National Workshop to Discuss Parental Engagement in Education

Abstract School education has immense role for the better future of a country. However, schools such as in a developing, country like Nepal face many barriers in demand creation as well as quality in classroom delivery. Students enter the school with mental stress and family problems. This restricts the educational outcome of schooling. Social entrepreneurship (SE) is an alien idea still in most schools in Nepal. By this venture, School social entrepreneurship can help the students and society to detect the skill of life which changes their life standard in future. It helps students to be regular in school, improve their health and ultimately bring change in overall educational achievement. In contrary to this, because of students poor economic condition they are neither able to have proper breakfast nor lunch which leads to sleepiness and inability to concentrate in the class room. Hence their learning outcome is poor. Following a Participatory Action Research (PAR) paradigm, the first author spent more than a year with rigorous field engagement in Janajivan Secondary school at Chitwan district of Nepal in order to understand the context and real need of SE. The school has own building and enough land where opportunity to develop entrepreneurship activities with the concept of 'supporting livelihood of parents through SE' approach. To dig out the reasons, We used informal talk, focused group discussion, observation and interview with teachers, students, community members, school management committee and parents. The study finding indicates that lack of time, teacher's fear of commercialism, impeding educational structures and sustainability were some of the challenges integrating SE in school. Experiential earning and learning based activities can be practiced in school outside the classroom. Having SE at school with parental involvement can be innovative pedagogical approach in school education of Nepal. Key messages Entrepreneurship linking with health education. Promote livelihood with entrepreneurship by participatory action research.

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Parental Engagement of a Prototype Electronic Diary in an Ambulatory Setting Following Adenotonsillectomy in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study

Children ◽

10.3390/children8070559 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 559

Author(s):

Tobial Mchugh ◽

Karen A. Brown ◽

Sam J. Daniel ◽

Sharmila Balram ◽

Chantal Frigon

Keyword(s):

Health Care Providers ◽

Response Rate ◽

Text Message ◽

Parental Engagement ◽

Ambulatory Setting ◽

Outpatient Basis ◽

Care Providers ◽

Electronic Diary ◽

Pain Diary ◽

Post Operation

Adenotonsillectomy is performed in children on an outpatient basis, and pain is managed by parents. A pain diary would facilitate pain management in the ambulatory setting. Our objective was to evaluate the parental response rate and the compliance of a prototype electronic pain diary (e-diary) with cloud storage in children aged 2–12 years recovering from adenotonsillectomy and to compare the e-diary with a paper diary (p-diary). Parents recorded pain scores twice daily in a pain diary for 2 weeks post-operation. Parents were given the choice of an e-diary or p-diary with picture message. A total of 208 patients were recruited, of which 35 parents (16.8%) chose the e-diary. Most parents (98%) chose to be contacted by text message. Eighty-one families (47%) returned p-diaries to us by mail. However, the response rate increased to 77% and was similar to that of the e-diary (80%) when we included data texted to the research phone from 53 families. The proportion of diaries with Complete (e-diary:0.37 vs. p-diary:0.4) and Incomplete (e-diary:0.43 vs. p-diary:0.38) data entries were similar. E-diaries provide a means to follow patients in real time after discharge. Our findings suggest that a smartphone-based medical health application coupled with a cloud would meet the needs of families and health care providers alike.

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Community Preferences for Urban Systems Transformation in Australia

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13094749 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 4749

Author(s):

Milo Costanza-van den Belt ◽

Tayanah O’Donnell ◽

Robert Webb ◽

Eleanor Robson ◽

Robert Costanza ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Online Survey ◽

Shared Vision ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Urban Structure ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Community Needs ◽

National Workshop ◽

Systems Transformation

Civil society engagement is important for enabling urban systems transformations that meet community needs. The development of Future Earth Australia’s Sustainable Cities and Regions: A 10-Year Strategy for Urban Systems was underpinned by cross-sectoral workshops in 7 Australian urban areas and interviews with key stakeholders to create a shared vision of both current and desired future urban structure and policy. We then created an online survey to gauge broader community feedback on the vision which emerged from these workshops and interviews, to compare their outcomes with the views of community members who could be directly impacted by urban decision-making. The survey consisted of 35 questions, which were shaped by the issues emerging from the workshops and interviews. The sample was self-selected, and the 641 respondents represented a cross-section of individuals interested in sustainable cities. Our survey results supported and expanded on the major conclusions of FEA’s National workshop and interview processes, including the need to develop transparent and responsive decision-making processes, limit waste and pollution and develop effective housing and transport alternatives with mixed-use neighborhoods and adequate green space.

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