Search results for "Competence"

Confronting the Medusa with Athena’s Shield: Empowering Social Workers with a Transformative Role in the Migration Field

2022

Along with existing challenges, there are new ones leading social workers to become involved in increasingly international intervention processes. This has led to the development of the concept of International Social Work (Hugman, Moosa-Mitha & Moyo, 2010; Cox & Pawar, 2006; Dominelli, 2010), which provides a good opportunity to both depart from old patterns of administering aid (Healy 2008) and to embody a perception of itself as a transformative actor (Wintergerst 2017, p. 236). Assuming that it is true that the presence of different cultures acts as a catalyst in the processes of change in society, then this is equally valid for the development of this profession (Di Rosa, 2021)…

Crescere e insegnare nella società in rete

2011

Competenze professionali e smart working: il caso della Regione Siciliana

2021

The contribution focuses on the analysis of the distribution of skills in the Sicilian Region and the effects of smart working. The objective are: 1) the analysis of the distribution of implicit competences; 2) the evaluation they themselves attribute to the quality of these competences; 3) the relationship existing between these competences, the awareness of them, the evaluation of them and SW.

Bill colour and immunocompetence in the European blackbird

2003

The level of expression of secondary sexual characters has been suggested to signal male ability to resist parasitic infestations. To test this idea, several studies have examined the link between sexual signals and immunocompetence in birds. However, most of them have used only a single aspect of immune response to evaluate immunocompetence. We investigated the relation between bill colour and immunocompetence in captive male European blackbirds, Turdus merula, during the breeding season by assessing both cell-mediated and humoral components of the immune system. The blackbird is a sexually dimorphic species with bill colour varying from yellow to orange in males. Humoral immunity was asse…

Estrategias emocionales en educación física a través del aprendizaje servicio: aplicación del programa siente jugando en alumnado de primaria

2019

Las emociones, la inteligencia emocional y la competencia socioemocional son algunos de los contenidos transversales que podemos desarrollar desde la Educación Física escolar. El juego motor es una fuente de estímulos y vivencias que favorece el desarrollo de las estructuras físicas y cerebrales que el alumnado de Primaria utilizará en su presente y futuro. El objeto de este estudio fue analizar las estrategias utilizadas para la resolución de conflictos tras la puesta en práctica de un programa de intervención denominado “Siente Jugando”, haciendo uso de la metodología Aprendizaje Servicio. La muestra estuvo formada por 93 participantes de Educación Primaria Obligatoria (EPO), de edades co…

Communication apprehension, self-perceived communication competence, and willingness to communication in Singapore

2016

Based in the assertion that different cultures value aspects of communication differently, this study explored the position of Singapore on the continuum of communication apprehension (CA), self-perceived communication competence (SPCC), and willingness to communicate (WTC). Responses were obtained from 209 self-identified ethnic-Chinese born in Singapore and 105 Malay immigrants. The results revealed ethnic-Chinese to have low self-reported CA, while Malays had high CA in comparison to regional neighbors. Malays and ethnic-Chinese both had low WTC and low SPCC levels in comparison to regional neighbors. The findings show a potential “immigrant effect,” as Malay immigrants had much higher C…

Innovazione didattica con il Situated Learning e il Work-Based Learning: una indagine esplorativa sull’Alternanza Scuola Lavoro

2019

Situated teaching methodologies constitute an innovative perspective of the teaching practice, especially if applied in the extended educational context of the school and the extra-school, as in the case of the School-Work Alternation. Conceived within the Italian law 107 of 07132015, it has initiated new ways of collaboration between the school and the professional world with a networking involvement which re-situates both disciplinary and transversal learning, in a perspective of authentic acuisition on the field. Starting from these premises, the present exploratory survey was based on the analysis of the semi-structured interviews administered to 63 School-Work Alternation referent teac…

Choral conducting education: The lifelong entanglement of competence, identity and meaning

2020

Choral singing is one of the most widespread musical activities, and choral conductors work in a variety of social settings that involve every imaginable type of choir and musical genre. The conductor role draws on a number of skills and competencies that are partly acquired through education but, equally importantly, through experience. Choral conductors shape their practice in highly individual fashions as amalgamations of background, formal education, career development and working situation. The present qualitative study seeks to uncover how choral conductor practices arise and unfold, by using Etienne Wenger’s theory of communities of practice and situated learning as the key analytic…

Reducing homework stress by increasing adoption of need-supportive practices: Effects of an intervention with parents

2020

Abstract Homework is widely recognized as a source of stress for both parents and children, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study tested the hypothesis that the frustration of the basic psychological needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness is the main source of stress and that satisfying these needs should reduce stress and lead to more positive outcomes. Study 1 assessed the associations between parental and child need frustration, homework stress and parental adoption of need-thwarting practices (n = 171 parent/child dyads). Study 2 tested the effectiveness of a four-session parental training (n = 55) program focused on helping parents increase their need-support…

Predicting social integration in the community among college students

2004

This article aims to examine determinants of social integration in the community among college students. Two-wave panel data from an undergraduate student sample (N 310) was used to explore the effects of multiple sets of variables (personal, interpersonal, and situational) on social integration in the community. Structural equation analysis showed that personal (self-esteem and perceived stress) and situational (undesirable life events) variables made significant contributions to changes to social integration in the community. Implications of these and other findings are discussed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The expansion of social networks beyond relationships with family and peers is…