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The purpose of this article is to examine recent changes in the geography national curriculum in South Korea through the lenses of three curriculum components that often find themselves in competition - subject content, educationa...
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The purpose of this article is to examine recent changes in the geography national curriculum in South Korea through the lenses of three curriculum components that often find themselves in competition - subject content, educational processes and national/social purposes. In recent years, the prevailing national and social aims outlined for the school curriculum, coupled with newly introduced educational processes, have dominated debate about curriculum development in South) Korea. These trends have created an essentially unhealthy environment for geography education - the number of students opting for geography courses has declined; the geography curriculum is in danger of being restructured around. new axes of competency; and only certain aspects of geographical subject content (such as territorial issues) are selectively promoted. We conclude that, with South Korean education policies being strongly influenced by neoliberal and market forces, geography teachers may need to adopt a more proactive stance with regard to curriculum change. The grassroots reform movement 'Sipsiilban', initiated by a handful of Korean geography teachers, has recently taken geography curriculum matters into their own hands and developed alternative geography curricula and textbooks.
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Introduction and methods. In 2020 the Italian National Transplant Centre (Centro Nazionale Trapianti, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy) launched two online surveys to explore waitlisted and transplanted patients’ needs....
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Introduction and methods. In 2020 the Italian National Transplant Centre (Centro Nazionale Trapianti, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy) launched two online surveys to explore waitlisted and transplanted patients’ needs. Results. The analysis of two-year results shows prevailing feelings of anxiety and discouragement (44.5%) in waitlisted patients. A mere 19.7% expresses feelings of trust and hope. Conversely, in transplanted patients, gratitude (65.7%) predominates. Both transplanted (53.5%) and waitlisted patients (41.5%) worry about organ rejection and complications, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was an additional concern. The latter report certainty of transplant as their main need (81.3%), followed by psychological support (41.8%) also indicated by 27.9% of transplanted patients, while donor-recipient anonymity is an issue for 31.3% of the transplanted. Conclusion. Focusing on the needs and, above all, taking them on, means putting the patient at the centre of care and increasing the chances of a better life despite sufferings and preoccupations.
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Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the delivery of follow-up care for high-risk infants. We performed an audit to characterize programmatic responses in a quality improvement network. Study design We audited 43 North Amer...
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Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the delivery of follow-up care for high-risk infants. We performed an audit to characterize programmatic responses in a quality improvement network. Study design We audited 43 North American-based follow-up programs of the Vermont Oxford Network Extremely Low Birth Weight Follow-up Study Group in October, 2020. Our electronic survey included yes/no, agree/disagree, and free text response items. Result The response rate was 67.4%. Most programs altered capacity and the timing, frequency, or content of clinical assessments. Most perceived practice changes compromised their ability to ascertain infants' medical and developmental needs. There was a rapid uptake of telemedicine services. Despite challenges with implementation, many endorsed improved connectedness with families. Conclusion Programs adapted rapidly to meet the needs of high-risk infants during the pandemic. Clinical operations, assessment procedures, and quality metrics will also need to evolve. Quality improvement study group collaboratives are well-positioned to coordinate such work.
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Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the delivery of follow-up care for high-risk infants. We performed an audit to characterize programmatic responses in a quality improvement network. Study design We audited 43 North Amer...
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Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the delivery of follow-up care for high-risk infants. We performed an audit to characterize programmatic responses in a quality improvement network. Study design We audited 43 North American-based follow-up programs of the Vermont Oxford Network Extremely Low Birth Weight Follow-up Study Group in October, 2020. Our electronic survey included yes/no, agree/disagree, and free text response items. Result The response rate was 67.4%. Most programs altered capacity and the timing, frequency, or content of clinical assessments. Most perceived practice changes compromised their ability to ascertain infants' medical and developmental needs. There was a rapid uptake of telemedicine services. Despite challenges with implementation, many endorsed improved connectedness with families. Conclusion Programs adapted rapidly to meet the needs of high-risk infants during the pandemic. Clinical operations, assessment procedures, and quality metrics will also need to evolve. Quality improvement study group collaboratives are well-positioned to coordinate such work.
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Job satisfaction has been associated with positive organizational outcomes such as increased employee productivity, higher innovation and reduced turnover, all of which are linked to improved firm performance. Motivation is consid...
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Job satisfaction has been associated with positive organizational outcomes such as increased employee productivity, higher innovation and reduced turnover, all of which are linked to improved firm performance. Motivation is considered to be a primary determinant of job satisfaction. Yet little research has focused on the links between motivation, job satisfaction and the impact of culture in the workplace. This qualitative research uses Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory of Motivation to assess job satisfaction in the Brazilian hotel industry. The results partially support the theory and suggest that culture influences the degree of job satisfaction.
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The UK Treasury accepts that need is the correct guide to spending on public services in different parts of the UK. But the formula used to decide changes in devolved spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland depends on the...
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The UK Treasury accepts that need is the correct guide to spending on public services in different parts of the UK. But the formula used to decide changes in devolved spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland depends on the population: it does not compensate for differences in need. With devolved spending determined by need, there would be consistency across 11 of the 12 UK regions. London would be the sole exception. The heavy cost of the capital's public services is part of the argument for a more even distribution of income, wealth and employment.
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The National Curriculum of 1988 provided a common curriculum for all primary and secondary schools in the state school sector in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and ensured that schools in all local authorities had a common c...
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The National Curriculum of 1988 provided a common curriculum for all primary and secondary schools in the state school sector in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and ensured that schools in all local authorities had a common curriculum. However, pupils with special educational needs had attainments that fell well below those that the National Curriculum was meant to measure. It was not until the publication of the P scales in 1998 that it became possible for schools in England to measure the attainments and progress of pupils whose attainment levels could not register on the National Curriculum scale. This study by Francis Ndaji and Peter Tymms, from the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University, examines a number of aspects of the validity of the P scales data. In many ways the results are reassuring. The teacher ratings discriminate the levels and show that each level is more difficult to attain than those below it. However, the subjects are not so well discriminated because they measure the same attributes. The P scales do not show any gender bias, indicating that teachers apply the level descriptions to both boys and girls in the same way. However, they seem to be applied in different ways to pupils with different categories of learning difficulties. The study also found that an attainment level in one subject area can be equated to the same level in another subject area. Despite suggestions from teachers, there is no evidence of a bottleneck at P8, or indeed, at any level of the P scales. In general, the P scales are working.
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For engineering design to be successful, it is essential to understand customer experience and identify customer needs. However, it is challenging to understand customers, especially those from different national cultures. The emp...
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For engineering design to be successful, it is essential to understand customer experience and identify customer needs. However, it is challenging to understand customers, especially those from different national cultures. The empathy literature suggests that having similar experiences to another person can help understand them better. This study adopts an empathy measure from psychology for use in a project where designers attempt to understand customers’ driving experiences in different countries and identify their needs for detecting road hazards. We quantify designers’ empathic accuracy and the correctness of their rating of customers’ emotional tone. The results show that national cultural differences significantly affect the accuracy of designers’ empathic understanding but do not impact their understanding of customers’ emotional tone.
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Abstract What mitigates the relationship between need for cognitive closure and prejudice against migrants? Addressing this question, we explored how national identification, endorsing binding moral foundations and the perception ...
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Abstract What mitigates the relationship between need for cognitive closure and prejudice against migrants? Addressing this question, we explored how national identification, endorsing binding moral foundations and the perception of threat mediate the relationship between need for cognitive closure and prejudice against migrants in Malta. It was hypothesized that individuals with a high need for cognitive closure are more prone to identify with being Maltese and more probable to endorse binding moral foundations and perceive high threat from migrants, leading to a more prejudiced attitude towards migrants living in Malta. Two hundred and twenty‐two individuals participated in this quantitative study. Results from this study showed that national identification, binding moral foundations and perceived threat mediate the relationship between need for cognitive closure and prejudice against migrants. The implications of the findings for theories about how need for cognitive closure contributes to increased prejudiced attitude in native population is discussed. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.
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