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Academic Capabilities And Disadvantaged Students: The Role Of Institutions, William Elliott Iii, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden
Academic Capabilities And Disadvantaged Students: The Role Of Institutions, William Elliott Iii, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden
Center for Social Development Research
Notwithstanding the far reaching intellectual and practical contributions of Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy, researchers have suggested that it may not adequately address the role of institutions. This paper suggests that traditional measures of self-efficacy underemphasize institutional factors. This may have important implications, especially for considering the circumstances of disadvantaged groups. It may be productive to think of self-efficacy as a multidimensional construct that includes personal and institutional dimensions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we examine how self-efficacy theory can be expanded to account for the social and economic realities of disadvantaged groups and lead to empirical work that can inform policy …
The Forms And Structure Of International Voluntary Service, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, John Stringham, Simona Costanzo Sow, Amanda Moore Mcbride
The Forms And Structure Of International Voluntary Service, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, John Stringham, Simona Costanzo Sow, Amanda Moore Mcbride
Center for Social Development Research
International voluntary service (IVS) has a significant and growing presence worldwide. IVS is a policy and program tool used for international development aid, humanitarian relief, and promotion of international understanding. In the last century, forms of IVS have proliferated, while research on scope, effectiveness, and impacts has lagged behind. We propose a typology that addresses duration, nature of service, and degree of “internationality.” Further, we identify IVS networks and support organizations that bolster the capacity of IVS sending and hosting organizations, and in this process create large and little recognized international institutions of cooperation. Building on the typology, we suggest …
Mental Health, Religious Belief, And "The Terrifying Question", Loren D. Marks
Mental Health, Religious Belief, And "The Terrifying Question", Loren D. Marks
Faculty Publications
In the recent Tim Burton film Big Fish, Albert Finney's yarn-spinning character comments that wild parrots in the Congo will discuss most anything: politics, fashion, literature … but not religion. “Why not religion?” his son queries. “Because it's rude!” snaps the father, “you never know who you might offend.”
No Buts! - Researching Children's Consumption, An Exploration Of Conversation And Discourse Analytic Techniques, Olivia Freeman
No Buts! - Researching Children's Consumption, An Exploration Of Conversation And Discourse Analytic Techniques, Olivia Freeman
Conference papers
Contemporary discussion of social research with children revolves around three trends (i) an emphasis on researching children’s ‘experiences’ rather than their ‘perspectives’, (ii) an emphasis on researching ‘with’ children rather than ‘on’ children or ‘for’ children and (iii) a conceptualisation of children as ‘social beings’ not ‘social becomings’. This paper poses questions about how qualitative data is analysed and posits a two-pronged CA/DA (conversation analysis/ discourse analysis) approach as a potential means to enhance richness in qualitative research in the area of children’s consumption phenomena. Drawing on a number of illustrations from an ongoing research project this paper seeks to …
Swallowing An Elephant, Michiel E. Moll
Swallowing An Elephant, Michiel E. Moll
Michiel E Moll
Predating the major higher education mergers, the Cape Technikon Library Service was faced with the incorporation of the Mowbray College of Education and Boland College of Education libraries in 2000. The actual stock of these two libraries was larger than that of the Technikon, and in addition, an institution that had a monolithic library structure was suddenly faced with coping with a more dispersed structure. Both Mowbray and Boland College (which was at Wellington, some 65 km away) were functioning libraries and the challenges were therefore to maintain functionality while changing and to keep the best from each library while …
Better Health Sciences Collections With Oclc’S Worldcat, Carol Watwood
Better Health Sciences Collections With Oclc’S Worldcat, Carol Watwood
DLPS Faculty Publications
As the world's largest bibliographic database. OCLC's WorldCat has unique value in identifying materials for building a high-quality health sciences collection. WorldCat on FirstSearch is a valuable addition to the librarian's collection development toolbox to help compensate for the cessation of the Brandon/Hill lists. The database's large size, powerful keyword search feature, currency, and the ability to highlight important information through its interface all contribute to its usefulness in collection development. Several pilot projects and ongoing research in open access, "work-based" record design hold much promise for increased versatility.
Place-Valued Logics Around Cybernetic Ontology, The Bcl And Afosr, Rudolf Kaehr
Place-Valued Logics Around Cybernetic Ontology, The Bcl And Afosr, Rudolf Kaehr
Rudolf Kaehr
No abstract provided.
From Ruby To Rudy, Rudolf Kaehr
The Chinese Challenge. Hallucinations For Other Futures, Rudolf Kaehr
The Chinese Challenge. Hallucinations For Other Futures, Rudolf Kaehr
Rudolf Kaehr
The main question is: What can we learn from China that China is not teaching us? It is proposed that a study of polycontextural logic and morphogrammatics could be helpful to discover this new kind of rationality.
American Broadsides And Ephemera Series I, 1760-1990, Bill Sleeman
American Broadsides And Ephemera Series I, 1760-1990, Bill Sleeman
Faculty Scholarship
Review of an electronic database of rare broadsides and ephemera from the colonial period through the end of the 19th Century.
Lessons Learned As Author And Editor, Connie Foster
Lessons Learned As Author And Editor, Connie Foster
DLTS Faculty Publications
Writing and editing are dynamic, creative processes. At some point both author and editor must release the finished product and submit to the production process (more copy editing, proofing and queries). To offer the best manuscript possible, some tips are presented.
Interventions With Family Caregivers, Jonathan G. Sandberg
Interventions With Family Caregivers, Jonathan G. Sandberg
Faculty Publications
As a typical self-centered teenager, I struggled to find anything good about grandma moving in with us. Grandma required a lot of help with stairs, dressing, bathing; I noticed this brought a new kind of stress into our home. I think it was particularly hard on my mother, who provided most of the daily care for her mother-in-law. Living in a basement bedroom, I could escape form the stress if I wanted. I did not share a bathroom or hallway, I did not have to listen to incoherent talk and cries in the night as Alzheimer's disease began to take …
The Marriage Moments Program For Couples Transitioning To Parenthood: Divergent Conclusions From Formative And Outcome Evaluation Data, Alan J. Hawkins, Elizabeth B. Fawcett, Jason S. Carroll, Tamara T. Gilliland
The Marriage Moments Program For Couples Transitioning To Parenthood: Divergent Conclusions From Formative And Outcome Evaluation Data, Alan J. Hawkins, Elizabeth B. Fawcett, Jason S. Carroll, Tamara T. Gilliland
Faculty Publications
This article presents the results of a pilot study of the Marriage Moments program, designed to prevent relationship deterioration during the 1st year of parenthood. The self-guided, low-intensity program emphasizes strengthening marital virtues and partnership during this time of significant personal and family transition. One hundred fifty-five married couples participated in a randomized clinical trial with 2 psychoeducational treatment groups (a self-guided group and an instructor-encouraged group) and a comparable control group. Despite positive formative evaluation results from program participants, hierarchical linear modeling analyses failed to find significant Group X Time differences on spouses' reports of marital virtues and a …
Parenting And Peer-Group Behavior In Cultural Context, David A. Nelson, Larry J. Nelson, Criag H. Hart, Chongming Yang, Shenghua Jin
Parenting And Peer-Group Behavior In Cultural Context, David A. Nelson, Larry J. Nelson, Criag H. Hart, Chongming Yang, Shenghua Jin
Faculty Publications
Whether specific patterns of parenting are similarly associated with child peer group behavior in diverse cultural contexts has been a fascinating topic of inquiry. From classic anthropological studies dating back to the early twentieth century to the current interest in cross-cultural studies, knowledge concerning the question of universality and cultural variation in parenting linkages to childhood adjustment has expanded at an unprecedented rate (e.g., Harkness & Super, 2002). As the general field of parenting research has uncovered distinctions in parenting styles and practices (e.g., Darling & Steinberg, 1993; hart, Newell, & Olsen, 2003), these concepts have increasingly been applied to …
The Family As A Context For Religious And Spiritual Development In Children And Youth, Chris J. Boyatzis, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks
The Family As A Context For Religious And Spiritual Development In Children And Youth, Chris J. Boyatzis, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks
Faculty Publications
Our chapter addresses how the family promotes or hinders transcendence of the self in children, that is, how the family is a context in which spiritual development occurs. Due to space limitations, our emphasis is on socialization and interaction processes within the family and not on other issues such as psychodynamic processes (e.g., Rizzuto, 1979) or faith development (e.g., Fowler, 1981). There are many motivations to explore family socialization of religious and spiritual development. One, family spirituality and religiosity are linked with many desirable outcomes and inversely with negative outcomes in children and youth. (Other chapters in this volume examine …
Learning Competent Fathering: A Longitudinal Analysis Of Marital Intimacy And Fathering, Kay Bradford, Alan J. Hawkins
Learning Competent Fathering: A Longitudinal Analysis Of Marital Intimacy And Fathering, Kay Bradford, Alan J. Hawkins
Faculty Publications
Although scholars have documented many links between marital relationships and parenting, these associations are not commonly explained in terms of behavior that is learned or achieved over time. This paper examines the idea that good fathering – conceptualized here as competent fathering – is the result of a developmental process, and that a loving, committed relationship between parents creates a context in which traits supportive of caring fathering are likely to be learned and practiced. After setting the stage conceptually, we provide a modest initial test of this hypothesis to discern the associations between three components of marital intimacy (emotional …
Francis Lieber, Steven Alan Samson
Francis Lieber, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Schumaker, Kiel, Heilke: Great Ideas/Grand Schemes Study Guide, 1998-2006, Steven Alan Samson
Schumaker, Kiel, Heilke: Great Ideas/Grand Schemes Study Guide, 1998-2006, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
Great Ideas/Grand Schemes is a systematic treatment of twelve ideologies by means of an elaborate conceptual framework. This twelve-point analytic grid, which is comprised of six substantive political principles, four philosophical bases, and two political bases, is introduced in the first chapter. Subsequent chapters focus on the ideologies themselves.
Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy Study Guide, 2001-2006, Steven Alan Samson
Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy Study Guide, 2001-2006, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Robert D. Kaplan: Eastward To Tartary Study Guide, 2002-2006, Steven Alan Samson
Robert D. Kaplan: Eastward To Tartary Study Guide, 2002-2006, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
David Kupelian: The Marketing Of Evil Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
David Kupelian: The Marketing Of Evil Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Harm De Blij: Why Geography Matters Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Harm De Blij: Why Geography Matters Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
David S. Landes: The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
David S. Landes: The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Steven W. Mosher: Hegemon Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Steven W. Mosher: Hegemon Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Mary Beard And John Henderson: Classics: A Very Short Introduction Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Mary Beard And John Henderson: Classics: A Very Short Introduction Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
John Fonte: Why There Is A Culture War Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
John Fonte: Why There Is A Culture War Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Robert D. Kaplan: When North Korea Falls Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Robert D. Kaplan: When North Korea Falls Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.