Strategic ambiguity in the role development process     

Katherine Miller  Lori Joseph  Julie Apker 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(3):193-214

Today's turbulent business and social environment often compels organizations to adopt internal programs that will help them cope with complexity. One organizational sector in which this is particularly true is the health care industry, as managed care programs and competitive forces have changed the way hospitals and clinics operate. This study looks at a specific organizational program designed to cope with these industry changes and considers the impact of the program on the nurses involved. Drawing on theory and research on role development and strategic ambiguity, this case analysis looks at a hospital system in which the nursing role of “care coordinator”; was defined in a strategically ambiguous way. After analyzing interviews with 19 care coordinators, conclusions are drawn regarding affective reactions to strategic role ambiguity, behavioral adaptation to strategic role ambiguity, and the importance of conceptualizing role ambiguity as a systemic process.  相似文献   

Achievement Motivation and Performance Among Second-Grade Boys and Girls     

Donna Mitchell Schell  Joseph Veroff  Robert E. Schell 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(4):66-73

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Note-Taking Strategies for Students with Disabilities     

Joseph R. Boyle 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(6):392-395

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The Factor of Age in Teaching Physical Education     

L. Joseph Cahn 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(2):92-96

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Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola,A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping (University of Alabama Press, 2006)     

Joseph Reimer 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(1):103-106

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Sport,spectacle and class: handball in the North East     

Joseph Melling 《国际体育史杂志》2013,30(3):443-447

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The Realities of Translating Research into Classroom Practice     

Russell Gersten  Joseph Dimino 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2001,16(2):120-130

This paper synthesizes key findings to facilitate the translation of research into classroom practice and provides guidelines for how effective instructional practices might be implemented, supported, and sustained in schools. Excerpts from a case study are presented to show how research‐based instructional approach translates into classroom practices in a local school district that tailors the approach to the realities of the local situation. In this paper, we review what the research suggests are the functions that allow a person in a leadership role to facilitate the translation of research into classroom practice. We describe how these functions were used to translate research into classroom practice in 2 school districts that are part of the Elementary and Middle School Technical Assistance Center (EMSTAC) project, a national research‐to‐practice effort. Examples of how these principles were put into practice and why different technical assistance approaches were used to implement research‐based practices in a primary and middle school setting are discussed. We conclude with reflections on the intricate nature of effecting change at the local level, and the progress that can be made within those intricacies.  相似文献   

Pluralism,poststructuralism, and evolutionary theory     

Joseph Carroll 《Academic Questions》1996,9(3):43-57

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Folklore epistemology: how does traditional folklore contribute to children’s thinking and concept development?     

Joseph S. Agbenyega  Deborah E. Tamakloe  Sunanta Klibthong 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2017,25(2):112-126

This research utilised a ‘stimulated recall’ methodology [Calderhead, J. 1981. “Stimulated Recall: A Method for Research on Teaching.” British Journal of Educational Psychology 51: 211–217] to explore the potential of African folklore, specifically Ghanaian folk stories in the development of children’s reflective thinking about social life. The research was based on Ghanaian folklore for children, which is popularly known as ‘By the Fireside Stories’, encapsulated traditionally as Anansesem or Spider stories among the Akan of Ghana. Data were collected through storytelling to a group of children and inviting them to recall their concurrent thinking during and after the storytelling. The children’s cognitive recall processes were stimulated by questions and story character dramatisation recorded on a digital video recorder and played back to the children. Findings showed major contributions to children’s learning and development related to imagination, concept formation and thinking, and beyond the self in social relationship. This paper draws attention to how traditional oral storytelling can be an important part of early childhood education to develop children’s reflective thinking about social life.  相似文献   

Students’ writing ‘in transition’ from A-levels to university: how assessment drives students’ understandings,practices and discourses     

Sally Baker 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2017,42(1):18-36

The lament that ‘students can’t write’ remains loud and defiant, even after years of research pointing to the myriad factors that make students’ writing challenging, particularly when they move into university. This paper reports on a longitudinal, ethnographic study which explored students’ writing ‘in transition’, from A-levels to university in the UK, through the critical lens offered by the academic literacies conceptual framing. This paper offers critical analysis of the ways that students, teachers and institutions position writing at A-level and university, exploring the assumptions and beliefs that underpin their understandings and practices using Ivani?’s framework of discourses of writing. The analysis proposes that the centrality of assessment in the treatment of language at both levels creates an ‘assessment discourse of writing’, which originates in school, and becomes a defining and restrictive frame for students’ writing as they move into higher education. The analysis further suggests that assessment is the principal cause for the students’ challenges with adapting to the writing requirements of university. Moreover, assessment is used as a metalanguage for discussing writing at A-levels, and can become an unhelpful ‘anchor of continuance’ for students as they move into university.  相似文献