scholarly journals Poverty, Education Technologies and Eurasian Economies

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mediha Tezcan
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
The Past

While poverty has been a phenomenon encountered practically in all societies in the past, it still continues to exist as a significant social phenomenon in our day. In this study, poverty concepts, significance of education in fighting with poverty, opportunities offered by the latest innovations in education technologies for education and the contributions that can be provided by these innovations to education programs aimed to fight with poverty have been explained. How the Eurasian countries may use education technologies in the anti-poverty programs that they could collectively implement and the opportunities that could be offered by collective action have been discussed.

scholarly journals Determinants of Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: Evidence from Moroccan University

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mustapha Bachiri
Keyword(s):  
Student Behavior ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

<p>In recent decades, entrepreneurship has become a major economic and social phenomenon, a subject of research and a new field of education. While entrepreneurship is not a new concept, it regained importance particularly in scientific research. Entrepreneurship is seen as a vector for innovation and economic efficiency but also as a powerful job creator. Along with the evolution of entrepreneurship, there is a growing interest in the development of training programs to encourage entrepreneurship in universities. The challenge remains to find a consensus on the content to be taught and the type of learning to guide student behavior. Several empirical studies indicate that education can foster entrepreneurship. Yet the impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial values remains largely unexplored.</p><p>In this study, we used the theory of planned behavior to assess the impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial intentions in Moroccan universities, particularly the University of Rabat (Mohammed V University).</p>

scholarly journals Contriving the Future by Tampering with the Past: A Deferral Tactic in Chinese Internet Censorship

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUSUNG SU ◽  
Siyu Sun ◽  
Jiangrui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Event ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Internet Censorship

How do Chinese information inspectors censor the internet? In light of the assumption that inspectors must follow specific rules instead of ambiguous guidelines, such as precluding collective action, to decide what and when to delete, this study attempts to offer a dynamic understanding of censorship by exploiting well-structured Weibo data from before and after the 2018 Taiwanese election. This study finds that inspectors take advantage of time in handling online discussions with the potential for collective action. Through this deferral tactic, inspectors make online sentiments moderately flow regarding an important political event, and thereafter, past discussions on trendy topics will be mostly removed. Therefore, reality is selectively altered; the past is modified, and the future will be remembered in a ``preferable" way.

scholarly journals PRESENT AND FUTURE OF COACH DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

2021 ◽  
pp. 218-230
Author(s):  
Michel Milistetd
Keyword(s):  
Development Research ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Coach Education ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coach Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sport Coaches

The field of sport coach development has changed considerably in the last decades and everything indicates that, in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world (VUCA world), many other changes will take place. It seems increasingly likely that ways will have to be found to harmonize on-the-job learning with the formal coach education programs from which qualifications are derived. In an attempt to analyze the present and to address some directions for the future of sport coach development research and practice, this insight paper presents the summary of a series of conversations with one of the researchers who has greatly influenced the development of sport coaches over the past 30 years, Professor Pierre Trudel.

Self-Undermining Rhetoric in the Past and Present

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Seth Levine
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
The Face

This chapter considers the prospects for political change in the face of communicative barriers to collective action. It begins to address this question by identifying several of the most well-known historical and recent moments in which there was large-scale mobilization on some economic insecurity issues. This discussion, in concert with the empirical findings in this book, helps clarify the prospects for political action (and policy change) on these issues. The chapter then uses the findings from the book to identify three types of people that are most likely to become active. It also talks about the implications of having this (narrower) set of people active as opposed to the full range of people that find the issues to be important. It concludes by reiterating how self-undermining rhetoric is a broad concept that can apply in many different situations beyond those considered herein.

NIPF Use of Landowner Assistance and Education Programs in Washington State

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith A. Blatner ◽  
David M. Baumgartner ◽  
Lanny R. Quackenbush
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Washington State ◽  
State University ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Cost Share ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Forestry Programs

Abstract A 1988 mail survey to evaluate use and effectiveness of Washington NIPF assistance/education programs resulted in a 69% response or 910 useable questionnaires. In total, 47% of the respondents had received assistance/education from Washington State DNR (17.4%), SCS (15.4%), ASCS Cost-Share (15.5%), Washington State University Cooperative Extension (29.3%) and private forestry consultants (12%). Usefulness of assistance/education received was rated good/excellent by 79.3% to 90.5% of the respondents. Owners also commonly received assistance/education from more than one source, reflecting the fact that NIPF forestry programs tend to work as a system, with each part serving a different function. Respondents receiving assistance or information had larger forested holdings, a somewhat higher level of education and tended to live on or near their forested holdings. A much larger percentage of respondents having received assistance/education indicated they had completed one or more management practices in the past 10 years. West. J. Appl. For. 6(4):90-94.

A new responsibility of teacher education programs

1954 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
Lee Emerson Boyer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Mathematics Courses ◽  
The Past

During the past decade widespread revision of mathematics courses of study on the state level has taken place. One outstanding characteristic of these revisions, taken as a whole, is that in their attempt to correct educational ills of many years’ standing they suggest flexible mathematics programs for all high school pupils throughout their stay in high school. These programs are varied and planned to meet the needs of various types of pupils.

Science Fiction and the Rules of Uncertainty

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Guillermina De Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Failure Time ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Apocalyptic Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moral Freedom ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Individual

A frequent trope in apocalyptic literature is a war between time and knowledge. Focusing on Rita Indiana’s “cli-fi” novel La mucama de Omicunlé (Omicunlé’s Maid), this essay explores the ambiguous role that uncertainty plays in apocalyptic literature. It argues that time travel seeks to revert the result of negative actions in the past, eliminating uncertainty retrospectively. And yet moral freedom, the mark of the human, requires uncertainty to function, which thwarts time travel as a messianic genre. Yet even in failure, time travel reminds us that impending disaster is contingent on specific individual and collective action, suggesting that the future could still perhaps be otherwise.

Sustainable community movement organisations

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Forno ◽  
Paolo R Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Community Movement

In the current economic crisis, social movements are simultaneously facing two types of challenges: first, they are confronting institutions which are less able (or willing) to mediate new demands for social justice and equity emerging from various sectors of society, and second, given the highly individualised structure of contemporary society, they are also experiencing difficulties in building bonds of solidarity and cooperation among people, bonds which are a fundamental resource for collective action. It is in this context that protests waves, which may be very relevant, are in fact often short-lived, and it is in this context that we detect the rise and consolidation of new mutualistic and cooperative experiences within which (similarly to the past) new ties and frames for collective action are created. This article discusses and analyses social movement organisations which focus on both the intensification of economic problems and the difficulties of rebuilding social bonds and solidarity within society, emphasising solidarity and the use of ‘alternative’ forms of consumption as means to re-embed the economic system within social relations, starting from the local level. While discussing what is new and/or what has been renewed in new Sustainable Community Movement Organisations, the article will develop an analytical framework which will combine social movements and political consumerism theories by focusing on two basic dimensions: consumer culture and identity and organisational resources and repertoire of action.

scholarly journals Las transferencias intergeneracionales en España y Andalucía. Una primera aproximación al estudio de los factores explicativos en el cuidado de los nietos

2019 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Marta Ortega Gaspar ◽  
Mercedes Fernández Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Childhood Care

El apoyo entre generaciones es una conducta presente en todos los países, aunque en España su intensidad o frecuencia es superior a la mayoría de los países europeos. Una de sus prácticas, concretamente el cuidado de menores por parte de la población de mayor edad es un fenómeno social cada vez más relevante (en términos, por ejemplo, de volumen, responsabilidad o ausencia de progenitores). La cantidad de abuelos que cuida nietos en España ha experimentado un crecimiento notable en la última década. Este estudio ofrece un análisis preliminar de este fenómeno en Andalucía y en el resto de España con la intención de saber si hay diferencias y conocer algunos de los factores explicativos subyacentes. Se ha utilizado como base de datos la Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida de las Personas Mayores (IMSERSO-CIS 2006). Los resultados muestran generalmente una similitud de patrones en el conjunto del territorio nacional y que la edad y el nivel de estudios son las variables más influyentes.Intergenerational support is a shared behavior in all countries. Nevertheless, in Spain its intensity or frequency is higher than most European countries. Grandparents playing childhood care activities is a social phenomenon that is increasingly relevant (in terms, for example, of volume, responsibility or absence of parents). The number of grandparents caring grandchildren in Spain has experienced remarkable growth over the past decade. This study focuses on a preliminary analysis of this phenomenon in Andalusia and the rest of Spain in order to establish a comparison and meet some of the underlying explanatory factors. It has been used the “Survey of Living Conditions of the Elderly” (IMSERSO-CIS 2006). The results show that age and education level are the most influential variables.

Protest and the experience of time: Action as synchronizing temporalities

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 750-771
Author(s):  
Daniel Jaster
Keyword(s):  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Contemporary Context

This paper utilizes American pragmatism and phenomenology to illustrate that scholars must engage with both memories of the past and hopes for the future if we want to know how either influences activists’ actions in the present. A synthesis of these theoretical approaches highlights how, in the real experience of time, the past, present, and future are in constant flux and affect one another, shaping both our valuations of a moment and the actions we take. The Populist movement in the late 19th century USA illustrates how scholars should try to incorporate analyses of memories, contemporary context, and desired futures to fully understand the experiences and decisions of protesters. Engaging with time, both with the real experience of those we study and also how it affects our analyses, improves our understandings of social phenomena. By focusing on how actors attempt to synchronize disparate temporalities, we gain a clearer understanding both of the heterogeneity that composes a movement and what makes them unified into a singular social phenomenon.

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