scholarly journals Reading Camps and Travelling Libraries in New Ontario, 1900-1905

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorne D. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Government Action ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Original Plan ◽  
Key Issues

AbstractIn 1900, the Ontario Department of Education and Alfred Fitzpatrick engaged in an experiment to supply books to reading camps for lumber, mining, and railway workers in Northern Ontario. The center-periphery interplay between education officials and Fitzpatrick gave birth to two important adult education agencies: Frontier College and Ontario’s travelling library system. Although the Department partially accepted Fitzpatrick’s original plan for library extension, he garnered enough public support and employer endorsements to leverage government action on key issues related to a systematic book supply, the reduction of illiteracy, and non-formal adult learning techniques. This paper uses primary sources to examine the differing objectives held by Fitzpatrick and the Department during their initial joint venture prior to the Ontario election of 1905. The study highlights why travelling libraries became a provincial responsibility; as well, it shows Fitzpatrick reshaped his original plans by practical interactions with resource workers that led to new approaches for adult learning at the outset of the 20th century.RésuméEn 1900, le Département de l’éducation de l’Ontario et Alfred Fitzpatrick se lancent dans une expérience : celle d’approvisionner en livres les camps des travailleurs forestiers, des mines et des chemins de fer dans le Nord ontarien. Cette interaction « centre-périphérie », des fonctionnaires et de Fitzpatrick, a donné naissance à deux agences importantes d’éducation aux adultes : le Frontier College et le système ontarien de bibliothèques ambulantes. Bien que le Département ait accepté partiellement le plan originel de Fitzpatrick pour l’expansion du système de bibliothèques, ce dernier a pu compter sur un soutien suffisant de la part du public et des employeurs pour motiver le gouvernement à agir sur des questions clés comme l’approvisionnement en livres, la diminution de l’analphabétisme et l’application de techniques d’apprentissage non-formelles pour les adultes. Cet article s’appuie sur des sources primaires afin d’examiner les objectifs divergents de Fitzpatrick et du Département au début de leur entreprise commune, et ce, avant l’élection provinciale de 1905. L’auteur expose pourquoi les bibliothèques ambulantes sont passées sous la responsabilité provinciale. Il montre également que Fitzpatrick a adapté ses plans originaux à la suite d’interactions avec des travailleurs-ressources qui menèrent à de nouvelles approches en éducation aux adultes au début du vingtième siècle.

Sensis.Com.Au

2011 ◽  
pp. 148-158
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Internet Searches ◽  
Search Market ◽  
Dot Com ◽  
First Mover

Sensis Search, a young entrepreneurial dot-com launched in 2004, is the first mover in redefining the Australian search market and creates a new paradigm for Internet searches that delivers relevant, quality local, and global results. This chapter focuses on exploring the experiences of Sensis Search and identifying key issues of its operation. Data for this qualitative case study was collected mainly from two primary sources: (i) a documentary research into Sensis’ business reports, online newsletters, memos, agendas, and other official publications, and (ii) an in-depth interview with a senior manager of sensis.com.au. The case study illustrates how Sensis has been managed, how it has succeeded, and what lessons can be learned from its experience.

It's Time to Stop Training … and Start Facilitating

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond F. Crapo
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Learning Techniques

This article holds that most agencies have a pedagogically-based training operation and, as such, one that is not effective. The transition to andragogical methodology requires a major re-education of the training staff, an undertaking few training organizations attempt. It is only through adult learning techniques that the “best and brightest” and key policymakers in organizations will become involved in development programs.

scholarly journals Opinion of low-income families on public support of the population of the Sakhalin Oblast (on the materials of surveys and interviews)

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Ol'ga Vladimirovna Chudnova
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Assistance ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Socially Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Sakhalin Oblast

The object of this research is the low-income incomplete households of the Sakhalin Oblast. The subject is the current state of trends and peculiarities of the measures of public assistance for the low-income incomplete households of the Sakhalin Oblast. The author gives detailed overview to the main vectors of public assistance of households in the region, and describes the key issues faced by the recipients of public assistance. Special attention is given to the questions of assessment of efficiency of public assistance measures, signifying the prioritized vectors for optimization of this process in the Sakhalin Oblast. The conclusions are based on results of specific sociological research, conducted by the author using surveys and interviews. The research demonstrates that the region is undergoing large-scale efforts on meeting the vital needs of the socially vulnerable groups of the population, but not all measures correspond to the volume, quality and accessibility requirements of low-income incomplete households, and are in need of serious correction and establishing constant monitoring of the efficiency of measures based on feedback from the recipients.

scholarly journals Implementing a Child Protection Curriculum: Lessons from a South Australian Trial

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Professor Bruce Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Curriculum Materials ◽  
Teacher Isolation ◽  
School Initiatives ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Australian Department

In 2004–5, the South Australian Department of Education and Children’s Services (DECS) revised its child protection curriculum by producing new draft materials and having them trialled by teachers in a small number of schools. The trial was conducted to establish the quality of the draft curriculum and to identify the support processes used by schools to help teachers implement the new curriculum. The study confirmed that the curriculum materials were of good quality and generally helpful to teachers planning to teach child protection. It also revealed that school leaders and teachers used a range of sophisticated micropolitical strategies to address several key issues and dilemmas that emerged from the trial. These strategies included establishing the moral purpose of the child protection curriculum, reducing teacher isolation by building collaborative coalitions, integrating the curriculum with other school initiatives, and dealing with resistance to the curriculum. Knowledge gained from the study will inform other schools wishing to use the materials (launched this year as Keeping Safe (DECS, 2008)) to support the teaching of child protection strategies.

Selecting and Evaluating Learning Objects

2011 ◽  
pp. 94-117
Author(s):  
Ellen Whybrow
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Organizations ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Key Issues

In the previous chapters, you became acquainted with key issues in developing online learning. You gained an awareness of some of the overall issues facing learning organizations. Finally, you looked at the needs of your audience in terms of learning styles, inclusivity, and adult learning characteristics.

Person-Centered Planning Training for Consumer-Directed Care for the Elderly and Disabled

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney B. Davis ◽  
Carol B. Cornman ◽  
Marcia J. Lane ◽  
Maria Patton
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Case Manager ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Developmentally Disabled ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Learning Techniques

Based on the need for a training program for person-centered planning, SC Choice, a Real Choice/Independent Living Grant, included the development of training materials and a training program for the implementation of the transformation from agency case manager to care advisor. The development of this training included receiving the person-centered planning training currently used by the developmentally disabled agencies, as well as interviews and focus groups with interested staff and participants. A training program for the Elderly/Disabled Waiver population using adult learning techniques is described in detail. Included in this training are the philosophy, the activities, and the necessary steps to complete person-centered planning for the transition of a case manager to a care advisor in a consumer-directed program for the elderly.

scholarly journals The microdynamics of spatial polarization: A model and an application to survey data from Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (50) ◽  
pp. e2104194118
Author(s):  
Olivia J. Chu ◽  
Jonathan F. Donges ◽  
Graeme B. Robertson ◽  
Grigore Pop-Eleches
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Eu Support

Although spatial polarization of attitudes is extremely common around the world, we understand little about the mechanisms through which polarization on divisive issues rises and falls over time. We develop a theory that explains how political shocks can have different effects in different regions of a country depending upon local dynamics generated by the preexisting spatial distribution of attitudes and discussion networks. Where opinions were previously divided, attitudinal diversity is likely to persist after the shock. Meanwhile, where a clear precrisis majority exists on key issues, opinions should change in the direction of the predominant view. These dynamics result in greater local homogeneity in attitudes but at the same time exacerbate geographic polarization across regions and sometimes even within regions. We illustrate our theory by developing a modified version of the adaptive voter model, an adaptive network model of opinion dynamics, to study changes in attitudes toward the European Union (EU) in Ukraine in the context of the Euromaidan Revolution of 2013 to 2014. Using individual-level panel data from surveys fielded before and after the Euromaidan Revolution, we show that EU support increased in areas with high prior public support for EU integration but declined further where initial public attitudes were opposed to the EU, thereby increasing the spatial polarization of EU attitudes in Ukraine. Our tests suggest that the predictive power of both network and regression models increases significantly when we incorporate information about the geographic location of network participants, which highlights the importance of spatially rooted social networks.

scholarly journals The Austro-Hungarian creation of a “humanitarian” pretext for the planned invasion of Serbia in 1912-1913: Facts and counter-facts

Balcanica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 131-156
Author(s):  
Mile Bjelajac
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Public Support ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Old People ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
Famous Book ◽  
The Media

This paper argues that reporting on the Balkan Wars by some of the Austro- Hungarian media and state officials on the ground was not impartial, but rather aimed to obtain international public support for the planned military intervention against Serbia in late 1912 and mid-1913. The primary task of the newly-established Albanische Korrespondenz B?ro or Budapest Korrespondenz B?ro was to disseminate horrifying news from the Balkan theatre of war, especially on the alleged Serbian misconduct, to the media in Europe and the United States of America. The famous New York Times, alongside other papers, put those Austrian-made reports on its front pages. Historians believe that influenced the Carnegie Endowment to start a comprehensive inquiry in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars. As early as the spring of 1913 the propagandist and journalist, Leo Freundlich, published in Vienna his still famous book Albania?s Golgotha: Indictment of the Exterminators of the Albanian People, calling out for someone to ?stop those barbarians?: ?Tens of thousands of defenceless people are being massacred, women are being raped, old people and children strangled, hundreds of villages burnt to the ground, priests slaughtered. And Europe remains silent!? Austria-Hungary mobilized its army, but its ally Germany pulled back. This paper offers facts listed in those reports as well as stories that circulated at the time, along with the Serbian primary sources intended for internal purposes and some narratives of foreign observers on the ground who were often annoyed with the Korrespondenz B?ro?s reporting or other papers of the kind. It suggests, however, that responsibility for the atrocities committed in the war still needs to be examined carefully, just like it was concluded long ago: ?The wrong they did leave a sinister blot upon their record, but it must be viewed in its just proportion.?

scholarly journals Effective Models of Reintegration for De-occupied Territories

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 325-340
Author(s):  
Nina Rzhevska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Political Life ◽  
State Control ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
Publicly Supported ◽  
Effective Models

The article aims to reveal the essence of the reintegration process of the occupied and de-occupied territories, determining the current state and characterizing the conflict in the East of Ukraine. Its components and implementation tools are analyzed, and foreign models of reintegration of the occupied and de-occupied territories are presented and evaluated; there is also determined the degree of their conformity for Ukraine. In this research, there was made an attempt to find the most effective model for the reintegration of Donbas, which would not only contribute to the demilitarization and restoration of state control in these territories, but also prevent the emergence of separatist movements, stimulate the process of returning, and integration of citizens to the social, cultural, economic and political life of their country of origin. It was stressed that the Ukrainian model for restoring the territorial integrity and reintegration of Donbas should be based on compromise and key issues that have a positive international grounding for which the government has a public support, combined with a strong national, international, and military one. There is a greater chance for working out a mutual standpoint of Ukraine and its international partners which would allow the conflict with Russia to be solved. It is noted that the problem remains since there is no consensus among citizens on the optimal way of restoring the territorial integrity of Ukraine. That is why there is an urgent need to create a comprehensive strategy to restore the territorial integrity and reintegration of Donbas. It will have a necessary impact on all the parties of the conflict, and result in a publicly supported compromise. This can be achieved despite the current domestic and international peculiarities of the process; help can be expected from international experience in restoring peace as well as from the government’s approach to the process of reintegration and shaping up a unified state.

scholarly journals Three Reasons Not to Believe in an Autism Epidemic

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton Ann Gernsbacher ◽  
Michelle Dawson ◽  
H. Hill Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Case Finding ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Crucial Feature ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance

According to some lay groups, the nation is experiencing an autism epidemic—a rapid escalation in the prevalence of autism for unknown reasons. However, no sound scientific evidence indicates that the increasing number of diagnosed cases of autism arises from anything other than purposely broadened diagnostic criteria, coupled with deliberately greater public awareness and intentionally improved case finding. Why is the public perception so disconnected from the scientific evidence? In this article we review three primary sources of misunderstanding: lack of awareness about the changing diagnostic criteria, uncritical acceptance of a conclusion illogically drawn in a California-based study, and inattention to a crucial feature of the “child count” data reported annually by the U.S. Department of Education.

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