Older workers in the hospitality industry: valuing experience and informal learning     

Roy Canning 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(5):667-679

The research sets out to identify the learning processes adopted by older workers in the hospitality and visitor attraction industry in Scotland, with a view to determining how employers may better support their education and training within enterprises. The study was undertaken as part of the ESRC project on ‘Sustaining the employability of older workers in the hospitality sector: personal learning strategies and cultures of learning’. The data collection period was from 2008–2010 and focused on six case studies; three in hospitality and three visitor attraction centres. The conceptual framework of the research is based upon the simple yet important notion of experience and how this enhances the learning lives of older employees. It will be argued that the learning processes used by older employees are primarily recognisable as social practices, based upon the utilisation of existing knowledge and skills. The analysis suggests that organisations should be encouraged to avoid using a ‘one size fits all’ approach to education and training and, in the case of older workers, to make more use of their past work and life experiences in order to facilitate their own and others’ learning.  相似文献   

Teacher Evaluation in an Era of Educational Change     

Dr. Joseph J. Roy 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(6):275-276

Teachers can help minority children close the academic achievement gap in intermediate and middle school by combining literacy instruction and content-area material. This connection improves reading achievement and increases curriculum knowledge, even if students have previously experienced difficulty with primary school reading. Fortunately, upper-elementary and middle-level learners are still naturally curious, are developing cognitively, and have acquired some basic reading skills. Teachers can therefore extend students' previous learning by using a spiral curriculum, in which curricular concepts are introduced at an appropriate level and then revisited at more challenging levels. Teachers can also increase the academic complexity for students by using strategies that include picture books, word recognition skills, intensive subject matter, vocabulary in a meaningful context, Readers Theater, and after-school activities.  相似文献   

Progress at school and school effectiveness: non-cognitive dispositions and within-class markets     

Roy Nash 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(2):89-102

The New Zealand Progress at School project, designed to investigate school effects, found that individual progress at school is associated with a set of non-cognitive dispositions, most importantly, aspiration, self-concept, and acceptance of the institutional regime. The few schools identified as over-and under-performing were distinguished by the favourable and unfavourable dispositions of their students. School composition - or mix - effects proved in this study to be minor and relative to the output criterion, and some implications of that, including the selective effects of within-class markets, are discussed with particular reference to another contemporary New Zealand study, the Smithfield project. It is concluded that the study of school effectiveness might usefully include in its models the relationship between the properties of systems, the level of disposition, and the forms of practice they generate.  相似文献   

Reactive oxygen species,reactive nitrogen species and antioxidants in etiopathogenesis of diabetes mellitus type-2     

P. P. Singh  Farzana Mahadi  Ajanta Roy  Praveen Sharma 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2009,24(4):324-342

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Promoting teacher behaviors that promote student learning     

Greg Clark  Roy Steele  Richard P. Niemiec  Herbert J. Walberg 《Performance Improvement》1992,31(4):22-24

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Relationship between foot strike pattern,running speed,and footwear condition in recreational distance runners     

Roy T. H. Cheung  Rodney Y. L. Wong  Tim K. W. Chung  R. T. Choi  Wendy W. Y. Leung  Diana H. Y. Shek 《Sports biomechanics / International Society of Biomechanics in Sports》2017,16(2):238-247

Compared to competitive runners, recreational runners appear to be more prone to injuries, which have been associated with foot strike patterns. Surprisingly, only few studies had examined the foot strike patterns outside laboratories. Therefore, this study compared the foot strike patterns in recreational runners at outdoor tracks with previously reported data. We also investigated the relationship between foot strike pattern, speed, and footwear in this cohort. Among 434 recreational runners analysed, 89.6% of them landed with rearfoot strike (RFS). Only 6.9 and 3.5% landed with midfoot and forefoot, respectively. A significant shift towards non-RFS was observed in our cohort, when compared with previously reported data. When speed increased by 1 m/s, the odds of having forefoot strike and midfoot strike relative to RFS increased by 2.3 times and 2.6 times, respectively. Runners were 9.2 times more likely to run with a forefoot strike in minimalists compared to regular running shoes, although 70% of runners in minimalists continued to use a RFS. These findings suggest that foot strike pattern may differ across running conditions and runners should consider these factors in order to mitigate potential injury.  相似文献   

Borders and Intersections of Possibility: Multilingual Repertoires of Refugee Families in the Southwest U.S.     

Laura A. Roy 《Multicultural Perspectives》2015,17(2):61-68

This study examines the linguistic and cultural intersections of recently arrived Somali Bantu refugee students in South Texas through the lens of border theory. The use of Spanish in the homes of refugee families is explored in addition to ways in which an educator used testimonios to honor students’ migration experiences. Findings show how specific approaches used in schools that affirm both the receiving communities’ and the new arrivals' local knowledge can have a lasting impact on literacy acquisition and resettlement experiences. Findings from this study also illuminate the potential impact of educators who develop a critical, inquiry stance by embedding multiple entry points for students to cross social, cultural, linguistic, and curricular borders in school.  相似文献   

Eclipses of the sun     

Roy K. Marshall 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1945,239(4):299-324

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Atoms,stars and nebuleæ: by Leo Goldberg and Lawrence H. Aller. (The Harvard Books on Astronomy.) 323 pages, 150 illustrations. Philadelphia,The Blakiston Company, 1943. Price $2.50     

Roy K. Marshall 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1943,236(1):101

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Tests of caustic magnesia made from magnesite from several sources     

P.H. Bates  Roy N. Young  Paul Rapp 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1923,196(5):681-683

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