Macro-Level Policy and Practice Relating to Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific

2016 ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Tessa S. Bailey ◽  
Yawen Cheng ◽  
Awang Idris ◽  
Sara Arphorn
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Policy And Practice

The Context of Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific

2014 ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen F. Dollard ◽  
Akihito Shimazu ◽  
Rusli Bin Nordin ◽  
Paula Brough ◽  
Michelle R. Tuckey
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Asia Pacific

Education for Intercultural Understanding in Australian Schools: A Review of its Contribution to Education for a Sustainable Future

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniella Tilbury ◽  
Kate Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Critical Fields ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Sustainable Future

AbstractEducation for Intercultural Understanding seeks a better world. Its principal goal is education for change through addressing social issues with an intercultural perspective arising at the local, national and especially international levels. Underpinning this cross-curricular dimension is education for a sustainable future - a core concern of Environmental Education.This article will review Australia's engagement with international and intercultural education within formal education with a specific focus on its contribution to a sustainable future. It identifies recent influences that have shaped school policy and practice in this area. Lost opportunities are discussed as well as the scope for future developments, in particular within the socially critical fields of Citizenship Education, Futures Education, Global Education and Anti-racism Education as well as Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development. This paper is an extract from a recent report commissioned by the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre for Education for International Understanding (APCEIU).

scholarly journals Perubahan Jalur Pelayaran Terhadap Peta Perekonomian Asia Tenggara Dampak Pembangunan Terusan Kra Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Aninditya Gita Kireina Persada ◽  
Lazarus Tri Setyawanta
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Impact

Terusan Kra merupakan kanal yang telah direncanakan pembangunannya oleh Thailand sejak abad ke-17. Dengan dibangunnya terusan Kra yang dimungkinkan berhasil memberi efisiensi terhadap penyingkatan waktu pelayaran di daerah Asia Pasifik tentu akan memberi dampak kerugian yang signifikan pada terusan Malaka yang telah terlebih dahulu dibuat. Dampak pembangunan tersebut akan mempengaruhi perubahan jalur pelayaran serta merubah peta perekonomian Asia Tenggara secara makro. Tujuan dari tulisan ini ada untuk mengetahui dampak dan perubahan signifikan terhadap pembangunan terusan Kra di masa depan. Metode yang digunakan merupakan pendekatan yuridis normatif yang menggunakan data sekunder melalui penelitian kepustakaan dan studi dokumen. Adanya terusan Kra akan merubah neraca ekspor dan impor secara signifikan serta akan memberikan perubahan besar ke beberapa negara-negara di Asia Pasifik. Hingga saat ini mulai banyak negara-negara di Asia Tenggara yang mulai merencanakan dan membangun kawasan pantainya agar dapat bersaing saat nantinya Terusan Kra dibuka. The Kra Canal is a canal that Thailand has planned to build since the 17th century. With the construction of the Kra canal, which is possible to provide efficiency in reducing shipping time in the Asia Pacific region, it will certainly have a significant impact on the Malacca canal that was previously built. This development impact will affect changes in shipping lanes and change the economic map of Southeast Asia at a macro level. The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact and significant changes to the development of the Kra canal in the future. The method used is a normative juridical approach that uses secondary data through library research and document study. The existence of the Kra canal will change the export and import balance significantly and will provide big changes for several countries in Asia Pacific. Until now, many countries in Southeast Asia have started planning and building their coastal areas so that they can compete when the Kra Canal opens.

Combining internal and external evaluations within a multilevel evaluation framework: Computational text analysis of lessons from the Asian Development Bank

Evaluation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nihit Goyal ◽  
Michael Howlett
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Recipient Country ◽  
Asian Development Bank ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
Asian Development

Although the literature on evaluation has theorized about the distinction between internal and external evaluation, hardly any research has compared them empirically. This article examines whether the lessons of internal evaluations differed from those of external evaluations in the case of international development aid. It analyzes internal evaluations of the Asian Development Bank for nearly 1000 sovereign interventions across 38 countries in the Asia-Pacific during 1996–2016, using computational text analysis or text mining techniques. The results show that internal evaluations focused more on micro- and meso-level characteristics, while external evaluations laid more emphasis on meso- and macro-level constructs, such as dimensions of policy and the institutional environment in the recipient country, or its level and rate of economic growth. The article concludes that internal and external evaluations can be combined to create a multilevel evaluation framework that integrates micro-, meso-, and macro-level lessons to facilitate better learning.

Examining the utility of Assessment Literacy Inventory and its portability to education systems in the Asia Pacific region

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilham Hailaya ◽  
Sivakumar Alagumalai ◽  
Francisco Ben
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Educational Assessment ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Assessment Literacy ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Item Level ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
The Rasch Model

Teachers use assessment to ascertain and enhance student learning, thus the importance of assessment literacy. One of the instruments that has been used to examine teachers’ assessment literacy is the Assessment Literacy Inventory developed by Mertler and Campbell. The Assessment Literacy Inventory has been validated using pre-service teachers and employing traditional statistical techniques. This study reports on the evaluation of the Assessment Literacy Inventory utility using 582 in-service teachers through employing the Rasch model and confirmatory factor analysis. The results indicate that the Assessment Literacy Inventory works well at the item level. However, the Assessment Literacy Inventory seven-factor structure, based on the Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students, poses challenges against newer psychometric techniques. Hence, recommendations are presented. This article concludes with relevant implications for instrument development, educational assessment research, policy and practice, and teachers’ professional development.

scholarly journals 320Applying novel multi-disciplinary methodologies to accelerate malaria elimination

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Agius ◽  
Julie Simpson ◽  
Saber Dini ◽  
Peter Gething ◽  
Angela Devine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Malaria Transmission ◽  
Malaria Elimination ◽  
Antimalarial Drug ◽  
Clinical Effectiveness ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Epidemiological Methods ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Focus and outcomes for participants Presented by researchers from the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination (ACREME, www.acreme.org.au), the focus of the symposium will be the application of multi-disciplinary epidemiological and statistical approaches to inform the control and elimination of malaria in the Asia-Pacific region. The epidemiology of malaria is complex as it involves multiple mosquito vectors, different malarial species (that require species-specific treatments) and emerging insecticide and antimalarial drug resistance. The symposium will provide an overview of the significance of the changing epidemiological landscape of malaria globally, and how modern epidemiological methods, such as stepped-wedge designs, multi-state modelling, within-host mechanistic mathematical models, geospatial methods and cost-effectiveness modelling applied to clinical effectiveness trials, prospective cohort studies, volunteer infection studies and national and regional data have contributed to answering the key challenges in malaria research. Specifically we will discuss evidence for effective interventions to reduce the risk of malaria transmission, the effect of recurrent episodes of malaria on risk of hospitalisation and mortality, the selection of antimalarial drug combination therapies to fast track new drugs, understanding geospatial heterogeneity of malaria transmission, and the cost-effectiveness of scenarios using different treatment regimens. Discussion of the importance of these methodologies and their findings will be contextualised in the current global malaria elimination goals. As similar transformations in epidemiological environment have occurred in other disease elimination settings, we believe this symposium will have broad appeal and that the challenges faced and the methodological solutions proposed to accelerate progress in malaria elimination will have a high degree of relevance and be useful to researchers working in global health or infectious diseases. Rationale for the symposium, including for its inclusion in the Congress Following a two-decade period of declining malaria burden due to intensified control efforts, global progress against the disease has stalled, and in some countries, malaria has resurged. Emerging parasite resistance to insecticides and antimalarial drugs has reduced the effectiveness of cornerstone malaria control interventions. Malaria endemic areas of the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS) have set the target to eliminate malaria by 2030, however, the failure of these established interventions and transition to low-transmission endemic environments has necessitated fundamental re-evaluation of the epidemiological landscape of the disease and emphasised timely development of robust evidence for novel interventions. In order to provide evidence, a wide range of advanced multi-disciplinary methodologies have been developed and applied in many malaria epidemiology areas and we believe discussion of these in the symposium will be highly relevant given the principal theme of the 2020 WCE (Methodological Innovations in Epidemiology). Additionally, the symposium will feature research where findings have been effectively translated to national and regional policy and practice, an important theme of the 2020 WCE. Presentation program Names of presenters

Inclusion and Pacific Island Countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Cheryl Armstrong ◽  
Derrick Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

The Pacific island countries occupy over 1000 islands in the world’s largest ocean. Their histories and traditions have created bonds between nations that run deep in the cultures of the region. Yet, across this vast ocean, the cultures of the region also differ significantly. The introduction of Western forms of education have often ignored these cultures. Currently, “inclusive education” programs are being promoted in the region, particularly by outside agencies and funding bodies. The disability-inclusion model that underpins many of these initiatives comes from outside the region, and attempts to engage with the cultures of the region in promoting these initiatives have tended to be very limited. Often the initiatives promote an agenda that draws its direction and purpose from the donor countries rather than those of aid-recipient countries. Interaction between cultures over different perspectives and priorities is very healthy but the process of implementation can also easily be detached from the experience and worldviews of the recipients of these programs. Engaging with cultures and the social experience of the citizens of the island countries of the Pacific should be the starting point for the development of educational policy and practice so that the disempowerment of external imposition is avoided. In this chapter we argue that the inclusive education narrative of the Pacific island countries is often subsumed by, and therefore becomes ‘lost’ within, the broader context of the Asia-Pacific which is much larger and includes the world’s most populous countries. We conclude by advocating that research needs to be conducted on issues and cultures in the Pacific region that can contribute to the development of more meaningful and contextual approaches to inclusive education.

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