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Prins, EstherPenn State Univ
Dept Learning & Performance Syst Adult Educ Program 305B Keller Bldg University Pk PA 16802 USA
Community development professionals commonly espouse participatory ideals regarding citizens' involvement in planning and decision-making, hut enacting these ideals is another matter. This case study of a communit...
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Community development professionals commonly espouse participatory ideals regarding citizens' involvement in planning and decision-making, hut enacting these ideals is another matter. This case study of a community-based organization (CBO) examines how staff members attempted to involve residents in planning and implementing projects and the challenges they faced in doing so. These challenges included achieving broad participation, especially with White residents and youth;selecting decision-makers and delineating decision-making authority;building residents ' skills so that they could participate effectively;eliciting residents' ideas;and deciding when to plan with or for residents. Staff also sought to foster participation by cultivating a welcoming organizational culture. The study shows that the level and type of participation can vary widely within the same organization and illustrates how local power relations and inequities complicated practitioners ' efforts to encourage residents to participate. Consequently, the ways CBO practitioners work with citizens can alter relations among more or less powerful community groups and institutions.
The purpose of this study was to describe the patterns of strengths and weaknesses of faculty teaching performance as reported by undergraduate and graduate nursing students on a narrative section of a university facu...
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The purpose of this study was to describe the patterns of strengths and weaknesses of faculty teaching performance as reported by undergraduate and graduate nursing students on a narrative section of a university faculty evaluation form. The study used a descriptive, retrospective, qualitative design. The summary forms represented a convenience sample of undergraduate and graduate nursing course sections (N = 317) taught by full-time and part-time nursing faculty from spring 1998 through fall 2002, including summer sessions. Course sections represented didactic and clinical education experiences. Content analysis was used to interpret the recorded comments representing strengths and weaknesses in faculty performance from students' perspectives. Patterns and associated themes were derived. Faculty performance strengths included patterns such as being a knowledgeable and strategic teacher, creating a positive learning environment, demonstrating professionalism, displaying scholarly traits, and being supportive. Weaknesses included patterns such as poor delivery of content, acting disorganized, being inaccessible, displaying weak teaching skills, being dishonorable, being unprofessional, and displaying negative traits. Implications for continuous quality improvement in teaching/learning processes are presented. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The value of reflection on experience to enhance learning has been advanced for decades;however, it remains difficult to apply in practice. This paper describes a reflection model that pushes students beyond superfici...
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Educational researchers working with young children face ethical issues when researching the talk and interactions of young children. Issues around the competence of children to participate in research pose challenges...
Educational researchers working with young children face ethical issues when researching the talk and interactions of young children. Issues around the competence of children to participate in research pose challenges to educational researchers and to the young participants and their families, within what are seen as increasingly risky and regulated research environments. This paper examines some of these issues in light of recent sociological perspectives that account for children as competent practitioners of their social worlds. Drawing on research investigating the governance of the lives of young children in Australia, we examine the rights of children to be both seen and heard as competent research participants. These sociological directions afford opportunities to reconsider the ethical issues around research with young children. Such an approach breaks new ground in early childhood education research.
The effect of a self-directed mathematics program on the math achievement of students who are gifted and talented (GT) was evaluated. An instructional management system, Accelerated Math (Advantage learning Systems, 1...
The effect of a self-directed mathematics program on the math achievement of students who are gifted and talented (GT) was evaluated. An instructional management system, Accelerated Math (Advantage learning Systems, 1998a), was used to assign instruction, monitor student progress, and provide teachers with the information they needed to differentiate math instruction for GT learners. Students whose teachers used the instructional management system significantly outperformed the GT students who participated only in the standard curriculum. Both quantitative and qualitative differences in the performance of GT and non-GT students were identified and within-group variability among GT students is considered.
Australian newspapers, like those in other first-world countries, valorise fire-fighters through images more typically associated with heroic blue-collar "battlers": Sweat, ash, uniforms and firestorms, punc...
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