Social Award Research Articles

Racializing the concept of ‘housing otherness’: The effects of temporary housing policies on squatters in Rome

This paper explores the long-standing relationship in Rome between socio-cultural diversity and the temporary nature of low-income housing solutions. I argue that that this phenomenon began long before recent neoliberal trends and the global post-2008 crisis, and instead emerged from the gradual development of a moral and racialized understanding of housing as a ‘social award’. This has created a specific social category known as ‘housing otherness’, which includes migrants and Italian squatters who are experiencing severe housing distress. This exclusionary approach towards the most ‘diverse’ sections of the population in Rome can be traced back to the inception of public housing in Italy during the 1920s. The paper aims to provide a historical account of this process and demonstrate how it is based on the limited availability of residency and settling as a commodity. I also introduce the grassroots Roman housing rights movements and highlights their efforts to challenge the notion that residency and settling should be seen as something that is earned or deserved rather than as basic human rights.

Examining Instructional Leadership Behaviors of School Principals

The aim of this research is to examine the instructional leadership behaviors of school principals. Phenomenology design was used. Interviews were carried out with 14 school principals at primary and secondary schools. The participants were selected with a purposeful sampling method. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview form. All school principals emphasized the objectives of the school in parallel with the goals determined centrally. School principals gave importance to social and cultural studies to increase the students' motivation, and they organized out-of-school activities to motivate teachers. School principals generally control annual plans and community meetings, provide support for teachers in cooperation with teachers, show sensitivity to school problems, reward successful students, and reward successful teachers with social awards. In addition, it was understood that the school principals don’t want to do the partake in activities that are not relevant to education. School principals focused on motivation, supporting school atmosphere, supply materials and rewards in terms of instructional leadership.

Socially Responsible Public Procurement Under International Trade Agreements: The GPA, CETA and the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area

The 2014 EU procurement directives contain a greatly expanded set of provisions relating to socially responsible public procurement (SRPP). From the application of higher thresholds and ability to limit competition for certain contracts through to the use of social award criteria and contract performance clauses, there are numerous possibilities for contracting authorities to take considerations related to labour law compliance, trading conditions and social inclusion into account. At the same time, the EU has expanded its international commitments in the field of public procurement through the revision of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada, and through the establishment of Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs) with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. This paper looks at the extent to which SRPP provisions have been incorporated in these agreements, finding that in a number of areas such as reservation of contracts for disabled and disadvantaged workers, treatment of abnormally low tenders and use of third party certifications, they offer a less supportive framework than the EU directives for SRPP.

Analysis of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Awards in military health system during 2001-2009

This paper analyzed the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award gained by military health system during 2001- 2009,which showed the importance and necessity of social awards to the military health system.We also discussed the problems including insufficient importance attached by the military health system,inadequate enthusiasm and motivation of individual researchers,uneven distribution of the scientific level,as well as the number of awards and subjects. Key words: Science and technology award; Management of science and technology; Military health

Teacher Attitudes and Cultural Differentiation

Children from poor homes, especially from homes where the parents have neither the time nor the ability to arouse interest in the development of a complex vocabulary are assumed to be at a disad vantage in the competition for such social awards as schooling, jobs, and money. Such hereditary depri vation is contrary to the American Creed (8) and the schools especially are concerned lest their selection and treatment procedures aggravate the disadvan tages already burdening these children. Certain teachers are subjectively considered by principals, supervisors, and colleagues to hold attitudes and possess skills that make them successful with dis advantaged children and youth. During the course of a recent research and train ing project in which the departments of criminology and education at the Berkeley campus of the Univer sity of California cooperated, an inventory of a 11 i tudes was prepared to assess dimensions of teacher affect that might prove relevant to success in the ed ucation of underpriviledged children and youth. (For full inventory, contact author. ) Preparation and use of the inventory with the se lected group of teachers will be described and pre liminary evidence for the relevance of the test scores to success in teaching underpriviledged chil dren and youth will be presented. More direct evi dence could eventually be obtained by comparing the scores of teachers known for their success with un derprivileged children with those of teachers known for their lack of success with similar children. Should the inventory scores so discriminate, the in ventory may prove useful in testing training pro grams for teachers of the disadvantagedo However, an unanticipated finding of the research project for which the inventory was constructed will be reported at the conclusion of this paper. This finding sug gests that use of the inventory to check pre-post changes in attitude may be inappropriate. Instead, the inventory may be most useful to increase teach er self-awareness so that the teacher can use his present self, with his basic attitudes relatively u n changed, to persuade, entice, and cajole the reluc tant learner.