...Learner diversity and inclusion (Please note this essay is not a published or peer reviewed academic source but a personal essay representing the views and research of the author. It may include errors and / or omissions. Interested readers should refer to the original sources and / or more up to date texts. This essay should not be reproduced either in part or whole.) Background and introduction Students had written card to their tutor; ‘Merry Christmas’ was the message and in a variety of languages: English, Italian, Chinese, Polish, African, German, Malaysian, Spanish and others, which remained unidentified (tutor’s limitations). It was touching, but more than that it was a sharp reminder that for teaching to be relevant and meaningful to students, course design and teaching has to take into account the issues, needs and opportunities presented by learner diversity and increasing globalisation. An inclusive definition of diversity A personal, anecdotal recognition of the importance of student diversity is backed by weight of evidence and research. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (2005), identified that of all first degree students in 2003/4, at least 6.4% were known to have a disability, c. 56% were female and 16% part time. Numerous references, projects, papers and discussions are dedicated to the topics of diversity and its stable mate ‘widening participation’. They have emerged, not only in specialist HE channels such as the HEFCE website but also, as...
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...University of phoenix | What is Human Services? | | | Tina CooperBSHS/302 | 11/21/2010Kristie Hilton | | What is Human Services? Everyone at some point in their lives needs help. This help could range from help with their bills to help with adequate shelter or even help with everyday living skills. No matter what the reason is for the help, it is an inevitable that people need it. In these times of need, people may wonder who they can turn to for help. This question often goes unanswered because people are so unsure. Rest assured, however, that Human Services is here to help. People just need to know where to look and even how to look for this help. Goal of Human Services According to the National Organization for Human Services, the field is broadly defined (2009). There are so many goals of the Human Services field that it is hard to define just one. The main thing that human service workers strive for, however, is the commitment that they make to service populations. This commitment is one to improve the overall quality of life to the populations that they serve (National Organization for Human Services, 2009). There can also be different goals for different types of human service workers. Depending on the setting of the workplace, these goals can range from teaching a basic living skill to a consumer to finding the help that someone needs, such as job assistance or even helping with finding funding for a higher education. All of these things would...
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...is questionable. This every so often ensures a biased representation of details, research, and literature (Reinders, 2008). Within the iatrogenic understanding two states can be distinguished: individuals imitate DID on an unconscious level, or individuals imitate DID on a conscious level. In the former case, individuals are convinced that they have DID. Subsequently, they are certain they are made up of multiple personalities without having control over their condition. Therapeutic dependence, high susceptibility or high-fantasy disposal may contribute to the effectiveness of the therapeutic mediation in the formation of DID occurrences. In this case, individuals honestly believe that they have from DID. Thus, this is an unconscious development as they are not aware of their imitation, and in that occurrence the therapist endures full accountability for the produced DID. In the second case, individuals actively feign DID through conscious involvement to please their therapist. Therefore, exhibiting DID symptoms is consciously selected behavior, but without any hidden intention other than to satisfy the therapist. In a more general setting, conscious DID imitation is referred to as malingering and is as a result labeled in the pseudogenic segment below. Conscious DID imitation is also increasingly incorporated as a control condition in experiential DID research (Reinders, 2008)....
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...River View Plaza New Services Memo Date: June 12, 2009 To: Steve Taylor, facilities manager From: Heather Reinders, DigiFast employee Subject: The advantages of a new service in the building This memo presents my ideas for adding a new service to the building. I propose we add a second break room, a gaming cafe, to the third floor of the building. How does this benefit the building? The most important advantage is that it will increase profit for the entire building. People from all over the building will be able to use this room. This means that they will be buying snacks, lunch, and drinks which will provide a significant amount of increase in funds for the building. A second advantage is that it will increase productivity throughout the businesses in the building, particularly for those businesses on the third and fourth floors. Currently those of us on the third and fourth floors are having to take longer breaks because of the time it takes to get to the break room on the first floor. By placing another break room on the third floor this will reduce the amount of time employees will take for breaks; therefore becoming more productive. The increased productivity is sure to increase profits for the entire building, thus providing validity for the first advantage listed above. How would the break room be set up? The new break room would be set up, as previously mentioned, as a gaming cafe. There would be a small restaurant; which restaurant could be agreed...
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...Research proposal Consumer choice of service provision in services industries Birgit Rettinger Author: Dipl.-Kffr. Birgit Rettinger Doctoral Student ESCP-EAP European School of Management Berlin Chair of Marketing (Prof. Dr. Frank Jacob) Heubnerweg 6 14059 Berlin Germany T: ++49 (0) 30 / 3 20 07-129 F: ++49 (0) 30 / 3 20 07-118 birgit.rettinger@escp-eap.de I. Introduction In the past decade the range of service provision modes in services industries has increased considerably especially as information technology got increasingly sophisticated. Accordingly, the phenomenon of multiple service provision options, owned by one company and providing similar services simultaneously is relatively new (Neslin et al. 2006). Moreover, modified consumer habits and lifestyles have led to altered attitudes concerning modes of service provision. At the same time, there has be a growing call for a paradigm shift to customer focus and value creation (see for instance, Sheth and Sisodia 2003). In line with this, the notion of the consumer‟s part in value creation has changed. Consumers now are seen as actively involved in creating value instead of being only passive responders (Beckett and Nayak 2008; Vargo and Lusch 2004; Xie et al. 2008). II. Statement of the Problem and Purpose of the Study The research is intended to focus exclusively on the consumer‟s perspective concerning the choice of service provision in services industries. This is regarded as consistent...
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...As a result, L2 learners are acting and playing as planner, organizer, administrator, thinker, self-assessor, self-motivator, partner of other learners, and peer assessor; while the teachers and instructors are information provider, counselor, authentic language user, manager, materials writer, assessor, evaluator, administrator, and organizer (Gardner & Miller 1999, Reinders,...
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...disorder characterized by chronic depression). Such disorders can be traced to a long standing inability to derive satisfaction from one’s life alongside the family issues that worry people, the expectations from the society that leave one apprehensive and a person’s coping strategies which mostly are maladaptive (Corey, 2012). The details do not present a clear diagnosis as to anxiety disorder’s root cause in many cases, hence the need to be cautious when deciding on a therapeutic course of action. Everyone’s unique experiences bring up psychosocial challenges which may become the main focus of the clinical therapies. People may experience phase-of-life issues; present parent-child problems while at the same time having partner problems (Reinders et al, 2006). A great number of cases present spiritual problems and religious identity issues, problems arising from seeking an identity and occupational problems. Children learn to have loyalties to their family roots which impacts on their perception of self and serves to ease feelings of anxiety, guilt, depression and the need for approval (Corey,...
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...defines it as a type of visual narrative that requires students to apply these skills. Because the digital story uses images to carry the visual messages, students need explicit instruction in reading images and learning the codes and conventions. Hronová (2011) indicates that it is a useful means of how to combine both personal narratives with the use of technology in the classes of English language. It is the practice of combining personal narrative with multimedia (images, audio and text) to produce a short autobiographical movie. In addition, Robin (2011) defines it as the practice of using computer- based tools to tell stories and includes multiple forms of media: images and/or video, music, text and narration. Also, Reinders (2011) indicates that it is simply the telling of stories in electronic form, students can combine two or more of the following, either produced by themselves or by others: text ;audio ;music ;video; Photos. They can produce a video with voice-over, a website, an audio interview, or simply a written text. Hull and Nelson (2005) define it as a form of multimedia consisting of images and segments of video with background music and a voice-over narrative. Therefore, digital storytelling has emerged as a powerful teaching and learning tool that engages both teachers and students. It is the art of telling stories through the use of various multimedia such as text, images, audio and video. It combines the functions of visualizing and...
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...Implementing an Effective Change Management Strategy Neryl east PublIshed by IN assocIatIoN wIth Implementing an Effective Change Management Strategy is published by ark Group UK/EUROPE OFFICE ark conferences ltd Paulton house 8 shepherdess walk london N1 7lb united Kingdom tel +44 (0)207 549 2500 Fax +44 (0)20 7324 2373 publishing@ark-group.com NORTH AMERICA OFFICE ark Group Inc 4408 N. rockwood drive suite 150 Peoria Il 61614 united states tel +1 309 495 2853 Fax +1 309 495 2858 publishingna@ark-group.com ASIA/PACIFIC OFFICE ark Group australia Pty ltd Main level 83 walker street North sydney Nsw 2060 australia tel +61 1300 550 662 Fax +61 1300 550 663 aga@arkgroupasia.com editor evie serventi eserventi@ark-group.com head of content anna shaw ashaw@ark-group.com Managing director Jennifer Guy jguy@ark-group.com uK/europe marketing enquiries robyn Macé rmace@ark-group.com us marketing enquiries daniel smallwood dsmallwood@ark-group.com asia/Pacific marketing enquiries steve oesterreich aga@arkgroupasia.com IsbN: 978-1-907787-85-0 (hard copy) 978-1-907787-86-7 (PdF) copyright the copyright of all material appearing within this publication is reserved by the author and ark conferences 2011. It may not be reproduced, duplicated or copied by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher. arK1741 Implementing an Effective Change Management Strategy Neryl east PublIshed by IN assocIatIoN wIth Contents Executive summary...
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...IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN SINGAPORE By Student’s name Code+ course name Instructor’s Name University Name City, State Date of Submission Table of Contents Introduction 2 Academic and theories’ reviews that consolidate and strengthen service creation by social networking in Singapore. 3 Internet overtakes print in 2015 4 Critically explicate and argue the theoretical contribution that is relevant to social networks in Singapore. 6 Critically review the impact and rationale of using social networks to solve challenges faced by entrepreneurs in Singapore. 7 Critically examine the causes that render social networking not a medium of choice for entrepreneurs. 10 Define the meaning of eight key terms that you have used in this paper. 13 Overall Summary. 15 Reference list 17 Introduction Social networking involves grouping of individuals in specified groups such as neighborhood subdivisions or small rural communities. It is possible to network in person, especially in places such as universities, workplace, and high schools (Agosto & Abbas 2011, p.68). However, social networking has more online popularity than the universities, high schools and workplaces because the internet has millions of individuals seeking to meet others, in order to share and gather first-hand experiences and information about cooking, gardening, golfing, developing friendships, professional alliances, business to business marketing and finding...
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...Link¨ping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations o No. 1105 Supply chain optimization in the forest industry Helene Gunnarsson Division of Optimization Department of Mathematics Link¨pings universitet, SE-581 83 Link¨ping, Sweden o o ISBN 978-91-85831-85-2 ISSN 0345-7524 Copyright c 2007 Helene Gunnarsson unless otherwise noted ISBN 978-91-85831-85-2 ISSN 0345-7524 Printed by LiU-Tryck, Link¨ping, Sweden 2007 o Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to give special thanks to my supervisor Mikael R¨nnqvist o for giving support, inspiration and guidance. Your positive attitude and enthusiasm have meant much to me. I would also like to thank my co-supervisor Jan Lundgren for your support, encouragement and guidance in writing. Thanks to Dick Carlsson at S¨dra Cell AB for very good cooperation and friendo ship. I am grateful to Torbj¨rn Larsson, for always taken time for discussions cono cerning both research and teaching. I appreciate my friendship with Maud G¨the-Lundgren. o Thanks to Mathias Henningsson for good cooperation in teaching and J¨rgen o Blomvall for helping me with computer problems. Thanks to Kaj Holmberg for interesting discussions about decomposition methods. Thanks to Oleg Burdakov and Sven Erlander for encouragement. The group of PhD students has been important for me. Thanks to Maria Daneva, Elina R¨nnberg, Per-˚ke Andersson and Kristian Lundberg for supo A porting me and for all fun discussions. Thanks also to my former colleagues, I miss...
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...Onderzoek Inhoudsopgaven Samenvatting…………………………………………………………………3 Aanleiding……………………………………………………………………..4 Uitwerking sub-vraag 1…………………………………………………5 Uitwerking sub-vraag 2…………………………………………………6 Uitwerking sub-vraag 3…………………………………………………7 Uitwerking sub-vraag 4…………………………………………………8 Eindconclusie en aanbevelingen……………………………………9 Bronvermelding…………………………………………………………….10 Bijlagen………………………………………………………………………….12 Samenvatting: Onze methode van onderzoek is het gebruik van deskresearch. De Aanleiding voor dit onderzoek is dat Marjan met ons contact heeft opgenomen. Zei raakt geïnspireerd om zelf binnen haar bedrijf ook maatschappelijk ondernemen mogelijk te maken. Het doel dat gesteld is voor het bedrijf van Marjan (Hoezen &zo) is als volgt; De Efficiëntie en duurzaamheid van het vervoer van de producten verbeteren binnen nu en 3 jaar. Om dit onderzoek goed te voorbrengen is er ook een hoofdvraag geformuleerd; Op welke manier kan hoezen en Zo transport van haar producten zo duurzaam mogelijk inrichten. Om dit te onderzoeken is deze hoofdvraag onderverdeeld in 4 verschillende sub vragen. Doormiddel van het uitwerken van deze deelvragen zijn wij tot een aantal conclusies gekomen. bijvoorbeeld is het zo dat het vervoer van Hoezen en Zo op veel verschillende aspecten verbeterd kan worden. We praten hier over: vervoerniveau, verpakkingsniveau, zending niveau en productniveau. Dit wordt allemaal nog beschreven in de komende pagina’s. Aanleiding: De aanleiding voor dit...
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...NHTV University of Applied Sciences DATE!! Advisory Report ’t Schip CREM II Group J Fabiana Meaño;Tibor van Noesel;Nathalie Muti;Inge Broeders;Ivo Bruijnaers;Mirjam te Brinke Advisory report ’t Schip – Savills CREM II Group J Tutor Maarten Staps Theme manager Pieter le Roux Fabiana Meaño 121145 Tibor van Noesel 123539 Nathalie Muti 122703 Inge Broeders 111052 Ivo Bruijnaers 123352 Mirjam te Brinke 121001 Preface Table of Content Preface 2 Introduction 4 Deliverable 1 Research Questions 5 Deliverable 2 Plan of Approach 6 Deliverable 3 Context Analysis 10 Deliverable 4 Building Analysis 14 Deliverable 5 Industry Analysis 16 Deliverable 6 Optimization / Transformation 20 Deliverable 7 Company Profile & Program of Requirements 21 Bibliography 26 Introduction Deliverable 1 Research Questions 1.1 Main question How can this building generate future profit for the owner of the building? 1.2 Sub-questions 1. In what way does the context/surroundings influence the attractiveness of the building? (deliverable ‘context analysis’) 2. In what way does the exterior of the building influence the attractiveness? (deliverable ‘building analysis’) 3. In what way does the interior of the building influence the attractiveness? (deliverable ‘building analysis’) 4. What kind of service contracts is used with this building? 5. What are the rental/service prices? 6. What are the possible target groups...
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...Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction “Arming the youth with information,” one of the goals of the Reproductive Health Bill. In line with one of the two targets of Goal 5 - Improving Maternal Health - of the eight Millennium Development Goals which is achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015. To achieve its goals, the bill provides for mandatory reproductive health education and that it be taught in "an age-appropriate manner... by adequately trained teachers starting from Grade 5 up to Fourth Year High School." As Iloilo Representative Janette Garin, author of the Reproductive Health Care Act says, “It’s very difficult to live in a society where we will be hypocritical and pretend that nothing is happening. But as early as grade 4 and 3, children, especially those in public schools, already have girlfriends and boyfriends.” Defined by United Nations (UN) on ICPD 1994, 'Reproductive health' is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and...not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and its functions and processes.” Considering the fact that we are a Christian nation, some people and religious groups find this topic very sensitive to be discussed among youngsters. In this regard, Filipino mothers have the “you-will-learn-when-you-are-old-enough” attitude. As with this, the researchers have come up to a study that would determine the knowledge regarding reproductive health of the high...
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