This article examines a variety of work currently going on across the country in newly created hybrid spaces to more closely connect campus courses and field experiences in university-based ...preservice teacher education. It is argued that the old paradigm of university-based teacher education where academic knowledge is viewed as the authoritative source of knowledge about teaching needs to change to one where there is a nonhierarchical interplay between academic, practitioner, and community expertise. It is argued that this new epistemology for teacher education will create expanded learning opportunities for prospective teachers that will better prepare them to be successful in enacting complex teaching practices.
We examine the growing disconnect between the process‐oriented conception of entrepreneurship taught in the classroom and theorized about in premier journals and the variance‐oriented conception of ...entrepreneurship that characterizes empirical studies of the phenomenon. We propose that a shift in inquiry from entrepreneurship as an act to entrepreneurship as a journey could facilitate process‐oriented research by initiating a dialogue about the nature of the entrepreneurial journey, when it has begun and ended, whether it might be productively subdivided into variables or events, and what if anything remains constant throughout the process. Finally, we propose that a clearer understanding of the entrepreneurial journey is necessary to distinguish the field horizontally from research on creativity and strategy, and vertically from research on more practical business functions or more systems‐level concepts.
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Xieng Khouang and neighboring provinces in Central Laos are home to a vast megalithic landscape featuring large stone jars, discs, and imported boulders located in elevated positions. Sites were ...first noted in the late nineteenth century, with systematic recording commencing in the 1930s. Continuing on from the 2019 field survey by the Plain of Jars Archaeological Research Project, this paper presents the results of a 2020 survey across Xieng Khouang Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) which led to the documentation of 27 previously unreported megalithic sites, growing the Lao PDR Government database from 102 to 127 known jar sites, with 124 geo-located. In addition, a preliminary analysis of the known jar sites to date is conducted regarding distribution and jar characteristics providing a basis for further investigation.
In 2020 a Lao/Australian archaeological research team revisited one of the largest megalithic jar sites in Laos, Site 1, and undertook excavations in an effort to more fully understand the ritual ...practice at the site. This paper reviews previous research undertaken at the site and describes the recent excavation which revealed evidence of secondary burial practice dating to the 8th to thirteenth centuries. The research confirms the use of Site 1 as a burial site where multiple individuals were interred in secondary burials in shared mortuary contexts.
Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan, we measure the effect of disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution ...increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in the plan or age-matched participants contributing at least 6% of pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased savings. Discouragement from upward social comparisons seems to drive this reaction.
The impacts of COVID‐19 on early career tropical researchers are diverse and complex, including lack of funding opportunities, limitations to conducting fieldwork in remote places, reduced ...collaborations and networking, and difficulties when living and collecting data abroad. Here, we examine the current and future impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on this population through a survey of 213 students and early career tropical researchers from around the world. As of September 2020, 55% of participants had already experienced financial repercussions due to the pandemic. Future worries were diverse and included equal concern regarding advancement (collaborations and networking), job uncertainty, fieldwork, and funding, as well as mental health concerns. Successful strategies to support student and early career researchers with regards to the pandemic should include mentoring from those in more advanced career positions on how to reframe research that is no longer feasible to complete as originally intended. Additionally, those responsible for hiring decisions should not penalize applicants for gaps in productivity during this time.
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Los impactos de COVID‐19 en investigadores tropicales en etapas tempranas de su carrera son diversos y complejos incluyendo la falta de oportunidades de financiamiento, limitaciones para realizar trabajo de campo en lugares remotos, la reducción en las posibilidades de establecer nuevas colaboraciones, y dificultades para vivir y colectar datos en el extranjero. En este estudio examinamos los impactos actuales y futuros de la pandemia COVID‐19 en este grupo por medio de una encuesta a 213 estudiantes e investigadores tropicales que están en etapas tempranas de su carrera de todo el mundo. A septiembre de 2020, el 55% de los participantes ya habían experimentado repercusiones financiaras debido a la pandemia. Las preocupaciones sobre el futuro fueron diversas incluyendo una inquietud general con respecto al avance de las colaboraciones, la incertidumbre laboral, el trabajo de campo, la posibilidad de obtener financiación y la salud mental. Sugerimos que estrategias exitosas para apoyar estudiantes e investigadores en etapas tempranas de su carrera en tiempos de pandemia deben incluir la tutoría de aquellos en posiciones profesionales más avanzadas que apoyen y guíen en el proceso de re‐plantear proyectos de investigación que ya no sean factibles. Además, a aquellos responsables de las decisiones de contratación deben ser flexibles y entender las posibles brechas en productividad durante este periodo.
Here, we examine the current and future impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on this population through a survey of 213 students and early career tropical researchers from around the world. As of September 2020, 55% of participants had already experienced financial repercussions due to the pandemic. Future worries were diverse and included equal concern regarding advancement (collaborations and networking), job uncertainty, fieldwork, and funding, as well as mental health concerns
Sociologists long have observed that the urban poor rely on kinship networks to survive economic destitution. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among evicted tenants in high-poverty neighborhoods, ...this article presents a new explanation for urban survival, one that emphasizes the importance of disposable ties formed between strangers. To meet their most pressing needs, evicted families often relied more on new acquaintances than on kin. Disposable ties facilitated the flow of various resources, but often bonds were brittle and fleeting. The strategy of forming, using, and burning disposable ties allowed families caught in desperate situations to make it from one day to the next, but it also bred instability and fostered misgivings among peers. Adapted from the source document.
The field work study can bring about new changes in society, and one of which is in the religious field. Thus, there will be an impact of field work study. As in the field work study held in Cawang ...Lama Village, students as the agents of change can make a real contribution to society through this program. Accordingly, this research aims to find out the impact of field work study on adolescents’ religious development in Cawang Lama Village. Religious development is supported by several factors, one of which is the field work study which has a very influential impact on society. The type of this research is field research with a qualitative descriptive approach. The object is Cawang Lama Village, and the subjects are adolescents. From this research, it is known that the field work study has a positive impact on adolescents’ religious development through the programs that have been implemented by students.
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