The Role of Education in the Knowledge-based Society

Ilie, Vali

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.04.133

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“…Consequently, extensive advertising may lead to an accumulation of misleading information [19]. Yet, the economic and social development of a knowledge-based society demands the exchange of correct facts and well-established knowledge [20]. In this light, testing the hypothesis about the link between knowledge about DS and trust in their advertising appears to be of paramount importance.…”

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Knowledge about dietary supplements and trust in advertising them: Development and validation of the questionnaires and preliminary results of the association between the constructs

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Background Despite offering little overall benefit and emerging concerns about their safety, dietary supplements have become increasingly popular. Trust in advertising them may contribute to high confidence in dietary supplements in public opinion. Aim To develop and validate a screening questionnaire intended for the general public regarding knowledge about dietary supplements and a questionnaire on trust in advertising dietary supplements, and to identify the association between these constructs. Materials and methods The development and validation of the measures was overseen by the panels of experts. The conceptual frameworks of the constructs were scientifically well grounded. A set of semi-structured interviews and anonymous web-based surveys was performed. The final questionnaire was applied to 220 non-medically educated people and 121 medically educated people. Results A 17-item questionnaire on knowledge about dietary supplements and eight-item questionnaire on trust in advertising dietary supplements were developed. The measures presented satisfactory proof of validity, however, the psychometric properties of the questionnaire on knowledge were modest. Both the knowledge about dietary supplements in the study group and trust in advertising them were low. A significant negative relationship was found between knowledge about dietary supplements and trust in advertising them among the general public (Pearson’s r = -0.42, 95%CI: -0.52 to -0.30, p <0.0001). This association was especially pronounced in people who reported not taking dietary supplements (Pearson’s r = -0.61, 95%CI: -0.76 to -0.39, p <0.0001). Conclusions The extensive advertising of dietary supplements appears to be in conflict with promoting evidence-based knowledge about them, which raises substantial concerns for the public health. The results of the study are only preliminary and require further confirmation and exploration.

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Knowledge about dietary supplements and trust in advertising them: Development and validation of the questionnaires and preliminary results of the association between the constructs

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“…It is because the attitude of a teacher towards using new tools, technologies and methods of teaching and transforming a disciplinary classroom to interdisciplinary classroom will decide its path. So, merely, implementing and incorporating interdisciplinarity in the educational process may not solve the issue to achieve the goal ( Vali, 2013 ). The programs for continuous interdisciplinary professional training that must be useful to both students and teachers involved into the educational play (through interdisciplinarity) in the platform (society) is needed.…”

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Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

Das

Paital

2021

Heliyon

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Objectives Science is the erudite methodical systematic practises to study the structure and behaviour of natural objects and/or phenomena. It clearly unknot about the fact that science is a human (society) need based process that starts with social affairs, for example, need to exchange emotion and cognitive processes (psychology), feelings (literature), relation (sociology), money (economics) etc. Humanities are the use of approaches that are predominantly hypothetical but critical, and have a noteworthy historical component, and the methodical aspects distinguish it from the mainly experiential approaches of the science. The basic approaches in both remains the same that it needs a hypothesis, sound methodology, and interpretation of data. Human is the end user in both the cases. So, why only interdisciplinary research focused on the core subjects of science? For example, philosophy, deals with general and vital complications relating to matters including existence, knowledge, language, attitude, behaviour, values, ethics, reason, mind, peace and harmony in life which can be essentially a part of science (especially natural sciences and more particularly animals sciences such as zoology) or vice versa could be true. The current and future time will allow us to believe on such concept, is the main theme of the current article. Methods Articles from all published sources are considered for answering the objective that why not concentrating to speed up interdisciplinarity. Few tables and figure are reproduced or redrawn as per the need. And numerical data are collected to present the current status of the interdisciplinarity and the need of the pace it requires. Results It is noticed that number of research articles on interdisciplinarity in comparison to several core subject area in major databases including environmental biology are still negligible. Countries still need to inter-collaborate at interdisciplinary level for the development and benefit of human race. This needs to be done mainly at socio-economic, intercultural and scientific levels. Although numbers of steps are taken such as establishment of interdisciplinary institutes, introduction of interdisciplinary courses, interdisciplinary research and publication platforms in specialized dedicated journals, still concrete steps to introduce the course of interdisciplinarity at educational and professional level is wanting. Conclusion Therefore, policy on pace in interdisciplinarity across science and humanities is highly wanting especially in developing countries to fix several national and international issues. Present article deals with the current status and future prospective or policies required on interdisciplinarity.

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“…In the knowledge society, education (in its formal or informal modality) plays a significant role in the economic, political and social development. As stated by Vali (2013), information has value only if it is known where to find it, what to do with it, how to select it and how to integrate it into a system; talking about tacit and explicit knowledge, which difference lies in the possibility of transferring it. Formal education systems are responsible for preserving knowledge throughout the new generations regardless of their characteristics, in terms on quality and quantity.…”

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Analysis of Factors Associated to the Enrollment and Demand of Computing-Related Careers

Mata-López

Tobón²

2018

Social Sciences

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Despite the great need for computer-related career professionals, some universities that offer specialties to develop professionals with knowledge to cover the mention need, present a decrease in enrollment, which can cause a wide variety of problems. That is why in this paper we set out to investigate what the main factors that directly or indirectly affect student enrollment in computer-related careers are, to establish a literature-based starting point, and to help select the best possible strategy to improve enrollment. To reach this goal, we did a documentary research, categorizing each one of the factors with its respective analysis. In the results, we explain several challenges that educators face, due to the evolution of society needs, two of them are: teaching-learning models and technology; besides, it became evident that the relevance of this academic programs remain available since there is a high demand for these professionals in Mexico, as well as in the world; finally, we showed some intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors that have an essential relevance at the time that a student chooses the career to study. On the other hand, we reflected that the perception of everything that involves the study of a Computing-related career is a factor to be considered in the selection of an educational program of higher education. This study could be a reference for universities that are facing decreasing enrollment concerns. In conclusion, we analyzed and identified the main factors that have an impact on the demand for a career related to engineering, providing possible lines of action for increasing school enrollment.

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The Role of Education in the Knowledge-based Society

Cited by 16 publications

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Knowledge about dietary supplements and trust in advertising them: Development and validation of the questionnaires and preliminary results of the association between the constructs

Knowledge about dietary supplements and trust in advertising them: Development and validation of the questionnaires and preliminary results of the association between the constructs

Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

Analysis of Factors Associated to the Enrollment and Demand of Computing-Related Careers

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