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Student Empowerment In A Primary School Classroom : A Descriptive Study, Anna M. Sullivan

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Empowering students to take control to lead functional and fulfilling lives should help them meet their needs for power and belonging, and enable them to realise their social goals. Such an outcome should positively affect students' achievement motivation. However, there is little understanding and research on the construct of student empowerment particularly in the primary school context from the teacher and student perspective. Teachers have a power-over relationship with students and arc in a position to decide how they exercise that power. Teachers who choose to enable student empowerment can share power with students to establish positive forces of power, …

A Journey Into Self-Actualization, William Rubar

Theses

The MFA Thesis Exhibition is a presentation of ceramic sculpture. The theme for this body of work is a self-portrait that uses text as an integral part of the composition. The medium is clay, which interacts with the two-dimensional and three-dimensional properties of space. Therefore, it is my goal to establish a union with these dimensional properties. My tablet paintings serve to catalog significant events affecting both our culture and my life, resulting in a self-portrait. These paintings create a dialogue between the emotion of language, passage of time and the properties of space. The preparation of the clay and …

Are Formal Operations Necessary For Moral Reasoning Or Ego Identity Achievement?, Kyle R. Wanshaffe

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Using The Jesus Narrative For Discipleship, Christopher T. Heckaman

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Impromptu Creation Of Metal Sculpture, Yu-Ting Shih

Theses

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A Study Of The Spiritual Formation Practices Currently Being Used By Itinerant Evangelists In The Church Of The Nazarene, Usa, Michael Wallace Benson

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Character Development: A Study During Evening Worship At Sardis Chapel, Theodore Eugene Beam

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ephemera, Terri Whitlock

Theses

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Gender And Nonfinancial Matters In The Ali Principles Of The Law Of Family Dissolution, Katharine B. Silbaugh

Faculty Scholarship

The question for this issue is gender issues in the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. Overall, the Principles are an impressive effort to create clarity and coherence, given the disorganized and evolving state of family law. This commentary raises a few questions about the Principles’ treatment of nonfinancial issues, and suggests that this treatment should raise concerns about women’s interests upon divorce. First, I will briefly review the ALI’s position on nonfinancial matters. Second, I will discuss why the limitation to financial losses should matter to women; that is, I will investigate the costs of …

Accounting For Family Change, Katharine B. Silbaugh

Faculty Scholarship

The legal focal point of familial obligation in the United States has long been the relationship between paired adults-most centrally marriage. Obligations to children, and rights to their company, were derivative; they were to be met through the framework of the all-important pairing of adults. Over the past several decades, that core source of legal obligation has shifted from the adult relationship between partners to the relationship between parent and child. The shift has occurred at a number of different levels, and it has had a variety of consequences, the majority of which are still shaking out. The legal catalyst …

Synchronous Communication Tools: Enabler For The Deaf And/Or Hard-Of-Hearing Colleagues, Yael Agriss

Theses

Deaf and/or hard-of-hearing and hearing people communicate frequently. Most people find it enjoyable in some situations and scary in others. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. Communication affects our life. This is a study to investigate the use of synchronous communication tools, in particular focusing on two target groups, the deaf and/or hard-of-hearing and their hearing colleagues. The aim will be to determine people's views on whether synchronous communication tools are now or will be beneficial for them to use as communication. The point of the survey and interview was to ascertain who, if anyone, was actually using …

Operational Managers Handbook To Information Technology Outsourcing, Chester Johnson

Theses

The academic, consulting, and business community is inundated with books, articles, web sites, and consulting services devoted to IT Outsourcing. As the technology advances and the business community gains practical experience in the area, outsourcing options require constant updating. This handbook provides the sequence of business process steps along with numerous guidelines, checklists, and detailed descriptions for developing a successful outsourcing contract. What is unique about the handbook is that it synthesizes the organizational, cultural, and political aspects of the enterprise that form the underpinnings for the development of a successful outsourcing function within the enterprise. The handbook then delves …

Free Agency And The Organization, Gregg Chalmers

Theses

Corporate downsizing has become a common occurrence in today's business world. As a result, many employers and employees no longer believe and cannot sustain the concept of lifetime employment. Several views on the breaking of this psychological contract and its implications on workplace loyalty and trust are offered from both the manufacturing and service industry's perspectives. The way we live and work is changing at an alarming rate. Rapid technological advancements enable employees to work from remote locations while communicating with their organization and coworkers in real-time. These break-through capabilities bring new challenges to the organization and the employee. In …

Reciprocity, Utility, And The Law Of Aggression, Anita Bernstein

Vanderbilt Law Review

The themes of incursion and boundary-crossing unite disparate legal domains. Wherever human beings cross paths and share space, law or law-like traditions develop to regulate this terrain by distinguishing permitted from proscribed intrusion.' Crimes and torts, regulation and liability, claims and defenses to claims, private law and public law all use a variety of measures--punishments, administrative rules, equitable remedies, professional discipline, and informal or extralegal sanctions-to condemn undue aggression. Concern about aggression may be found in the law of every jurisdiction in the United States.

Within American law, an extra increment of aggression can amount to the only difference between …

Of Theory And Practice, Tamar Frankel

Faculty Scholarship

Much has been written about theory and practice in the law, and the tension between practitioners and theorists. Judges do not cite theoretical articles often; they rarely "apply" theories to particular cases. These arguments are not revisited. Instead the Essay explores the working and interaction of theory and practice, practitioners and theorists.

The Essay starts with a story about solving a legal issue using our intellectual tools - theory, practice, and their progenies: experience and "gut." Next the Essay elaborates on the nature of theory, practice, experience and "gut." The third part of the Essay discusses theories that are helpful …

Quality Control, Enterprise Liability, And Disintermediation In Managed Care, John V. Jacobi, Nicole Huberfeld

Faculty Scholarship

The authors examine the potential of enterprise liability for managed care organizations in light of current health-care finance realities. They conclude that, despite the recent trend toward more loosely structured managed care organizations, such as disintermediated or patient-directed plans, plan-based enterprise liability best serves the goal of reducing medical injury by permitting a focus on entities with sufficient scope to translate liability pressure into support for systemic risk-reduction measures. Advancing plan-based enterprise liability in an era of disengaged managed care organizations will require an extension of tort liability to firms with little control but much influence over their business partners.

The Future Of Southeast Asia: Challenges Of Child Sex Slavery And Trafficking In Cambodia, Benjamin Perrin, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Nicholas Gafuik, Stephanie Andrews

All Faculty Publications

The Cambodia Project: During 2000-2001, The Future Group launched its inaugural project in Southeast Asia to address child sex slavery and trafficking. For nearly one-hundred days, a deployment team of four worked with local organizations in Cambodia to implement new ideas to help the children affected by this crisis of international proportions. Initially, The Future Group had planned to work to implement five projects in Cambodia. After just three weeks, the deployment team was significantly ahead of schedule and began to actively identify new areas to pursue. Critical areas of need at local centres were addressed and projects that increased …

Grave Matter: Contestations In Actress Burial, Christine Courtland Mather

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Death disrupts. The social space accorded to rituals of death and memorialization differs from all other spaces. Actresses disturb. Society contests, determines, and enacts the burial of an actress as her final performance. This study explores the actress burial as a site of meaning. Contestations over the fate of the actress body reveal power structures and the motivations of cultural institutions. This study highlights four actresses—Lecouvreur, Oldfield, Bernhardt, and Duse—whose burials cover a wide range of circumstances. Each chapter gives the relevant biographical information for the actress and the social background for the cultural contestation over the actress body. Traditional …

The Association Of Food Cravings And Preferences With Food Intake, Corby Kyle Martin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

An ubiquitous assumption about food intake behavior is that people eat the types of foods that they crave and prefer. Food preferences reflect hedonic ratings of the degree to which people like certain foods. The present study investigated the association of food cravings and hedonic ratings with food intake behavior, assessed in the laboratory with a Universal Eating Monitor (Kissileff, Klingsberg, & Van Itallie, 1980). The study sample consisted of 162 adults who completed the Food Craving Inventory (FCI; White, Whisenhunt, Williamson, Greenway, & Netemeyer, 2001), a questionnaire that measures craving, including cravings for specific types of foods (i.e., High …

Pushing Evolutionary Analysis Of Law Or Evolving Law: Design Without A Designer, Jeffrey E. Stake

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Are We Buyers Or Hosts? A Memetic Approach To The First Amendment, Jeffrey E. Stake

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The First Amendment is often analyzed using the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas. Making use of memetic analysis, this article suggests that ideas should not be treated as inert products that we choose but as living things that sometimes exert some influence over their environment. Some of the ideas are more adept at surviving than others, and the ones that survive will not necessarily be good for humans. To account for the ability of some memes to replicate dangerously, the First Amendment should be read to allow governments to punish a speaker who advocates or threatens physical injury (other …

The Relationship Between Parenting Styles Experienced And The Quality Of Adolescent Sibling Interactions, Silvi Jantunen

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Time Of Day On Sustained Attention In Children, Jennifer Garaas

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Working With Supported Employment Participants : An Assessment Of Current Training Levels And Perceived Staff Training Needs, Amy Annette Kok

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Magazine Images On Body Satisfaction In College Women, Elizabeth Cameron

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Conflict Styles Associated With Type A Behavior, Amy J. Schmitz

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Breastfeeding : Teenagers' Attitudes And Beliefs, Sara Marie Schelkoph

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Types Of Female Athletic Participation And Female Body Image, Kirsten Robinson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Extinguishing Inheritance Rights: California Breaks New Ground In The Fight Against Elder Abuse But Fails To Build An Effective Foundation, Kymberleigh N. Korpus

UC Law Journal

This Note examines the elder abuse problem in the United States by describing: state responses to its "discovery" in the late 1970s as well as the debilitating reliance upon reporting; the currently available remedies and the hurdles to using those remedies; the ethical challenges to the states' primary abuse prevention tools, and the dramatic explosion in elder abuse that is already underway. Then, this Note describes American descent doctrines, and philosophies underlying exceptions to the doctrinal testamentary freedom and value-neutrality of intestate succession statutes. It proposes the Chinese behavior-based model of inheritance as an alternative inheritance scheme that, with its …

A Descriptive Survey Of Social Skills Training Practices For Preschool Children With Special Needs In Indiana, Carol Anne Mclean

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A statewide mail survey of specialEducation preschool teachers (N = 370, return rate of 51%) in Indiana was conducted to gather descriptive information about social skills training practices. Reported practices were compared to recommended practices from the theoretical literature. Results indicated a lack of formal training of teachers, lack of curriculum selection guidelines, lack of systematic assessment and intervention programs, and a lack of individualization of social skill training goals. Practices consistent with the theoretical literature were revealed including working with teams to develop IEP social skill goals, prioritizing social skills training activities, and effective use of observation assessment methods, …