Associations of wealth with frailty and memory impairment across the course of aging

Scientific Conference (2018, November)

Créer des liens entre les formations d'enseignant et de travailleur social pour favoriser les liens professionnels ultérieurs

in Sulova, Lenka; Pourtois, Jean-Pierre; Desmet, Huguette (Eds.) et al La qualité de vie de l'enfant aujourd'hui (2018, November)

La plupart des enfants d’aujourd’hui fréquentent plusieurs institutions éducatives en dehors de la famille. Au Luxembourg, il s’agit d’abord de la maison relais qui est destinée à prendre le relais entre ... [more ▼]

La plupart des enfants d’aujourd’hui fréquentent plusieurs institutions éducatives en dehors de la famille. Au Luxembourg, il s’agit d’abord de la maison relais qui est destinée à prendre le relais entre l’école et la famille dans le but de permettre aux parents à mieux concilier la vie professionnelle et la vie familiale. Ensuite, d’autres institutions éducatives s’ajoutent à la prise en charge de l’enfant, notamment en cas de difficultés d’apprentissage qui nécessitent une prise en charge professionnelle extrascolaire ou en cas de difficultés liées au parent qui sera accompagné par un service d’assistance en famille et de soutien à la parentalité. L’Université du Luxembourg offre avec son Bachelor en Sciences de l’Education la formation des enseignants ainsi qu’avec son Bachelor en Sciences Sociales et Educatives la formation des travailleurs sociaux. Dans le but d’approcher les deux formations sur leurs points communs et leurs similitudes, nous constatons de plus en plus l’importance de ces liens. Les liens entre les deux formations réfèrent aux liens professionnels ultérieurs, primordiaux pour la co-éducation école-famille-communauté. Dans le cours universitaire « relations école-famille », nous avons mené une première expérience en automne 2016 avec les futurs enseignants en intégrant les autres institutions éducatives dans les relations école-famille afin de sensibiliser les futurs enseignants aux enfants et familles en difficulté. Pour finir, cette expérience dans la formation universitaire est confrontée aux conceptions de réflexion et d’attitude professionnelle de ces professions relationnelles. [less ▲]

LE MOYEN ÂGE ENTRE FASCINATION ET EMANCIPATION. ÉTAT DES LIEUX ET NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES AU LUXEMBURG

Poster (2018, November)

Décisions fiscales anticipées et confiance légitime - État des lieux et retour sur la notion d’opposabilité

in Droit fiscal Luxembourgois - Livre Jubilaire IFA Luxembourg (2018)

Die technische Mündigkeit von Schüler/-innen zum Ende der Sek. I im internationalen Vergleich – Entwicklung eines Testwerkinstruments und erste Ergebnisse

in Journal of Technical Education (2018), 6(4),

An international research team jointly conceived an item development model which was used to develop a new test instrument to measure the technology literacy of secondary school students. This tool was ... [more ▼]

An international research team jointly conceived an item development model which was used to develop a new test instrument to measure the technology literacy of secondary school students. This tool was used to assess the literacy skills of 270 pupils from Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and England. The results show that 13 to 16 year old students display a poorly developed technology literacy level only. 25 per cent of the items on average were incorrectly answered with a high certainty sentiment, which suggests, that students do not only lack relevant knowledge in the field of technology but in addition also hold a rela-tively high number of strongly built misconceptions. Interestingly, there are no major differences between countries and gender. [less ▲]

Reflecting on teachers' practices as multimodally co-constructed in spatial reality

in Proceedings of ICERI2018 (2018, November)

Situative Interdisciplinarity: Empirical Reflections on Ten Years of Cross-Disciplinary Research

in Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (2018), 7(3), 9-34

Given the current call for interdisciplinarity, we reflect on pragmatic methodological implementations of collaborative research – by drawing on empirical evidence from two large-scale cross-disciplinary ... [more ▼]

Given the current call for interdisciplinarity, we reflect on pragmatic methodological implementations of collaborative research – by drawing on empirical evidence from two large-scale cross-disciplinary research projects and by theoretically framing them in trilingual contexts (German, French, and English). These are two major innovations compared to the existing body of literature in this domain. Our empirical analysis shows that multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinary collaboration is an oscillating process along a spectrum of cross-disciplinarity – spanning additive, converging and synthesizing work patterns, i.e. multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinarity. Such an umbrella-term avoids the common amalgamation of ‘interdisciplinarity’ as the overarching category (cross-disciplinarity of whatever form) and one of the relevant subcategories (the specific work form that a research team chooses). Concretely, if the majority of methods are developed through communal negotiation processes, then a truly interdisciplinary analysis of research results can only be guaranteed through recursive self-reflexive loops. Initial research questions may still be additive and interactions can oscillate during the project process between addition und tentative convergence. We label this process situative interdisciplinarity. Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity are thus subsumed as a processual entity: flexible, possibly hybrid subforms of cross-disciplinarity. It needs constant reactivation, framing, timing and mediation by project managers. The major challenge lies in the collaborative transfer of concepts, theories, methods and research subjects. This transfer requires translation, explication and transposition of the various disciplinary ‘languages’ and can only be converged in an open-minded, team-oriented and reflexive work environment. [less ▲]

The Reflection of Data-Driven Value Creation in the 2018 OECD and EU Proposals

in EC Tax Review (2018), 27(6), 325-334

Is the current corporate tax system fit for the digitalized economy? The 2018 interim report of the OECD and the proposals of the European Commission on the introduction of significant digital presence ... [more ▼]

Is the current corporate tax system fit for the digitalized economy? The 2018 interim report of the OECD and the proposals of the European Commission on the introduction of significant digital presence and a digital services tax give new insights into policymakers’ perception of ‘value creation’ and income generation in digitalized business models. Although the right way to tax digitalized business models seems disputed with regard to the diverging outcomes of the OECD’s and European Commission’s work so far, it seems to be of common understanding that user data are susceptible of establishing a taxable nexus. In a first step, this article aims at analysing how the collection and processing of user data may create such genuine link between an income generating activity and a state territory enabling this state to exercise its taxing right. In that respect, the concept of value creation, a driving concept in the discussion on how to tax digitalized businesses, is critically reviewed and an attempt to understand its real meaning is presented. In a second step, the article analyses to which extent the long- and short-term proposals of the European Commission reflect such data-driven (taxable) value creation, critically highlighting their main characteristics and flaws. [less ▲]

Are octroyed constitutions of the 19th century to be considered as 'imposed constitutions'?

in Contiades, Xenophon; Albert, Richard; Fotiadou, Alkmene (Eds.) The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions (2018, November)

The paper considers ‘octroyed’, ‘conceded’ or ‘granted’ constitutions of 19th century Europe whose common roots are to be found in the French ‘Charte constitutionnelle’ of 1814. These Charters stem from a ... [more ▼]

The paper considers ‘octroyed’, ‘conceded’ or ‘granted’ constitutions of 19th century Europe whose common roots are to be found in the French ‘Charte constitutionnelle’ of 1814. These Charters stem from a paternalistic process of domestic constitution-making engaged unilaterally by a monarch possessing the de facto constituent power and exercising it without the direct involvement of a body representing the people. Such octroyed constitutions, which are of course to be opposed to democratically established ones, show nevertheless a number of specific characteristics which distinguish them also from ‘imposed constitutions’ in the usual sense. The expression ‘constitutional octroy’ should not be used as a synonym for any process leading to an ‘imposed Constitution’. The contribution aims to develop and to validate or invalidate the value of a series of distinctive criteria and possible elements of a definition of ‘octroyed’ or ‘granted’ constitutions in order to underline their specificity. [less ▲]

Overweight and obesity of mid-aged cohorts: Increasing burden, increasing educational inequalities

in Innovation in Aging (2018, November)