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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Group Relations"”.
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Adult Learning and School Leadership: Application and Learning from a Group Relations Conference
… public education, yet little is known about how group relations work can enhance a principal's ability to engage in this work. Using a qualitative grounded theory approach, this study examined the change in attitudes and behaviors of K-8 principals who participated in a Group Relations …
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Central and Secondary Struggles in Social Interventions: The Impact of Group Relations Learning on Real Life Practices
… considerable research focusing on outcomes of Group Relations conferences as a unique form of adult experiential learning. Most of the focus has been on participants' learning during and immediately after conferences with less attention paid to applications of learning outside conferences in …
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An exploration of trainee educational psychologists' experience of attending a group relations conference using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… psychologists’ experience of attending a group relations conference and their perception of any influence on their behaviour. Design: Four participants were recruited through purposive sampling and interviewed on two occasions. Interview data was analysed using interpretive …
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Ethnicity, Class and Caste: Categories of Group Relations and Personal Identities in Sunauli, A Village in Southern Nepal
… on the Sapha Hod category of the Satar ethnic group and examines the ethnicity of the Sapha Hod in a complex ethnic, caste and class system. The Sapha Hod incorporate certain culturally valued caste rituals in their daily behavior but deny the caste influence and view the borrowed elements as …
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The Development of the Tavistock and Tavistock-Inspired Group Relations Movement in Great Britain and the United States: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
… authority, people must analyze human behavior in groups. To study these behaviors, a group relations movement was spawned approximately 60 years ago and has influenced people's thinking about leadership and authority in groups and organizations ever since. This study analyzed primary and secondary …
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Developing an Instrument to Measure Group Dynamics Awareness: A Mixed Methods Study
… leaders are needed more than ever. Based on group relations programs developed by the Tavistock Institute, a pedagogy known as case-in-point has recently been brought to prominence and incorporated into leadership development programs. These methods claim to develop systems thinking and …
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Inclusion in physical education for students with severe disabilities
… with severe cerebral palsy.</p><p>Four levels of relations were identified: systemic relations, group relations, conjoint relations and internal others. Each focused on specific areas within the school and the classroom that contributed to the construction of disability. Data were collected from …
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African American and Latino Relations: A Case Study of Philadelphia Neighborhoods
This study examines African American and Latino relations using Philadelphia as a case study. It analyzes how factors such as the urban landscape's rising Latino population, socioeconomic status, media depictions of African Americans and Latinos, language barriers, and residential segregation …
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Ethnic identity amongst the mixed-bloods of the Great Lakes Region, 1760-1830
… in the fur trade and Indian affairs. This group did not develop a shared sense of ethnic consciousness during this period. A preference for exogamous mating patterns hindered their ability to form a culturally self-sustaining group. "Marital" alliances crossed ethnic differences more …
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Implications of Colonially Determined Boundaries in (West) Africa: the Yoruba of Nigeria and Benin in Perspective
… impact of partition on the Yoruba identity and group relations The study relies on the multidisciplinary approach in the analysis of the boundary and the people it partitions. Multidisciplinarity is particularly required for such a study as this in order to accommodate the various nuances, which …
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Community relations, conflict resolution and prevention. An exploration with special reference to the Muslim community in Bradford.
… threat in present political climate is identity group conflict as shown in such disparate cases as former Yugoslavia, Rwanda , Northern Ireland and the rise in racism and xenophobia in Europe. Conflict Resolution theory has addressed itself to intervention in existing conflict situations either …
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RELIGION AS A CULTURAL CONTEXT OF INTOLERANCE: ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL(IZED) FORMS OF RELIGION ON ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRATION ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
… In addressing the dynamic landscape of inter-group relations within this evolving context, existing research is primarily grounded in social identity theory and ethnic competition theory, where values and beliefs are perceived as resources in understanding inter-group dynamics. From such a …
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Group Matching and Group Contingencies
Matching relations identified by Herrnstein (1961) demonstrate behavior rates as a function of the ratio of reinforcement rates for alternative behaviors. The mathematical relationship identified by Herrnstein and modified by Baum (1974) was later applied to foraging animals, given the option of …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
… benefit from a more thorough discussion of the relationship between degrees of political engagement and the variance of political and social tolerance towards immigrants. Drawing upon institutional theory and realistic conflict theory, I further refine a theory of ethnic competition and …
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Political creativity
… the second captures ordinary differences among group members in how they understand conditions, react to events, and connect to others; and the third set deals with extraordinary differences in mindsets and aptitudes which may enable individuals to exert considerable influence on conditions. A …
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A Descriptive Analysis of Self-Concept Change Through an Encounter Group Process
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Planning for simultaneous transience and stability : neighborhood transformations in Nabaa, Beirut
… process. Another lens maps the socio-spatial relations between the various groups of Nabaa, revealing the conflicting identities and highlighting how they materialize in space. A third lens relates the characteristics that define population flux by looking at the duration of stay, locational …
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Constructing consent : the emergence of corporatism within the Vancouver mental health system
… demonstrate a substantial restructuring of relations between the state and nonprofit societies within Vancouver's mental health system. While helping to establish and support the growth of nonprofit societies, the state, during the 1970's, maintained a "hands off" relationship with the …
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White Blinders: A Study of Race Relations Theory in Britain, 1948–1988
… who developed the academic field of race relations in Britain from the 1940s into the 1980s. The research and methodology performed throughout this period was both innovative and problematic due to the approaches taken. Early scholars, such as Kenneth L. Little, Michael Banton, Sheila …
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An empirical evaluation of Edwin H. Sutherland's theory of differential association
… typical of white middle-class college students. Relationships between differential association, involvement in delinquent behavior, and attitudes favorable or unfavorable towards law violations were subject to study. The author concluded from the analysis of data supplied by the respondents that: …
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