Different track - same destination? exploring the potential of 'Curriculum for Excellence' to improve educational practice in Scotland

This paper provides a commentary on the current opportunities open to policy makers and educators in developing the new national Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) for Scotland. It identifies areas of commonality between educational professionals from different sectors around the notion of curriculum. It explores different interpretations of the concept of curriculum and uses examples from informal education to highlight how youth workers and teachers could develop useful ways of working together. Further, the paper argues that an expression and prioritisation of values within the CfE policy provides the platform on which they can work more closely together in spite of their historically different pedagogical starting points. Ultimately, the paper seeks to convince both sectors that the CfE can be used creatively to offer an enhanced educational experience for young people in Scotland based on equity and social justice. This is an important and current issue for Education in Scotland and it is a debate which needs to be articulated, if we are to succeed in delivering a service which matches the aspirations of our nation and our young people

Outcomes for youth work : coming of age or master’s bidding?

Abstract Providing evidence in youth work is a current and important debate. Modern youth work has, at least to some degree, recognised the need to produce practice information, through its various guises, with limited success as requirements and terminology have continually changed. In Scotland, the current demands for youth work to “prove” itself are through a performance management system that promotes outcome-based practice. There are some difficulties with this position because outcome-based practice lacks methodological rigour, is aligned with national governmental commitments and does not adequately capture the impact of youth work practice. This paper argues that youth workers need to develop both a theoretical and methodological approach to data collection and management,which is in keeping with practice values, captures the voice of the young person and enhances youth work practice. Youth work should not be used as a mechanism to deliver the government’s policies but be liberated from centralist control to become a “free practice” so that some of the perennial problems, such as democratic disillusionment, partly caused by this “performance management industry”, can be effectively dealt with. The generation of evidence for youth work should enable it to freely investigate and capture its impact, within the practice, based on the learning that has taken place, the articulation of the learners’ voice with the most appropriate form of data presentation

Can I have this dance? A perspective on the expectations and demands of current youth work practice in Scotland

This research principally discerns what young people want from their youth worker and portrays the significance of that relationship to them. The research illustrates young peoples’ thoughts and voice within the current discourse around what constitutes effective youth practice. It also reveals that communication, equity and respect which are at the top of young people’s agenda. The young people had reservations about certain types of youth work practice they had experienced in the past but valued and prioritised the personal characteristics of the youth worker

Can You Keep a Secret--You May Discover the Answer Is Yes under Missouri\u27s Privilege for Trade Secrets

This Note examines which factors give rise to classification of information, patterns, formulas and the like as trade secrets. Missouri\u27s legislature, in its Uniform Trade Secrets Act, has offered a noncomprehensive definition of trade secret. \u27 While this and other proffered definitions provide some guidance, attempting to define any term of art cannot be done in absolute measures

Using theory in Youth and Community Work Practice Ilona Buchroth & Chris Parkin (eds.) Exeter : Learning Matters Ltd (2010) pp. 145 Pbk . £17 ISBN:978-1844453009

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Novel Calixarene-Schiff Bases that Bind Silver(I) Ion

Two novel calix[4]arene-Schiff base receptors have been synthesized. One of the new compounds has two pendant aldimines, while the second has been prepared by two-point attachment of a calixarene-dialdehyde onto a calixarene-diamine to form a “calix-tube”. Preliminary binding studies with AgClO4 show large complexation-induced shifts in 1H NMR positions

Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Vibration Morton Effect in the Bearings of a Double Overhung Compressor

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The Grizzly, February 17, 2022

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The Grizzly, November 18, 2021

Ursinus College Democrats Making a Comeback • Bears Frightened Bullets • Bears Bring in Bucks for #Giving2UCDay • The Re Mark able Feinberg • Exchanging Sticks for Cameras • Opinions: A Spooky Homecoming; Life After Ursinus: What Will I Do? • SAAC\u27s Spicy Spirit Week • Women\u27s Soccer Final Kickhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1974/thumbnail.jp

Orbiter Boundary Layer Transition Prediction Tool Enhancements

Updates to an analytic tool developed for Shuttle support to predict the onset of boundary layer transition resulting from thermal protection system damage or repair are presented. The boundary layer transition tool is part of a suite of tools that analyze the local aerothermodynamic environment to enable informed disposition of damage for making recommendations to fly as is or to repair. Using mission specific trajectory information and details of each d agmea site or repair, the expected time (and thus Mach number) of transition onset is predicted to help define proper environments for use in subsequent thermal and stress analysis of the thermal protection system and structure. The boundary layer transition criteria utilized within the tool were updated based on new local boundary layer properties obtained from high fidelity computational solutions. Also, new ground-based measurements were obtained to allow for a wider parametric variation with both protuberances and cavities and then the resulting correlations were calibrated against updated flight data. The end result is to provide correlations that allow increased confidence with the resulting transition predictions. Recently, a new approach was adopted to remove conservatism in terms of sustained turbulence along the wing leading edge. Finally, some of the newer flight data are also discussed in terms of how these results reflect back on the updated correlations