Working with schools and communities: a postgraduate module where students undertake a mental health or well-being intervention in a school or community setting

The case study reports on a module called 'Working with schools and communities' which forms part of the MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at The University of Northampton. The module involves students designing, planning, delivering and evaluating mental health or well-being interventions in school or community settings. Through detailing the module approach, assessment strategy and applied examples of students' work, we show how the work students do on this module embraces Changemaking, both for them in terms of their own skills and experience, but also for the schools and community settings where they are based

Spring 2016

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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AND THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS VENTURE CHOICES IN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS

This study investigated the influence of University Students’ Demographic Variables on their Entrepreneurial Business Venture Choices in Cross River State, Nigeria and its implication for management effectiveness. Two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at .05 level of significance. Ex post facto design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised three thousand, nine hundred and sixty (3,960) final year students of nine (9) faculties from two universities (University of Calabar and Cross River University of Technology) in Cross River State. The sample was three hundred and ninety six (396) final year students drawn from the faculties through stratified random sampling technique. A researcher-developed questionnaire named “Students’ Demographics and Entrepreneurial Business Venture Choice Questionnaire (SDEBVCQ)” was used for data collection. Contingency Chi-square analysis was used in testing the two hypotheses. Results of the analysis revealed that there is a significant influence of ethnic/geo-political and family business background on entrepreneurial business venture choices of university students. Based on these results, it was recommended that wide range of business choices should be provided in the entrepreneurial programme for students to choose from with emphasis on their demographics. The university system should device strategies to assist the students that indicated their intentions to start enterprises while in school and after graduation through incubation programmes.  Article visualizations

Learning, achievement and career development

Young people today are facing a very different world than their teachers and parents faced as adolescents. Technology is doubling every two years. The top 10 jobs in demand in 2010 did not exist in 2004. We are preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that have not yet been invented, in order to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet. To succeed at this task, schools (and parents) need to address the whole-person needs of students and not restrict themselves to only focusing on academic learning. This is best accomplished when career guidance and personal development are infused into all school subjects, and when guidance practitioners and counsellors are able to demonstrate the added value that a whole-person approach can offer.FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologi

Afterschool Matters, Fall 2016

In this issue: Creating Holistic Partnerships Between School and Afterschool by Kenneth Anthony & Joseph Morra Getting the Right Fit: Designing a Professional Learning Community for Out-of-School Time by Femi Vance, Emily Salvaterra, Jocelyn Atkins Michelsen, and Corey Newhouse Infrastructures to Support Equitable STEM Learning Across Settings by William R. Penuel, Tiffany L. Clark, and Bronwyn Bevan Measuring Program Quality: Evidence of the Scientific Validity of the Assessment of Program Practices Tool by Allison Tracy, Linda Charmaraman, Ineke Ceder, Amanda Richer, and Wendy Surr The Plague of the Broken Crayons and the Heads That Haunted Us by Sara Colehttps://repository.wellesley.edu/afterschoolmatters/1033/thumbnail.jp

Deconstructing the stereotypes: building mutual respect

Through a combination of a detailed literature review and structure online survey, the study seeks to establish the extent of interdisciplinary attitudes within built environment students at Kingston University, whilst building a picture of not only the stereotypes held amongst and between disciplines, but also the fundamental root of such perceptions

Assessing the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Researchers in Nigeria

Abstract: The external context plays a vital role for the promotion of entrepreneurship especially in entrepreneurial universities. The study therefore deploys a mixed methodology (quantitative and qualitative) approach to understand the role that innovation and entrepreneurship infrastructure plays in facilitating the development and commercialization of research outputs from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Faculties in a university in Nigeria. Questionnaire was administered on sixty lecturers/researchers across these six faculties (Science, Engineering, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Pharmacy and Agriculture) which had 85% response rate. Eleven follow-up interviews were carried out in four Faculties. While field observation was carried out in four research and innovation facilities (the university’s central science laboratory, central technical workshop and the intellectual property & technology transfer office). An Incubation Centre located outside but near the university was also visited. Based on the information collected, the study provided strategic implications for policymaking, practice and theory

A Study Of Urban Principals’ Perceptions Of Technology Implementation And STEM Program Sustainability

STEM careers are becoming more prominent in today’s workforce. The platform of today’s industries derives from science, technology, engineering, and math, the study of which ultimately provides students and stakeholders with the foundation to function in a globally diverse society. Due to the recent budget shortfalls, the existence of STEM programs within this Texas Urban School District was threatened. District principals were directed to review their respective budgets to determine where potential cuts could be made. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to describe the perceptions of urban district principals regarding technology implementation and identify recommendations for the sustainability of STEM programs within this Texas Urban School District. This research study consisted of six STEM principals, with two of each representing the elementary, middle, and high school levels. The research questions that guide this study are: (1) What are the perceptions of principals regarding the implementation of technology within urban schools? (2) What are the perceptions of principals regarding the sustainability of STEM programs within urban schools? (3) How do urban principals develop knowledge about STEM education? (4) What are the perceptions of principals regarding barriers to learning for STEM students? The results of this study revealed that technology implementation is indeed a vital component in urban education. Collectively, implementation of the technology needed for STEM learning apparently cannot be fully realized if principals lack access due to funding or other circumstances that repress its utilization. Technology implementation and STEM program sustainability can be increased through programs and businesses that consistently provide STEM resources, higher education contacts, and career pathway opportunities. Continuous professional development and training is needed for STEM instructors, as they educate students as technology evolves and as they strive to support a growing workforce. This study found that STEM learning and teachers’ technology implementation are interwoven and work together to build a bridge to prepare students for today’s workforce

The Education and Training of Artisans for the Informal Sector in Tanzania

Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,