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From Knowledge to Action, Analysis of the Decision Making Process in Africa : the Case of the State Contract Teacher Policy
2011
Policy analysis in Africa has mainly focused on their evaluation. Now that several reforms are undertaken and that the progressive move toward democracy allows new actors to enter the political arena, it is useful to analyze how decisions on public issues are made. The dissertation examines the reform of the teacher recruitment policy in francophone Africa. The reform consisted in changing the teacher status in order to allow the government to pay a lower salary to new teachers. The drawbacks of the usual policy and research from the area of economics of education demonstrating that the reform was necessary put the issue on the agenda. If many countries adopted it, some have not. Factors th…
El tiempo en las clases de programación: ''Hacés y hacés y no te importa si tocó el timbre''
2021
A través de un estudio de caso en tres escuelas secundarias técnicas con orientación en programación se realizó una investigación cualitativa de corte etnográfica en la que se registraron los modos en que las y los estudiantes resuelven tareas de programación y organizan sus momentos de descanso. Recuperando las experiencias estudiantiles, se pudo observar cómo vivencian el tiempo cuando hay proyectos con desafíos cognitivos interesantes, en donde los cortes en su jornada escolar están fuertemente vinculados a la resolución de actividad escolar propuesta en vez de la estructura del horario escolar. Los recreos se ligan al sentido de la tarea, donde los descansos se vinculan a tres momentos …
Rutas cognitivas de futuros maestros ante una situación comparativa de razones desiguales
2019
En esta investigación se analizan las rutas cognitivas que subyacen a las resoluciones de un grupo de futuros maestros ante una tarea de comparación de razones desiguales en el contexto de las ofertas comerciales. La revisión de la literatura y el análisis en profundidad de las componentes críticas de la tarea nos han permitido definir las dimensiones de análisis de las resoluciones. A partir de ellas hemos realizado un análisis cualitativo de corte interpretativo del cual se desprende que los participantes poseen un escaso desarrollo del pensamiento relativo. Un número importante de ellos presenta dificultades con la comparación de las cantidades relativas desiguales cuando estas se les pr…
Reflections on communication of disease prognosis and life expectancy by patients with colorectal cancer undergoing palliative care: a qualitative st…
2019
ObjectivesPatients with colorectal cancer undergoing palliative treatment receive extensive treatment-related information throughout their disease trajectory. We aimed to explore the experiences of patients with incurable colorectal cancer while in palliative care and their reflections on the information provided by physicians and nurses. Our main focus was the patients’ thoughts about how information about disease status and life expectancy was communicated, from the first time that they were informed about the incurable nature of their disease through to postsurgery palliative treatment.SettingsPatients with colorectal cancer receiving palliative chemotherapy.Research designWe used a qual…
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature Linking Music and Adolescent Mental Health
2013
There is a diverse literature that explores the relationship between youth, music, and mental health, with few attempts at systematic synthesis. This critical interpretive review included 33 studies published between 2000 and 2012 investigating the relationship between music and the mental health of young people, particularly targeting depression. An iterative methodology was used involving several layers of inductive analysis with the intention of generating an organizing framework that critically synthesized the available literature. The organizing framework highlights that decisions related to research design, assessment of health, and the nature of musical engagement have predictably i…
How can hepatitis C be prevented in the long term?
2007
Abstract Significant advances have been made in preventing HIV infection among injectors but we still know little about preventing hepatitis C (HCV). Both prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C can remain high among IDUs even in the context of widespread implementation of harm reduction programmes. We need to develop new ways to fill the knowledge gap regarding HCV prevention. One way is to learn from the experts—those IDUs who, after long-term injection in social milieus of high hepatitis C prevalence, nonetheless remain uninfected. We describe a recently commenced program of research that focuses on understanding the strategies, behaviours, and environmental factors associated with "stay…
Status of Nordic research on simulation-based learning in healthcare: an integrative review
2018
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Background. Based on common geography, sociopolitics, epidemiology, and healthcare services, the Nordic countries could benefit from increased collaboration and uniformity in the development of simulation-based learning (SBL). To date, only a limited overview exists on the Nordic research literature on SBL and its progress in healthcare education. Therefore, the aim of this study is to fill that gap and suggest directions for future research. Methods. An integrative review design was used. A search was conducted for relevant research published during the period spanning from 1966 to Ju…
A mixed-methods approach to developing an understanding of teachers’ attitudes and their enactment of inclusive education
2017
This research sought to develop an understanding of teachers’ attitudes, sense of self-efficacy and approach to enacting inclusive education in their classrooms in two diverse countries. A mixed-methods research design guided the data collection and analysis. This article focuses on how quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used sequentially and how the findings were finally merged to provide more comprehensive insight into different aspects of teachers’ sometimes contradictory attitudes and approaches to implementing inclusive education. The meta-inferences presented here indicate that merging measurements and meanings can shed light on how teachers’ attitudes and self-effi…
Writing to Learn Programming? : A Single Case Pilot Study
2016
This paper explores the use of writing-to-learn techniques in the context of programming education. It presents a pilot study where a writing assignment is introduced with the purpose of strengthening students' conceptual understanding of a programming construct. The intervention is evaluated using a single case research design, which is augmented by qualitative interview data. Students participating in the study were mildly positive towards the intervention and the results encourage more work on the topic. This work sets directions for further investigations into how writing-to-learn can strengthen programming education and contributes with insights into what kinds of results can be obtain…
Restrictions on data-driven political micro-targeting in Germany
2017
The revitalisation of canvassing in recent elections is strongly related to campaigns´ growing possibilities for analysing voter data to gain knowledge about their constituents, identifying their most likely voters and serving up personalised messages through individual conversations. The research literature about political micro-targeting hardly ever focusses on campaigns in parliamentary democracies with strict data protection laws. Based on in-depth expert interviews we introduce a framework of constraints in strategic political communication and reveal several restrictions on the macro, meso and micro levels which hinder the implementation of sophisticated data strategies in Germany. We…