...Heni Ju Mr. Alex Chee SAS2014 06-06-2014 Higher Education VS Work Experience Many people believe that a university degree is the only way to get a good job. However, there are still some people who disagree with this view. Mainly because they think that universities do not offer enough experience in the work field. I personally agree that pursuing a university degree is a correct choice for young people, especially recent high school graduates. With college tuition climbs up each year, money seems to be a big obstacle for some people. It’s the most common reason that explains why most students prefer to dive right into an entry-level job rather than to invest money in a college degree. “Whether it’s driven by economics or personal preference, this decision can have major impacts on their professional career as well as their personal life.” (Day and Newburger 3) Of course, not everyone can afford to invest a full time degree program. Some may think it’s more beneficial to start their career early, especially if their chosen field does not require a university education. This would apply for everyone who wants to be a car mechanic or a fashion designer. They would not gain anything from going to university. Instead, they may gain more work experience. Lacking of a degree does not stop people from achieving success. Many entrepreneurs and businessmen became successful with only a high school diploma as we may see in a lot of articles. With so many success stories building...
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...Discrimination and Harassment in the Work Place/Education System Sexual and racial harassment refers to the action of repeated, annoying sexual comments, gazes, threats due to race, and physical contact at the workplace and in schools. The 1964 civil rights federal act makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against employees or potential employees on the basis of religion, national origin, sex, color, or race. Now, companies and education entities around the world face the task to ensure decent working conditions for their employees and students in an environment free from discrimination and harassment. In cross-cultural companies, it's rather difficult because of the peculiarities of the mentality and the differences in cultural practices, but it is necessary to solve the problem of discrimination and harassment. Sexual and racial harassment is a common problem for both women and men; it not only leads to discrimination in labor, loss in wages, low productivity and stress, but also influences the general atmosphere of lawlessness and violence. There are many forms of discrimination, especially in the workplace. Before we get into the different types of discrimination, we need to define the word discriminate, which means to make a “distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group” or class, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Discrimination around us First, let’s talk about discrimination; could you imagine...
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...Lesson: Learning at Ashworth CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Welcome! Learning Objectives Accessing the Student Portal Ashworth College Student Handbook The Ashworth Website The Structure of Programs Your Technology Choices 1 1 4 4 5 11 14 22 STUDY SKILLS Introduction The Importance of Time Management A Place to Study An Approach to Your Studies All about Learning Styles The Art of Taking Notes 26 26 26 30 32 33 44 EXAMINATIONS AND OTHER ASSESSMENTS Introduction Saving Your Written Work Types of Assessments Prepare for Online Exams Take Online Exams Deal with Test-Taking Anxiety Strategies for Multiple-Choice Exams Strategies for Essay Questions 49 49 49 50 52 53 53 54 55 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SKILLS Introduction Summary 59 59 62 CHECK YOUR LEARNING ANSWERS 67 LEARNING AT ASHWORTH iii INTRODUCTION Welcome! Welcome to Ashworth College! And welcome to your very first Ashworth lesson: Learning at Ashworth. Why are we starting you with this lesson? First—and most importantly—we want to make sure you have the foundation you need to be successful with your studies. The most basic foundation for success is knowledge of both what and how to study. Most people think “studying” involves reading pages from a textbook or lesson. That’s only partially true. The word study is a verb—that means it’s a process. Studying does involve reading. However, successful studying involves much more than that. It involves active engagement with the material...
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...exploiting the proletariat class. The proletariats (working class) sell their labour by working for the capitalists and rarely have any other source of income. Marxists believe that in education the ruling class has far more benefit than the working class. In 1944 we saw the educational act introduced in the tripartite system. This led to education being based upon meritocracy whereby individuals achieve their status by how hard they work in school no matter what background or ascribed status they were from. This meant that there was far more equal opportunities in education of those that wanted to achieve would have to work hard to do so. Paul Willis studied a group of 12 working-class boys in their last year and a half in school and their first few months at work. He wanted to find out why ‘working class kids get working class jobs'. He identified two groups of pupils known as the ‘lads’ and the ‘ear ‘oles’. The ‘lads’ were a group of working class boys who showed a negative attitude to academic work and also had strong racist and sexist attitudes. The ear’oles were the complete opposite of the ‘lads’ when it came to academic progress. The Ear ‘oles were looked down on by the ‘lads’ as they were the children who followed the school rules, respected their teachers, and were committed to their education. He concluded from his study that the ‘lads’ rejected school and mentally prepared themselves for a place in the workplace in a manual job. They learned to put up with boredom and...
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...INDEPENDENT VOICE FOR NURSING Work Engagement, Moral Distress, Education Level, and Critical Reflective Practice in Intensive Care Nurses nuf_237 256..268 Lisa A. Lawrence, PhD, RN Lisa A. Lawrence, PhD, RN, Instructional Faculty, Nursing Department, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ Keywords Critical reflective practice, education level, moral distress, registered nurse, work engagement Correspondence Lisa A. Lawrence, PhD, RN, Nursing Department, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ E-mail: llawrence@pima.edu AIM. The purpose of this study was to examine how nurses’ moral distress, education level, and critical reflective practice (CRP) related to their work engagement. The study is relevant to nursing, given registered nurse (RN) documented experiences of job-related distress and work dissatisfaction, and the nursing shortage crisis. A better understanding of factors that may enhance RN work engagement is needed. METHODS. A non-experimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to examine the relationships among four variables: moral distress, education level, CRP, and work engagement. The sample included 28 intensive care unit RNs from three separate ICUs in a 355-bed Southwest magnet-designated hospital. RESULTS. There was a positive direct relationship between CRP and work engagement, a negative direct relationship between moral distress and work engagement, and CRP and moral distress, together, explained 47% of the variance in work engagement. Additionally, in...
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...Labour education is mostly looked at as being practical and developmental in the work place. It is the way learning shapes the processes of work. (Bratton, Mills, Tyrch, Sawchuk, Workplace Learning, A critical Introduction 2004.) Labour education is schooling for union members. It is where the union members learn about issues in the workplace and beyond. They learn the grievance process, how to negotiate contracts, human rights etc. This training helps the union members understand their rights in the work place and helps their own cause. Unions usually offer this training to its members in house. (Athabasca University, Work and Learning, Education 406/Human Resources Management 406, Course Guide, Revision 1, 2009.) Unions can demand from their employers a form of education that takes place at work. Labour education has tools in its belt to help employees in the work place to learn. In their belt they use tools, issues and labour studies courses in labour education. (Bratton et al. (2004) found page 108). The tool courses are to help unions and thus help to represent their fellow workers, through their knowledge, to do a better job and understand their rights with management. These tools work on leadership, collective bargaining and grievance procedures. This helps to stream line the day to day activities of the work place to run smoothly. Issue courses are more tuned to racism, sexism and reorganization in the work place. This training is done to understand the...
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...Some would argue that the education system mainly exists to select and prepare students for their future work roles and careers. Marxists believe that the education system’s role is the ideological apparatus of the state; it spreads ruling-class ideology and favours the middle class. Marxists such as Althusser, Bowels & Gintus and Bourdieu disagree with this statement as they argue working class children get a second class education compared to middle class and are given an unrealistic expectation for the future. This is further highlighted by Althusser (1971) who believed that educations main function is to reproduce an efficient and obedient workforce, Althusser believes that the education system has taken over from the Church as the main agent of ideological transition. For example, in the past most people accepted their positions in life, no matter how unbearable, because they believed it was Gods will. They were poor because God wished it so, they were hungry because God wished it so, and they were powerless because God wished it so. Such beliefs are now in decline, although many still hold them, much more common is the belief that everything boils down to the God of education. Those who are smart and hardworking do well in education and gain educational qualifications and in turn do well in the world of work. Those who are unemployed and working in low paid jobs did not gain educational qualifications and were probably not academically gifted. This is, however, an ideological...
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...have occurred in the United States in the last four decades. These changes have led to the development of education-for-work as a term that describes various efforts to enhance the capability of the workforce. Education-for-work encompasses all education, training, and development activities that (a) prepare people for work or assist them in current employment and (b) engage in the development and refinement of competencies, attitudes, and knowledge through formal and informal means (Nadler, 1985). Many approaches to education-for-work are based on models that were developed during the agrarian age and industrial revolution, and have been shaped by practice rather than philosophic principles. Education-for-work needs to adopt or develop well-defined philosophic principles that will guide, support, or create practice in changing workplaces. In order to meet the needs of the workplace of today and the future, education-for-work practitioners must be aware of the philosophies that promote both technical-vocational needs and personal development. Education-for-work practitioners must select and adapt appropriate philosophical views that will guide practice in terms of purpose; much like a master painter, who takes paint from a palette, mixes it appropriately, and applies the mixed paint to the canvas using experience and skill to complete the envisioned picture. Education-for-work practitioners must be more than transmitters of knowledge; they should be like master painters or craftpersons...
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...Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Ltd Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Ltd. 10-1 10 - 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Describe six key elements in organizational design. Know how to delegate work to others and develop your skill at delegating. 2. Contrast mechanistic and organic structures. 3. Discuss the contingency factors that favor either the mechanistic model or the organic model of organizational design. 4. Describe traditional organizational designs. Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Ltd Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Ltd. 10-2 10 - 2 DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Organizing – arranging and structuring work to accomplish an organization’s goals. Organizational Structure – the formal arrangement of jobs within an organization. Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Ltd Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Ltd. 10-3 10 - 3 DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Organizational chart – the visual representation of an organization’s structure. Organizational Design – a process involving decisions about six key elements: • • • • • • Work specialization Departmentalization Chain of command Span of control Centralization and decentralization Formalization Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Ltd Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Ltd. 10-4 10 - 4 EXHIBIT 10-1 PURPOSES OF ORGANIZING Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Ltd Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Ltd. 10-5 10 - 5 ...
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...Education and Occupation Like all societies, the Ireland is mobilised, and this mobility is frequently built on an individual’s socioeconomic status (SES). This multifaceted formula forms three solutions: Education, Work and Salary. The number of years the individual devotes in education, the status of his/hers occupation, also the sum of money he/she makes, determine one’s social class. Despite the fact that this process of separating people into classes could be beneficial, it has numerous inadequacies. Education One cause of socioeconomic position is education. Individuals with a high secondary school degree are categorised in one set. Individuals with a university degree are put into another. By means of educational accomplishment ranks...
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...Online vs. Traditional Education Have you ever had the opportunity to take online classes? Have you even heard of online classes? If you haven’t, you are missing out on a great opportunity. Online education is rapidly becoming a popular alternative to traditional education. It is offering more flexibility for students and providing individuals with better opportunities for postsecondary education. Even though traditional education has been the only form of education for hundreds of years, online education offers a new and improved style of learning. When people think of education, they think of a classroom filled with desks, paper, books, and other students. After all, this is how humans have been taught for generations. This is an example of traditional education. Traditional education is when students attend a school and are taught in a formal classroom setting. There is an instructor that teaches the class by giving demonstrations or by lecturing. It allows the students to have face-to-face interaction with the instructor or their fellow students. Traditional education has never been very flexible. There are scheduled times for class and working around that schedule can prove to be difficult. Often times, life events can conflict with the class schedule. This can cause students to miss class and fall behind in their work. While traditional education is not very flexible, online education is. Online education is the use of technology to share educational...
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...org/stable/3097245 Accessed: 27/02/2009 14:10 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucal. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. University of California Press and Society for the Study of Social Problems are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Social Problems. http://www.jstor.org Social Stratification and Health: Education's Benefit Beyond Economic Status and Social Origins* JOHN R. REYNOLDS, FloridaStateUniversity...
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...A critical look into the transitions from school to work, and the role the schools play in preparing youth for employment. There is a critical look at the cause of education creeping and what that will mean for those seeking a higher education in Canada. Canadian Schools focusing on economic needs In today’s global economy education plays a crucial role for preparing Canadians for an employment role in the ever changing global market. It can be argued that Canadian schools are not focused on economic needs and should be preparing students more for employment skills, particularly in the trades. The role that schooling plays is not clear when breaking down the components of a transition from school to employment. School work relationship In understanding the relationship of school and work a quick view of schools and the orientation needs to be looked at. When schools opened it was a way to keep youth off the streets while not being employed. The schools were there to teach basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, labor markets were never intended to dictate the school curriculum. Schools today are held to a higher standard for preparing students for work. Unfortunately the grade school system is failing to establish a disciplined, self- regulated student who is capable of completing basic education skills. A large number of Canadian adults are unable to read, write, or do basic math without the aid of an electronic device at acceptable levels needed to stay competitive...
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...Is Education that Important? There was a time in my life where I use to think that education was about going to school and getting good grades, but it was not till later on that I realized how important education truly was and how it could be received in many ways. As I started to understand all these diverse forms of education there were many obstacles I faced which included the support of family and friends, ability to manage my time, and being able to go to work. Education is any type of knowledge that you gain from as simple as playing a game to going to school. Education is not only things you learn in school, but everything you have ever been influenced by from someone else. Making a mistake and then learning from that mistake is also a form of education. Education plays a big role in society. I believe that class differences in society are mostly based on education. Looking at society today, anyone can make a perception that the uneducated are either part of the lower or middle class. The higher a level of education a person receives today makes them more capable of getting a better job and making a better living. This may not be true for 100% of the people out there but facts and statistics show education affects the majority of people out there. Education can be received in many ways such as school, work, literature, and daily life activities and many other ways. Work for example is in my opinion the most important part of education. School just teaches you the knowledge...
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...Using material from item A and elsewhere, assess the view that the education system exists mainly to select and prepare young people for their future work roles. Across the UK, it is now compulsory for everyone under the age of 18 to be in full time education. This, according to the government, allows enough time for students to become fully socialised and ready to go out in to the work place and keep young people off the streets. However, there are many arguments that claim the education system does not do what it is meant to do. The education system was originally introduced to ensure that everyone could be properly socialised, as family can only equip children with the basic skills. So the education system is there to continue the process of socialising children and allocate them for the necessary work roles. Marxists, however, would strongly disagree with that statement. They believe that the education system was created by the middle class for the middle class, and therefore it only benefits middle class students. Louis Althusser (1971) argues that education is only there to maintain each generation by transmitting the ruling class views in to the working class students, and disguising them as common values. This causes the conditions needed for capitalism to flourish without having to use force. Marxist believes that there are two main functions of the education system. They argue that education reproduces the inequalities and social relations of a capitalist society...
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