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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Long-serving"”.
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Life beyond the classroom: The transition to retirement by long-serving educators
<p>Using a qualitative, multiple case study research approach, the personal stories of eight K-12 educators who retired within the past six years were gathered and analyzed. The goal of the study was to understand how educators struggle, or do not struggle, with the life changing event of bringing …
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The attributes of long-serving counselling volunteers in the Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong
… autoethnographic research, as I am one of those long-serving volunteers. Through this research approach, I was able to capture my own lived experience (auto) of the Samaritan culture in Hong Kong where I am a member and those of ten long-serving Samaritans as well as our executive work, which …
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Defying the Odds: Documenting the Leadership Styles of a Long-Serving Urban Superintendent
… was to examine the leadership styles of one long-standing urban superintendent who has remained in office more than eight times the national average; he is currently completing his twenty-sixth year. The research question that drove this project was: What have been the leadership styles …
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In Search of Resilience: A Case Study of Leadership in Challenging Times in an International School Setting
<p>This study investigated the leadership of a long-serving head of an international school during six periods of significant crisis affecting the school. The study was conducted at a private school in Islamabad, Pakistan, often referred to locally as The American School.</p> <p>The study paid …
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Trading the Apron for the White Lab Coat: A Contemporary History of Dietetics in Canada, 1954 to 2016
… I conducted oral history interviews with 18 long-serving, Canadian dietitians who had been recognized as leaders in their field at some point in their careers. Each oral history consisted of three, one-hour long interviews that were conducted approximately three days to one week apart. The …
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Identity and motivation: Why do teachers stay, particularly in disadvantaged primary schools in the Birmingham area?
… study is twofold: To explore the reasons why long serving primary school teachers (‘veterans’), who teach in disadvantaged Birmingham schools, decide to remain in these types of school. Then to explore in more detail the veterans’ ‘teacher identity’ and ascertain to what extent, if at all, …
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Carhampton magistrate district in relation to the 1856 County and Borough Police Act : a case for non-statutory policing
… of stability in population levels and a long serving constable. There was also a continuity in parish officers. The paternalistic, major landowner used a degree of coercion in controlling his tenants and employees. However, in somei nstancesth e districtw as distinctly disadvantaged,p …
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Stories of yesterday. Reflections on collegiality: Capturing the essence of nurses working with nurses
… research aimed to answer the question, ‘what are long-serving nurses’ experiences of collegiality: nurses working with nurses?’ It involved gathering nurses’ stories about their experiences of practicing nursing and, in particular, their experiences of collegiality, within the context of hospital …
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Theory evaluation of the touchline media employee induction programme
… with later induction attendance; Group 3: Long-serving employees with later induction attendance) were found. This is an indication that the TLM induction programme did not lead to the outcomes of Legal Obligation, Retention or Identification. The main suggestions for improvement were …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… sailors are typically of distinguished and long-serving naval officers, not of merchant sailors who averaged just 5-10 years at sea. The whole lives of the three subjects of this dissertation therefore provide an ideal opportunity for a fine-grained bottom-up study of how sailors’ meandering …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… sailors are typically of distinguished and long-serving naval officers, not of merchant sailors who averaged just 5-10 years at sea. The whole lives of the three subjects of this dissertation therefore provide an ideal opportunity for a fine-grained bottom-up study of how sailors’ meandering …
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Critiquing the teaching of history in Zambian secondary schools through Basil Bernstein's lens: a study of selected schools in Lusaka district.
… to lesson notes. The study revealed that long serving teachers demonstrated more and better understanding of the syllabus. Several challenges were identified from studying how history is taught; the current format for the final national examination encourages memorisation of the content. …
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Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland 1969-1999 : resistance, management & release
… by journalists and biographical accounts by serving and former prisoners. Journalistic accounts of the dirty protest, hungerstrikes and their aftermath (Coogan 1980, Feehan 1983, Collins 1986, Clarke 1987, Beresford 1989) have varied from the excellent and well researched to the poorly …
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John Bruce, Jr. : a Sixty-Nine Year Leadership Journey Throughout Change in the United States Army
… a single case study of one of the U.S. Army's longest-serving civilian leaders, Mr. John Bruce Jr. The methodology of this study design was five comprehensive interviews of peers of John Bruce, plus a similar interview of Mr. Bruce himself. The interviews were structured around questions …