in third space.:Book review: Hosein, A., Rao, N. and Kinchin, I.M. (eds.) (2023) Narratives of becoming leaders in disciplinary and institutional contexts. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Get PDFPlay not tell
Get PDFIn this chapter, Roy Hanney issues a call to a form of active playfulness that promotes agency and autonomy in our learners. Drawing from research into early years development, evolutionary theory, pedagogy and philosophy, he argues that play is the primary mode through which we discover the world. He asks us to think of the university as a mind-gym, as a becoming space where transformation can occur, a space that celebrates divergent thinking and offers opportunities to practice thinking differently and embracing the novel and where impossibilities can be imagined, boundaries crossed and the world turned upside down. Importantly, he encourages us to imagine a safe place in which to take risks. Suggesting that such an approach might aid us in rethinking what universities are for and to embrace a new way of doing things
Personal protective equipment in the seafaring labour force
Get PDFIntroductionThis study on personal protective equipment in the seafaring labour force was supported by CHIRP Maritime and Nautilus International. The aim of the study was to explore seafarers’ experiences and perceptions of PPE. The research findings derive from an online self-administered questionnaire with one hundred and six seafarers. The numerical questionnaire data was analysed in SPSS and the responses to the open-ended questions were thematically coded using NVivo.FindingsThe findings revealed that problems with PPE in the seafaring industry are widespread. Over one third of respondents stated that they had experienced a problem with PPE during their most recent tour of duty. Whilst the problems were not solely experienced by female workers, female participants were significantly more likely to report that they had experienced a problem with PPE during their entire employment at sea than males (94% of female respondents and 70% of male respondents).ConclusionsThere are clear problems with PPE in the seafaring industry. In particular, PPE is provided that is not of an appropriate size for the individual utilising it. Furthermore, some items of PPE are of poor quality and more consideration needs to be given to the quality of the PPE that is provided. It is important that workers and their representatives are suitably consulted and involved in all decisions regarding PPE. There is also a need to ensure that adequate reporting systems are in place so that seafarers can report any issues they do experience with items of PPE
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