Transforming personal experience and emotions through education to cultural diversity: an interplay between unicity and genericity

When subjects studied at school are close to societal discourses and to the students' social identities, when they have high emotional resonance, is it possible to enable the students to distance themselves from their emotions and personal experience, and to conceptualise them? Examining the relation between emotion and learning through the lens of socio-cultural psychology, the aim of our study was to shed light on "secondarisation" processes, that is, processes that transform personal experience and emotions into conceptualised forms of thinking. We analysed 85 video-recorded lessons in education for cultural diversity involving 12 teachers (of primary and secondary schools). Having identified episodes in which emotions were put into words or personal experience was reported, we analysed the use of pronouns (taken as indicators of secondarisation processes) and found a recurrent pattern: "the unicity-genericity routine". We illustrate the functioning of this routine with various excerpts taken from lessons in education for diversity taught in the classes of two teachers in primary school. The results show that the interplay between unicity and genericity works as a discursive resource for the development of secondarisation processes.

Urgences et médecins de premier recours: quelles perspectives? Quelle formation [Emergencies and general practitionners. Which prospects? Which education?].

Professionalisation of emergency medicine and triage before most of emergency consultations led to a major reduction in exposure of general practitionners (GP) to vital emergencies, which participates in reduction of their aptitudes to manage such emergencies. The risk for a GP to face a vital emergency is weak nowaday, but did not totaly disappear. Therefore, it seems important for the GPs to maintain the skills required to manage these emergencies properly. These skills would be capacity in recognizing symptoms and signs of alarm (red flags), applying life support, and sorting the patients correctly. These skills will be all the more important in the future, while the role of the GP could be reinforced in response to requirement of increased efficiency.

La intolerància racial en el muncipi de Catellbell i el Vilar. Diagnòstic i propostes d'acció

Castellbell i el Vilar és un municipi amb poc més de 3.700 habitants, el qual es troba situat a la comarca del Bages. En aquesta comarca s‟han produït alguns fets i dinàmiques que ens porten la preocupació per un increment de la intolerància racial de les persones autòctones respecte a les immigrades. Tot i que aquestes dinàmiques no s‟han percebut a Castellbell i el Vilar, tenint en compte que hi ha un nombre important de persones immigrades i la influència que poden exercir els successos en municipis veïns, s‟ha cregut oportú fer un treball de recerca sobre la intolerància racial en aquest municipi. L‟objectiu d‟aquest treball, per tant, és proporcionar una aproximació a la situació sobre la intolerància racial en el municipi de Castellbell i el Vilar, esbrinar quines poden ser les seves causes o factors afavoridors d‟aquest sentiment i conèixer les actituds de la població envers la intolerància racial, amb la finalitat de facilitar el disseny d‟un programa d‟intervenció. La complexitat del tema només ens permetrà fer una aproximació a la situació actual, formular algunes hipòtesis sobre les principals causes, i contrastar-la amb les dades i teories relacionades. No obstant això, tenint en compte l‟impacte de la informació a nivell global, es valorarà la influència o “contagi” que podrien provocar les notícies o accions d‟altres municipis de la comarca o d‟altres llocs en el nivell de convivència de Castellbell i el Vilar. El diagnòstic i la comprovació de les hipòtesis sobre les principals causes que contribueixen en la intolerància racial han de permetre identificar la situació actual i pronosticar els diferents escenaris de futur, per poder definir les línies estratègiques i dissenyar propostes d‟acció orientades a la solució o disminució dels problemes detectats i avançar-se a possibles problemes o conflictes futurs.

The Annual Condition of Education Report, 2002

Statistics about public edcuation in the state of Iowa including graduation rates, No Child Left Behind Act,

Iowa Department of Education - Iowa Public Television, Agency Performance Plan

Annual Report, Agency Performance Plan

Social Determinants of Child Health in Colombia: Can Community Education Moderate the Effect of Family Characteristics?

Contextual effects on child health have been investigated extensively in previous research. However, few studies have considered the interplay between community characteristics and individual-level variables. This study examines the influence of community education and family socioeconomic characteristics on child health (as measured by height and weight-for-age Z-scores), as well as their interactions. We adapted the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) framework to the context of child health. Using data from the 2010 Colombian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), weighted multilevel models are fitted since the data are not self-weighting. The results show a positive impact of the level of education of other women in the community on child health, even after controlling for individual and family socioeconomic characteristics. Different pathways through which community education can substitute for the effect of family characteristics on child nutrition are found. The interaction terms highlight the importance of community education as a moderator of the impact of the mother’s own education and autonomy, on child health. In addition, the results reveal differences between height and weight-for-age indicators in their responsiveness to individual and contextual factors. Our findings suggest that community intervention programmes may have differential effects on child health. Therefore, their identification can contribute to a better targeting of child care policies.

Performance in post-compulsory education: evidence from vocational and academic tracks

This paper investigates the factors in_uencing grade performance in two different high school tracks (academic and vocational), including the effect of the amount of work achieved while studying. The empirical strategy analyzes grade progression through the outcomes, passing, repeating and dropping out, conditioning on previous outcomes, and dealing with the endogeneity introduced by the working variable. The analysis is based on a unique Spanish data with information on schooling and labor histories. Findings show that working reduces performance in both tracks, mainly during the first year, although the ffects are less detri- mental in the vocational path. Additionally, good performance in compulsory education, at- tending a private high school, or having high-educated parents improve outcomes, particularly in academic high school.

Iowa Department of Education Annual Report, Agency Performance Plan

Annual Report, Agency Performance Plan

The Annual Report of Education Report, 2001

Report of education in Iowa

Sexism in Education, Does Gender Equity Exist in Your Community School District?

Sexism in Education brochure produced by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Education, June 30, 2002

State Agency Audit Report

Iowa Federal Family Education Loan Program Division, Iowa College Student Aid Commission, June 30, 2002

State Agency Audit Report