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(2020)
In Germany, a lot of young children at risk of language difficulties still go undetected or are not assessed before preschool-age. For children where parents may suspect a disorder, this practice causes a lot of emotional distress alongside lost time for intervention. Thus, what contribution can parents and nursery staff make for the earlier detection of language difficulties? 34 children from four German kindergartens were tested with a standardized preschool screening for language problems by an SLT. Parents and nursery staff completed a questionnaire (FEE 3-4) that was designed to collect potential risk-factors and included the rating of children’s abilities across the main language domains. Outcomes from the FEE 3-4 were compared between parents and nursery staff as well as triangulated with results from the standardized screening. Agreement between parents and nursery staff re. individual children’s potential language difficulties was moderate (Kappa = 0.44, p = .050). Overall, nursery staff rated children’s language abilities more strictly and precisely than parents. Especially their rating of ‘word order’ (p = .022) and ‘verb endings’ contributed significantly to the identification of potential language difficulties similar to the standardized screening. The screening identified two children at risk without caregiver's concern, but not two others who were at risk of language disorder and for whom caregivers expressed concern. Caregiver’s awareness of early language difficulties appears to be rather intuitive. Young children at risk are most reliably detected if standardized instruments are used in combination with caregiver questionnaires. Ideally, this process includes data from parents and nursery staff to be interpreted by an experienced SLT, as the use of a standardized screening alone may lead to missed or mistaken identification where essential information about the child’s environment (e.g. risk factors) is not provided. If parents are concerned about children’s language, full assessment is clearly justified.
The increasing complexity of caseloads in SLT practice, e.g. due to higher comorbidity, lacking information or experience in the
treatment of complicated cases, calls for support from experienced as well as specialist practitioners from within the field - especially
for novice therapists. One way to tackle these challenges may be peer coaching and how it can be employed within the educational
and professional SLT setting.
Peer coaching was implemented across five semesters of a successive SLT study programme at a University of Applied Sciences in
Germany. The approach was embedded in a clinical reasoning seminar with 25 SLT students who each presented a challenging case
study from their current workload. All participants completed a short online survey to evaluate the feasibility of the team approach
within this setting as well as their personal benefit and development re. the discussed case studies.
Students felt encouraged by being able to share their experience and tackle actual challenges. They particularly valued receiving
answers from a broad range of other SLTs but also contributing to other students’ queries and providing practical solutions for
them. All participants felt that peer coaching was an appropriate approach for clinical reasoning to support their professional as well
as personal development. Other outcomes were a perceived increased ability to employ metacognitive reflection to be used with
their whole caseload but also a prospective need for further training. Some students suggested the employment of peer coaching
within their work setting.
In the educational as well as professional SLT setting, peer coaching can be successfully employed, triggering metacognitive
reflection re. practitioner’s thinking and acting, resulting in an increased awareness of needs and skills as part of the clinical
reasoning process.
Purpose
Attracting skilled students is an important aim of many cities in a knowledge-based society. This paper focuses on urban factors of attractiveness from a student's perspective and analyses their influence on locational choices of students. The criteria found were also used to evaluate how the City of Osnabrück, Germany, is rated in terms of these criteria and to reveal the greatest discrepancies.
Design / Methodology / Approach
The paper is based on a multi-level empirical research concept, including qualitative and quantitative approaches. A survey of 2,300 students was conducted in Osnabrück on the basis of focus group discussions with students and interviews with various experts such as a neighbourhood manager, an urban planner, a district mayor, a college president, a real estate manager.
Originality/value
To date, little research has been undertaken to empirically examine the specific requirements that German students look for in a place to live and study. According to the author’s present state of knowledge (January 2018), a comparable study has not been done.
The main contribution of this paper is the empirical analysis of what makes cities attractive to students. In contrast to the findings of Richard Florida about the Creative Class, the cleanliness of a city, beautiful city scenery, and attractive apartments are more important to students than cultural offers, interesting job opportunities, or a multicultural population.
Practical Implications
Insights from the empirical survey can both help to analyse important factors in students' decision-making process and provide possible measures that the city stakeholders can take.
Keywords
1. Knowledge-based urban development
2. Mobility decisions by students and skilled professionals
3. Location factors
4. Place branding
Proposed paper: Academic Research Paper
The demographic shift in the age structure has the effects that many ageing employees work in organisations. Migration can slow down the ageing of population but could not stop it. More and more people with immigration background work in organisations. Therefore, the question is, whether diversity sensitive attitudes count for all diversity aspects. The central aim of the study is to deal with the problem fields of multicultural teamwork. Thereby, the focus is on the collaboration of employees with and without immigration background. The interviews with employees with and without an immigra-tion background of various company branches were conducted. The results show that employees with an immigration background have more contact and feel comfortable with persons from different cultures than employees without an immigration back-ground. The qualitative analysis indicates that there is a high need of competence devel-opment, especially intercultural and social competences in organisations. The results of the study reveal that personality traits and characteristics of employees play a role to what extent they accept diversity and are willing to work with persons from another culture. Age is not important regarding intercultural competence development.
Talent scarcity in many parts of the world leads to the necessity to enlarge talent pools in order to provide enough future holders of key positions. Taking the scholarly discussion at the overlap of talent management and current careers literature as a starting point our qualitative empirical research provides insights in talent’s career decisions in an eastern emerging market, India, and a western developed country, Germany. 49 interviews with internationally experienced knowledge-workers were held to find out how to they come to career decisions throughout their career. Special focus was the balancing act of professional and private life sphere. An inductive-deductive approach was used to develop categories in MaxQda. Results show the impact of institutional frame, cultural context, and gender differences. Consequently, a stronger focus on talent’s different life phases with context specific deviations when configuring Talent Management in Multinational Enterprises can be advised.
Der Ausbau des Stromnetzes als notwendiger Bestandteil der Energiewende in Deutschland berührt die Interessen vieler. Die Akzeptanz beteiligter Akteure wie der Träger öffentlicher Belange sowie unmittelbar betroffener Bürgerinnen und Bürger ist dabei ein wichtiger Erfolgsfaktor für das Gelingen der jeweiligen Infrastrukturprojekte sowie des Übertragungsnetzausbaus insgesamt. Die rechtlich formal vorgeschriebene Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung einerseits und die informell vorgelagerte Kommunikation mit den betroffenen Akteuren andererseits – wie in vielen Leitfäden und Handbüchern detailliert beschrieben und empfohlen –, konnten Bürgerproteste und rechtliche Einsprüche bislang nur teilweise verhindern.
Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt in diesem Kontext erste Forschungsergebnisse des Kernarbeitspakets Kommunikation im interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt Net Future Niedersachsen an der Hochschule Osnabrück vor. Dort werden u. a. die kommunikativen Beziehungen zwischen Vertretern auf Landkreis- und Kommunalebene mit Vorhabenträgern sowie Planungs- und Genehmigungsbehörden in Niedersachsen analysiert. Dabei wird der Kommune als Schnittstelle zwischen Bürgern und Projektplanern eine zentrale Rolle im Verständigungsprozess eingeräumt. Aus den durch Leitfadengespräche jeweils ermittelten Selbst- und Fremdbildern der Akteure sowie für die dadurch entstehenden Konfliktfelder werden keine simplen Lösungsvorschläge und Handlungsanleitungen abgeleitet. Vielmehr sollen durch den vorgehaltenen Spiegel bei den beteiligten Akteuren und ihren Organisationen im Sinne systemischer Beratung Irritationen ausgelöst und so durch Selbstreflexion gemeinsame Lernprozesse in Gang gesetzt werden. Hierfür werden kontextspezifische, kommunikative Herausforderungen erläutert sowie die Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, gegenseitiges Verständnis zu steigern und die Vertrauensbeziehung zu fördern.
Forschungsfrage: In welchem Umfang werden Persönlichkeitseigenschaften in Stellenanzeigen verwendet, die eher als maskulin wahrgenommen werden?
Methodik: Wir nutzen einen Pool von deutschsprachigen Stellenanzeigen von Dax-30-Unternehmen, mittelständischen Unternehmen und des öffentlichen Sektors in den Bereichen Personalwesen (N=2.086) und Softwareentwicklung (N=1.811).
Praktische Implikationen: Unternehmen, die eine diverse Belegschaft anstreben, sollten nicht einseitig vor allem maskuline Persönlichkeitseigenschaften fordern. Die Eigenschaften signalisieren auch die Unternehmenskultur.