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Dyslexia: recognition of needs and overcoming literacy barriers through evidence-based practices
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The voice of the child with Dr. Sharon Colilles [podcast]
No full textThroughout this episode, Shaddai Tembo is joined by Dr. Sharon Colilles, to further explore the topic of inclusive practice in the early years. In this episode, Sharon and Shaddai talk all things observation and reflection, to enable practitioners to incorporate each child’s ethnic and cultural experience in the context of the setting.
Focusing on the voice of the child and how important tuning into the child’s needs are, Shaddai asks Sharon to share her thoughts on how practitioners can learn and adapt their practise based on children’s own knowledge and language
Imagination: a child's 21st century super power. A literature review of imagination in education and learning
No full textThis article reports on the first phase of a literature review focused on the areas of imagination and
creativity in relation to children and young people, which has been set out to identify whether
academic research has been addressing the topic of imagination in education and learning. In the first
phase of this review, more than 100 sources were identified, 34 were accessible for review and 14
significant and relevant research papers published were selected for analysis. The review of the 14
articles led to the emergence of themes and sub themes. These themes we then developed into an
'Imagination Wheel', which calibrates the identified themes and demonstrates how imagination relates
and leads to dispositions and competencies. In many of the articles, imagination in education and
learning were only partially addressed. As a result, we emphasise the need to deepen the discussion
and research on the possibilities imagination can open up for children and young people, and those
supporting their learning, particularly from disadvantaged circumstances
Examining protestors rights: the retreat from Ziegler
No full textSimon Parsons explores the balance between protest freedoms and criminal convictions
Working conditions and well-being in UK social care and social work during COVID-19
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Stress and mental health are among the biggest causes of sickness absence in the UK, with the Social Work and Social Care sectors having among the highest levels of stress and mental health sickness absence of all professions in the UK. Chronically poor working conditions are known to impact employees' psychological and physiological health. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected both the mode and method of work in Social Care and Social Work. Through a series of cross-sectional online surveys, completed by a total of 4,950 UK Social Care and Social Workers, this study reports the changing working conditions and well-being of UK Social Care and Social Workers at two time points (phases) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Findings:-
All working conditions and well-being measures were found to be significantly worse during Phase 2 (November–January 2021) than Phase 1 (May–July 2020), with worse psychological well-being than the UK average in Phase 2. Furthermore, our findings indicate that in January 2021, feelings about general well-being, control at work, and working conditions predicted worsened psychological well-being.
Applications:-
Our findings highlight the importance of understanding and addressing the impact of the pandemic on the Social Care and Social Work workforce, thus highlighting that individuals, organizations, and governments need to develop mechanisms to support these employees during and beyond the pandemic
"I never want to lose a fight": masculinity, machismo and high-octane action in the 'Fast & Furious' franchise
Get PDFMultisensory processing of emotional cues predicts intrusive memories after virtual reality trauma
Get PDFResearch has shown that high trait anxiety can alter multisensory processing of threat cues (by amplifying integration of angry faces and voices); however, it remains unknown whether differences in multisensory processing play a role in the psychological response to trauma. This study examined the relationship between multisensory emotion processing and intrusive memories over seven days following exposure to an analogue trauma in a sample of 55 healthy young adults. We used an adapted version of the trauma film paradigm, where scenes showing a car accident trauma were presented using virtual reality, rather than a conventional 2D film. Multisensory processing was assessed prior to the trauma simulation using a forced choice emotion recognition paradigm with happy, sad and angry voice-only, face-only, audiovisual congruent (face and voice expressed matching emotions) and audiovisual incongruent expressions (face and voice expressed different emotions). We found that increased accuracy in recognising anger (but not happiness and sadness) in the audiovisual condition relative to the voice- and face-only conditions was associated with more intrusions following VR trauma. Despite previous results linking trait anxiety and intrusion development, no significant influence of trait anxiety on intrusion frequency was observed. Enhanced integration of threat-related information (i.e. angry faces and voices) could lead to overly threatening appraisals of stressful life events and result in greater intrusion development after trauma
We Built This City
No full textKnown for their videos that straddle the lines between tragedy and comedy, John Wood & Paul Harrison will present a large-scale installation titled ‘A film about a city’ alongside new paintings for their solo exhibition in Copenhagen.
“We’re not really into master plans,” they declare when speaking about the work that mimics the model-based planning of a city. Unlike other master plans, Wood and Harrison’s proposal was intentionally not conceived to develop beyond the presented architectural model. According to the artist duo, it is a collection of badly laid plans. The installation, which takes up the entire exhibition space at von Bartha, Copenhagen, invites the viewer to discover all these flawed or even impossible inventions and circumstances, which on closer inspection, reveal themselves. Here, long ramps lead pedestrians up to nowhere, the bus stop has no space for waiting passengers, and the penthouse in the high-rise is the only existing space in the building. All are parts of the bits and pieces between other bits and pieces that make up the work that makes up a city. In addition to the installation, We Built This City presents a series of new paintings by the duo
A systematic scoping review and textual narrative synthesis of trust amongst staff in higher education settings
Get PDFTrust is an essential underpinning foundation of effective functioning amongst all staff in higher education. However, there is limited knowledge on the ways in which trust operates, including the extent to which it exists, is recognised, can be built, or lost. This article systematically scopes the international literature on trust amongst staff in higher education institutions, the value of that literature, the research methods used, areas of research focus involved, and overall findings. A systematic scoping literature review, combining descriptive synthesis and textual narrative synthesis, was undertaken. As far as we are aware, this is the first review of this type to be undertaken on trust amongst all types of personnel in the higher education workforce. The review followed a data-based convergent synthesis design, identifying qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies in a single search, integrated throughout analysis, synthesis, and presentation. PRISMA and ENTREQ reporting guidelines were followed: 512 records were identified in two search phases (2020, 2022). Findings revealed relatively little research on trust amongst all types of staff in HE, with a surprising lack of research on trust relating to remote working during COVID. The heterogeneity of papers was striking, yet a wide variety of perspectives on trust tended to be located in single institutions or situations and provided little robust empirical evidence linked to theoretical definitions of trust. Qualitative papers were generally more thoughtful in investigating the complexity of trust. Further research on the relatively neglected but essential field of trust amongst staff in higher education is recommended