The Influence of Communication Apprehension on Superiors' Propensity for and Practice of Participative Decision Making     

Travis L. Russ 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(3):335-348

This investigation examined if traitlike communication apprehension (CA) serves as a significant predictor of superiors' propensity for and practice of participative decision making (PDM)—that is, involving others in decision-making processes. A total of 219 superiors recruited from a variety of organizations served as participants in this study. Results revealed that traitlike CA is a significant determinant of variation in superiors' inclination for, as well as their actual practice of, PDM. These findings suggest that superiors with lower CA possess favorable perceptions of PDM and are more inclined to involve others in decision-making processes than their colleagues with higher CA. Conversely, results suggest that superiors with higher CA typically possess less favorable perceptions of PDM and are less likely to involve others when making decisions. Theoretical and practical implications underpinning these results are explored. Future research directions are also proposed.  相似文献   

Requiring Participation: An Instructor Strategy to Influence Student Interest and Learning     

Brandi N. Frisby  Keith Weber  Brittany N. Beckner 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(3):308-322

Instructors are faced with the challenge of engaging students in the learning process. This study examined the effects of participation requirements on students' (N = 258) affective learning, interest, and cognitive learning using the Affective Learning Model and the Instructional Beliefs Model. Affective learning mediated the relationship between student participation requirements and cognitive learning, and student interest mediated the relationships between participation requirements and cognitive learning, supporting the IBM. The results provide insight into course-specific structural tactics that instructors can employ to enhance the educational experience for college students.  相似文献   

In pursuit of African scholarship: unpacking engagement     

Frances O’Brien 《Higher Education》2009,58(1):29-39

Engagement between higher education and other societal sectors is a key theme in higher education discourse in South Africa, as it is in other countries. In South Africa, however, engagement has gained additional status as an appropriate strategy for pursuing African Scholarship. On the ground, however, inequitable power relationships and erratic participation have posed serious challenges to the effectiveness and sustainability of engagement initiatives. From the experiences of seven South African academics and the local community members and service-providers with whom they engaged in service-learning, three factors emerged as mediating the power/participation dynamic of their engagement. The impact of these factors, namely, structure, meaning, and place and time, are discussed, leading to the conclusions that scholarly engagement requires ideological and practical support from higher education institutions and further study in South African contexts.

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Participation Making a Difference? Critical Analysis of the Participatory Claims of Change, Reversal, and Empowerment     

Jan Masschelein  Kerlijn Quaghebeur 《Interchange》2006,37(4):309-331

Participation has become very popular as a new strategy and approach in research, in policy, in private and public affairs. As an alternative to top-down approaches participation promises to empower people, to acknowledge and to build competence and (local) knowledge, to recognise and to be responsive to people’s different and differentiated needs and interests. The difference participation promises to make concerns above all an engagement with questions of difference.  相似文献   

社区参与:政治和社会发展的结构性驱动力   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

陆发玉  梁海波 《喀什师范学院学报》2004,25(1):4-7

社区参与是在全方位、多层面的社会变迁的宏观背景下形成的结构性的运行机制，并以此为驱动力推动了微观层次上的社区发展和宏观层次上的政治、社会发展，是政治发展和社会发展的一种结构性驱动力。但当前社区参与还存在一些问题，必须采取相应的对策。  相似文献   

四川省高校学生运动参与现状的调查与研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

李小刚 《宜宾学院学报》2008,8(6)

通过问卷调查,对四川省四所性质、地域分布不同的普通高校学生运动参与状况进行研究,结果表明我省大学生的体育参与的基本状况尚有较大的改善空间;以《指导纲要》为依据,探索符合我省省情的公共体育课程改革的新思路和教学、管理模式。  相似文献   

约翰逊政府与中国在联合国的代表权问题——以1966年研究委员会提案为中心的讨论     

姚百慧 《首都师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2006,(6):24-29

1966年,由于面临要求中国加入联合国的巨大压力,美国采纳了研究委员会提案,并支持意大利等国在联大上提出该案。美台为此进行了激烈争论,最终台湾勉强接受了该案。虽然在21届联大上这个提案未能通过,但是它的提出分化了“驱蒋纳我”的力量,拖延了中国在联合国代表权问题的解决。  相似文献   

Voting alone: the decline of bodily mass communication and public sensationalism in presidential elections     

Peter Simonson 《传播与批判/文化研究》2013,10(2):127-150

The congregational crowd was a powerful mode of political communication in the nineteenth-century US until banished by the imposition of literate modes on popular electoral politics by Progressive reformers. We examine its major channels of expression, bodily mass communication and public sensationalism, within a framework of class-based struggle, observing that the practice of live bodily assembly created broad points of entry into political life, socialized the young, and successfully conveyed the importance of voting. A text-based normative model of the informed deliberative voter, we argue, offers too narrow a conception of participation compared to a more spaciously conceived democratic community.  相似文献   

Biased into posting: interactions with social media network political posts during the 2016 U.S. presidential election     

Timothy Macafee 《Communication Research Reports》2013,30(4):326-337

The 2016 U.S. presidential election saw social media continue to play an important role in citizens’ political engagement. This study examines the effect of seeing social media political post sharing on individuals’ own political post sharing. Results from a two-wave survey suggest the interplay within the network is important. Seeing others share political posts and perceiving posts were biased towards a candidate predicted sharing political posts.  相似文献   

The Impact of a Science Qualification Emphasising Scientific Literacy on Post-compulsory Science Participation: An analysis using national data     

Matt Homer  Jim Ryder 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(9):1364-1380

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