Stars and saints: professional conversations for enhancing classroom practices

This paper explores a reflective activity - professional conversation. In so doing, it recalls the recent experience of working alongside 'starring' teachers who are dedicated to serving the poor in areas of deprivation. And this recollection is framed around the advice of saints - secular, religious and philosophical

Reclaiming the secular: developing dialogic skills for a post-secular society

This research paper addresses secularization from both political and religious perspectives. One of its manifestations in the political sphere is that of globalization that can lead to alienation within society; and in the United Kingdom this is exemplified by Brexit. Within the religious sphere secularization is usually couched in oppositional terms. This paper reclaims the original use of the word secular as envisaged in a three realms’ model of society comprising profane, sacred and secular realms. The secular realm acts as a buffer between the profane and sacred realms and in this neutral, public sphere the power of reason prevails. An educational starting point for such creation is pedagogy and through linguistic, psychological and cultural analysis, this paper identifies the development of reasoning through the dialogic skills of building consensus (cumulative talk) and constructive criticism (exploratory talk). Sixty-five students from a varied background of UK secondary schools have participated in the development of these dialogic skills

Poverty and closing the gap: Adastra research consultancy projects

A fundamental principle which underpins all our teaching and research is the integration of theory and practice, and this principle is vividly exemplified within all the research consultancy projects. The longstanding successes in teacher training of Bishop Grosseteste University are founded upon the strength of our partnership with schools and educational settings. A key strand, that links our research ambitions with our commitment to teacher education, is the engagement in research consultancy and action research with partnership schools. The following reports all embed this approach of teachers working alongside researchers, integrating theory with practice, and focusing upon school-specific issues. They also represent excellent examples of how research can genuinely impact the prospects and life chances of young people. At the heart of our partnership is a focus on learners and learning, which the projects here also clearly share, alongside their key contribution in helping to close the educational attainment gap. Specifically, the research projects will enable the individual schools to develop further good practice, for the benefit of their own pupils, but also with potential applicability to other schools and settings. Furthermore, it is hoped they may motivate and inspire other teachers or schools to embark upon action research projects, driving further improvements in teaching and learning. Finally, for the individual teachers involved, the experience will hopefully stimulate an on-going theory-practice dialogue and provide impetus for further CPD and/or action research

The Hog-Pork Industry Woes of 1998

Livestock Production/Industries,

Face processing in adolescents with positive and negative threat bias

BackgroundIndividuals with anxiety disorders exhibit a ‘vigilance-avoidance’ pattern of attention to threatening stimuli when threatening and neutral stimuli are presented simultaneously, a phenomenon referred to as ‘threat bias’. Modifying threat bias through cognitive retraining during adolescence reduces symptoms of anxiety, and so elucidating neural mechanisms of threat bias during adolescence is of high importance. We explored neural mechanisms by testing whether threat bias in adolescents is associated with generalized or threat-specific differences in the neural processing of faces.MethodSubjects were categorized into those with (n = 25) and without (n = 27) threat avoidance based on a dot-probe task at average age 12.9 years. Threat avoidance in this cohort has previously been shown to index threat bias. Brain response to individually presented angry and neutral faces was assessed in a separate session using functional magnetic resonance imaging.ResultsAdolescents with threat avoidance exhibited lower activity for both angry and neutral faces relative to controls in several regions in the occipital, parietal, and temporal lobes involved in early visual and facial processing. Results generalized to happy, sad, and fearful faces. Adolescents with a prior history of depression and/or an anxiety disorder had lower activity for all faces in these same regions. A subset of results replicated in an independent dataset.ConclusionsThreat bias is associated with generalized, rather than threat-specific, differences in the neural processing of faces in adolescents. Findings may aid in the development of novel treatments for anxiety disorders that use attention training to modify threat bias.</jats:sec

HUBUNGAN KOORDINASI MATA DAN TANGAN DENGAN HASIL TANGKAPAN BOLA LAMBUNG INFIELD,OUTFIELD PADA CABANG OLAHRAGA SOFTBALL

Olahraga Softball membutuhkan koordinasi mata dan tangan baik ketika pada waktu menyerang yaitu menghadapi lemparan bola pitcher dan pada saat bertahan yaitu saat menangkap hasil pukulan dari pemain lawan. Kemampuan bertahan yang dimaksud adalah ketika saat fielder menangkap hasil tangkapan bola lambung. Karena sangat penting dan vital dapat menentukan hasil pertandingan. Berhubungan dengan hal tersebut, tujuan dari penelitian untuk mengetahui hubungan koordinasi mata dan tangan dengan hasil tangkapan bola lambung posisi infield,untuk mengetahui hubungan koordinasi mata dan tangan dengan hasil tangkapan bola lambung posisi outfield, dan untuk mengetahui hubungan koordinasi mata dan tangan dengan hasil tangkapan bola lambung posisi infield dan outfield.pada cabang olahraga softball. Metode penelitian yang digunakan deskriptif korelasi dengan pengujian korelasi, teknik pengambilan sampel yang dilakukan yaitu sampling jenuh dengan jumlah sampel 14 orang atlet UKM Softball UPI. Hasilnya tidak terdapat pengaruh hubungan antara Koordinasi mata dan tangan dengan hasil tangkapan bola lambung infield outfield pada cabang olahraga softball dan nilai signifikansi yaitu0,824> 0,05 yaitu 0,824. Temuan penelitian terdapat hubungan yang negatif antara kedua variabel. ---------- Softball requires need hand eye coordination when the player at attacking position facing ball of pitcher and they needed when defensive position while capturing the results of a blow from an opposing player. Especially is only after the fielder catching fly ball .It is very important and can decide the game, the problems appear, namely, lack of attention to these two variables, the hand-eye coordination to catch fly ball infield, outfield in softball sport. The purpose of the study to determine the relationship of hand-eye coordination to catch fly ball position infield, to determine the relationship of hand-eye coordination to catch fly ball position outfield, and to determine the relationship of hand-eye coordination to catch fly the ball position infield and outfield in softballThe research method use quantitative corelation with corelation testing, using saturated sampling with the number of samples are 14 athletes in UKM or students’ Softball activity .Hand-eye coordination does not does not contribute great and does not affect caching fly ball to react according to the results of the research showed that the level of the significance of correlation 0.824> 0.05 is 0.824. The findings of the research, there is a positive relationship between the two variables, it can be caused due to several factors that cause the value or results are negative contributions

Hygiene: new hopes, new horizons.

Although promotion of safe hygiene is the single most cost-effective means of preventing infectious disease, investment in hygiene is low both in the health and in the water and sanitation sectors. Evidence shows the benefit of improved hygiene, especially for improved handwashing and safe stool disposal. A growing understanding of what drives hygiene behaviour and creative partnerships are providing fresh approaches to change behaviour. However, some important gaps in our knowledge exist. For example, almost no trials of the effectiveness of interventions to improve food hygiene in developing countries are available. We also need to figure out how best to make safe hygiene practices matters of daily routine that are sustained by social norms on a mass scale. Full and active involvement of the health sector in getting safe hygiene to all homes, schools, and institutions will bring major gains to public health

The risk of misclassifying subjects within principal component based asset index.

The asset index is often used as a measure of socioeconomic status in empirical research as an explanatory variable or to control confounding. Principal component analysis (PCA) is frequently used to create the asset index. We conducted a simulation study to explore how accurately the principal component based asset index reflects the study subjects' actual poverty level, when the actual poverty level is generated by a simple factor analytic model. In the simulation study using the PC-based asset index, only 1% to 4% of subjects preserved their real position in a quintile scale of assets; between 44% to 82% of subjects were misclassified into the wrong asset quintile. If the PC-based asset index explained less than 30% of the total variance in the component variables, then we consistently observed more than 50% misclassification across quintiles of the index. The frequency of misclassification suggests that the PC-based asset index may not provide a valid measure of poverty level and should be used cautiously as a measure of socioeconomic status