Category: Arts & Education and Social Studies

Reflection and reflective practice in health professions education: a systematic review The importance of reflection and reflective practice are frequently noted in the literature; indeed, reflective capacity is regarded by many as an essential characteristic for professional competence. Educators assert that the emergence of reflective practice is part of a change that acknowledges the need for students to act and to think professionally as an integral part of learning throughout their courses of study, integrating theory and practice from the … Continue reading “Latest Research on Professions Education : Mar 2022”

How Minorities Continue to Be Excluded from Equal Employment Opportunities: Research on Labor Market and Institutional Barriers Barriers to equal occupational opportunities for minorities are examined at three stages of the employment process the job candidate stage, the job entry stage, and the job promotional stage. Using the authors recent survey of 4078 employers covering a nationally representative sample of jobs, four types of exclusionary barriers are investigated segregated networks at the candidate stage, information bias and statistical discrimination at … Continue reading “Latest Research on Employment Opportunities : Mar 2022”

Analysis of child labour in Peru and Pakistan: A comparative study This paper analyses child labour participation and its key determinants using data sets from Peru and Pakistan. The results include tests of the ‘Luxury’ and ‘Substitution’ hypotheses that play key roles in recent studies on child labour and child schooling. The results reject both hypotheses in the context of child labour in Pakistan and suggest that income and related variables do not have the expected negative effect on children’s … Continue reading “Latest Research on Child Labour : Mar 2022”

The criminality of women Man’s self-deception about women seems to have been excessive with respect to crime. Criminal statistics which support the view of the lack of criminality in women are the least reliable of all statistics. For crimes to be reliably reported they must have three criteria, which woman’s crimes lack: (1) be highly injurious to society, (2) be of public nature, (3) have the co-operation of the victim with the law. Woman’s crimes tend to be more specific … Continue reading “Latest Research on Criminality : Feb 2022”

Teachers, Technology, and Change: English Teachers’ Perspectives This article reports on a study of English language arts teachers’ attempts to integrate technology into the English classroom. Informants included middle and high school English teachers with varying teaching and technology experiences. Conceptualized as an interview study, the study used an open-ended protocol and spontaneously generated probes to seek teachers’ perspectives. Results from the study revealed that teachers described their attitudes toward technology through considerations of gains, dilemmas, and concerns with regard … Continue reading “Latest Research on English Teachers : Feb 2022”

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the State, foreign trade, world market. The economic conditions of existence of the three great classes into which modern bourgeois society is divided are analysed under the first three headings; the interconnection of the other three headings is self-evident. The first part of the first book, dealing with Capital, comprises the following chapters: (1) The commodity; (2) … Continue reading “Latest Research on Political Economy : Feb 2022”

Secondary schools included: a literature review For over a decade, inclusive discourse comprises the development of a school for all, both in primary and in secondary education. Facing long-standing barriers for effective comprehensive education, secondary schools show specific interests, strengths and needs in a school-wide movement towards inclusion. Reviewing literature of recent research in inclusion in secondary schools (2000–2012), current interests represent inclusive culture, policy and practices, although the balance between each of these dimensions is unequal. A large number … Continue reading “Latest Research on Secondary Schools : Feb 2022”