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Classroom Teachers\u27 Approaches to Values Education: Exploring Explicit and Implicit Strategies for Teaching and Modeling Values
Full text linkAbstract This study explores the approaches Nigerian secondary school teachers in Anambra State use to teach values through explicit and implicit methods. Recognizing the need to understand how values are effectively communicated in the classroom, this research delves into the dual strategies employed by educators and their impacts on student moral development. The research used a qualitative interview study approach, which included semi-structured interviews with ten experienced secondary school teachers and a document analysis of teaching resources. This method allows one to investigate the explicit instruction and implicit modeling strategies applied in values education in depth. Findings reveal that teachers teach values using explicit methods, such as direct instruction and structured discussions, alongside implicit strategies, including behavioral modeling and manipulating the classroom environment. These approaches are strategically used to instill core values such as honesty, respect, and responsibility among students. The study highlights the effective integration of explicit and implicit methods in fostering an environment conducive to moral and ethical development. However, it also identifies challenges, such as the potential rigidity of explicit methods and the inconsistency of values transmitted through implicit means. The research underscores the need for teacher training that balances direct teaching with the subtleties of modeling behavior. Recommendations include developing policies that support a comprehensive values education framework and enhancing teacher awareness of the hidden curriculum\u27s impact. This study contributes to the broader discourse on improving values education in Nigerian schools by advocating for a holistic approach that merges structured teachings with behavioral examples
Exploring the Untapped Workforce Potential of Employees With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Hotel Industry: Where to Start
Full text linkThe hotel industry struggles with high employee turnover and labor shortages. Employing individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (EIDD) offers a solution, providing benefits such as improved loyalty, reduced turnover, and greater workplace diversity. Successful integration of EIDD requires addressing challenges like communication barriers, stigma, and the need for tailored support. Key to success are job coaches, who provide on-the-job training, support, and communication between EIDD and supervisors. They also educate coworkers to foster a more inclusive environment. Hotels should implement structured onboarding, provide reasonable accommodations, and offer socialization opportunities to ensure long-term success. Regular job coaching, performance feedback, and clear job roles promote retention. Managers can leverage job coaches to provide personalized training and create a culture of inclusion. By aligning EIDD employment with corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals and partnering with external agencies, hotels can reduce turnover, improve workforce stability, and enhance their public image
The Role of Maternal Attachment in the Relation Between Acculturative Stress and Mental Health Among Latinx Youth
Full text linkAcculturative stress is a significant psychological challenge faced by Latinx youth as they navigate cultural adaptation, often leading to negative mental health outcomes. Research has shown that acculturative stress is positively associated with major depression, anxiety, and high-risk behaviors, including delinquency and impulse control problems (Lerias et al., 2024). This study examines the role of maternal attachment as a mediator in the relation between acculturative stress and both depressive symptoms and externalizing problems among Latinx youth. The sample consisted of 281 Latinx students (ages 10-14, M = 11.4, SD = 0.95) from several Chicago Public Schools. Results indicate that acculturative stress significantly predicts youth reports of depressive symptoms, with maternal attachment partially mediating this effect (b = 2.04, 95% CI [1.13, 3.15]). However, no significant mediation was found for parent reports of externalizing behaviors (b = -0.22, 95% CI [-1.07, 0.61]). These findings underline the impact of acculturative stress on parent-child relationships and its psychological effects on the mental health of Latinx youth. The results emphasize the need for involvement of parents in programs targeting depression, anxiety, and other internalizing symptoms
The State of Wellness Amongst Title I Suburban High School Counselors
No full textThe wellness of school counselors has largely been studied through quantitative approaches that illustrate school counselors are at greater risk to experience stress and burnout compared to any other helping profession. Title I high school counselors are tasked with providing a framework of programming to meet the needs of their students while navigating complex challenges, socio-economic inequities, and organizational factors that significantly impact their own well-being. While existing literature and research studies capture the adverse effects of wellness from predominately the lens of White women within suburban educational settings. This phenomenological qualitative study seeks to fill the existing gaps in literature through an analysis of the state of wellness amongst female high school counselors of color who work in Title I high schools located in low-income suburban communities of color. The utilization of Self-Efficacy theory allows the researcher to identify the steps to address the existing factors within a Title I educational setting. School counselors and administration can proactively work to address the state of wellness while building the capacity of these individuals to function as leaders and advocates within their local school communities. This research contributes to the growing body of literature on wellness and provides recommendations for a plan of action to be constructed in order to better support school counselors working within Title I high schools
Vincent de Paul and the Reform of the Clergy
No full textVincent de Paul was an important reformer of the French Church, which faced several problems with its clergy. Liturgical practices were not standardized, and some priests lived corrupt lives. Because they received stipends for masses, they often celebrated them for that reason rather than out of piety. They tried to acquire several benefices (church offices) and dioceses at the same time to profit from them all, although this was against canon law, and these were sometimes essentially sold or hoarded by noble families. Church titles and their accompanying incomes were also auctioned off by monasteries, and these, too, were purchased by nobles. Worse, priests were “drunken and lewd,” without vocation. To combat all this, Vincent founded the Congregation to be models of priestly life, and he held the Tuesday Conferences, weekly periods of learning and reflection for clergy. He also held retreats for them, and the Congregation founded and directed seminaries to better train priests. Finally, he served on the kingdom’s Council of Conscience, helping to ensure legitimate appointments of bishops and abbots and working to combat Jansenism, which “exalt[ed] the omnipotence of God at the expense of human freedom.
Renaissance of Inequitable Conduct: Luv N\u27 Care, Ltd. v. Laurain and the Affirmative Egregious Misconduct Exception to But-For Materiality
Full text linkAccurate and scalable control-flow differential analysis on system traces
No full textDebugging and understanding system behavior pose technical challenges, often necessitating the comparison of two audited execution traces. Although provenance systems execution traces, the audited traces at most enable causal analysis within a single known execution. As a result, utilizing provenance systems differential analysis thus for debugging and reasoning is a challenging task. This thesis addresses the challenge of using provenance in debugging by developing accurate and scalable methods for differential analysis of system provenance. Our approach emphasizes the importance of knowing the application’s provenance graph structure and embedding this graph structure information within traces to conduct a precise differential analysis of system provenance. We develop algorithms that report all the differences precisely across two execution traces generated from the same application’s provenance graph structure. We dedicate our four research questions to enhance both accuracy and scalability. Namely, 1. finding the accurate places in the source code where our tool logged traces, 2. finding the loop iteration context in our traces, 3. reducing the tracing overhead, and 4. making our tool robust against distributed applications. Research questions 1 and 2 are mainly dedicated to accuracy, and 3 and 4 are dedicated to scalability. In each chapter, we show theoretically and empirically why our tool would have a more accurate differential analysis in a feasible and scalable manner. Our framework shows that current provenance systems must audit at a higher granularity to report differential analysis results accurately. We show that such overheads can be offset by statistically analyzing the application’s provenance graph structure. Finally, we outline the challenges of performing differential analysis on real distributed execution traces