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Teacher Thinking And The Change Process: A Qualitative Study Of Experienced Teachers Learning And Implementing New Models Of Teaching, Susan J. Karrer

Dissertations

The responsibility for improvement and change in schools ultimately depends on what teachers do and think. This study investigated the personal side of change by following the thinking of experienced teachers as they are learning and implementing new models of teaching. During a 4-week summer training institute, the thinking of them 36 participants was explored through daily reflective journals, interviews, and observations. Four categories of thought emerged during the analysis of the data: (1) encountering the learning environment, (2) navigating the social milieu, (3) managing the personal, and (4) anticipating the future.

Following the training institute, three teachers agreed to …

The Sacred Times Prescribed In The Pentateuch : Old Testament Indicators Of The Extent Of Their Applicability, H. Ross Cole

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the sacred times prescribed in the Pentateuch and to determine if the Old Testament itself contains indicators of the extent of their applicability. "Applicability" refers primarily to ongoing applicability throughout time. However, whether a sacred time will be universally applicable in the future may be directly related to whether it was ever meant to be universally applicable in the first place. Accordingly, this study entails a close examination of many different features of the Pentateuchal sacred times and their applicability.

Chapter 1 reviews relevant literature and describes the present investigator's methodology. On …

Sociopolitical Structure Of Transjordanian Societies During The Late Bronze And Iron I Ages (Ca. 1500-1000 B.C.), Paul Z. Gregor

Dissertations

According to the biblical account the Transjordanian region was occupied with somewhat organized societies during the time of the Exodus (ca. 15th century B.C.). Unfortunately, archaeological excavations could not confirm this account, and as result, the biblical data have been dismissed as unreliable and historically inaccurate.

The purpose of this study was to provide the most recent archaeological data as well as to reinterpret the old data to see whether or not the biblical account bears any historical value. For this reason, this dissertation provides evidence from three fields: archaeological, anthropological, and biblical.

In spite of Glueck's claim that Transjordan …

The Presence Of The Covenant Motif In Amos 1:2-2:16, Reinaldo W. Siqueira

Dissertations

The presence and use of the OT covenant(s) in the book of Amos has been a highly debated issue for the last century among OT scholars. The dissertation attempts to address this issue through an exegetical study of the "Oracles Against the Nations" of Amos 1:2-2:16. This pericope of Amos was chosen because it has played a central role in the argumentation that denies the existence of any notion of covenant in the book.

Chapter 1 introduces the controversy that surrounds the issue of the presence or absence of covenant in Amos, while chapter 2 surveys the scholarly debate and …

The Relationship Between Co-Dependence And Borderline Personality Disorder, Helen P. Bird

Dissertations

Problem. Co-dependence (CODC) is described as an "incurable disease" by some practitioners in the addictions treatment business. The CODC concept developed in isolation from mainstream psychology and psychiatry and remains an unverified diagnostic category. It has been compared with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and this relationship was investigated.

Method. Representative samples of the voluminous literature on CODC and BPD were reviewed in an effort to identify commonalities. The characteristics used for comparison were the ones identified by Dr. E. G. Goldstein in Borderline Disorders: Clinical Models & Techniques (1990). Two self-report, anonymous instruments were used; one was completed by clinicians …

Telephone Companies, The First Amendment, And Technological Convergence, Fred H. Cate

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. Turbulence!: Challenges And Opportunities In The World Of Work: Are You Prepared For The Future? By Roger E. Herman, Juliet Casper Smith

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Religious Significance Of Jerusalem In The Middle East Peace Process: Some Legal Implications, Silvio Ferrari

Catholic University Law Review

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Implicit And Explicit Memory In Experimentally Induced Moods, Erika Garvin-Dale

Whittier Scholars Program

This experiment compares implicit and explicit memory in college students in experimentally induced moods. It was designed to eliminate the confounding of implicit-perceptual and explicit-conceptual memory tests by using conceptual implicit and explicit tests. It was hypothesized that the depressed mood group would perform as well as the neutral group on the implicit measure, but not the explicit measure. College students underwent neutral or depressive mood inductions, then participated in an incidental learning task in which they judged whether or not a word fit in a sentence. After a distractor task, the participants took either implicit or explicit category exemplar …

Canada's Capacity To Control The Flow: Water Export And The North American Free Trade Agreement, Scott Philip Little

Pace International Law Review

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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Peter Lithgow: New Fiction By Thomas Carlyle, Ian Campbell

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Tobias Smollett: The Scot In England, Jerry C. Beasley

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Odds On Treasure Island, William H. Hardesty Iii., David D. Mann

Studies in Scottish Literature

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John Gibson Lockhart's Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Or The Absent Author, Isabelle Bour

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Edwin Morgan - Two Interviews, Marco Fazzini

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Speaking The Colonized Subject In Walter Scott's Malachi Malagrowther Letters, Caroline Mccracken-Flesher

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Some Present-Day Trends In Gaelic Writing In Scotland, Roderick Macdonald

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Choosing A Play: A Critical Survey Of Neil M. Gunn's Drama, Richard Price

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Bakhtin At Christ's Kirk - Part Ii - Carnival And The Vernacular Revival, Christopher Whyte

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Rediscovering William Lauder's Poetic Advocacy Of The Poor, Sidney L. Sondergard

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Multiple Realms Of George Macdonald's Phantastes, Adrian Gunther

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Josephine Tey: Scottish Detective Novelist, Christina R. Martin

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Teacher And Pupil: Reading, Ethics, And Human Dignity In George Macdonald's Mary Marston, Rebecca Thomas Ankeny

Studies in Scottish Literature

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John Goldie And Robert Burns, J. Walter Mcginty

Studies in Scottish Literature

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William Hamilton Reid (Fl. 1786-1824): A Forgotten Poet, Arthur Sherbo

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Brief Notices

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Book Reviews

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Notes And Documents: J. G. Lockhart And Charlotte Bronte

Studies in Scottish Literature

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