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Who needs Arab-Jewish identity? interpellation, exclusion, and inessential solidarities
Get PDFIn Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?: Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities, Reuven Snir presents a fresh approach to the study of Arab-Jewish identity showing that singularity, not identity, has become the major war cry among Arabized Jews
Teaching Ethnography as Modern Languages Method: Legacies and Future Practices for Global Citizens
Get PDFMost modern languages degrees in the UK include a Residence Abroad component, the key aims of which are to help students acquire a greater understanding of a new language and culture and to develop research skills. While the acquisition of linguistic competences has been well documented, cultural learning on the year abroad is less well researched. This article is based on an innovative pedagogic project carried out at the University of Southampton, in which students were provided with training in ethnographic methods and digital skills prior to their year abroad. This training was designed to foreground the process of cultural encounter and learning that students go through in order to carry out their individual Year Abroad Research Projects (YARPs). The paper will present results based on our analysis of the ‘raw data’ collected by students for their individual ethnographic YARPs, as well as individual interviews, focus group discussions, and the students’ reflective blog posts. It also draws on evidence from a semester long module entitled ‘Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography’. We will highlight the main areas of successful cultural learning, and the places in which students come up against obstacles in their ethnographic encounters
Supporting young carers: Evaluation of progress towards sustainability of the Hampshire Young Carers Alliance (HYCA) collaboration
Get PDFUsing an allocation of The Big Lottery funding, HYCA commissioned the University of Winchester to undertake an independent evaluation of the work of the Alliance over the three year period from September 2016 to August 2019. The evaluation presented HYCA with an opportunity to explore their service delivery and how the individual services worked together as an alliance. The evaluation had several aims including evaluating the impact that the HYCA collaboration has made to young carers and families, the impact of the collaborative approach, an evaluation of value for money and of the progress made towards sustainability.The aim of this part of the evaluation was to focus on the progress made towards sustainability.<br/
Supporting young carers: Evaluation of the impact of the Hampshire Young Carers Alliance (HYCA) on young carers
Get PDFSummary Building on an initial qualitative study of the impact of dedicated young carer services (Phelps, 2017), this report presents the findings of a follow-up study to evaluate the impact on young carers of support they receive from those services (young carer projects). The study focused on those impacts that had been identified in the initial research phase. A questionnaire was designed and trialed which included psychometric instruments to assess young carers’ general sense of well-being, their perceived stress, the positive and negative outcomes of their caring roles, as well as questions related to other outcomes identified in the initial research phase. The outcomes of young carers being supported by the projects were measured using this questionnaire.Significance: These findings are particularly significant to the identification, assessment and engagement of young carers with support services and how these services benefit young carers.Headlines• When the young carers initially engaged with projects, over half had been caring for three or more years• Young carers reported generally positive outcomes across a range of domains after being supported by projects, but also at the start of their engagement with services• Almost a third of the young carers disengaged from their projects over the course of the study• Projects were important to young carers and enabled them to make many new friends, to have fun and to meet and talk with others• All the young carers who responded reported that they would recommend their young carer project to another young carer• There was a correlation between the number of hours of care undertaken by the young carers and how important their project was to them<br/
A Logit Model to explain Tourism Entrepreneurs’ Support for Tourism: Case Study for the island of Mauritius
Get PDFThere is growing evidence that tourism entrepreneurs not only contribute in the socio-economic development of a nation but also in the overall attractiveness of a destination. In fact, numerous studies on the topic have led researchers to conclude that local entrepreneurs are important stakeholders and their supportiveness and/or non-supportiveness has a considerable impact on overall tourism development of a nation. Mauritius, as a small beach destination, is not exempt from this phenomenon. The island, which is popular for its sea, sun and sand, is dependent on its tourism enterprises to promote local resources and sustain tourism businesses. As a result, understanding the exact factors that account for local entrepreneurs’ support and/or non-support for tourismis important, failing which it might be difficult to develop tourism in a sustainable and socially compatible manner. At present, there is a dearth of research in the field of tourism entrepreneurship in Mauritius whereas this sector continues to be an important pillar of the local tourism industry. To address this knowledge gap, the present study analyses local entrepreneurs’ support for tourism development in a specific region of Mauritius. Methodologically, the study takes place using the mixed mode. The quantitative part of the study related to the administration of questionnaires and these were followed by the development of a hypotheses meant to be tested in a logistic regression model. The qualitative data was derived from semi-structured interviews conducted withformal and informal tourism entrepreneurs. The findings culminate into a Logit Model which statistically explains the factors that account for entrepreneurs’ supportiveness towards tourism. The uniqueness of this study lies in the fact that it is the first to propose a Logit Model on local entrepreneurs’ support for tourism development. Findings derived from the study generate important information on factors motivating entrepreneurs to support tourism and are helpful to tourism planners and promoters as well as policy makers. The studywinds up with some discussions and proposes avenues for future research
Democracy on the Five Star Movement's Rousseau Platform
Get PDFThe Five Star Movement, or M5S, is a popular anti-establishment,populist political party in Italy. One of its key features is theRousseau platform, an online space designed to enable directdemocracy. Named after the eighteenth century thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it banks on the idea that the traditional state iscorrupt, while the people’s will can be more directly polled andexecuted as a governing force. However, Rousseau has also beencritiqued for defending despotism and characterised as theenemy of liberty. This paper takes a closer look at Rousseau’s‘Emile’ and ‘The Social Contract’, and points out how a criticalreading could raise questions about the platform’s true meaning.The analysis focuses specifically on the illusion of autonomouschoice and covert authoritarianism. The platform becomes apowerful tool of both preventive as well as repressive socialcontrol. As an anti-modern public sphere, it holds inherent threatsto democracy itself
The SENCO Induction Pack
No full textThe SENCO Induction Pack supports new SENCOs at the start of their journey before they complete the NASENCO qualification. It provides useful information to those working with SENCOs or who are interested in taking up the post in the future.The Leading Learning for Special Educational Needs and Disability CIC developed and trialled this Induction Pack for SENCOs, with input from experienced and new SENCOs themselves