Abstract This article addresses the accessibility of medical education for rural students, focusing on the intersection of rurality and socioeconomic privilege. We present findings from a study of ...rural background medical students from four Australian medical schools, which explored their experiences of admissions processes and their ongoing socialisation. Participants characterised admissions pathways as complex, requiring social capital to navigate. Though most participants expressed pride in their rural identity and spoke favourably of rural lifestyles, they readily shared their frustrations about the restricted opportunities available to rural students. Analysing their accounts through an intersectional lens illustrates the way the stigma and disadvantage of a rural geographic background are exacerbated by intersecting oppressions and mitigated by certain privileges. For some students, an authentic rural identity arose from intersections of class and locality; they referred to others who had come from a more privileged background with a weaker connection to a rural community as ‘fake rural’. These findings offer valuable insights to research on medical education and rural sociologies, as they can contribute to the creation of more effective and informed widening participation measures.
Purpose
– This paper aims to gather empirical evidence for what colleagues from different organizations reported they learned from informal professional learning conversations. Informal learning ...conversations with colleagues is a powerful yet understudied source of self-directed, professional development.
Design/methodology/approach
– This study of mixed methods investigated the types of learning 79 leaders from 22 organizations reported they learned via post-conversation surveys from 44 peer-led discussions over a two-year period.
Findings
– Survey data suggest empirical evidence of five learning outcomes – informational, conceptual, operational, reflective and social learning. The study describes these categories, the overall distribution of these types of learning in the community and how most conversations were “high-yielding” in a particular outcome.
Originality/value
– To the knowledge of the authors, this study is the first to suggest empirical evidence of categories of learning that participants report from informal, cross-organizational learning conversations.
The Flipped Class Wilson, Stephanie Gray
Teaching of Psychology,
07/2013, Letnik:
40, Številka:
3
Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
Undergraduate statistics courses are perceived as challenging by both students and instructors. Students’ attitudes, motivation, math anxiety, and preparedness can negatively impact the student and ...instructor experience and have the potential to negatively impact student learning. This article describes an attempt to address some of these challenges through structural and procedural changes to an undergraduate statistics course that is required for social science majors. The traditional lecture/homework structure of the course was “flipped” so that the majority of basic knowledge acquisition moved out of the classroom, making room for interactive activities during class time. The described changes had a positive impact on students’ attitudes toward the class and instructor as well as on students’ performance in the class.
Purpose - This paper aims to present multidisciplinary, research-based insights into the challenges of changing behaviors at large-scale in organizations and articulates practical approaches for ...leaders.Design methodology approach - A literature review of research and practices of social and organizational change was conducted and thematically summarized. The themes were discussed and revised with input from twenty global leaders and a dozen university researchers at a two-day conference held at Harvard University's Learning Innovation Laboratory.Findings - Supporting changes of practice in organizations depends on a leaders understanding how to best affect collective behaviors. Emerging research from the fields of political science, social networking, and social change suggest that leaders can build three types of bridges that support large-scale change: emotional bridges by creating strategic narratives, relational bridges by targeting social clusters, and structural bridges by leveraging pre-existing social associations in organizations.Practical implications - The themes illustrate practical approaches that leaders can use to diagnose the types of change they wish to support and offer concrete strategies for designing and supporting changes in collective behaviors.Originality value - This article aims to present a unique synthesis of emerging, multidisciplinary research on supporting collective change in organizations and offers an intuitive model to support leaders in their actions.
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to illuminate in practical terms research-based approaches that enable organizational leaders to support effective decision-making in teams.Design methodology ...approach - A literature review of emerging group decision-making research was conducted and thematically summarized. The themes were discussed and revised with input from twenty global leaders and a dozen university researchers at a two-day conference held at Harvard University's Learning Innovation Laboratory.Findings - What leaders do early on has lasting impact on a team's ability to make effective decisions. Research shows that leaders have the most impact on group decisions at the beginning when they frame the team's goal (purpose), member roles and skills they bring to the group (people), and initial strategies (process). The earlier teams establish these frames the more likely they have put in place the conditions for effective decision-making.Practical Implications - The themes illustrate a model that leaders can use when making choices of when to use teams for decisions, how to design decision making teams, and how to launch them.Originality value - This article aims to present a unique synthesis of research-based findings on group decision-making and offers a simple model for action.
Origin of the Gang Name "Crips"1 Gray, Wilson; Cohen, Gerald
Names,
12/1/2007, 2007-12-01, Letnik:
55, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The "Crips" derive their name from "cripples," which in turn derives from the "pimp canes" they carried as their badge and as a weapon with which to cripple anyone who messed with them. The original ...motivation was self-defense, but that, of course, changed with time.
Research on metro systems has been a multi-faceted field ranging from the accessibility of the networks to passengers’ utilities gained from their riding experience. In addition to issues of ...affordability, safety, and intermodal connectivity, a critical aspect to enhance metro riders’ experience is through non-travel related in-station facilities, such as food vendors, seating areas, elevators, handicap equipment, and public toilets. An understated area in the metro system planning is the placement of public toilets that provide passengers with sufficient sanitary services. To this end, the study identifies the shortage of public toilets in the Shanghai Metro and then proposes a network-based location model to improve the service coverage. The model has been applied to three planning scenarios under which construction efforts and transit stations are considered. By considering this unique location problem in a large metro system, this paper demonstrates a valuable example of developing transportation systems to fulfill the needs of not only accessibility but also public health. This effort is of great significance to inform city planners and stakeholders of necessitating sanitary services in sustainable mass transit development.
This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske ...students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of ‘Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular’. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.
What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular "texts" reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? John Fiske answers these and a host of other questions in Understanding Popular Culture .
When it was first written, Understanding Popular Culture took a groundbreaking approach to studying such cultural artifacts as jeans, shopping malls, tabloid newspapers, and TV game shows, which remains relevant today. Fiske differentiates between mass culture – the cultural "products" put out by an industrialized, capitalist society – and popular culture – the ways in which people use, abuse, and subvert these products to create their own meanings and messages. Rather than focusing on mass culture’s attempts to dominate and homogenize, he prefers to look at (and revel in) popular culture’s evasions and manipulations of these attempts.
Designed as a companion to Reading the Popular , Understanding Popular Culture presents a radically different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people. It is not imposed on them, it is created by them, and its pleasures and meanings reflect popular tastes and concerns – and a rejection of those fostered by mass culture. With wit, clarity, and insight, Professor Fiske debunks the myth of the mindless mass audience, and demonstrates that, in myriad ways, popular culture thrives because that audience is more aware than anyone guesses.
@contents: Selected Contents: Acknowledgements Why Fiske Still Matters Henry Jenkins Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray and Pamela Wilson Notes on Contributors Preface Chapter 1 The Jeaning of America Chapter 2 Commodities and Culture Chapter 3 Productive Pleasures Chapter 4 Offensive Bodies and Carnival Pleasures Chapter 5 Popular Texts Chapter 6 Popular Discrimination Chapter 7 Politics References Index
John Fiske is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
inch-scale soil column experiments were performed at The University of Arizona to examine the effects soil type and infiltration rate on the removal of wastewater organcs during soil aquifer ...treatment ~AT). The suitability of such waters for potable uses following a combination of above-ground treatments id SAT polishing was under investigation. SAT was simulated in 1-meter soil columns containing packed homogenized soils ranging from poorly graded sands to silty sands. Soils were obtained from ,isting and potential effluent recharge sites in Arizona. All columns received chlorinated/dechlorinated condary effluent, ponded to a 25-cm depth above the soil surface, under alternating wet/dry conditions. reatment efficiencies in biologically active and inhibited columns were compared to determine the echanism(s) of water quality improvements and the sustainability of SAT. Water quality parameters eluded: (i) non-purgable dissolved organic carbon and (ii) UV absorbance at 254 nm (used as a measure disinfection-by-product precursors). Differences in through-column removal of non-purgable dissolved ,.ganic carbon were significant for columns containing sandy loam (56%), sand (48%) and silty sand 4%). Removal of UV-absorbing organcs was not significantly different for columns containing sand and ndy loam (22 and 20%, respectively). There was no significant correlation between infiltration rate and moval efficiency of either organic parameter for both soils.
