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A Model Leadership Curriculum For Managers Of An Eden Alternative Nursing Home, Jennifer A. Horton Dec 2005

A Model Leadership Curriculum For Managers Of An Eden Alternative Nursing Home, Jennifer A. Horton

Master's Theses and Capstones

A nursing home is a difficult environment for staff as well as residents. As a result, some nursing homes are moving toward a more holistic, person-centered approach to care. The Eden Alternative is one of those organizations. Empowerment of direct caregivers and the flattening of the hierarchical structure of the traditional nursing home are two important components of the culture change process known as the Eden Alternative. As a result, management within an Eden environment requires skills different from those in the traditional top-down organizational structure. A model curriculum is outlined to help managers of an Eden Alternative nursing home …


Teaching Musical Skills In The Co-Curricular Elementary Classroom, Jessica West Apr 2005

Teaching Musical Skills In The Co-Curricular Elementary Classroom, Jessica West

Inquiry Journal 2005

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An Inquiry Based Instructional Planning Model That Accommodates Student Diversity, Cheryl M. Jorgensen Mar 2005

An Inquiry Based Instructional Planning Model That Accommodates Student Diversity, Cheryl M. Jorgensen

Institute on Disability

The students in today’s public school classrooms represent great diversity and the struggle of teachers to teach all their students well. This paper describes an inquiry based instructional planning model that reflects lessons from the literature on effective teaching for diverse classrooms. An example of a high school lesson exemplifies the model. The model includes a framework for planning supports for students with extraordinary learning challenges.


Higher Education Collaboratives For Community Engagement And Improvement, Penny A. Pasque, Bruce L. Mallory, Ryan E. Smerek, Brighid Dwyer, Nick Bowman Jan 2005

Higher Education Collaboratives For Community Engagement And Improvement, Penny A. Pasque, Bruce L. Mallory, Ryan E. Smerek, Brighid Dwyer, Nick Bowman

Education

Our society is in a period of dramatic change with the transition from an industrial-based to a knowledge-based economy, as well as technological advances, fiscal challenges of higher education, and cultural shifts in society as a whole. Increasing collaborations between communities and universities in order to influence the public good becomes paramount during this time of dramatic change. As frustratingly slow as the movement to strengthen the relationship between higher education and society sometimes seems to be, few social institutions are better situated than colleges and universities to stimulate significant community improvement. Individually and collectively, institutions of higher education possess …


Doesn't Everyone Speak English Anyway? Multilingualism In The Age Of Globalization, Lori J. Hopkins Jan 2005

Doesn't Everyone Speak English Anyway? Multilingualism In The Age Of Globalization, Lori J. Hopkins

The University Dialogue

No abstract provided.


The National Research Council Recommendations: Education As Intervention?, Sarah M. Stitzlein Jan 2005

The National Research Council Recommendations: Education As Intervention?, Sarah M. Stitzlein

Education

The National Research Council’s (NRC) recent report, Scientific Research in Education, issues an important call for increased scientific rigor within educational research. There is more at stake in the question of how to achieve good, scientific educational research than just science and how it can best be done in a community of educational researchers, however. The meaning and aims of education itself are at issue. I set out here to delineate the implicit conception of education underlying the NRC report, namely education as intervention. I will show how the committee conceives education as an instrumental intervention for solving social problems …


Political Agency And The Classroom: Reading John Dewey And Judith Butler Together., Sarah M. Stitzlein Jan 2005

Political Agency And The Classroom: Reading John Dewey And Judith Butler Together., Sarah M. Stitzlein

Education

In Toronto last year, several PES members joined a panel session to discuss “agency after Foucault.” Many philosophers of education, in the wake of Foucault and other recent poststructuralists, often struggle to make sense of agency, intention, and the individual subject, particularly within social justice education. Some participants in this session and others challenged certain assumptions about human subjects as autonomous, self-made, efficacious agents of social and political change, many of which were held by the pragmatists whose work largely began and continues to influence our field. In many cases, the views of pragmatists and poststructuralists are stubbornly opposed to …


Faculty Excellence, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2005

Faculty Excellence, University Of New Hampshire

Faculty Excellence Awards

Each year, the University of New Hampshire selects a small number of its outstanding faculty for special recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. Awards for Excellence in Teaching are given in each college and school, and university-wide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. This booklet details the year's award winners' accomplishments in short profiles with photographs and text.