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Improving assessment for work-based learning and degree apprenticeships in business through a co-designed peer review process
Get PDFInvolving students in peer review has substantial benefits for students’ learning and development and, more pragmatically, for staff workload. This paper reports on a student-led effort to co-design a peer review formative assessment task. The assessment is part of a personal development module within a higher education degree apprenticeship programme delivered via blended mode by a business school in South-East England. This case study on student-staff partnership offers a description of the process and a reflection on the impacts from both the student and staff perspective. It suggests that student co-design and peer review activities complement work-based learning, effectively bringing the prior experiences and academic skills of mature/professional students into the classroom
The student-teacher experience as a model for students as partners (SaP) and for enhancing student engagement among Japanese students
Get PDFEducation in Japan and other Asian countries advocates the traditional passive style of learning where students learn through rote memorization in a teacher-centered environment. However, this is now changing due to globalization with Japan’s Ministry of Education promoting learning strategies to involve students in the learning process actively. Many studies involving students as partners have stated that students feel more at ease when they learn with and from their peers and that working in groups makes them learn significantly better and allows them to put into practice what they have taught to others or learned from others. This case study on the Student-Teacher Experience activity aims to present the concept of students as partners to enhance active learning in Japan and its possible application in other countries and fields of study with a similar learning environment as Japan. The activity allowed students to actively engage in class and enhanced learning
La cohabitation en mixité sociale: qu’en pensent des personnes autistes ?
Get PDFMany autistic adults wish to find a stable, long-term living environment where they can live into the community. However, little research has been conducted on what autistic people want regarding housing, and even fewer are those who address the issue from the perspective of cohabitation in social diversity. What do autistic people say about cohabiting in a social mix setting? Are they interested in cohabiting with families, people of different age generations, or students? This article presents the results of an exploratory research conducted in collaboration with a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote inclusion for Autistics. A questionnaire was developed in collaboration with the community organization and autistic individuals and relatives. The voluntary sample consists of 370 people: 179 autistic participants (who completed the questionnaire either independently or with assistance) and 191 people who responded on behalf of their autistic relatives. The results show that around 4 out of 5 people are interested in living together in a social mixed residential project made up of autistic and non-autistic people. The interest in living together in a social mixed residential project varies little based on socio-demographic characteristics and independent living support or accompaniment needs. The analysis of comments offers insights into the reasons why people are interested (or not) in living together in a social mixed residential project. Considerations include the potential for mutual assistance, socializing and sharing interests, personal space, peace and quiet environment, compatibility of interests and lifestyles with roommates and neighbors, as well as the openness and knowledge of others regarding autism.L’inclusion des personnes autistes dans la communauté est un élément essentiel à considérer dans le développement de projets résidentiels qui leur sont destinés. La cohabitation en mixité sociale est une approche intéressante pour favoriser cette inclusion dans la communauté. Toutefois, peu de recherches ont été menées à ce jour sur ce que souhaitent les personnes autistes en matière de logement et d’habitation. Encore plus rares sont celles qui abordent la question sous l’angle de la cohabitation en mixité sociale. Qu’en disent les personnes autistes ? Sont-elles intéressées à cohabiter avec des familles, des personnes de différentes générations ou des personnes étudiantes ? En collaboration avec un organisme communautaire en autisme, un sondage a été réalisé (n = 370). Les résultats indiquent qu’environ 4 personnes sur 5 sont intéressées à cohabiter dans un projet résidentiel en mixité sociale composée de personnes autistes et de personnes non autistes. Cet intérêt varie peu selon les caractéristiques sociodémographiques et les besoins de soutien ou d’accompagnement à la vie autonome. L’analyse qualitative des commentaires offre des pistes pour mieux comprendre les raisons pour lesquelles les personnes sont intéressées (ou non) à cohabiter en mixité sociale. Les résultats montrent que la cohabitation en mixité sociale est un modèle qui pourrait convenir à plusieurs, mais que des défis sont craints en raison du manque de connaissance perçu de la population générale à l’égard des différentes réalités de l’autisme
Frank Ramsey\u27s Anti-Intellectualism
No full textFrank Ramsey’s philosophy, developed in the 1920s in Cambridge, was in conversation with the debates surrounding intellectualism in the early twentieth century. Ramsey made his mark on the anti-intellectualist tradition via his notion of habit. He posited that human judgments take shape through habitual processes, and he rejected the separation between the domain of reason, on one hand, and the domain of habit, on the other. Ramsey also provided the ground to explore the nature of knowledge employed in acting from habit. That ground was passed onto Margaret MacDonald who came up with the distinction between knowing that something is the case and knowing how to apply a rule (or habit), the distinction that set the stage for Gilbert Ryle’s philosophical project against intellectualism from the 1940s onward. Ramsey thus influenced Ryle’s account of knowledge through the channel of MacDonald
Marx, Automation and the Future of Work
Get PDFThe ever-increasing use of automation technologies in the manufacturing process has again raised concerns about the future of work. A considerable number of left-wing thinkers argue that, with the wave of automation, we see a dissolution of the foundations of a work-based capitalist society, and that a new society has emerged spontaneously. Marx’s studies have been referenced, more or less, in most of these analyses. Efforts to base this thesis that we are moving into a post-work society on Marx are highly speculative. In Marx’s analysis, automation and proletarianisation are two facets in the process of accumulation of capital that function together. A small number of workers and technology-intensive manufacturing in some sectors make labour-intensive production necessary in other sectors and countries. Today’s available data and trends also indicate that Marx’s analysis of automation in the context of accumulation of capital is still applicable
Can Social Dialogue be Transformational in a Socially Polarised Brazil? Labour Relations under the Third Lula Administration
Get PDFFaced with a heterogeneous governing coalition and an unstable geopolitical scenario, the new Lula government is confronting many challenges to successfully enacting the social, economic and political reforms it promised during the 2022 presidential campaign. On the labour front, the current government has already made strides in rolling back some of the most regressive policies implemented during the Temer and Bolsonaro administrations that negated the possibility of real minimum wage increases and hobbled labour inspectors combatting modern-day slave labour. However, due to conflicting class interests, it will be more difficult to revoke key elements of the regressive 2017 labour law reform, which introduced new forms of precarious contracting, restricted access to the labour justice system, and curtailed union financing. This article will present a balance to date of the tripartite efforts to build and enact a pro-worker labour relations reform. We argue that the employers’ group’s path-dependent expectations to maintain many aspects of the previous labour law reform, together with labour’s diffuse support in the legislative branch, makes a more thorough-going reform that is advantageous for workers less likely to be implemented in the current conjuncture
Far Right times in Argentina: Social and Labor Conflicts in the Beginnings of Milei’s government.
Get PDFLast November, the self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei won the presidential elections in Argentina. His triumph has deepened the economic, social and political crisis which the country has been in for several years
