Interactions between the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and the Unión General de Trabajadores in Spain and Catalonia, 1931-1936

At the moment of the founding of the Second Republic in April 1931, the labour movement in Spain was dominated by two organizations, namely the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and the socialist Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT). The Second Republic marked the first period in which the two organizations had concurrently operated openly since the Primo de Rivera dictatorship had made the CNT illegal at the same time as the UGT had agreed to cooperate with the General’s corporatist project. With the founding of the Republic, a long-standing organizational and ideological hostility between the two organizations was exacerbated by the fact of the UGT actively participating in the reform project of the Republican-socialist government and the CNT increasingly opposing that project. However, the Republic progressively became polarized between left and right; as fascist regimes came to the fore across Europe, increasingly large sectors of the Spanish left called for a unity of their forces to prevent a similar occurrence in Spain. The outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 made this unity even more imperative. This thesis focuses on interactions between the CNT and the UGT between 1931 and 1936 within this socio-political context, primarily from the perspective of the CNT. The thesis traces and analyses the evolution of CNT as a national actor’s overall position on the UGT from one of outright hostility to a stance of proposing a revolutionary alliance with it in 1936. The thesis also examines interactions between the two organizations in Catalonia, which was both the CNT's birthplace and stronghold and a region in which the UGT had historically garnered little support. In addition to highlighting the pivotal role that the Catalan CNT had in determining the CNT's national-level stance on the UGT throughout this period, the thesis explores how the anarcho-syndicalist movement in the region presented its socialist counterpart as the embodiment of a socialist- and state-sponsored project to destroy the CNT, and also examines the largely hostile encounters between CNT and UGT unions in workplaces and localities across the region

Interprofessional Collaboration for Children with Special Healthcare Needs: A Review of Effective Education Integration

With the innovation of technology, increased medical knowledge, and improved treatment techniques, the education of children with special healthcare needs is no longer restricted to hospitals. The current paper examines issues surrounding interprofessional collaboration (IPC) between educators, medical professionals, and allied health professionals in the school setting. Specifically, this paper disseminates the literature on interprofessional collaboration through the examination of the current state of IPC between the health and education sectors when accommodating students with complex medical needs. The aspects of IPC that are in need of improvement are identified along with recommendations for the improvement of IPC in the context of children with special healthcare needs

An Examination of Educational Policies for Students with Type 1 Diabetes in Catholic School Boards

With 1 in 300 children having diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is one of the most common chronic illnesses affecting school age children (Kelo, Martikainen & Eriksson, 2011; Kucera & Sullivan, 2011; Lawrence, Cummings, Pacaud, Lynk & Metzger, 2015). If not managed properly, T1D can drastically affect a student’s ability to experience academic success. Diabetes Canada, formerly known as the Canadian Diabetes Association, has a set of guidelines that they recommend each school board incorporate into their policies for the management of T1D. The authors analyzed fifteen Ontario Catholic school boards’ policies pertaining to T1D to determine if the policies address Diabetes Canada’s guidelines. Out of the fifteen school boards analyzed, only four school boards had a T1D policy. A policy analysis was then conducted on the four policies to determine whether the policies met the guidelines set out by Diabetes Canada. The four policies were found to be lacking in the areas of educating staff about T1D and assisting students during hypoglycemic episodes. It is recommended that a standardized Ministry policy be developed that addresses the guidelines outlined by Diabetes Canada

University Students with a Significant Historyof Reading Difficulties:What Is and Is Not Compensated?

This study examined the status of current reading, spelling, and phonological processing skills of 28 university students who reported a history of reading acquisition problems. The results indicated that 21 of these participants were currently able to comprehend text at a level expected for university students, although only 8 at a rate comparable to that of university students without a history of reading acquisition problems. In addition, all but two participants showed current problems in two or more of the additional areas examined, including word reading, decoding, spelling, and phonological processing. The performance of ten participants who had a recent diagnosis of reading disability was mostly indistinguishable from the performance of participants without such diagnosis, except on the phonological processing tasks

Les Passerelles vers de nouveaux apprentissages : marcher vers la vision (de nouveau) d’un stage international

We engage in a creative exploration of the ways in which a walk provided us with insights into how we might enhance the curriculum for a teacher education international practicum in Italy. Drawing from a currere framework, we shifted to mindful walking, and we tell our story in three parts that represent the various stages of our mindful engagement: intention; attention; and attitude. Walking in this way provided the impetus for us to re-examine the curriculum of the international practicum. We argue that mindful walking has the potential to increase observation skills and open up ways to develop deeper cultural connections in an international practicum. We consider what those connections could do to enhance the practicum and our teacher candidates’ experience.Nous nous engageons dans une exploration créative de la manière dont une marche nous a permis de mieux comprendre comment nous pourrions améliorer le programme d'un stage international de formation des enseignant(e)s en Italie. En nous inspirant d'un cadre «currere», nous sommes passés à la marche attentive et nous racontons notre histoire en trois parties qui représentent les différentes étapes de notre engagement conscient : l'intention; l’attention; et l'attitude. Marcher de cette façon nous a incité à réexaminer le programme du stage international. Nous soutenons que la marche consciente a le potentiel d'augmenter les compétences d'observation et d'ouvrir des moyens de développer des liens culturels plus profonds dans un stage international. Nous réfléchissons à ce que ces liens pourraient faire pour améliorer le stage et l’expérience de nos candidats enseignants. et l’expérience de nos candidats enseignants

Student and teacher self-efficacy and the connection to reading and writing

Teacher self-efficacy (SLSEQ-TV), student self-efficacy (SLSEQ) and their relationship to student ability was examined.  The participants (students, n= 122 ; teachers, n = 6) completed the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement - III and a series of questionnaires.  The teachers' perceptions of the students' self-efficacy was significantly correlated with the students' abilities.  However, SLSEQ  was not correlated with their performance and the SLSEQ-TV was the same as the SLSEQ and there was no correlation between the two variables.  Finally, the SLSEQ-TV was significantly correlated with their perception of the students' self-efficacy, but was not significantly correlated with SLSEQ and the students' abilities. Keywords: self-efficacy, reading, writing, elementaryL'auto-efficacité ou la croyance en sa capacité (Bandura, 1977) de la part de l'enseignant autant que de l'élève est considérée comme étant directement liée à la réussite de l'un comme de l'autre. Peu d'études ont comparé en même temps l'auto-efficacité de l'enseignant, celle de l'étudiant et les compétences de ce dernier. La présente étude examine le rapport entre ces trois concepts. On a découvert une forte corrélation entre la perception de l'enseignant de l'auto-efficacité de l'étudiant et les compétences de l'élève. Par contre, en matière de littératie, il n'existait pas de corrélation entre l'auto-efficacité et compétence, pas plus qu'entre la perception de l'enseignant de l'auto-efficacité de l'étudiant et la réalité. Enfin, l'auto-efficacité de l'enseignant est significativement corrélée à sa perception de l'auto-efficacité de ses étudiant

Overview of the PACS procurement project within South West London

Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) as the future of radiology is generally accepted, but the challenge is how to deliver this technology to meet the needs of the changing NHS and support evolving patient care packages. Within South West London there is also the challenge of affordability: PACS is not a cost-neutral solution and requires substantial funding support from both secondary and primary care. It is to overcome these issues that a new approach has been taken within South West London. The six service providers have formed a consortium to procure a single sectorwide PACS system to meet the needs of the sector as a whole and deliver the system at the most affordable cost. The project is still in its early stages but, to date, all of the providers are working together and the procurement process is under way. Remaining challenges include funding the project following Shifting the Balance of Power changes, the networking to support the project, and patient identification within a multi Patient Administration System/Radiology Information System (PAS/RIS) environment.

Compensating for Reading Difficulties:A Qualitative Investigation of University Students’ Experiencesof Influential Personal Characteristics

This study involved a qualitative examination of the personal characteristics that university students saw as important in helping them to compensate for their reading difficulties at various stages of their education. The sample consisted of 10 undergraduate students or recent graduates who reported a significant history of reading difficulties. Data were collected using in-depth, open-ended interviews with each participant. These data were then analyzed using a form of whole text analysis and resulted in four major themes: seeking assistance from others, de-veloping positive relationships with others, being highly motivated to achieve, and maintaining a belief in one’s abilities. The findings highlight the broad range of factors that can influence motivation and self-concept and the wide variety of people who can be involved in providing assistance to individuals with reading difficulties. The implications of the findings for educational practice and for fur-ther research are discussed

Karl Popper's Organon and the world's fisheries; fish stock assessment as a pseudoscience, an inductivism that can bear no fruit

If a scientist can predict the weather (poorly) Why cannot he predict fish yields (yet more poorly)? – a clerihew by Chris Corkett. Recent long term historical studies of commercial fisheries have pointed to a well established pattern of overfishing. Under the principle of transference – what is true in logic is true in psychology and scientific method – it can be demonstrated that many of the difficulties experienced in establishing sustainable fish stocks can be traced to a naïve attempt to reduce management decisions to facts or data; a monism or ‘scientific ethics’ in which modeled predictions derived from data mimic predictions in the physical sciences derived from dual premises (presented as a clerihew above). By applying Karl Popper’s Organon to the world wide problem of how to maintain sustainable stocks of fish I show that, just as a civil society is built upon rules of law, a rational decision making in the form of managing a fishery, has to be built upon rules of method. The demarcation criterion – the chief procedural rule of Karl Popper’s falsifiability calculus – forms the chief methodological rule of a rational based science; the application of this rule to the commercial fisheries demonstrates it is the irrational nature of the naïve empirical advice being proffered, and not the political decision-making, that ultimately has to be held responsible for the unhealthy state of the world’s fish stocks – it is the inductive methods deployed by fish stock assessment, not the politics, that needs the drastic overhaul