this chief aim of this paper is to explore the concept of funds of knowledge (fok) in relation to cultural historical activity theory (chat). this study unveils the basic tenets of fok from the lens of activity theory and analyzes pertinent discoveries, key concepts, and scholars’ arguments relating to fok and literacy development over time. the major purpose of this study is to expand the pers...

This paper discusses the potential benefits of using gamification techniques to increase student engagement with library resources. It outlines the link between student use of library resources and academic achievement, and suggests that gamification has to potential to increase usage of resources, which may also increase academic achievement. Some early findings from an implementation of a gam...

Content marketing can be a powerful tool for marketing the services of academic and health sciences libraries. Competing for the attention of busy students and faculty, the library must develop its own channels of engagement, which makes content-driven activities essential. A common example is resource licensing. Once a library licenses a new resource, driving or encouraging usage is a challeng...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the relation between job demands and job resources on the one hand and employee well-being (burnout and work engagement) on the other. It was assumed that this relation is mediated by an equity-based cognitive evaluation process. Design/methodology/approach – This mediation hypothesis was tested using the Job-Demands Resources model in two Chinese sample...

Access to psychological therapies continues to be poor for people experiencing psychosis. To address this problem, researchers are developing brief interventions that address the specific symptoms associated with psychosis, i.e., hearing voices. As part of the development work for a brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) intervention for voices we collected qualitative data from people who hea...

The increasing prevalence of chronic conditions among older adults constitutes a major public health problem. Thus, changes in lifestyles are required to prevent secondary conditions and sustain good care practices. While patient engagement received great attention in the last years as key strategy to solve this issue, to date no interventions exist to sustain the engagement of older chronic pa...

This study reports about teacher motivation and work engagement in a Dutch University Medical Centre (UMC). We examined factors affecting the motivation for teaching in a UMC, the engagement of UMC Utrecht teaching faculty in their work, and their engagement in teaching compared with engagement in patient care and research. Based on a pilot study within various departments at the UMCU, a survey...

background employee engagement is the emotional commitment of the employee towards the organisation. we aimed to analyse baseline work engagement using utrecht work engagement scale (uwes) at a teaching hospital.   methods we have conducted a cross-sectional study within the national health service (nhs) teaching hospital in the uk. all participants were working age population from both genders...

This study aims to gain insight in the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model by examining whether daily fluctuations in colleague support (i.e., a typical job resource) predict day-levels of job performance through self-efficacy and work engagement. Forty-four flight attendants filled in a questionnaire and a diary booklet before and after consecutive flights to three i...

24 Behavioral deficits in visuomotor planning and control exhibited by children with 25 Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) have been extensively reported. Although 26 these functional impairments are thought to result from “atypical brain development,” 27 very few studies, to date, have identified potential neurological mechanisms. To address 28 this knowledge gap, electroencephalography...