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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Individual development"”.
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Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts
… in substantially expanding the number of Individual Development Account (IDA) program participants in Lawrence by at least 75 accounts, or a 400% increase. The expectation is that this increase in IDAs will contribute to a place-based asset-building strategy that gives Lawrence residents …
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From individual development accounts to community asset building : an exploration in bridging people-and place-based strategies
Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are matched saving accounts for low-income individuals to save for the purchase of an asset. As one of many national initiatives that encourage homeownership, this thesis explores how community-based organizations use this tool in concert with other community …
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Creating Individual Behavior Change Through 360-Degree Feedback: A Development Pipeline Perspective
<p>Ensuring that individuals develop new and more productive behaviors on the job is a challenge for many organizations and a focus of time, effort, and energy spent on programs to facilitate this change. This research was an effort to validate and utilize a framework for understanding how efforts …
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Changes in the valley : the role of the individual in community development
… for participation. It considers the role of individual development in the field of community development. The relationship between individual and community development is explored through a case study of Valley Interfaith, an Industrial Areas Foundation community organization. An alternative …
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Leaders in need: perceptions of local authority senior leaders on leadership development
… for exploring and identifying leadership development requirements and needs. It explores the views of senior leaders in local government as they reflect upon their individual leadership development needs and the organisational requirements expected of them. The research identifies four …
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Chinese Postgraduate Students' Intentions and Expectations to Study Abroad
… of studying abroad in the perspectives of both individual development and their reflections of the globalisation process. Complementary to previous arguments about studying abroad as the acquisition of human capital and enrichment of distinction that the students found helpful for their future …
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Sites of Belonging: Rhetoric, Affect, and the Dynamics of Home in Academia
… and affect, highlighting its significance in individual development and social interaction. The study considers the political dimensions of affective experiences, revealing how emotions influence the creation of sites of belonging; challenges Western views equating silence with emptiness and …
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Grit and Student-Athlete Performance: A Case Study.
… grit and sport performance: 1) grit increases individual development and sport performance, and 2) team culture is enhanced by increased individual grit.
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Scarcity Antidotes: How the Colonial Agenda Demands Our Bodies to be Sites/Sights of Scarcity, and Our Possible Futures
… This study exists within the tension between individual development and community participation, suggesting collective liberation is strengthened through a personal journey of reimagining the future using a possibility mindset.
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Sustainability at the project level : the case of Willets Point, Queens
… of how environmental concerns will shape urban development, but the way these plans are incorporated into individual development projects plays a large role in determining how that vision will be achieved in practice. I propose a system for evaluating the extent to which individual urban …
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System integration at Navy stock points
… each system, UADPS-SP, APADE II, and IDA, their individual development and the interfaces between them. The main thrust of this thesis is to determine if the total logistic effort could be improved by integrating three independent systems into one production oriented system to better control the …
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Program Evaluation of the Effects of Principals on the Success of Charter School Dropout Prevention High Schools
… form a leadership team, align a culture plan and individual development plans with school improvement plans.</p>
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Právní úprava včelařství
… with an evaluation of the pros and cons of individual development tendencies, together with an outline of the legal regulation, what de lege ferenda should be. This thesis is divided into three main parts, which are subsequently divided into chapters, subsections and possibly lower levels. …
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Development of the McLaren-Alton spirituality scale
Researchers in the field of applied developmental science are pursuing effective, cross-fluent relationships between scientists, policy-makers, and practitioners as they co-influence individuals across lifetimes (Lerner, Wertlieb, and Jacobs, 2003). Practitioners in religious communities continue …
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Changing the narrative : exploring extracurricular experiences of first-generation community college students
… (1) Community College Journey, (2) Holistic Individual Development, and (3) Positive Student Experience. The significance of this research is that it supports higher education practices and expands the knowledge of community college and first-generation college student literature. …
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Depolarizing the process : residential redevelopment and Seattle's design review
… around issues of urban growth, recent rapid redevelopment in low-rise neighborhoods has intensified the public debate over design and density. Conflict over individual development projects has escalated as the city struggles to balance economic and population growth with community needs, …
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An archaeological, anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rockshelter, George, Cape Province, Southern Africa
… These findings imply that both individual development and population growth rates at Oakhurst were interrupted episodically and generally, and that these interruptions were substantially more common than in living and recently extinct hunter gatherers and pastoralists in southern …
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Mothers’ experiences of their adult child’s interethnic relationship
… experiences. I approached the research from a developmental psychology perspective, considering the meaning that mothers ascribed to their experiences, and the implications of their experience for their relationships, their role as a parent, and their development as an individual. I applied …
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Learning Trajectories Toward Energy Understanding
… well-integrated knowledge during K-12 education. Individualized learning approaches can support this development through appropriate and student-centered learning opportunities. Investigating the individual development of energy understanding requires fine-grained longitudinal data. As part of …
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Significant events and themes in the development of marriage and family therapists: a qualitative study
Little has been published regarding the development of therapists during their professional lives (Skovholt & Ronnestad, 1992), or about the individual development of marriage and family therapists (Benningfield & Benningfield, 1992; Simon, 1992). This qualitative research study explored the …
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