This study explored the implementation of the whole school approach (WSA) on social and emotional guidance (SEG) in rural primary schools in Sarawak, Malaysia. Regular teachers (N = 2,532) in Sarawak responded to an electronic survey. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the socio-emotional guidance model were employed to explore the level of implementing the WSA on SEG among the respondents. Factors affecting the intention to be involved in SEG were also explored. This paper provides insights for policymakers and educational administrators to promote the social and emotional well-being of rural students in a developing country.

In this paper, we analyze the evolution of the expert discourse in the media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada. From our analysis of 527 media products published by CBC/Radio Canada between January 1 and August 31, 2020, it was possible to document the type of expertise mobilized, the types of experts engaged by the media, the modalities of appropriation of this discourse by non-experts and the use of expert discourse by political actors. We organize our analysis around governmental measures that have generated more controversy and debate in the media (e.g., closing international borders) and that will be used to analyze the processes of representational naturalization (Negura and Plante, submitted). We begin our chapter with an overview of the use of expertise in the Canadian public- health decision-making chain in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic by highlighting the tensions, contradictions, and paradoxes in political communication that this process revealed. We demonstrate the relevance of studying these dynamics reflected in the media from the perspective of social representations. A brief explanation of the research objectives, the data used and some methodological elements will follow. We then discuss the results of our analysis of the different stages of the evolution of the pandemic in Canada according to the expert discourse in the media. Finally, our analysis focuses on the role of expert discourse in determining what aspects of Covid-19 the public and the political authorities in Canada have defined as a social problem.

The COVID-19 Pandemic began in China at the end of 2019 and spread rapidly to become a global pandemic by the first quarter of 2020. Many death incidences were reported in a short time before it was being familiar to many nations in terms of practices for containment. In response, many countries had to close down education institutions, lockdown cities, and countries, and emphasize practices of new lifestyles and behaviors thought to guarantee safety. Eventually, students were the most affected groups among the nations. Particularly, the impacts of the pandemic were realized in the teaching and learning processes as well as changes in the practices of administration and management of education services. The impacts were essentially felt by students themselves, professors, instructors, teachers, and educationists in managerial and administrative positions. The high intensities of the impacts escalated as there were no contingency plans to curb the sudden changes and lethality in the instant period of pandemic encounters. The pandemic situation signified the demand for an emergence preparedness, response, and recovery mechanism (EPRRM) contingency plan to be put in place for systems of education. The education EPRRM contingency plan would assist the education machinery in higher learning institutions (HLIs) and other levels of learning to keep in resilient and continuant teaching and learning processes in times of crises

The study adopted qualitative approach to explore the strategies used by universities based on experience of the key informants when adopting eLearning as a disruptive technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample size was 10 interviewees, five (three faculty and two ICT personnel) from each of the two universities. Analysis of their demographic profile indicates a diverse age group ranging between 30 years and 50 years. It was required that these participants must have unique experiences, perceptions, attitudes and characteristics concerning the eLearning adoption strategies in universities.

Questionnaire surveys dominate the methodological designs in educational and social studies, particularly in developing countries. It is conceived practically easy to adopt study protocols under the design, and of course, most researchers would prefer using questionnaire survey studies designed in the most simple ways. Such studies provide the most economical way of gathering information from representations giving data that apply to general populations. As such, the desire for cost management and redeeming time have caused many researchers to adapt, adopt and apply the designs, even where it doesn't qualify for the study contexts. Consequently, they are confronted by managing consistent errors and mismatching study protocols and methodologies. However, the benefits of using the design are real and popular even to novice researchers, and the problems arising from the design are always easily addressed by experienced researchers.

This paper reviews the concept of entrepreneurial actions arising from the opportunities using signalling theory as the building blocks to discuss the process from perception, recognition to enactment. By adopting a dynamic approach to study how entrepreneurs see opportunities, particularly the initial opportunities beliefs, over time, beliefs change. The perceived potentialities from the signals arising from opportunities also change. Strength of the initial opportunity beliefs, morph-ability of opportunities, frequency of opportunity appearances, multiple interpretations of opportunity, latency of opportunity, observability (intensity, visibility, strength and clarity), distortions of opportunity and false opportunity are topics that are scarcely addressed in entrepreneurial opportunities studies. We argue that the signalling effects open new veins of inquiry related to opportunity and entrepreneurial actions. Instead of seeing opportunity from either the discovery or creation approaches, opportunity should be viewed as opportunity-as-artefact with embedded perceived potentialities.

This article examines the benefits of scenario analysis and futures thinking in assisting systematic change, as well as the effects and challenges of new disruptive digital technologies. New approaches to education and schooling should be considered in identifying the objectives and goals for young Australians’ education today and in the future in order to address and achieve such aims. It has been proposed that there are a number of moments when educators are ‘touching the future,’ and that scenario analysis and futures thinking can help predict the new shape of Australian education.

Entrepreneurship concerns actions under uncertainties. Situated within that uncertainties are opportunities that entrepreneurs seek. How are these opportunities seen? Within the entrepreneurial opportunities are seeds with potentialities. Potentialities for profits. They are the reasons that entrepreneurs act up to exploit and to set in motion the entrepreneurial emergence. The intentionality follows with construction of a coherent set of activities or incoherent intuitive moves to pursue the opportunity, including injecting resources and mobilizing social and material networks. How are opportunities discovered, and perceived? The current academic debates feature discovery and creation. Are they existing independently, with pre-existing reality, even without being observed? Or as some argued that opportunities are not pre-existing in space and time with an objective existence but are subjectively and socially constructed. On contact with such opportunities, what spur entrepreneurs to act and what are the forces at work? Are they real or artificial? Can they be holographic representation and provide cues and signals to entrepreneurs to act? Can opportunity-as-hologram explains how entrepreneurs get inspired and motivated to pursuing the opportunities? This paper will explore, revisit and recast perspectives on opportunities and addressing the subtle conceptual issues at the core of entrepreneurship theories that hold the two views, discovery and creation of opportunities to be both valid and mutually non-exclusive, on holographic terms. In the discussion, this paper will explore implicate order and explicate order which are quantum theory concepts theorized by physicist David Bohm as these theories were developed to explain the bizarre and unpredictable behaviours of subatomic particles, which have strong semblance to the same free-spiritedness and free-will self-organization behaviours of entrepreneurs. Our theorization will have implications for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial researches relating to quantum science references.

The paper is based on critical theory and ethnographic approaches that examine the influences on teaching practice and the development of professional identities. Constructed from the model from Goodwin’s domains of influences from teachers’ beliefs, knowledge and practices on pedagogical practice, the revised model is elaborated to integrate an interactive relationship between these domains and that of practice and professional identities. A postmodernist lens is used so that professional identities and leadership roles may be seen to be multiple, changing, conflicting and tenuous and involving the process of reflexivity, agency and performativity.

Notwithstanding the apparent hyperbole about AI promises for judicial modernization, there arise deep concerns that span from unfairness, privacy invasion, bias, discrimination to the lack of transparency and legitimacy, etc. Likewise, critics branded their application in the judicial precincts as ethically, legally, and technically distressing. Accordingly, whereas there is already an ongoing transparency debate on board, this paper attempts to revisit, extend and contribute to such simmering debate with a particular focus from a judicial perspective. Since preserving and promoting trust and confidence in the judiciary as a whole appears to be imperative, it uses a searchlight to explore how and why justice algorithms ought to be transparent as to their training data, methods, and outcomes. This paper also ends up delineating the tentative paths to do away with black-box effects and suggesting the way out for the use of algorithms in high-stake areas like the judicial settings.

The aim of this study was to examine the role of leadership behaviors in forming followers’ perceptions of core organizational values, which, in turn, are thought to be associated with levels of organizational identification. The hypothesized mediating effects were tested using SEM based on survey data from a sample of 230 employees in various industry sectors.

This is a cross-sectional survey study with a representative sample of adolescents from the Community of Madrid (Spain).

The estimation of RxC ecological inference contingency tables from aggregate data defines one of the most salient and challenging problems in the field of quantitative social sciences. From the mathematical programming framework, this paper suggests a new direction for tackling this problem. For the first time in the literature, a procedure based on linear programming is proposed to attain estimates of local contingency tables. Based on this and the homogeneity hypothesis, we suggest two new ecological inference algorithms. These two new algorithms represent an important step forward in the ecological inference mathematical programming literature. In addition to generating estimates for local ecological inference contingency tables and amending the tendency to produce extreme transfer probability estimates previously observed in other mathematical programming procedures, they prove to be quite competitive and more accurate than the current linear programming baseline algorithm. The new algorithms place the linear programming approach once again in a prominent position in the ecological inference toolkit. We use a unique dataset with almost 500 elections, where the real transfer matrices are known, to assess their accuracy. Interested readers can easily use these new algorithms with the aid of the R package lphom.

All data used in the work were made available by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), accessed through the website http://www.healthdata.org/covid/data-downloads, on August 15, 2020

Parents of the current generation are likely to have difficult times in the future, as it becomes ever more demanding to safeguard their children against the outside world. They also face the new challenge of cooperating and cohabiting with the ones they swore to protect from any harm. As a result of children spending an ever growing number of time stuck to the screens of their devices and handing over long hours to the internet, there is a high risk to be accounted for here, particularly in the life of teenagers. The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the many negative aspects of using smart devices in the everyday life of emerging adults. Beyond revealing these effects, it also seeks to offer feasible and working solutions to the above mentioned issues in order to compensate for the possible negative influences that are to be discussed.

The paper discusses about the concept, perception, understanding and consequences of plagiarism among the future policy makers i.e., students. The paper also highlights acceptability of copying somebody's ideas and thoughts to complete one's own work which also indicates towards the casual approach of students. Acknowledging the fact that plagiarism is a kind of deception and is a major hurdle in the field of academic growth and development. Therefore, this must not be prevailed as it reduces the opportunity of uniqueness, in a way degrading the level of development in the thought process of people. Thereby, the paper tries to put forward the various consequences caused due to copying others' ideas rather than putting efforts in creating some new ideas. The paper also talks about the students' approach towards the idea of plagiarism and how educational institution tries to modify their policies in order to reduce the possibility of plagiarism.

Upgrading firefighters’ life satisfaction can enhance their job skills, and contribute to their safety and that of the public. This study’s purpose was to identify general life satisfaction levels and national characteristics, including firefighters’ occupational issues in Korea and the US. The final sample sizes in this cross-sectional study were 1,523 for South Korea and 229 for the US. The findings were based on firefighters’ physical/mental health and satisfaction with occupational problems. To measure their life satisfaction, six dimensions were examined: social, spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical, and occupational. The average satisfaction score of firefighters was 3.50 in Korea and 4.00 in the US. The US showed high satisfaction in most subitems. However, US firefighters showed low satisfaction in the physical context and Korean firefighters in the occupational context. Multiple regression analysis of the variables affecting firefighters’ life satisfaction showed that the occupational dimension was significant in both Korea and the US, and a similar analysis of demographic characteristics as independent variables showed that differences in satisfaction by gender were important in both countries. For Korea, the key variables were in the working hours section; for the US, in the specialty section. The results of this study should make it easier to identify and focus on the relevant areas of firefighters’ working lives in Korea and the US, thereby improving their life satisfaction.

Coined in the early 1940s by Katz and Blumler (1974), the uses and gratifications theory deals with understanding why people use certain types of media, what needs do they have to use them, and what gratifications do they get from using them. Historically, the theory was first introduced to understand why people chose to consume the various forms of media that were present at the time in 1940s.