Police subcultural influences on the transfer of training

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-355
Author(s):  
Adam Dulin ◽  
Linda Dulin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Statistical Modelling ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Lasso Regression ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Transfer Training ◽  
The U.S

This research assessed subcultural impacts on police motivation to learn and transfer new knowledge to the field by deploying a novel survey instrument, the Police Learning Environment Inventory (PLEI). Surveys were issued to 119 police officers in the southwest and northeast regions of the U.S. Subsequent statistical analyses, employing Ridge and Lasso regression, revealed that various dimensions of police subculture can impact police motivation to learn and apply new knowledge. However, two such dimensions, Innovation and Bureaucratic, were significant in all the statistical modelling. Innovation displayed a consistent and positive relationship with respondent motivation to learn and transfer training. Conversely, the Bureaucratic dimension was negatively associated with this motivation.

Fostering Information Literacy in the Management Education at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Alina M. Zapalska ◽  
Ben Wroblewski
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Sequential Approach ◽  
Step Process ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The U.S

This paper illustrates the information literacy (IL) strategy in an undergraduate Management program at U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The paper exemplifies a sequential approach that improves students’ capabilities to evaluate and apply information in a specifically designed learning environment while generating new knowledge in undergraduate business coursework. The paper also emphasizes how IL can be developed within management coursework through a six-step process, including defining, locating, selecting, organizing, presenting, and assessing.  This specially designed framework of IL learning can be applied across all relevant courses using specially designed assignments in the Management major.

The Real School Safety Problem

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Kupchik
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
School Safety ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Safe Schools ◽  
Original Research ◽  
School Security ◽  
Safety Problem ◽  
The Real ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The U.S

Since the 1990s, K-12 schools across the U.S. have changed in important ways in an effort to maintain safe schools. They have added police officers, surveillance cameras, zero tolerance policies, and other equipment and personnel, while increasingly relying on suspension and other punishments. Unfortunately, we have implemented these practices based on assumptions that they will be effective at maintaining safety and helping youth, not based on evidence. The Real School Safety Problem addresses this problem in two ways. One, it provides a clear discussion of what we know and what we don’t yet know about the school security and punishment practices and their effects on students and schools. Two, it offers original research that extends what we know in important ways, showing how school security and punishment affects students, their families, their schools and their communities years into the future. Schools are indeed in crisis. But the real school safety problem is not that students are either out of control or in danger. Rather, the real school safety problem is that our efforts to maintain school safety have gone too far and in the wrong directions. As a result, we over-police and punish students in a way that hurts students, their families and their communities in broad and long-lasting ways.

scholarly journals Violence Against Authority: Management, Policy, And Research Implications

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Randy R. Edwards ◽  
C. Kenneth Meyer ◽  
Stephen E. Clapham
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The U.S

There has been a steady decline in violent crime in the United States in the past twenty years. Trends indicate that violent crime was down 13.4 percent below the 200l level and for property crime, society is experiencing the tenth straight year of declining rates. Yet, the Southern region of the U.S is disproportionately represented by percentage of overall violent crimes committed nationally. Also, the South is over-represented in the number of police officers who are feloniously killed or assaulted. This empirical research concentrates on violence directed against police in the U.S. and begins by examining the type and magnitude of workplace violence, then transitions to a review of the sociological, political, and psychological literature, focusing on the individual and social causes for violence generally. It ends with an examination of officers feloniously killed (their personal characteristics and that of their assailants), the level of violence against police by type of arrest or enforcement situation, and by region of the country. This paper provides a comparative analysis of street-level violence for general municipal assaults, robbery, and the most rapidly growing type of felonious assaultambush attacks. The paper concludes with an analysis of the societal and behavioral characteristics and considerations related to violence against police. The authors present a number of current trends, training recommendations, and suggestions for improving officer workplace safety.

scholarly journals Pædagogisk rettethed og situerede evaluerende praksisser i pædagogisk arbejde

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Pia Rauff Krøyer ◽  
Hanne Laursen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Tact ◽  
New Knowledge

ResuméI den nye dagtilbudslov specificeres det, at læringsmiljøet i dagtilbuddet skal kvalificeres og evalueres kontinuerligt af pædagogerne gennem inddragelse af børns perspektiver (Dagtilbudsloven 2018 § 9.). Det kalder på ny viden om, hvordan vi involverer børns perspektiver i evaluering og udvikling af den pædagogiske praksis. Denne artikel bestræber at vise, hvordan pædagoger, med afsæt i børns perspektiver, dagligt møder og udvikler læringsmiljøet i dagtilbuddet. Med det empiriske udtryk situerede evaluerende praksisser viser artiklen, at den pædagogiske praksis har en evaluerende karakter i sig selv, fordi den har en pædagogisk rettethed indlejret i sig, der retter sig mod barnet og det pædagogiske projekt (Togsverd & Rothuizen, 2016). Med inspiration fra Max van Manens fænomenologi og forståelser af pædagogisk takt (Manen, 1991) og det pædagogiske øjeblik (Manen, 2012) er hensigten med artiklen først at vise, hvordan den pædagogiske rettethed på forskellige måder kommer til udtryk i pædagogisk arbejde. Dernæst at diskutere, hvordan pædagogers rettethed er et udtryk for pædagogisk kvalitet, og hvorfor den bør anerkendes som en vigtig del af pædagogers daglige evalueringspraksis med småbørn. På den måde tilstræber artiklen at bidrage med nye opmærksomheder omkring den evalueringskultur, dagtilbuddene lige nu står over for at skulle udvikle. AbstractSituated evaluative practices in pedagogical workThe new Danish Day Care Act specifies that the learning environment in daycare settings must be qualified and evaluated continuously by the pedagogues and with the involvement of children’s perspectives (Day Care Act 2018, Section 9). This implies the need for new knowledge about how we involve children’s perspectives in the evaluation and development of pedagogical practice. This article seeks to show how the pedagogues with the involvement of children’s perspectives develop the learning environment in a daycare setting. With the empirical term, situated evaluative practices the article proposes that pedagogical practice is evaluative in itself due to its inherent pedagogical intentionality. Inspired by Max van Manen’s “Phenomenology of Practice” (2007) and his concepts of pedagogical moment (2012) and pedagogical tact (1991), the purpose of the article is to, 1) describe and discuss pedagogical intentionality as a pedagogical situated and evaluative phenomenon, 2) to discuss why pedagogue’s intentionality should be recognized as an important part of pedagogue’s daily evaluation practice. The article thus seeks to contribute with new perspectives regarding the development of the new culture of evaluation, which Danish daycares currently are developing.

The Role of Web Assurance Seals in Nonprofit Giving

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-148
Author(s):  
Joseph Canada ◽  
Erica E. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Charitable Contributions ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Donor Support ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Web

ABSTRACT Using a sample of the 2,000 largest nonprofit organizations in the U.S., we document that the use of web assurance seals is not as commonplace as for-profit e-commerce websites. In particular, we find that only about 14 percent of sample organizations invest in web assurance seals. Those that do provide web seals are larger, less efficient, and spend more on fundraising and information technology. Interestingly, however, our size result weakens for the very largest organizations in our sample. In addition to our contribution to the web assurance literature, we also contribute to donations research in identifying another feature important to donors in the decision to give. Specifically, we find a positive relationship between web seals and donations, indicating that providing this type of assurance attracts more donor support. We believe this is particularly interesting given the relatively few organizations adopting this type of signal in the marketplace for charitable contributions. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text.

Challenges with Knowledge Construction in an E-learning Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 186-201
Author(s):  
Bolanle A. Olaniran ◽  
Oladayo Olaniran ◽  
David Edgell
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
E Learning

Knowledge construction, or new knowledge creation, is believed to be a way to allow learners to gain an in-depth knowledge and a greater control over the materials they are learning. E-learning technology platforms, that facilitate e-collaboration among learners, represent a way to foster knowledge construction. This chapter however, explores challenges facing knowledge construction especially when looking at “Culture” and how it affects two different learning philosophies or paradigms. This chapter elucidates some of the challenges and offers a new direction for accommodating different learners’ needs.

DeepaMehta

2011 ◽  
pp. 154-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Richter ◽  
Jurij Poelchau
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Birthday Party ◽  
Underlying Principle ◽  
New Findings ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Common Sense Knowledge

A crucial experience during my time at university— computer science (with focus on AI) and linguistics—was the documentary “Maschinenträume” (1988) by Peter Krieg. It features the long-term AI project “Cyc,” in which Doug Lenat and his team try to represent common sense knowledge in a computer. When Cyc started, in 1984, it was already known that many AI projects failed due to the machine’s lack of common sense knowledge. Common sense knowledge includes, for example, that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time, or that people die, or what happens at a children’s birthday party. During the night, while the researchers are sleeping, Cyc tries to create new knowledge from its programmed facts and rules. One morning the researchers were surprised by one of Cyc’s new findings: “Most people are famous.” Well, this was simply a result of the researchers having entered, besides themselves, only celebrities like, for example, Einstein, Gandhi, and the U.S. presidents. The machine-dreaming researchers, however, were in no way despondent about this obviously wrong finding, because they figured they would only have to enter the rest of the population, too. The underlying principle behind this thought is that it is possible to model the whole world in the form of ontologies. The meaning of the world can be captured in its entirety in the computer. From that moment the computer can know everything that humans know and can produce unlimited new insights. At the end of the film Peter Krieg nevertheless asks: “If one day the knowledge of the whole world is represented in a machine, what can humans do with it, the machine having never seen the world.”

Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space

Naked City ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Zukin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Text Message ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
Union Square ◽  
Main Entrance ◽  
The U.S

At 6 o’clock on a weekday evening in early July, Union Square is most alive. The small, oval park at its center, three acres of green nestled between four broad streets, throbs with music and conversation, with voices rising and swelling to join the steady drone of traffic on all sides. You see children swinging under their parents’ eye in small playgrounds on the park’s northern edge; at the southern end you pick your way carefully through a swarm of a couple hundred young men and women who are milling around the wide, shallow stone steps leading up to the park’s main entrance. Tourists browse the T-shirt and art vendors’ tables while other shoppers stop at the Greenmarket on their way home, and every fifth person in the crowd is making a call or reading a text message on their cell phone. The crowd skews young, mostly under thirty-five, their faces are mainly white but also black and brown and several shades of tan, and you hear a girl ask, “Where are you? Are you in front?” in Japanese on her phone. Next to the subway entrance a lone political demonstrator uses a portable loudspeaker to make a speech against the U.S. president; nearby, under a statue of George Washington on horseback, two New York City police officers, also on horseback, interrupt their early evening patrol to chat with a park cleaner in a bright red uniform and a private security guard in navy pants and a matching cap. So many people are sitting on green wooden benches under the trees that you can hardly find two seats together. Most of the occupants are watching the parade of passersby; some are listening through earbuds to portable music players, others read a book, and one or two doze. In the fenced-in dog run, pets frisk about while their owners laugh and talk. A trio of young musicians sits on benches in the middle of the park, setting up a cello and two violins for an informal outdoor rehearsal.

The Emotional Proletariat in Public Service

2020 ◽  
pp. 009102602092142
Author(s):  
Sung Wook Choi ◽  
Mary E. Guy
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Differential Outcomes ◽  
Lower Ranking ◽  
National Tax ◽  
The U.S

There is an emotional proletariat in public service. This class of worker is employed in lower ranking, lower paid jobs that are disproportionately performed by women. While this study focuses on the Korean context, findings also raise awareness to the U.S. context. An investigation of two distinctly different missions—national tax officials and police officers—reveals how the combination of gender and rank produces differential outcomes in regard to emotive demands. Women in lower grades suffer more emotional exhaustion and feel less pride in their jobs than women and men in higher ranks. The pattern provides evidence that emotional exhaustion is less about individual failure and more about predictable job characteristics. After describing findings, the conclusion speculates about generalizing to the American context.

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