Supporting The STEM Aspirations of Youth Who Have Been Pushed Out

Anomic Aspirations of Youth and Their Consequences

Since a decade ago, Iran has been in economic crisis and anomic situation. Peoples’ aspirations and goals are of the factors and mechanisms that transform economic crisis into social problems and deviances. Accordingly, present research studies levels of youth aspirations, particularly economic aspirations, and their consequences. Using a survey method, youth between 25-30 years of age have bee...

Out of Work and Out of Luck? Layoffs, System Justification, and Hiring Decisions for People Who Have Been Laid Off

Are hiring decisions affected by knowledge that a job applicant was previously laid off? We expected decisional biases to be linked with the motivational tendency to believe that society is fair and outcomes are just and deserved (hereafter, system justifying beliefs [SJBs]). Indeed, hiring decisions were more likely to disadvantage a laid off applicant as SJBs increased both when detailed job ...

the effect of pushed output collaborative tasks on the writing skills of efl learners

there is less published research about how teachers in efl contexts respond to students who are relatively less mature and less competent l2 writers. while writing researchers have examined various issues concerning peer and teacher response in writing-oriented classes, little research has centered on the effect of collaborative tasks particularly dictogloss on writing skills. output collaborat...

Helping Older People Who Have Been in Mental Hospitals

1313 E. 60th Street, Chicago 37, Illinois. 30 cents. Although based on American experience, this brief pamphlet should be of interest to all workers concerned about the increasing number of senile patients in our mental hospitals. It is a report on the provision of specialized boarding home care for patients from the state hospitals of North Carolina, many "having been admitted there when menta...

Thrombolysis for stroke: pushed out of the window?