Special Treatment, 2016. Vol. 2. (4.) - full text

NECESSARY... BUT SUFFICIENT?

   ABOUT MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

This paper reports official data about the well-known EU migration crisis and examines the methods used to evaluate the social integration of third-country migrants into the European Union. I argue that the Zaragoza indicators, – which are currently being used – cannot include all the aspects of migrant integration, and because of this deficiency, they are not able to track the ongoing integrational processes correctly for experts and decision-makers. To demonstrate and prove this argument a comparative analysis is performed in the article. I compare data about six countries (United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Switzerland) from two data sources: the Zaragoza Indicators and the EurIslam research. The EurIslam research is a complex social-scientific project for examining the relation between Muslim migrants and their host societies and its overall considerations could make the future extension of Zaragoza indicators possible.

This paper summarizes the key problems and opportunities of the corporate talent strategy. The corporate talent strategy can be a part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and/or the Human Resource Management, and it can be profitable, and it can determine the future of an organization, too.

  This study presents the decisive pedagogy of two Marias: Dr. Montessori and Dr. Hári. Dr. Montessori was the first woman in Italy who received a medical degree and it was many years later when she did pedagogical studies as well. Dr. Hári was a young medical student when she started to work with Professor Pető who had laid down the basics of Conductive Education. Dr. Montessori and Dr. Hári had a lot in common: not just their profession was the same but thanks to their hard work both pedagogy became famous internationally. Through their personality, the reader will have a glance into their educational methods as well. The topic is relevant because both educational systems make it possible for people with disabilities to integrate into society and live meaningful lives.

In our research, we measured first-year students’ lifestyles, emphasizing sports habits, time spent sitting, and the presence of pain. Our questionnaire is self-reporting. Results show that 75% of the students do some kind of sports as a hobby. Before starting the university, 50% of the students did some kind of competitive physical activity, but by now, 34% of them gave up doing that because of lack of time and possibility. Feeling pain in different parts of the body is frequent, neck and shoulders, zone of the back, and low back. A sedentary lifestyle is frequent, and people do not pay attention to spine protection. Only 35% of the students know the principles of spine protection and only a few of them use it while sitting. We have not found any significant connection between lifestyle characteristics and pain, but our results show the risks of this lifestyle.

   The health status of the Hungarian population is worse than that of other similarly developed countries’ populations. An important cause for this phenomenon can be characterized as a high prevalence of unhealthy living and deficient health literacy. An important tool to change is efficient health promotion in kindergarten and school. Children and young people spend many years in these institutions, and the way their teachers contact them will influence their health behavior. Therefore it is highly important that holistic health promotion has been prescribed for all schools and kindergartens since 2012 in Hungary. Our paper presents reasonableness and a short summary of the holistic health promotion in educational institutions as well as the helping actions given for teachers by the government.

In our article, we would like to describe a possible implementing of a new education ID that is related to centralized education. Our solution is based on the results of our other researches. The goal is not to reject directly previously created solutions, like eduID, instead of first we would like to inspect the opportunity to use well-designed infrastructures, secondary we would like to give a future plan for extending eduID.  In our paper we drew up some hypotheses which should be confirmed, so we created a survey. This completely confirmed almost our all hypotheses.

The developer educators’ job is not a simple one, children of different ages and various problems are to be treated. This short study may help you to have an idea regarding applicable methods using your own creativity, and it recommends a few available games and books. The introspection motivates the educator to train himself to be able to know certain methods more deeply.

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The reviewed book is:
Sally Goddard Blythe (2015): Reflexek, tanulás és viselkedés. Betekintés a gyermeki elmébe. Medicina Könyvkiadó Zrt., Budapest. 183 oldal ISBN: 9789632265414