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Showing 1 to 20 of 462 for “"Policies and practices"”.
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Adult Education: School Policies and Practices for Student Achievement
… a qualitative case study approach to understand the experiences of adult learners who are completing their secondary education program at a selected school site in the region of Los Angeles County, California. The aim of this study was to gain insight on the varied needs and challenges of …
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Unsolicited Letters--the Policies and Practices of Food Companies
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An Investigation into Sustainable Forest Policies and Practices in Syria
Appreciation of how forest land can be managed in a sustainable way in arid and semi-arid zones (ASAZs) of centralized countries is limited. Accordingly, this thesis seeks to analyse the role of government and communities, including women, in the formulation and implementation of sustainable forest …
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CREATING RECOMMENDATIONS ON EATING DISORDER POLICIES AND PRACTICES AT CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES
… at creating recommendations for eating disorder policies and practices for Canadian universities. The rise in eating disorder cases among university students in recent years obliges higher education institutions to address this issue. Previous studies have examined the most beneficial eating …
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Ideologies, policies, and practices: Japanese language education in Australian secondary schools
… Australia by untangling an interplay of language policies, practices and ideologies. It focuses on top-down policy initiatives, the bottom-up grassroots practices of secondary school Japanese language teachers (JLTs), and language ideologies in Australian society as expressed in general attitudes …
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Policies and Practices for Improving Student Bus Behavior: A Delphi Study
… to spend significant time investigating and applying consequences for the behavior (Neatrour, 1994; Pattington, 1945; Putnam, Handler, Ramirez-Plat, and Luiselli, 2003). The purpose of this study was to identify policies and practices that may improve student bus behavior. Two research …
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Educational *Policies and Practices in Lived Context: Puerto Ricans Schooled in Chicago
… is utilized to forge a critique of pedagogy and curriculum development within a system that perceives schools as apolitical and teachers as neutral players in the process of teaching and learning. The experiences of these youth highlight social agency and aspects of home identity that …
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International Student Mobility in Higher Education in China: Tensions between Policies and Practices
… students as well. By examining relevant policies and international students’ experiences, this study constructs a comprehensive portrait of ISM in China. Analyzing the ISM policy and student perspectives with attention to underlying ideologies of IHE (Stier, 2004) illuminates the tensions …
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Permanent Solution: Contraceptive sterilization policies and practices in the U.S. from 1960-1979
This study examines the social and political anxieties regarding poverty and reproduction during the 1960s and 1970s that led to the sterilization of young, African-American women from low-income families. It begins by analyzing the roles of the population control and burgeoning feminist movements …
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Examining the Influence of the Patient Declaration of Values on Hospital Policies and Practices
… Patient Declaration of Values (PDoV) in policy and in practice. This was a single case study, which took place in a leading patient-centred Ontario hospital. The study included 18 individual interviews with employees and patient experience advisors, as well as, document analysis of strategic …
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More Than a Green Roof: An Analysis of Low Impact Development Policies and Practices
… is becoming increasingly popular, practitioners and institutions that implement it have varying perspectives on its meaning. This case study aimed to understand how a medium-sized municipality defines green infrastructure as a concept and incorporates it into official policies and related …
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Policies and practices of Chamorro cultural narratives in the community and schools of Guam
… narratives in the educational experiences and daily life of the Chamorro people. The major method of collecting the data used in this study included official documents, interviews, and written surveys. These different sets of data collection allowed me to cross-check the data to triangulate …
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The impact of family-friendly policies and practices on working mothers and pregnant women
… the impact that organisational family-friendly policies and practices have on the organisational commitment of pregnant women and working mothers. The three-component model of organisational commitment developed by Allen and Meyer (1990) serves as the conceptual basis for this study. …
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Umkhosi Womhlanga (Reed Dance) as a tourism enterprise in KwaZulu-Natal: Perceptions, policies and practices
… annually. This event attracts event tourists and generates revenue for the host communities of KwaNongoma, KwaZulu-Natal, and South Africa as a whole. It is assumed that the event has a massive tourism potential and platform to yield socio-economic benefits for the local community. …
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Dual Enrollment Programs: Advising Policies And Practices For High School Students In Post-Secondary Institutions
… questions were as follows: (1) What advising policies and practices are in place for those that advise high school students at post-secondary institutions that host dual enrollment programs? (2) How do those that manage and advise dual enrollment students perceive these policies and how their …
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Policies and Practices for Recruiting, Training, and Evaluating High-Quality Substitute Teachers: a Delphi Study
… however, little attention is given to the policies and practices that school districts use to recruit, train, and evaluate them. The challenge of finding quality substitute teachers, despite the absence of definitive policies and practices to guide them, continues to be a problem …
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An analysis of the North Carolina community college system policies and practices for part-time faculty
… to determine the importance of the employment policies and practices for part-time faculty that are offered by community colleges. Along with determining these policies and practices, the study endeavored to determine if there were any differences in the importance as indicated by two groups of …
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Redshirting: A Critical, Historical Analysis of the Changing Theories, Policies, and Practices of Children's Transition into Kindergarten
… year for that child to develop socially and to strive academically. Central to understanding this phenomenon and how to address it is the issue of children’s kindergarten readiness. The high-pressured nature of modern schooling has increased learning demands of children in the lower …
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