Implementing the social pedagogic approach for workforce training and education in England: a preliminary study

Implementing the Social Pedagogic Approach for Workforce Training and Education in England is a study that was developed in conjunction with DfES and the Social Exclusion Task Force. It focuses on the potential for introducing training for social pedagogy in England, with special reference to children in care. The report covers (i) care leavers’ perspectives on their carers, including the carers’ need for training; (ii) summaries of 4 studies of social pedagogy conducted at TCRU; (iii) the perspectives of stakeholders from children's services and training institutions on the introduction of social pedagogy and on other proposals advanced in Care Matter; (iv) differences between Danish qualifications in social pedagogy and English social care NVQs and social work degrees and (v) a framework for introducing pedagogy education, in England, and a discussion of costs

The Embattlement of Reproduction: Exploring the Contemporary Pro-Life Movement as Embodied in Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Pedagogy - a holistic, personal approach to work with children and young people, across services: European models for practice, training, education and qualification

Today, provision for children and young people is developing rapidly at the level of policy, organisation, training, education, and qualifications. Research in these areas, carried out at the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU), has included cross-national studies on service provision and its quality, the daily practice of staff, their training, education, qualification, recruitment and retention in the workforce. A central interest has been what, in continental Europe, is often called ‘social pedagogy’, a distinctive way of working with children and the basis for policy development

Publication in a free society: the problem of accountability

Whether or not we are truly experiencing a communications revolution or entering a new ‘information age’, there are certainly major changes under way that are disturbing settled institutions of the press and media..

The mentored experience to enhance opportunities in research (METEOR) program.

PROBLEM: Medical students from groups that are underrepresented in medicine are less likely to pursue careers that incorporate research as compared to their white peers. Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)-funded institutions encouraged centers to establish short-term, mentored summer research opportunities to motivate students underrepresented in medicine to enroll in medical school and ideally choose a career that incorporates research into their clinical practice. APPROACH: The Mentored Experience To Enhance Opportunities in Research (METEOR) Program was established in 2012 in partnership with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children\u27s National (CTSI-CN) and The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Rather than a single summer experience, the METEOR Program is innovative in that it is intended to support the success of participants throughout the duration of their medical school training and beyond. OUTCOMES: Scholarly output of participants of the first four cohorts included 23 empirical research articles in peer-reviewed journals, five review articles, eight case reports, one empirical research article in a student-led journal, one commentary in a professional journal, 20 university-based poster presentations, three national poster presentations, and one international poster presentation. Interviews revealed themes aligned with constructs of the Social Cognitive Career Theory. Overall mentorship was seen as a key component of the METEOR Program. In addition, the ability to come to campus prior to the start of medical school, as part of a cohesive cohort, along with the addition of lectures and field trips, further enhanced participants\u27 experiences. NEXT STEPS: Our findings will be incorporated into improvements to the program for future cohorts and may inform the design of similar mentored research programs. With increased enrollment, quantitative studies of the effectiveness of the program are planned

News diversity and recommendation systems : setting the interdisciplinary scene

Concerns about selective exposure and filter bubbles in the digital news environment trigger questions regarding how news recommender systems can become more citizen-oriented and facilitate – rather than limit – normative aims of journalism. Accordingly, this chapter presents building blocks for the construction of such a news algorithm as they are being developed by the Ghent University interdisciplinary research project #NewsDNA, of which the primary aim is to actually build, evaluate and test a diversity-enhancing news recommender. As such, the deployment of artificial intelligence could support the media in providing people with information and stimulating public debate, rather than undermine their role in that respect. To do so, it combines insights from computer sciences (news recommender systems), law (right to receive information), communication sciences (conceptualisations of news diversity), and computational linguistics (automated content extraction from text). To gather feedback from scholars of different backgrounds, this research has been presented and discussed during the 2019 IFIP summer school workshop on ‘co-designing a personalised news diversity algorithmic model based on news consumers’ agency and fine-grained content modelling’. This contribution also reflects the results of that dialogue

Proposal for a communication strategy for cultural projects via press offices

[EN] Whether out of ignorance or out of the lack of funds, communication is an areathat isoften overlooked when starting a cultural project. However, the dissemination of the project through the media can be keyfor its survival due to the fact that cultural journalists act as prescribers, encouragingtheconsumption in the intermediate future of the leisure and cultural products they are reporting about. The following paperanalyzes the context of the media and the specificity of cultural journalism. It also presents my own modelfor developingpress offices that specialize press in culture, detailing the work tools needed and on how to use them. This article is based onbibliographic documentation and also on the author’s experience as a journalist and a communication professional. As a result, the analysiswill lead to a series of tenfindings that justify the useof communicationof communication strategies in the management of cultural projects[ES] La comunicación es una de las áreas que por desconocimiento o falta de presupuestos suele descuidarse a la hora de poner en marcha un proyecto cultural. Sin embargo, la difusión a través de los medios de comunicación puede ser crucial para su supervivencia, ya que los periodistas culturales actúan como prescriptores, fomentando un consumo a corto plazo de las ofertas de ocio y productos culturales sobre los que informan. El siguiente artículo analiza el contexto de los medios de comunicación y la especificidad del periodismo cultural. Además, propone un modelo propio para desarrollar gabinetes de prensa especializados en cultura, detallando las herramientas a utilizar y cómo hacerlo. Todo ello basado en documentación bibliográfica así como en la experiencia profesional como periodista y comunicadora de la autora. Un análisis que conduce a una serie de 10 conclusiones que justifican la práctica de la comunicación en la gestión de proyectos culturales.García Torres, M. (2016). Propuesta de un modelo de comunicación para proyectos culturales a través de gabinetes de prensa. Culturas. Revista de Gestión Cultural. 3(1):75-96. doi:10.4995/cs.2016.5687SWORD759631Carrera, P., 2008. Teoría de la comunicación mediática. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch. ISBN 978-84-9876-230-3Chomsky, N. y Ramonet, I., 1995. Cómo nos venden la moto. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, pp. 80. ISBN: 978-84-7426-245-2González, J., 1989. El espectáculo informativo o la amenaza de lo real. Madrid: Akal Comunicación. ISBN: 84-7600-368-4Mcquail, D., 2000. Introducción a la Teoría de la comunicación de masas. Barcelona: Paidós Comunicación. ISBN: 84-493-0812-7Sotelo, C., 2001. Introducción a la comunicación institucional. Barcelona: Ariel. Comunicación. ISBN: 84-344-1283-

‘I’d be proud to spend the sacred foreign aid budget on our poor pensioners’: Representations of macro aid resourcing in the Irish, UK and US print-media during the economic crisis, 2008–2011

The news-media has been identified as an influence on donor nations’ overseas aid allocations, acting as a site where decisions are justified to ‘domestic constituencies’ and through which resistance is mobilised. Mediated pressures on aid allocations amplified between 2008 and 2011 in three donor countries experiencing domestic economic difficulties: Ireland, the UK and the US. This study suggests that each country’s print-media positioned the macro resourcing of aid primarily as an inward concern, neglected recipient country needs, and made weak connections to international policy frameworks to benchmark, contextualise and rationalise aid allocations. The research suggests that the explanatory limitations of the countries’ news-models in communicating the processes and rationales underpinning macro aid resourcing may be a factor in sustaining a knowledge and legitimacy deficit among domestic publics for international aid agreements

The role of external broadcasting in a closed political system

This article investigates the role and impact of external broadcasting (radio and television) on a closed political system, through the example of the two post-war German states: the West German Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the East German German Democratic Republic (GDR). The aim is to debunk myths about the influence of external broadcasting on the events that led to German reunification in 1990. The study follows a historical approach and discusses what role external media played during the years of a divided Germany. The findings are based on several historical sources, research reports from the 1950s and 1960s and over 100 biographical interviews with former residents of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The article analyses the impact of external broadcasting on citizens and the political elite in times of crisis as well as during everyday life

Accountability and Transparency of Entrepreneurial Journalism: Unresolved ethical issues in crowdfunded journalism projects

Crowdfunding is a new business model in which journalists rely—and depend—on (micro-) payments by a large number of supporters to finance their reporting. In this form of entrepreneurial journalism the roles of publisher, fundraiser and journalist often overlap. This raises questions about conflicts of interest, accountability and transparency. The article presents the results of selected case studies in four different European countries—Germany (Krautreporter), Italy (Occhidellaguerra), the United Kingdom (Contributoria) and the Netherlands (De Correspondent)—as well as one US example (Kickstarter). The study used a two-step methodological approach: first a content analysis of the websites and the Twitter accounts with regard to practices of media accountability, transparency and user participation was undertaken. The aim was to investigate how far ethical challenges in crowdfunded entrepreneurial journalism are accounted for. Second, we present findings from semi-structured interviews with journalists from each crowdfunding. The study provides evidence about the ethical issues in this area, particularly in relation to production transparency and responsiveness. The study also shows that in some cases of crowdfunding (platforms), accountability is outsourced and implemented only through the audience participation