scholarly journals Establishing a Dementia-Inclusive Community: The Evaluation of Dementia Friends in Cleveland Heights

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 514-514
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cardellini ◽  
Sarah Nicolay ◽  
Jessica Bibbo
Keyword(s):  
Education And Training ◽  
Community Member ◽  
Community Living ◽  
Community Members ◽  
National Network ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Two Sectors ◽  
And Training

Abstract Cleveland Heights, in northeast Ohio, is currently working towards becoming a member of the Dementia Friendly America National Network. Utilizing the Dementia Friends curriculum to raise community members’ awareness of issues related to dementia is a key component of this initiative. Our initial efforts toward this goal targeted two sectors, namely community member and libraries. Participants completed on-line surveys at the beginning and end of each session. The surveys include the Brief Tool for Dementia-Friendly Education and Training Sessions developed by the Administration for Community Living. Of the 22 participants, nine had not previously attended a Dementia Friends session and completed both pre- and post-session surveys. Results indicated participants felt more confident interacting with people living with dementia at post-session compared to pre-session (t = -2.83, p=.022). Changes at the individual level may create more inclusive communities for people living with dementia and those who care for and about them.

scholarly journals Utilization of Web-Based Services and Applications for Educational Purposes in Vocational Education and Training (VET)

2018 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Kotsifakos ◽  
Dimitrios Magetos ◽  
Christos Douligeris
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Individual School ◽  
On Line ◽  
Analysis Design ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

This paper introduces new web-based tools that can assist the teaching of Informatics courses in a Vocational Education and Training (VET) environment. In order to be able to utilize these tools for educational purposes, a web-based information system needs to be created (analysis, design, implementation, check). Such systems take advantage of already available on-line software which does not require an installation on a localized server, i.e. the installation of software at the individual school Informatics laboratories. This approach meets the educational needs of the courses, and avoids possible costly in terms of time and resources malfunctions. The tools we introduce can thoroughly cover the educational needs of modern Informatics courses which are taught during Vocational Training in accordance with the analytical schedule of the last three grades of Lyceum as well as afterwards.

scholarly journals ESPO/ Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education Section Symposium: Bridging the Gap: Shifting Population Dynamics and Opportunities to Inform and Educate Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
Lauren Bouchard ◽  
Marilyn Gugliucci
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Geriatric Education ◽  
Population Reference Bureau ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

Abstract This symposium is intended to highlight population-shifts and their impact on the individual, family, institution, and community levels. Currently, increases in diversity among individuals under age 18 continue to outpace those of individuals age 65-and-older, creating a substantial racial/ethnic diversity gap between generations. As it relates to education-level, individuals age 65-and-older who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree has increased from 5 percent in 1965 to 29 percent in 2018 (Population Reference Bureau, 2020). Population-shifts could be mitigated or better supported through enhancements to gerontology/geriatric education and training. This symposium will highlight the biopsychosocial aspects of these shifts and will link each aspect to the development of gerontology and geriatric curriculum. To start, presenter one will describe projects focused on community-based intergenerational programs to reduce social isolation and loneliness among rural older adults (Jill). Next, presenter two will describe findings from a university-based study, using surveys of aging and ageist attitudes to foster intergenerational connections between undergraduate students and older adult community members (Giselle). Presenter three will discuss a program to support the development of aging ministries to educate and support both caregivers and older adults in community settings (Lauren). Finally, presenter four will discuss findings from one-on-one interviews conducted with Chinese caregivers and Chinese geriatric social workers in efforts to develop and evaluate an end-of-life manual designed for Chinese immigrant caregivers (Mandong). The discussant will link the presenters’ findings to implications for future gerontology and geriatric education and training while identifying key topics to inform and engage communities.

scholarly journals Women in Blue: Structural and Individual Determinants of Sex Segregation in Blue-Collar Occupations

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Torre
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Parental Background ◽  
Individual Determinants ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

The number of women occupying male-dominated blue-collar jobs continues to be very low. This study examines segregation in the blue-collar trades, taking into consideration both structural and individual factors. Using nationally representative data for 25 countries, the study shows that segregation in the blue-collar sector does not vary with the strength of vocational education and training programs. At the individual level, findings reveal higher degrees of social reproduction among working-class families, but parental background alone does not fully account for the gender composition of the sector in which children end up working. Overall, the findings point to the existence of a socializing mechanism that entrenches horizontal segregation in the blue-collar sector. The study indicates that to reduce segregation in the blue-collar fields, policies must address this prior mechanism, both at the structural and individual level.

scholarly journals Taking Full Advantage of Modelling to Better Assess Environmental Risk Due to Xenobiotics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Charles ◽  
Aude Ratier ◽  
Virgile Baudrot ◽  
Gauthier Multari ◽  
Aurélie Siberchicot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Aquatic Organisms ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
New Era ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Individual ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract In the European Union, more than 100,000 man-made chemical substances are awaiting an environmental risk assessment (ERA). Simultaneously, ERA of chemicals has now entered a new era. Indeed, recent recommendations from regulatory bodies underline a crucial need for the use of mechanistic effect models, allowing assessments that are not only ecologically relevant, but also more integrative, consistent and efficient. At the individual level, toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) models are particularly encouraged for the regulatory assessment of pesticide-related risks on aquatic organisms. In this paper, we first propose a brief review of classical dose-response models to put into light the on-line MOSAIC tool offering all necessary services in a turnkey web platform whatever the type of data to analyze. Then, we focus on the necessity to account for the time-dimension of the exposure by illustrating how MOSAIC can support a robust calculation of bioaccumulation factors. At last, we show how MOSAIC can be of valuable help to fully complete the EFSA workflow regarding the use of TKTD models, especially with GUTS models, providing a user-friendly interface for calibrating, validating and predicting survival over time under any time-variable exposure scenario of interest. Our conclusion proposes a few lines of thought for an even easier use of modelling in ERA.

Who Pays for Skills?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Hogarth ◽  
Lynn Gambin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
The State ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Investments In Education ◽  
And Training

Debates about the need to increase investments in education and training in order to improve overall national economic performance quickly result in deliberations about who should pay for those investments. If it is the individual or the employer who are the principal beneficiaries, then there is an expectation that they should share the cost of the investment proportionate to the benefit they obtain. There are, however, a number of barriers which prevent employers and individuals making optimum levels of investment which inevitably means that the State needs to step into the breach. This chapter addresses what economics has to say about who should make the investment in training and how various barriers to those investments being made can be overcome.

Educational Activity Suggestion System of Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorder for Guiding Education and Training Staff Activities

2022 ◽  
pp. 448-471
Author(s):  
Duygu Çelik Ertuğrul ◽  
Atilla Elçi
Keyword(s):  
Pervasive Developmental Disorder ◽  
Pervasive Developmental Disorders ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Developmental Disorder ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Developmental Progress ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

Individuals with pervasive developmental disorders should be supported with special education programs that are planned according to the type and degree of the disorder, age, characteristics, and needs of the individual. Search over internet resources may provide suitable educational material and methods (and associated activity/game). However, syntactic search in today's static-based internet is insufficient to offer desired relevant results. An intelligent system able to identify the needed educational methods and material with the help of semantic web-based agents will not only contribute to the development of individuals with disorders, and support education specialists in this process, but also be extremely useful for the families of these individuals in assisting and monitoring their child's developmental progress. In this chapter, an agent-based educational activity suggestion system of children with pervasive developmental disorder for guiding education and training staff activities is proposed.

scholarly journals Extending the reach and impact of management research: a question of legitimacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-78
Author(s):  
David J. Finch ◽  
John Nadeau ◽  
Bill Foster ◽  
Norm O’Reilly ◽  
Kim Bates ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Stratified Sample ◽  
The Individual ◽  
External Community

Purpose The issues associated with the production and dissemination of management research have been widely debated amongst administrators, scholars and policymakers for decades. However, few studies to date have examined this issue at the level of the individual scholar. The purpose of this paper is to view a management scholar’s choice of knowledge dissemination (KD) outlets as a legitimacy judgment embedded in their social structure and community norms. Design/methodology/approach To explore this, the authors conduct a sequential mixed-methods study. The study uses qualitative methods, including one-on-one interviews (n=29) and five workshops (n=79) with administrators, management scholars, students and external community members (practitioners and policymakers). In addition, the authors analyzed the KD outcomes of 524 management scholars at seven Canadian universities drawn from a stratified sample of business schools. Findings The results of the research demonstrate the complex interaction between individual scholar-level factors, including socialization (degree type and practitioner experience) and tenure, and the institutional-level factors, such as strategic orientation and accreditation, and how these influence KD judgments. Specifically, the authors find that institutional factors (such as tenure and promotion) are a central predictor of scholarly KD; in contrast, the authors find that individual-level factors including degree, professional experience and career stage influence non-scholarly KD. Originality/value The results suggest that as management scholars face increasing pressure to demonstrate impact beyond academia, it may be more difficult than simply adapting the reward system. Specifically, the authors suggest that administrators and policymakers will have to consider individual factors, including their academic training (including interdisciplinary training), previous practitioner experience and career stage.

The Second Century Papers: Looking Ahead in Aeronautics—15

1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (698) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Joseph Black
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Second Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Point Of Intersection ◽  
And Training

“Man's curiosity searches past and future And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint.” The Dry Salvages—T. S. Eliot Why include the topic of education and training, it could be asked, in a series devoted to predicting ahead to the Second Century of the Society. It is obvious that in the other fields covered there is bound to be great technological progress but men, it might be thought, will teach, and learn, and study much as they do today, and as they did yesterday. Thus we could advise our student engineer that “the acquirements which are necessary to enable the individual to distinguish himself, or even to practise his profession with a moderate chance of success are partly abstract and theoretical, and partly experimental or practical.

scholarly journals Small numbers are an opportunity, not a problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. e40128
Author(s):  
Jimmie Leppink
Keyword(s):  
Time Window ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Repeated Measurements ◽  
Individual Participant ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training ◽  
Non Parametric

Aims: outcomes of research in education and training are partly a function of the context in which that study takes place, the questions we ask, and what is feasible. Many questions are about learning, which involves repeated measurements in a particular time window, and the practical context is usually such that offering an intervention to some but not to all learners does not make sense or is unethical. For quality assurance and other purposes, education and training centers may have very locally oriented questions that they seek to answer, such as whether an intervention can be considered effective in their context of small numbers of learners. While the rationale behind the design and outcomes of this kind of studies may be of interest to a much wider community, for example to study the transferability of findings to other contexts, people are often discouraged to report on the outcomes of such studies at conferences or in educational research journals. The aim of this paper is to counter that discouragement and instead encourage people to see small numbers as an opportunity instead of as a problem.Method: a worked example of a parametric and a non-parametric method for this type of situation, using simulated data in the zero-cost Open Source statistical program R version 4.0.5.Results: contrary to the non-parametric method, the parametric method can provide estimates of intervention effectiveness for the individual participant, account for trends in different phases of a study. However, the non-parametric method provides a solution in several situations where the parametric method should be used.Conclusion: Given the costs of research, the lessons to be learned from research, and statistical methods available, small numbers should be considered an opportunity, not a problem.

scholarly journals UNION INFLUENCE ON WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN CANADA IN TOUGH TIMES

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
D W Livingstone ◽  
M Raykov
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Union Status ◽  
Worker Education ◽  
Positive Individual ◽  
And Training

This research has focused on re-analyzing data from previous large-scale Canadian surveys that include information on education and training activities and union status, as well as other demographic and organizational factors, most prominently the 1993 and 1997 Adult Education and Training Surveys. In contrast to some recent studies, we find that union status has had consistent positive individual-level effects in Canada on participation in adult education courses and employer-sponsored courses in general, and especially for women union members. In addition, our analysis of data from the 1998 national survey on informal learning finds that in this much more extensive form of learning, unionized workers are significantly more likely than non-unionized workers to participate in more directly empowering forms of knowledge including learning about workers’ rights and political issues.

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