has a much higher chance of financial success, simply because of the higher prices of sexual services in other EU countries. In this article, I explore the livelihoods of pimps who migrate abroad with their business, and which personal skills they deem
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Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy
Trine Mygind Korsby
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 57–69 (13 total)
Soft skills, hard rocks
Making diamonds ethical in Canada’s Northwest Territories
Lindsay A. Bell
miners. In line with general transformations of job training programs for the poor and unemployed across North America, Ready for the Job focused on “soft skills” over and above technical industrial know-how ( Peck and Theodore 2000 ; Purser and Hennigan
‘What Do You Mean You Haven't Got Tools?’
Becoming a Boater and Developing Skills within a Community of Practice
Benjamin Bowles
towards becoming more engaged and involved in a community with particular skills and understandings. Deleuze's idea of ‘becoming nomad’ ( Deleuze and Guattari 1987: 144 ), although it is not in any simple way just about nomadic people, is a valuable way
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 88–107 (20 total)
‘We are not all equal!’
Raising achievement and aspiration by improving the transition from the BTEC to higher education
Richard Peake
In my role as programme leader of the BA (Hons) Criminal Justice and Criminology, I observed that students who entered with A-levels were more likely to achieve a 2:1 or 1st class degree than students from other routes of entry. Analysis of five cohorts showed that less than half of entrants with Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) qualification achieved a 2:1 classification, compared to over 90 per cent of A-level students. In the interests of equity, this phenomenon deserved further investigation. I set out to identify issues in the transition to higher education that may cause BTEC students to struggle to adapt to academic study and any skills deficits that may ultimately lead to underachievement. As a result of the study, a toolkit was devised to smooth the transition, raise aspiration, enhance self-esteem and improve outcomes.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–96 (17 total)
Dumbing down or beefing up the curriculum? Integrating an 'academic skills framework' into a first year sociology programme
Mike Keating, Cathal O'Siochru, and Sal Watt
This article describes a C-SAP-funded project evaluating the introduction of a new tutorial programme for first year Sociology students, which sought to integrate a 'skills framework' to enable students to develop a range of academic skills alongside their study of the subject.
The pegagogical and institutional background to the decision to adopt this 'integrated' approach is summarised and the staff and student experiences are then evaluated using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Primarily concerned with evaluating staff and student responses to the new programme, this paper also raises some issues with regard to the methodologies of evaluation.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 66–95 (30 total)
Enhancing and supporting the role of academic tutors in developing undergraduate writing skills: Reflections on the experiences of a social work education programme
Nathan Hughes, Sue Wainwright, and Caroline Cresswell
Whilst approaches to the development of undergraduate academic writing skills vary between disciplines and institutions, academic tutors are consistently presented as playing an important role. One aspect of this role is supporting students to engage effectively with feedback in order to develop consciousness and competence regarding academic writing. This article reports on the use of a form, which was designed to encourage students to use feedback in a structured and consistent manner and to support subsequent tutor-tutee dialogue. Students and tutors who used the form suggest it encouraged students to reflect on their learning needs and identify priority issues for discussion with the tutor. However, barriers to its effective use remain. In particular, there was resistance amongst students to accessing academic support, due to anxieties that staff would look negatively upon those who seek help. Students expressed concern that tutors would perceive those seeking support as failing to cope with the demands of independent study, a set of skills they perceive that they were required to have on arrival at university, rather than to acquire during the course of their studies with the help and guidance of their academic tutor.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 27–48 (22 total)
Transferring Anthropological Skills to Applied Health Research
Rachel Gooberman-Hill, Isabel de Salis, and Jonina Einarsdottir
This issue of Anthropology in Action examines the relationship between conventional anthropological methods and those used by anthropologists working in applied health research. Three of the articles were originally presented at a workshop at the 2006 conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, while a fourth (Poehlman) addresses related themes and sits well alongside those from the workshop.
Developing skill, developing vision: practices of locality at the foot of the Alps. by Grasseni, Christina
KATY FOX
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2010
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 98–99 (1 total)
Problems Don't Care about Disciplinary Boundaries
Regina F. Bendix
– science and scholarship have developed divergent formats to write, speak and silence, internalised during disciplinary training so as to succeed on the path into research positions. As we acquire these skills, we become hotly proficient disciplinarians
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 97–101 (5 total)
Improving student assessments of elections: The use of information literacy and a course-embedded librarian
Paula Booke and Todd J. Wiebe
, communicate their message and mobilise their bases, the technological tools and skill sets that students must use to analyse elections become more complicated. Increasingly these core goals cannot be achieved without the integration of information
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 83–106 (24 total)