scholarly journals SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING CHESS EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Miopap Samvel Asatryan

Armenia has adopted chess in primary school programs since 2011, and different types of research have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this implementation. One of the questions to be addressed after chess adoption is: “What are the main and contextual factors of the effectiveness of that implementation?”, or “How these factors have been changed?”. The article tries to answer those questions by conducting correlational research on a representative sampling of Armenian students, their parents and teachers.

Author(s):  
Anne Nassauer

This book provides an account of how and why routine interactions break down and how such situational breakdowns lead to protest violence and other types of surprising social outcomes. It takes a close-up look at the dynamic processes of how situations unfold and compares their role to that of motivations, strategies, and other contextual factors. The book discusses factors that can draw us into violent situations and describes how and why we make uncommon individual and collective decisions. Covering different types of surprise outcomes from protest marches and uprisings turning violent to robbers failing to rob a store at gunpoint, it shows how unfolding situations can override our motivations and strategies and how emotions and culture, as well as rational thinking, still play a part in these events. The first chapters study protest violence in Germany and the United States from 1960 until 2010, taking a detailed look at what happens between the start of a protest and the eruption of violence or its peaceful conclusion. They compare the impact of such dynamics to the role of police strategies and culture, protesters’ claims and violent motivations, the black bloc and agents provocateurs. The analysis shows how violence is triggered, what determines its intensity, and which measures can avoid its outbreak. The book explores whether we find similar situational patterns leading to surprising outcomes in other types of small- and large-scale events: uprisings turning violent, such as Ferguson in 2014 and Baltimore in 2015, and failed armed store robberies.


Author(s):  
Shaundre Jacobs ◽  
Veerle De Bosscher ◽  
Ranel Venter ◽  
Jacqueline Martins Patatas ◽  
Jeroen Scheerder

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motoi Nishi ◽  
Hirotsugu Miyake ◽  
Tateki Shikai ◽  
Mizue Takeuchi ◽  
Hiroki Tanaka ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Chad Seifried ◽  
Tiffany E. Demiris ◽  
Jeffrey Petersen

The present study offers a descriptive history of the football grounds at Baylor from 1894 to 2014. The current review identifies important individuals and notable events that impacted the football facilities at Baylor. Moreover, the contextual factors influencing each period of change were recognized, and it was determined if Baylor’s facilities followed the pattern of other regional peers. In the case of Baylor, football ultimately created social anchors for the institution and Waco because the increasing popularity and commercial interest in college football produced spectacles capable of providing a unique campus spirit. Next, the spectacle of football and spirit both established and improved alumni relationships and corresponded with interest in elevating the prestige of the university and city to attract students, visitors, and businesses to operate in the area. Finally, the construction of various Baylor football playing grounds produced significant media attention capable of boosting enrollments and recognition that Baylor was a major university.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 618-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Uys ◽  
Catherine Elizabeth Draper ◽  
Sharief Hendricks ◽  
Anniza de Villiers ◽  
Jean Fourie ◽  
...  

Background:The purpose of this study was to assess factors that influence physical activity (PA) levels during break-times in South African primary school children.Methods:The System for Observing Play and Leisure Activities in Youth (SOPLAY) was used to observe PA levels during break-times at low-income schools (4 intervention, 4 control). The intervention was based on action-planning including: school environment, curriculum, and family involvement. Categories of observed activity included Sedentary, Eating, Walking, or Vigorous PA. Contextual factors assessed included teacher supervision, equipment, and crowding. Chi-square tests were used to determine associations between PA levels and contextual factors.Results:In the 970 observations made, 31% of learners were sedentary, 14% were eating, 29% were walking, and 26% were engaged in vigorous PA. There were no differences in break-time PA between intervention and control groups (NS). With supervision, children were more likely to eat and less likely to do vigorous PA (P = .035). Playground crowding was associated with lower levels of vigorous activity and more sedentary behavior (P = .000).Conclusions:PA during break-time was adversely affected by over-crowding and lower with supervision. The results suggest that interventions may be targeted at the school policy environment to reduce these barriers to PA.


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