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When Mini-Publics And Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’S National Debate On Abortion, David M. Farrell, Jane Suiter, Kevin Cunningham, Clodagh Harris Jan 2020

When Mini-Publics And Maxi-Publics Coincide: Ireland’S National Debate On Abortion, David M. Farrell, Jane Suiter, Kevin Cunningham, Clodagh Harris

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Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly (CA) of 2016–18 was tasked with making recommendations on abortion. This paper shows that from the outset its members were in large part in favour of the liberalisation of abortion (though a fair proportion were undecided), that over the course of its deliberations the CA as a whole moved in a more liberal direction on the issue, but that its position was largely reflected in the subsequent referendum vote by the population as a whole.

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Making Investments Transparent (In English Education), Heather Fox, Brianna Parsons, Alesha Alexander, Sarah King, Cole Burgin, Kristine Wertz Jan 2020

Making Investments Transparent (In English Education), Heather Fox, Brianna Parsons, Alesha Alexander, Sarah King, Cole Burgin, Kristine Wertz

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

ELA educators situate the relevancy of disciplinary content, while facing sociopolitical narratives that often challenge those contributions. “Making Investments Transparent” frames pre-service teachers’ reflections within an approach to English Education that illumines investments in students—a methodology applicable to students entering professional careers across disciplines.

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Students’ Perspectives And Engagement Transforming Newly Acquired Knowledge To Long-Term Memory Utilizing The Deliberate Practice Framework, Kathleen Mae Fischer, Taran Thomas Williams, Joseph David Hannigan Jan 2020

Students’ Perspectives And Engagement Transforming Newly Acquired Knowledge To Long-Term Memory Utilizing The Deliberate Practice Framework, Kathleen Mae Fischer, Taran Thomas Williams, Joseph David Hannigan

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

As students progress through their college years, they face the task of acquiring large volumes of information from a variety of classes. Many educative and psychological associations have proven that student performance is directly affected by the student perspective and the amount of engagement with each exercise. The greater the effort a student invests in the exercise, the greater the classroom performance quality. The results demonstrate better long-term memory while utilizing the deliberate practice framework through repetition. For our exercise, we started by administering a brief survey to assess students’ perspectives, confidence levels and engagement preferences. Students were encouraged to …

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Use Of Visual Imagery As An Alternative To Traditional Written Assignments, Geela Spira Jan 2020

Use Of Visual Imagery As An Alternative To Traditional Written Assignments, Geela Spira

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Use of alternatives to written methodology for pedagogical coursework is worth investigating as students increase use of visual means in their social media communications. When offered a choice, a full 61% of students report preferring visual video feedback over written feedback. Use of a visual imagery method, named PhotoVoice was used to reconstruct a written assignment in an Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy curriculum. The specific methodology included use of auto-photography where students photographed their daily occupations. Photo elicitation was used to extract meanings from the visual images. 54 students photographed their daily occupations and routines over a 2-4 week …

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Basic Course Leadership: Operational Transparency As A Best Practice For Adjunct Faculty Management, Krista M. Kimmel, Jennifer L. Fairchild, John Strada Jan 2020

Basic Course Leadership: Operational Transparency As A Best Practice For Adjunct Faculty Management, Krista M. Kimmel, Jennifer L. Fairchild, John Strada

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Research suggests adjunct faculty receive little institutional support and feel a sense of disconnection from their campuses. Nearly half of all faculty at American colleges and universities are classified as adjunct faculty in recent National Center for Educational Statistics reporting. Thus, academic departments should consider strategies to better include and engage adjunct faculty on their campuses. This article explores transparency as a best practice for the administration of communication basic courses at a mid-sized, regional university. Further, adjunct faculty members’ perceptions of the basic course administrators’ transparency will be discussed.

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Tips And Tricks For Grading And Providing Effective And Efficient Feedback In Writing Intensive Courses, Amanda W. Joyce Jan 2020

Tips And Tricks For Grading And Providing Effective And Efficient Feedback In Writing Intensive Courses, Amanda W. Joyce

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

The purpose of this piece is to explore methods for efficiently providing students with helpful feedback on their writing so as to best assist students in improving their writing and critical thinking. It explores various Canvas tools, text expanders, alternative grading techniques, and more. The techniques discussed here were inspired by conversations among faculty at Murray State University as well as among faculty members gathered at the 2019 Kentucky Pedagogicon.

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Educators Guiding Students With Different Cognitive Levels Through Complex Assignments At Any Educative Level, Kathleen Mae Fischer, Taran Thomas Williams, Joseph David Hannigan Jan 2020

Educators Guiding Students With Different Cognitive Levels Through Complex Assignments At Any Educative Level, Kathleen Mae Fischer, Taran Thomas Williams, Joseph David Hannigan

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Students often need guidance to recognize the techniques necessary to complete complex assignments. The challenge that educators face is choosing the appropriate teaching method for students of different cognitive levels. We utilized the critical thinking framework and repetitive practice models in preclinical and clinical courses. These forms of teaching have been utilized and acknowledged in numerous disciplines for years. For our exercise, we started by administering a brief survey to assess the students perceptions, learning preferences and confidence levels. Next we assessed the students’ cognitive levels by utilizing 3 calibrated cases and graded the responses with a 1-5 point Likert …

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Pregnancy, Femicide, And The Indispensability Of Legalizing Abortion: A Comparison Between Argentina And Ireland, Agustina M. Buedo Jan 2020

Pregnancy, Femicide, And The Indispensability Of Legalizing Abortion: A Comparison Between Argentina And Ireland, Agustina M. Buedo

Emory International Law Review

On August 9, 2018, after 16 hours of deliberation, Argentina’s senate narrowly rejected the “Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo” bill that would have allowed women the right to terminate their pregnancy during the first 14 weeks. Argentine law currently considers abortion a crime with the exception of two narrowly defined circumstances that are rarely applied. The legalization of abortion is vitally important to the women in Argentina who face an increased risk of femicide. Femicide rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world. Femicide can be linked specifically to pregnant women who could not get an abortion and …

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Wrongful Convictions: Not Just An American Phenomenon?: An Investigation Into The Causes Of Wrongful Convictions In The United States, Germany, Italy, And Japan, Erin Schapiro Jan 2020

Wrongful Convictions: Not Just An American Phenomenon?: An Investigation Into The Causes Of Wrongful Convictions In The United States, Germany, Italy, And Japan, Erin Schapiro

Emory International Law Review

This Comment first examines the U.S. adversarial system and the causes of wrongful convictions in the U.S. adversarial system. This Comment then examines the German inquisitorial system and potential causes of wrongful convictions in the German inquisitorial system. Then, the Italian hybrid system and the potential causes of wrongful convictions in the Italian system. Finally, this Comment then examines the Japanese hybrid Saiban-in system and the potential cause of wrongful convictions in the Japanese system. This Comment proposes that, to prevent wrongful convictions, criminal justice reform must be undertaken to incorporate the positive aspects of the United States, German, Italian, …

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Childhood And Adolescent Obesity Prevention In Twin Falls, Idaho, Allison Welch Jan 2020

Childhood And Adolescent Obesity Prevention In Twin Falls, Idaho, Allison Welch

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Obesity, a condition that negatively affects an individual’s physical and mental health, is a growing problem in Twin Falls, Idaho. Like the United States as a whole, Twin Falls County is experiencing an obesity crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ([CDC], n.d), the national obesity rate has increased by 12% from 2000 to 2018. The Twin Falls County obesity rate has increased from 21% in 2011 to 33% in 2020 (County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2018). While it took the nation 18 years to increase the obesity rate by 12% (CDC, n.d.), it only took Twin …

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E-Cigarette Use Among Youth In Iowa, Miranda Kieler Jan 2020

E-Cigarette Use Among Youth In Iowa, Miranda Kieler

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Electronic cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery products are battery-operated, heating elements that individuals use to inhale nicotine products rather than traditional cigarettes or cigars (Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2020). E-cigarettes can also be used to inhale illicit drugs such as marijuana. Electronic cigarettes can resemble traditional cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, while other products may look like pens, USB sticks, or mods (larger tanks) (CDC, 2020). The e-cigarettes have an atomizer or heating element that helps individuals inhale liquid nicotine vapors. Electronic cigarettes were developed as a potential health tobacco cessation product and thought to reduce the health …

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Preventing Opioid Addiction In Buncombe County, North Carolina, Rachel Franquemont Jan 2020

Preventing Opioid Addiction In Buncombe County, North Carolina, Rachel Franquemont

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Opioid addiction is a significant health problem in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Opioid addiction can result in death from overdoses, economic hardship including high costs for treatment, decreased work productivity, and legal involvement (NIDA, n.d.). Mental health issues including opioid addiction are widespread and therefore difficult and costly to help all those afflicted. It has been shown that in the United States fifty percent of people will have at least one diagnosable mental health issue in their lifetime. In addition, 6 out of 10 of these will be moderate to severe (Conyne, Horne, & Raczynski, 2013). Therefore, prevention is a …

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Societal Impacts Of Sports Betting In Colorado, Lawerence Wall Jr. Jan 2020

Societal Impacts Of Sports Betting In Colorado, Lawerence Wall Jr.

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Sports betting has become legal in many states across the Unites States after the Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association United States Supreme Court case was ruled in favor of the former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on May 14, 2018. This case overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), allowing state-sponsored sports betting. PASPA was passed by Congress in 1992 to prohibit state-sanctioned sports gambling, except in four states: Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon, which already established legal sports betting regulations. New Jersey failed to apply in 1991 to be added to the list of exempt states …

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Obesity Prevention In Morrow County, Oregon, Chris Humphreys Jan 2020

Obesity Prevention In Morrow County, Oregon, Chris Humphreys

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Morrow County, Oregon, is a county located in the north central part of Oregon, right along the Columbia River. The county’s industrial profile is a mix between large agricultural producers, longtime family ranches, and major tech companies like Amazon and Facebook. The largest town, Boardman, only has a population of around 3400 persons (2018), with several other smaller towns making up the rest of the county. Many of the subjects who work in Morrow County commute from several larger towns in adjacent counties. One result of this is that there are no open-to-the-public fitness clubs in Morrow County. Any access …

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Internal Funding Newsletter, Academic Year 2019-2020, Uno Office Of Research And Creative Activity Jan 2020

Internal Funding Newsletter, Academic Year 2019-2020, Uno Office Of Research And Creative Activity

Internal Funding Newsletters

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is committed to fostering the academic and scholarly pursuits of faculty, staff, and students. While the 2019- 2020 Academic Year brought many changes and challenges, UNO has continued to invest in a multitude of funding programs to promote research and creative activity. This year’s programs provided over $530,000 for student and faculty projects that reflect the broad range of scholarly interests of the UNO community: the use of 3D printed models to improve the understanding of complex orthopedic trauma, the role of religion and spirituality in deterring sex offending, the romanticization of the highland …

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On Extreme Perception Bias, Emerico Habacon Aguilar, Klarizze Martin Puzon, Imelda Revilla Molina Jan 2020

On Extreme Perception Bias, Emerico Habacon Aguilar, Klarizze Martin Puzon, Imelda Revilla Molina

DLSU Business & Economics Review

This note investigates perception bias: To what extent do individual opinions confound reality? We estimated the relative gap between self-declared estimates and real data. With a sample of respondents from Laguna, Philippines, we asked about the prevalence of diabetes and smartphone usage. We observed a trend of judgment miscalibration. Responses exhibit significant deviation from facts; for example, inaccuracies can go as high as seven times the real value. Especially for estimates on smartphone ownership, bootstrapped quantile regression models showed that perception bias is associated with age.

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Japanese And Filipino College Students As Consumers: Does Country Of Origin Affect Their Purchase Intent?, Luz Suplico Jeong, Reynaldo Bautista Jr., Takanori Osaki Jan 2020

Japanese And Filipino College Students As Consumers: Does Country Of Origin Affect Their Purchase Intent?, Luz Suplico Jeong, Reynaldo Bautista Jr., Takanori Osaki

DLSU Business & Economics Review

The marketing literature shows that consumers evaluate and buy products based on the country of origin. The impact of the country of origin (COO) on consumers, especially college students who influence demand in global markets, is becoming increasingly important due to advances in information technology. There are studies that show that COO can directly affect purchase intent without mediator variables. However, this study shows that COO does not have a direct effect on purchase intent. COO can only affect the purchase intent of Japanese and Filipino consumers if perceived product quality is used as a mediator variable. In the case …

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A Jershon Classroom, Scott Royal Bagley Jan 2020

A Jershon Classroom, Scott Royal Bagley

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

A powerful tool for recruiting students can be our classroom environment. The scriptures give us a wonderful example of this idea. After the people of Ammon are given the land of Jershon, they are soon joined by religious refugees from among the Zoramites (Alma 35:6–9), fugitives from among the Lamanites (Alma 47:29), and Lamanite wartime prisoners (Alma 62:17, 27–29). The people of Ammon accept all of these people as their own. But the question is this: what was it about the people of Ammon that attracted these societal refugees? As we examine the people of Ammon and how they cared …

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Teaching In The Savior’S Way: True Principles In Both Spiritual And Secular Learning, Damon L. Bahr Jan 2020

Teaching In The Savior’S Way: True Principles In Both Spiritual And Secular Learning, Damon L. Bahr

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

While I was serving as a stake president in 2012, members of the coordinating council of which I was a member were assigned to teach the leadership of their respective stakes about the new Come, Follow Me youth curriculum, the first explicit, curriculum-based embodiment of Teaching in the Savior’s Way. In my preparations for fulfilling this assignment, I observed that teaching in his way is not just a teaching “method,” but rather a perspective on teaching and learning. I also noticed there were a number of similarities between teaching in the Savior’s way and the pedagogy I had been …

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“I See You Have Been Convicted Of A Felony; Can You Tell Me About That?” Workforce Development Challenges For Restorative Citizens Seeking Employment, Terrance Hinton Jan 2020

“I See You Have Been Convicted Of A Felony; Can You Tell Me About That?” Workforce Development Challenges For Restorative Citizens Seeking Employment, Terrance Hinton

All Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Incarceration has been an issue nationwide in the United States for decades due to policies from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s that lead to mass increases in incarceration. In the past decade, several states have overhauled their criminal sentencing and prison structure to lower prison populations. This has resulted in the release of thousands of restorative citizens and has expanded the need for reentry services. Released individuals who have been incarcerated face a number of social, political, and economic barriers that prevent them from re-entering society successfully. The inability to obtain employment is often cited as one of the most …

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An Investigation Into The Prevalence Of Food Hypersensitivity Amongst Children In The Early Years Service In Ireland, Ruta Patel Jan 2020

An Investigation Into The Prevalence Of Food Hypersensitivity Amongst Children In The Early Years Service In Ireland, Ruta Patel

Theses

In the early years services in Ireland, the study studied the prevalence of hypersensitivity to food and the associated food among children between the aging of 0 and 12. Participants were 980 EYS recorded with the State and Department of Education of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland during 2019. In the descriptive-analytical report, the management guideline for answering these questions by the EYS was circulated electronically via emails and included information regarding class, age, food hypersensitivity and food that induce hypersensitivity among children. Results on the prevalence of allergens to Food and Coeliac diseases and current policies to …

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Conclusions In Search Of Evidence, John Gee Jan 2020

Conclusions In Search Of Evidence, John Gee

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Riess’s book surveying the beliefs and behaviors of younger members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was supposed to compare the attitudes of younger generations with those of older generations. Unfortunately, flaws in the design, execution, and analysis of the survey prevent it from being what it was supposed to be. Instead the book is Riess’s musings on how she would like the Church to change, supported by cherry-picked interviews and an occasional result from the survey. The book demonstrates confusion about basic sampling methods, a failure to understand the relevant literature pertaining to the sociology of …

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Words Of Wisdom: New Generations And New Challenges, Ryan T. Cragun Jan 2020

Words Of Wisdom: New Generations And New Challenges, Ryan T. Cragun

Mormon Studies Review

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like many other denominations, is facing a number of challenges at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Should women play a more prominent role in the religion?1 Can the LDS Church accommodate lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals?2 Do transgender and queer individuals even fit within Mormon cosmology and conceptions of gender?3 Will the LDS Church adjust its standards to reflect modern norms relating to clothing, body modification, sexual activity, pornography, and masturbation?4 Does the LDS Church have an answer for the enormous wave of secularization that is leading to declining interest in …

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Unsafe At Any Campus: Don't Let Colleges Become The Next Cruise Ships, Nursing Homes, And Food Processing Plants, Peter H. Huang, Debra S. Austin Jan 2020

Unsafe At Any Campus: Don't Let Colleges Become The Next Cruise Ships, Nursing Homes, And Food Processing Plants, Peter H. Huang, Debra S. Austin

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The decision to educate our students via in-person or online learning environments while COVID-19 is unrestrained is a false choice, when the clear path to achieve our chief objective safely, the education of our students, can be done online. Our decision-making should be guided by the overriding principle that people matter more than money. We recognize that lost tuition revenue if students delay or defer education is an institutional concern, but we posit that many students and parents would prefer a safer online alternative to riskier in-person options, especially as we get closer to fall, and American death tolls rise. …

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The Morning Meeting: Fostering A Participatory Democracy Begins With Youth In Public Education, Rebecca C. Tilhou Jan 2020

The Morning Meeting: Fostering A Participatory Democracy Begins With Youth In Public Education, Rebecca C. Tilhou

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

There is a faltering sense of democracy in America's current political climate due to polarized opinions about leadership's decisions and antagonistic political parties. John Dewey (1916) proposed that education is the place to foster democracy, as schools can provide a platform to actively engage students in authentic democratic experiences that will empower them to act democratically beyond the walls of the school. The democratic schools that emerged during the Free School Movement of the 1960s and 1970s embody Dewey's philosophy, specifically with the shared governance occurring in their School Meetings. Unfortunately, American public education's present preoccupation with standardization, proficiency scores, …

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"Zooming In" On Robotics During Covid-19: A Preservice Teacher, An Engineering Student, And A 5th Grader Engineer Robotic Flowers Via Zoom, Jennifer Kidd, Krishna Kaipa, Kristie Gutierrez, Pilar Pazos, Orlando Ayala, Stacie Ringleb Jan 2020

"Zooming In" On Robotics During Covid-19: A Preservice Teacher, An Engineering Student, And A 5th Grader Engineer Robotic Flowers Via Zoom, Jennifer Kidd, Krishna Kaipa, Kristie Gutierrez, Pilar Pazos, Orlando Ayala, Stacie Ringleb

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 induced school shutdown dramatically decreased students’ hands-on STEM learning opportunities. An NSF-funded program partnering preservice teachers and undergraduate engineering students to teach robotics to fifth graders was adapted to a virtual format via Zoom. A case study intimately explored one team’s experience as they engineered bio-inspired robots over five weekly sessions. Zoom recordings, written reflections, and lesson slides were analyzed to describe how the virtual context shaped the lesson and influenced the preservice teacher’s experience. All three participants successfully engineered a robotic flower indicating hands-on robotics instruction is feasible in an online format. The virtual context increased the …

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Gracefully Dancing The Two-Step: Strategies For Highlighting Librarians As Instructional Designers, Michelle Costello, Kimberly Davies-Hoffman, Corey Ha Jan 2020

Gracefully Dancing The Two-Step: Strategies For Highlighting Librarians As Instructional Designers, Michelle Costello, Kimberly Davies-Hoffman, Corey Ha

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2013

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The Art Of Marketing Luxury, Aiho Tan Jan 2020

The Art Of Marketing Luxury, Aiho Tan

MA Theses

Luxury businesses face the paradoxical challenge of growing a business whilst upholding an aura of exclusivity. The objective of this thesis is to examine the key marketing strategies employed by leading luxury brands ranging from fine art to real estate. This paper examines whether luxury brands need to embrace digital innovation and technology in order to remain leaders of luxury. First-hand insight from industry leaders and case studies reveal that luxury brands need to embrace digital, utilize the power of experiential marketing strategies, invest in creative talent, strategically partner and collaborate with brands and individuals, and craft an authentic narrative …

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Hilma Af Klint's Divine Commission, Paintings For The Temple : Modern Western Esotericism Embodied And Art Historical Norms Redfined, Hilary Cianciolo Jan 2020

Hilma Af Klint's Divine Commission, Paintings For The Temple : Modern Western Esotericism Embodied And Art Historical Norms Redfined, Hilary Cianciolo

MA Theses

Swedish occultist, scholar, and artist, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), produced a series of 193 paintings after receiving a commission in 1906 from a divine spirit who offered complex iconographic insight into human ontology. The resulting series of colorful abstract paintings would not only alter her life, but also redefine contemporary perceptions of the Western art historical canon. Although all works of art are inherently spiritual to a degree, af Klint’s, commission Paintings for the Temple, is an example of Modern Western Esotericism. The commission maintains the six principle characteristics the construct is defined by, including: Role of Mediations and Imagination, …

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Experience Of Burnout Among Educational Leadership Doctoral Candidates, Ron M. Azoulay Jan 2020

Experience Of Burnout Among Educational Leadership Doctoral Candidates, Ron M. Azoulay

Student Work

In this era of high accountability, standardized based instructions, and public debates over teacher quality, performance, and evaluation, education administrators across the country have come under intense pressures (Boccio, Weisz, & Lefkowitz, 2016; Carey, 2011; Ravitch, 2010). Due to the high incentives and intense pressures on school leaders, and the wide-ranging impact these positions have on communities, it is crucial to understand those who are seeking greater leadership roles in education. The purpose of this study was to determine if candidates pursing doctorate degrees in educational leadership are experiencing burnout. The dissertation addresses the phenomenon of job burnout, which is …

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