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Book Lesser Expectations

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vic Parsons
  • Publisher : FriesenPress
  • Release : 2013-06-06
  • ISBN : 1460214374
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Lesser Expectations written by Vic Parsons and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel exploring the relationship between Charles Dickens and his errant son Frank.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Recruitment

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Recruitment written by Kang Yang Trevor Yu, PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook includes the most up to date, evidence-based, and comprehensive coverage of recruitment and retention, as written by the top leaders of recruitment research in the world.

Book Teacher Expectations in Education

Download or read book Teacher Expectations in Education written by Christine M. Rubie-Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of teacher expectations on student outcomes is routinely explored by professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. Written by a leading expert on teacher expectations, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory, and brings it to a wider audience. With chapters on the history of the teacher expectation field, student perceptions of teacher expectations, and implications for practice, this concise volume is designed for use in educational psychology courses and any education course that includes social-psychological aspects of classrooms in the curriculum. It will be indispensable for student researchers and both pre- and in-service teachers alike.

Book Women s Leadership

Download or read book Women s Leadership written by V. Stead and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Leadership challenges traditional concepts of leadership that draw on the male experience and offers an alternative construction that emerges from the female experience. Highlighting leadership's social, cultural and political roots, the authors argue that leadership is neither a free floating nor a gender neutral concept.

Book The Time of European Governance

Download or read book The Time of European Governance written by Magnus Ekengren and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. A theoretical approach to the changing demands of policy-planning as the focus shifts to the present and new demands and rhythms influence European decision-making.

Book A Theory of Legitimate Expectations for Public Administration

Download or read book A Theory of Legitimate Expectations for Public Administration written by Alexander Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an unfortunate but unavoidable feature of even well-ordered democratic societies that governmental administrative agencies often create legitimate expectations (procedural or substantive) on the part of non-governmental agents (individual citizens, groups, businesses, organizations, institutions, and instrumentalities) but find themselves unable to fulfil those expectations for reasons of justice, the public interest, severe financial constraints, and sometimes harsh political realities. How governmental administrative agencies, operating on behalf of society, handle the creation and frustration of legitimate expectations implicates a whole host of values that we have reason to care about, including under non-ideal conditions-not least justice, fairness, autonomy, the rule of law, responsible uses of power, credible commitments, reliance interests, security of expectations, stability, democracy, parliamentary supremacy, and legitimate authority. This book develops a new theory of legitimate expectations for public administration drawing on normative arguments from political and legal theory. Brown begins by offering a new account of the legitimacy of legitimate expectations. He argues that it is the very responsibility of governmental administrative agencies for creating expectations that ought to ground legitimacy, as opposed to the justice or the legitimate authority of those agencies and expectations. He also clarifies some of the main ways in which agencies can be responsible for creating expectations. Moreover, he argues that governmental administrative agencies should be held liable for losses they directly cause by creating and then frustrating legitimate expectations on the part of non-governmental agents and, if liable, have an obligation to make adequate compensation payments in respect of those losses.

Book Politics of the Lesser Evil

Download or read book Politics of the Lesser Evil written by Anton Pelinka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his pathbreaking book, Leadership, James MacGregor Burns defines a kind of leadership with an indistinguishable personal impact on society. He calls this "transformal" leadership, and sees it as more than routine and calculable responses to demands. In fact, he argues, the more stable a liberal democracy, the less freedom of action for transformal leadership. Anton Pelinka uses a wellspring of historical fact to argue that politics always means having to choose between the lesser of two evils and that democracy reduces any possibility of personal leadership.According to Pelinka, Jaruzelski's politics of democratization in Poland in the 1980s (which led to the first free and competitive elections in a communist system) illustrate personal leadership hampered by democracy. Jaruzelski initiated the roundtable process that transformed Poland into a democracy; yet, this process ultimately ended with his abdication. Pelinka further emphasizes contradictions between transformal leadership and democracy by comparing the leadership styles of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. He de-.scribes collaboration, resistance, and tensions between domestic and international leadership, using the American examples of Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon and the European examples of Petain and Churchill. Pelinka then turns to the tragic fate of the Judenrate under the Nazi regime to illustrate the "lesser-evil" approach. He closes with a discussion of "moral leadership" and how abstaining from office, just as Gandhi and King did, may be particularly suited to stable democracies.Pelinka's unique use of rich empirical evidence from twentieth-century history is this volume's hallmark. He is critical of mainstream political theory and its neglect of deviant examples of democracies - such as Switzerland, Italy, and Japan, where there is traditionally much less emphasis placed on leadership. Pelinka's noteworthy study will be essential reading for political scientists and theorists, political philosophers and political sociologists with special interest in political ethics, and contemporary historians.

Book Spiritual Health

    Book Details:
  • Author : John W. Fisher
  • Publisher : UoM Custom Book Centre
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1921775009
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Spiritual Health written by John W. Fisher and published by UoM Custom Book Centre. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As spirituality first appeared in Australian curriculum documents in 1994, it was important to establish how educators thought it related to student well- being. In this research a description and four accounts of spirituality - spiritual rationalism, monism, dualism, and multidimensional unity - were developed from available literature. The literature also revealed four sets of relationships important to spiritual well-being. These were the relationships of a person with themself, others, environment, and Transcendent Other.

Book Pararealities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Floyd Merrell
  • Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 902721722X
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Pararealities written by Floyd Merrell and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study is to inquire, from a broad epistemological view, into the underlying nature of fictions, and above all, to discover how it is possible to create and process them. In Chapter One, I put forth four "postulates" in the form of though experiments. in Chapter Two I turn attention to make-believe, imaginary, and dream worlds, and how they can be conceived and perceived only with respect to the/a "real world." Chapter Three includes a discussion of the affinities and differences between one's tacit knowledge of certain aspects of the number system in arithmetic (an ordered series) and the range of all possible fictional entities (an unordered network). In Chapter Four I establish more precisely the relations between one's "real world" and one's fictional worlds in light of the conclusions from Chapter Three. And, in Chapter Five, I attempt to construct a formal model with which to account for the construction of all possible fictional sentences.

Book An Investigation of the Expectations Adult Learners Hold Regarding Effort Expenditure  Time Investment  and Learning Achievement for Four Types of Prepackaged  Self paced Instructional Materials

Download or read book An Investigation of the Expectations Adult Learners Hold Regarding Effort Expenditure Time Investment and Learning Achievement for Four Types of Prepackaged Self paced Instructional Materials written by Mary Lorraine Ploor and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Psychology and Diabetes

Download or read book Handbook of Psychology and Diabetes written by Clare Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook fulfils a pressing need within the area of psychological measurement in diabetes research and practice by providing access to material which has either been widely dispersed through the psychological and medical literature or has not previously been published. Journal articles describing the psychometric development of scales have rarely included the scales themselves but this book includes copies of scales and a wealth of additional information from unpublished theses, reports and recent manuscripts. You will find information about the reliability, validity, scoring, norms, and use of the measures in previous research presented in one volume. The Handbook is designed to help researchers and clinicians: · To select scales suitable for their purposes · To administer and score the scales correctly · To interpret the results appropriately. Dr. Clare Bradley is Reader in Health Psychology and Director of the Diabetes Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr. Bradley and her research group have designed, developed and used a wide variety of measures of psychological processes and outcomes. Many of these measures have been designed and developed specifically for people with diabetes. Together with diabetes-specific psychological measures developed by other researchers internationally, these instruments have played an important part in facilitating patient-centred approaches to diabetes research and clinical practice.

Book The Great American Crime Decline

Download or read book The Great American Crime Decline written by Franklin E. Zimring and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to 75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no major change in the population, the economy or the schools. Offering the most reliable data available, Zimring documents the decline as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranges across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested. There was no magic bullet but instead a combination of factors working in concert rather than a single cause that produced the decline. Further--and happily for future progress, it is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural changes. Smaller shifts in policy can make large differences. The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success. In this definitive look at the great American crime decline, Franklin E. Zimring finds no pat answers but evidence that even lower crime rates might be in store.

Book California  Court of Appeal  4th Appellate District   Division 2  Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 4th Appellate District Division 2 Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigration  Diversity  and Education

Download or read book Immigration Diversity and Education written by Elena L. Grigorenko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents an overview of research and policy issues pertaining to children from birth to 10 who are first- and second-generation immigrants to the U.S., as well as native-born children of immigrants. The contributors offer interdisciplinary perspectives on recent developments and research findings on children of immigrants. By accessibly presenting research findings and policy considerations in the field, this collection lays the foundation for changes in child and youth policies associated with the shifting ethnic, cultural, and linguistic profile of the U.S. population.

Book Adolescent Marijuana Abusers and Their Families

Download or read book Adolescent Marijuana Abusers and Their Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law of Outcome

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nuraj Pradhan
  • Publisher : Partridge Publishing
  • Release : 2023-01-11
  • ISBN : 1543708668
  • Pages : 499 pages

Download or read book The Law of Outcome written by Nuraj Pradhan and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's important to understand the principles and laws of cooking in order to create delicious meals consistently. If you don't like the taste of something you've cooked, it's important to learn from the experience and figure out what went wrong. Similarly, if someone else's cooking tastes better than yours, it's important to understand what they're doing differently and learn from their methods. The same can be said for achieving desired outcomes in life. If you're not happy with the results you're getting, it's important to understand the laws and principles that govern those outcomes. This may involve learning new skills, developing new habits, or changing your mindset. In this book, you will learn about the three mental forces that can influence your performance and ultimately determine your level of happiness, satisfaction, or frustration. By understanding these forces and implementing the ten rituals outlined in the book, you can redesign your mental capacity and drive yourself to perform at your fullest potential, leading to greater peace, joy, and happiness in your life.

Book California  Court of Appeal  1st Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 1st Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: