A Qualitative Analysis of Central Executive Disorders in a Real-life Work Situation

This paper applies two concepts, ‘knowledge structuring’ and ‘knowledge domination,’ to a real life work situation. The purpose is to explore, analyze and discuss what happens when management interferes into the activities of a knowledge worker in a specific organizational setting by computerizing a key document. Exercising knowledge is delicate and complex. This study makes visible how some parts of performing anesthesia become structured and re-structured when the anesthesia patient record is transformed into a knowledge management system at the same time as someone or something influences how that structuring takes place.

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The Protocols of Privileged Information Handling in an E-Health Context

User-Driven Healthcare ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch036 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 737-759

Author(s):

Juanita Fernando

Keyword(s):

Real Life ◽

Privileged Information ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

Information Handling ◽

Health Authorities ◽

Life Work ◽

Work Contexts

Health authorities need to review the privacy and security of real-life work contexts before pioneering new, privileged information handling protocols as a foundation of a new national e-health scheme.

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"My Real Life Work Was Done at Atlanta": Aldon Morris on W. E. B. Du Bois' Career in Atlanta

Atlanta Studies ◽

10.18737/atls20170525 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Barbara Harris Combs ◽

Katherine Hankins

Keyword(s):

Real Life ◽

Du Bois ◽

Life Work

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Exploring the Central Executive in Situation Awareness

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.106.1.105-118 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 106 (1) ◽

pp. 105-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Abdrabo Moghazy Soliman

Keyword(s):

Working Memory ◽

Executive Function ◽

Situation Awareness ◽

Executive Control ◽

Global Assessment ◽

Real Life ◽

Central Executive ◽

Driving Simulation ◽

Assessment Technique

Despite its significance, the central executive is the least explored component of working memory, particularly in complicated contexts. Exp. 1 investigated the role of executive control of working memory in situation awareness in a real-life driving simulation. Exp. 2 examined the extent to which taxing the central executive might affect situation awareness. High, Medium, and Low Situation Awareness groups were formed as assessed using the Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique. Executive function was measured using several tests. Results from Exp. 1 demonstrated that the Low Situation Awareness group performed significantly worse on all executive function tasks compared to High and Medium Situation Awareness groups. Findings from Exp. 2 suggested that concurrent load on the central executive dramatically affected the Low Situation Awareness group but not the High Situation Awareness group: the former had significantly more driving violations under central executive load.

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MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENGENAL KONSEP POLA MELALUI MEDIA REALIA PADA ANAK USIA 4-5 TAHUN

Kumara Cendekia ◽

10.20961/kc.v7i4.32824 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 451

Author(s):

Ahma Nur Aisyah ◽

Siti Wahyuningsih ◽

Novita Eka Nurjanah

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Action Research ◽

Data Collection ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Real Life ◽

Interactive Model ◽

Classroom Action Research ◽

Early Chilhood

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan mengenal konsep pola melalui media realia. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian tidakan kelas dilaksanakan selama dua siklus. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah anak usia 4-5 tahun dengan jumlah 12 anak yang terdiri dari 7 perempuan dan 5 laki-laki. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan observasi, wawancara, tes, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data pada penelitian ini menggunakan analisis kuantitatif deskriptif komparatif dan analisis kualitatif model interaktif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa melalui media realia, anak dapat menemukan pola ABC-ABC, melanjutkan pola AABB-AABB, meniru pola ABB-ABB, dan menyalin pola ABBB-ABBB. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan terdapat peningkatan pada kemampuan mengenal konsep pola melalui media realia, yaitu persentase ketuntasan pada pratindakan sebesar 41,67%, peningkatan kemampuan mengenal konsep pola pada siklus I sebesar 58,33 ditandai dengan anak yang sudah memperhatikan guru dan menyelesaikan tugas dengan media realia. Peningkatan pada siklus II sebesar 83,33%, anak dengan mudah menemukan benda yang hilang pada pola ABC-ABC. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah melalui media realia dapat meningkatkan kemampuan mengenal konsep pola pada anak usia 4-5 tahun. Kata kunci: Konsep pola, media realia, anak usia 4-5 tahun ABSTRACTThis study aimed to improve the ability to recognize the concept of patterns through real life materials. This type of research is classroom action research carried out for two cycles. Subjects in this study were children aged 4-5 years with a total of 12 children consisting of 7 girls and 5 boys. Data collection techniques in this study used observation, interviews, tests, and documentation. Data analysis in this study uses comparative descriptive quantitative analysis and interactive model qualitative analysis. The results of this study indicate that through real life materials, children can find ABC-ABC patterns, continue AABB-AABB patterns, imitate ABB-ABB patterns, and copy ABBB-ABBB patterns. The results of this study indicate there is an increase in the ability to recognize the concept of patterns through real life materials, namely the percentage of completeness in pre-action by 41.67%, an increase in the ability to recognize the concept of the pattern in the first cycle of 58.33 marked by children who have paid attention to the teacher and completed the task with the real life materials. Increased in the second cycle of 83.33%, children easily find missing object in the ABC-ABC pattern. The conclusion of this study is that through real life materials can improve the ability to recognize the concept of patterns in children aged 4-5 years. Keywords: Concept of pattern, real life materials, early chilhood

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From experience to knowledge in professional IT management education: exploring the applicability of classroom learning to real-life contexts

The Irish Journal of Management ◽

10.1515/ijm-2016-0012 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 165-175 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sinéad Murnane ◽

Anna Browne

Keyword(s):

Community Of Practice ◽

Real Life ◽

Management Training ◽

Training Programme ◽

Social Practices ◽

It Management ◽

Emotional Engagement ◽

Classroom Setting ◽

Training Programmes ◽

Life Work

AbstractBy understanding knowledge to be performative – a ‘dynamic and ongoing social accomplishment’, rather than a representation or commodity – we view knowledge, or more accurately ‘knowing’, as a capability that emerges from, is embodied by, and embedded in recurrent social practices. The fluent knowing-in-practice that distinguishes an expert practitioner from a novice is developed through the reflexive interaction of the practitioner with their peers and their real-life work practices . Our key aim in this research was to explore whether it is possible for the abstracted classroom setting to approximate real-life work contexts, thereby enabling the active physical, mental, and emotional engagement of learner/practitioners within their community of practice, which have been demonstrated in the literature to be central to learning. How might training programmes actively engage learners in this way? We explored these questions through focus groups and interviews with participants on a professional IT management training programme and found that real-life contexts can be approximated to an extent, such that learner/ practitioners are enabled to learn from their own and each other’s experience of addressing issues in relation to IT management.

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Metadiscourse and coherence in interpreting

Babel ◽

10.1075/babel.00017.ron ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 63 (6) ◽

pp. 846-860

Author(s):

Rongbo Fu

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Real Life ◽

The Other ◽

Oral Discourse ◽

Content Type ◽

Written Text ◽

General Consensus ◽

Successful Communication ◽

Practical Implications

Abstract This paper aims to look closely at the achievement of coherence in interpreting through the prism of metadiscourse, a set of grammatical resources instrumental in organizing a discourse, guiding the recipients towards an author/speaker’s preferred interpretation while taking account of their needs and expectation. Despite a general consensus on the role of the umbrella term, opinions vary on what falls under it. Further, while the conception sets an illuminating framework for empirical endeavors to delve into the way in which meaning is negotiated and represented at discoursal level, its discussion is often confined to the analysis of written text in specific genre (e.g. academic treatise), leaving its role in oral discourse scarcely explored. In this paper, we propose an adapted taxonomy for the analysis of devices as such in interpretation and relate them to the building of coherence in interpreted events. Qualitative analysis of instances from real-life situations is then presented to show that successful communication in interpreting does not only come as a result of rendering the propositional message, but also involves a process of skillfully managing various metadiscoursal devices in reconstructing intertextual and intratextual conherences, both of which serve the same communicative goal with neither enjoying precedence over the other. The proposed taxonomy of metadiscourse may have some pedagogical and practical implications.

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Shadowing managerial action instead of recording managerial text

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal ◽

10.1108/qrom-02-2014-1197 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 41-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mirko Noordegraaf

Keyword(s):

Empirical Studies ◽

A Priori ◽

Real Life ◽

Managerial Work ◽

Content Type ◽

Institutional Settings ◽

Paradoxical Situation ◽

Managerial Action ◽

And Behavior ◽

Life Work

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the value of shadowing managers, in relation to other methods for studying managerial work, such as interviews and surveys. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reflects upon (empirical) studies of managers and managerial work, research and bodies of knowledge, and puts available insights into perspective. Findings – Shadowing managers enables researchers to cope with the paradoxical situation that arises when managerial work is studied. Managerial work must be understood in as unbiased a way as possible; managers themselves are unable to understand their own work and the texts they use to capture their work and behavior are either superficial or “manipulative.” At the same time, managerial work cannot be understood without (theoretical) bias; researchers need a priori assumptions when they study real-life work, especially about the institutional settings in which work streams are embedded. The paper concludes that “theoretical shadowing” is relevant. Originality/value – The paper brings together different bodies of knowledge that have evolved over time and shows that observing managers can never be done openly, despite remarks made by earlier students of managerial work.

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A Case Study of STEM Professionals Who Chose Teaching as a Second Career

International Education Studies ◽

10.5539/ies.v13n11p108 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 108

Author(s):

Sheila R. Vaidya ◽

Joji Thompson

Keyword(s):

Work Experience ◽

Teaching Profession ◽

Work Situation ◽

Second Career ◽

Career Changers ◽

Urban University ◽

Stem Career ◽

Post Baccalaureate ◽

Life Work

There has been a growing increase in the numbers of STEM professionals who choose teaching as a second career for reasons such as dissatisfaction with their existing work situation, desire for life-work balance or a desire to make an impact. How do these teachers adjust to the teaching profession? What do they bring from their life and work experience? How effective are they as teachers? These are the questions that are being researched here with a group of 18 STEM career changers who enrolled in a post-baccalaureate program offered at an urban university in Philadelphia.

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SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: USAGE PECULIARITIES

GAMTAMOKSLINIS UGDYMAS / NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION ◽

10.48127/gu-nse/13.10.08 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 8-16

Author(s):

Vincentas Lamanauskas ◽

Violeta Šlekienė ◽

Loreta Ragulienė

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

English Language ◽

New Technologies ◽

Real Life ◽

Point Of View ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Social Networking Websites

Usage of social networking websites is getting more intensive. This is determined by various reasons. However, ICT rapid spread is one of the most determining factors, firstly. New technologies provide various possibilities. Speaking about social networking websites, it is worth to emphasize their diversifiable possibilities. The functionality of social networking websites is increasing, diversifying and this in its own way opens different possibilities for the consumers, also serves as a factor encouraging the usage of social networking sites. It is especially important to understand the essential motives of using social networking websites, to analyze their probable advantages and disadvantages. Educational research was carried out in 2012, in which participated 918 university study 1st–4th course students. Using open questions, qualitative analysis of the obtained data was carried out. Students like SN websites because in them there is a possibility to communicate with acquaintances, with friends and relatives living abroad, to get acquainted with various people not only from Lithuania but also from the whole world, to find useful, suitable information, to share it with the other participants of the portal, have entertainment, i.e. play games, listen to music, look through the photos and so on. SN websites is a joyful way of spending time. To create SN website personal profile(s) was encouraged by friends, relatives, especially those living abroad, the desire to find out how everything is going on, the wish to broaden one’s outlook, not to stay behind the others, to follow the novelties. The creation of the profile was also determined by the possibility to get in touch with somebody very quickly, easy and visual communication with portal participants, the wish to make acquaintances and show oneself, also different games. Students point out the following SN website advantages: the possibility to communicate with many people at one time, to get in touch with the people seen long ago also with the friends and relatives living abroad, the possibility to find proper information and share it, self-realization possibility, because one can freely express ideas, improve English language knowledge and virtual communication abilities, there is a possibility to find friends and new acquaintances. Respondents notice SN website disadvantages too, such as information publicity, lack of privacy, insecurity of presented data, possible lies, deceptions, there is a lot of inaccurate information, a possibility arises to get acquainted with bad people. The participation in SN websites takes a lot of time and this already hinders concentration to studies. Immoderate SN website visit not only increases addiction, but also distracts from real life communication. The communication abilities in real life diminish, it leads to alienation. It is noticed, that unsuitable information for children, teenagers might be found in SN websites which makes the youth dumb and doesn’t encourage improvement. It is noted, that long sitting at the computer is harmful for health and negatively affects general condition of a person. Keywords: qualitative analysis, social networking websites, survey, university students.

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