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A Comparative Discussion Of The Notion Of 'Validity' In Qualitative And Quantitative Research, Glyn Winter

The Qualitative Report

The issues surrounding the use and nature of the term 'validity' in qualitative research are controversial and many. In this paper, the author attempts to establish that 'validity' is not a single, fixed or universal concept, but rather a contingent construct, inescapably grounded in the processes and intentions of particular research methodologies and projects. The first section of this work deals with the problems faced in defining 'validity' in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and will briefly review other authors' attempts to categorise it. The work will then proceed to distinguish and compare the claims to 'validity' made by …

Groups Protected By The Genocide Convention: Conflicting Interpretations From The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, William A. Schabas

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide' protects "national, ethnical, racial and religious" groups from intentional physical destruction.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Master's And Educational Specialist Degrees And Graduate Courses In Education Class Schedule Summer 2000 [South Florida], Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Patterns Of Talk: A Micro-Landscape Perspective, Jerry Gale

The Qualitative Report

This paper provides a introduction to conversation analysis. CA is traced from its roots to ethnomethodology, and five features of talk are examined (turn taking procedures, adjacency pairs, presequences, formulations, and accounts). Clinical examples are provided. The relevance of CA to clinicians, researchers and supervisors is also discussed.

Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Peter W. Black, Kevin Avruch

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Jim Laue was a major figure in conflict resolution and he is sorely missed. His absence is particularly regretted because his was a strong voice in discussions over the ethical dimension of conflict resolution, arguing eloquently and passionately in favor of a self-consciously ethical theory and practice of conflict resolution. Sometime colleagues of Laue, our work over the last decade has argued equally passionately (if not as eloquently) in behalf of a self-consciously cultural theory and practice of conflict resolution, (see Avruch and Black 1987, 1991, 1993; Black and Avruch 1989, 1993).

Broadly Speaking - October, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Class Schedule Fall 1999, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Class Schedule Fall 1999, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Ethnicity And Constitutional Reform: The Case Of Ethiopia, Charles E. Ehrlich

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Ethiopia has recently undertaken one of the most sweeping constitutional reforms in contemporary Africa.

The Case Against Official Monolingualism: The Idiosyncrasies Of Minority Language Rights In Israel And The United States, Yuval Merin

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Both Israel and the United States are multi-ethnic societies with a large percentage of linguistic minorities.

Distinguished Brief, Dana Bruk, Dwight Newman, Erin Seed, Jefferson Rappell, Mark Prescott

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Pagonia and Bretoria have submitted the settlement of their dispute by special agreement to this Court, and both parties have accepted the jurisdiction of this Court.

Lessons From The Akayesu Judgement, Jose E. Alvarez

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The judgment issued on September 2, 1998 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (hereinafter ICTR) finding Jean-Paul Akayesu guilty on various charges of genocide and crimes against humanity is likely to please those who have long struggled for the progressive development and effective enforcement of international criminal law.

Isla Journal Of International And Comparative Law, Ilsa Journal Of International & Comparative Law

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Both Israel and the United States are multi-ethnic societies with a large percentage of linguistic minorities.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Master's Degrees Educational Specialist Degrees Certification Programs 1999 Program Brochure, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Multi-User Domain Object Oriented (Moo) As A High School Procedure For Foreign Language Acquisition, James A. Backer

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Foreign language students experience added difficulty when they are isolated from native speakers and from the culture of the target language. It has been posited that MOOs (Multiuser domain Object Oriented) may help to overcome the geographical isolation of these students. MOOs are Internet-based virtual worlds in which people from all over the real world meet for synchronous textual conversations and can interact with asynchronous textual objects found there. Students who enjoy a MOO site may identify with its virtual target language community and find integrative motivation which the literature suggests is necessary for advanced language acquisition.

This study focused …

Nsu Programs In Communication Sciences And Disorders Fgsehs Catalog 1999-2001, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Master's Degrees, Educational Specialist Degrees, Certification Programs 1999 Program Brochure, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Searching For Security In The Law Of Electronic Commerce, Amelia H. Boss

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Master's And Educational Specialist Degrees And Graduate Courses In Education Class Schedule Summer 1998, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Master's And Educational Specialist Degrees And Graduate Courses In Education Certification Renewal Class Schedule Summer 1998, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Can There Be A Just Resolution Of Conflict?, Dov Ronen

Peace and Conflict Studies

Excerpt

I may have first thought about "just resolution of conflict" when I was a student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem many years ago. Those days I often heard on the radio--there was no TV in Israel at the time--and read about King Hussein's repeated calls for a "just and lasting Peace" in the Middle East. I have also noticed over the years that the same slogan has been repeated, not only by King Hussein, but also by other prominent and less prominent leaders in regard to other conflicts.⁽¹⁾ The notion of just resolution of conflict has attracted …

Practitioners' News - Spring 1998, Volume 25, Number 3, Nova Southeastern University

Practitioners' News

No abstract provided.

Crimes Of War: A Personal Account Of The Horrors Revealed By An Investigation Of A Nazi War Criminal, Peter Watson

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Crimes of war pose an inherent contradiction. They demand justice, but we find ourselves uneasy at putting our enemies on trial. Since Nuremburg, such issues have challenged our morality and confronted our conscience. Is it that we recoil from the spoils of the victor, taking illegitimate advantage of the vanquished?

The Convention On The Rights Of The Child: The Necessity Of Adding A Provision To Ban Child Marriages, Ladan Askari

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child [hereinafter "CRC"], adopted on November 20, 1989 is considered by many to be a comprehensive treaty

Ngoc Efforts Towards The Creation Of A Regional Human Rights Arrangement In The Asia-Pacific Region, Ali Mohsin Qazilbash

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

I feel honored to be given an opportunity to speak at this panel on an issue which has a lot to do with a part of the world I belong to. NGOs in Asia and the Pacific have been crucial to the struggle for a regional human rights arrangement. Indeed it is they who have kept both the debate over and the struggle for an Asian human rights system alive.

Creating And Conducting In-Class Simulations In Public International Law: A Producer's Guide, Andrew L. Strauss

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

I define an in-class simulation as any classroom exercise that attempts to depict real-life events. Simulations can be extremely elaborate attempts to enact complex proceedings, or they can be as simple as having two students spontaneously represent lawyers making opposing arguments during class discussion.

Center For Undergraduate Studies Catalog 1998-99, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

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Securitised Ethnic Identities And Communal Conflicts, Tarja Väyrynen

Peace and Conflict Studies

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The paper is inspired by Ernesto Laclau's (1996, p. 46) observation of the terrain into which history has thrown us. The terrain is characterised by: [...] the multiplication of new--and not so new--identities as a result of the collapse of the places from which the universal subject spoke--explosion of ethnic and national identities in Eastern Europe and in the territories of the former USSR, struggles of immigrant groups in Western Europe, new forms of multicultural protest and self-assertion in the U.S., to which we have to add the gamut of forms of contestation associated with the new social movements.

Multi-Visual Qualitative Method: Observing Social Groups In Mass Media, George Tsourvakas

The Qualitative Report

In reviewing the bibliography upon which qualitative method is based, the author refers to ethnography, ethnomethdology, symbolic interactionism and cultural studies, and argues that a combination of the qualitative methods is actually possible. To enforce his point, he gives the example of research that was recently conducted about the National Television Channel of Greece. Moreover, through the theoretical review, he asserts that the application of all qualitative methods is a way to transfer ourselves from observation to focusing and depth interviews. He believes that such an application can be really effective while collecting data as well as while analyzing and …

The Knight Volume 8: Issue 1, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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