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Kate as a Pedagogical Leader: Inspiring practice improvements through block play and beyond
Get PDFObjectives:
• To lead staff training to ensure educators have knowledge and skills to confidently promote and extend children’s block play and wider play experiences.
• To raise awareness of the importance of the characteristics of effective learning (DfE, 2021) within children’s play
Countermovement jump standards in rugby league: what is a ‘good’ performance?
Get PDFThe countermovement jump (CMJ) is considered an important test in rugby league and the force platform is the recommended tool for assessing CMJ performance in this cohort. Due to inconsistent methods applied across previous studies, there is currently a lack of understanding of what constitutes a ‘good’ CMJ performance, with respect to the typical CMJ metrics that are reported for rugby league players. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to produce a scale of reference values for the jump height (JH), reactive strength index modified (RSImod) and mean (PPmean) and peak (PPpeak) propulsion power (relative to body mass) for top-level senior rugby league players competing in the global ‘forward’ and ‘back’ positional groups. One hundred and four players (55 forwards and 49 backs) from the top two tiers of English rugby league performed three CMJs on a force platform at the beginning of pre-season training. The JH, RSImod, PPmean and PPpeak were calculated using criterion methods and a scale of norm-referenced values (percentiles) was produced for each positional group. The backs outperformed the forwards for each CMJ metric reported, thus supporting the production of position-specific norm-referenced values. When each positional group was separated into quartile sub-groups, the respective JH, RSImod, PPmean and PPpeak values were mostly largely and significantly different both within and between positions. The presented scale of reference values can, therefore, be used to determine the performance standards of rugby league forwards and backs with respect to the most commonly reported CMJ-derived variables for this cohort
The impact of virtual simulation on the recognition and response to the rapidly deteriorating patient among undergraduate nursing students
No full textA major patient safety challenge is recognition and response to deteriorating patients since early warning signs are often not detected in a timely manner. Nursing students typically learn the skills for early identification through clinical placement, but clinical placements are not guaranteed to provide exposure to deteriorating patients. Nursing students require practice with emergency scenarios to develop their competency and confidence to act in this area. This study aimed to explore the impact of a virtual simulation intervention on the recognition and response to the rapidly deteriorating patient among undergraduate nursing students. A mixed methods study involving a quasi-experimental pre/post design and focus groups. The participants were third or final year undergraduate nursing students from five university sites across four countries (Canada, England, Scotland and Australia, n = 88). Students were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. The treatment group received a virtual simulation intervention and participated in a focus group. The virtual simulation intervention had a significant effect on improving nursing student knowledge and clinical self-efficacy in the recognition and response to the rapidly deteriorating patient. Students reported that the virtual simulations decreased anxiety, helped them prioritize, filled gaps in their learning, and encouraged autonomous learning within a safe 'low risk' environment. Virtual simulation is an effective strategy for improving knowledge and confidence in recognizing and responding to the rapidly deteriorating patient among undergraduate nursing students
Automated Interpretation: The Other, Better, Wiser AI
Get PDFMachine learning models often claim to predict rules by analysing large volumes of quantitative data as inputs for statistical regression. This is empirical analysis to an extreme which often risks omitting nuances and extraneous data created from hard to measure factors like human behaviours. This poster presents a peer-reviewed multi-modal method of validating large-volume lexical data using mixed qualitative analysis methods
An introduction to cyberbullying
No full textDespite cyberbullying being regarded as a new form of bullying, it is also contextualized within the broader bullying literature. This chapter will provide a review of the literature concerning cyberbullying, to offer insight into its conceptualization. The chapter will discuss the development of digital technologies and opportunities to communicate online. Then, considering this new form of bullying, the chapter discusses and explores the definitional aspect of cyberbullying, particularly addressing definitional issues when applying traditional bullying criteria. The chapter will then review unique features of cyberbullying, and how they fit in within the overall definition of bullying. Finally, the chapter will explore the different types of cyberbullying, the prevalence of cyberbullying in England and discuss the impact such involvement can have on those involved
COVID, home schooling and inequalities
Get PDFIntroduction: One major effect of the COVID-19 lockdown has been the closure of schools and the switch to home learning for most children through online or hybrid models of teaching and learning. However, questions would be asked about the quality of this model, especially in the light of recent policy moves to reduce educational differences across the country. Research Aim: The aims of this article are to draw together recent research into home schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide a theoretical explanation against a policy background with a stated aim of reducing inequalities in education.
Method: A literature review was carried out of articles that relate to the experiences of home schooling for children and families as well as more general effects of lockdown. Results: Results show clear differences in home schooling experiences in terms of resources and attitudes, and school provision. Concepts of cultural capital and cultural deprivation have been used to show how inequalities continue to persist despite recent policy aimed at reducing inequalities.
Conclusions: Home schooling has brought inequalities into sharp focus over how schools deliver home schooling and how children and families are able to take advantage of what has been provided. It indicates that a cultural shift is needed. Education has been devolved to the level of the individual and for real change to take place, a more collective approach is needed. Education has been devolved to the level of the individual and for real change to take place, a more collective approach is needed.
Keywords: levelling up, home schooling, cultural capital, cultural deprivation, material deprivation
Accelerationism: Adventures in Speed
No full textAccelerationism is a recent theoretical trend that explores how we might repurpose existing forms of technology to develop a new postcapitalist future. The focus of accelerationism on the need to invent a new future has resulted in extensive debate about the relationship of humans to technology and the limits of the human. The origin of accelerationism is traced back to the philosophy of Nietzsche, especially his emphasis on the future, on the productive role of fiction in imagining a new world, and his stress on our world as one of chaotic forces. Then, the essay explores contemporary accelerationism as a political and cultural phenomenon, a movement, suggesting the need to embrace and engage with technology and planning. While seemingly distanced from philosophy, contemporary accelerationism still explores Nietzschean themes, not least the imagination or construction of the future. Finally, we consider the future of accelerationism. Accelerationism has staked a claim to the future as a theoretical term or movement, but it has also seen a diffusion and dispersal, and in some cases abandonment of the term. In particular, the future of accelerationism has been fought out through aesthetics, which is appropriate to this claim to a vision of the future. What this mutation, dispersion, and struggle indicate are the potential limits of accelerationism as well as the critical questions it still raises
Allowing a Defence to Those Who Commit Crime Under Coercive Control
Get PDFAbused women who are coerced to commit crime have no adequate legal defence. Historically, martial coercion may have been pled, but since its repeal and lack of replacement, abused women have been left without adequate protection in the criminal justice system. Duress would seem to be the logical defence in such a situation, but its construction by the courts means that women are still left with no defence. If a woman resists the coercion to commit crime, and instead protects herself against the abuse, she will equally have no suitable defence. Parliament were presented with the opportunity to rectify this problem when passing the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, but despite the Lords’ support, proposals were rejected by the Commons. Whilst research shows that crime committed under coercive control is not an insignificant problem, the current law does not protect some of the most vulnerable from prosecution
A Holding Space
Get PDFThis writing introduces early reflections on a site dance micro project ‘A ‘Holding Space’ conducted from June to Sept 2021 in West Sussex, UK. The work was performed by dancers Natasha Margerison and Kate Welch, choreographed by Vicky Hunter and filmed and edited by Jack Leslie.
During lockdown the lack of touching and holding our loved ones was expressed as a significant loss by many. As we emerged from lockdown in the summer of 2021, individuals, friends, and families were able to touch and hug each other. However, this also required a process of adjustment to the ‘new normal’ in which proximity and touch with those outside support bubbles and family groups needed to be navigated and managed. Alongside this phenomenon, during lockdown a significant number of people discovered renewed pleasure and comfort through engagement with nature spaces and woodland sites. This practice-based research project asked:
• How might dance in outdoor nature spaces play a role in facilitating this transition and open conversations regarding touch proximity and holding / supporting one another as we navigate the new landscape together?
• How do we re-negotiate contact with fellow beings (both human and nonhuman) and respect boundaries?
• How might woodlands, trees and forests offer a holding space where we relearn how to be together- where other moving, breathing bodies are no longer fearful and to be avoided?
• How might these encounters in nature spaces encourage us to get out into the world whilst moving closer to one another and move us through a transitional space of healing as we co-create a new normal