More Than Content: Training Peer Leaders in Mentoring Leadership

Training peer leaders to mentor students is an essential component of any peer-led team learning training program. This training method article begins by establishing a definition of mentoring and describing its theoretical underpinnings. Piagetian disequilibrium is one component of why mentoring is effective because interpersonal interaction efficiently assists students in learning how to deal with mental discomfort and grow intellectually from it. A four-part theoretical definition of the components of mentoring serves as the theory base for our training curriculum: (1) psychological and emotional support, (2) goal setting and career paths, (3) academic subject knowledge support, and (4) existence of a role model. In translating theory into practice, we train leaders to follow five key tenets as mentors: (1) be a learning coach, not a tutor, (2) create a trusting environment among your team members, (3) assist students in learning how to learn from feedback, (4) assist students in learning time management skills, and (5) meet with students one-on-one periodically to provide personalized academic and social support. The time commitment to training by a peer leader is 35 hours per semester via a combination of pre-semester training, in-semester group training, and in-semester one-on-one training. Practical suggestions on how to train leaders are provided.

Implementing and Sustaining Family Care Programs in Real-World Settings: Barriers and Facilitators

This presentation will summarize the extant published studies on the translation of proven family care programs for dementia in different care settings. This review is the first to our knowledge to examine the specific implementation efforts deployed in care settings for different family caregiver programs. In this review, we sought to answer three basic questions: (1) What theory base(s) or conceptual framework(s) guided the implementation of evidence-based family care programs?; (2) What implementation strategies were used to support translation into practice?; and (3) What were the identified drivers of and barriers to organizational change required for adoption of an evidence-based program? Understanding the frameworks and strategies deployed in translational studies published to date can help guide future translation efforts, inform the design of new family caregiver support programs that optimize their implementation potential, and ultimately help to minimize the “family care gap.”

Developing Accurate Visual Conventions?

Five articles about pictorial materials that were published in Visual Anthropology Review were read with an aim to compare the research approaches of anthropology and visual communication design. This text focuses on three themes in the five articles that relate to pictorial materials: processes, terminology, and the objectivity of visual evidence. Several questions and uncertainties are very similar in both disciplines. It might be beneficial for investigations into visual communication design practices to consider the level of detail, a critical theory base, and reflexive positions that form the basis for the five anthropology articles. Both disciplines need to look at terminology and investigate the motivations and impact of pictorial materials.

Fostering Holistic Development with a Designed Multisport Intervention in Physical Education: A Class-Randomized Cross-Over Trial

Physical education (PE) is acknowledged as a relevant context for holistic child and youth development promotion. However, interventional research mostly builds on individual theories focused on specific outcome domains. This study presents a multisport enriched PE intervention that capitalizes on the intersection of different theory-based approaches to motor, cognitive and socio-emotional skills development promotion. With a cross-over design, 181 fifth graders, coming from a past class-randomized trial of enriched or traditional PE in their 1st–3rd grade, were stratified (based on their previous PE experience) and class-randomized to multisport enriched PE or control group. They completed pre-post assessments in motor and sport skills, cool (inhibition, working memory) and hot (decision making) executive functions, prosocial (empathy, cooperation) and antisocial (quick-temperedness, disruptiveness) behaviors. Children in the enriched PE group showed advantages in motor and prosocial skills after the intervention, which were linked by a mediation path, and an interactive effect of past and actual PE experience on decision making but no differential effects on other variables. The results suggest that a PE intervention designed with an integrative theory base, although not allowing disentangling the contribution of individual components to its efficacy, may help pursue benefits in motor and non-motor domains relevant to whole-child development.

The Extent Green Marketing Has Been Embraced in the Construction Industry - Employee Perspective in Zimbabwe

Purpose The purpose of this research was to examine the awareness of employees about green marketing, the initiatives taken by contractors and the challenges encountered in implementing the concept in the construction industry in Zimbabwe. Methodology The study was quantitative using an explanatory research design with the study population limited to construction companies registered with CIFOZ. A sample of 182 executives representing construction companies completed the questionnaire. The data were analysed using STATA version 12. Findings The findings showed a positive awareness in employees to green marketing in the industry and a positive perception of practices as evidenced by the construction employees. However, there are challenges in the implementation of green marketing, including a lack of green standards. Contribution and value add Based on employee perspectives, a conclusion was reached that green marketing has been embraced in the Zimbabwean construction industry, and there are green marketing initiatives undertaken by the construction companies in that country. The results of this study contribute to the body of academic knowledge, hence the theory base that was used to drive this study could be amended as a result of the insights from the study.

A Study of Strategic Change Based on Coevolution

This paper analyzed the process of strategic change from the direction of the coevolution trait and learning ability by adopting a model of roller. Strategy change theories are sorted into two schools, namely the exogene school and the endogeny school. We wish to mix these two schools together to make use of the coevolution theory. Base on that, a model of roller to explain the process of the coevolution of the strategic change is then developed. In our opinion, the successful strategic change comes from the resultant force within-firm and without-firm.

The end of social work

Social work literature is saturated with calls to reform social work in diverse and contradictory ways. This article argues that the profession of social work cannot be reformed and must be abolished. Specifically, the master narrative of Anglophone social work must be abandoned along with the institutions which maintain it; the professional bodies, the academic discipline and the formal title. Four reasons for this are presented: social work’s lack of coherent theory base, the problem of professionalism, social work’s historical abuses and the profession’s inability to rise to contemporary challenges. The fundamental theoretical tensions in social work theory are identified as preventing the profession from reconciling its aims of assuaging individual suffering and achieving social justice. This has also hindered social work’s aspiration to professionalism, which is both distracting and actively prevents social workers from working with people and communities. While these issues may have once been resolvable, the historical and contemporary contexts prevent resolution. Social work’s uncertain theoretical foundations, desire for professional legitimacy, past abuses and contemporary failures put the profession beyond recovery. No solutions or resolutions are suggested. What pieces are to be salvaged from the wreck of social work must be determined by the post-social work world.