Positioning Psycho-social Development Within the Construct of School Readiness: Challenges and Opportunities

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Dogra ◽  
Aparajita Bhargarh Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities of Micro and Small Enterprises Strategy in Ethiopia Urban development, the case of Ambo Town, Oromia, Ethiopia#

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Yared Teshome Geneti
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
National Development ◽  
Small Enterprise ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Micro And Small Enterprises

In Ethiopia, Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) is prioritised as important means of economic diversification, job creation, income generation and equity distribution as indispensable poverty reduction sector since 2006. Despite the great attention given to micro and small enterprises, little research exists that examines challenges and opportunities of the Sector in the implementation trajectory. With the new initiative of National Development Programme to Accelerate Sustainable Development to Eradicate Poverty (PASDEP) in 2006-2010, the government has been commencing a new Micro and Small Enterprises Development Strategy. However, the blue prints strategy would be able to prove in the process to achieve the goals and target through timely evaluation of its implementations. It has been long time and common to listen and observe complains of MSEs on the overall sectoral performance and strategic incompatibility both among the unemployed societies and existing MSEs. Based on this rationale, the study was intended to assess the challenges and opportunities of the existing MSE strategy in Ambo town. In this descriptive research primary data were collected from 135 MSEs in Ambo using stratified and purposive sampling design.<br />MSEs in Ambo town are facing different challenges. These challenges are identified as marketing, financial, good governance, i.e., lack of market place; inadequacy credit facilities and inefficient service delivery. The study shows that the long and delayed procedure to establish MSEs is the most common challenges observed in both the old (2006) and new (2011) strategies. These are mainly as a result of inefficient human resource capacities of the sector and cumbersome procedures of credit and saving institution in the town. Moreover, a little understanding of unemployed society on the strategy is the main gap creating misunderstandings. Findings indicated that, the above challenges are a bottle-neck to the goal set by the strategy to create jobs for unemployment and being urban base of local economic and social development. In prospect wise, the study asserted that, the 2011 strategy has been improving MSEs to have a clear definition, typical set ups and structure arrangements as enterprise. Therefore, the strategy has identified as the means to change the societal structure by creating broad local economic and social development to the extent of medium investors. Finally, promoting awareness to active unemployed citizens by giving continues capacity building for both office staff and members of enterprises, local governance reforms and the rechecking of MSE establishment procedures are important in alleviating the problems at implementation stage.

scholarly journals 7th ICSDAP Conference in Bangladesh: Some Experiences and Reflections for the Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-282
Author(s):  
Asok Kumar Sarkar ◽  
Mamunur Rahman ◽  
Manohar Pawar
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Way

In the light of the unique experiences of the 7th ICSDAP Conference, this article includes a brief background, details of activities, challenges and opportunities, and outputs and outcomes. Our experiences and reflections suggest that organising international conferences to bring social development scholars together to deliberate on mutual areas of research and practice interests undoubtedly contributes to critical examination and dissemination of knowledge, at least to some extent. In addition, what is equally important, the process and experience of organising conferences appear to enhance our and host organisation’s learning and capacity-building, yielding benefit for everyone to build a better future by overcoming all the odds.

scholarly journals Cognitive and social development of preschoolers in the context of school readiness

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Veraksa ◽  
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Vera A. Yakupova ◽  
Olga V. Almazova ◽  
Margarita N. Martynenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
School Readiness

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism Industry: Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Naipeng (Tom) Bu ◽  
Honggen Xiao ◽  
Haiyan Kong ◽  
Feiran (Cathy) Dong
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Purpose –Covid-19 pandemic has created a negative impact on China's national economy and social development, and the tourism industry has been hit particularly hard. This paper analyzes the current situation of tourism development in China during the pandemic, as well as the strategies and approaches adopted for tourism recovery.Design/methodology/approach – Secondary data and in-depth interview were adopted to identify the characteristics of tourism industry and challenges posed by the pandemic on China’s tourism.Findings – This paper focuses on the diversified and personalized modern tourism and leisure needs of tourists to establish an effective tourism supply system.Originality/value – Bassd on the practical challenges and feasible opportunities, we then discuss- relevant strategies and put forward suggestions for future tourism research and practice.

scholarly journals Diversification of results of orientating questionnaire of motoric and psycho-social development in regard to the level of educational maturity (school readiness) in prematurely born children

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Perenc ◽  
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Barbara Cyran-Grzebyk ◽  
Katarzyna Zajkiewicz ◽  
Katarzyna Walicka-Cupryś ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
School Readiness

Social Processes and Risk for Autism

2019 ◽  
pp. 349-370
Author(s):  
Cheryl Klaiman ◽  
Celine A. Saulnier ◽  
Emily Rubin ◽  
Katarzyna Chawarska ◽  
Ami Klin
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Social Disabilities

This chapter provides an overview of early milestones for social development and discusses the markers for social disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorder, that can be identified in children at risk. The principles and elements of a comprehensive clinical evaluation of infants and toddlers at risk for autism spectrum disorder will be discussed, including how to differentiate social disabilities from non–autism spectrum disorder developmental disorders. While some of these principles can build on proven experience in the assessment of older children (Klin, Carter, & Sparrow, 1997), there is an emphasis on unique challenges and opportunities associated with our attempt to intuit, measure, and explain social development at these tender ages (Chawarska, Klin, Paul, Macari, & Volkmar, 2009; Macari et al., 2012; Zwaigenbaum et al., 2009).

scholarly journals DIFFERENCES IN YOUNG CHILDREN'S PROBLEM BEHAVIOR, PEER INTERACTION, AND SCHOOL READINESS ACCORDING TO THE PRESENCE OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS SYMPTOMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 3079-3084
Author(s):  
Heejeon Suh
Keyword(s):  
Atopic Dermatitis ◽  
Social Development ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Peer Interaction ◽  
Basic Data ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Behavior Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

This study examined whether there is a difference in children's psycho-social development variables according to the presence of children's atopic dermatitis symptoms, and analyzed the relationship among variables. This study aims to explore the differences in young children's problem behavior, peer interaction, and school readiness according to the presence of atopic dermatitis symptoms and to investigate the relationship among variables. A total of 1502 children whose are aged six years were considered as subject for this study out of which 232 children’s had atopic dermatitis symptoms and the remaining 1270 did not have this symptoms. The research instruments were used the children problem behavior scale, peer interaction scale, and school readiness scale. In the research results, it was found that the level of problem behavior internalization and externalization in the children with atopic dermatitis symptoms was higher than that of no-symptom children. Meanwhile, according to the presence or absence of atopic dermatitis symptoms, it was found that there was no difference between peer interaction and preschool school readiness. In addition, the externalization variable of the problem behavior of children with atopic dermatitis symptoms was found to have a negative effect on school readiness, and peer interaction was found to have a positive effect on school readiness. Children with symptoms of atopic dermatitis can be studied advance by taking this study as the basic data for guiding them also for coping the psychological developmental problem.

Interrelationships of factors of social development are more complex than Life History Theory predicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Kotchoubey
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Behavioral Features

Abstract Life History Theory (LHT) predicts a monotonous relationship between affluence and the rate of innovations and strong correlations within a cluster of behavioral features. Although both predictions can be true in specific cases, they are incorrect in general. Therefore, the author's explanations may be right, but they do not prove LHT and cannot be generalized to other apparently similar processes.

Continuous hydrogenolysis of acetal-stabilized lignin in flow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Lan ◽  
Yuan Peng Du ◽  
Songlan Sun ◽  
Jean Behaghel de Bueren ◽  
Florent Héroguel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

We performed a steady state high-yielding depolymerization of soluble acetal-stabilized lignin in flow, which offered a window into challenges and opportunities that will be faced when continuously processing this feedstock.

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