The ECD Community: A Social Invention (1965–2007)

2018 ◽  
pp. 147-170
Author(s):  
Lillian Hoddeson ◽  
Peter Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Concurrent Programs ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Supportive Culture ◽  
John Bardeen ◽  
Distinguished Group

This chapter portrays the ways Stan and Iris Ovshinsky made ECD an expression of their progressive social values as well as an advanced R&D organization. A social democratic enclave sustained by capitalism, ECD tried to maintain an egalitarian, supportive culture even as it grew to over a thousand employees. ECD enabled staff members to develop unsuspected talents, with support for continuing education and the appointment of women and minorities to important positions. Its democratic corporate culture also enabled it to develop a flexible research community, where scientists moved among concurrent programs to contribute wherever they were needed. Its research staff was joined by a distinguished group of consultants, which included Nobel laureates like I. I. Rabi, Sir Nevill Mott, and John Bardeen, as well as several talented younger scientists. ECD also reached out into the larger community with its Institute for Amorphous Studies, which sponsored public talks on many subjects.

Continuing education and professional development of library staff involved with makerspaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Horton
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Job Title ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
Question Survey

Purpose This paper reports the results of a survey of library staff members working with a library makerspace or with makerspace-related technologies. The purpose of this paper is to identify who is working with library makerspaces, what methods of training they have used, what training methods they prefer, and what topics they would like to see included in professional development and continuing education. Design/methodology/approach A 17-question survey was posted to two library makerspace-related listservs for two weeks. Findings The survey results found a varied array of job title of individuals working with library makerspaces. It also identified the preferred training methods, as well as the varied topics requested for professional development, showing a large need for a makerspace training in library staff. Originality/value This is the first study conducted about the preferred methods and topics of professional development and continuing education of library staff members working with makerspaces or makerspace-related technologies.

Teacher and School Characteristics: Their Relationship to the Inservice Needs of Teachers

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Oliver
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Research Community ◽  
School Characteristics ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Inservice Education ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Once teachers enter the world of teaching, their opportunities to find continuing education become diffuse and often problematic. Despite the significance placed on continuing education by school districts, inservice and staff development activities are largely understudied in the research community. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ inservice preferences and the relationship of these preferences to selected teacher and school characteristics. A 25-item questionnaire was administered to 85 secondary physical education teachers to assess their preferences for inservice education activities. Multiple regression and factor analysis revealed that selected teacher and school characteristics accounted for significant proportions of the variance as measured by the Inservice Needs Inventory.

A Risky Business? Research, Policy, Governmentality and Youth Offending

Youth Justice ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Risky Business

Media hyperbole about children and crime, along with electoral politics, may well reflect a configuration of personal anxieties, competing social values and public policy options. In this article, I will argue that it is a configuration that represents a crisis of governance far more than a crisis of ‘youth’. However, the research community is far from blameless in the propagation of ‘myths’ about children and crime and has shown itself to be far too willing to become yet another mechanism of governmentality rather than maintaining critical distance from the administrative policies of the state and thereby contributing to a wider public debate on policy. This article is divided into four parts. First, it will briefly review recent trends in youth offending and consider the contradiction that seems to be exposed between offending rates and criminal justice policies. Second, it will explore how research on young people and ‘risk’ has contributed to the growth of a crime prevention industry focused on children, the construction of deviance and early intervention policies. Third, this dominant ‘risk factor’ paradigm is critiqued, along with the discourses of crime that are implicit within it. Finally, an alternative approach to researching children and ‘risk’ is proposed.

Assessing Corporate Culture of an Enterprise-based on Competing Values Framework Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1176
Author(s):  
Iryna S. BALANDINA ◽  
Larysa V. OBOLENTSEVA ◽  
Svitlana A. ALEKSANDROVA ◽  
Yana O. POLYAKOVA ◽  
Sergii B. DULFAN
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Competing Values Framework ◽  
State Enterprise ◽  
Competing Values ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Chemical Reagents ◽  
Framework Design ◽  
New Information ◽  
Labor Resources

The corporate culture of the enterprise in the present conditions becomes an effective competitive advantage, the uniqueness of which is to exclude the possibility of copying it by other market participants through the reproduction of the process of social interaction between the employees of the company on the basis of the formed common ideas and understanding. Therefore, the main purpose of the work is to assess the corporate culture of the enterprise based on competing values framework design. The state enterprise ‘Plant for chemical reagents’ (SC ‘Zavod khimichnykh reaktyviv’) was chosen as the research object. An important step in assessing the corporate culture, for the period under study, is the analysis of the internal labor resources of the enterprise. It was established that the research object reduced the number of staff members. The work revealed vectors of corporate culture. It was also found that the company is recommended to introduce a new information system, taking into account the need for market monitoring; to improve the system of motivation of employees of the enterprise; complete the certification process according to ISO 2010 standards.

WHO—A Source of Inspiration for Researchers?

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannu Vuori
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
National Health ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Research Community ◽  
World Health ◽  
Staffing Pattern ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Traditionally, the research community—be it biomedical or socio-medical—has not looked at the World Health Organization for inspiration. Understandably so: according to its constitution, the organization was founded to assist the Member States in strengthening health services by providing technical assistance (1). The staffing pattern has reflected this role; most staff members are technical experts, not researchers. They often come from the national health administrations and have limited exposure to—sometimes even limited understanding of—research.

scholarly journals Nourishing STEM Student Success via a TEAM-Based Advisement Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Polnariev ◽  
Reem Jaafar ◽  
Tonya Hendrix ◽  
Holly Porter Morgan ◽  
Praveen Khethavath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Student Persistence ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
First Year ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Supportive Culture ◽  
Stem Students

LaGuardia Community College is an international leader recognized for developing and successfully implementing initiatives and educating underserved diverse students. LaGuardia’s STEM students are holistically advised by a team of dedicated faculty and staff members from different departments and divisions. As an innovative approach to advisement, students are first connected to an advising team member in their discipline-based first-year seminar and consequently guided by other cross-institutional advisement team members to ensure their continued success. In this article, we share our policies, processes, and promising practices in advising STEM student at an urban public institution. We present arguments that address and support five pillars for student success: 1) the student matters, 2) supportive culture matters, 3) effective communication matters, 4) data matters, and, 5) clear pathways and effective advisement matters. Finally, we present empirical evidence that show positive results in terms of students’ retention. Specifically, there was an improvement in the actual Fall 2015 to 2016 return rate of STEM students, from 62.9% to 64.6%. Our scaled practice demonstrates the value of collaborative team-based advisement efforts as supported through professional development can improve community college STEM student persistence when the above five pillars are fully espoused by the institution. 

scholarly journals Internalization of Moral Values in the Frame of International School

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Partono - ◽  
Wifda Untsa Nailufaz ◽  
Uswatun - Khasanah ◽  
Nur Anisa Amala Widyastuti ◽  
Sinta Ulliyana Hidayatika
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Values Education ◽  
International School ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
National Values ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Collecting Techniques ◽  
The Hague

This study aims to see how the process of internalizing moral values in Indonesian Foreign Schools, in this case, the Dutch Indonesian School in The Hague (SIDH). The research method used is descriptive qualitative with data collecting techniques such as interviews and documentation. The results showed that the moral values facilitated by SIDH include social values (which are reflected in honesty, responsibility, cooperation, tolerance, and peace, among others), religious values (which are reflected in obedience to worship and how to get along with the opposite sex by the teachings Islam). The value of nationalism (reflected in students while maintaining and introducing Indonesian culture in the Netherlands). Being present and developing in the Land of Windmills is not a barrier to continuing education by adhering to national values. Education does not deprive students of the roots of tradition or national moral values wherever education is located.

Digital dissemination skills in public libraries

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Skøtt
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The Individual

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate what con`sequences the digitisation of public libraries’ knowledge dissemination and the transition to online services has, for library staff members’ perception of their skills. This discussion is interesting because library staff members, by politicians, stakeholders, and other opinion makers, have been appointed as key facilitators of citizens’ continued attachment to civil society and the labour market. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on interviews with library staff members at Danish public libraries. Empirical data were collected through semi-structured e-mail interviews, based on an interview formula, and via follow-up telephone conversations. Library professional rapports and research literature were identified and applied as a theoretical framework in the creation of the analytical apparatus. Findings There were several different explanatory models available when respondents had to articulate their current challenges. The first model regarded the library staff members’ lack of skills as a political-organisational issue, occurring because of a lack of invest in their continuing education. Continuing education had therefore become a personal matter. The second model highlighted the library staff members’ lack of skills as an individual, library professional problem, where the responsibility for solving the problem lay with the individual employee. Originality/value Several studies have been conducted on library staff members’ skills and how they change, due to the transition to digital forms of dissemination. The present study strives to give employees a voice, which is why the respondents’ experiences are the starting point for the analytical work. Such studies are essential to understanding the extent and nature of the problem.

Biotechnology and the Fear of Frankenstein

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
COURTNEY S. CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Informed Choice ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Genetically Modified Food ◽  
The Public ◽  
Educational Agenda ◽  
The Way

It is a commonplace in the scientific and corporate discourse advocating biotechnology that the public is largely uneducated or scientifically illiterate when it comes to understanding the research methods and goals of biotechnology. Public dissent from biotechnology is, in this understanding, based exclusively in irrational fears. The way to dispel these public fears is for scientists in the research community and among corporate culture to engage in education of the public. At one level, it is argued that public educational forums will provide the information the public needs to make an informed choice about the scientific, ethical, and social implications of biotechnology or will provide guidance on such practical questions as whether to consume genetically modified food. However, the educational agenda is not quite that innocent of normative intent: rather, the assumption is that information the public is provided about biotechnology will persuade them of its benefits, its minimal risks, and its ultimate prospects for reshaping our world for the good of all. Objections to biotechnology will then largely dissipate, perhaps voiced occasionally by extremists who will represent the inevitable Luddite resistance to all things technological.

scholarly journals The role of the programs of the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University in developing the research skills of the students

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nawal Abdulaziz bin Hwaimel
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Faculties Of Education ◽  
The University

The objective of the research is to identify the role of the Deanship of Scientific Research programs at King Saud University in developing the research skills of postgraduate students in the humanitarian faculties. The researcher relied on the descriptive descriptive method and the questionnaire as a research tool that was distributed to a sample of (351) female graduate students at King Saud University in the humanitarian colleges. Using the statistical program (SPSS), the research reached the following results: Scientific research at King Saud University in the development of research skills on the average of (2.87) of (5) with the estimate (I agree to some extent), and at the level of axes, the axis (development of skills related to access to information among students) , 90), with a grade (I agree to a certain extent) followed by a (Development of skills related to writing research) (2.85), an estimate (I agree to some extent), and finally the development of skills related to students' In the statistical analysis of female students and obtained an average of (2.82), with grade (I agree to some extent). There were statistically significant differences at (α0,05) in the responses of members of the research community for the benefit of the members of the research sample in the master stage. There were statistically significant differences at the level of (α0,05) in the responses of the members of the research sample in the faculties of (Education, Arts) and the responses of members of the research community in the faculties of Business Administration, Political Science and Law, Tourism and Archeology, Education, Arts). In light of the results, the researcher recommended a number of recommendations to develop the research skills of the students, including: Increasing the seminars, training courses and workshops offered by the Deanship of Scientific Research within the university. And to benefit from the staff members with high experience in the programs of the Deanship; to serve the postgraduate students, and provide assistance, and answer their questions. And to make the most of the means of social communication; to reach the largest possible segment of postgraduate students. And to hold periodic meetings with graduate students; to introduce the services of the Deanship.

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