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Stakeholder perceptions of physical literacy assessment in primary school children
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UNESCO [(2015). Quality Physical Education Guidelines for Policymakers. Paris: UNESCO Press.] highlighted the importance of developing physical literacy (PL) from childhood, although it remains unclear how best to evidence an individual’s PL journey. The aim of this study was to explore key stakeholders’ views of current practice, future directions and effective implementation of PL assessment, with a view to informing the development of a rigorous, authentic, and feasible PL assessment.
Methods:-
Purposive samples of children aged between 6–7 years (n = 39), 10–11 years (n = 57), primary school teachers (n = 23), and self-defined experts with an interest in PL (academics n = 13, practitioners n = 8) were recruited to take part in a series of concurrent semi-structured focus groups. Each group included a maximum of six participants, lasted on average 40 (30–90) minutes were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using deductive and inductive thematic analysis and key themes were represented by pen profiles.
Results:-
Higher order themes of (i) existing assessments, (ii) demand for PL assessment, (iii) acceptability of PL assessment, and (iv) factors related to implementation of PL assessments were identified. All stakeholders viewed the assessment of PL as important, but in line with well-established barriers within physical education (PE), assessment was not a priority in many schools, resulting in a variability in existing practice. No assessment of the affective and cognitive domains of PL was reported to be in use at participating schools. All stakeholder groups recognised the potential benefits of using technology within the assessment process. Children recognised that teachers were constantly making judgements to help them improve, and agreed that assessment could help record this, and that assessment should be differentiated for each child. Teachers widely reported that future assessment should be time-efficient, simple, and useful.
Conclusion:-
Study findings revealed a demonstrable need for a feasible PL assessment that could be effectively used in schools. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to involve these stakeholders, and triangulate data, to inform future PL assessment and practice. Findings provide an evidence base to inform the onward development of a conceptually aligned PL assessment tool, suitable for use in schools. In turn, this will enable robust, empirical evidence to be collated, to evidence theory, and inform practice and policy
Making silence matter: rethinking performance creativity as a catalysing space for sounding oneself in music education
Get PDFThis chapter critically engages with issues of how silence is manifest in musical performance creativity. Challenging the tacet perspective, the binary approach that sees silence as an absence of sound, we view silence as a material practice, a purposive performative act. The temporal intervals which separate sounds entail choices that are governed by both intention and intuition. In making these choices performers reveal their creative and authorial expressive voice. This chapter demonstrates the rich and complex relationship between silence and sound in music, drawing on examples from a broad range of cultural contexts. Two specific viewpoints are explored in detail: the conceptual perspective of John Cage and the practice-based perspective of jazz drummer John Stevens. These contrasting positions lead to a rethinking of the materiality of silence and how the body sounding oneself as a technology of performance creativity should be scripted into more responsive practices of music education
The reemergence of Yellow Peril: beliefs in the Asian health hazard stereotype predict lower psychological well-being
No full textThe anti-Asian sentiment in Canada and the U.S during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic centers on perceptions of East and Southeast Asians as “health hazards”, due to their alleged animal-eating habits, uncleanliness, and tendency to spread diseases. In a preregistered study, we demonstrated that for East and Southeast Asians in Canada and the U.S., their belief that society holds the Asian health hazard stereotype was associated with higher distress and lower life satisfaction. No differences were observed between East and Southeast Asian Americans (n = 352) and Canadians (n = 351), as well as Chinese and non-Chinese participants. Importantly, these effects were robust to pandemic- and discrimination-related stressors. We also demonstrated that Asian health hazard and perpetual foreigner stereotypes were psychometrically distinct. Overall, our findings highlight how perceptions of negative societal views, particularly those reminiscent of the Yellow Peril narrative, are uniquely associated with psychological well-being among East and Southeast Asian Americans and Canadians
Diasporic Nepali online journalism: a study of professionalism and sustainability
No full textThis chapter reports findings of a study about professionalism and sustainability potentials of online media run by members of the diaspora Nepali community. Using a systematic study of the issue, it seeks to answer two main questions related to Nepali diaspora online media: what professional standards the portals of online media follow and how they ensure standards, and how the portals sustain financially and generate revenue. Deploying the case study methodology, this chapter examines the media portals outside Nepal, exploring various issues of the diasporic media in various countries that attempt to answer the above two questions. It was found that a majority of diaspora Nepali online journalists have to go a long way to achieve professional standards, such as following the code of ethics prepared by the Press Council Nepal and the Federation of Nepali Journalists, but the news portals across different countries were not within the jurisdiction of the codes developed for Nepali journalists. Sustainability is another major issue, as earnings of media owners of Nepali diaspora cannot afford professional journalists to maintain professionalism on news portals
The magic forest [group exhibition]
No full textOver the centuries, trees and forests have been revered and feared, protected and hated, seen as a resource that can be depleted and more recently as a complex ecosystem, like that of the entire planet. The forest has inhabited our imagination since time immemorial. Among the women and men, the artists have taken a singular look at the tree and the forest, sensing their importance in the balance of the living world.
How did the artists represent the forest? What virtues, what powers, what attention did they pay to it? Based on a narrow set of works (paintings, installations, film excerpts), this is the purpose of this exhibition, which offers a strong experience and an immersion in the heart of the imagination of forests
Remedy for human rights abuses under tort and international law
No full textThis second volume examines laws relating to the civil liabilities of corporations and states in connection with torts or other breaches of international law and human rights law. It illustrates how particular legal principles or rules can be applied or developed to promote corporate accountability, with legal duties that arise under tort law or statutory law. Businesses operate within particular legal regulatory regimes and also within the framework of obligations imposed in tort law. Such laws aim to shape or constrain behaviour for the protection of others in society. There are also environmental protection laws which aim to prevent the release of noxious or hazardous substances, and occupational health and safety laws for the protection of employees. The law of negligence in tort imposes general obligations on persons to take reasonable care to prevent harm to others in circumstances where there is a duty of care. Companies, as legal persons, are required to comply with such legal obligations.
The book looks at the role of courts in upholding human rights obligations and providing a forum to resolve corporate human rights abuses issues. If the state does not regulate a specific issue of corporate human rights violations, then the court will address any lacuna in the domestic law by having recourse to (I) rules of international law; (II) general principles of international human rights law; (III) general principles of human rights law common to the major legal systems of the world; (IV) general principles of law that is in agreement with the fundamental requirements of rule of law, and the protection of human dignity and justice; and (V) the general principle of a duty of care (tort of negligence). The book will help lawyers, scholars, and students to see how corporate human rights violations can involve multiple legal principles
