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Efficient finance regulator as supporter for financial stability of inhabitants
2020
Recent developments in banking sector in Latvia especially related with PNB Bank where bank accounts of many retired people were located leads to requirements for proficiency of Finance Regulator which has to be efficiently financed, stable and professional. In different countries Finance Regulators have different models of their financing. Aim of the study is to investigate different approaches for Finance Regulator financing and analyse expert views on possible development of Finance Regulator financing model in Latvia. Research methods applied: scientific publications and previous conducted research results analysis and expert survey for possible financing model changes in Latvia. In exp…
PROBLEM ITEMS OF FINANCIAL LITERACY ASSESMENT FOR STUDENTS IN LATVIA
2020
Considering the financial situation in Latvia it is very important not only to realize how effectively students could deal with situations relating to financial issues, but to understand what kind of PISA Financial items exactly bring difficulties. It is necessary to realize how to improve students’ financial literacy. The main of the research is to find out what kind of PISA 2018 financial items are difficult for students and which students’ answers are marked as incorrect. To reach the aim the methods of content analysis. The research data show that students are very good at dealing with tasks similar to their everyday situations and requiring mathematical skills. In their turn, tasks rel…
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018
2023
This study investigates the associations of adolescents’ financial socialization factors—financial education in school and families—with financial confidence (i.e., confidence in using financial and digital financial services). In addition, we examine how financial socialization factors indirectly relate to financial literacy skills through financial confidence and the role of demographic factors (adolescent gender, grade level, parental education, family wealth) on financial socialization, financial confidence, and financial literacy scores. We used data on the 4,328 Finnish 15-year-olds participating in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We measured financial …
A Design-Oriented Analysis of Multimodality in English as a Foreign Language
2018
This empirical article investigates multimodality in English as a foreign language, both as seen in the use of multimodal texts as artefacts and pedagogical texts for learning, and through an analysis of the multimodal learning designs. We present observations from a year 10 classroom in Norway that worked with the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie, 2007). We explore a four-week teaching sequence, asking how different modes were involved when the educator designed literacy events around the novel, and how multimodality is present in the students’ meaning making. Our aim is to make explicit and discuss some of the silent literacy practices in English teaching at l…
Task-integrated pair-reading : a study of functional literacy in a foreign language
1997
Los retos de la alfabetización de las personas adultas. Creencias de docentes peruanos y propuestas metodológicas
2019
[EN] We address the challenges of adult literacy in an American context from a European perspective. We focus on the context of adult education in Peru, a country with a great cultural and linguistic diversity, based on the interaction produced with a hundred Peruvian teachers linked to the CEBA (Basic Alternative Education) centers. The school context of young people and adults in situations of illiteracy ascribed to the Program for Literacy and Basic Education of Young People and Adults (PAEBA) presents situations of extreme poverty and inequality, which require specific actions and methodologies. From the experience of adult literacy centers and the sociolinguistic reality of teaching in…
Kształtowanie kompetencji językowych młodszych uczniów w kontekście zapobiegania analfabetyzmowi funkcjonalnemu
2014
Migrants and Literacy Crises
2011
International comparisons of levels of literacy have in some countries been interpreted as an indication of a prevailing literacy crisis that demands political actions to avoid negative impact on national competitiveness, democracy, and coherence. Special attention is focused in the Danish crisis discourse on literacy as a reading competence and on migrants who, in particular, have become symbols of the crisis. In this article, the values and beliefs embedded in the political actions taken in the wake of the literacy crisis are analysed and the implications of the functionally based discursive construction of the literacy crisis for migrants are discussed. Based on an understanding of liter…
Liikunta terveyden edistäjänä lukion terveystiedon oppikirjoissa
2015
Fyysisellä aktiivisuudella on myönteisiä vaikutuksia fyysiseen, psyykkiseen ja sosiaaliseen terveyteen. Siten liikunnan harrastaminen on terveyttä merkittävästi edistävä elämäntapa. Nuorten kunto on heikentynyt ja elintapoihin liittyvien sairauksien määrä kasvanut. Tutkimukset osoittavat, että lapsena ja nuorena fyysisesti aktiivisesti elänyt ihminen on todennäköisesti aikuisenakin aktiivinen. Näiden seikkojen perusteella on tärkeää, että nuorten liikuntaan liittyvää terveysosaamista kehitetään peruskoulun jälkeenkin toisen asteen koulutuksessa. Tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli tarkastella liikuntaan liittyvän terveysosaaminen kehittämistä lukion terveystiedossa. Tutkimusaineisto koostui kuuden op…
Challenges Associated with Reading Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa : Promotion of Literacy in Multilingual Contexts
2019
Heikki Lyytinen and his co-authors note the problems of poorly trained teachers and large class sizes in Africa. Drawing on experience in Zambia, they present a case study of a digital game that can help overcome these problems and lead to more effective literacy instruction, particularly for students facing barriers to learning how to read. peerReviewed