Overqualified: Changing the Culture of Hiring Practices in a Public Library Special Collections Department

All too often, applicants for low level paraprofessional positions in libraries are passed over or rejected, not because they are not qualified, but because they have professional experience or advanced degrees. The rationale behind these decisions is that the overqualified staff member in a low level position will continue to look for a better position more aligned with their skills, experience, and education; and when they find another job they will leave and their positions will have to be filled again. This essay argues that this reasoning is flawed and, regardless of the perceived inconvenience, library managers and administrators should want the best and the brightest working in all levels of their library.     

Understanding young Chinese Australian's (dis)engagement in Health and Physical Education and school sport

Background: School Health and Physical Education (HPE) and sport has increasingly become a complex cultural contact zone. With global population shifts, schools need policies and strategies to attend to the interests and needs of diverse student populations. School HPE and sport is a particularly significant site as it is a touchpoint for a range of cultural values and practices related to physical activity, the body, health and lifestyle proprieties.

Purpose: While there is a high Chinese student population in Australian schools, little research has been undertaken to understand their needs, experiences and perceptions in schools HPE and sport. In addition, research in the physical activity field is accentuated by paradigms that assume and perpetuate the binary notion of cultural beliefs and practices such as ‘West’ versus ‘East’ and in association with ‘Normal’ versus ‘Problematic’ lifestyles in relation to physical activity. We argue that, without conceding the epistemological understanding of ‘difference’, policies and practices that promote diversity can remain socially unjust and superficial.

Research design: This paper focuses on two schools in Queensland. The data collection process was underpinned by critical and interpretive ethnographic methods. The participants in Sage College consisted of seven girls of whom three were in Year 8, three in Year 9 and one in Year 10. At Routledge State High, a state-owned, secular and coeducational secondary school, the cohort consisted of two girls in Year 8, one girl and two boys from Year 9.

Results: This paper draws on Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, capital, field and doxa and the Chinese Confucianism philosophy of ‘Complementary difference’ to understand the various perceptions and experiences of young Chinese Australians in schools HPE and sport. Results invite us to seek an understanding of students’ subjectivities and disrupt the binary differences in cultural values and attributes to promote multicultural education.

Conclusion and recommendation: Moving beyond the Australia's Anglo-Celtic centred HPE and the limitations of a Western view of exclusive opposites, this paper makes an original contribution to knowledge by presenting a ‘heuristic of difference’ model that accommodates Western and Chinese perspectives in Australian HPE research.     

教育部“名栏建设工程”的分布及未来建设走向分析

调查三批共计57家名栏在地域、核心期刊、学科、母体高校层次、大小众栏目和期刊类型方面的分布情况,发现现有名栏存在分布不均衡现象,提出优先发展未分布省市的栏目、适当照顾非“三核心”刊物的栏目、扶持部分学科的栏目、注重吸收地方高校刊物和综合性刊物的栏目等建议。     

对普通高校武术教学现状的探讨

通过对普通高校武术教学现状的调查访问。分析了高校武术教学内容的设置、教学模式、教学方法及手段等方面存在的问题。就这些问题进行探讨并提出建议。     

学校体育实施终身体育教育的途径和方法

从新的体育课程标准入手 ,对终身体育者的标准、特征和影响终身体育因素进行了论述和分析 ,提出学校体育应从体育教学和课外体育活动等方面培养学生的终身体育意识和能力。     

高校"非转经"资产管理的问题及对策

长期以来 ,高校国有资产管理意识淡薄 ,规章制度不健全 ,资产低效使用 ,闲置浪费严重 ,“非转经”资产无法实现保值增值 ,因此 ,加强和完善高校国有资产管理 ,特别是“非转经”资产管理 ,防止国有资产流失 ,促进高校国有资产的合理有效使用 ,显得尤为重要     

Provider documentation of patient education: a lean investigation

Purpose

The study evaluates how providers give patient education materials and identifies improvements to comply with Meaningful Use (MU) requirements.

Methods

Thirty-eight patient-provider interactions in two health care outpatient clinics were observed.

Results

Providers do not uniformly know MU patient education requirements. Providers have individual preferences and find gaps in what is available. Accessing and documenting patient education varies among providers. Embedded electronic health record (EHR) materials, while available, have technical access barriers.

Conclusions

Providers'' EHR skills and knowledge levels contribute to non-standardized patient education delivery.     

Placing wireless tablets in clinical settings for patient education

Objective

The authors explored the feasibility and possible benefit of tablet-based educational materials for patients in clinic waiting areas.

Methods

We distributed eight tablets preloaded with diagnosis-relevant information in two clinic waiting areas. Patients were surveyed about satisfaction, usability, and effects on learning. Technical issues were resolved.

Results

Thirty-seven of forty patients completed the survey. On average, the patients were satisfied in all categories.

Conclusions

Placing tablet-based educational materials in clinic waiting areas is relatively easy to implement. Patients using tablets reported satisfaction across three domains: usability, education, and satisfaction.     

高新技术对现代汽修行业的影响

从对现代汽车新技术的介绍入手，详细分析了当前汽车修理行业所面临的几大挑战以及应对的措施，探讨了汽修专业教育存在的问题．指出要根据最新的汽车技术发展，安排教学工作，才能够培养出在几方面都能满足实际需要的专业人才。