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Northampton Community College
Education•Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States•
About: Northampton Community College is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3410 authors who have published 4582 publications receiving 130398 citations. The organization is also known as: Northampton County Area Community College.
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TL;DR: Workers bring prior knowledge, understanding and skills which contribute to their learning, the habitus of workers influences the ways they co-construct and take advantage of opportunities for learning at work, the dispositions of individual workers contribute to the co-production and reproduction of the workplace culture, and belonging to a workplace community contributes to the developing identity of the workers themselves as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In this paper we address a perceived gap in the workplace learning literature, for there is very little writing which successfully integrates the issues of individual learners into predominantly social theories of learning. The paper draws upon data from four linked research projects to address this problem. Following an analysis of the theoretical problems and a possible solution, the paper identifies and discussed four overlapping individual dimensions to workplace learning. They are: workers bring prior knowledge, understanding and skills which contribute to their learning; the habitus of workers influences the ways they co-construct and take advantage of opportunities for learning at work; the dispositions of individual workers contribute to the co-production and reproduction of the workplace culture; and belonging to a workplace community contributes to the developing identity of the workers themselves
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the financial risk in a defined contribution pension scheme, applying dynamic programming techniques to find an optimal investment strategy for the scheme member, using a series of interim targets and a target at retirement linked to the desired net replacement ratio.
Abstract: We analyse the financial risk in a defined contribution pension scheme, applying dynamic programming techniques to find an optimal investment strategy for the scheme member. We use a series of interim targets and a target at retirement linked to the desired net replacement ratio. We consider both the investment risk and the annuitisation risk faced by the individual and specifically consider the properties of the so-called “lifestyle” investment strategies. The principal results concern the suitability of the lifestyle strategy and the large variability of the level of pension achieved at retirement in the case of a variable annuity conversion rate.
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TL;DR: The origins of the Vocabulary and some of the problems which arose in the course of the work on its preparation are dealt with.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided new insights into girls' use of recreational spaces within rural areas, drawing upon data from in-depth discussion work with 10-14 year old girls undertaken in rural Northamptonshire to show how conflict between adults and children, rival groups of children, and boys and girls influences the social ownership of recreational space.
Abstract: This paper provides new insights into girls' use of recreational spaces within rural areas. We draw upon data from in-depth discussion work with 10–14 year old girls undertaken in rural Northamptonshire to show how conflict between adults and children, rival groups of children, and boys and girls influences the social ownership of recreational spaces. In contrast to the rural childhood myth, we disclose geographies of anxiety, tension and disharmony.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that there are three problematic assumptions within current experiential learning cycles: a realist treatment of world and events, a distinct and independent individual is assumed to be able to experience, know and act on this real world, and cognition, be it in the form of knowledge, interpretation or perception, is treated as the unproblematic precursor to action.
Abstract: This article reviews one current concept of experiential learning, using the work of David Kolb as an exemplar of this genre of learning theory. Working from a relational or social constructionist perspective, the article suggests that there are three problematic assumptions within current experiential learning cycles. First, there is a realist treatment of world and events. Second, a distinct and independent individual is assumed to be able to experience, know and act on this real world. Third, cognition, be it in the form of knowledge, interpretation or perception, is treated as the unproblematic precursor to action. In contrast to these assumptions relational premises invite multiple narratives to replace ‘concrete experience’, social rather than individual action and coordination with others in contrast with adaptation to a real world. These alternative premises form the basis of an alternative, narrative reflective cycle that is argued to offer practical reflective ‘tools’ that would be of benefit, even if the reflector did not share the author’s relational constructionist assumptions.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Simon Baron-Cohen | 172 | 773 | 118071 |
Pete Smith | 156 | 2464 | 138819 |
Martin N. Rossor | 128 | 670 | 95743 |
Mark D. Griffiths | 124 | 1238 | 61335 |
Richard G. Brown | 83 | 217 | 26205 |
Brendon Stubbs | 81 | 754 | 28180 |
Stuart N. Lane | 76 | 337 | 15788 |
Paul W. Burgess | 69 | 156 | 21038 |
Thomas Dietz | 68 | 203 | 37313 |
Huseyin Sehitoglu | 67 | 324 | 14378 |
Susan Golombok | 67 | 215 | 12856 |
David S.G. Thomas | 63 | 228 | 14796 |
Stephen Morris | 63 | 443 | 16484 |
Stephen Robertson | 61 | 197 | 23363 |
Michael J. Morgan | 60 | 266 | 12211 |