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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Institutional documents"”.
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A Study of General Education Curricula in Selected Small Colleges
… of related literature, an analysis of written institutional documents, and campus interviews. Two groups of small colleges, with enrollments of less than 2000, participated. Data from the first group of ten colleges, identified as exemplary based on a national survey, were collected from …
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What Is Care? The Birth and Identity Formation of an Alternative Public Middle School
… on textual analyses of the school's handbook, institutional documents, public policy and popular media; along with copious field notes and open-ended interviews with local politicians, administrators, faculty and children; I argue that though CARE strives to be a place for innovation, hope and …
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Purposes for talk in nurse managers' meetings
… audio-tape recordings, interviews, and printed institutional documents were the data sources used. A typology of purposes for talk in meetings, and a comparison of purposes for meeting talk to purposes for holding meetings were generated. The typology reveals a hitherto unformulated category …
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"We Don't Work For Free": Tenured Faculty Engagement In Assessment Initiatives On A Unionized Community College Campus
… interviews as well as an exploration of institutional documents and faculty meeting spaces, examined what influences a tenured faculty member’s decision to engage with assessment initiatives at Midwest Community College and what senior leaders can do to successfully engage tenured faculty …
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O arquivo do CCHLA-UFPB e a adequação às portarias nº 1.224/13 e nº 1.261/13 determinadas pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC)
… Table, and the Destination of Archive Documents related to the Main Activities of the Federal Institutions of Higher Education, among other providences. The theoretical foundation approached a brief historic of the Institution of Higher Education - public and private ones, the …
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Becoming a Beloved Community: A Restorative Reckoning for a Radical Conversion to Transform Discourse in Higher Education
… white institutions (PWIs), analyzing 59 institutional documents through Critical Discourse Analysis, Relational Critical Discourse Analysis, and Rhetorical Criticism (Fairclough, 1995; Vaandering, 2021; van Dijk, 2008). Tribal Colleges and Universities and South African institutions have …
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An exploratory and descriptive inquiry into the relationship between the goals of general education and disciplinary content in acting for non-majors courses in colleges and universities in the United States
… in the United States. I analyzed two types of documents, course syllabi and institutional documents. I used content analysis to identify recurring themes, concepts and pedagogies. My analysis of course syllabi revealed four signature pedagogies: experiential learning, scene work, writing, and …
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The role of the university in building peace in society: a case study of the University of Zambia
… university's historical development, employing institutional theory and discourse analysis to explore its role in shaping peacebuilding strategies. By analysing documents such as strategic plans, reports, and curricular frameworks, the study investigates how the university’s initiatives and …
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From Campus to Community: The Role of Higher Education in Strengthening Regional Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Appalachia
… semi-structured interviews, site observations, institutional documents (including strategic plans), and ARC county-level economic data. The analysis produced five cross-case themes describing how these institutions support entrepreneurship: (a) strategic leadership and institutional culture, (b) …
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Women speaking in and for institutions: a rhetorical history of the politics of respectability in Black Chicago, 1919 - 1939
… and protection. Through a rhetorical analysis of institutional documents from two labor unions and two Black churches that span across 20 years - including the boiling over of racial tensions, height of Black entrepreneurship, and the Great Depression - I demonstrate how Black women, both …
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Becoming a Recognized Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI): Institutional Culture & Title V
… of this study was to understand the influence of institutional culture at an HSI on the Title V program. The findings highlight the forces that influence the process of securing, evaluating, and sustaining Title V grants. Drawing upon Kuh and Whitt (1988) and Tierney (1988; 2008), a single-site …
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CURRICULUM INTERNATIONALIZATION AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
… sites through semi-structured interviews, institutional documents, and site observations. The cases were cross-analyzed to examine similarities and differences which revealed relevant points and themes. This study concluded that (a) all subsystems are necessary components in the process of …
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Transdisciplinarity on Paper: How do interdisciplinary faculty translate university initiatives into the classroom?
… curriculum design. I use public institutional documents to trace the transdisciplinary institutional initiative as it is enacted at different university levels and interviews to understand the initiatives in practice, drawing from administrators, faculty, and staff experiences as …
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A Competency-Based Model for Gospel-Centered Vocational Education
… with the intent to construct a framework for an institutional model replicable to a Majority World context. Three trade schools in the United States were purposively selected from the populations of Christian-based trade and technology institutions that provide skill-oriented training. The …
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Teacher perceptions of and reactions to the introduction of performance appraisal: a case study of three comprehensive schools
… a combination of observation, interviews and institutional documents, the introduction of appraisal into th .ee comprehensive schools is explored. The research shows that the three schools have fared very differently in the increasingly competitive market place. The variations in the …
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Competências gerenciais em hospital público na Bahia: gestão da capacitação por competências com base em trilhas de aprendizagem
… research based on content analysis of institutional documents; ii) survey research using a questionnaire; iii) focus group based on a previously prepared script. These three steps and methodological techniques were complemented by the observation of the author of this dissertation, who …
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ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE BRAZILIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARA
… as a whole. The data collected is based on institutional documents such as statutes, contracts, and financial statements. Interviews were the other source of data gathering. The results indicate that private institutions (foundations and faculty associations) contribute significantly to the …
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The Nurse Manager: An Ethnography of Hospital-Based First-Line Nurse Managers Practicing in an Expanded Role
… six nurse administrators were interviewed, institutional documents examined and a variety of techniques used to triangulate observations and theories that emerged and to examine issues of validity and reliability. Managers described their role as four processes: (1) social control, …
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'This neighbourhood is an endangered species' : investigating urban conflict and reciprocity between Chicala and Luanda, Angola
… the methodological approach: fieldwork reports, institutional documents based on the collaboration with Agostinho Neto University, and an extensive visual archive produced over the course of the research.
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A qualitative case study of one Hispanic-serving community college’s use of the multicultural organizational design model to describe equity-centered services.
… and basic needs have become central to institutional effectiveness. Guided by the multicultural organization design (MCOD) framework, this qualitative single-site case study examined how a leadership team at a Hispanic-Serving CC describes and implements equity-centered approaches to …
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