Teacher-Student Relatedness: The Importance of Classroom Relationships for Children with Hearing Loss

There is evidence to suggest that there is a strong relationship between psychosocial development and academic performance. The school is an important setting for developing social skills, and students function optimally in the context in which their needs are satisfied. A large amount of research has examined the importance of the teacher-student relationship as an important, contributing factor to student wellness, peer relationship development and academic success. Early identification of hearing loss, early habilitation and new hearing technology have moved the majority of deaf and hard of hearing students into their neighborhood schools. This study explored the facilitators and barriers to the teacher-student relationship for students with hearing loss in mainstream classrooms. Surveys and interviews were used to gather information from teachers, parents, and students on their experiences with the teacher-student relationship and their early elementary classroom. Results revealed five main constructs that were crucial to promoting the teacher-student relationship, and therefore supported the development of relatedness of students who are deaf or hard of hearing. They were transitions, social skill development, teacher understanding of hearing loss, classroom inclusion, and the importance of the teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing. This study found that parents were doing a great deal of work to ensure that the needs of their deaf or hard of hearing child were being met in their mainstream classroom. Teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing were also found to be instrumental because they supported parents, teachers and the student with hearing loss. This work identified a set of requirements to facilitate a successful teacher-student relationship and it is important that parents are equipped with this knowledge as early as possible

Discovering Real (Homogenous) Social Groups in the Russian Society: Methods and Results

The article focuses on the problem of identifying real social groups in the contemporary Russian society. The data from all-Russian monitoring surveys are used to compare two social structure models obtained by alternative methods. One of the models is similar to that of the European sociological tradition based on a socio-professional classification. The other one has been obtained by applying the cluster analysis after having ranked the stratification criteria derived from the entropy analysis.stratification; social structure; social inequality; occupational classification; entropy analysis; cluster analysis; real social groups

The demographic echo of war and social mobility in Russia

Defence date: 11 June 2019Examining Board: Prof. Fabrizio Bernardi, European University Institute (Supervisor); Prof. Juho Härkönen, European University Institute; Prof. Theodore P. Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Prof. Jan O. Jonsson, Nuffield College, University of Oxford / Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm UniversityRecurring variations in cohort size (also known as ‘baby booms’ and ‘baby busts’) are known to be a factor affecting the fortunes of people born to different cohorts. However, existing evidence in this regard comes overwhelmingly from Western countries, while little is known about the impact of similar processes in Russia despite the fact it is the country in which the Second World War has left, perhaps, the most sizeable and far-reaching demographic trace. Apart from immense casualties and devastating effects on the health of the surviving population, it had a major impact on the fertility of several generations that sent ripples through Russia’s population age structure for years to come – the phenomenon that Russian demographers metaphorically refer to as the ‘demographic echo of war’. In this study, I explore the effects of this peculiar demographic context on individual social mobility both during the Soviet and the post-Soviet period, using rich data from the Max Planck Education and Employment Survey and Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. In general, I find that the demographic echo of war affected the individual mobility patterns of Russians in several intricate ways, although the magnitude of its impact does not warrant the conclusion that it had a decisive effect on people’s fortunes. The study also makes several theoretical contributions to existing scholarship on the relationship between changes in population age structure and the process of social stratification

The state of indigenous research in Canada: a review of canadian university graduate and post-graduate theses 2010-2015

There is currently a lot of academic work being conducted in the area of Indigenous studies by Canadian scholars. In particular, attention has been given to the paradigm shift in Indigenous studies where the participatory focus is on benefiting Indigenous communities, versus mere academic exercise. Amongst all of the attention given to the paradigm shift in Indigenous methodology, it can be difficult to get an understanding of what themes of research have been under-explored and how a researcher could best support the research field. This thesis sets out to identify priority areas of Indigenous research, research themes that are under-researched, and the state of Indigenous research conducted by the academic community in Canadian Universities. This qualitative study examines a representative sample of graduate and post-graduate theses on Indigenous studies between the periods of 2010 to 2015 and qualifies them according to the 25 themes identified as priority, by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The results from this research show that the categories ranked as top priority are Indigenous justice, urban issues, Indigenous identities, Indigenous languages and traditions, economies and labour studies, governance and sovereignty, Indigenous humanities and culture and lands and environment. This study shows when comparing sampled theses to priority themes, with the exception of research pertaining to land, and Indigenous humanities, ongoing research in these categories is still required. It is determined that the acknowledgement of the paradigm shift in Indigenous research has been successful in the production of Indigenous study themes that are in line with the determined priorities and methodologies