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Showing 1 to 20 of 383 for “"Nurture"”.
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How do Nurture Group practitioners make sense of their relationship with the Nurture Group child?
Nurture Groups are targeted, school based interventions, aimed at meeting the developmental needs of vulnerable children identified as having social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Staffed by two ‘nurturing’ adults, Nurture Groups provide a safe, containing, and highly structured …
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How can I nurture compassion in my classroom?
… I can change and improve my practice in order to nurture compassion in my classroom. The three month intervention was conducted in a co-educational urban school in Dublin. The majority of children in my class are from a prosperous socio-economic background. Academic achievement is highly valued …
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The Nurture of Nature: Biology, Psychology and Culture
In this thesis I explore what consequences taking development seriously in evolutionary considerations will have for how we understand the evolution of psychology and culture. I first explicate the relationship between development and evolution that informs a number of approaches to evolution, …
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Identifying disruptive customers to nurture for long-term growth
A subset of customers in a service-company's portfolio, seem unattractive to serve. Such customers neither align with the core of the company's business nor do they represent a straight-forward investment opportunity that the company aims to harvest in the short-to-medium term. However, serving …
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The impact of bullying and nurture experiences on emotional wellbeing
… literature review of the effectiveness of nurture groups upon emotional wellbeing.Part two: An empirical paper on the bullying experiences, perceived social support, and mental health of emerging adults.Part three: Appendices including documents relevant parts one and two, and a reflective …
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Nature and nurture on picky eating behavior in early childhood
… investigated the joint influence of nature and nurture on children’s picky eating behavior using a transdisciplinary gene-environment approach. Research is needed to gain a better understanding of the early-life contributors of picky eating behavior and factors that promote healthy dietary …
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Nature as Nurture: Rural Older Women's Perspectives on The Natural Environment
The natural environment is a dynamic context for human development, but current lifestyles and activities are threatening the quality and supply of natural resources, and changing the conditions of the atmosphere. Older adults in the United States have been called upon to contribute their energy to …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
"The dissertation analyzes how instances of eating, preparing, and serving food in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson are liminal activities, stationed on the threshold of old and new forms of hospitality, constructions of public and private, gender and work. Because these issues punctuate the …
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Nature, Nurture and Values in Development: Water as a Resource in Kazakhstan
Often, water as an element of the commons, is studied in the field of Resource Economics as common-pool resources (CPRs), a specific type of good. Even if efforts have been made to take an integrated approach (e.g., the two dominant and frequently used concepts – the Integrated Water Resources …
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Building Nurture: Care and Protection of the Growing through the Built Environment
South Africa's tumultuous and oppressive past has given rise to a ubiquitous inequality in the country. This inequality has manifested itself in disparate access to essential needs including but not limited to adequate housing, education, sanitation, job opportunities and child care amongst others. …
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An in-depth examination of extant literature pertinent to nurture groups and an exploratory study, using grounded theory methods, of young people’s views and experiences of a secondary school nurture group
… health disorders. With these points in mind, Nurture Groups, an in-school intervention aimed at meeting the needs of children and young people experiencing considerable SEBDs is the conceptual domain explored throughout this Volume of work. The Volume comprises four chapters. Chapter one …
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Seeing the forest for the trees: Elementary STEM environments that nurture creativity and innovation
1 PDF file (ix, 86 pages)
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The impact of a nurture group on an infant school: a longitudinal case study.
Nurture groups have been in existence since the late 1960s and interest in their therapeutic and educational approach has persisted to the present day. Citations of their effectiveness have appeared in government documentation since the Warnock Report of 1978 and they continue to be an area of …
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Commoning by Design Exploring the Commons to nurture organisational stewardship practices towards regenerative economics
In the face of converging global crises—climate change, conflict, and social injustice—the need for change has never been more urgent. Human health is intricately linked to the integrity of our planetary ecosystem. However, the dominance of neoliberal individualism and economic rationality has led …
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Beyond Nature and Nurture: The Influence of Implicit Gender Theories on Attitudes and Behavior
Although the nature versus nurture debate has existed in psychological research for decades, there has not been much attention given to how individuals' ideas about this issue influence their beliefs. In the present research, we examined how peoples' beliefs that gender is biologically or socially …
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Can nurture alter nature? The effects of a parenting intervention program on reducing antisocial behaviors
… the causal relationship between nature and nurture, and how they interact to shape behavior, is still being debated. Some researchers have argued for the minimal role of environmental influences, specifically parenting, while others have found stronger evidence for the effects of parenting. …
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A case study on designing performance measures to nurture cultural change on the factory floor
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992 and (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1992.
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