ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
wiley +1 more source
The psychological pathways to maritime English motivation: need satisfaction, frustration, and learning outcomes. [PDF]
Hu X.
europepmc +1 more source
Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
wiley +1 more source
Factors Associated with Perceived Teacher-Related Change in Academic Resilience: Classroom Motivational Climate, Subjective Resilience, and Success Expectancies. [PDF]
Terradillos MV, Alonso-Tapia J.
europepmc +1 more source
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley +1 more source
Perceptions of Chinese higher-vocational nursing program directors on digital transformation: A qualitative study. [PDF]
Duan K +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
wiley +1 more source
Teacher support and classroom silence in vocational higher education: a serial mediation analysis through speaking self-efficacy and anxiety. [PDF]
Zhang Y, Liu T.
europepmc +1 more source
ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether adding electrical stimulation (ES) biofeedback to supervised pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) provides additional long‐term benefit in prolapse anatomy among women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting A tertiary hospital in Beijing, China.
Min Li +9 more
wiley +1 more source
Achieving competitive employment for individuals with intellectual disabilities in Saudi Arabia: a systematic review of barriers and facilitators. [PDF]
Alfawzan SK.
europepmc +1 more source

