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Self-directed learning as a tool for lifelong learning: fundamental to meet the demands of our ever-changing world [blog post]
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Self-perception and psychological well-being as determinants of classroom behavior of students with and without learning disability
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Studies in the field of learning disability (LD) have repeatedly shown that majority of the LD students experience negative social comparisons, result in negative self-perception (SP), especially in the classrooms. Literature has also described that these students are more prone to develop mental health issues which may reflect in the way they behave within the classroom. Though studies have been found done separately on some of the dimensions of SP, psychological well-being (PWB), and classroom behavior (CRB) on learning disabled and their normal peers, no scientific study was found done together either in India or abroad.
Objectives:
The study aims at comparing the differences in SP, PWB, and CRB of students with and without LD. The study has also attempted to assess the relationship and influence of SP and PWB on CRB of the learning-disabled students from the schools of Kerala.
Method:
A representative sample of learning disabled (N = 225) and normal pupils (N = 260) was selected for the study. The data was collected using a scale of SP, mental health profile, and CRB inventory along with a personal information sheet. The data was analyzed using (a) independent t test (two tailed t test for significant difference between the means of independent samples), (b) computation of statistical indices like mean, percentages, and standard deviation, (c) Pearson’s product moment coefficient of correlation (r), and (d) stepwise multiple regression analysis.
Result:
Results indicated that the pupils with LD were found to show lower SP, low PWB, and exhibit poor CRB in comparison to their normal peers. It was observed that there is a significant positive relationship found among all the major variables under the study namely, SP, PWB, and CRB of the learning-disabled students in the schools of Kerala. Findings also revealed that SP and PWB has a combined effect on CRB and PWB was found to be a better predictor of CRB of the learning-disabled students.
Conclusion:
The result of the study implies the need for enhancing the SP and PWB of LD students so as to improve their CRB with the help of psychologists, special educators, teachers, and other school authorities
The naturalization of the alternatives in 1970s Britain through a 2020 XR lens
No full textThis chapter provides an analysis of the public response to hippies and alternative lifestyles in Britain in the early 1970s. I offer here a contrasting lens by looking at public performative actions in the Extinction Rebellion’s movement, XR, as the climate movement redefined itself in 2018. XR has been making alternative lifestyles more visible in the UK and has had a mixed reception in the media and public domain, from sympathy and support, all the way to (more extremely) being vilified, much like the early 1960s and 1970s alternatives. XR has a mainstream outreach—with the alternative/mainstream boundary having morphed since the 1970s into a more liberal/conservative value schism, which we have seen play out politically in the UK in recent years, through the Brexit divide (2016–2019). I am interested in examining some of the processes of ‘naturalization’ of the alternatives in British culture, by which I mean the negotiations of their status, rights and identities in relation to broader cultural forms and values. I will show that the 1970s marks a turning point in the gestation of the hippie culture into a much more diverse alternative culture, which is harder to classify. I show that the early British alternatives escaped their often-two-dimensional representation in the media by impacting their local communities. It was through alternative dwelling experiments and lifestyles that the alternatives inadvertently—and often deliberately—depicted the harmony between traditional Christian value and new postmaterial values (Tranter and Western. 2010), chiefly universalism and environmentalism—values that have been traditionally associated with the liberal left of the political spectrum. I end by reflecting on the legacy of this translation of values, when examining the Christian semiotics of protest actions in XR
Marketing virtual reality experiences… without the headset: watching, playing and fearing Anagram’s 'Goliath'
Get PDFIf the immersive sector is to capture new audiences from different corners of the cultural landscape, then gateway promotional content is needed – that is, marketing that engages those new to immersive technologies. Is it possible, however, to promote the unique pleasures that Virtual Reality (VR) offers without putting people in headsets? Exploring this question, this article outlines research that experiments with new ways of marketing VR experiences based on applying theoretical concepts to a marketing campaign for Goliath, a 2021 VR documentary produced by Anagram. The campaign tested out Baekdal’s characterisation of two ‘moments’ of a VR experience: (1) a ‘macro moment’, which is experiencing VR yourself in a headset; and (2) a ‘micro moment’, which is presenting VR to people without a headset and whom prefer watching others in a VR environment rather participating in it themselves. This article argues that audiences new to VR are more likely to be engaged by promotion for VR if it presents a ‘micro moment’ of VR based on watching other people. We outline ways that the immersive sector can produce marketing for VR that better communicates not just what a VR experience is, but also what its audiences are expected to do
Electric vehicles adoption behaviour: synthesising the technology readiness index with environmentalism values and instrumental attributes
Get PDFSince the introduction of Electric Vehicles (EVs) into the consumer market, the most important question has been how to persuade people to adopt this product. This is a very challenging mission for the industry and governments due to the nature of the product. It is a revolutionary innovation which means that it imposes major shifts in driving behaviour. The adoption rate however is slowly growing worldwide. Previous studies have shed light on the mechanism in which consumers express willingness to purchase EVs, mainly from the perspective of instrumental attributes (the perceived functional aspects of EVs) and the environmentalism values. This paper includes some behavioural traits to previous prediction models as plausible drivers to purchase EVs: Technology Readiness Index (TRI), and Desire for Unique Consumer Products (DUCP). These traits were synthesised with the aforementioned instrumental attributes and environmentalism values to offer a broad perspective on what drives the purchase intention of EVs.
This study was conducted in the UK through intercept survey, with a sample size of 336 individuals. The results suggest that TRI, manifested through innovativeness and insecurity towards technology, is a significant driver of EV purchase intention. In addition, three instrumental factors, namely driving range, convenience, and fuel costs, were found as significant predictors. Unlike previous studies that suggest EVs should be targeted towards environmentalist consumers, this study found weaker support for this claim. DUCP was also not found to be a significant factor, contrary to previous findings. The term EV in this article refers to battery-powered electric vehicle (BEV), which are fully electric vehicles with chargeable batteries
The most common behavioural biases among young adults in Bristol, UK and Istanbul
Get PDFAccording to traditional finance theories, individuals behave rationally and take financial decisions under this rationality. Contrary to traditional finance theories, behavioural finance states that individuals do not always act rationally because they are affected by emotions and feelings. Thus, behavioural finance can be defined as systematic errors that keep individuals away from rationality. The biases might cause unhelpful or even hurtful decisions. Therefore, a high level of behavioural biases might negatively affect the financial well-being of individuals. It is vital to investigate young adults’ financial behaviours as the future of the economies are influenced by their decisions. In this research, behavioural biases among young adults in Bristol, UK and Istanbul, Turkey, was examined to prevent young adults from making irrational financial decisions by identifying the most common behavioural biases. Thus, economies might be robust than today. According to result of this research, young adults have different behavioural biases depending on their culture. The most common biases among young adults in Bristol are over-optimism, anchoring, categorisation, conservatism, and the illusion of control while they are framing, cognitive dissonance, the illusion of knowledge and cue competition among young adults in Istanbul. These common behavioural biases that young adults in Bristol and Istanbul have to lead to many irrational financial decisions. It is not possible to reduce these behavioural biases by direct intervention, and for this, individuals need to be educated. Families may educate young adults about behavioural biases. After that rest of the education about behavioural biases may be given in the schools. Lastly, individuals should be informed about their behavioural biases and possible effects of these biases on their financial well-being
In conversation with the empty shelves of time: on publishing an anthology of women’s prison writing
No full textThe steep rise in the female prison population over the last three decades worldwide, as well as in the UK, has increased
the urgency for a critical concern with the experiences of women in prison, and their representations thereof in life writing and prison narratives. Scheffler (2002, p. xvi) argues that to publish women’s prison writing is to raise awareness around women’s imprisonment. Carlen and Tchaikovsky (1996, p. 211) similarly argue that in order to keep the “endemic secrecy” of the carceral machine in check, its inner workings should be opened up to the public gaze, in particular to monitor its tendencies to revert from progressive to regressive practices. In the UK, the narratives of lived experience written by women in prison are underrepresented in the cultural, academic and social spheres. Scheffler (1984, p. 65; 2002, p. xv) writes of women’s prison literature as marginal texts lost within the “marginal literature of the prison” depicting facets of women’s experience deemed too unpleasant to warrant attention. In this paper, I explore how publishing women’s prison writing in the anthology How Bleak is the Crow’s Nest, is one method of reminding society that incarcerated women exist (Scheffler, 2002, p. xxi) from the perspective of epistemic justice through the prisoner viewpoint, imprisoned women writing their lived experiences. Women’s prison writing is a rich storehouse of records, both empirical and practical, of the physical surroundings, attitudes, people and events that make an impression on the
woman as writer in prison (Scheffler, 1984, p. 65)
Touch Type
No full text“Emulation is posited in the first place in the form of a mere reflection, furtive and distant; it traverses the spaces of the universe in silence. (...) And in this duel, the two confronting figures seize upon one another. Like envelops like, which in turn surrounds the other, perhaps to be enveloped once more in a duplication which can continue ad infinitum.” - Foucault, M. The Four Similitudes, Chapter 2: The Prose of the World from The Order of Things (1970).
As we look at the screen, only the touch of our fingers on the keyboard connects our bodies. Are we emulating a non-human presence which in turn, emulates us?
'Touch Type' tries to understand the disembodied experience of communication through digital mediation. The keyboard acts as a sensual touch pad, allowing fingers to extend into letters which when touched haunt the adjacent screen. The dissociatiedness in digital communication dwells in the intra-action of the human and non-human, of presence and absence of passivity and action. This interaction creates hiccups, stutters and confused breakdowns, allowing mis/communications to splinter off
