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Change In Police Organizations: Perceptions, Experiences, And The Failure To Launch, Joseph A. Schafer, Sean P. Varano
Change In Police Organizations: Perceptions, Experiences, And The Failure To Launch, Joseph A. Schafer, Sean P. Varano
Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications
Studies and accounts of change in police organizations frequently emphasize case studies of specific efforts enacted during relatively discrete periods of time in one or a few agencies. The narratives often emphasize the success of change efforts or seek to explain why initiatives failed in the case study agency. While instructive, such accounts do not provide broader insights into successes and failures with change across longer periods of time, differing types of change, and diverse organizational contexts. Using survey data from mid-career police supervisors attending the FBI National Academy program, this study considers change experiences. In particular, consideration is given …
Mind Mapping For Critical Thinking, Roxanne M. O'Connell
Mind Mapping For Critical Thinking, Roxanne M. O'Connell
Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications
Mind mapping is a visual technique that exploits the way we actually think-through synaptic connections and non-linear associations. Because mind mapping gives practitioners, be they professional or student, access to subconscious observations and connections, it is a powerful thinking tool, useful in a variety of situations in business and in education. This chapter focuses on how mind mapping fosters the kind of flexible and organic thinking vital to critical thinking and the creative problem-solving process. It explains what is at work in the brain as we create new knowledge and how mind mapping exploits these processes to gain intuitive and …
Learner-Centered Teaching Activities For Environmental And Sustainability Studies, Loren B. Byrne
Learner-Centered Teaching Activities For Environmental And Sustainability Studies, Loren B. Byrne
Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications
Learner-centered teaching is a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the roles of students as participants in and drivers of their own learning. Learner-centered teaching activities go beyond traditional lecturing by helping students construct their own understanding of information, develop skills via hands-on engagement, and encourage personal reflection through metacognitive tasks. In addition, learner-centered classroom approaches may challenge students’ preconceived notions and expand their thinking by confronting them with thought-provoking statements, tasks or scenarios that cause them to pay closer attention and cognitively "see" a topic from new perspectives. Many types of pedagogy fall under the umbrella of learner-centered teaching including laboratory …
Preface, Loren B. Byrne
Building For Peace: A Phased Plan For The Economic Development Of The Gaza Strip And The Middle East Region Following Israel’S Disengagement , Roger Williams University Center For Macro Projects And Diplomacy
Building For Peace: A Phased Plan For The Economic Development Of The Gaza Strip And The Middle East Region Following Israel’S Disengagement , Roger Williams University Center For Macro Projects And Diplomacy
Macro Center Preliminary Project Proposal
The goal of the project is to create sustainable, secure employment and expanded business opportunities for Palestinians, mainly from the Gaza Strip, as well as new housing and improved infrastructure in Gaza, upgraded transportation and communications links within Gaza and between Gaza and the West Bank, and strengthened Palestinian governmental institutions.