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Describe and critically analyse the ways in which globalization and/or social change shapes educational policy and practice in different national contexts. 

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Globalization, Social Justice and Social Change in Education

You need to critically analyse a specific educational issue in a specific global context, so you need to think about a specific topic that you can read around.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify and engage critically with theories which contribute to an understanding of conceptions of globalization, social justice and social change.
  2. Describe and critically analyse the ways in which globalization and/or social change shapes educational policy and practice in different national contexts.
  3. Draw on a range of relevant research to demonstrate an understanding of educational inequalities in different national contexts.

This assignment requires you to provide a critical analysis of the impact of globalization and social change on a specific education policy or practice in a specific global context, and the consequences for social justice.

Where appropriate students may also consider how social change could work towards more equitable practice. Where relevant you may need to consider how your own positionality (beliefs, values, role) shapes your understanding of social justice issues. You should review relevant literature, evidence, and or other sources as appropriate to deepen your own understanding of the area you are investigating and to critically reflect on your own practice, values and beliefs. Your writing should consider alternative approaches, interpretations and explanations where appropriate. Your writing may need to also include a critical evaluation of the challenges for or gaps in practice and/or policy. You must use subheadings to structure your essay.

In essence, this assignment requires you to provide a critical analysis of:

1) the impact of globalization / social change on…

2) an education policy or practice in…

3) a specific region or global locale and…

4) the consequences for learner equity.

Example topics & their structures:

Example 1: “Ethnicity and Attainment Gaps: does a lack of cultural understanding and a prejudiced notion of the ‘ideal learner’ perpetuate educational under-achievement for ethnic minority pupils?”

  • Introduction
  • Ethnicity and Attainment Gaps; The Global Picture
  • Black Achievement Gaps: The American Picture
  • Conclusion: Counter Politics and Social Justice from Below

Example 2: “The Impact of Globalization on the Education of the Socio-Economically Disadvantaged within the UK”

  • Introduction
  • Impact of Globalization on Government Policy and the Socio-Economically Disadvantaged
  • What can we learn from other countries?
  • Can Social Justice Be Achieved?
  • Conclusions

Useful articles and books to use as reference

  • Sensory, O. & DiAngelo, R. (2017) Is everyone really equal?: An introductions to key concepts in social justice education. New York: Teachers College Press
  • Globalization and Education: Introduction in Current Sociology = Article

by Stephen J. Ball; Anthony Gary Dworkin; Marios Vryonides

  • Understanding Education for Social Justice = Article by Kathy Hytten; Silvia Bettez
  • Lauder, H., Brown, P., Dillabough, J. & Halsey, A. (2006) Education, Globalization, and Social Change Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Smith, E. (2012) Key Issues in Education and Social Justice. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Apple, M. (2012) Education and Power. New York, London: Routledge.
  • Apple (2013) Can Education Change Society. New York: Routledge.
  • Avis, J. (2007) Education, policy and social justice: learning and skills. London: Continuum.
  • Axford, B.(2013) Theories of Globalization Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Ball, S., Goodson, I. & Maguire, M. (2007) Education, Globalization, and new times Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Ayers, W., Quinn, T. & Stovall, D. (2009) Handbook of Social Justice in Education. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. Part 7 – Chapters 34-38
  • Lauder, H., Brown, P., Dillabough, J. & Halsey, A. (2006) Education, Globalization, and Social Change Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Olssen, M. Codd, J. & O’Neill, A. (2004) Education Policy: Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy. London: Sage Publications.
  • Tabb, W. (2001)The amoral elephant: Globalization and the struggle for social justice in the twenty-first century. New York: Monthly Review Press.
  • Walby, S. (2009) Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities. Sage Publications
  • Apple, M. (2014) Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age. New York: Routledge.
  • Arshad, R. Wrigley, T. & Pratt, L. (2012) Social Justice Re-examined: dilemmas and solutions for the classroom teacher. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books Ltd.
  • Ayers, W., Quinn, T. & Stovall, D. (2009) Handbook of Social Justice in Education. Abingdon, New York: Routledge
  • Burbules, N.& Torres, C.A. (2000) Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
  • Giroux, H (2005) Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education. New York, London: Routledge.
  • Stearns, P. N. (2009) Educating global citizens in colleges and universities: Challenges and opportunities. New York: Routledge.
  • Zajda, J. (ed) (2010) Globalization, Education and Social Justice. Dordecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer

Why have you decided to work with autism? Are there different ways to handle each spectrum disorder, or are they handled similarly?

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Interview Questions: First-hand Experience with Autism

In the healthcare services industry there are many emotions in a day. Have your emotions ever been in the way of your productivity?

What is your patient care philosophy?

Why have you decided to work with autism?

Are there different ways to handle each spectrum disorder, or are they handled similarly?

Environmental factors supposedly influence brain development at different stages, does this also mean those with ASD have weaker immune systems?

Have you interviewed mothers who may have smoked cigarettes while they were pregnant?

Does low maternal Vitamin D levels contribute to ASD?

How did you/could you avoid mothers unwilling to answer questions regarding substance usage honestly? This is a big reason as to why it is difficult to scientifically prove where ASD may come from.

If mother’s had a mental health condition, could this contribute to their children having ASD?

Have you seen certain patterns with dietary factors that contribute to ASD?

How much time have you put into studying the neurodevelopment of ASD in comparison to the environment impacts?

There is an association of chemical polychlorinated biphenyls and cognitive impairment; can this be an association with ASD as well?

What is the most important message you would like people to know about autism?

Myths about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

In my report essay, I will be studying the possible causes of autism. There have been many myths on what are the etiological agents of autism. Some believe that autism can be caused by injections, while others believe that it only affects children. All these speculations lack clear evidence or literature to support it. In this research, I will be using the literature: Maternal lifestyle and environmental risk factors for autism spectrum disorders to find out the scientific facts on Autism (Lyall, Rebecca, and Irva, 443). The literature states that environmental factors may have a significant impact on Autism. Moreover, maternal alcohol consumption can sometimes be damaging. However only few studies have been conducted linking autism disorder with maternal alcohol use. According to Lyall, Rebecca, and Irva (2014), fatty acids can also lead to ASD. Lastly was air pollution; air pollution indeed has a direct impact on the bodies of humans.

I will be interviewing Dr. Stephen A. Ferrari, a man who has been in practice with Autism Spectrum Disorders for over 18 years. He has a Ph. D. in Psychology, is certified in Neurofeedback, and specializes in mild to moderate Autism Spectrum Disorders. I met Dr. Ferrari in a job interview roughly a year ago in his own Neuro-Imaging Neurofeedback office. I did not receive a job offer, but he was kind enough to offer a free consultation for my brother who has a mild case of autism. We did not take the offer, but Dr. Ferrari was always open to any discussion regarding ASD. He has first-hand experience with those with ASD and has done a multitude of research regarding it.

I hope to find the closest scientific truth of where Autism Spectrum Disorders may come from. I want readers come to a more understanding of the compassion needed for those with ASD. I feel that the myths about ASD make people scorn many with the condition and despise medical practices that can be remarkably important to one’s health.

Work Cited

Lyall, Kristen, Rebecca J. Schmidt, and Irva Hertz-Picciotto. “Maternal lifestyle and environmental risk factors for autism spectrum disorders.” International journal of epidemiology 43.2 (2014): 443-464.

What aspects of aviation security should be addressed in terms of strengthening them? Where do you see weaknesses?

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Aviation security has the most publicly visible security measures of any critical infrastructure segment. Research and develop a 400-600 word post that discusses hits and misses in aviation security policy. Include in your discussion the following topics:

What aspects of aviation security should be addressed in terms of strengthening them? Where do you see weaknesses?
How would you balance the need for security with the need to get passengers through security efficiently and quickly? What messages would you develop to gain the public’s cooperation while undergoing screening measures?
Correctly reference the two documents in the reading assignment when making any claims about what works and what does not work in aviation security policy.

Describe at least three (3) key milestones and /or deliverables for your project.Describe a high-level timeline that includes key tasks and deadlines.

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READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. I HAVE PROVIDED THE NOTATION FEEDBACK FROM THE PROFESSOR. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT ME.
Your Project Sponsor has reviewed your project proposal and has asked that you make some changes to it.
Instructions:
In Assignment 2, you will provide a four to six (4-6) page paper, in which you must:
1. Provide a summary of your project.
2. Update the goals and objectives based upon his feedback as well as add two more goals & objectives. NOTE: Use your professor’s feedback to update your goals & objectives.
3. Describe at least three (3) key milestones and /or deliverables for your project.
4. Describe a high-level timeline that includes key tasks and deadlines.
5. Estimate the project’s overall cost and any key staffing and non-staffing resources needed.

What is the projected market impact of this acquisition? Does it reduce competition? Why/why not?

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Focus is on Amazon merging with Walgreens so that Amazon can use its quick shipping methods to deliver prescriptions and Amazon using Walgreens locations for AmazonGo and other services where physical location is needed.
1. If your chosen firm is diversified, do the evaluation of your firm’s diversification strategy (see chapter 8 in the textbook). If your chosen firm is a single business, conduct a careful analysis of its industry including trends and the analysis of competitive forces (see chapter 3 in the textbook).
2. Suggest the target for acquisition. Explain why it is a good target for acquisition. Use ideas from chapters 6, 7, and 8. In particular, discuss the following:
a. If the acquisition target is a single/dominant business, please analyze its industry and its position in the industry. Use the industry analysis from Chapter 3 and the Boston Consulting Group’s matrix analysis. See links to explanations of the BCG matrix below.
b. Will it be a related acquisition? If yes, is it vertical or horizontal or something else? Why?
c. Will this acquisition result in economies of scale or economies of scope? Why/why not? If it is not projected to create economies of scale or scope, why are you suggesting this acquisition?
d. What is the projected market impact of this acquisition? Does it reduce competition? Why/why not?
e. Does the target possess any technologies that your firm needs? Which ones? Why does your firm need those technologies? Can it acquire those technologies separately from the whole target? Can your focal firm license those technologies instead? What is the projected impact of those alternative modes of action? Does an acquisition still make sense after this analysis? If not, why are you proposing it?
f. Does the target have access to any key markets, distribution channels, suppliers, or government officials?
g. Would an alliance or a joint venture be a better option? Read the article “When to ally and when to acquire” for ideas that will help you decide (available on Blackboard). Also consult chapter 6 from your textbook (the part on alliances).

Perform a direct assessment of a community of interest using the “Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide.”

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This assignment consists of both an interview and a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation.

Assessment/Interview

Select a community of interest in your region. Perform a physical assessment of the community.

Perform a direct assessment of a community of interest using the “Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide.”
Interview a community health and public health provider regarding that person’s role and experiences within the community.
Interview Guidelines

Interviews can take place in-person, by phone, or by Skype.

Develop interview questions to gather information about the role of the provider in the community and the health issues faced by the chosen community.

Complete the “Provider Interview Acknowledgement Form” prior to conducting the interview. Submit this document separately in its respective drop box.

Compile key findings from the interview, including the interview questions used, and submit these with the presentation.

PowerPoint Presentation

Create a PowerPoint presentation of 15-20 slides (slide count does not include title and references slide) describing the chosen community interest.

Include the following in your presentation:

Description of community and community boundaries: the people and the geographic, geopolitical, financial, educational level; ethnic and phenomenological features of the community, as well as types of social interactions; common goals and interests; and barriers, and challenges, including any identified social determinates of health.
Summary of community assessment: (a) funding sources and (b) partnerships.
Summary of interview with community health/public health provider.
Identification of an issue that is lacking or an opportunity for health promotion.
A conclusion summarizing your key findings and a discussion of your impressions of the general health of the community.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA format ting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Assess the company’s organizational structure, the organizational culture, marketing production, operations, finance and accounting, and R&D that can be accomplished by viewing the company’s website, interviews, and surveys.

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Perform an analysis on:
Business-level strategies.
Evaluate the company’s product line, target market.
Identify and explain business-level strategies.
Functional-level strategies.
Assess the company’s organizational structure, the organizational culture, marketing production, operations, finance and accounting, and R&D that can be accomplished by viewing the company’s website, interviews, and surveys.
Explain how these strategies align with the company’s vision and mission statements.

How would you explain Justin’s behavior? What are the best ways to prevent this from happening?

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Question 1

Justin has been supervising Brian for 3 months. He knows that if Brian does not succeed, the program director will not view him in a favorable light and Brian will be unlikely to progress in his career. Justin has not been a clinical supervisor for very long but he believes Brian has not done a good job. Justin feels that Brian has boundary issues, he tries to “save” clients and solve their problems immediately, and he hasn’t taken feedback willingly. There is no clear criteria for whether or not Brian “passes” clinical supervision and Justin does not want to hurt his feelings so he tells his program director that Brian did well and is ready to work with clients. How would you explain Justin’s behavior? What are the best ways to prevent this from happening?

Question 2

Jennifer has known Sara for 12 years and is now her clinical supervisor. Jennifer gives Sara a favorable evaluation but once Sara starts seeing clients on her own the program director receives complaints about her conduct during sessions. How does familiarity affect clinical supervision and evaluation? If you had to evaluate someone you’ve known for 12 years, how would you ensure an unbiased outcome?

How would you explain the increasing trend for medical tourism in the healthcare industry? What are the impacts of medical tourism on U.S. healthcare providers?

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Development & Strategic Planning in Health Care:

Answer the below questions. Each question must be at least 250 words in length.

1. What is meant by strategic group analysis, and why is this technique especially useful in healthcare strategic planning?
(Your response must be at least 250 words in length)

2. How would you explain the increasing trend for medical tourism in the healthcare industry? What are the impacts of medical tourism on U.S. healthcare providers?

(Your response must be at least 250 words in length)

What changes you made to your second teaching session, if any? If you did not make any changes, then state your reasons.

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You are to present the same teaching project a minimum of two times to two different groups. Teaching cannot be conducted in back-to-back sessions, they must be at least a day apart (to allow for content changes). This is to be a formal presentation and/or guest lecture to an organization or community group. The target population must be “lay” and not a presentation to nursing (or medical) peers.

Topics can be from conditions you notice during your clinical, items of public health interest in the news, or identified need and/or a health priority from a community agency, group, or facility. You must include the rationale for your chosen topic in your paper.

Previous students’ topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Hand hygiene
  • Oral health
  • Stress management
  • Underage drinking
  • Chair Yoga for seniors
  • Sun safety
  • Sleep hygiene
  • Sexual health
  • Mental Health (Depression/Anxiety)
  • HTN prevention/management
  • Importance of immunizations
  • Gym hygiene
  • Helmet safety
  • Nutrition education
  • Bullying
  • Exercise for seniors
  • How to read food labels
  • Financial fraud
  • Reducing screen time with children
  • Disaster Preparedness

Part I: (80 pts):

You will turn in a maximum 8-page (not including title page, references, or appendices) paper in APA format, with the following information:

  1. Assessment: Your assessment includes a systematic collection of health data that documents a health problem or quality of life situation for an identified population (e.g., hand hygiene in young children). Provide rates and epidemiologic data, be sure to include in-text citations and references. In addition, you must include an assessment of your targeted population of interest (e.g., hand hygiene specific to local kindergarten class [rates of absenteeism d/t children being sick, accessibility to sink/hand sanitizer) to determine how this health problem is manifested in this particular group.
  2. Diagnosis: The diagnosis must logically come from your assessment and written in a nursing diagnosis format, adapted for communities or groups. The diagnosis must identify the knowledge deficit in your population. For example, deficient knowledge of proper hand hygiene r/t limited hand hygiene education AEB high rates of absenteeism d/t children being sick OR direct observation of children not washing their hands.
  3. Plan: Based on your assessment data of your targeted population, you need to create a plan for teaching this topic. It must be an original teaching plan from the information in the scientific literature (including peer-reviewed articles on this topic in the references).  It cannot be one provided by the agency you are working with. Be sure to address the following:
  • Given your population and age, culture, etc., how does this group of people learn the best? What is the best way to present the material? For example, how can you customize your teaching to kindergarteners in a fun and engaging manner, in a short amount of time? Include various theories/models that you have learned about in previous courses (i.e. developmental, cognitive, nursing, teaching, etc.)
  • Given your population and topic, what does the research say about the content of your teaching plan? What have researchers found out about your population that could aid and make your content that you present more relevant to them? For example, what kind of materials have been used/most effective for hand hygiene to young children? This will guide your curriculum. Health promotion theories may help structure the presentation if you find one relevant to the topic or population. Your syntheses of behavioral and environmental interventions are to be included and referenced (in your handout, as appropriate).
  1. Learning Objectives: Before you conduct your teaching session, you need to develop 1-3 learning objectives for your learners. They should be measurable and reflect the main ideas of what you want you’re your population to walk away with For example, by the end of the teaching session, the learners will be able to verbalize how long they should be washing their hands for OR the learners will answer 80% of the post-test questions correctly.
  2. Intervention:
  • Detailed outline of your teaching project (due 10/2)
  • Activity facilitating audience participation
  • Content should be appropriate for population (e.g., limited use of medical terminology)
  • Information regarding location of each teaching, time and date of each teaching, audience (demographics, if possible).
  1. Evaluation: evaluate objectives for your population group to determine the effectiveness of your evidence-based educational intervention. Evaluation will include the following (simply answer these prompts in your paper):
  • Were the learning objectives met?
  • Evaluation of learning (i.e. pre- and post-test) – summary of results
  • Evaluation from professional observer for each of your teaching sessions (upload to dropbox on BeachBoard)
  • Self-evaluation discussing:
    • What went well and what didn’t.
    • How the preferences of the audience made a difference in your teaching intervention(s) (e.g., did they look bored or tired – what did you do to handle this?)
    • What changes you made to your second teaching session, if any? If you did not make any changes, then state your reasons.
    • How you think this assignment impacted your teaching ability (e.g., presentation skills, adaptability, confidence, etc.)
  1. Reference page: APA format (include all references placed in handout and any additional references you used to complete this project).

Part II (20 pts):

Please prepare an original visual (e.g., handout or brochure) for your targeted population that you are teaching. It cannot be something just pulled from the internet. It should contain the main message that you would like to convey in your teaching project.  Here are some suggestions on what to include:

  • title and author information
  • problem identification with general/significant information regarding the health condition or quality of life issue you identify for your population of interest
  • behavior that supports the health problem and behavior that supports the elimination or reduction of the health problem (e.g., knowing how long to wash hands for)
  • environmental influences for the behavior (and health situation) and environmental changes that can eliminate or reduce the health problem or health situation (e.g., accessibility to sink station/hand sanitizer)
  • web and local resources for the client pertaining to the topic, as appropriate
  • key references in APA format.  These are professional/scientific references that supply the scientific evidence for your data and can be used by health professionals and clients to increase their depth of understanding about the health phenomenon of interest, as appropriate.