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The relative relationship between education and workplace task discretion: an international comparative perspective
2019
International audience; Through analyses of Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data, the following study considers the direct and indirect association between education and workplace task discretion in 30 countries. By focusing on cross-national comparison, it considers the ways in which these findings are dependent on both the overall level and the range of task discretion across occupational sectors within a country. Theoretically, individual-agency and critical-institutional hypotheses are compared, two perspectives that provide divergent explanations for the indirect association between education and task discretion. The findings partially support b…
Role of school principals in high achievement of students
2019
The role of the principal in a school is critical because a principal is not only an administrator, but also a manager, initiator of various processes and, ideally, also a school leader who furthers various processes in the school and facilitates high achievement among the students. It is therefore important to study the role of the principal and how the principal can facilitate student achievement. The aim of the research study is to carry out a comparative analysis of data from several countries to find out the factors associated with the activities of the principal (directions of professional activity, factors created by the school culture and environment) that facilitate high achievemen…
Influence of health literacy on maintenance of exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months postpartum: a multicentre study
2022
Data Availability Statement: Please note that the database is in an open repository. You can access the data through this link: http://hdl.handle.net/10234/196606 (accessed on 20 February 2022). Copyright © 2022 by the authors. Background: International organizations recommend initiating breastfeeding within the first hour of life and maintaining exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months. However, worldwide rates of exclusive breastfeeding for 6-month-old infants is far from meeting the goal proposed by the World Health Organization, which is to reach a minimum of 50% of infants. Education is one of the factors affecting the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, and incidentall…
Adolescents’ online communication and well-being : Findings from the 2018 health behavior in school-aged children (HBSC) study
2022
Background: Digital transformation has influenced all areas of adolescents’ lives, including the ways adolescents maintain friendships. Interpersonal communication is one of the most common activities while online. Online communication may provide adolescents with opportunities to expand their social contacts, but these encounters can be risky, especially when the communication is with unknown people on the internet. This study examined the associations between different forms of online communication behavior and well-being. Materials and methods: Data were collected from Finnish adolescents as part of the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study in 2018. The participants were 3…
Parent Training Experiencesin Italy
2017
With this contribution I would like to present the results of an action research project conducted in Palermo by the pedagogical team at the Department of Psychology and Education Sciences between 2010 and 2012. This work intended to test a new parent-training scheme aimed at state schools. The following paragraph will first describe some turning points in the history of adult education in Italy which, in the last two decades, has also included supporting would-be parents, giving rise to a growing number of parent-training initiatives. Then, the novelty of the project is detailed: a main role in it was played by workshop activities conducted in small teams using a narrative dialogue to fost…
The usage of social media among young adults living in Nairobi, Kenya : only entertainment or contributions to societal change?
2015
Social media usage has been found to have increased all over the world, also in the so-called developing countries. Although the percentages are still rather low, it can be argued that the use of social media is becoming increasingly important also in African countries. Kenya has been found to be one of the leading countries regarding social media usage in East Africa. Although research on social media has been conducted, for instance, on the use of social media in protest movements and in the areas of users’ motivation, less emphasis has been placed on their developmental aspects. Thus, to gain a deeper understanding of the usage of social media in the so-called developing countries, this …
Vizuālizpratne mākslas muzeju pedagoģijā vidusskolai
2018
Maģistra darba “Vizuālizpratne muzeju pedagoģijā vidusskolai” pētījuma problēma ir vienotu kvalitātes kritēriju trūkums kultūras mantojuma apguves sekmēšanā, kad, līdzās skolai ir muzejpedagoģija. Šādā situācijā tiek veidoti vizuālizpratnes[ Vizuālizpratnes koncepts izstrādāts pēc Eiropas Vienotās valodu prasmes noteikšanas sistēmas (angl. Common European Framework of Reference; CEFR) parauga.] treniņi, ar nolūku strukturizēt mākslas izglītību. Pētījuma mērķis ir izstrādāt un aprobēt muzejpedagoģijas metodes, kas aktualizētu mākslas muzeja iespējas paaugstināt vidusskolēnu. Pētāmā grupa ir vidusskolēni. Pētījuma dizains: gadījuma pētījums (angl. a case study) un tā sasniegšanai lietotās met…
Sales Channels and Media Digitalization Impact on People Voluntary Savings for Retirement
2019
Due to the implementation of new technologies and orientation on digital solutions the communication and sales channels have changed dramatically. Information and client service on-line availability presents strong advantages for business, state agencies as well as customers. However, lack of personal interaction during the communication and sales process can make it difficult for people to understand and even frustrate their desire for a product or service. The purpose of the research is to analyse the digitalization impact on voluntary savings for retirement in Latvia and make comparisons with other countries. The voluntary pension schemes are the part of pension system and its third pill…
Desarrollo de la competencia lectora en alumnado con discapacidad auditiva: una revisión bibliográfica
2019
espanolEn estas lineas se presenta una revision de la literatura existente sobre intervenciones enfocadas a mejorar la competencia lectora del alumnado con discapacidad auditiva, siendo seleccionados 17 articulos. Los programas que implicaron mejoras en la habilidad lectora del alumnado son aquellos que priorizan la promocion de las habilidades de alfabetizacion y el desarrollo de la conciencia fonologica. Se concluye que son numerosas las intervenciones exitosas, pero es necesario introducir modificaciones como aumentar la duracion e incluir un seguimiento post intervencion, homogeneizar los grupos segun grado de afectacion y sintomatologia, extrapolar la intervencion al contexto familiar …
Task persistence mediates the effect of children’s literacy skills on mothers’ academic help
2015
This longitudinal study aimed at examining the relationship between children's task persistence, mothers' academic help, and the development of children’s literacy skills (reading and spelling) at the beginning of primary school. The participants were 870 children, 682 mothers, and 53 class teachers. Data were collected three times – at the beginning and the end of Grade 1 and at the end of Grade 2. Better literacy skills predicted higher persistence in completing school tasks and, correspondingly, higher persistence was related to better subsequent skills. Also, lower task persistence at the end of Grade 1 corresponded to more frequent academic help from mothers in Grade 2. Moreover, child…