Entering the occupational category of ‘Farmer’: new pathways through professional agricultural education in Ireland   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Justine Deming  Áine Macken-Walsh  Bernadette O'Brien  James Kinsella 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2019,25(1):63-78

Purpose: Understand the emergence of new potential career trajectories in the liberalised Irish dairy farming sector through analysis of the narratives of students of a Professional Diploma in Dairy Farm Management

Design/methodology/approach: A review of the literature highlights that entry to a working life in agriculture has been characterised by protracted farm succession processes; a strong association between being a farmer and owning land in the family name; lingering male identities esteeming manual labour; and a pragmatic need at farm level for manual work. The abolition of milk quota in 2015 was predicted to catalyse expansion of production on dairy farms with an increase in milk production; accompanied by a demand for qualified personnel. The BNIM method was employed.

Findings: Results confirm that agricultural education is perceived and experienced as offering new pathways for young farmers to enter the occupational category of ‘farmer’, helping to manoeuvre around the constraints of non-inheritance. The students’ narratives evidenced managerial identities, being strongly influenced by encountering management approaches through their agricultural education. All students desired to eventually own a farm someday and to be to employed as a professional dairy farm manager was a perceived as an intermediary goal.

Practical implication: Discontinuation of the traditional family farming model based on family farm/land ownership is not imminent even among a cohort qualified to become employed dairy farm managers.

Theoretical implication: This paper contributes to theoretical framework which highlights the shift in farmer masculine identity and the career trajectory of graduates of specialised agricultural education programmes.  相似文献   

Assessing the Efficacy of Contextualized Group Counseling Education in Asia: A Mixed Methods Study     

Sing-Kiat Ting  Rachel  Jian-Ai Thong  Justine  Lim  Joy Yung-Re  Jones  Elizabeth 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2022,44(3):550-568

International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling - Many experiential learning teaching models are developed in Western cultures, with their efficacy not tested in non-Western cultures,...  相似文献   

Helping Business Students Acquire the Skills Needed for a Career in Analytics: A Comprehensive Industry Assessment of Entry‐Level Requirements     

Wilbur W. Stanton  Angela D'Auria Stanton 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2020,18(1):138-165

Fact‐based decision making is changing job functions within organizations more than any other technology. Analytics, once the purview of the data scientist, is now spread throughout organizations. No longer is there a single job title, job function, or set of required skills and credentials for an analytics career. Companies have moved away from seeking applicants with a specific degree to now recruiting analytics talent based on required skill sets. For more than a decade, business schools have been developing new programs in analytics in response to industry's needs. However, in developing meaningful career‐ready professionals, business programs must understand the skills required across different analytics job functions. In this article, the authors present a comprehensive assessment of the skills sought by employers when considering a candidate for an entry‐level analytics position. The authors describe the demand for various types of analytics professionals, identify the job titles and functions with the most significant demand, and then draw a comparison of the job requirements of hard skills, soft skills, software skills, and credentials between three of the most sought‐after analytics areas: data science, data analytics, and business analytics. The authors conclude by providing faculty and administrators with recommendations on how to adapt their courses and programs to provide students with the fundamental preparation necessary for careers in data science, data analytics, and business analytics.  相似文献   

Caregiver perceptions of inclusive playgrounds targeting toddlers and preschoolers with disabilities: has recent international and national policy improved overall satisfaction?          下载免费PDF全文

Tina L. Stanton‐Chapman  Eric L. Schmidt 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2017,17(4):237-246

The purpose of the current study was to survey and interview caregivers of children with disabilities (ages 2–5 years) to obtain their input as to whether current playground equipment meets their child's needs. A total of 149 participants agreed to participate. Caregivers (i) indicated that their child with a disability could not fully participate in the playground's offerings, (ii) felt that the playground was not appropriate for their child with a disability and (iii) dreamed of a fully inclusive playground that met their child's needs. The results also demonstrate that social participation barriers continue to remain for families who have children with disabilities despite the passing of international human rights standards targeting individuals with disabilities and a global focus in improving the overall well‐being of children with disabilities.  相似文献   

Lecturer Confidence Building: The Use of Age Progression and Ego Enhancement     

Harry E Stanton 《高等教育研究与发展》1995,14(1):121-127

Twenty‐two university academics lacking confidence in their lecturing ability had two treatment sessions embracing age progression in the form of a success scenario and ego‐enhancement in the form of positive suggestions. A hypnotic induction involving the academics going ‘inside’ their bodies, finding the area of greatest comfort, relating into that comfort, and watching the flow of their breath as they allowed each out breath to take away tension was used to enhance a pleasant fantasy in which they recalled their best teaching performance. This was revived in their imaginations and embellished to become a total success experience to be carried forward to their next lecture. A Confidence Thermometer, designed to measure the academics self‐estimate of their confidence level, was administered before treatment, one week after completion of the second training session and as a follow‐up six months later. In addition, on the two latter occasions, the academics completed anecdotal reports recording their impressions of the treatment. Both Confidence Thermometer scores and the anecdotal reports indicated that confidence level was significantly higher both immediately after treatment and at the six month follow‐up.  相似文献   

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Justine Alsop-Cotton 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2009,35(1):102-103

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Computer use within a play-based early years curriculum     

Justine Howard  Gareth E. Miles  Laura Rees-Davies 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2012,20(2):175-189

Early years curricula promote learning through play and in addition emphasise the development of computer literacy. Previous research, however, has described that teachers feel unprepared to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and play. Also, whereas research has suggested that effective computer use in the early years is associated with adult direction, further research suggests adult presence can inhibit play and reduce children's engagement. Focusing on 12 settings following the Welsh play-based Foundation Phase, this paper explores teachers' experiences of integrating computer use into classroom practice, children's levels of engagement with computer activities and how playful children perceive computer use to be. Teachers confidently delivered a variety of computing experiences. Children consistently rated these activities as play regardless of adult presence and demonstrated moderate to high levels of engagement. Findings and the features of observed practice are discussed in relation to the teachers' role as a play partner and the successful co-construction of the play-based curriculum.  相似文献   

Characterizing the sexual abuse experiences of young adolescents     

Sonya Negriff  Janet U. Schneiderman  Caitlin Smith  Justine K. Schreyer  Penelope K. Trickett 《Child abuse & neglect》2014

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Developing Media Literacy in Public Libraries: Learning from Community Media Centers     

Colin Rhinesmith  Christiana Lynne Urbano Stanton 《Public Library Quarterly》2013,32(4):420-440

The rise of digital media labs and spaces for content creation in public libraries has been documented in the scholarly literature. However, fewer studies have investigated the outcomes of media literacy initiatives in community media centers (CMCs) and how they might inform similar programs and services in public libraries. This article reports findings from a study that used qualitative research to investigate the current goals and activities of CMCs across the United States. The findings show that the educational, social, and community benefits of these programs could be useful for public libraries to consider in developing or augmenting their own media literacy initiatives.  相似文献   

From course assessment to redesign: a hybrid-vehicle course as a case illustration     

Ken C. Stanton  Thomas H. Bradley 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2013,38(6):687-699

Assessment has become a central aspect of engineering education for evaluating student learning, attaining accreditation, and ensuring accountability. However, the final step of the assessment process, which requires assessment results be used to redesign courses and programmes, is appreciably underdeveloped in the literature. As such, this work suggests a process, based on the engineering problem-solving method, to analyse and act on problems and successes identified in the assessment results. The process is illustrated through an application to Colorado State University's new programme for Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Engineering, for which the redesign process was originally created. Readers will benefit by simplifying and systematising the essential aspect of the assessment process – application to course redesign – for use in both research and practice applications.  相似文献