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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Sources of Authority"”.
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Examining the Words and Actions Superintendents Used to Lead an Educational System Through a Culture Shift Following the Occurrence of a Scandalous Critical Incident
… through a culture shift following the occurrence of a scandalous critical incident. This qualitative study deeply investigated the specific words and actions as offered by the superintendents of two educational systems and members of their respective leadership teams. Those actions were then …
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The 1995 Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act and the Cps Ceo: A Historical Examination of the Adminstration of Ceos Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan
<p>This study provides a historical analysis of the 1995 Chicago School Reform Act, as well as an analysis of the tenures of Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officers Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan. It provides an analysis of words and actions of the two CEOs through the interpretive framework …
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Ethical and science understandings in school science : a conceptual framework of classroom practices and understandings
The principal contribution of the study is a conceptual account of classroom activities in school science, which incorporates both ethical and conventional science understandings within a single conceptual framework. In order to illustrate and explore the strengths and limitations of the conceptual …
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Superintendent Leadership and Student Achievement in Suburban High Schools: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Analysis
… research study explored the critical nature of the connection between student achievement and superintendent leadership. A great deal of scholarship has addressed either student achievement or leadership and previous evidence has suggested the impact of both parental education and …
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A Study of the Leadership of High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools Through the Lens of Moral Leadership
<p>This study examines the leadership of principals who work in schools which have been identified as having a large student population living in poverty and have a record of sustained academic success as measured on standardized tests. The goal of this study was to identify which sources of …
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Journey to the Neighborhood: An Analysis of Fred Rogers and His Lessons for Educational Leaders
<p>Millions of children worldwide grew up watching Fred Rogers, aka “ Rogers,” as their childhood neighborhood friend on the television show <italic>Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood</italic> . How was a man able to produce one of the most successful, longest running children’s …
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Discerning Witnesses: First and Second Century Textual Studies in Christian Authority
The purpose of this research is to examine the sources of authority employed by Marcion, Clement of Rome, and Ignatius of Antioch as they navigated competing theologies during the post-Apostolic period of the early Christian church. Combining textual analysis and historical reconstruction, this …
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George Whitefield's theology and methodology of evangelism
… George Whitefield's theology and methodology of evangelism and draws conclusions regarding the relationship between them. Chapter 1 presents the research question. This section also presents information regarding background and methodology for the dissertation. Chapter 2 describes the …
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The Chicago Board of Education Desegregation Policies and Practices [1975-1985]: A Historical Examination of the Administrations of Superintendents Dr. Joseph P. Hannon and Dr. Ruth Love
<p>The purpose of this study will be to examine the policies and practices of two distinguished superintendents of the Chicago Public Schools: Dr. Joseph P. Hannon and the first African American female Superintendent Dr. Ruth Love. Hannon's four year administration extended from 1975 through 1979. …
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"Civilized My Syphilized Yarbles": Culture, Economy, and Deviant Youth Subcultures in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange
… develop a new discussion concerning the impact of the emergence of youth subculture on society in England in the 1950s. Youth subcultures like the Nadsats and the Teddy Boys developed a new style that undermined the social taboos, and in doing so, attempted to create a sense of identity that was …
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"So were I equalled with them in renown": The Politics of Poetic Adaptation in Dante's and Milton's Epics
… so, I compare Milton’s narrator to the narrator of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. I found that both Dante’s and Milton’s narrators have a unique relationship to their respective Muses that differs from what can be found in classical epics: Dante replaces the Muse with Beatrice and Virgil …
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A Historical Analysis of South Holland School District 151 Desegregation Order: An Examination of Superintendent Decisions Based on Board Actions Grounded in the Context of Prevailing Social, Political, Legal and Educational Conditions for the Period 1967-2010
<p>This study provided a historical analysis of the 1968 court ordered desegregation of South Holland School District 151. The purpose of this case study was to examine, according to primary source evidence, how the superintendents grounded their decisions within the prevailing social, political, …
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Sharī’a Implementation in The Context of Tanzania Mainland: An Analysis of Its Debate, Practice and Inlfuence in Christian-Muslim Relations
… (Islamic law) implementation in the context of Tanzania mainland. It has been compelled by Muslims’ demand for expansion of sharī’a application in the public sphere and its philosophy of practice which is opposed by non-Muslims and some Muslims. This endangers Christian-Muslim and …
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De la patria criolla a la nación Mexicana: Surgimiento y articulación del nacionalismo en la prensa Novohispana del siglo XVIII, en su contexto transatlántico
… THE MEXICAN NATION: THE SURGE AND ARTICULATION OF NATIONALISM IN THE PRINT JOURNALISM OF THE 18TH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN, IN ITS TRANSATLANTIC CONTEXT Spanish American creoles constructed an epistemological alternative to Europe. For such a project, 18th-century creoles relied on two forces that …
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Examining Female Principals That Lead Within the Same Schools That They Once Taught
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine female principals that once taught within the school that they now lead. This study explored the transition from colleague to superior and discussed Sergiovanni's Sources of Authority (1992) that are employed by female administrators to balance social …
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The Development of and Relationship Between Elgin U-46's Teacher Appraisal System and Mentor Program: 1998-2010
… study investigated the historical development of Elgin School District U-46's teacher appraisal system and teacher mentor program during the years of 1998-2010. In 1998 a formal mentor program was implemented for the first time in district history. Shortly thereafter, district and union …
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Translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of diffusion of planned lexical innovations: The francophone case
A study was conducted of francophone translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of planned lexical innovations promoted by the French government. The two major research questions were: (a) whether there are relationships between sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and socioprofessional …
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Spiritual healing in search of an identity: analysis of spiritual healers’ own accounts of healing in Britain from 1900 to 1965
… on spiritual healing, both academic and popular, often assumes that all spiritual healing is essentially the same and that there has been a gradual and developmental progression through time, from early religious and traditional healing, through the Holistic Health movement of the 1970s and 80s, …
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Aspects of the late Atlantic Iron Age
… the EIA, MIA, LIA I and LIA II. Least is known of the LIA I, the immediate post-broch period. Original analysis of the C-14 record confirms these divisions; they result as a combination of the effects of the Trondheim calibration curve but mainly the history of archaeological survival and …
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Corporations as Custodians of the Public Good? Exploring the Intersection of Corporate Water Stewardship and Global Water Governance
… it seeks to develop an understanding of how Corporate Water Stewardship (CWS), and its facilitation of the inclusion of companies’ perspectives to address water issues, affects GWG. Understood as a form of market environmentalism – a doctrine premised on mutual synergies between …
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