Implementation of new spill response technology through multi-level exercises in the South Baltic Area

INTRODUCTION The use of new methods and gear in oil spill response requires a profound knowledge on the logistics, the handling and the expected results within the response team. This includes responders in the field, on scene commanders and spill response managers likewise. Within the project SBOIL (2016-2019) the airborne application of biodegradable sorbents and subsequent offshore and onshore recovery was introduced in the South Baltic Area. To ensure a successful implementation, a holistic training concept, including three different types of training, was developed and executed.

Udsatte familiers perspektiv på koordinerede, helhedsorienterede sociale indsatser

ResumeFormålet med denne artikel er at søge svar på, hvordan deltagelse i et helhedsorienteret tilbud kan styrke familiers indflydelse på eget liv. Det forekommer at være lidt af et paradoks, at større indblanding i privatsfæren kan føre til øget indflydelse på eget liv. Artiklen har til formål, i et borgerperspektiv, at undersøge, hvordan paradokset opleves. Artiklens empiriske grundlag og fund stammer fra udforskning af projektet Familiens Trivsel – Barnets Trivsel over en periode på tre år. Et af formålene med projektet er at styrke udsatte familiers motivation og involvering – og give dem øget indflydelse på løsning af egne udfordringer. Artiklen behandler dette formål set i familiernes perspektiv. Analyserne har især fokus på tre fund. Det første fund handler om, hvorfor familierne har sagt ja tak til at deltage i tilbuddet, og hvordan den nye praksis tilbyder nye erfaringer med velfærdssystemet. Det andet fund drejer sig om, hvilke erfaringer familierne har med at have en medarbejder tæt på i privatsfæren, og hvordan udvikling af tillid forklares af familierne. Det sidste fund peger på, at helbredsudfordringer spiller en stor rolle i familiernes selvforståelse, og arbejdet hermed opfattes meget bredt. Vi konkluderer på fund om, hvordan tillid udvikles trinvis, og vi perspektiverer til, hvordan nye identitetsmuligheder potentielt giver adgang til nye fællesskaber. Vi perspektiverer desuden til det professionelle arbejde, der foregår i den forbindelse, som en tilførsel af socialpædagogik til det socialfaglige felt. Distinktionen mellem socialpædagogisk og socialfaglig tilgang defineres, kort fortalt, som forskelle mellem interventioner på borgerens præmisser i modsætning til interventioner på velfærdssystemets præmisser. AbstractVulnerable Families’ Perspectives on Coordinated and Holistic Social Efforts. On Empowering their Competencies to ActThe purpose of this article is to examine how participation in holistic training – as an offer to families – can strengthen families´ influence on their own lives. It seems paradoxical that increased interference in the private sphere can lead to increased influence on one’s own life. The article examines, from a citizen perspective, how this paradox is experienced. The empirical basis and the findings of the article derives from exploring the project The Family’s Well-Being – The Child’s Well-Being (Familiens Trivsel – Barnets Trivsel) for tree years. One aim of the project is to strengthen the motivation and engagement of vulnerable families and provide them with more influence on solving their own challenges. The article addresses this purpose from the families’ perspective.The analyses focus in particular on three findings. Firstly, why the families have accepted to participate in the training and how this new practice provide them with new experience regarding the welfare system. The second finding deals with the families’ experience with having an employee close to them and how development of trust is explained by the families. The last finding points out that health challenges play a major role in the families’ self-understanding, and the work on this covers a wide field. We conclude on findings on how trust develops incrementally, and we put into perspective how possibly new identities can provide access to new communities. Moreover, we put into perspective the professional work that takes place in this context, which is a supply of social pedagogy to the field of social science.

The role of religious education in the development of competencies specific to the training profile of high school graduates

Through the information, knowledge and values offered, the educational process aims at forming and shaping characters. The Christian character presupposes an improvement of each faculty of the soul through the relationship between grace and freedom and their constant harmonization, which can be achieved only with the help of a moral-religious education.If in most study disciplines the emphasis is mainly on information, in the case of religious education, the emphasis is on the formative aspect, which brings a balance in the holistic training of the young person. Based on the descriptions of the key competencies, the training profile of the high school graduate was derived from a European Commission document on these competencies on three levels of acquisition: elementary, functional and developed. Thus, by achieving the derived competencies proposed in the religious classes, the eight competencies aimed at training the graduate for integration into society can be developed.

Implementing Eccentric Resistance Training—Part 2: Practical Recommendations

The purpose of this review is to provide strength and conditioning practitioners with recommendations on how best to implement tempo eccentric training (TEMPO), flywheel inertial training (FIT), accentuated eccentric loading (AEL), and plyometric training (PT) into resistance training programs that seek to improve an athlete’s hypertrophy, strength, and power output. Based on the existing literature, TEMPO may be best implemented with weaker athletes to benefit positional strength and hypertrophy due to the time under tension. FIT may provide an effective hypertrophy, strength, and power stimulus for untrained and weaker individuals; however, stronger individuals may not receive the same eccentric (ECC) overload stimulus. Although AEL may be implemented throughout the training year to benefit hypertrophy, strength, and power output, this strategy is better suited for stronger individuals. When weaker and stronger individuals are exposed to PT, they are exposed to an ECC overload stimulus as a result of increases in the ECC force and ECC rate of force development. In conclusion, when choosing to utilize ECC training methods, the practitioner must integrate these methods into a holistic training program that is designed to improve the athlete’s performance capacity.

Political and pedagogical projects of nursing residency to the elderly from Paulo Freire’s perspective

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze political and pedagogical projects of nursing residency to the elderly from Paulo Freire’s perspective. Method: a descriptive, exploratory study, qualitative approach using documentary analysis. Data source was pedagogical political projects of nursing residency programs in the health of the elderly. The data were collected between March and May 2017. Data analysis was based on Bardin’s Thematic Analysis. It had as analytical categories specific dimensions of the proposed theoretical framework. Results: twelve pedagogical political projects showed that learning dimensions appear in an incipient, fragmented way, demonstrating the reproduction of banking education, disregarding the importance of bringing the student as a subject of learning. Conclusion: there is a gap in pedagogical political projects from Paulo Freire’s perspective. It is necessary that regulatory institutions can systematize and encourage so that pedagogical projects of these programs are based on Paulo Freire’s epistemological bases, enabling the so desired holistic training.

Reconstruction of pastoral and theological education in tropical Africa: A review of the case of St. Andrew’s College, Kabare

The article sets out to demonstrate the need for theopastoral education in tropical Africa, by showcasing St. Andrew’s College, Kabare, in Central Kenya. The statement of the problem therefore is: How has St. Andrew’s College, Kabare, journeyed with its establishment as a centre of theopractical education? This will drive us to methodologically employ historical-analytical design in our bid to understand the intrigues behind the formation and growth of the institution. As it prepares to graduate from a diploma college to a university, how has it wrestled with the challenges in its endeavour to reconstruct theological and pastoral education? The article sets on the premise that the nature of theological articulation in the East African region, as propounded by the then-all powerful East African Revival Movement, needed theopastoral reconstruction via establishment of an institution that would thoroughly address relevant concerns. To this end, the first synod of the diocese of Mt Kenya East, held at St. Andrew’s Church, Kabare, on 26 August 1975, requested the standing committee of the synod to appoint a commission to investigate the future plans of lay and clergy training and report this matter to the next synod. In other words, the first synod of the new diocese foresaw the birth of St Andrew’s as a centre of theological education and holistic training. In view of this, the article will explore the intrigues behind this process in a bid to show its relevance for the rest of the tropical Africa.

Understanding the wellbeing of professional musicians through the lens of Positive Psychology

Recognizing the need to include musicians in mainstream wellbeing profiling and to move beyond a focus on debilitating factors of the music profession, this study aimed to understand how professional musicians experience wellbeing in the light of Positive Psychology. Guided by the PERMA model, the goal was to track enhancers and challenges for wellbeing in relation to the model’s five components: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment. Participants included six professional musicians from six activities: solo, orchestral, choral, chamber, conducting and composing. Two interviews were conducted with each participant, separated by two weeks of diary record-keeping. Results point to high wellbeing. A clear sense of self appears as an overarching sustainer of wellbeing and the transition to professional life as the most challenging time regarding musicians’ flourishing. Positive emotions emerged as highly related to musical moments, while varying repertoire and experiencing different ensembles appeared as central sources of engagement. Meaning emerged as linked to the shared nature of music-making, and a sense of accomplishment was built on internal goals and oneness in performance with others. The key processes for positive functioning appeared to involve responses to, and regulation by, relationships. Implications are discussed in relation to the role of holistic training in educational settings.

La autoformación en el marco de la formación holística: desarrollo de competencias en la formación inicial de docentes / Self-Formation, within the Holistic Training Framework: as a Means to Develop Competences in Initial Teachers’ Training

ABSTRACTTo recognize teachers in training as an integral subject implies to create the conditions for full development, that is why it is important to include, in the training processes, a holistic view favors the recognition of diverse dimensions. We suggest three of them in this document for a further analysis the personal, the social and the academic dimensions. From this point of view, we advocate for self-education from a humanistic perspective, because it provides opportunities for the future teacher to become a proactive player in the complex environment where they perform their professional practice. From selftraining professional skills are developed as they are defined in the national syllabus. Through the humanistic perspective a proactive attitude is developed to face a changing and uncertain reality, thereby this formation is understood as a construction of human beings, which is constantly changing and as part of the initial training becomes the means of generating skills, knowledge, attitudes and values that will enhance their role for which it is formed.RESUMENReconocer al docente en formación como un sujeto integral, implica generar las condiciones para el desarrollo pleno, motivo por el cual incluir en los procesos formativos la visión holística favorece el reconocimiento de las diversas dimensiones, para este documento y con fines de análisis tres: personal, social y académica, a partir de esta visión es que se promueve la autoformación desde una perspectiva humanista que brinda las condiciones para que el futuro profesor sea un actor propositivo en el entorno complejo en el que desempeña su práctica profesional. A partir de la autoformación se promueve el desarrollo de las competencias profesionales, definidas en los planes y programas de estudio marco del desa-rrollo de la propuesta, consiguiendo una actitud propositiva ante una realidad cambiante e incierta, promoviendo con ello la formación, entendiendo esta como una construcción del ser humano, que se transforma constantemente y que como parte del proceso de formación inicial se convierte en el medio para generar habilidades, conocimientos, actitudes y valores que le permita desarrollar su rol para el cual se está formado. Contacto principal: [email protected]

The Overall Training Evaluation of Command and Control System

This paper proposed a set of evaluation index system to assess the holistic training effectiveness of the ship-borne command and control system, the criteria and computing method of each index are provided, the weights value of each index are analyzed and calculated, and provided a set of method to integrate the evaluation index for the evaluation system. The method could be used to promote the training and combat effectiveness.