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Murray, Suzanne; Silver, Ivan; Patel, Dilip; Dupuis, Martin; Hayes, Sean M.; Davis, Dave – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2008
Introduction: Governments and healthcare organizations in Canada are reforming the clinical practice structures and policies to deliver primary care to the population. A key component of primary healthcare reform is the establishment of an interdisciplinary, community-based team approach to patient care. This study was undertaken to provide…
Descriptors: Physicians, Focus Groups, Family Practice (Medicine), Foreign Countries
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Naylor, Philip; Gkolia, Chrysanthi; Brundrett, Mark – Management in Education, 2006
The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) Programme, Leading from the Middle (LftM), was introduced in 2003 and was designed to help improve leadership at middle levels in schools and to impact on the effectiveness of teams of teachers in improving pupil progress. This article is a report on an evaluative study of how the program has…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Attitudes, Teamwork, Professional Development
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Rimmington, Glyn M.; Alagic, Mara – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
Learning organisations face new challenges in the 21st century. Increased flow of trade in commodities, manufactured goods and information as well as mobility of people have led to increased global interdependence, interconnectedness and cultural diversity. People and teams within learning organisations have become globally distributed with the…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communication Strategies, Perspective Taking, Cultural Pluralism
Ayala, Donna – Online Submission, 2008
This study investigated the effects of cognitive readiness in a Navy simulated environment, the simulation being the Multi-Mission Team Trainer. The research question that drove this study was: will simulations increase cognitive readiness? One of the tasks of Navy sailors is to deal with unpredictable events. Unpredictability in the military is…
Descriptors: Simulation, War, Military Training, Armed Forces
Sandberg, Hakan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
The aim of this paper is to focus on the development of HE/CE in Sweden as a transition from a non-academic context to an academic context and a current trend back to a non-academic context considering the nature of the transitions, facilitating factors in these processes and consequences of the transitions. Generally health professional higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Physicians, Continuing Education, Labor Market
Harrison, Roger, Ed.; Benjamin, Cathy, Ed.; Curran, Sheila, Ed.; Hunter, Rob, Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
"Leading Work with Young People" provides a selection of writing from a complex and dynamic field of work. The editors bring together key readings and newly commissioned material to present a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on leading and managing work with young people. The book will equip students with the knowledge, skills,…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Youth Programs, Qualifications, Young Adults
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Wolfe, Brent D.; Dattilo, John – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2007
While many studies have sought to understand challenge courses and their benefits, less emphasis has been focused on understanding participants' perceptions of these programmes. In this study, 16 adults working at a dental office attended a one-day challenge course programme designed to teach lessons about co-operation. Data were collected via "in…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Collegiality, Cooperation, Adults
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Barton, Harry; Delbridge, Rick – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evidence the emergence of new forms of work organisation which if observed could be seen as consistent with the concept of the "learning factory". This is attempted through reporting the views of those workers engaged in team based operations and reflects upon the emerging role of first-line and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industrial Training, Human Resources, Administrator Role
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Higgins, Ann; Deegan, James G. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2009
This case study describes a 20-year journey of educational transformation from 1985 to 2005 in a bellwether, or highly developed, instance of one school, family, and community partnership--the Kileely Community Project--situated in a large social housing project in Limerick City in the Midwestern region of the Republic of Ireland. The study is a…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Case Studies
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Leadbetter, Jane; Daniels, Harry; Edwards, Anne; Martin, Deirdre; Middleton, David; Popova, Anna; Warmington, Paul; Apostolov, Apostol; Brown, Steve – Educational Research, 2007
Background: This article is concerned with professional learning within multi-agency settings. Since the publication of the government document "Every child matters" in 2003, professionals involved in working with children and young people have been moving into newly organized services that are required to deliver improved services for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workshops, Quality of Life, Social Isolation
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Freyens, Benoit; Martin, Marguerite – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007
Purpose--Training multimedia projects often face identical knowledge-transfer obstacles that partly originate in the multidisciplinarity of the project team. The purpose of this paper is to describe these difficulties and the tools used to overcome them. In particular, the aim is to show how elements of cognitive psychology theory (concept maps,…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Action Research, Semantics, Multimedia Materials
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Boreham, Nick – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2004
Contemporary work-related education and training policy represents occupational competence as the outcome of individual performance at work. This paper presents a critique of this neo-liberal assumption, arguing that in many cases competence should be regarded as an attribute of groups, teams and communities. It proposes a theory of collective…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Job Skills, Competence, Group Behavior
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Oblinger, Diana G. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2007
Students need to know how to find and use information, yet only 31 percent of information searches succeed. Google and Wikipedia are not the only providers of answers, although they are often students' first stops for information. Everyone knows how to open a browser, but can teachers assume they know how to search effectively for information? In…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Information, Information Sources, Search Strategies
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Lantz, Annika; Brav, Agneta – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Task Analysis, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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Longwell-Grice, Hope; McIntyre, Ellen – School Community Journal, 2006
For educators interested in engaging in critical literacy work with families and schools, the efforts can be both exhilarating and exasperating. Reflecting on a two-year family literacy project, we consider the possibilities and pitfalls of the projects' design and implementation. The work described in this article takes a stance that is both…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Formative Evaluation, Community Education, Critical Path Method
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