Lowering higher education Côté, James E; Allahar, Anton L
Lowering higher education,
c2011, 20160415, 2011, 2015, 2011-01-15, 2016-04-15
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"What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory ...Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the corporatization of universities to a range of contentious issues within higher education, from lowered standards and inflated grades to the overall decline of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences instruction."
"Lowering Higher Education points to a fundamental disconnect between policymakers, who may rarely set foot in contemporary classrooms, and the teachers who must implement their educational policies - which the authors argue are poorly informed - on a daily basis. Côté and Allahar expose stakeholder misconceptions surrounding the current culture of academic disengagement and supposed power of new technologies to motivate students. While outlining what makes the status quo dysfunctional, Lowering Higher Education also offers recommendations that have the potential to reinvigorate liberal education."--pub. desc.
Visual messages are widely used to positively influence in conservation attitudes of visitors in tourist destinations, these are usually persuasive or prohibitive. According to the literature, ...attitudes are classified as explicit (conscious) or implicit (subconscious) and there may be differences between them towards the same attitude object. This paper aim to presents the analysis of said attitudes towards prohibitive and persuasive visual messages focused on the correct disposal of garbage in a tourist attraction. A structured questionnaire was used for explicit measurement and the Implicit Association Test for implicit measurement, these were applied in two sun and beach destinations in the Mexican Caribbean. After the tests carried out, it is established that both messages (persuasive and prohibitive) are effective at an explicit level; however, at an implicit level, the persuasive message produces more favorable attitudes, thus is a better opportunity to positively influence conservationist attitudes.
The purpose of this study was to research the relationship between attitudes towards sports and self-efficacy levels of individuals who do leisure-time activities. 894 people voluntarily participated ...in our study. The personal information form, the attitude scale towards sports developed by Koçak (2014) and the general self-efficacy scale developed by Sherer, et al. (1982) and adapted to Turkish by Yıldırım and İlhan (2010) were used in the study. The data were analyzed in the SPSS 25.0 package software. Furthermore, statistical frequency analysis and reliability coefficient calculations were used and since the data were normally distributed, Independent Samples t-test was used for pairwise cluster comparisons and the Anova test was used for more than two comparisons. Analyses were conducted at a confidence interval of 95%. According to the results of the study, it was found that the total mean score of the participants' attitude towards sports (89.62) and the mean score of self-efficacy (60.08) were above the medium level. A positive and low-level significant relationship was found between the participants' general attitude towards sports (r= ,221), psychosocial development (r= ,215), physical development (r= ,206), mental development (r= ,123) and self-efficacy. As a result, it was found that the participants' self-efficacy level increased as the mean scores of the general attitude towards sports and the mean scores of the sub-dimensions increased.
We examined the development of children's positive and negative attitudes toward other-gender peers over 1 year, and explored the longitudinal social consequences of holding positive or negative ...attitudes on the beholder of these attitudes. Participants were 206 second graders (Mage = 7.18 yrs, SD = .56, 50% girls) and 206 fourth graders (Mage = 9.10 yrs, SD = .66, 44.2% girls) from diverse ethnic racial backgrounds (54.6% White; 17.2% Latinx, 4.4% Black, 5.3% Asian, 2.9% Native American, .7% Pacific Islander, 13.1% other) with average household income ranged from $51,000 to $75,000, and they were assessed in 2 consecutive years. Developmental change was assessed using latent change score analysis, which showed that positive other-gender attitudes increased over time (for boys) whereas negative other-gender attitudes decreased for everyone. Path analyses showed that both positive and negative other-gender attitudes predicted children's perceptions of stressful other-gender interactions and their inclusion expectancies by other-gender peers longitudinally, controlling for same-gender attitudes. We also examined the extent to which the predicted relation between attitudes and inclusion expectancies was mediated by children's perceptions of stressful experiences with other-gender peers. We found that the extent of mediation varied by the type of attitudes and by children's age. Overall, findings contributed to the understanding of the development of children's other-gender attitudes, and underscored the consequences of these attitudes for the beholder of attitudes. This work also sheds light on the discussion of intervention strategies aimed at improving children's gender-based intergroup relations.
Les différentes recherches rassemblées dans ce numéro de Synergies Espagne démontrent l'importance des technologies numériques tant dans le processus d'enseignement-apprentissage des langues que dans ...la recherche linguistique et soulignent leur utilité et leur valeur dans le développement de pratiques et de recherches innovantes. L'échange de pratiques dans des environnements numériques est d'une importance vitale pour une éducation de qualité, fondamentale pour l'amélioration de notre société. Nous devons être attentifs aux nouvelles propositions de nos homologues afin d'avancer ensemble et d'appliquer les outils du monde numérique à notre contexte avec réflexion et organisation.
The curse of ham Goldenberg, David M
2003., 20090411, 2009, 2003, 2005-01-01, Volume:
19
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How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this ...groundbreaking book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how dark-skinned peoples, especially black Africans, were portrayed in the Bible and by those who interpreted the Bible--Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Unprecedented in rigor and breadth, his investigation covers a 1,500-year period, from ancient Israel (around 800 B.C.E.) to the eighth century C.E., after the birth of Islam. By tracing the development of anti-Black sentiment during this time, Goldenberg uncovers views about race, color, and slavery that took shape over the centuries--most centrally, the belief that the biblical Ham and his descendants, the black Africans, had been cursed by God with eternal slavery.Goldenberg begins by examining a host of references to black Africans in biblical and postbiblical Jewish literature. From there he moves the inquiry from Black as an ethnic group to black as color, and early Jewish attitudes toward dark skin color. He goes on to ask when the black African first became identified as slave in the Near East, and, in a powerful culmination, discusses the resounding influence of this identification on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking, noting each tradition's exegetical treatment of pertinent biblical passages.Authoritative, fluidly written, and situated at a richly illuminating nexus of images, attitudes, and history, The Curse of Ham is sure to have a profound and lasting impact on the perennial debate over the roots of racism and slavery, and on the study of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Refiriéndose a los supuestos teóricos de la Tecnología Positiva, el estudio examinó las actitudes hacia las TIC, el uso de tecnologías específicas y su relación con el bienestar psicológico ...eudaimónico (PWB). 204 adultos emergentes (edad promedio 21.61, DE = 2.99; rango 19-30; mujer 85, hombre 108) participaron en la investigación. El uso de tecnologías de la información específicas se asocia positivamente con la posesión de actitudes favorables para ellos y con diferentes componentes del bienestar psicológico eudaimónico. El uso de correos electrónicos está positivamente relacionado con un mayor bienestar eudaimónico global, un mayor sentido de crecimiento personal, la presencia de numerosos proyectos de vida y relaciones sociales satisfactorias. El uso de sistemas predominantemente icónicos como Instagram aparece, en cambio, vinculado a una menor autonomía percibida.
Cette recherche répond à un problème managérial presque banal dont la réponse est souvent — et à tort — construite à partir du bon sens : Devrais-je mentionner la date de fondation de ma marque (DFM) ...ou entreprise sur mon logotype et plus généralement la communiquer, notamment lorsque celle-ci est ancienne ? Une analyse qualitative comparative sur ensembles flous montre que communiquer la DFM ne conduit pas toujours à une attitude positive du consommateur envers la marque. La présence de la DFM sur le logotype peut même être dommageable pour certaines marques.
Why does respect for persons involves accepting that persons have responsibilities, and not just authority, for their lives and interactions? I show how we can answer this question with a role-based ...view: respect for persons is an attitude of recognizing others for a social role they occupy. To fill in a role-based view, we need to describe the practice into which the pertinent role figures. To do this, my account draws on the Rousseauian idea of inflamed amour-propre. Roughly, respect for persons is an attitude of recognizing persons for the role they occupy in a social practice that helps solve the problem of inflamed amour-propre.
La evaluación de las actitudes hacia la estadística de los futuros profesores alcanza interés por la importancia que la formación en esta disciplina tiene en la sociedad actual, para la ciudadanía en ...general, y, específicamente, por su relación con la alfabetización científica de los maestros. Dado que un elemento básico en la evaluación es que se apoye en medidas válidas y fiables, el objetivo final del presente trabajo es fundamentalmente métrico y consiste en obtener evidencias de consistencia y validez estructural y criterial de la Escala de Actitudes hacia la Estadística (EAE), que se aplica a 542 estudiantes de los grados de Maestro en Educación Primaria e Infantil. Después de describir al colectivo estudiado, se aborda el constructo desde un enfoque multivariado adecuado para datos ordinales, con análisis factorial confirmatorio (ULSMV) y árboles de decisión (CHAID y CART). Los resultados indican que los estudiantes consultados no tienen unas actitudes muy positivas y consideran que su manejo de la estadística es insuficiente para realizar investigación, pero muestran interés por estar actualizados y poder discriminar entre lo cierto y lo falso. Tras evaluar once modelos de medida, se concluye aportando evidencias de la convergencia y consistencia de un constructo con cinco dimensiones y 24 ítems, con índices de ajuste aceptables en este colectivo. Además, se evidencia la utilidad de los ítems de la EAE para predecir los criterios utilizados, autoevaluación del desempeño e indicadores de la importancia que los futuros maestros otorgan a la ciencia y a la investigación en su profesión.
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