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Modesti, Sonja – Current Issues in Education, 2012
The transformative power of dialogue has the potential to serve as a healthful alternative to unproductive strategies for problem-solving in many communication contexts (Ryan & Natalle, 2001). Sadly, educational contexts emerge as contexts in dire need of such communicative reconstruction, evidenced by the alarming increase in incidences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rhetoric, Communication Skills, Attitudes
Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2009
The "Policy Matters" project provides coherent, comprehensive information regarding the strength and adequacy of state policies affecting children, families, and communities. The project seeks to establish consensus among policy experts and state leaders regarding the mix of policies believed to offer the best opportunity for improving…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Welfare Services, State Government, Public Policy
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Cheung, Fanny M.; Halpern, Diane F. – American Psychologist, 2010
How do women rise to the top of their professions when they also have significant family care responsibilities? This critical question has not been addressed by existing models of leadership. In a review of recent research, we explore an alternative model to the usual notion of a Western male as the prototypical leader. The model includes (a)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Models, Females
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Tyler, Kenneth; Love, Keisha; Brown, Carrie; Roan-Belle, Clarissa; Thomas, Deneia; Garriott, Patton O. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2010
This study examined relationships between home-based communal activities and beliefs and student reports of various achievement correlates with 290 black and white undergraduates. MANOVA procedures examined differences in self-esteem, self-efficacy, identified motivation, motivation to know, and amotivation and scores on Home Communalism Measure…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Motivation, Racial Differences, Academic Achievement
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Grzeskowiak, Stephan; Sirgy, M. Joseph; Lee, Dong-Jin; Claiborne, C. B. – Social Indicators Research, 2006
Housing well-being refers to the home resident's cumulative positive and negative affect associated with the purchase, preparation, ownership, use, and maintenance of the current home, and the selling of the previous home. Housing well-being is assumed to occur when the home is bought with the least amount of effort ("purchase"), the…
Descriptors: Validity, Well Being, Housing, Ownership