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Home Economics in the 21st Century : A Cross Cultural Comparative Study
No full textThis article is reprinted with permission from the International Federation for Home Economics, August 2010Peer reviewe
Transformative Leadership Actions to Privilege Home Economics Food Literacy Education for Sustainable Development
No full textIntroduction: Food poses a significant and complex sustainability challenge. As food-literate children are critical to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) achievement, this study explored Queensland (Australia) home economics teacher perspectives of school leaders' privileging, or otherwise, of home economics food literacy education. Method: A fixed convergent mixed methods study utilising an online survey collecting Likert scale and free text responses was implemented in February-March 2021. The study participants included N = 69 Queensland Home Economics teachers. Inductive thematic analysis using Leximancer software and statistical analysis with SPSS was undertaken, followed by integrated data interpretation. Findings: Home economics food literacy education was not privileged by all school leadership teams in Queensland (Australia). Respondents rated heads of department as placing a higher status or priority on home economics food literacy education than Administration (p < .001, d = .747). Respondents reported challenges, including inadequate timetabling, planning time, resources, budgets, support, and subject value and priority, alongside unqualified leaders, which limit the effectiveness of food literacy programs. Conclusion: To empower children to address food-related sustainability challenges and achieve SDG 4: Quality Education, transformative leadership actions in the areas of education, support, planning and proactive culture are critical to privilege home economics food literacy education.Full Tex
Home Education: Globalization Otherwise?
No full textHome Education seems to be a successful way to educate. Academic results and socialization processes in home education are promising. Already home education is global, home educators everywhere educate their children themselves without schools. They develop new forms of local and international co-operation. Is home education an impulse to a renewing of modern education? Is home education globalization otherwise?home education, globalization, educational politics, pedagogy
Where Have All The Home Care Workers Gone?
No full textBecause of the on-going need to co-ordinate care and ensure its continuity, issues of retention and recruitment are of major concern to home care agencies. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting turnover decisions among visiting home care workers. In 1996, 620 visiting nurses and personal support workers from three non-profit agencies in a mid-sized Ontario city participated in a survey on their work and health. By the fall of 2001, 320 of these respondents had left the agencies. Analysis of the turnover data showed a temporal association between the implementation of managed competition and turnover. We mailed a self-completion questionnaire asking about their reasons for leaving the agency and about their subsequent work experience. One hundred and sixty nine (53%) responded to this survey. Respondents indicated dissatisfaction with the implementation of managed competition, with pay, hours of work, lack of organizational support and work load as well as health reasons, including work-related stress, as reasons for leaving. Less than one-third remained employed in the home care field, one-third worked in other health care workplaces and one-third were no longer working in health care. Their responses to our 1996 survey were used to predict turnover. Results show that nurses were more likely to leave if they had unpredictable hours of work, if they worked shifts or weekends and had higher levels of education. They were more likely to stay with the agency if they reported working with difficult clients, had predictable hours, good benefits, had children under 12 years of age in the home, and were younger. Personal support workers were more likely to leave if they reported higher symptoms of stress, and had difficult clients. They were more likely to stay if they worked weekends and perceived their benefits to be good.turnover, home care workers, nurses, personal support workers, managed competition, home care sector, policy, for-profit agency, non-profit agency
Teaching out-of-field in Home Economics: A Systematic Quantitative Literature Review
No full textOut-of-field teaching (OOFT) is a global phenomenon impacting student learning outcomes and teacher attrition. Anecdotal evidence suggests that home economics teacher shortages drive OOFT, yet there is an absence of research regarding its impacts. A systematic quantitative literature review (SQLR) was conducted to address this research gap and establish a baseline. The inclusion criteria were secondary school home economics education and OOFT, peer reviewed, full-text, and published in English. The date of publication was not a limiting factor. Nine databases were searched in March 2022 and, following exclusion protocols, 25 papers were retained. The qualifying papers were published between 1979 and 2021 with authors from 13 countries. Five papers focussed exclusively on OOFT and home economics. The most used terminology to describe OOFT was 'qualified/unqualified' (n=19; 76%). A global shortage of in-field home economics teachers was the most reported cause for OOFT (n=17; 68%). Impacts on students included lower-quality teaching experiences. OOF teacher self-efficacy was negatively impacted. The impacts on students, teachers, and schools were found to be interlinked. This study provides a baseline to understand the causes and impacts of OOFT in home economics classrooms. Overall, t here was a p aucity o f data available regarding this t opic, e specially concerning i ts p revalence and reported experiences. This gap indicates the need for further research regarding OOFT in home economics, especially as OOFT is increasingly under scrutiny in all fields of education due to the negative effects on teachers, student learning outcomes, and school operations. The study also affirmed the need for advocacy to ensure policymakers are aware of the negative impacts of OOFT in home economics and act to seek remedies.No Full Tex
The Law Firm as the House/Home of Law in P. D. James A Certain Justice
No full textThe Law Firm as the House/Home of Law in P. D. James A Certain Justic
'What she told us made the world of difference': Carers perspectives of a hospice at home service
No full textCopyright @ 2013 Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. Posted with publisher's permission.This paper explores the expectations and needs of current and bereaved carers whose relatives
received care at home from a palliative care team. Aim: A hospice at home service was established in
2006 to provide patients with care in their own homes. We examined whether this model of care was helpful in
mitigating carers’ burden and in enabling terminally ill patients to be cared for and die at home. Methods: This
study utilized a survey and interviews. Participants were carers in the midwest of Ireland. Survey responses from 122 carers were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 (SPSS Inc., 2009); interviews with 15 carers were also conducted. Results: Carers’ expectations of the service were often exceeded, and quality of care dimensions were rated highly. Future improvements could include facilitating discussions on place of death and offering bereavement support. Conclusion: The service is supporting carers in facilitating their relatives’ choice to die at home.Atlantic Philanthropies and the Health Service Executiv
Historical overview of spiritual discourses in home economics: From big history to the late Twentieth Century
No full textDeagon, JR ORCiD: 0000-0003-2877-1125This paper weaves together an insider home economist perspective of spiritual knowledges through two historical phases – the early years of home economics (1901-1915); and the middle years of home economics (1923-1992). There is a taken-for-granted assumption that spirituality is, and was always intended to be, a part of home economics and in this study we set out to investigate this assumption. The research brings together data in the form of digital texts available through the publically accessible Internet database – HEARTH. Texts incorporating relevant terms were identified using direct word searches and analysed using thematic content analysis. The study reveals four key ideas: the word ‘spiritual’ was scarcely used and when it appeared meanings were varied; home and family were identified as the most significant sites for development of spiritual ideals; spiritual concepts were considered to be a ‘highest ideal’ of home economics; and there were conflicts between material and spiritual aspects of home economics. These insights confirm that the effects of production, recontextualisation and reproduction of spiritual discourse are enmeshed into these chronological phases of home economics history, yet meaning is generally assumed and often the last mentioned of the ideals of the field, as evident through the artefacts investigated
The relative importance of home and host innovation systems in the internationalisation of MNE R&D: a patent citation analysis
No full textThis paper examines the phenomenon of home base augmenting (HBA) R&D and home base exploiting (HBE) R&D. It has three novelties. First, we argue that any given R&D facility’s capacity to exploit and/or augment technological competences is a function not just of its own resources, but the efficiency with which it can utilise complementary resources associated with the relevant local innovation system. Just as HBA activities require proximity to the economic units (and thus the innovation system) from which they seek to learn, HBE activities draw from the parent’s technological resources as well as from the other assets of home location’s innovation system. Furthermore, we argue that most firms tend to undertake both HBE and HBA activities simultaneously. Second, we use patent citation data from the European Patent Office to quantify the relative HBA vs. HBE character of foreign-located R&D. Third, we do so for European MNEs located in the US, as well as US MNEs located in Europe. Our results indicate that both EU (US) affiliates in the US (EU) rely extensively on home region knowledge sources, although they appear to exploit the host country knowledge base as well. The HBA component of US R&D in Europe in chemicals, electronics and petroleum refining is stronger than their European counterparts, as is the case for European R&D activities in the US in engineering.economics of technology ;
Offshoring and Home Country R&D
No full textNational concerns are sometimes raised against offshoring of economic activities to other countries. While most of the existing literature has focused on the effects on labor demand and productivity the effects on domestic R&D have been neglected. This is unfortunate since the decision to offshore activities also includes R&D. We use unique and rich firm level data for the Swedish manufacturing sector to analyze how offshoring impacts domestic R&D and how these effects vary with respect to target region and type of firm. The results suggest that offshoring of production alter a firm’s investments in R&D in Sweden and that a negative impact on home country R&D is confined to offshoring by non-multinationals and offshoring to Europe and EU15 countries.Offshoring; R&D; Manufacturing sector; EU15
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