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Vocational teachers’ pathways in the course of a curriculum reform
2011
Teachers face continuous changes, many of which significantly influence their professional identities and work practices. This study investigates Finnish vocational teachers’ pathways in the course of a curriculum reform. The data were obtained by interviewing 14 vocational teachers twice, i.e. at the initial and later stages of the reform. This study used a narrative approach to analyse the interviews as whole and also to illustrate variations between teachers. The teachers were found to exhibit distinctive pathways through the reform: an empowerment pathway, a critical but adaptive pathway, an open and expectant pathway, a successful transformation pathway, and a struggling pathway. The p…
Important challenges for coordination and inter-municipal cooperation in health care services: a Delphi study
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: BMC Health Services Research. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-451 Open Access Background: Demographical changes have stimulated a coordination reform in the Norwegian health care sector, creating new working practices and extending coordination within and between primary and hospital care, increasing the need for inter-municipal cooperation (IMC). This study aimed to identify challenges to coordination and IMC in the Norwegian health care sector as a basis for further theorizing and managerial advice in this growing area of research and practice. Methods. A Delphi study of consensus development was …
Quo vadis SANEPID? A cross-country analysis of public health reforms in 10 post-Soviet states
2010
Abstract Background The public health systems of the post-Soviet states have evolved from the san-epid system, which dominated public health practice throughout the former Soviet Union. Since independence, reforms have taken different directions. This article provides a cross-country comparison of public health reform processes and contents in 10 post-Soviet states. Methods The study is descriptive and comparative, based on a literature review of the major health databases, the Health Systems in Transition (HiT) volumes and grey literature. Search terms included terms on public health, the san-epid services and organizational reforms in one or several post-Soviet states. Results Public heal…
Projecting the spread of COVID-19 for Germany
2020
We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our theoretical framework builds on a continuous time Markov chain with four states: healthy without infection, sick, healthy after recovery or after infection but without symptoms and dead. Our quantitative solution matches the number of sick individuals up to the most recent observation and ends with a share of sick individuals following from infection rates and sickness probabilities. We employ this framework to study inter alia the expected peak of the number of sick individuals in a scenario without public regulation of social contacts. We also study the effects of public regulati…
Can bureaucrats order public health? The case of Norway
2013
Introduction: The implementation of a new structural reform, the Coordination Reform, prioritizing a new public health agenda, was initiated to develop a more decentralized, integrated health care system in Norway in 2012. The same year, new health legislation was implemented and due to the new Public Health Act the responsibility for implementing a new public health agenda was decentralized to the local level. Historically, due to lack of funding – these issues have got low priority among local authorities. The new public health legislation reflects a shift in policy focus from treatment to illness prevention – where planning and partnership among primary end specialist health care, as wel…
La imagen de las mujeres en la polémica sobre el lujo (siglo XVIII)
1996
En los escritos de las ilustradas hallamos, desde diferentes posturas sociales y culturales, reacciones, unas frontales y otras interpretables como matizaciones, contra la secular culpabilización de las mujeres en los hábitos suntuarios, que nos proporcionan un ángulo más en la diversidad de pensamiento de la Ilustración.
Poesía satírica y crítica de costumbres en el Diario de Valencia (1790-1800)
1993
A partir del análisis de los numerosos poemas satíricos publicados en el Diario de Valencian durante su primera década de vida (1790-1800), se aprecia el intenso esfuerzo de reforma de las costumbres característico del siglo XVIII y se sistematizan sus principales preocupaciones y objetivos
Agrārā reforma Latvijā 20. gadsimta 20.- 30. gados Tās nozīme un tiesiskie aspekti
2019
Agrārā reforma, kas tika veikta Latvijā no 1920.gada 16.septembrim līdz 1930.gadiem, ir bijis viens no nozīmīgākajiem vēstures notikumiem Latvijā. Mūsdienās šādu krasu tiesību reformu, kas nepieciešama saimniecības restrukturizēšanu, daudzi uzskatītu par neiespējamu. Kā pētījuma mērķi, autors izvirza agrārās reformas iemeslu un strīdus situāciju, ko tā radīja Latvijas sabiedrībā, noskaidrošanu. Lai sasniegtu šo mērķi darba autors salīdzinās dažādu citu autoru pētījumus par agrārās reformas vēsturi, vēstures tiesību avotus, kā arī izpētīs tā laika Augstākās tiesas Senāta spriedumus, un vācu minoritātes sūdzību Tautu Savienībai. Pētījuma rezultātā autors norāda uz agrārās reformas nozīmi soci…
The competency-based approach in developing countries
2013
For decades, all analyzes converge on the idea of the relative inefficiency of education systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Dropout, repetition, overstaffing, low quality of learning student failure and obsolescence of facilities, teaching materials and teachers, including sometimes the levels and quality of education remain somewhat uncertain, inadequate educational programs. In short, these are some of the ills that plague these systems and confirm the findings made by many reports.Given this weakness finding, educational authorities, supported by international aid mobilized in many countries to improve their systems to qualitatively, but also quantitatively equity because we must not forget …
La circulation des termes dans le discours médiatique : peut-on informer sans déformer ?
2016
Media diversification and information superhighways that have become faster and faster have boosted the circulation of economic terms in the popular press, along with the interaction between editorial contents targeted at the general population, which are similar in nature. This twin phenomenon of circulation and interaction was highlighted in a contrastive study of the way the German and the French press managed the euro crisis between 2011 and 2013: articles devoted to the debt of countries that are going through hard economic times require expert knowledge, but also resort to popularization strategies that show multi-level interdiscursivity.