(2015). Perceptions of Aging and Disability among College Students in Japan. Journal of Education and Practice, v6 n33 p52-60. Japan launched the Long-term Care Insurance program in 2000, and ratified the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2014. Japan has been taking significant steps to support their elderly population and individuals with disabilities. However, information is lacking on the understanding and opinions of either of these groups among Japanese college students, many of whom will have significant impact on the development of relevant programs in the future. The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of the elderly, individuals with a physical disability, and individuals with a mental disability. Three focus groups were held with a total of 20 college students throughout June and July 2015 in Japan. Lack of formal and human resources are issues for the elderly and people with physical disabilities. It is important to increase awareness of struggles related to physical and mental disabilities. Images of physical and mental disabilities in society… [PDF]
(2020). Change Management and Athletic Training: A Primer for Athletic Training Educators. Athletic Training Education Journal, v15 n4 p269-277 Oct-Dec. Context: Change management is a discipline guiding how organizations prepare, equip, and support people to adopt a change to drive organizational success and outcomes successfully. Objective: To introduce the concept of change management and create a primer document for athletic training educators to use in the classroom. Background: While Lean and Six Sigma methodologies are essential for achieving a high-reliability organization, human resistance to change is inevitable. Change management provides a structured approach via different theoretical methods, specific principles, and tools to guide organizations through growth and development and serves an essential role during process improvement initiatives. Synthesis: There are several theories or models of change management, 3 of which are specifically relevant in health care. Kotter and Rathgeber believe change has both an emotional and situational component and use an 8-step approach: increase urgency, guide teams, have the right… [Direct]
(1978). Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment in Rural Communities: Two Approaches. The two reports reprinted here address prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect in rural areas through self-help programs. The larger report, that of the Appalachian Citizens for Children's Rights (ACCR) Project, describes project purposes: to develop a community development model for child abuse/neglect using resources already existing (human service professionals, agencies, and community citizens) in most of rural America and to demonstrate the model and develop self-help materials providing technical assistance for other communities. In addition to general information about child abuse and the rural setting, the report describes ACCR and deals with self-help groups, innovation and diffusion, and children's rights. Various human service systems are examined (social and health services, law/law enforcement, education, recreation, child care, self-help groups) and brief suggestions are made for developing a community project without a federal grant. The second, shorter… [PDF]
(2020). Undecidability and the Evolution of Ideas in an Emergency Event: An Example of How to Systemically Test Organizational Effectiveness (OE) in University Groups. Education Sciences, v10 Article 135. The location of this research is the university, through which we are progressively channeled into a seemingly insoluble Gordian knot. What is our participation in the university and what cultural and human commitments inform this participation? More trivially, what rights and duties does the individual acquire or lose within his or her academic identities? Our main target was finding an ideal organizational practice to examine, such as an emergency event. What strategy can the university adopt? Can it realign its distortions and retain its resources? How and in what ways? What information is needed for this purpose? Which actors are relevant in this process? A systemic survey model is, therefore, presented to analyze data obtained from a sample of 200 respondents from various academic groups, including students, professors, administrative staff, and other stakeholders. Quotas were used for the primary challenge posed by the pictures representing dimensions according to a systemic… [PDF]
(2015). Data Driven Automatic Feedback Generation in the iList Intelligent Tutoring System. Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, v10 n1 p5-26. Based on our empirical studies of effective human tutoring, we developed an Intelligent Tutoring System, iList, that helps students learn linked lists, a challenging topic in Computer Science education. The iList system can provide several forms of feedback to students. Feedback is automatically generated thanks to a Procedural Knowledge Model extracted from the history of interaction of students with the system. This model allows iList to provide effective reactive and proactive procedural feedback while a student is solving a problem. We tested five different versions of iList, differing in the level of feedback they can provide, in multiple classrooms, with a total of more than 200 students. The evaluation study showed that iList is effective in helping students learn; students liked working with the system; and the feedback generated by the most sophisticated versions of the system is helpful in keeping students on the right path…. [Direct]
(2022). Syntactic Bootstrapping in the Adjectival Domain: Learning Subjective Adjectives. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, School of Graduate Studies. How do children learn the meaning of words like "pretty" and "tall," which are not only gradable and context dependent (Kennedy & McNally 2005), but encode speaker subjectivity? Despite their complex semantics (Stephenson 2007; Lasersohn 2009; Bylinina 2014), these and other adjectives like them, are some of the most frequently produced adjectives by children and their caregivers. How do children map the right meaning to these adjectives early in language acquisition? In this dissertation, I present the results of a corpus-based analysis of ambient language, and a word learning experiment using an adapted human simulation paradigm (Gillette et al. 1999) with scripted dialogues (Yuan & Fisher 2009; Arunachalam & Waxman 2010) demonstrating the influence of the syntactic environment in which these adjectives appear. Although previous literature has extensively explored syntactic bootstrapping in the verbal domain (Landau & Gleitman 1985; Gleitman… [Direct]
(2007). Response to "Exploring the Influence of the ROC Integrated High School Program". Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, v19 n3 p28 Spr. In this article, the author provides a response to Scott Caspell's article "Exploring the Influence of the ROC Integrated High School Program." The author states that Caspell picked an excellent time frame to interview former students as they had participated in the integrated program between 10 and 13 years ago. Ideally, then, participants would have completed some form of post-secondary education and now be in the work force. Some participants may be married, may have children, and certainly have had significant life experience. With their involvement in the study the participants were able to reflect back and ask: "Did the ROC program influence me in any way?" Caspell clearly captures another important concept: Integrated programs occur at a critical time in young peoples' lives and the opportunity to help "formulate self-identity" is present. One student also noted that a significant positive factor is the length of time of integrated programs. With… [PDF]
(1977). Local Growth Control: A Human Rights Issue. Journal of Intergroup Relations, 6, 1, 54-59, Apr 77. The eztent of local authority, approaches to growth management, exclusionary effects, and the economic impacts of real estate development are controversial aspects of growth control. (Author/JP)…
(1985). Human Rights, Racism and the Multicultural Curriculum. Educational Review, v37 n2 p141-52 Jun. The author looks at what is meant by racism, the theories of prejudice that are currently available, and what is known about intervention strategies to correct for racism and prejudice. Education's role in these strategies is examined. (CT)…
(1984). Transmitting a Political Tradition of Human Rights. American Education, v20 n1 p7-10 Jan-Feb. The author discusses what he sees as a decline of democratic values caused by the dominance of cultural relativism in the teaching of social studies for the last 50 years. (SK)…
(1983). Unit I: Human Rights in the Classroom. Intercom, n103 p6-12. Two lessons, \What Rights are Right\ and \Comparing People's Rights in Other Countries,\ provide the teacher and students with knowledge and background for understanding the documents that protect their basic rights and the rights of other people in other nations. (AM)…
(1981). Teachers and Human Rights in Latin America. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v46 n9 p19-22 May. Presents country-by-country information on teacher militancy and the repression and victimization of teachers by Latin American military regimes, as reported to the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). Condensed from "ATA Magazine," published by the Alberta (Canada) Teacher's Association, January 1981, pp4-9. (SJL)…
(1976). Reverse Discrimination: The Balancing of Human Rights. Wake Forest Law Review, 12, 3, 852-77, F 76. To explore the general issue of reverse discrimination, this comment focuses primarily on preferential hiring practices that have been contested in the courts. (LBH)…
(1997). Academic Human Rights and Freedoms in Turkey. Educational Forum, v62 n1 p32-39 Fall. A survey of 400 Turkish college faculty found that some academic freedoms (research, no oaths or special requirements) exist at a higher level than others (self-government, association, criticism, tenure). A surprising number are not aware of their freedoms and rights. (SK)…
(1997). Linguistic Human Rights and English in Europe. World Englishes, v16 n1 p27-43 Mar. Looks at policies of linguistic expansion worldwide, particularly English in the colonial and post-colonial periods. Considers whether English expansion in continental Europe represents a threat or blessing. Considers ambiguities in English being promoted as a language serving international purposes and simultaneously British and American interests, and the attitudes of scientists needing to publish in English. (Author/MSE)…