Emotional Intelligence and Academic Anxieties: A Literature Review

Emotional intelligence is an important area of psychology, which has gained acceptance in almost every academic discipline. It also seems to influence the various academic activities undertaken by students. This article, which is part of a larger study, reviews the literature on emotional intelligence, and its relationship with the academic and nonacademic characteristics of students with an emphasis on the significance of this relationship. This review shows that emotional intelligence of students is a key element for them while handling a stressful situation. It also illustrates that emotional intelligence can be supportive in managing library anxiety among students leading to better academic performance. This article will assist the academic librarians to recognize the role of emotional intelligence in library-related activities of the patrons. It is recommended that future research should give more attention to this area.     

The Training of Headmasters: a Belgian (Flemish) Experiment

The article illustrates the development of Headmaster training in Flanders and the role of the University of Antwerp in that development. The analysis of needs is discussed, as is the strategy evolved to meet these needs. Not all problems have been solved, and the article reviews briefly some questions still to be asked.

L'article décrit le développement de la formation des directeurs d'école en Flandre, et aussi le rôle de l'Université d'Anvers dans ce processus. Il discute l'analyse des besoins ainsi que la stratégie qui a été développée pour répondre à ces besoins. Tous les problèmes n'ont pas été résolus et l'article soulève brièvement quelques questions qui se posent encore.     

Presuppositions and relation of cognitive functions in a schoolreadiness curriculum

The schoolreadiness curriculum by Dumont and Kok (1973) is a Dutch adaptation of the curriculum by Connor and Talbot (1966). It contains presuppositions about the teachers’ diagnostic skills and about the sequence of 5 different levels of functions and behaviours. The latter two were tested for 13 cognitive functions, e.g. Visual Perception, Number Concept, etc. The presuppositions about the teachers’ diagnostic skills could not be denied. They judged the cognitive levels of pupils who were, according to an objective measuring device for schoolreadiness, classified as «not» and «questionably» schoolready to be significantly lower than pupils who were classified as «schoolready». The presupposition about the sequence of levels received little support. Three out of 13 functions revealed this sequence. The relation between the functions was explored. Substantial correlations between all functions in two samples of subjects suggested a general memory or attention factor. Correlations within and between groups of functions suggested two specific factors, a quantitative-relational and a spatial orientation factor.     

Nothing but the Facts?

This paper seeks to understand how journalists deal with storytelling and truth-seeking in their daily news practice. While storytelling is usually studied through texts, we approached it from a practice perspective, combining data from three ethnographic studies in which 36 beat reporters and 13 journalistic storytelling experts were extensively interviewed. Because of the emphasis journalists place on “finding out the truth” in public discourses, it is tempting for academics to present them as naive truth-seekers. However, by means of an interpretative repertoire analysis of their “practice” discourses, we seek to enlarge the discursive space to talk about the supposed tension between story and reality. Although departing from the idea that all news making is storytelling, the interviewed journalists consider news making and storytelling as distinct—and sometimes opposing—practices. These professional practices serve as the framework around which five storytelling repertoires are organized.     

HERIe: A Web-Based Decision-Supporting Tool for Assessing Risk of Physical Damage Using Various Failure Criteria

ABSTRACT

HERIe is a web-based decision-supporting software tool to facilitate the management of collection environments by precise assessment of climate-induced risk of physical damage to vulnerable objects. The software translates the relative humidity and temperature data recorded in the environment of the analysed object into a strain history experienced by it, and estimates the risk of physical damage using selected failure criteria. As all information is pre-calculated for the user, no engagement in complex and time-consuming numerical simulations is required. HERIe is available for testing at herie.mnk.pl. Detailed information on the methodologies used by the software is available at the above website which also contains tutorial climates. The current work aims at refining HERIe by selecting the damage criteria not only from laboratory studies but also from direct monitoring damage accumulation in objects, especially using the acoustic emission method. The software has been expanded to include moisture-induced response of parchment to support managing environments in libraries and archives.     

Leben am Rande? Dimensionen der Benachteilung von Jugendlichen

?konomisches, soziales und kulturelles Kapital z?hlen zu den zentralen Determinanten des übergangs von Jugendlichen in die Ausbildung und in den Beruf. Allerdings zeichnen sich diese Faktoren durch eine relativ hohe interpersonelle Variabilit?t aus, die gerade in Bezug auf benachteiligte junge Erwachsene einer differenzierten Analyse bedarf. Der folgende Beitrag m?chte deshalb zun?chst in Anlehnung an die Kapitalientheorie von Pierre Bourdieu die Frage untersuchen, ob es innerhalb der Gruppe von benachteiligten Jugendlichen Unterschiede in der Kapitalausstattung gibt, und ob diese eine Wirkung auf den Verbleib in und den Anschluss an eine Ma?nahme haben. Anhand eines Datensatzes, der im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Modellprogramms „Freiwilliges soziales Trainingsjahr“ (FSTJ) durch das Deutsche Jugendinstitut generiert wurde, werden theoretische Annahmen zu unterschiedlicher Kapitalausstattung benachteiligter Jugendlicher im FSTJ und ihre Wirkungen empirisch überprüft.     

Theory and Practice ‐‐Two Fundamental Categories in the Philosophy of Teacher Education

Taking the Swedish teacher education as its point of departure, two related problems are discussed in the article. 1) Practice is often understood as completely immersed in itself. Consequently there arises the problem if and how it can get out of this enclosedness and get some perspective on itself. Three ways are proposed of introducing distance into practice and, thereby, of establishing knowledge about practice: self‐reflection, dialogue, and scientific research. 2) Sometimes theory and practice are regarded as absolutely different and incompatible. According to this kind of dualism it is not possible to integrate any kind of theoretical knowledge into teachers professional actions. By showing how distance can be eliminated from theory and transformed into practical skill, it is argued that this dualism is not maintainable.     

Effects of cooperation on spelling achievement at three age levels (Grades 2, 4, and 6)

In a field experiment among second, fourth and sixth grade pupils from 27 primary schools, two instruction methods were compared. At 13 schools (control condition) pupils did spelling exercises as usual, i.e. individually. At 14 schools pupils worked in pairs; each pupil was asked to check a partners’ work and discuss mistakes. At grade 2 cooperation led to less off-task behaviour when pupils did spelling assignments of a more complex type. Nevertheless we found a negative effect on achievement. At grade 4 cooperation led to less off-task behaviour for complex assignments and an increase in pupil’s effort as rated by their teachers as well. These findings were accompanied by a weak effect on achievement. Cooperation did not affect effort nor achievement of pupils from grade 6. At none of three grade levels we found indications of better reasoning strategies as a consequence of pair learning. The differential effect of cooperation at the three age levels may be explained in terms of complexity of learning subject and of lesson type.     

荷兰教育中以能力为基础的课程体系建设

在以能力为基础的教育(CBE)中,对于某个既定的职业,根据对职业的任务、功能和角色的详细分析,进行专业课程的设计.因此,以能力为基础的教育能够把教育与实际工作联系起来.本文论述了在职业教育中开发以能力为基础的教育体系的主要步骤和应该考虑的问题,强调了学习方法和教学方法的选择、恰当的评估手段和教师角色的转化的重要性.在阐述中,还列举了荷兰在过去20年里关于职业教育中以能力为基础的教育实践方面的例子.