The informal culture of a direct care staff team supporting people with intellectual disabilities who present with behaviours that challenge

Purpose Research into culture within intellectual disability services, has predominantly focussed on small group homes in Australia. The current investigation aimed to explore the transferability of the dimensions of culture identified in the literature, to a residential Intellectual Disability service in the UK. The purpose of this study was to better understand the impact of informal culture upon the behaviour of direct care staff, particularly around managing behaviour that challenges. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with direct care staff. Interview transcripts were analysed thematically using template analysis. Findings Themes regarding leadership, perceptions of managers, team functioning, and relationships between direct care staff and service users, were identified, corroborating the existing literature. Additional themes relating to being aware of the risks posed by service users, and the emotional impact of behaviour that challenges, also emerged. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first qualitative study to explore informal culture within a community residential Intellectual Disability service in the UK.

THEATRE PERFORMANCES IN NON-THEATRE SPACES

Analyzing theatrical activity in extra-theatrical spaces based on the work of Guram Matkhonashvili, the author drew our attention to three performances of the talented theatre actor: “Countdown” by T. Melashvili, “Antimedea” by L. Bugadze and Shakespeare’s version of “Hamlet”. For which the director has found a solution in the extra-theatrical spaces: the buildings restored for the first performance, Malta beach in the Black Sea for the second, the environment in one of the most important spaces of Tbilisi’s informal culture - Mktvartse nightclub.

,,Niech zginą nałogi mięsno-wódczano-tytuniowo-modne”. Programy i idee polskich wegetarian XIX i początku XX stulecia

The article presents an analysis of the ideas and platforms developed by the first Polish vegetarians in the latter half of the 19th and in the early 20th century. The views of the following authors are considered: Konstanty Moes-Oskragiełło, Józef Drzewiecki, Janisław Jastrzębowski and Rajmund Jankowski. I draw attention to three basic features: anthropocentrism, eclecticism and a somewhat informal culture.

Cultura Informacional e a Mediação da Informação Contábil / Informal Culture and the use of Accounting Information

A mediação da informação envolve o receptor, uma situação/contexto e um mediador. Nesse sentido, o profissional da informação como agente mediador atua por meio da socialização e do compartilhamento de informações de forma que o receptor se aproprie da informação, processo no qual de posse da informação significativa é capaz de subsidiar a tomada de decisão. Para tanto, atribui-se que o êxito da mediação é resultado da cultura informacional. Como objetivo geral, pretende-se refletir a cultura informacional como alicerce para a mediação da informação e também sobre o papel do profissional contábil como agente mediador. Para isso, estabeleceu-se como procedimento metodológico a execução de uma pesquisa bibliográfica de natureza qualitativa do tipo descritiva e exploratória, tendo como método o estudo de caso múltiplo. Como resultado, foi possível identificar na cultura informacional o alicerce que viabiliza a mediação da informação nas práticas do profissional contábil em relação às necessidades informacionais dos stakeholders. Com isso, considera-se a cultura informacional como alicerce da mediação da informação, pois estimula o comportamento informacional dos stakeholders na valorização, compartilhamento, acesso e apropriação da informação contábil de forma que subsidie a tomada de decisão.

CULTURE OF YOUTH AS A SUBJECT OF STUDYING PHILOSOPHY

The article analyzes the culture and spirituality in the context of youth culture, those are the essence and content of the informal culture of youth and its influence on the development trends of national culture. In the formation of youth culture, new values and norms of the mutual influence of universal and national culture have been studied. In this regard, the national culture considers moral education of youth in the spirit of educating the centuries-old spiritual and cultural heritage of the Uzbek people

Children’s Dances at First Nation Powwows in Atlantic Canada

In this article, based on ethnographic research conducted at Mi’kmaw powwows throughout Atlantic Canada between 2004 and 2010, I will begin to address the lacuna in literature on First Nation children’s dances. I will describe the various children’s dances observed at powwows in Eastern Canada, as well as songs that are specifically used for children’s dances, contextualizing them within the traditional powwow event and in relation to emcee stage talk. I will also illuminate the socio-cultural functions of children’s dance at powwows and the relationship between dance and play. Finally, by focussing specifically on the living dance tradition of Mi’kmaq at cultural events in the Atlantic provinces, I will elucidate some of the forces that act upon informal culture, shaping and re-shaping it through time. This approach will highlight the relationship between popular culture and tradition in this context, revealing the emergent nature of lived traditions.

The contribution of privatization and competition in the education system to the development of an informal management culture in schools. A case study in Israel

Purpose Regulation and privatization of education systems has led to a “league standing” mentality regarding school achievements. The present study examines how school principals deal with the pressures of competition and achievements while aspiring to imbue pupils with values and a broad education. Design/methodology/approach 12 high school principals were interviewed about external demands imposed on them, their educational policy and modes of operation. Findings Publicly, school supervisors advocate a balance between core studies and education for values and enrichment. Informally they pressure principals to allocate maximal resources to preparing for high risk tests at the expense of other educational activities. School administrators and teachers, while dissatisfied with this approach, maintain a covert informal culture that concentrates mainly on external test achievements, which contrasts to their public value-rich educational vision, and undertake actions that raise educational, management and ethical questions. Research limitations/implications Understanding school culture requires a grasp of informal external pressures on school staffs and their influence on the gap between a school’s declared and actual policies. Practical implications Placing the schools’ informal culture on the research agenda will increase institutional transparency and may contribute to a greater correspondence between school visions advocating knowledge and values, and the policy actually implemented. Originality/value Raising this subject for discussion may contribute to a demand for more transparency in how schools allocate their resources. It may also help to increase the correspondence between the values and vision promulgated by schools and the educational policy they actually implement.