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Integrating assessment effectively into international fieldwork: a case study using student-led teaching and learning
No full textAssessing international fieldwork provides a series of challenges and opportunities that frames the student experience. In this case study students are presented with a task to deliver an assessed presentation and an activity based on a research topic of their choice to their peers in situ. Students are assessed and gain formative and summative feedback through multiple stages of the fieldtrip module from an initial group project proposal, a group presentation, an individual fieldwork diary, a reflective essay on their student-led experience, and an essay based on an overarching research theme. The chapter reveals that assessment and feedback are inextricably linked with one stage of the process informing another. Direct experiences of being on fieldwork stimulates the affective domain, with resulting emotional responses and behavior influencing performance (in assessment) and participation in students’ communities of learning (including group dynamics). This highlights the importance and role of (self-)reflection in assessment. Further consideration is made to adapt the approach to assessing international fieldwork at other levels and scales of geographical education
High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues
No full textBackground:-
Emotion perception is essential to human interaction and relies on effective integration of emotional cues across sensory modalities. Despite initial evidence for anxiety-related biases in multisensory processing of emotional information, there is no research to date that directly addresses whether the mechanism of multisensory integration is altered by anxiety. Here, we compared audiovisual integration of emotional cues between individuals with low vs. high trait anxiety.
Methods:-
Participants were 62 young adults who were assessed on their ability to quickly and accurately identify happy, angry and sad emotions from dynamic visual-only, audio-only and audiovisual face and voice displays.
Results:-
The results revealed that individuals in the high anxiety group were more likely to integrate angry faces and voices in a statistically optimal fashion, as predicted by the Maximum Likelihood Estimation model, compared to low anxiety individuals. This means that high anxiety individuals achieved higher precision in correctly recognising anger from angry audiovisual stimuli compared to angry face or voice-only stimuli, and compared to low anxiety individuals.
Limitations:-
We tested a higher proportion of females, and although this does reflect the higher prevalence of clinical anxiety among females in the general population, potential sex differences in multisensory mechanisms due to anxiety should be examined in future studies.
Conclusions:-
Individuals with high trait anxiety have multisensory mechanisms that are especially fine-tuned for processing threat-related emotions. This bias may exhaust capacity for processing of other emotional stimuli and lead to overly negative evaluations of social interactions
Understanding the role of nutrition in preventing non-communicable diseases and supporting planetary health
Get PDFObesity is a multifaceted, long-term condition associated with a range of serious consequences, including an increased risk of non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. This article discusses the multiple factors that can influence an individual’s dietary choices. It describes the different effects of diet on metabolism and the gut microbiome between individuals, and explains the benefits of a personalised approach to nutrition. The article also identifies foods that nurses and other healthcare professionals can promote to patients and service users that reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases and can support planetary health
School Without Walls
Get PDFHouse of Imagination works with educators, artists and creative professionals to develop a creative approach to learning and researching experimental sites for pedagogical innovation. In our partnership work, our creative methodology, with everyone an artist, drives the ambition for artistic excellence. House of Imagination’s signature project ‘School Without Walls’, in partnership with the egg theatre Bath, manifests this approach. School Without Walls is a radical creative learning approach that challenges current orthodoxies and informs a shift in the culture of learning, placing children’s agency and engagement in the arts at the heart of the process. School Without Walls offers a creative enquiry-based approach to learning, reconceptualising the whole curriculum with the city as a campus for learning. The experience of co-designing the whole curriculum prioritises children’s agency in learning. In particular St Andrew’s Primary School’s Connected Curriculum engages children and educators in creative and reflective practice and a curriculum approach that places agency and dynamic relationships at the centre
Nurturing self-regulation in early childhood: adopting an ethos and approach
No full textThis book explores how young children develop self-regulation and offers practical guidance on helping them to manage their feelings and behaviour. It considers the skills, attitudes and dispositions children need to be able to self-regulate and how their wellbeing and self-esteem can affect their ability to do this. Grimmer and Geens show how schools and settings can adopt an ethos where self-regulation permeates their whole provision
Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence in Schools in England. Research for Our Shared World
No full textThis report has been produced by Douglas Bourn, Director of Development Education Research Centre at UCL and Jenny Hatley from Bath Spa University, on behalf of the Our Shared World Coalition of organisations. The focus of Our Shared World is to lobby UK government and other policymakers on why Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals should be an integral component of all children and young people’s learning. This report has been commissioned by the network to gather evidence of the extent to which the themes of Target 4.7 of the Goals are already reflected within schools in England, and aims to demonstrate current levels of engagement in these themes, how they are being delivered, areas of success, identifiable gaps and what the priorities for policymakers should be in the future
Disrupted histories, recovered pasts: an introduction
No full textThis introductory paper outlines the conceptual framework and case studies comprising the research project 'Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts'. Our project proposes a cross-disciplinary analysis and cross-case synthesis of experience and memory in post-conflict and postcolonial contexts. In the post- conflict and colonial contexts of our cases, we see “disruption” as present in three senses: as the productive ways in which multiple experiences retrieved through oral histories may refract and revise historical analysis; as the happening histories of objectively disruptive events break the flow of individual and collective experience; and as a strategy for cross-disciplinary research to disrupt and democratise conventional understanding by drawing attention to occluded experiences. We also articulate “recovery” as polysemic: invoking retrieval of past experiences and the possibility for enhanced well-being through voicing memories that may have been suppressed, as well as attending to mismatches with public discourses about displaced groups and individual experience. Following an introduction to our conceptual approach, we summarise our case-research. We have conducted oral history and archival research in multiple contexts, from disciplinary bases in anthropology and history. Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). Our case research is complemented in the concluding paper of this Special Issue by systematic cross-case engagement, synthesis and theorisation of our case-study research
Decreasing wellbeing and increasing use of negative coping strategies: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK health and social care workforce
Get PDFMany health and social care (HSC) professionals have faced overwhelming pressures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As the current situation is constantly changing, and some restrictions across the UK countries such as social distancing and mask wearing in this period (May–July 2021) began to ease, it is important to examine how this workforce has been affected and how employers can help rebuild their services. The aim of this study was to compare cross-sectional data collected from the HSC workforce in the UK at three time points during the COVID-19 pan-demic: Phase 1 (May–July 2020), Phase 2 (November 2020–January 2021) and Phase 3 (May–July 2021). Respondents surveyed across the UK (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) con-sisted of nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, social care workers and social workers. Wellbeing and work-related quality of life significantly declined from Phase 1 to 3 (p 0.05). Respondents in-creasingly used negative coping strategies between Phase 1 (May–July 2020) and Phase 3 (May–July 2021), suggesting that the HSC workforce has been negatively impacted by the pandemic. These results have the potential to inform HSC employers’ policies, practices, and interventions as the workforce continues to respond to the COVID-19 virus and its legacy
Early Science research summary: use of play and role of the adult
No full textShort and accessible summary of recent research into science in the early years
From folklore to crime fiction: balancing fantasy and realism in 'The replacement'
No full textThis practice-based research comprises a novel, 'The Replacement', and a critical reflection of my process and influences. Together, these two strands explore the question of how to balance supernaturalism with realism in a contemporary thriller that has its origins in a folk tale. 'The Replacement' is an adaptation of "The Mermaid Wife", a Selkie tale from the isle of Unst. My research reflects upon my artistic process, which works by extrapolating from the not-said; that is to say, by finding chinks in the perspective and narration of the original tale. These gaps in the margins of original tales are often critical in revealing what I want to make explicit in my own fiction. While this thesis concentrates on 'The Replacement', which will be my second published novel, it also examines my early exploration of the tension between the supernatural and the realist in my first novel, 'Little Darlings'. Moreover, the latter is also a reworking of a folk tale.
The contextualising thesis is presented broadly in three parts. Part I looks at the origins of the folktale and how I use my novels to interrogate and intervene in the gender politics of the original material. Part II examines how I respond to editorial feedback when navigating between the supernatural and realist elements of my story. In particular, I explore the challenges I faced in avoiding undue ambiguity while refusing to privilege either explanation for the events that take place in the story. Part III delves more deeply into the interface between a novelist and the publishing industry during the creative process. It comprises a close examination of the process of choosing a title, and in so doing, it reflects upon the transformational impact of the collaboration between the writer and the publicity, sales and marketing departments