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Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability
[Excerpt] Both, people with intellectual disability and people with mental illness, suffer from prejudices, negative attitudes, degrading treatment, abuse and discrimination in society. They are often discriminated against by employers, social and health services, or housing societies and in the access to goods or to financial services. They experience painful emotions, being out of control, or loosing all they have
The European Union Against Social Exclusion
[Excerpt] Social inclusion means that people who are poor or have other problems take part in the life of society.
Social inclusion is the opposite of social exclusion
Discrimination Hurts Deep Down Inside! : Fighting Discrimination in Europe
[Excerpt] Everybody has the right to be protected from discriminatio
Achieving Quality: Consumer Involvement in Quality Evaluation of Services
[Excerpt] The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the fact that changes in the approach towards the âclientsâ or âconsumersâ of services for people with intellectual disability do have an important impact on the way the quality evaluation systems of these services should be designed and organised
The need for âDiamond Engagementâ around open access to high quality research output
This paper advocates for a co-ordinated cultural shift in their engagement with access to resources in order to make peer-reviewed articles available to a wider audience.
This Paper addresses two audiences: scientists, especially those who have been traditionally more resistant to the OA approach, and policy makers. The Scientific Committee is well aware of the difficulties that some research communities face in engaging with the OA approach and would like to offer a way forward to address the current
status quo. Social scientists in particular have been struggling with the discussion on OA, given the length of time that the current quality standards and good practice for publication took to set up. The community of researchers perceives that these standards are now guarded by the peer-reviewed ranked journals which do not offer OA for either articles or books, a situation that is certain to persist for some time.
The other important aspect is that payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs) to journals for OA publication is often unaffordable given the limited resources available to the social
sciences disciplines. In this context, this paper illustrates how the deposition of articles in public repositories can be beneficial to the research community.
At the same time, this Paper encourages policy makers to better invest in the harmonisation of research information metadata standards across Europe using existing public infrastructures, and to ensure good quality of records, interoperability and discoverability. It also links the discussion of OA with an issue that is crucial in both research and policy agendas: demonstration of the impact of publicly-funded research
The actors that shape the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Maltese youth
Not much is known about the environmental knowledge, attitudes and actions of young people in the
Maltese islands. The main actors that are responsible for the acquisition and development of
environmental perspectives in young people in Malta are also not well known. There is as yet, little
understanding of the extent to which these actors are fostering a sense of environmental responsibility
and a greater commitment towards sustainable development.
A mixed method research methodology was employed to address this knowledge gap that included an
extended questionnaire distributed to students in the post secondary age range and a number of focus
groups to provide a more in-depth study of some of the issues arising from the questionnaire
analyses. The focus groups allowed young people to frame their responses in their own words. This
paper focuses on the results of the quantitative study.
The data from the quantitative analyses indicates that students are more knowledgeable about the
Global Environment than about the Local Environment, and that students receive most information
from School, Television and the Internet. The sources of environmental information which were
perceived by young people as being the most reliable included School, Books and the Internet. The
overall attitude of students towards the environment appears to be strongly positive, however students
seem to perform little positive actions towards the environment. Year group, Age and Gender were
found to have a statistically significant effect on knowledge; Fatherâs work was found to have a
statistically significant effect on attitude and Age was found to have a significant effect on behavior.peer-reviewe
What can we do to Fight Discrimination?
[Excerpt] Inclusion Europe speaks for people with intellectual disability and their families. Our members are organisations of self-advocates and parents from 33 countries in Europe
cOAlition S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications
Part I: The Plan S Principles: âWith effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.â
Part II: Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S 1. Aim and Scope Plan S aims for full and immediate Open Access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications from research funded by public and private grants. cOAlition S, the coalition of research funders that have committed to implementing Plan S, aims to accelerate the transition to a scholarly publishing system that is characterised by immediate, free online access to, and largely unrestricted use and re-use (full Open Access) of scholarly publications.
Part III: Technical Guidance and Requirements: 1. Requirements for Publication Venues; 2. Requirements for Open Access Repositorie
The Language Exchange Programme: plugging the gap in formal learning
In the context of distance language learning, speaking is frequently perceived as the most challenging skill; this paper reports on a 12-week summer language exchange programme providing students with new ways of practising their oral abilities. Students who completed an undergraduate beginnersâ language module took part in regular online, synchronous language exchange sessions with a partner.This paper analyses the impact of taking part in a language exchange task on the studentsâ motivation. The mixed methods research included an activity perception questionnaire (based on Deci, Eghrari, Patrick and Leone, 1994) to investigate the motivation of participants whilst undertaking a specific language exchange session, as well as qualitative data from both the questionnaire and the project discussion forum.The language exchange programme provides the opportunity for learners to take ownership of their learning and personalize it, and functions as a bridge between formal and informal learning. However, despite the enjoyment and interest provided by this type of experience, it is not without stress, and requires self-determination and autonomy to result in a positive and sustainable learning experience
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