Improving forestry education through participatory curriculum development: A case study from Vietnam     

Peter Taylor 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(2):93-104

Abstract

As agriculture and forestry practices change in different contexts, new requirements emerge for the development of education programmes. In forestry education there is a need for a shift of focus from technology towards an interdisciplinary approach based on a new range of knowledge, skills and attitudes, and drawing on new concepts of knowledge and learning. Increased participation of stakeholders in the forestry education process seems essential for this shift to take place, leading to greater empowerment, commitment, and more effective learning. This paper presents a case study of the Social Forestry Support Programme in Vietnam, in which participatory curriculum development (PCD) plays a fundamental part. Beginning with stakeholder identification and analysis, PCD provides an overall framework for educational development. Recognising constraints associated with the process, the paper describes strategies aimed at capacity building, management of stakeholder involvement, and planning and evaluation. As different stakeholders learn to learn together through discourse and interaction, the chances of sustainable outcomes from the PCD process should be improved. The dynamic and flexible nature of PCD suggests that there is considerable potential for its adaptation and application in a range of different contexts.  相似文献   

Accuracy of Estimates and Statistical Power for Testing Meditation in Latent Growth Curve Modeling     

JeeWon Cheong 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(2):195-211

The latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) approach has been increasingly utilized to investigate longitudinal mediation. However, little is known about the accuracy of the estimates and statistical power when mediation is evaluated in the LGCM framework. A simulation study was conducted to address these issues under various conditions including sample size, effect size of mediated effect, number of measurement occasions, and R ₂ of measured variables. In general, the results showed that relatively large samples were needed to accurately estimate the mediated effects and to have adequate statistical power, when testing mediation in the LGCM framework. Guidelines for designing studies to examine longitudinal mediation and ways to improve the accuracy of the estimates and statistical power were discussed.  相似文献   

Estimation of Controlled Direct Effects in the Presence of Exposure-Induced Confounding and Latent Variables     

Tom Loeys  Beatrijs Moerkerke  An Raes  Yves Rosseel  Stijn Vansteelandt 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(3):396-407

Estimation of the direct effect of an exposure on an outcome requires adjustment for confounders of the exposure–outcome and mediator–outcome relationships. When some of the latter confounders have been affected by the exposure, then standard regression adjustment is prone to possibly severe bias. The use of inverse probability weighting under so-called marginal structural models has recently been suggested as a solution in the psychological literature. In this article, we show how progress can alternatively be made via G-estimation. We show that this estimation method can be easily embedded within the structural equation modeling framework and could in particular be used for estimating direct effects in the presence of latent variables. Moreover, by avoiding inverse probability weighting, it accommodates the typical problem of unstable weights in the alternative estimation approaches based on marginal structural models. We illustrate the approach both by simulations and by the analysis of a longitudinal study in individiduals who ended a romantic relationship. In this example we explore whether the effect of attachment anxiety during the relationship on mental distress 2 years after the breakup is mediated by rumination or not.  相似文献   

论能动司法下法院调解的程序规制     

孟海燕  陈莎  王朝 《怀化师专学报》2013,(1):42-44

随着我国经济的迅速发展,法院以更加积极的姿态探索纠纷解决方式,在运用多元化手段解决纠纷的同时注重自身能动性,作为中国土生土长的诉讼调解制度在汲取了传统纠纷的解决理念基础上,顺应时代的召唤积极探索,一时引起了广泛关注和研讨。调解本身的特性决定了调解活动无法如审判活动般规范,但既是程序就一定有度,发现法院调解中的程序问题、论证调解程序化的必要性并进一步提出程序化措施,在司法能动提出的背景下显得非常必要。  相似文献   

论人民调解员的职业化     

李喜莲  黄帅 《怀化师专学报》2013,(12):59-61

人民调解员职业化的基本内涵是人民调解员应当具备一定的职业资质与技能,专门从事调解工作并从当地政府获得相应报酬。纠纷类型不断翻新、纠纷复杂化,对人民调解员职业化提出要求并提供了契机。人民调解员职业化是人民调解制度自身发展完善的内在要求,也是社会管理创新的重要内容。在确保人民调解员人民性的前提下,有条件的法律院校培养专业化的人民调解员,司法行政部门建立科学合理的人民调解员职称评审制度,并建立健全相应的财政保障制度是人民调解员职业化的可行路径.  相似文献   

From shanzhai chic to Gangnam style: seven practices of cultural-economic mediation in China and Korea     

Tommy Tse  Victor Shin  Ling Tung Tsang 《Journal of Cultural Economy》2020,13(5):511-530

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the social construction of ‘fashionability’ – namely, what is ‘desirable’ and ‘fashionable’ – with reference to the concept ‘cultural mediators’ that foregrounds agency, negotiation and the contested practices of market actors in cultural production. It zeroes in on the cultural mediators’ attitudes and positions in the two markets by drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with industry veterans. It shows that the mediators in South Korea and China increasingly occupy hybrid occupational roles and social positions across industries and sectors yet achieve limited success in countering the status quo of Western fashion through mediation. The analysis contributes to the literature with a categorisation of seven mediation practices that shape the valuation of fashion products (i.e. ‘fashionability’) in two ways. Empirically, this categorisation illuminates how cultural mediators make reference habitually to the broader social and cultural contexts to co-construct cultural-aesthetic objects. Theoretically, it advances a cultural-economic approach to the understanding of cultural mediation and challenges the reductionist viewpoint of actor–network theory through the notion of a matrix of cultural-economic agency.  相似文献   

Antecedents and consequences of social media fatigue     

《International Journal of Information Management》2019

Prior literature suggests that social media users are increasingly experiencing social media fatigue. Only recently have scholars undertaken empirical studies to investigate its antecedents and outcomes to better understand the impact of fatigue on social media users. To further this understanding, the present study has conducted a cross-sectional survey with 1552 users. The Stress-Strain-Outcome (SSO) theoretical framework is applied to examine if privacy concerns, self-disclosure, parental mediation strategies, and decrement in academic performance due to social media use correlate with social media fatigue. Two forms of fatigue are considered, namely, fatigue due to social networking site (SNS) and mobile instant messaging (MIM) use. The study results suggest that privacy concerns, self-disclosure, parental encouragement and worry significantly and positively correlate with SNS and MIM fatigue. Parental permission and parental monitoring are either not or lowly associated with fatigue. In addition to this, SNS and MIM fatigue positively correlated with the tendency to experience academic decrement due to social media use. The antecedents and consequences of social media fatigue were similar for SNS and MIM users. Moreover, students perceived their parents to be more open to their MIM use, and they had higher self-disclosure in MIM than in SNS. The study concludes with significant implications for practitioners, policy makers as well as service designers.  相似文献   

代位权诉讼实务中的几个问题探讨     

陈永忠  许宝林 《河南广播电视大学学报》2005,18(3):26-27

代住权制度是我国新合同法规定的合同保全制度之一。文章结合立法及司法解释从“怠于行使”的理解、债权人同时提起两个诉讼的解决、诉讼主体的确定、“必要费用”的内涵及承担主体等4个方面进行探析，以期有利于代位权制度功能的正常发挥和司法实践中的统一认识。  相似文献   

A moderated mediation model of political collective action in Hong Kong: examining the roles of social media consumption and social identity     

Yingru Ji  Yanmengqian Zhou  Sora Kim 《亚洲交流杂志》2017,27(5):497-516

Adopting a communication mediation approach, this study explores the role of overall social networking service (SNS) use in facilitating people’s participation in collective political action through the mediation of online and offline political discussions. The study also underscores the moderating effect on the mediation process of both social identity and geographical origin. Moderated mediation analyses reveal that the positive impact of overall SNS use on participation mediated by offline discussion is stronger for people with higher Hong Kong identity and for people from Hong Kong. This moderated mediation model specifies the socio-psychological mechanism of participation in collective political action in an immigrant society such as Hong Kong.  相似文献   

Examining public acquisition of science knowledge from social media in Singapore: an extension of the cognitive mediation model     

Shirley S. Ho  Xiaodong Yang  Amber Thanwarani  Juliana M. Chan 《亚洲交流杂志》2017,27(2):193-212

This study extends the cognitive mediation model (CMM) by examining the role of social media in cultivating public science knowledge. A sample of 901 Singaporeans was collected through an online survey panel. The results showed that the CMM could be applied to a social media context with a focus on science literacy. Specifically, the findings indicated that people with higher levels of surveillance gratification and social utility motivations tended to pay more attention and to elaborate more about science news that they encounter on social media. Likewise, people with greater social utility motivation tended to engage in greater interpersonal discussions on social media. Notably, attention to news on social media had an indirect association with science knowledge through news elaboration and interpersonal discussion on social media. Implications for theory and practice for science communication were discussed.  相似文献