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Education & Educational Research
Haozhe Jiang, Ke Wang, Xiaoqin Wang, Xiaohui Lei, Ziyi Huang
Summary: This study explores how a STEM teacher emotionally constructs her professional identities under the background of STEM education reform in China. The participant's emotional professional identities as a learner, explorer, and mentor were found to intertwine positive and negative emotions, shaping her into the best STEM teacher she could be. Personal, social, cultural, and contextual factors were identified to have strong effects on teachers' emotional experiences and the construction of professional identities.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STEM EDUCATION
(2021)
Review
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Sarah L. Lee, Charlotte E. Rees, Bridget C. O'Brien, Claire Palermo
Summary: This systematic review explored the conceptualizations and experiences of nurse and other clinicians as they transition to educator positions, and identified facilitators/barriers and consequences of successful transitions. The review highlighted the importance of understanding the transition processes for organizations to provide better support to clinicians in their new roles and identities as educators.
NURSE EDUCATION TODAY
(2022)
Article
Business
Julia DiBenigno
Summary: This article investigates how idealized professional identities of nurses persist through client interactions and lead to negative consequences. The study finds that under conditions of weak on-the-job socialization, nurses infantilize patients and avoid interactions with patients who do not align with their idealized identities.
ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jie Bao, Dezheng (William) Feng
Summary: This study explores the trajectories of Chinese College English teachers' identity reconstruction throughout a domestic visiting study program. Three teachers in a one-year program were followed and data were collected through interview and observation. The study found that a research dimension was either activated or reinforced in their professional identities. Three distinctive trajectories of development were identified: from 'unreconciled dreamer' to 'fulfilled research practitioner', from 'passive adapter' to 'agentic researcher-teacher', and from 'invisible layperson' to 'confident teacher-researcher'. The reconstruction of their professional identities is explained in relation to the interplay between personal factors and the mediating context reified by the program.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Hafez Shurrab, Patrik Jonsson, Mats Johansson
Summary: This study identifies key coordination mechanisms in engineer-to-order settings to mitigate the negative impact of complexity on demand-supply balancing. The findings suggest that formalized activity sequences, balanced team compositions, effective task designs, and supportive information systems have a positive effect on the decision-making and problem-solving activities.
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Sport Sciences
Seren L. Evans, Oran Elphinstone Davis, Eleri S. Jones, James Hardy, Julian A. Owen
Summary: This study investigated medical-attention and time-loss injuries in a Welsh Premiership Rugby Union team. The findings showed that injury incidence and burden were higher during matches compared to training. Lower-limb injuries were most common, while upper-limb injuries were most severe. Tackling was the main cause of contact injuries, while running was the common cause of non-contact injuries.
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Eva Pfarrwaller, Lionel Voirol, Mucyo Karemera, Stephane Guerrier, Anne Baroffio
Summary: This study examines the stability of medical students' career intentions and the associations with individual characteristics. It finds that most students fall between the extremes of being firmly committed and undecided in their career decisions. External factors may be more influential than personal characteristics in driving these fluctuations. The findings suggest potential avenues for supporting students in their career decision-making.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Sally P. Waterworth, Catherine J. Kerr, Christopher J. McManus, Henry C. Chung, Brandon S. Shaw, Ina Shaw, Gavin R. Sandercock
Summary: This study assessed the specific influence of physical activity and waist circumference on the growth trajectory of blood pressure in UK high-school students. The results showed that changes in waist circumference had the strongest impact on systolic blood pressure growth, while changes in physical activity had an influence on diastolic blood pressure growth. These findings are important for future prevention of hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk.
PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Yuqi Dou, Botian Chen, Xue Yu, Defu Ma
Summary: This study aimed to provide health guidance and education to individuals with dyslipidemia using an Internet health management platform and evaluate its effectiveness in improving health-related behaviors and controlling blood lipids. The study found that the awareness and control rates of dyslipidemia increased with the use of the Internet health management platform, and certain health-related behaviors improved over time. In addition, being female was found to be a protective factor for effective lipid control.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Yossi Levi-Belz, Daniela Aisenberg
Summary: This study highlights the critical role of interpersonal factors in facilitating complicated grief and suicide ideation among suicide survivors. Individuals with higher levels of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness are more likely to experience increased prospects of both suicide ideation and complicated grief.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Andrew Woods, Andrew Cashin, Louise Horstmanshof
Summary: This study explores whether and how professional nurse educator identity is co-constructed by a community of practice through participatory action research, and analyzes the social and relational outcomes using a social constructionist lens. The results indicate that sustained engagement in a community of practice positively impacts relationships among participants and strengthens their professional identities.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Gayithri Jayathirtha, Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro
Summary: While much of the identity-related work in STEAM education has focused on marginalized groups, there has been a lack of research on Asians and Asian Americans. This study examines four case studies of Asian high school students in two STEAM classrooms and highlights the diversity and complexity of Asian identity. The researchers discuss the implications of their findings for supporting Asian-origin students in STEAM activities.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Ulla Knorr, Anja Hviid Simonsen, Camilla Steen Jensen, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Morten Akhoj, Julie Forman, Steen Gregers Hasselbalch, Lars Vedel Kessing
Summary: This case-control study investigated the differences in biomarkers of amyloid and neurodegenerative diseases between patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy control individuals. The results showed a decrease in CSF A beta 42 levels during BD episodes, but no significant differences were found in other markers between BD patients and healthy controls.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Odd Tore Kaufmann, Marianne Maugesten, Tamsin Meaney
Summary: The new Norwegian curriculum includes programming in mathematics education, but little is known about how prospective teachers perceive this addition. A survey of 394 prospective teachers revealed that they had a positive attitude towards programming and saw themselves as digital natives. However, they had a limited understanding of how to integrate programming into mathematics teaching, which will affect their professional identities as teachers who teach mathematics through programming.
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Takaaki Ikeda, Toru Tsuboya
Summary: This study found that maintaining non-depressive symptoms or improving depressive symptoms can protect older adults with weak handgrip strength, indicating an association between depressive symptoms and muscle strength. The results underscore the importance of managing depressive symptoms to prevent declining physical function.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)