‘For older folks like me,these things are over us…’: The challenge of embedding tablet computers in everyday life within a geriatric hospital in Uruguay     

Alexander Castleton  Alejandro Cid  Derek Silva 《Educational gerontology》2020,46(4):167-181

ABSTRACT

Much research has focused on the introduction of information and communication technology (ICTs) into the lives of older people, but it has generally understood them as external factors who act as a sort of independent variable that impacts the seniors’ lives. There remains a dearth of empirical research into how aging and technology are co-constructed, namely, research that focuses on older people’s relationship to technology as a socio-technical network. We therefore contribute to this field by analyzing the development and establishment of a network in a geriatric hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay. Uruguay has been developing a one-tablet computer-per low-income-senior policy since 2015. In this research, we deployed a qualitative ethnographic research comprised of semi-structured interviews, jottings, and field notes where we explore the adoption of tablets within the corresponding actor-network. Our findings suggest that objectively, not only was the establishment of the sociotechnical network rife with complexities, disruptions, and fissures, but subjectively, seniors in the hospital were heavily influenced by their self-perception of the potentialities of ICTs.  相似文献   

Del Otro Lado: Literacy and Migration Across the U.S.–Mexico Border     

Carolina Silva 《Journal of Latinos & Education》2016,15(4):358-359

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Some contributions from Latin American career counselling for dealing with situations of psychosocial vulnerability     

Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro  Maria da Conceição Coropos Uvaldo  Fabiano Fonseca da Silva 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2015,15(3):193-204

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Crossed looks: globalisations and curriculum in Guinea-Bissau     

Rui da Silva  Júlio Gonçalves dos Santos  José Augusto Pacheco 《Compare》2015,45(6):978-999

This article focuses on education in Guinea-Bissau in the context of globalisations, examining the concept of globalisation and its relation to education and the curriculum. It focuses on the relatively neglected area of national education policies in Guinea-Bissau, comparing differences and common points of interference/influence of multilateral (international and regional) and bilateral organisations in these policies. Data collection was based on content analysis of a corpus of documents – the Education Act, the document of Portuguese Cooperation Programme, the Education Sector Policy Paper, the Education for All National Plan of Action, and Policy n. 3/2007/CM/UEMOA – and field notes collected from 2009 to 2012. The article argues that there is a tendency for the homogenisation of curriculum policies, at least at the macro-level, due to the different types of pressures coming from international/regional organisations.  相似文献   

Introduction cultural capital and inequality: Policy issues and contexts     

Tony Bennett  Elizabeth B. Silva 《Cultural Trends》2006,15(2-3):87-106

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Signal constellations in the hyperbolic plane: A proposal for new communication systems     

Eduardo Brandani da Silva  Marcelo Firer 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2006,343(1):69-82

Signal constellations in the hyperbolic plane are provided as an alternative to traditional signal constellations in the Euclidean plane, since channels may actually exist for which the latter signal constellations are not as suitable as the former. A hyperbolic gaussian probability density function, based solely on geometrical considerations, is derived to determine the performance of the hyperbolic signal constellations. Benefits result from an approach conceived in terms of reduced signal-to-noise ratio, needed to achieve a prescribed error rate and equivalent optimum receiver complexity.  相似文献   

Paternal Sensitivity and Children’s Cognitive and Socioemotional Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Review     

Michelle Rodrigues  Nina Sokolovic  Sheri Madigan  Yiqi Luo  Victoria Silva  Shruti Misra  Jennifer Jenkins 《Child development》2021,92(2):554-577

In a series of meta-analyses, paternal sensitivity was associated with children’s (age range: 7 months–9 years) overall cognitive functioning (N = 3,193; k = 23; r = .19), including language skills (k = 9; r = .21), cognitive ability (k = 9; r = .18), and executive function (k = 8; r = .19). Paternal sensitivity was not associated with children’s overall socioemotional functioning (N = 2,924; k = 24; r = −.03) or internalizing problems, but it was associated with children’s emotion regulation (k = 7; r = .22) and externalizing problems (k = 19; r = −.08). In the broad cognitive functioning, executive function, broad socioemotional functioning, and externalizing problems meta-analyses, child age was a significant moderator.  相似文献   

The Impact of Advancement Via Individual Determination on the College Readiness of First-Generation Hispanic Students in an Urban South Texas High School     

Morley  William  Watt  Karen M.  Simonsson  Marie  Silva  Hilda 《The Urban Review》2021,53(1):145-163

The Urban Review - This study examined the phenomenon of college readiness in Hispanic first-generation college students. The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between...  相似文献   

Support services for higher degree research students: a survey of three Australian universities     

Pujitha Silva  Karen Woodman  Acram Taji  James Travelyan  Shamim Samani  Hema Sharda 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2016,41(5):469-481

A survey was conducted across three Australian universities to identify the types and format of support services available for higher degree research (HDR, or MA and Ph.D.) students. The services were classified with regards to availability, location and accessibility. A comparative tool was developed to help institutions categorise their services in terms of academic, administrative, social and settlement, language and miscellaneous (other) supports. All three universities showed similarities in the type of academic support services offered, while differing in social and settlement and language support services in terms of the location and the level of accessibility of these services. The study also examined the specific support services available for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students. The three universities differed in their emphases in catering to CALD needs, with their allocation of resources reflecting these differences. The organisation of these services within the universities was further assessed to determine possible factors that may influence the effective delivery of these services, by considering HDR and CALD student specific issues. The findings and tools developed by this study may be useful to HDR supervisors and university administrators in identifying key support services to better improve outcomes for the HDR students and universities.  相似文献   

Student satisfaction in higher education: a meta-analytic study     

Fernando de Oliveira Santini  Wagner Junior Ladeira  Claudio Hoffmann Sampaio  Gustavo da Silva Costa 《Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION》2017,27(1):1-18

This paper discusses the results of a meta-analysis performed to identify key antecedent and consequent constructs of satisfaction in higher education. We offer an integrated model to achieve a better understanding of satisfaction in the context of higher education. To accomplish this objective, we identified 83 studies that were valid and relevant to the research objective of the current study, generating a total of 469 observations. We identified studies published from 1986 to 2016 and analyzed six antecedent dimensions (perceived value of educational services, resources provided to the student, service quality perception, marketing orientation, identity of the higher education institution, university environment) and one consequent dimension related to satisfaction. The 7 dimensions exhibited a total of 51 relationships. We believe that the originality of the findings clearly contributes to future academic research in higher education.  相似文献