Vocational preparation and occupations /

"December 1982"--T.p. verso.

Education pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Educating Europe

In the UK most psychology undergraduates are women, most finish their education with a bachelor's degree, most do not enter professional psychology, and competition to do so at 21+ is fierce. This all raises many questions - not least about the nature of the discipline itself and the purpose of university education. Although they have unique features, other European countries, are grappling with similar issues. They all have interesting and varied responses within a common broad framework. These variations tell us something about higher education, about vocational preparation, and about the shape and future of the discipline.

Männlichkeit verpflichtet. Die pädagogische Bearbeitung randständiger Männlichkeit im Zuge der Herstellung von Ausbildungsreife in der Berufsvorbereitung

Unter dem Vorzeichen wenig erfolgreicher formaler Bildungslaufbahnen finden sich dennoch nach wie vor problematische Orientierungen an stereotypen Männlichkeiten, die für Jugendliche die Anschlussmöglichkeiten an Bildungschancen vergrößern sollen. Dass auch ohne eine explizite Programmatik in pädagogischen Institutionen an der Veränderung von Männlichkeitskonstruktionen gearbeitet wird, um eine bessere habituelle Passung von Jugendlichen für die Erfordernisse des Arbeitsmarkts herzustellen, zeigt der Beitrag des Autors mit dem Titel Männlichkeit verpflichtet. Die pädagogische Bearbeitung randständiger Männlichkeit im institutionellen Alltag dualer Berufsvorbereitung. Der Artikel widmet sich mit der Berufsvorbereitung einem empirisch kaum ausgeleuchteten Feld. Vor dem Hintergrund einer in weiten Teilen geschlechtersegregierten Arbeitswelt und dem segmentierten Ausbildungssystem kommt Angeboten wie dem Berufsvorbereitungsjahr für Männlichkeitskonstruktionen eine immense Bedeutung zu. Wesentliches pädagogisches Moment solcher Angebote ist die Herstellung von Ausbildungsreife. Anhand eines methodenpluralen Forschungsprojektes mit Schülern im Berufsfeld Lagerlogistik legt der Autor das Augenmerk auf die Mitkonstruktionen eines männlichen Habitus durch die Ausbilder in den überbetrieblichen Klassen durch die Betonung männlicher Härte sowie der Ablehnung von als unmännlich markierter Schwäche, die sich vor allem an körperbezogenen Praktiken feststellen lässt. Als Fazit zieht der Autor, dass das pädagogische Arrangement der Berufsvorbereitung, das auf die Förderung von Ausbildungsreife zielt, sich in männlich dominierten Berufen demnach auch als eine „Schule von Männlichkeit“ verstehen lässt, welche insofern funktional ist, als sie auf die Herausbildung eines für die manuellen Tätigkeiten funktionalen Geschlechtshabitus abzielt. (DIPF/Orig.)

Benefits of blended learning for the first year medical imaging students in preparation for clinical placement

Although there is a plethora of definitions of blended learning, the underlying distinguishing feature is the combination of traditional content delivery and the utilisation of technology. Within Medical Imaging undergraduate education there is evidence of advantages and increased student engagement when utilising a blended learning approach. Although the embedding of technology has been proven to be a useful teaching tool, “Educators should tailor their teaching media to learner’s needs rather than assume that web based learning is intrinsically superior”. This study aims to determine which clinical learning tools are perceived to be the most useful to the student in preparing them for placements.

Calling and career preparation: Investigating developmental patterns and temporal precedence

The presence of a calling and career development are assumed to be closely related. However, the nature of and reason for this relationship has not been thoroughly investigated. We hypothesized the existence of reciprocal effects between calling and three dimensions of career preparation and assessed the change of the presence of a calling, career planning, decidedness, and self-efficacy with three waves of a diverse sample of German university students (N = 846) over one year. Latent growth analyses revealed that the intercepts of calling showed a siginficant positive correlation with the intercepts of all career preparation measures. The slope of calling was positively related to those of decidedness and self-efficacy but not to planning. Cross-lagged analyses showed that calling predicted a subsequent increase in planning and self-efficacy. Planning and decidedness predicted an incrrease in the presence of a calling. The results suggest that calling and career preparation are related due to mutual effects but that effects differ for different career preparation dimensions.

Preparation for work.

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New dimeric supramolecular structure of mixed (phthalocyaninato)(porphyrinato)-europium(III) sandwiches : preparation and spectroscopic characteristics

The mixed double-decker Eu\[Pc(15C5)4](TPP) (1) was obtained by base-catalysed tetramerisation of 4,5-dicyanobenzo-15-crown-5 using the half-sandwich complex Eu(TPP)(acac) (acac = acetylacetonate), generated in situ, as the template. For comparative studies, the mixed triple-decker complexes Eu2\[Pc(15C5)4](TPP)2 (2) and Eu2\[Pc(15C5)4]2(TPP) (3) were also synthesised by the raise-by-one-story method. These mixed ring sandwich complexes were characterised by various spectroscopic methods. Up to four one-electron oxidations and two one-electron reductions were revealed by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). As shown by electronic absorption and infrared spectroscopy, supramolecular dimers (SM1 and SM3) were formed from the corresponding double-decker 1 and triple-decker 3 in the presence of potassium ions in MeOH/CHCl3.

Efficient microwave hydrothermal preparation of nanocrystalline anatase TiO2 colloids

Titanium dioxide nanocrystals are an important commercial product used primarily in white pigments and abrasives, however, more recently the anatase form of TiO2 has become a major component in electrochemical and photoelectrochemical devices. An important property of titanium dioxide nanocrystals for electrical applications is the degree of crystallinity. Numerous preparation methods exist for the production of highly crystalline TiO2 particles. The majority of these processes require long reaction times, high pressures and temperatures (450–1400 °C). Recently, hydrothermal treatment of colloidal TiO2 suspensions has been shown to produce quality crystalline products at low temperatures (<250 °C). In this paper we extend this idea utilising a direct microwave heating source. A comparison between convection and microwave hydrothermal treatment of colloidal TiO2 is presented. The resulting highly crystalline TiO2 colloids were characterised using Raman spectroscopy, XRD, TEM, and electron diffraction. The results show that the microwave treatment of colloidal TiO2 gives comparable increases in crystallinity with respect to normal hydrothermal treatments while requiring significantly less time and energy than the hydrothermal convection treatment.