Account Of Education Research Articles

The gender gap in university enrolment: Do parents play a role beyond investing in skills?

AbstractYoung men are far less likely than women to attend university across most OECD countries. I use data from the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to investigate this issue in the Canadian context, focusing on how parents might influence this gender gap. In particular, my goal is to isolate the incremental effect of parents’ valuations of education during the teenage years, holding constant the stock of skills acquired up to that point. To estimate this effect, I use a factor model based on a framework developed by Foley et al. (2014). My results confirm the importance of skills in determining the gender gap in university attendance. I also find that differences in the distribution of parental valuations of education account for 22% of the gender gap in the YITS data, pointing toward an important role that parents play, not accounted for in prior work.

Exemplarism in moral education: Problems with applicability and indoctrination

ABSTRACTThis article introduces an account of moral education grounded in Zagzebski’s recent Exemplarist Moral Theory and discusses two problems that have to be solved for the account to become a realistic alternative to other educational models on the market, namely the limited-applicability problem and the problem of indoctrination. The first problem raises worries about the viability of the account in ordinary circumstances. The second charges the proposed educational model with indoctrinating students. The main goal of this article is to show how an exemplar-based account of moral education can handle both problems without compromising its structure and upshot.

The Role of Adversity Intelligence in Encouraging the Implementation of Islamic Work Ethics and the Impact on Accountant’s Performance and Career Development of Accountants

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PENGARUH MOTIVASI BELAJAR, FASILITAS,PERCEIVED CONTROL DAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN TERHADAP PRESTASI MAHASISWA PROGRAM STUDI AKUNTANSI UNIVERSITAS SYIAH KUALA

The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the influence of learning motivation, facilities, perceived control, and learning model of educator accountants on the achievement of accounting students of the Shia Kuala University. The sample taken in this study is probability sampling with random sampling method. The number of samples used in this study were 200 respondents. The data obtained were analyzed by using Linear Regression Analysis with SPSS IMB Ver 22 program. The results of this research indicate that variables of learning motivation, facilities, perceived control, and learning models has positively significant impact to student achievement.

Religious education or education about religion?

ABSTRACT In this reply to Agbaria’s reflections on religious authority I first make a distinction between three forms of authority: theological, sociological and educational. Defending the need for a purely educational account of authority, I develop with Arendt a thing-centered approach towards education. This allows me to transcend the traditional opposition between teacher – and student-centered views in education. From this perspective I argue for making a further distinction, viz. between religious education and education about religion. I will defend the last approach towards teaching about religion and conclude this reply by making some suggestions regarding what this teaching entails with reference to religious painting.

Using Bio-Spiritual Music Focused Energetics for Social Workers to Enhance Personal Identity and Professional Transformation: The Power of Self-Reflective Empathy

Working conditions, client demands, heavy workloads, and numerous other factors cause high levels of stress among social workers and undermine their potential for self-fulfilment and productivity. Bio-Spiritual – Music-Focus - Energetics (BSMFE) is a focusing technique used in this study for social workers and addiction counsellors as a part of staff training and development and re-certification. This article speaks to the need for creative and uniquely supportive approaches for helping professionals. It presents an account of addictions counsellor training and education (N=7) in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. During a day long workshop, social workers and counsellors participated to heighten their awareness of their own inner-directed processes. Implications are directed toward social workers, addiction counsellors, music therapists, helping professionals, clergy, and pastoral counsellors, in their own spiritual quest toward personal fulfilment and professional growth and transformation.

Character Education for Social Action: A Conceptual Analysis of the #iwill Campaign

Purpose: This article integrates two distinct discourses to show how an Aristotelian account of character education can supply a valuable framework for developing a habit of social action. Approach: We use a review of relevant secondary literature, a documentary analysis of #iwill materials, and an Aristotelian conceptual framework to analyse the quality principles of the #iwill campaign—a cross-sector, cross-party collective impact campaign that encourages youth social action in the UK. Findings: We show how an Aristotelian account offers useful resources for conceptualising and applying #iwill’s six quality principles and addresses four practical and theoretical challenges in #iwill’s model. In particular, an Aristotelian account provides a more capacious conception of a habit and offers a revised model for understanding social action’s benefits to individuals and communities. Practical Implications: With over 800 partner organizations in the UK, #iwill has a significant impact on how social action is practised and supplies a valuable model for other campaigns to follow. By informing #iwill’s quality framework, this Aristotelian account seeks to amplify efforts to cultivate social action as a virtuous habit for life.

Effects of Education Savings Accounts on Student Engagement: Instrumental Variable Analysis

As interest in youth financial inclusion continues to grow substantially, emerging research points to positive associations between students’savings and their educational outcomes. However, there is no definitive data on how assets alter student engagement, particularly in resource-limited settings. This study contributes knowledge by assessing the causal effects of education savings accounts on student engagement. We evaluate causal effects by using instrumental variable methods and data from a pilot study that assessed the viability of different education funding mechanisms for junior high-school students in Ghana. Results show that the offering of an education savings account to young people with an opt-out option has great promise for improving education account ownership. Results also show that simply having an account is not strongly predictive of school engagement. Instead, it is when people begin to save into the account that it positively shapes their school engagement. The finding speaks to the value of policies that support young people to cultivate a savings habit and to build their financial knowledge and skills. Efforts should be made to understand better how social workers and teachers could be adequately trained to provide financial counseling and financial education assistance to students within the community or school settings.

The Educational Correlates of Voting: A Cross‐sectional Study of Finnish Undergraduates’ Turnout in the 2014 European Parliament Election

Why do well‐educated citizens show high turnout in elections? Despite broad scholarly agreement that educational attainment predicts electoral participation, there is little consensus about which aspects of higher education account for this positive association. This study addresses this gap in the empirical literature by investigating the educational correlates of micro‐level turnout. To this end, the article first discuss two types of factors that prior research has suggested to connect higher education to voting: participation‐enhancing benefits; and the type of education. Using a unique, nationally representative survey of the 2012 cohort of Finnish undergraduates, the relative importance of and relationships between these competing factors in explaining the students’ intended voting in the 2014 European Parliament election are tested. It is found that turnout is positively associated with the student’s sense of political efficacy, which also mediates between an open classroom environment and turnout. Furthermore, students enrolled in the academic university track have stronger voting intentions – an effect that reflects their sense of civic duty. By contrast, no support is found for the effect of social network centrality. These results suggest that several, but not all, elements of higher education as discussed in the literature are relevant for electoral participation.

International Muslim Students in the US: The Accountability of Educators

International Muslim students have been pursuing higher education in the US for decades. They choose the US for its renowned institutions of higher education and its welcoming attitude. However, today’s geopolitical situation, in light of the ‘travel ban’ and the rhetoric (pre and post-election), has created unprecedented fear and concerns among Muslim students currently enrolled in US institutions as well as those outside the US who are debating whether to attend universities in the US. This article argues that globalization and crossing borders will persist, and there will always be Muslim students who are interested in furthering their education in the US. It also calls for more effort and support on the part of US institutions of higher education to ease Muslim students’ international educational experience on their campuses as this will not only benefit these students but also their universities and the US at large.

Deafness and Ethnicity: Taking Identity, Language, and Culture Into Account.

Deaf education professionals are regularly challenged by the linguistic and cultural diversity of deaf youth. The present article focuses on how young deaf people residing in France who are migrants or the children of migrants define themselves, and how parents and professionals perceive their linguistic and cultural diversity. The theoretical frameworks of interactionism and intersectionality were both used to analyze deafness and ethnicity. Qualitative data were collected in French schools through interviews with different members of the school community: students, parents, and professionals. The results show that deafness prevails over ethnicity in regard to self-identification, even if linguistic and cultural diversity can also be taken into account in an inclusive education.

A case study on accounting faculty's perceptions of technology in accounting classes

The accounting profession is undergoing a transformation because of the explosion of the amount of financial data and information available to organisations, the demand for real-time access to information and the use of business analytics. The accountants of the future need to be qualified to address these challenges. This means that higher education accounting degree programs must adapt their curriculums and courses to leverage technology tools and practices to ensure that their accounting faculties are prepared to teach these courses. The purpose of this exploratory descriptive case study was to evaluate accounting instructors' perceptions and experiences with technology to identify best practices to develop their technological intelligence to enable them to implement technology into accounting programs and courses to meet the demands that technology is placing on the accounting profession.

التعليم المحاسبي في ليبيا وتحديات سوق العمل (Accounting Education in Libya and Challenges of the Labour Market)

Arabic Abstract: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى تحليل واقع التعليم العالي المحاسبي في ليبيا والعوامل المؤثرة على كفاءته ومدى توافقه مع متطلبات سوق العمل. لذلك تم إعداد استبانة وتوزيعها على عدد أربع مجموعات والتي لها علاقة بمنظومة التعليم العالي المحاسبي بالجامعات الليبية (أعضاء هيئة التدريس المحاسبي بالجامعات، وطلبة التعليم المحاسبي، وخريجي المحاسبة، وعدد من المدراء بسوق العمل). تشير النتائج إلى وجود قصور وضعف بالمنظومـة التعليمية الجامـعية في مجال المحاسبة في ليبيا، من حيث اعتماده على التلقين أكثر من الإبـداع، وعدم توافر الوسائل التعليمية الحديثة التي تواكب التطورات والبرامج العلمية المعاصرة وتدعم جودة التعليم المحاسبي. تشير النتائج أيضا إلى عدم وجود برامج لتطوير مهارات أعضاء هيئة التدريس المحاسبي بالجامعات بأساليب التعليم الجامعي الحديثة وتطبيقاتها والاطلاع على تجارب الدول المتقدمة. علاوة على ذلك، تظهر النتائج أن مناهج المحاسبة الحالية غير كافية لتزويد الطلاب بمتطلبات سوق العمل من حيث المهارات والخبرات اللازمة، وعدم وجود برامج مشتركة بين أقسام المحاسبة بالجامعات ومؤسسات سوق العمل لتأهيل الطلاب لممارسة المهارات المطلوبة بسوق العمل. تساعد هذه الدراسة الحكومة ومسؤولي التعليم العالي وأعضاء هيئة التدريس المحاسبي في ليبيا على إيلاء المزيد من الاهتمام للتعليم العالي المحاسبي لتحسين فعاليته وتلبية متطلبات سوق العمل. English Abstract: This study aims to explore the reality of higher accounting education in Libya and the factors affecting its efficiency and identify its suitability for the labour market requirements. Therefore, a questionnaire was prepared and circulated among four groups (Academic members, accounting students, accounting graduates, and managers in the labour market). The findings indicated that there is a weakness in the higher education accounting programs in Libya, in terms of the lack of modern teaching methods that support the quality of accounting education, and there are no programs to develop the skills of accounting faculty members at universities. Furthermore, the findings show that the current accounting curricula are insufficient to provide students with the requirements of the labour market in terms of skills and necessary expertise, and the absence of communication between accounting departments and labour market to qualify students to practice the skills required. This study helps the government, higher education officials and accounting faculty members in Libya to pay more attention to higher accounting education to improve its effectiveness and meet the demands of the labour market.

The Individual-Level Patterns Underlying the Decline of Routine Jobs

This article reviews the findings from Cortes (2016) and Cortes, Jaimovich, and Siu (2017), which explore the micro-level patterns associated with the decline in middle-wage routine employment in the United States. I show that male workers who remain in routine jobs experience significantly slower long-run wage growth than those who switch to other occupations, even when compared to those who transition to lower-skill non-routine manual jobs. I also show that changes in the employment patterns of men with low levels of education and women with intermediate levels of education account for the majority of the decline in routine employment. Individuals with these demographic characteristics used to predominantly work in routine jobs. In more recent years, they have become increasingly likely to be out of work.JEL: J21, J23, J31, J62

Conditions for changes in the programme and teaching methodology of accounting in terms of integrated reporting challenges— The prospect of the academic teacher

The main aim of this paper is to present the conditions and extent of the changes in the program and teaching methodology of accounting in higher education on the example of Cracow University of Economics in the aspect of the integrated reporting challenges. Non-financial reporting is an obligation imposed on individuals, focused on the internationalization of information presented in reporting. Authors previous studies indicate that published integrated reports, meet the requirements recommended by the IIRC in a small way, in terms of presentation of each of its components. There are difficulties in assessing the reliability of the presented issues, due to the complex or, in some cases, impossible process of measuring. The challenge may serve as both an efficient process of development recommended, and relevant information in a way that is understandable, as well as in the long term, effective measurement and evaluation by the external auditors. This implies new challenges and requirements for change in the area of teaching accounting and search new methods of education which increase the efficiency of existing models of education and will be a response to new needs. The basic research methods used to achieve this goal is a critical review of domestic and foreign literature, analysis of study plans of Cracow University of Economics and own researches carried out among university teachers by means of a questionnaire survey in order to obtain their opinions about the current situation and desired direction changes. In formulating the proposals was used the method of deduction and synthesis. The article was presented the idea of an integrated reporting, then, based on our own research, an attempt was made to diagnose the current preparation of students for the making of integrated reports based on the applicable study plans and to determine the desired directions of changes. The results are not subject to generalization outside the scope of the institution where the research was carried out but provide guidance for other organizations considering taking action in the area of preparing students for integrated reports. The results of the conducted research indicate the need for changes in the structure and scope of study plans and increased pressure on the evolution and development of "soft" competencies students in higher education.
 
 Keywords: programme, teaching methodology, Cracow University

"It's all about relations" - an investigation into the youth librarian’s role and proficiency

Developing library services for children and youth is a challenge for the library community. Statistics show that while younger children are avid library users, their usage often wanes as they grow older. Norwegian children between the ages 9 and 15 visited the library half as much in 2017 as they did in 1991 (SSB 2017). One exception is Biblo Tøyen, Norway’s only library dedicated to children between the ages 10-15. Recently named Library of the Year, the library provides a very popular space for its target group. Based on a qualitative study consisting of participant observation and interviews with members of the library staff, who are not trained librarians, this paper highlights the staff’s varied contributions to establishing Biblo as a third place and developing the participatory elements of the library. We look at what guides the staff in facilitating specialized programming for the users and how they perceive their own their role as library staff by exploring in what ways they have interacted with, learnt from, guided and “policed” the target group in developing a participatory, third-space atmosphere.Our findings suggest that the staffs’ relational capacity is vital for creating a successful library space for this age group. From our study, we propose that the multi-aspect role of the youth librarian as teacher, confidante, inspirer, parent, and guardian needs to be taken into serious account in the future education of librarians and for the development of future youth libraries.

Understanding the concept of profit as an economic information instrument: disclosure of semantic meanings

Accounting information presented in financial statements is likened to a set of symbols. These symbols are expected to represent certain realities, which are called semantic meanings. One of the symbols presented in the financial statements is profit. As a communication medium, the presentation of profits must be interpreted exactly the same as the intended meaning, so that accounting information becomes unbiased. The purpose of this study is to reveal the understanding of the concept of profit based on semantic meaning from the point of view of the accounting accountant. This study uses an interpretive qualitative approach. Data were obtained from structured interviews with informants, namely educator accountants in Indonesia with “mainstream and anti-mainstream” schools of thought. The results of the study reveal that the tendency has been a shift in thinking from educator accountants that originated from idealism to being pragmatic. The meaning of profit at the semantic level is not only materially interpreted. Although profit is used as an indicator of the success of the company, profit is interpreted as a representation of changes in the company’s economic reality. That, the meaning of profit reflects the company’s efforts to improve its economic capacity and its usefulness to the wider community. In other words, that profit is an economic information instrument that is expected to provide value-added to its users.

Misunderstanding duty: Vices of culture, ‘aggravated’ vice, and the role of casuistical questions in moral education

This paper considers the role of ‘vices of culture’ in Immanuel Kant’s account of radical evil and education. I argue that Kant was keenly aware of a uniquely human tendency to allow a self-centered concern for status to misunderstand or co-opt the language of dignity and equal worth for its own purposes. This tendency lies at the root of the ‘vices of culture’ and ‘aggravated vices’ that Kant describes in the Religion and Doctrine of Virtue, respectively. When it comes to moral education, then, it will be crucial that the developing agent have a clear understanding of the shared dignity of rational agents and the particular duties (e.g. gratitude and beneficence) that are defined, in part, by their tendency to alter (a different kind of) status among agents. I argue that the casuistical questions that Kant attaches to these discussions in the Doctrine of Virtue are an example of a pedagogical device that might help pupils to overcome this tendency so closely associated with radical evil.

Some factors that affect the formation of gastroesophageal reflux disease in patients with diabetes mellitus type II in the transcarpathian region.

In 75% of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) in clinical practice, symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) injury can be observed. The purpose of the study: to identify the factors influencing the formation of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in patients with type II DM in the Transcarpathian region. 76 patients with the combination of type II DM and GERD were examined. All patients were examined according to the general-clinical, anthropometric, laboratory, and instrumental methods. The place of living, as well as the level of education and place of patients’ work was also described. In all patients with type II DM, disease of moderate severity was detected. Endoscopic examination in all patients with type II DM confirmed the diagnosis of GERD. Among the patients, residents of the city prevailed – 48 (63.2%) patients and 28 (36.8%) patients – residents of the village. It has been established that in patients with DM type II, GERD often occurs in patients with higher (47.4%) and secondary education (35.5%), and patients without education account for only 17.1% of the total number of cases. A high percentage of rural residents without regular place of work (42.9%) were observed. In patients with DM type II, living in the Transcarpathian region, GERD is often observed in specialists and officers (educators, bank officers, healthcare workers, accountants), as well public officers. Obesity I and II degrees are more often established in patients living in villages of the Transcarpathian region and with low educational level, and in the city residents – overweight (41.7%) was found more often. Combination of type 2 DM and GERD is more commonly found in patients living in cities of the Transcarpathian region, with higher education who hold management positions, and work in the field of education, health care. Combination of GERD and type II DM in rural areas is often combined with I and II obesity degrees, especially in patients with low education level.

Education then and now: making the case for ecol-agogy

ABSTRACT The processes, settings and outcomes of human education have distinctive impacts on the human and non-human world. This paper sets out to discuss what may have motivated the initiation of human education, how it has been maintained why the outcome has wide-ranging, and often negative, planetary impacts. The analysis offers a multi-disciplinary account of education, from pre-history to the present, noting that humans, past and present are born into an ‘open world’ that requires world building or, niche construction. As a result, cultural and genetic evolution are out of synchronisation instigating an existential threat and the anxious experience of ‘adaptive-lag’ leading to the motive for continued niche construction. Education is presented as a particular type of niche construction requiring teachers and the use of symbolic verbal language to help learners move from simplistic ‘split’ thinking to the more mature position where the needs of self and others can be met.