Precarious Employment Relations as a Factor of Social Pollution

The paper discusses the assessment of precarious employment relations as one of the systemic factors of social pollution. The social pollution phenomenon in employment relations is caused by employers who use a strategy for the reduction of labour costs and toxic practices of human resource management. This paper presents the intermediate outcomes of a longitudinal study based on the methods of survey, involving workers of Russian companies in different sectors of economy. In 2014, authors conducted a pilot study in order to test the methodological tools for assessing social pollution in employment relations, which included assessing the degree of precarization. This pilot study also allowed the authors to verify the hypotheses of their research and to improve the tools for further application in the survey which was conducted in 2015 among the staff members of enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region. Thus, the authors have managed to identify the precarization-related toxic elements of employment relations in these enterprises, which damaged the physical health and psychosocial well-being of the employees. This study has also brought to light a number of current trends in the employment relations in the region. Although the research results are somewhat limited due to the fact that such observations should be made repeatedly over a long period of time, intermediary conclusions might also be of interest and could be used to search for ways of dealing with problems caused by the growing precarization on the level of individual enterprises as well as on the level of the whole region

El silencio, el inconsciente y el espejo: Una lectura de Raro de luna de Javier Egea

El objetivo de este artículo es hacer una lectura y un análisis textual del último libro que Javier Egea publicó en vida, Raro de luna. El análisis se centra sobre todo en la indagación en el inconsciente, en el deseo por parte del autor de romper con la lógica del lenguaje consicente, y en la simbología del silencio y el agua.The aim of this paper is to analyze the last book that Javier Egea published in life-time. It examines Egea’s interest in psychoanalysis, surrealism and subconscious. It analyzes his effort to recognize and escape the contradictions of language and it also focuses on the symbols of silence and water

Exploring Metacognition as a Support for Learning Transfer

The ability to transfer learning to new situations lies at the heart of lifelong learning and the employability of university graduates. Because students are often unaware of the importance of learning transfer and staff do not always explicitly articulate this expectation, this article explores the idea that metacognition (intentional awareness and the use of that awareness) might enhance the development of learning transfer. Our exploratory study includes results from a survey of 74 staff and 118 students from five institutions in Australia, Belgium, UK, and USA. Our data indicate that many staff and a majority of students do not have a clear understanding of what learning transfer entails, and that there are many mismatches between staff and student perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors regarding learning transfer. This helps explain why learning transfer does not occur as often as it could. We found significant positive correlations between thinking about transfer and thinking about learning processes and the likelihood to use awareness to guide practice. These support the idea that metacognition might enhance learning transfer. We offer suggestions for future scholarship of teaching and learning

Struktur von Ausdauerfahigkeiten beim Laufen in Kindheit

Endurance abilities to run eleven different distances has been studied in 5,5 - 6,5 year old preschool children. Four groups of factors identified by confirmatory factor analysis have been interpreted as: speed-, short-, intermediate- endurance and endurance to run time-limited tests. However, a general background factor of over-all running ability has been fitted in a second-order simplex factorial structure indicating possible transfer between the first three abilities. The validity of the time-limited tests (6-min, 12 min runs) differ from the distance limited ones in preschool children, hopefully for psychological reasons.Sposobnosti izdržljivosti za trčanje na jedanaest različitih udaljenosti proučavane su kod 5,5 - 6,5 godišnjaka. Četiri grupe faktora identificirane konfirmatornom faktorskom analizom interpretirane su kao: brzinska izdržljivost, izdržljivost na kratke staze, izdržljivost na duge staze, te izdržljivost trčanja vremenski ograničenih testova. Međutim, opći pozadinski faktor sveukupne sposobnosti trčanja bio je postavljen u jednostavnu faktorsku strukturu drugog reda koja ukazuje na mogući transfer između prve tri sposobnosti. Vrijednost vremenski ograničenih testova (trčanje od 6 minuta, 12 minuta) je različita od testova na određene udaljenosti kod djece iz vrtića i to vjerojatno iz psiholoških razloga.Die Ausdauerfthigkeiten beim Laufen auf elf verschiedenen Strecken wurde auf dem Muster von 5,5 bis 6,5jdhrigen Kindern aus dem Kindergarten untersucht. Vier Gruppen von Faktoren wurden mittels der bestätigenden Faktorenanalyse wie folgt interpretiert: Schnelligkeitsausdauer, Ausdauer beim Fliegerrennen, Ausdauer beim Mittelstreckenlaufen und Ausdauer während der zeitlich begrenzten Tests. Jedoch wurde der generelle Hintergrundfaktor der gesamten Lauffähigkeit in eine einfache Faktorenstruktur des zweiten Grades gestellt und zeigte einen möglichen Transfer zwischen den ersten drei Fähigkeiten. Die Validität der zeitlich begrenzten Tests (Laufen in Dauer von 6 und 12 Minuten) unterscheidete sich von der Validität der räumlich begrenzten Tests bei den Kindern aus dem Kindergarten, hoffentlich aus psychologischen Gründen