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This is my truth, tell me yours. Positioning children as authors of knowledge through facilitation of narratives in dialogic interactions
Get PDFThe article discusses data from educational workshops in English and Italian classrooms, in the context of an research project funded by the European Union. The research promoted children’s work on personal memories and the dialogical exchange in the classroom of narratives related to memories. Facilitation was utilised to foster children’s contributions to interactions, empowering children epistemic status as authors of valid knowledge to create favourable conditions for dialogue in the classroom. The article discusses a facilitative action that impacted on the promotion of children’s narratives: facilitators’ comments on narratives. Facilitators’ comments take form as: 1) personal stories; 2) displacements. Both types of comments proved particularly effective in supporting children’s agency as authorship of narratives during workshops as a component of dialogic learning
The pivotal role of student assessment in work-integrated learning
Get PDFWork-integrated learning (WIL) is proliferating in university courses across many countries. Like many educational practices, students’ experience of it is shaped by the assessment processes adopted. Does assessment support or inhibit what WIL seeks to foster? To explore how students experience assessment in WIL, a small-scale investigation was undertaken across faculties in a UK university. Students who had recently undertaken WIL in contexts where it was either tightly coupled or loosely coupled to their programme of study undertook a drawing-stimulated interview about their placement and the role of assessment within it. A thematic analysis was used to discern key themes in student responses. Key issues identified were the importance of assessment in scaffolding learning, the multiple roles of university and workplace staff in assessment, the extent to which assessment practices promote students seeing themselves as becoming practitioners and the reflexive effects of assessment on learning. The paper discusses the implications of these issues for the design of WIL activities
Meta-informational cue inconsistency and judgment of information accuracy: Spotlight on intelligence analysis
Get PDFMeta-information is information about information that can be used as cues to guide judgments and decisions. Three types of meta-information that are routinely used in intelligence analysis are source reliability, information credibility and classification level. The first two cues are intended to speak to information quality (in particular, the probability that the information is accurate), and classification level is intended to describe the information’s security sensitivity. Two experiments involving professional intelligence analysts (N = 25 and 27, respectively) manipulated meta-information in a 6 (source reliability) by 6 (information credibility) by 2 (classification) repeated-measures design. Ten additional items were retested to measure intra-individual reliability. Analysts judged the probability of information accuracy based on its meta-informational profile. In both experiments, the judged probability of information accuracy was sensitive to ordinal position on the scales and the directionality of linguistic terms used to anchor the levels of the two scales. Directionality led analysts to group the first three levels of each scale in a positive group and the fourth and fifth levels in a negative group, with the neutral term “cannot be judged” falling between these groups. Critically, as reliability and credibility cue inconsistency increased, there was a corresponding decrease in intra-analyst reliability, inter-analyst agreement, and effective cue utilization. Neither experiment found a significant effect of classification on probability judgments
Margaret Wolpe: The curious maker
No full textThis book is a celebration of the little known artistic life of Margaret Wolpe, the wife of Berthold Wolpe the famous graphic artist and typographer, best known for his Faber & Faber book designs, ‘at least 1,500 jackets, probably hundreds more’ and the design of the typeface Albertus. This book paints a picture of Margaret’s considerable talents as a sculptor, artist, jewellery maker, costume designer, wood engraver and illustrator, whilst bringing up a family of four. Berthold and Margaret travelled far and wide, always on the lookout, in an era of mass production, for the original, the handmade and the quirky. She never signed her pieces, personal acclaim was irrelevant; what mattered was beauty and suitability, and she was as happy painting a portrait for a friend as making a silver teaspoon. The structure of this book is the same as that of its companion volume Berthold Wolpe: The Total Man, with anecdotes from family and friends. Rather than matching the text point by point, the photographs are arranged to tell the stories of Margaret’s art in different media. Berthold died in 1989, but Margaret continued to be productive, carving, repairing picture frames and furniture, until the very end of her life, in 2006
Finding Freire: Punk, praxis and the quest for spirituality in Krishnacore
Get PDFBuilding upon earlier research, this paper unpacks the complex relationship between punk and Krishna Consciousness, in this instance through the lens of Paulo Freire’s notion of praxis. Here, the intersection between punk, the Hare Krishna movement and the corresponding relationship between auto-didacticism and spirituality are examined as a means of interrogating subcultural participation and the hegemonic dominance of the anti-religious sentiment within punk. Freire’s approach is examined within the context of this relationship, specifically regarding the inquisi-tiveness of the individual as they begin the process of engaging with Krishna Consciousness and spirituality, especially from the standpoint of punk. The importance here lies in the learning pro-cess being in a state of flux, where the continual re-creation of knowledge and inquiry becomes a means of consolidating the dialectical relationship between the self and the world around it. Here, punk becomes a valuable space in which to discover new ideas, a means of developing an aesthetic and subcultural/religious/spiritual membership within a framework of auto-didacticism; of illu-minating the dialectical, hermeneutic relationship between consciousness and the world around us, central to Freire’s concept of praxis
The effect of self-assessment on academic performance and the role of explicitness: a meta-analysis
Get PDFIt has been suggested for many years that students who are able to judge their own performance should do well in academic assessments. Despite the increasing number of empirical studies investigating the effect of self-assessment on academic performance, there has not been a recent synthesis of findings in the higher education context. The current meta-analysis aims to synthesise the effects of self-assessment on academic performance. In particular, it examines the difference between situations in which the process of self-assessment is revealed or observable (explicit) or not revealed or unobservable (implicit). A total of 98 effect sizes from 26 studies either reported a comparison between a group with self-assessment interventions and a control group (n = 20, k = 88) or a pre-post comparison (n = 6, k = 10). The overall effect of such interventions was significant (g = .455). Self-assessment interventions involving explicit feedback from others on students’ performance had a significantly larger effect size (g = .664) than those without explicit feedback (g = .213). There were no other significant moderators identified for either the overall effect or the effect of interventions involving explicit feedback
Contributing to the revolutionising of transcultural nursing: presenting the IENE10 project
No full textIntroduction
Research has identified the need for the urgent training of the workforce in Artificial intelligence (AI) and social robotics. Healthcare providers across Europe and beyond are called to embrace smart technologies and the use of AI and social robotics in order to adapt to the current challenges of an ageing population and workforce shortages.
In order to harness the power that AI has to offer, difficult medical and nursing challenges need to be addressed as well as societal barriers towards the adoption of such technologies in health and social care, as well as the cultural changes to address reluctance and scepticism.
Aim of the IENE10 project
The IENE10 Project aimed to produce a European Transcultural Robotic Nursing (TRN) curriculum model and learning materials which are suitable for health and social care workers and educators internationally and delivered by a MOOC.
The outputs
Learning and teaching tools have been created, organised in user friendly format and were embed the TRN materials to create in the TRN-MOOC course.
The MOOC was delivered to 140 participants, specifically recruited by the partner organizations as well as self-selected across the globe.
The lesson learnt and conclusion
Health and social care education and training has evolved over the years. From virtual and augmented reality to simulation wards, AI is always present and social robots have proved to be effective. Nevertheless, reluctance and scepticism remain among health and social care workers thus we need create approaches to raise awareness and break biases so that AI can be beneficial to enhance patients’ care
Experiencing exclusion, rehearsing for inclusion: creating an in-the-moment culture shift
Get PDFThis research explores the phenomenon of ‘inclusion’ in global organisations where, for some, the lived experience of entry and development at graduate and apprenticeship levels does not always equate to the espoused values, nor do the encounters with staff embody the diversity that has been expected from such statements. The overall purpose of this research is to contribute to achieving culture shifts in organisations. I was at the time the Belonging, Inclusion and Diversity Lead at Investec UK, an international financial services organisation that recognises existing ‘diversity’ training delivered at a distance does not seem to bring about sustainable changes in attitudes towards belonging, inclusion and diversity. The aim of this particular research was to bring about a change in individual and organisational awareness to inform changes in behaviour, the very basis for culture shifts. Drawing on my professional role and having experienced similar challenges myself as a Black woman during my twenty five year career in this space, I chose an autoethnographic approach, evocative and analytical, to weave my narrative, the narratives of those young people who are, for a time at least, within the culture of the organisation but not necessarily a part of it, to find out what might be able to shift cultures when attempts through policies, formulas and theory have failed to have the substantial impact needed to address minoritised groups and individuals. I listened to the stories of the young people in my organisation and experienced resonance between them and resonance with my own story; I immersed myself in the stories during a contextually disruptive and painful period globally and locally. To honour the stories, a play began to form as a way to bring the challenges they experienced to life through performance, as well as audience and actor responses, thereby facilitating the opportunity to have in-the-moment culture shifts as an intervention at an individual level. This innovative participatory process during which I have been at times moved, frustrated, strengthened, humbled and lost for words, has, I believe, the potential to bring about change in organisations beyond the management approach to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) directives. We have to see and perceive differently before we can reconceptualise and shift our perceptions that have been formed by tradition and habituation. The research experience has fundamentally shifted my own perception, practice and direction and has freed me from the constraints of which I had not been fully aware
Exploring the influence of Bollywood films on the identity of British second-generation South-Asian men
Get PDFThe main objective of this thesis was to understand the influence of the Indian film industry on British second-generation South-Asian men. In addition, it also explored how they related to their daily life, identity, culture, and relationships and whether there was any dual identity crisis. Seven, male, second generation participants, aged between 25-36, who watched Bollywood media, were interviewed regarding their experiences, and meaning making processes. Three superordinate themes emerged: 1) Bollywood films influencing world view and way of being, 2) British Asian sense of identity and Bollywood films and 3) Making sense of relationships and social world. I interpreted that the participants felt Bollywood films influenced their own (and other viewers) values, behaviour, and identity. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to extract these themes.
Lastly, the study aimed to support the Counselling Psychology community to understand the issues of identity crisis, isolation and disconnect -through an existential framework- that South-Asian men may present in the therapy room and how to better assist them
Foreign direct investment and its relationship with financial factors: linking macro with micro perspectives
No full textThis thesis aims to enhance our comprehension of the intricate association between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and financial factors at different levels of development (Developed, Developing and Least Developed). The research undertakes a comprehensive analysis of various facets of FDI, meticulously interwoven by a unifying element of financial factors, with the objective of identifying motivations operating at both country (macro) and firm (micro).
The thesis includes three empirical studies on FDI. The first empirical chapter (Chapter 4) investigates the broad four-dimensional determinants of FDI, namely economic, regulatory, institutional and financial factors. Panel data techniques and Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) confirm that each of these factors significantly influences the FDI decision. A country genuinely seeking FDI can identify factors, such as openness to trade, inflation, economic freedom, banking sector strength among many others, and develop policies around them to increase their inflows. The chapter contributes to existing literature by expanding the realms of potential determinants across the four dimensions.
The second empirical chapter (Chapter 5) extends the study by focusing on financial factors. The study employs panel data techniques along with Error Correction Model (ECM), including Mean Group (MG) and Pooled Mean Group (PMG). These models throw light on the temporal impact of potential determinants. The study shows that while economic, regulatory and institutional factors are significant in both the long and short run, financial factors are significant only in the long run. This finding is remarkable since it shows that financial factors are different from the others. Any short-term financial fluctuation is easily overlooked in the foreign investment decision, as long as long-term financial stability is achieved. The contribution of this chapter is two-fold, while it explores financial determinants, the methodology also allows it to consider impact on both, the short and long term.
The third empirical chapter (Chapter 6) focuses on India and analyses foreign investments at firm level. India has received massive FDI over the years and represents a developing economy, allowing generalisations and deeper insights into features that are considered ideal to receive foreign investments at this level of development. Logistic regression and General Method of Moments (GMM) confirm that financial factors such as profitability and gearing; and non-financial factors such as age and industry significantly influence the FDI decision. The chapter makes several contributions. Firstly, it combines macro with micro motivations, focussing on Indian firms. Furthermore, using advanced empirical analysis, the study finds strong evidence of financial motivations for the FDI decision