Role Of Calls Research Articles

“No matter what is thrown at you, you still – inside your core – want to teach”: the role of calling in retention of secondary school teachers in England

ABSTRACT Retention of teachers in England is poor, yet many stay in the profession. Exploring why teachers remain, as well as why they leave, can improve understanding of retention. The aim of this study therefore is to investigate qualitative accounts of secondary-school teachers about factors contributing to decisions to stay or leave teaching. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with early career teachers, established teachers, and teachers who had left or were leaving teaching. Data was analysed thematically. Findings showed that teachers wanted more autonomy in their work to focus on student needs, develop their subject passion, and nurture collegial relationships. However, accountability, bureaucracy, inadequate resourcing, and top-down directives stifled their ability to craft their work and nurture their calling to teach. To improve retention, teachers should be provided with more opportunities to develop their calling as a work orientation. This requires organisational and culture change at the school and political level.

Research on the Logistics Management of Fresh Produce from the Perspective of Green Supply Chain

With the continuous development and change of the times, people have a higher pursuit of quality of life, and the demand and quality requirements of fresh products are increasing, requiring a more refined and suitable logistics management for the context of the times. The existing literature today is mainly from the perspective of traditional supply chain, and the research from the perspective of green supply chain is relatively missing. In this paper, I analyze the current situation of fresh produce logistics system in the context of a green supply chain to analyze the imperfections in this field according to the questionnaire survey and collection, then propose improvement suggestions and measures. The research in this paper will play an effective role in promoting the implementation of green supply chain. At the same time for the environmental awareness supply chain in the construction of society to play a role in calling for, and jointly help the development of green production and life.

The value of societal values in finance

Purpose The purpose of this study is to consider the limitations of traditional finance and to provide an overview of the challenges associated with the developing area of sustainable finance. In the context of multiple global systemic threats to humanity, the author argues that societal values must play a prominent role in calling for comprehensive government policy and activating the fund allocations required to safeguard the stability of multiple societal systems. Design/methodology/approach This study integrates research results from several disciplines to show that value-based finance is essential for ensuring that information acquisition, government policies and fund allocations support the stability of multiple systems on which society depends. The discussion is informed by research that documents massive uncertainty in planetary and biological processes requiring urgent action. Findings Traditional finance allows prioritization of financial returns at the expense of environmental and social stability with potentially catastrophic and irreversible consequences. To safeguard the stability of societal systems, fund allocation decisions by individuals and organizations must prioritize societal values, as they relate to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the science needed to achieve them. Originality/value This study provides a novel view of the critical importance of societal values in finance given growing global threats to the stability of multiple, interconnected systems. It offers a unique perspective by drawing on research results from multiple disciplines to highlight an essential role for science-based information related to societal values in the engagement and fund allocation decisions of all market participants operating under extreme uncertainty.

Vocal Behaviour of Killer Whales in the Eastern Canadian Arctic and the Role of Calls in Predator-prey Interactions

Vocal Behaviour of Killer Whales in the Eastern Canadian Arctic and the Role of Calls in Predator-prey Interactions

Proactive Personality and Career Adaptability of Chinese Female Pre-Service Teachers in Primary Schools: The Role of Calling

Career adaptability has attracted extensive attention from international scholars as one of the important factors predicting the future sustainability of individuals. Proactive personality and calling have a positive influence on individual career development and life satisfaction, with reference to promoting the sustainable development of individuals. This study focuses on the positive effects of career adaptability and calling on shaping female primary school pre-service teachers and provides suggestions for training excellent elementary school teachers and building quality primary education. This study investigated the relationship between proactive personality, calling, and career adaptability among 707 female pre-service elementary school teachers in Chinese universities. The results showed that proactive personality positively predicts calling and that proactive personality and calling positively predict career adaptability. Calling partially mediated the relationship between proactive personality and career adaptability. Therefore, it is possible to enhance calling by cultivating the proactive personality of female pre-service teachers in elementary schools, thus further promoting the career adaptability of this group. On this basis, effective strategies should be adopted in the future to improve the career adaptability of female pre-service teachers in elementary schools for the sustainable development of this group.

Called to Counsel: Examining the Links Among Calling, Life Meaning, Life Satisfaction, and Burnout Among Law Students

Adapting the work as calling theory (WCT), the present study used path analysis to examine the relations among calling, person-environment fit (P-E fit), life meaning, living one’s calling, academic burnout, and life satisfaction in a sample of law students (N = 245). Propositions of the WCT model were generally supported by data in which perceiving a calling predicted P-E fit, which in turn predicted life meaning. Life meaning predicted living out one’s calling in law school, which correlated positively with life satisfaction and negatively with academic burnout. Findings highlight the predictive role of calling in law student well-being. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

Media representation of older people's vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

Older adults have gained great media attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they were believed to be vulnerable to the novel virus based on clinical data and epidemiological evidence. The high volume of media coverage played an important role in calling for improved public health services for the older population. Nevertheless, problematic media representations of older people might evoke or amplify ageism during the pandemic. Therefore, drawing on empirical data collected from five mainstream Chinese media outlets between January 3 and May 3, 2020, this study examined how the media constructed the vulnerability of older adults and its underlying ageist thinking during the pandemic. The findings showed that the media had clear preferences in constructing older people as passive recipients while seeking resources from families, public institutions and governments at various levels to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, the media adopted a biomedical-centred framework presenting older people as a homogenous group that was vulnerable to the pandemic. In addition, we found that the media representations of older adults intensified the dichotomised relationship between the young and the old, causing the younger generations to perceive older people as a ‘threat’ to public health. Moving beyond the Chinese case, this article appeals to the media to be socially responsible by avoiding the stereotyping of the older population and uniting the whole society to combat COVID-19. The findings of this study will help raise awareness among policymakers and care service providers, which is crucial to eliminating ageist attitudes across society and to further allowing the values of older individuals to be fully recognised.

Racial burdens, translations, and chance

Racial burdens, translations, and chance

The Rose and the Cactus: The Lived and Unanswered Callings of Manya Sklodowska (Marie Curie) and Mileva Marić (Einstein)

This article examines the role of calling in the lives of two women: Marie Curie (born “Manya Sklodowska,” in Poland, 1867; died in France, 1934) and Mileva Einstein (born “Mileva Marić” in Serbia, 1875; died in Switzerland, 1948). We explore how the lives of these two women unfolded as they went through the crucibles of sensing, pursuing, and answering or missing their callings.

What does it mean to have a calling? Validation of the Unified Multidimensional Calling Scale

The absence of a common framework for defining and measuring calling limits the scientific production of coherent and generalizable empirical evidence on the role of calling in people life. In this paper, we merge the contributions of several authors into a comprehensive model of calling consisting of seven facets (Passion, Purposefulness, Sacrifice, Pervasiveness, Prosocial Orientation, Transcendent Summons, and Identity) and propose the Unified Multidimensional Calling Scale (UMCS). The UMCS possesses good reliability and construct validity, is unbiased across time and calling domains. A second-order Confirmatory Factor Analysis proved the seven-facet model of calling to be valid in a sample of college students and adult employees. Interestingly, college students showed weaker relationships between Transcendent Summons, Prosocial Orientation, and the other facets of calling. In addition, we observed that facets have very different relationships with outcomes and concurrent measures, suggesting that results obtained with a smaller set of facets are not generalizable to the higher-order construct of calling. The practical and theoretical implications of these results are discussed.

Telephone nursing in Sweden: A narrative literature review.

Telephone nursing services are expanding globally. Swedish Healthcare Direct is the largest healthcare provider in Sweden. This paper provides a comprehensive understanding of telephone nursing, as reflected by research on Swedish national telephone nursing, and discusses the findings in relation to international literature. A descriptive, mixed-studies literature review was conducted. Twenty-four articles from January 2003 to April 2015 were identified from PubMed, Scopus, and CINAHL, and included. The issues explored in this study are how telephone nursing is perceived by callers, telephone nurses, and managers, and what characterizes such calls. Callers value reassurance, support, respect and satisfaction and involvement in decisions can increase their adherence. The telephone nurses' perspective focused on problems and ethical dilemmas, communication, the decision support tool, and working tasks. The managers' perspective focused on nursing work goals and malpractice claims. Concerning call characteristics, authentic calls, incident reports, and threats to patient safety were considered. Telephone nursing seems safe, but gender can play a role in calls. Future research on caller access, equity, and efficiency, healthcare cost-effectiveness, distribution, and patient safety is needed.

“Fair Play in Bowling”: Sport, Civil Rights, and the UAW Culture of Inclusion, 1936–1950

For decades, bowling has been thought of as a blue-collar sport. But lost on the American public, as well as historians and other scholars of labor history, is the critical role that recreations like bowling played in building industrial unions. As early as 1937, the United Automobile Workers (UAW) had established bowling leagues as a means of bringing workers together through one of the most popular pastimes in the nation. At the same time, bowling, much like baseball, was subject to Jim Crow practices including the exclusion of nonwhite participants—even throughout UAW leagues. The union was silent on the issue of civil rights in recreation through the late 1930s and early 1940s, but by the postwar period, the UAW played a leading role in calling for “fair play” in sport. This article uses bowling as case study to examine how the UAW used bowling to build and sustain the union, promote harmonious intergroup relations among its members, and address issues such as civil rights within the general realm of American life throughout the mid-twentieth century.

The Role of CALL in Vocabulary Acquisition through the Application of Learning Strategies

The Role of CALL in Vocabulary Acquisition through the Application of Learning Strategies

ЛИКВИДАЦИЯ ТУБЕРКУЛЕЗА – НОВАЯ СТРАТЕГИЯ ВОЗ В ЭРУ ЦЕЛЕЙ УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ, ВКЛАД РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

This article is written to update tuberculosis (TB) experts in the Russian Federation about the most recent data on the global TB situation, the progress in global TB care and control efforts, the challenges ahead, and the response expected by all countries. In particular, the article will detail the new End TB Strategy that the World Health Organization (WHO) is promoting for the new era of the Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030 after the World Health Assembly approved it in a resolution during its 2014 meeting. The Russian Federation, with its extraordinary resources and knowledge needs to contribute to the roll-out of the new Strategy, both nationally and internationally. For this, the Ministerial Conference called by the Russian Federation Government to be held in Moscow on 16-17 November 2017 will play a crucial role in calling for the political attention necessary at the highest governmental levels in all high-burden countries, with an ultimate aim to raise the struggle against TB in the heads-of-state agenda.

Rooted in relationship: Longevity in congregational ministry

Vocational congregational ministry presents several unique challenges that test a minister’s fortitude and commitment. A considerable number of novice ministers who are gifted for the work and sense a calling from God embrace their first congregational positions with enthusiasm, but leave the ministry after only a few years. This raises an important question: What personal or communal practices and processes help support vocational ministry over a lifetime? This article addresses this question by considering specific challenges faced by congregational ministers and analyzing the stories of ministers who are flourishing in ministry over time. These stories are drawn from interviews with ten Texas Baptist ministers who have served in congregations for at least twenty years. The ministers spoke about personal and communal spiritual practices, lifestyle habits, vocational crises, the role of calling, relational dynamics, and characteristics of congregations. The author concludes that developing healthy relationships with God, family and friends, congregational members, and one’s own self is an essential foundation for thriving in congregational ministry over the long haul.

Boundaries of Career Calling: the Moderating Roles of Procedural Justice and Psychological Safety

Research on the role of calling in careers has expanded in recent years. While a number of outcomes of calling have been examined, the influence of the organizational context has been largely overl...

Expert views on how language education may develop in the next 20 years and what CALL could contribute

<span>The celebration of EUROCALL’s twentieth anniversary provides a proper occasion to reflect on the future of language teaching and the role of CALL in these developments. In this paper we present the views of six authorities on language teaching and learning from different EU countries. All of them have a special interest in CALL and/or are CALL experts and well respected EUROCALL members, such as the late Graham Davies. We present a selection of their observations based on a summary of the Skype interviews in which they contributed to a symposium entitled ‘And now for another century of modern language teaching…’ organised by the Dutch national Association of Language Teachers on the occasion of its first centennial in 2011. To provide a more global (or at least European) perspective, the interviewees were asked to cover the same topics that were central to the live panel discussion delivered by six Dutch participants representing a variety of perspectives: secondary and university teachers, students, curriculum experts and teacher educators. By way of preparation, all involved had been given a number of challenging statements related to some aspects of the discussion theme: the characteristics of the future learning environment, teacher, learner, pedagogy and technology. In this audio-supported document we will focus on interesting points of view particularly related to pedagogy and technology expressed in the interviews. A video report summary of the live discussion (in Dutch) is available on the limited CD edition with recordings of the centennial festivities. For an impression of the panel discussion and other symposium activities see this </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S476HdHWaYw&hd=1" target="_blank">video report</a><span> on YouTube.</span>

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? An Examination of Calling, Congruence, Job Design and Personality as Predictors of Job Satisfaction and Tenure

This study explored whether congruence, calling, job characteristics or personality were better predictors of job satisfaction and tenure. The sample consisted of 1968 employees across four different job roles: sales engineers (N=309), graphic designers (N=383), teachers (N=481) and clergy (N=795). Data was collected as part of a selection and development centre battery. Results found evidence of calling, with clergy reporting significantly higher levels of work satisfaction and tenure, despite the absence of some personality predictors (i.e. conscientiousness) and job characteristics (task identity, feedback). In general personality [particularly conscientiousness (+) and neuroticism (-)] along with job characteristics (variety and autonomy) were the most likely predictors of satisfaction across the different roles. No evidence could be found that congruence predicted work satisfaction or tenure. Results have implications for renewed interest in the role of calling according to its original definition and question the role of congruence in determining best fit especially in the context of vocational assessments.

Editorial: “Equality Is Not a High Standard” Patricia Monture: 1958–2010

Haudenosaunee and intensely proud of it, Patricia Monture was an extraordinary legal scholar and feminist academic to whom this issue of the journal is respectfully dedicated. We mourn her death and wish to recognize her important contributions to anti-colonial, anti-racist feminist theory and practice. Many obituaries have been written about Patricia, all stressing her singular role in calling the law to account.1 I will not attempt to repeat the details of her accomplishments. Instead, I want to remember a friend and co-conspirator on issues involving women and the law. Patricia was an early supporter of this journal, sitting on the board from the late 1980s. As someone who joined the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (CJWL) when she did, I vividly remember Patricia during those early meetings when several of us called the journal to account for its failure to publish articles that included attention to race and colonialism.2 She was passionate yet calm and steady about what needed to be done. She would be frustrated that the battle has not been won (as Rakhi Ruparelia’s article in this issue concludes), but I am guessing that she would have continued to coach the rest of us in the art of making an anti-colonial feminist journal. Patricia always dared to dream in brighter colours than the rest of us. She once reduced me to tears on a panel when she simply asked the question “what would Brown and Black spaces look like in a university?” and proceeded to describe a place of learning where all would be welcome. Her commitment to an anti-colonial, anti-racist feminism was reflected in her activities as a founding member of Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality (RACE). In the last month of her life, she reluctantly sent her regrets for not attending the tenth anniversary

Managerial Work in a Practice-Embodying Institution: The Role of Calling, The Virtue of Constancy

What can be learned from a small scale study of managerial work in a highly marginal and under-researched working community? This article uses the ‘goods–virtues–practices–institutions’ framework to examine the managerial work of owner–directors of traditional circuses. Inspired by MacIntyre’s arguments for the necessity of a narrative understanding of the virtues, interviews explored how British and Irish circus directors accounted for their working lives. A purposive sample was used to select subjects who had owned and managed traditional touring circuses for at least 15 years, a period in which the economic and reputational fortunes of traditional circuses have suffered badly. This sample enabled the research to examine the self-understanding of people who had, at least on the face of it, exhibited the virtue of constancy. The research contributes to our understanding of the role of the virtues in organizations by presenting evidence of an intimate relationship between the virtue of constancy and a ‘calling’ work orientation. This enhances our understanding of the virtues that are required if management is exercised as a domain-related practice.