scholarly journals Putting a Spotlight on Validators of Easy-to-Read Content

Disabilities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Rocío Bernabé ◽  
Piero Cavallo
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Current Activity ◽  
Text Simplification

Easy-to-Read content results from applying text simplification principles to make information accessible for persons with reading and learning difficulties. While both the creation process and simplification principles have gained the interest of scholars and the general public in the past years, the role of validators is still less visible compared with that of writers or translators. This paper sought to put a spotlight on validators by answering the questions of who these professionals are, what tasks they take on, and how they have acquired the necessary knowledge and skills for the job. In doing so, it investigated a subset of the data about validators’ demographical and educational backgrounds and current activity collected in an online survey launched within the innovative framework of the Erasmus+ project Train2Validate.

The Plight of the Orang Asli Women in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-226
Author(s):  
Rachel Thomas Tharmabalan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
General Public ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Orang Asli ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Village ◽  
Wild Edibles

In the past, Orang Asli women and men were considered equal, even though their roles were very different. As modernization slowly crept into their lifestyles, the gender divide has gotten a lot bigger and the paternalistic culture has taken a hold of many. Some researchers have said the skewed depictions was influenced by both Christianity and Islam, whereby women were considered to be created by supernatural powers alongside the male species. However, there have been accounts of women being the village chief, but as more anthropologists targeted their research on the Orang Asli, the role of a women in the decision making process slowly got relegated. Hence, this review aims to provide the role of Orang Asli women in educating the general public on the usage of wild edibles found in Malaysia and how it could be incorporated into street food to preserve traditional dietary culture. Some of the key challenges, plans, and practical applications are discussed to improve rural development and prepare a holistic mediation guideline to buffer the health and safety of the population.

scholarly journals A question of morals? The role of moral identity in support of the youth climate movement Fridays4Future

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248353
Author(s):  
Antonia Misch ◽  
Susanne Kristen-Antonow ◽  
Markus Paulus
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Environmental Engagement ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
European Youth

In the past year, an unprecedented climate movement has risen among European youth, so-called "Fridays4Future" (F4F). Thousands of pupils skip school every Friday to protest for better climate politics. The public debate on the protests contains highly mixed reactions, including praise as well as condemnation. Recent theoretical accounts propose that people’s engagement in community service and actions towards a greater good could be related to their moral identity. Moral identity (MI) is defined as the extent to which being moral is important to the personal identity. The current preregistered study investigates the link between moral identity and participants’ support for F4F in an online survey (N = 537). Results confirm the association between participants’ moral identity and their support for F4F, with the internalization scale predicting passive forms of support and the symbolization scale predicting active forms of support. Additionally, risk perception was found to play an important role. Thus, this study confirms the role of moral identity in people’s pro-environmental engagement and offers new insights in the context of an important and timely issue.

The Role of Higher Education in Supporting Sustainable Rural Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
pp. 294-315
Author(s):  
Maria Claudia Diaconeasa ◽  
Florentina Constantin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Rural Entrepreneurship ◽  
Set Up

This chapter refers to an empirical research that aims to analyze how the knowledge and skills acquired during undergraduate studies have been perceived by the graduate students and also how the higher education contributes to the development of entrepreneurship in rural areas. The research method identified as being more appropriate was a quantitative research based on an online survey established in accordance with the objectives set up. The participants in the research were the graduate students of the Faculty of Agri-food and Environmental Economy within The Bucharest University of Economic Studies. The findings are based on participants' open statements that could be important arguments to be taken into consideration for improving the decision making in higher education which would lead to the professional development of the graduates.

Higher Islamic Education and the Development of Intellectualism in Egypt: Case of Al-Azhar Education System

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-159
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abdel Fattah
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
General Public ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
The Past ◽  
Palm Trees

Higher Islamic Education in Egypt passed through many stages between strength and weakness, but what that cannot be denied is that there is an intellectual development that took place in this education due to different factors and reasons which influenced this development both negatively and positively. In the past, Islamic education was predominantly theological but the condition changed to the extent that the system became a twinning of general public education with Islamic studies education represented in Al-Azhar. Islamic education in Egypt thrived during the seventh to tenth centuries when primary Islamic schools were established as kuttābs, which subsequently advanced to Al-Azhar system. Kuttāb institutions emerged as spontaneous schools at grassroot level, often connected with mosques, but also created by the communities in homes, shops, tents, or under palm trees. Islamic studies education by then was built around individual teachers rather than institutions, and this helped the spread of education in the Muslim world. This later changed to institutional based education as evidenced in Al-Azhar. Therefore, the author in this paper intends to explore the factors that contributed to the intellectual development of Islamic education and the role of Al-Azhar in this endeavour. The view that Al-Azhar as an institution submitted to the Egyptian regimes and was unable to innovate intellectually and ideologically is one of this article’s major arguments.

Crossing boundaries

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
Nicola Laneri
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractArchaeology is not just about writing reports and interpreting ancient societies and their social structures, but it is also a process which should aim at the creation of a clear communicative message to the general public. Thus, archaeologists should be aware of every possible medium of communication – verbal, written, visual, sound – to express re-constructions of ancient pasts. In this essay I express some ideas about how archaeologists could collaborate with experts, for example theatre directors, in defining artistic way of communicating the past. Finally, I focus on the relationship between academia and fringe archaeology and I look into the political role of archaeologists in modern society.

scholarly journals Trust in Public Relations in the Age of Mistrusted Media: A European Perspective

Publications ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Ángeles Moreno ◽  
Ralph Tench ◽  
Piet Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
General Public ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
The Core ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Micro Level

One of the core problems of misinformation and post-trust societies is, indeed, trust in communications. The undermining of the credibility of media as the backbone of democratic societies is becoming a serious problem that affects democracy, business and all kinds of public institutions and organizations in society(ies). This paper explores perceptions of trust in key stakeholders involved in communication on behalf of organizations. Findings are considered at the professional (macro), departmental (meso) and individual (micro) level as well as considering the trusted role of non-specialist communicators for organizations including internal and external spokespeople. Data were collected from an online survey of 2883 respondents from 46 countries across Europe. Key findings were at the macro level that: antagonism between management communication professionals and journalists remains. The lowest trust in the profession is felt to be by the general public. At the meso level, top executives are perceived to trust the department the most followed by journalists in second place. External experts such as professors and consultants are perceived to be the most trusted by the general public. Finally, at the micro level individuals are more trusted than organizations or departments and the communication profession more widely.

scholarly journals Sosialisasi Program Latihan Motor Ablity Kepada Asisten Pelatih Dojo Lembaga Karate-Do Indonesia Se-Kecamatan Koto Tangah

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Arie Asnaldi ◽  
Kibadra Kibadra
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
General Public ◽  
General Sense ◽  
The Past ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

The role of a Dojo trainer in directing karateka to be able to achieve the things mentioned above, the City of Padang has many Dojo including the Dojo Angkasa Lanud Padang. Dojo in the general sense is a training ground. According to Wahid (2007: 8) Dojo which means "a place to study" in Japanese in the past refers to the meaning of "hall to meditate in the temple". Padang Dojo Angkasa Lanud is one of the Dojo Lemkari (Indonesian Karate-DO Institute) which has a Karate shutdown in Padang City, the karateka dojo consists of students from Angkasa Lanud Padang Middle School and the general public. Karateka at the Lemkari Angkasa Lanud Dojo Padang has a variety of achievements where in the past it had had quite a proud achievement that karateka performed in the Kata and kumite categories.

scholarly journals Evolving attitudes toward robotic surgery among Canadian urology residents

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. E266-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Locke ◽  
Michael Robinson ◽  
Andrew MacNeily ◽  
S. Larry Goldenberg ◽  
Peter C. Black
Keyword(s):  
Laparoscopic Surgery ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Fellowship Training ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Robotic Assisted ◽  
The Past ◽  
The U.S

Introduction: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RAS) has not been adopted as rapidly or widely in Canada as in the U.S. In 2011, Canadian urology residents felt that RAS represented an expanding field that could potentially negatively impact their training. We re-evaluate trainee exposure and attitudes to RAS in Canadian residency training five years later.Methods: All Canadian urology residents were asked to participate in an online survey designed to assess current resident exposure to and perception of RAS.Results: The response rate was 39% (61/157). Seventy-seven percent of residents reported being involved in at least one RAS procedure (52% in 2011), and the majority had exposure to <10 cases. For those in hospitals with access to RAS, 96% desired more console time, while only 50% of those without access wanted more console experience. Of all residents, 50% felt that RAS will become the gold standard in certain urological surgeries (34% in 2011), but only 28% felt that RAS would play an increasingly important role in urology (59% in 2011).Conclusions: Despite an increase in exposure to RAS in residency programs over the past five years, console experience remains limited. Although these residents desire more access to RAS, many voice uncertainty of the role of RAS in Canada. We cannot conclude whether RAS is perceived by residents to be beneficial or detrimental to their training nationwide. Moving forward in the robotic era, it will be important to either modify residency curricula to address RAS experience or to limit RAS to fellowship training.

scholarly journals The Significance of Information in the Ordinary Conduct of Life

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Robert Newhard
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Standard Questionnaire ◽  
Conduct Of Life ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Role Of Information

The information benefit provided to the general public by the developing telecommunications systems will be highly dependent upon the provider's perception of the current and potential role of information in the ordinary interests of life. Assessing this role cannot easily be done by standard questionnaire or survey methods because information does not have a conscious function in people's lives. Some paradigms from the past and present may, therefore, be of use in articulating the everyday importance of information.

scholarly journals Archeologia odpowiedzialna społecznie. Działania z zakresu public i community archaeology w Polsce

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 149-167
Author(s):  
Michał Pawleta
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Community Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper aims to conceptualize the social role of archaeology and archeological heritage in the present. First, it contextualizes the legal and doctrinal background of activities aimed at dissemination of cultural and archaeological heritage and engagement of public in initiatives around that heritage. Next, it describes main forms of outreach activities undertaken by archaeologists in Poland. Further, it presents community-oriented activities and initiatives that go beyond education of the general public about the past and archaeology and strive for engaging local communities in activities centered around archaeology and archaeological heritage. It concludes with a statement that openness of archaeology to society helps to strengthen its current social position, determines its role in the world and attributes social activities of archaeologists with a deeper meaning.

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