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'It Was All Connected': Understanding And Addressing Early School-Leaving Among Learners Of English As A Second Language, L. Maureen Lymburner Jan 2005

'It Was All Connected': Understanding And Addressing Early School-Leaving Among Learners Of English As A Second Language, L. Maureen Lymburner

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The goal of this research project, therefore, was to develop an understanding of the educational experiences of ESL youth so as to identify the facilitators and inhibitors of early school-leaving. Participants shared their recognition of the value of education. They also spoke of the ways in which negative interactions with teachers and peers, inflexible school practices and policies, financial responsibilities, lack of time, and perception of low levels of English-language proficiency negatively affected their educational experiences. Among the factors facilitating a positive educational experience were teachers who went out of their way to provide the youth with extra assistance and …

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Resident Participation Across The Lifecycle Of A Primary Prevention Initiative, Alexandra Kissin Jan 2005

Resident Participation Across The Lifecycle Of A Primary Prevention Initiative, Alexandra Kissin

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Resident participation is a key aspect of primary prevention initiatives that follow a community-driven approach. This study examines the evolution of resident participation at three Ontario sites (Guelph, Cornwall, and Walpole Island) of the primary prevention initiative Better Beginnings, Better Futures. The main research questions were focused on discovering the nature, barriers, facilitators, and impacts of resident participation and the roles that residents played at each of the three phases of the sites' lifecycles (i.e., the early years, the middle years, and the later years). Data collection involved a review of archival documents for the early and middle years and …

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Becoming: Stories Of L'Arche Children, Caroline A. Currie Jan 2005

Becoming: Stories Of L'Arche Children, Caroline A. Currie

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In this study, I explore what it means to be a child of L’Arche from a combined narrative and autoethnographic approach. L’Arche is an international federation of intentional communities where individuals with a developmental disability and non-disabled individuals live together in the spirit of the Beatitudes. While much is written about the history and philosophy of L’Arche, and the personal experiences of its adult members, L’Arche’s narrative does not include the voice of its children. Therefore, my study aims to give voice to the stories of L’Arche children so they may be included in the narrative of L’Arche. It is …

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Cultural Diversity At Family And Children's Services Of The Region Of Waterloo: An Evaluation Of A Cultural Competency Training Program, Jessica Leigh Vinograd Jan 2005

Cultural Diversity At Family And Children's Services Of The Region Of Waterloo: An Evaluation Of A Cultural Competency Training Program, Jessica Leigh Vinograd

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Cultural competence among child welfare practitioners is imperative given rapidly changing Canadian demographics, current inadequacy in the delivery of social services due to ethnocentric bias, and the insufficiency of educational programs in providing multicultural training for future practitioners. This study investigated the extent to which a specific training program influences multicultural competencies. In Ontario, child welfare employees (N = 61) completed the Multicultural Awareness Knowledge and Skills Survey (MAKSS) (D'Andrea, Daniels, & Heck, 1991) on two separate occasions. A 2 (pre, post) x 2 (experimental, comparison) mixed-model design was used to test the hypothesis that experimental participants would score significantly …

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Children's Ability To Use Time-Lines To Recall The Order And Duration Of Single And Repeated Actions, Leanne Lynn Gosse Jan 2005

Children's Ability To Use Time-Lines To Recall The Order And Duration Of Single And Repeated Actions, Leanne Lynn Gosse

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This study examined the ability of children aged 4-8 to recall temporal information verbally and using a visual 'time-line'. Forty-five children participated in an activity (making a picture of the sky at night) with the researcher, followed by a series of recall tasks. Children were asked to recall location, duration and sequencing information about single autobiographical events that parents provided, as well as single and repeated events from the activity. Results demonstrated developmental increases in children's ability to provide temporal information. The 7-8 year olds were always more accurate than the 5-6 year olds, followed by the 4 year olds. …

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Forging And Severing Connections Between Historical Injustices And Current Experience, Gregory Roy Gunn Jan 2005

Forging And Severing Connections Between Historical Injustices And Current Experience, Gregory Roy Gunn

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Past research on temporal self-appraisal theory has revealed that individuals are able to maintain a positive sense of self by subjectively moving favourable past events forward and unfavourable past events backward in time. The current study extends past work by examining whether individuals alter subjective distance from historical injustices to protect their collective identity. Men, as members of a perpetrator group, may perceive past injustices against women as a threat to their collective identity. As such, men may be motivated to subjectively move past injustices backward in time. On the other hand, women, as members of a victim group, may …

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'To The Streets Cuz We're On The Streets': Exploring The Controversy Of Homeless Youth Activism In Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario), Nadia Hausfather Jan 2005

'To The Streets Cuz We're On The Streets': Exploring The Controversy Of Homeless Youth Activism In Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario), Nadia Hausfather

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Throughout the past years, homeless youth have been involved in activism in Kitchener-Waterloo (K-W), a mid-size city located in southern Ontario. Such activism has caused a great deal of controversy in the K-W community. The main objective of this research was to explore that controversy. The three main research questions used to explore this controversy were: (1) Why do homeless youth become involved in activism? (2) What are the effects of homeless youth activism? (3) What factors limit or facilitate homeless youth activism? I used a participatory action research approach, consisting of a steering committee of homeless youth and two …

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Examining The Factors That Promote Sustained Engagement In Young People, Marla C. Pender Jan 2005

Examining The Factors That Promote Sustained Engagement In Young People, Marla C. Pender

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Little research to date has explored the kinds of factors that promote sustained engagement in young people. In order to address this gap in the literature, 20 individuals who attended national youth conferences (the goal of which being to promote engagement above and beyond the conferences themselves) between one and 14 years earlier were interviewed about their experiences before, during, and after the conferences. Specifically, participants were asked to discuss their levels of involvement in their schools and communities after attending the conferences, as well as the factors that sustained or hindered their participation. Four emerging themes---the nature of the …

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Prediction Of Childhood Externalizing Disorder Outcome: A Variable-Oriented And Person-Oriented Analysis Of Better Beginnings, Better Futures Data, Stephanie C. Cerutti Jan 2005

Prediction Of Childhood Externalizing Disorder Outcome: A Variable-Oriented And Person-Oriented Analysis Of Better Beginnings, Better Futures Data, Stephanie C. Cerutti

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The current study identified risk factors associated with childhood externalize disorders. Intervention outcomes of children that took part in a community-based, early childhood prevention project, Better Beginnings Better Futures, were studied longitudinally from Grade 3 to Grade 6. Three intervention sites in Ontario (Cornwall, n = 108; Sudbury, n = 134; Highfield, n = 131) and two matched comparison sites in Ontario (Ottawa-Vanier, n = 116; Etobicoke, n = 87) were examined. Risk factors examined at multiple levels of analysis, including the individual, family, and community levels of analysis, were considered. It was expected that higher risk children would respond …

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Seeing The Future: Does Visual Perspective Influence Motivation?, Noelia Vasquez Jan 2005

Seeing The Future: Does Visual Perspective Influence Motivation?, Noelia Vasquez

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This research examined how people's thoughts about their future task performance influence their current motivational state. It was hypothesized that the effects of imagining a successful future performance would depend upon the visual perspective adopted. People were expected to feel more motivated when they imagined a highly successful performance from a third-person perspective rather than a first-person perspective. In two experiments, participants identified an important academic task that they would be completing in the near future and were asked to imagine it unfolding either very successfully (positive valence) or less successfully (negative or neutral valence). To manipulate visual perspective, participants …

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Staffing With Clergy Teams In The United Methodist Church, J. David Panther Jan 2005

Staffing With Clergy Teams In The United Methodist Church, J. David Panther

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Contextualized Training For Missionaries: A Brazilian Model, Donald K. Finley Jan 2005

Contextualized Training For Missionaries: A Brazilian Model, Donald K. Finley

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Who We Were Meant To Be : Communicating Core Values To All Saints Presbyterian Church In Singapore, Philip Jin Teck Huan Jan 2005

Who We Were Meant To Be : Communicating Core Values To All Saints Presbyterian Church In Singapore, Philip Jin Teck Huan

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The Impact Of Vision On Congregational Health In The West Ohio Conference Of The United Methodist Church, David Michael Cady Jan 2005

The Impact Of Vision On Congregational Health In The West Ohio Conference Of The United Methodist Church, David Michael Cady

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Deploying Laity Into Ministry Among Lay-Releasing Congregations In The North Georgia Conference, James Francis Ellison Jan 2005

Deploying Laity Into Ministry Among Lay-Releasing Congregations In The North Georgia Conference, James Francis Ellison

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The Influence Of Spiritual Gifts On Effectiveness Of Leadership Development Among Undergraduate College Students, K. Keith Cressman Jan 2005

The Influence Of Spiritual Gifts On Effectiveness Of Leadership Development Among Undergraduate College Students, K. Keith Cressman

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The Impact Of Verbal Faith Sharing Within The Evangelism Curriculum On Alumni/Ae Serving In Full-Time Pastoral Appointments, Julia D'Andrea Crim Jan 2005

The Impact Of Verbal Faith Sharing Within The Evangelism Curriculum On Alumni/Ae Serving In Full-Time Pastoral Appointments, Julia D'Andrea Crim

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Leading By Example : The Impact Of A Spiritual Growth Experience On A Church Staff, Stephen Malone Dodson Jan 2005

Leading By Example : The Impact Of A Spiritual Growth Experience On A Church Staff, Stephen Malone Dodson

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As Goes The Seminary : How Seminaries Are Intentionally Producing Spiritually Alive Pastors, Matthew James Hook Jan 2005

As Goes The Seminary : How Seminaries Are Intentionally Producing Spiritually Alive Pastors, Matthew James Hook

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Towards An Ortho-Doxological Missional Ministry, John R. Guerre Jan 2005

Towards An Ortho-Doxological Missional Ministry, John R. Guerre

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An Evaluation Of Pastoral Self-Leadership And Church Health In Church Plants, Steven Allen Jackson Jan 2005

An Evaluation Of Pastoral Self-Leadership And Church Health In Church Plants, Steven Allen Jackson

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Incarnational Evangelism : Developing A Culturally Sensitive Model To Engage People With The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, Gerald A. Orthner Jan 2005

Incarnational Evangelism : Developing A Culturally Sensitive Model To Engage People With The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, Gerald A. Orthner

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Leading From The Margins : Recovering The Christian Tradition Of Hospitality In Church Leadership, Glenn Virgil Lorenz Jan 2005

Leading From The Margins : Recovering The Christian Tradition Of Hospitality In Church Leadership, Glenn Virgil Lorenz

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Beauty In Worship : A Paradigm Incorporating Philosophical And Theological Attributes Of Beauty In Assessing Worship, Wayne Allen Price Jan 2005

Beauty In Worship : A Paradigm Incorporating Philosophical And Theological Attributes Of Beauty In Assessing Worship, Wayne Allen Price

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Using '40 Days Of Purpose' Spiritual Growth Campaign As A Key Intervention In Small Church Turnaround, Silas D. Ripato Jan 2005

Using '40 Days Of Purpose' Spiritual Growth Campaign As A Key Intervention In Small Church Turnaround, Silas D. Ripato

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Preaching Christian Doctrine In A Post-Christian Society, James Paton Jan 2005

Preaching Christian Doctrine In A Post-Christian Society, James Paton

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The Common Leadership Qualities Of Nazarene Women Pastors Who Have Led Good To Great Churches, Mary Rearick Paul Jan 2005

The Common Leadership Qualities Of Nazarene Women Pastors Who Have Led Good To Great Churches, Mary Rearick Paul

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The Interaction Of Church Health, Theological Understanding, And The First Year Of Connected In Christ At Kingswood United Methodist Church In Clovis, New Mexico, Bradford Roy Reeves Jan 2005

The Interaction Of Church Health, Theological Understanding, And The First Year Of Connected In Christ At Kingswood United Methodist Church In Clovis, New Mexico, Bradford Roy Reeves

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Breaking The Two Hundred Barrier At Bonaire United Methodist Church Through Lay Ministries, William E. Woodson Jan 2005

Breaking The Two Hundred Barrier At Bonaire United Methodist Church Through Lay Ministries, William E. Woodson

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Victor Emile Frankl's Meaning Paradigm : Logotherapy As A Model For Meaning-Centered Pastoral Ministry In The Contemporary Singaporean Context, Peter Wong Keen Mun Jan 2005

Victor Emile Frankl's Meaning Paradigm : Logotherapy As A Model For Meaning-Centered Pastoral Ministry In The Contemporary Singaporean Context, Peter Wong Keen Mun

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