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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Change-making"”.
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Technology and Educational Change: Making the Links
… to knowledge about the way teachers learn and change, their pedagogical interventions, the impact of different professional learning strategies, and identification of issues connected with the transition from personal learning to collegial and organizational learning. It also informs …
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How Can We Prepare the Coming Generation for Change Making? A Qualitative Study Exploring Strategies for Fostering Transformational Leadership Development Among Youth and Young Professionals
… and strategizing youth development programs, making them the largest youth development organization in the United States. This study adopts a qualitative research method to explore the lived experiences of 4-H Extension agents (n=15) with respect to transformational leadership development …
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Islamic feminist reflection of pedagogy and gender praxis in South African madaris.
… a site for gender struggle and also a tool for change-making, this thesis adopts a feminist pedagogical approach to examine some of the ways that young Muslim girls in South Africa learn about being gendered. Drawing on theoretical insights from feminist poststructuralism, I analyze the contents …
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Improving Student Behavior Through the Use of Greater Teacher Accountability Measures
<p>This change leadership plan examined the fidelity of implementation of strategies teachers learned during professional development at an elementary school in a large Midwestern urban school district. Emphasis was placed on the quality of teacher-student relationships as well as the strategies …
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Enhancing environmental practices in Khoja faith communities – a collaborative inquiry
… the impact of global politics on climate change and its impact on global society and its mitigation, the emergence of moral and ethical dimensions on the environment, the faith teachings on the preservation of the environment, institutional structure and practices and the process of …
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Metrics of food security and sustainability An indicator-based vulnerability and resilience approach
Food crises and global climate change, along with natural system depletion, placed food security and environmental sustainability at the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic interlinkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns recently received considerable …
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Exploring Moral Courage When Resolving Economic and Social Tensions in Social Enterprises: A Mixed Methods Study
… social enterprises embrace the frictions of making decisions between profit and purpose, business and society, and stability and change. Making decisions in these tension-filled dimensions requires a certain amount of professional moral courage and a willingness to act in a virtuous manner …
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Responding to the risk of reducing resources: development of a framework for future change programmes in English environmental health services
… out with the participants involved in the change process to capture their experience of change and the impact on service delivery. Fieldwork was undertaken between 2014 and 2016. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts identified six central themes of the experience of change: ‘Managing …
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Stress and death attitudes in nurses
… aspects of the experience may not be amenable to change, making adequate and effective coping strategies an important goal for nurses engaged in this work and suggesting implications for training and organisational provision of social support.
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Grounding in groundlessness, being the change: an existential phenomenological exploration into the embodied experience of postmenopause
… Three overall themes are explored: the shock of change, living with change, making meaning in ongoing change. These themes highlight the existential elements of involuntary transition, embodied experience, loss of control, groundlessness – and the possibility of making meaning within what is. …
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Quantifying a Range of Global Air Pollution Projections and Health Impacts under the Paris Agreement’s Temperature Targets
… emissions sources to anthropogenic climate change – making it critical to assess the effect of climate and air quality actions on pollutant emissions, the resulting health impacts, and broader sustainability metrics. This thesis responds to these needs by developing a new Tool for Air …
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Flourishing Opportunities: Four essays in Applied Econometrics
… A second essay uses Brazilian legislative change making it mandatory for private hospitals to publicly disclose information about physicians’ performance. The results show a reduction in scheduled C-sections by 4.8 percent; which two-thirds originating from physicians anticipating to …
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Emergency registrars' and physicians' perceptions and preparedness to respond to the health impacts of climate change: a survey study
Climate change has many significant impacts on health. These impacts occur on top of existing conditions, which places a disproportionate burden on those who are already vulnerable. Emergency healthcare, which is responsible for all acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury, often serves as …
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Emergency registrars' and physicians' perceptions and preparedness to respond to the health impacts of climate change: a survey study
Climate change has many significant impacts on health. These impacts occur on top of existing conditions, which places a disproportionate burden on those who are already vulnerable. Emergency healthcare, which is responsible for all acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury, often serves as …
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Glacier Monitoring in Ladakh and Zanskar, northwestern India
… often heavily covered with supraglacial debris, making them difficult to study with remotely-sensed imagery alone. Various methods such as band ratios can be used effectively to map clean-ice glaciers; however, a thicker layer of debris often makes it impossible to distinguish between …
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Glacier Monitoring in Ladakh and Zanskar, northwestern India
… often heavily covered with supraglacial debris, making them difficult to study with remotely-sensed imagery alone. Various methods such as band ratios can be used effectively to map clean-ice glaciers; however, a thicker layer of debris often makes it impossible to distinguish between …
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Reactive trajectory adjustment for motion execution using Chekhov
… plan becomes infeasible, because the goal has changed, or an obstacle has moved into the robot's path, the robot will need to make an adjustment. One method is to generate a new plan. This can be quite time-consuming, especially since the time is not proportional to the size of the change …
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A temporal investigation of Europe-wide drivers of cockle Cerastoderma edule biology, health and population dynamics
… are likely to be exacerbated by climate change, making it necessary to examine past and present trends in cockle biology, in order to make plans for the future protection of this species. To examine the key drivers of cockle populations, historic analysis and current field surveys were …
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Late Holocene environmental and climate dynamics along the southern Cape coast of South Africa: high resolution multi-proxy records from the wilderness embayment
… to changing global boundary conditions and these changes have significantly impacted the regional vegetation mosaic. This ephemeral nature of the region's climate and vegetation suggests it is particularly sensitive to climate change, making it an ideal area to evaluate changes in these systems …
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