scholarly journals The Long and Winding Road: Early Years of the Accreditation for Gerontology Education Council

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 42-42
Author(s):  
Robert Maiden ◽  
Donna Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Application Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Student Learning Outcome ◽  
History Of ◽  
Closing The Loop ◽  
Competency Based

Abstract The long road of establishing an accreditation entity began in August 2010 when the AGHE Accreditation Task Force was convened. After numerous meetings complete with loud and vigorous debates, AGEC, the Accreditation for Gerontology Education Council emerged in 2016. Over the subsequent years, the Standards hit the hard road of reality leading to various revisions to the Handbook. The symposium’s first presentation concerns the history of AGEC and its further development into an independent entity. The key purpose of AGEC is assuring gerontology programs educational quality and enhancement governed by the principle of self-evaluation and peer review that engenders trust. The next presentation discusses the marketing aspect of AGEC built on getting feedback from the public. One of the outcomes of conducting focus groups and surveying the public is the discovery that prospective students really see the value of accreditation. The penultimate presentation focuses on refinements to procedures alluded to in the first presentation in response to the feedback received in meeting with institutions and faculty about what accreditation offers to students, stake-holders, and ultimately the older adults served by the graduates in the work force. The key goal is to clarify the expectations and simplify the application process. On no other issue has more time been spent than on the assessment of students’ competency. Our last presentation explains competency-based education consisting of well-articulated student learning outcome measures that are consonant with the program’s mission that lead to "closing the loop" of continuous and durable improvements in the learning environment.

‘The televising of science is a process of television’: establishing Horizon, 1962–1967

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY BOON
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Stable Form ◽  
The Public ◽  
Television Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Television Programme ◽  
History Of ◽  
Culture Of Science ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Key Participants

AbstractBBC Television's Horizon series, fifty years old on 2 May 2014, despite its significance to the history of the public culture of science, has been little studied. This microhistorical account follows the gestation and early years of the programme, demonstrating how it established a social and cultural account of science. This was a result of televisual factors, notably the determination to follow the format of the successful arts television programme Monitor. It illuminates how the processes of television production, with a handful of key participants – Aubrey Singer, Gerald Leach, Philip Daly, Gordon Rattray Taylor, Ramsay Short, Michael Peacock and Robert Reid – established the format of the programme. This occurred over seventeen months of prior preparation followed by three troubled years of seeking to establish a stable form. This was finally achieved in 1967 when the programme adopted a film documentary approach after extended attempts at making it as a studio-based magazine programme. The story has implications for understanding the social accounts of science that were circulating in the key decade of the 1960s.

scholarly journals Refining the Loop of Continuous Improvement

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
Robert Maiden ◽  
Jan Abushakrah
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Closing The Loop ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Competency Domains ◽  
Gerontology Program

Abstract Academic assessment of student competency is essential to measure learning within a gerontology program. In its self-evaluation, a program must assess its student learning outcomes. JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez et al. (2019, p. 423) proposed a systematic approach that has several levels. The key is to utilize a competency-based education model. Moreover, to satisfy workforce goals the gerontology program must adopt the AGHE competencies that reflect the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to serve older adults at an acceptable level of care. The next step involves generating well-articulated quantitative or qualitative measures of student learning outcomes (SLOs) consistent with the program’s mission statement that include twelve competency domains. SLO measures include test grades, assignments, projects, portfolios, field experiences, essay questions, multiple choice items, and so on. The program’s enhancement loop requires the evaluation of SLOs, faculty discussion of them, and a continuous modification cycle "closing the loop" to reach the program’s goals.

Education in Norway and Scotland: Developing and Re-forming the Systems

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwen Cohen ◽  
Wenche Rønning
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Legislation ◽  
Country Factors ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
History Of ◽  
Democratic Systems

This chapter reviews the development of educational policy and practice in Scotland and Norway. The chapter mainly focuses on the public education systems, and the authors examine the historical development of public education in each country, factors that have encouraged democratic access to schools, the development of Early Childhood Education and Care programs, and interactions between schools and their communities. The Chapter encompasses the history of school education and education legislation, the role of the Church in education, an analysis of the democratisation of access to schooling and introduction of democratic systems within schools as a part of the wider democratisation of society; the development of early years education and care, and the relationship between schools and their communities and wider area. The authors highlight the importance of decentralisation of education in Norway, including decisions about appropriate curriculum, to local governing bodies. This has built close linkages between schools and communities with an emphasis on place-based learning.

scholarly journals War jargon of a peace mission: the case of the polish army contingent in Afghanistan (2002 – 2014)

Linguistica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Alicja Kacprzak
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Task Force ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

In the centenary of the First World War many historical studies concerning the period between 1914 and 1918 and its consequences have appeared in France. Many of these are also interested in the public discourse of this time and its language, especially the lexicon. There is no doubt that it is not only the history of the country and of its citizens that has been marked by the war, but also the French vocabulary. Numerous dictionaries containing war vocabulary have been published in recent years, while others are still being prepared, and all of them prove the existence of an indissoluble bond between the history of a community and its language.The horror of the First and Second World Wars did not cause the world to abandon military conflicts. They continued over the whole 20th century and have not ceased at the beginning of the third millennium. Poland, which since 1945 has not been involved in international military conflicts on its own territory, has nonetheless taken part in the so-called local wars, among them the recent (2002-2014) war in Afghanistan. The majority of Polish society (70-80%) has never accepted the engagement of national forces in this conflict, even though it used to be called “a peaceful mission”.The common experience of over 28.000 Polish soldiers who have served in Afghanistan has found its reflection in reports, books and blogs written by the participants. These texts, though rather rare, contain specific vocabulary that has developed in Task Force White Eagle (names for weapons, mines, military actions, enemies, etc.). In this article, the language of the mission is analyzed and the question is raised about the possible functions of this specific jargon.

James Theobald's ‘Missing’ MS: History of the Society of Arts and his ‘Chronological Register’ of ‘the Present Age’

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
D. G. C. Allan ◽  
J. H. Appleby
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Present State ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of

The discovery in the Society's library of James Theobald's manuscript history of the foundation of the Society of Arts is a satisfying conclusion to a search which has been pursued since the early years of the twentieth century. This search had been stimulated by a statement in a rare eighteenth-century tract entitled: A Concise Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Instituted at London, Anno. MDCCLIV. Compiled from the Original Papers of the first Promoters of the plan; and from other authentic records. By a Member of the said Society. London: Printed for the AUTHOR, and sold by S Hooper, at Caesar's Head, the corner of the New Church in the Strand. MDCCLXIII. The author, who has been identified as Thomas Mortimer, wrote in his introduction:Several particulars relative to the origin of this Society having been lost to the public for many years, it may not be improper to mention, least the authenticity of the following narrative should be disputed, that the substance of it was drawn up by the late James Theobald, Esq; one of the first Vice Presidents of the Society, from a verbal relation given him by Mr Shipley; and that the same gentleman afterwards presented a copy of that relation to the Antiquarian Society.

A History of Job-Based Alcoholism Programs: 1900–1955

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrison M. Trice ◽  
Mona Schonbrunn
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Alcoholics Anonymous ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

The early history of job-based alcoholism programs can be traced to efforts to eliminate alcohol from the workplace that were prevalent into the early years of the 20th Century, and to subsequent socio-economic factors which mandated a change in long-accepted behaviors and employer policies. Numerous forces, including World War II and its impact on the labor market, led to the need for rehabilitating alcoholics in the work force, a need recognized by a number of sensitive and innovative industrial physicians. Evidence supports the conclusion, however, that without the existence of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the dedication and almost super-human efforts of some of its members in developing and supporting the early programs, few of these programs would have survived. In an attempt to partially describe the events, forces, and individuals which were involved in the formative period of occupational alcoholism programs during the 1940's and 1950's, the authors have collected material from a variety of sources, including many first-hand accounts from persons directly concerned in early program development. It is hoped that this material will promote increasing interest in the history of job-based alcoholism programs and generate further input from sources that can contribute to knowledge about this movement which has had such a strong impact on the progress of alcoholism intervention practices.

From the History of the Public Library in the Village Tagai of Simbirsk District in Simbirsk Province

2010 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Valentina M. Patutkina
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Library History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ulyanovsk Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Village

The article is dedicated to unknown page in the library history of Ulyanovsk region. The author writes about the role of Trusteeship on people temperance in opening of libraries. The history of public library organized in the beginning of XX century in the Tagai village of Simbirsk district in Simbirsk province is renewed.

The Challenges in Dealing with Organized Crime and its Consequences in Modern Societies in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia – the Balkan Peninsula

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Bashkim Selmani ◽  
Bekim Maksuti
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Organized Crime Groups ◽  
Further Development

The profound changes within the Albanian society, including Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, before and after they proclaimed independence (in exception of Albania), with the establishment of the parliamentary system resulted in mass spread social negative consequences such as crime, drugs, prostitution, child beggars on the street etc. As a result of these occurred circumstances emerged a substantial need for changes within the legal system in order to meet and achieve the European standards or behaviors and the need for adoption of many laws imported from abroad, but without actually reading the factual situation of the psycho-economic position of the citizens and the consequences of the peoples’ occupations without proper compensation, as a remedy for the victims of war or peace in these countries. The sad truth is that the perpetrators not only weren’t sanctioned, but these regions remained an untouched haven for further development of criminal activities, be it from the public state officials through property privatization or in the private field. The organized crime groups, almost in all cases, are perceived by the human mind as “Mafia” and it is a fact that this cannot be denied easily. The widely spread term “Mafia” is mostly known around the world to define criminal organizations.The Balkan Peninsula is highly involved in these illegal groups of organized crime whose practice of criminal activities is largely extended through the Balkan countries such as Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, etc. Many factors contributed to these strategic countries to be part of these types of activities. In general, some of the countries have been affected more specifically, but in all of the abovementioned countries organized crime has affected all areas of life, leaving a black mark in the history of these states.

La valorisation des prestations non-bois: particularités genevoises (essai) | Commercialization of non-wood forest services: the case of Geneva (essay)

2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (8) ◽  
pp. 232-234
Author(s):  
Patrik Fouvy
Keyword(s):  
Forest Regeneration ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
The State ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Private Forests ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Body ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Near Future

The history of the forests in canton Geneva, having led to these being disconnected from productive functions, provides a symptomatic demonstration that the services provided by the forest eco-system are common goods. Having no hope of financial returns in the near future and faced with increasing social demands, the state has invested in the purchase of forest land, financed projects for forest regeneration and improvement of biological diversity and developed infrastructures for visitors. In doing this the state as a public body takes on the provision of services in the public interest. But the further funding for this and for expenses for the private forests, which must be taken into account, are not secured for the future.

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