The reform based on meaningful learning is a change process which entered in the education system in Israel. Like complex change processes in large systems and organizations, organizational change ...success depends on internal and external processes and factors. The connection between external stakeholders and internal stakeholders is two-way and is even more emphasized when one talks about change (Mintzberg & Westly, 1992), as on one hand, external stakeholders can initiate by themselves an organizational change where success will depend on cooperation and application of the change by internal stakeholders (Ford et al., 2008). The performed research checked the correlation between the support of external stakeholders and internal stakeholders in the reform of meaningful learning and their link to its success. The research findings show that external stakeholders as inspectors and parents have a significant role in successful implementation of a reform and their link to the internal stakeholders - principals and teachers - is an important indicator to the implementation of the reform, moderate resistance, and the overall reform's success.
This article compares the judicial mediation practices in the Netherlands and in China. It analyzes original and rich data obtained through in-depth fieldwork in courts in both China and in the ...Netherlands. Through comparison, we find Dutch and Chinese judges share similar mediation skills and techniques in judicial mediation. However, the interviewed litigants give contrasting evaluative opinions to the judicial mediation and to the on-going litigation procedure: the Dutch litigants are generally satisfied while the Chinese litigants are less so. This paper seeks to explain what caused the opposite outcomes. We attribute the cause to different judicial environment, judges’ motivation promoting mediation, and how mediation is conducted. The article concludes by challenging the ideas of promoting the “settlement judge” in a developing legal context.
The research in this Special Issue is an international collection of studies focusing on the current challenges and possibilities in teacher education. The contributors examine teacher education with ...theoretical and empirical approaches including both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The studies demonstrate that future teachers need high-level ethical and pedagogical skills to cope with the new challenges in education. With a research-based and holistic approach, we can educate good teachers for tomorrow's schools. Contributors to this collection of eleven articles reflect global issues in teacher education originating from Australia, Estonia, Finland, England, Portugal, and Sweden.
Purpose
In a recent article, Schaefer et al. (2015) argue that cultivating appropriate beliefs and values, cultivating systems thinking and encouraging responsibility are the stages to be followed to ...achieve sustainability-as-flourishing from an organizational perspective. This analysis forms the basis for the development and discussion of a conceptual model to educate undergraduate business students at a New Zealand University into responsible leaders who strive to enact sustainability-as-flourishing in organizations.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper critiques current approaches to sustainability which often reflect a narrow understanding of human needs and do not demand necessary transformation in the way we interact with the world around us. It then provides an overview of sustainability-as-flourishing, and its various stages, with relevant examples from business. This is followed by a discussion of the conceptual model, the pedagogical philosophies underpinning it and the teaching methods required for shifting business students’ mindsets towards this end.
Findings
This is a conceptual paper that offers a new teaching model for sustainability-as-flourishing. The paper concludes with suggestions for sustainability educators in business.
Originality/value
To date, sustainability-as-flourishing is underdeveloped in the business literature. This conceptual paper unpacks this notion further. Additionally, it provides a model for business educators to teach sustainability-as-flourishing. While some of these ideas and features have been described in the literature previously, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time they have been brought as a coherent whole under this broader and unique approach of sustainability-as-flourishing.
The importance of education in developing human potential, improving careers, and helping realize dreams. Education is considered the foundation of culture and civilization, with the curriculum as an ...integral guide in the implementation of education. The curriculum is considered as a tool to achieve educational goals and determine the direction of the nation's life. Education in Indonesia receives special attention, as stated in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution.Various efforts, such as the allocation of funds to improve the quality of education, scholarships for students and teaching staff, as well as the "freedom to learn" movement launched by the Minister of Education Nadiem Makarim, are expected to improve the quality of education. Freedom to learn aims to provide freedom of thought to teachers and students, encourage innovation and creativity in the learning process. The importance of teacher competency is also emphasized as an important factor in achieving class education and meeting international standards. International standards, such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) concept, are used as a reference for measuring the quality of education. The independent learning curriculum is proposed as an important step in achieving educational goals, and its implementation at SMK Negeri 1 Enam Lingkung.
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this paper is to examine digital applications used in Swedish schools and whether they fulfill their potential as support for learners. This is done by examining the kinds of ...feedback they provide and discussing if this feedback supports learning or not. Background: The paper targets one aspect regarding which educational apps can be of high value for learners and teachers, namely the feedback they provide. The paper also addresses the need for supportive feedback and reviews 242 apps with respect to what types of feedback they provide. Methodology: A sample of apps used in primary school was collected via email to schools in Sweden. The author evaluated each app with respect to what kind of feedback it provided. The article concerns both positive and negative feedback, with a focus on negative. The following types of feedback were evaluated; verification feedback, corrective feedback, elaborated feedback, encouraging feedback and result feedback. Contribution: This paper contributes to knowledge regarding how most apps only contain verification feedback (telling the student whether their answer was correct or not). In order to help a student while learning, verification feedback is not enough. Rather, previous research has shown that explanatory feedback is more beneficial for learning. Findings: Seventy-seven percent of all apps contained verification feedback, and only 12 % provided the student with some type of explanation as to why their answer was incorrect. Looking at previous research, this is not desirable if one wants the app to support learning and not only act as a testing device. Fifty-five percent of all apps also contained some type of encouragement, but none of this encouragement addressed the task or the effort the learners put into the task - something that would be preferable from a learning perspective. Recommendations for Practitioners: There is much to be gained for developers of educational software if they would make more use of the feedback in educational apps. As for now, the feedback is primarily suited for testing and not for learning. For users of apps (teachers, parents, and children) this paper shows that feedback can be and is an important factor to evaluate before deciding if the app is "worth" spending time on. Recommendation for Researchers: The research describes different types of feedback and their (dis)advantages. Impact on Society: The paper stresses that most feedback represented in apps today corresponds to a behavioristic approach comparable to instrumental conditioning by means of reinforcement. In essence, most apps miss the opportunity of treating the learner as an active and constructive being who would benefit from more nuanced feedback. Future Research: Previous research has shown that elaborated feedback is more beneficial for learning, but more research needs to be done here, the amount of elaborated feedback will most likely affect varying student groups and varying tasks in different ways. And more importantly, how can we make the students pay attention to and act upon the feedback provided to them.
This paper addresses the challenges and benefits of involving biological parents in group homes in Israel and presents various means to encourage their involvement in care. Using family systems ...theories and the concept of co‐parenting, it analyses the fragile and complex relationship caseworkers and foster parents have with biological parents. The paper presents four components that might play a role in encouraging parental involvement to benefit their children's adjustment. The components are demonstrated through case studies and include assessing the family profile; addressing the family's needs within the child's intervention plan; training biological and foster parents; and building co‐parenting between biological and foster parents.
We conducted a field study to investigate the social acceptance of social robots by stores, particularly for attracting passersby, which today's robots can autonomously perform. From interviews with ...ten store managers, we identified two main reasons they want to employ such social robots in their stores: robots offer cheap labor and provide unique value that humans cannot. They believe that robots are good at attracting the attention of visitors without causing or receiving stress. We also conducted three case studies in which we observed how store managers employed social robots in their stores. Each store manager requested different designs in the preparation phase. After deployment, we found that the managers were generally satisfied with the services autonomously offered by the robots, which successfully encouraged people to stop. For two out of three stores the robots successfully encouraged visitors to visit. The store managers were satisfied with the results and expressed a desire to use the robots again.
We present a simple and effective ensemble method, Diversity Encouraging Ensemble (DEE), for deep convolutional networks to boost their performances. By training the convolutional network in two ...stages, we generate multiple component networks without adding any training cost. On the one hand, we modify the structure parameters of component networks in the training process to enlarge the diversities of the networks, which is found to be beneficial to improving the ensemble performance. On the other hand, we exploit monotonous decreasing learning rate schedule to accelerate the speed of deep network converging to different local minima, and we decrease the training time of integrating multiple networks to that of training a single network from traditional multi-step learning policy. We evaluate our ensemble method on two challenging action datasets, UCF-101 and HMDB-51, and obtain performance improvements from single deep network and other ensemble methods. Our results also outperform many state-of-the-art action recognition methods.
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