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O'Leary, Moira Patricia. "The influence of values on development practice : a study of Cambodian development practitioners in non-government organisations in Cambodia /." Access full text, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20061025.123141/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2006.Research. "A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the] School of Social Work and Social Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 328-351). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Husung, Alina. "Impacts through ‘WWOOFing’ on the volunteer’s personal development : Increasing awareness of sustainable societal values." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-38971.
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This study focuses on volunteers within the non-profit organization ‘WWOOF’ World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farming, which provides individuals the opportunity to experience a sustainable organic farming through volunteering. As sustainability needs to be more valued within society and as individuals are seen to develop similar values from their social surrounding, the study examines how being a volunteer on a WWOOF farm influences the volunteer’s personal development. The material findings of 20 semi-structured interviews from previous WWOOF volunteers were collected and indicated four main outcomes: increased environmental awareness, community awareness, a sustainable lifestyle and personal growth among the volunteers. The outcomes are discussed in relation to the following main theories and concepts: sustainable worldview theory, symbolic interactionism, social identity theory, the Third Space and narrative identity theory. The sustainable societal values achieved among the volunteers indicated that being a volunteer on a WWOOF farm, can contribute to improve the global community
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Lawson, Robert-Gérard Mawuégniga Boèvi. "La personne selon Emmanuel Mounier et le développement de l'Afrique." Thesis, Poitiers, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013POIT5003.
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A travers la philosophie de la «personne», Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) vise le renouvellement de la civilisation, l'accomplissement et l'épanouissement de l'homme. La question est de rechercher ce qui dans «la personne» constitue le fondement principiel et métaphysique du développement, puis mettre en place une heuristique qui rende compte de l'impact de cette philosophie de la personne sur le «développement en Afrique». L'objectif est triple: apprécier sous mode systématique la puissance de rayonnement historique de la pensée de Mounier chez les penseurs d'Afrique; en mesurer les effets d'appropriation; relever, de là, les enjeux anthropologiques liés au sein du continent africain, à la notion du «développement». Le propos mobilise les corpus des théoriciens africains soucieux de l'enracinement et de l'interculturalité, mais aussi de penseurs occidentaux refondateurs de la question de l'homme et du monde. Le fondement métaphysique, anthropologique et éthique, n'exclut pas le mécanisme juridique supranational légitimeAccording to the philosophy of the «person», Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) aims at the rebirth of civilization, the accomplishment and fulfillment of man. The question is to find out what within «the person», constitutes the principal and metaphysical foundation of development, then to put in place heuristics that emphasize the impact of this philosophy of person on «development in Africa». There are three sides to this objective: to appreciate in a systematical fashion the power of the historical influence of the opinion of Mounier on the philosophers from Africa; to measure its appropriation effects; and then to identify the anthropological issues connected to the notion of «development» within the African continent. The statement mobilizes not only the corpuses of the African theorists concerned about deep-rootedness and interculturality, but also those of western thinkers, reformer of the question of mankind and the world. The metaphysical, anthropological and ethical foundation, does not ex-clude the legitimate supranational legal mechanism
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Haffey, James L. "Level of involvement among Mississippi community college workforce personnel in community and economic development activities." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2007. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-11092007-111629.
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Richards, Sue, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and of Health Humanities and Social Ecology Faculty. "Stories from a community worker on the shifting sands of modernity." THESIS_FHHSE_XXX_Richards_S.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/404.
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This thesis presents post modern, feminist narratives written from the author’s experiences as a community development worker over a period of twenty years. The contexts are largely based in Sydney and the housing developments in western Sydney. The author writes from within the post modern tensions between subjectivity and objectivity, consciously choosing to represent her own experiences, thoughts, beliefs and actions as case studies. She names and explores her changing ideologies as a community worker through cameos of critical incidents throughout her career. Different styles of narratives are presented of a community development engagement in Fairfield, NSW in 1990-1991. It is argued that community development has a role in the sustainability of civil society, to foster a peaceful oppositional force so necessary as part of a vigorous democracy which values and respects difference.Master of Science (Hons) Social Ecology
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Richards, Sue Lane Mary. "Stories from a community worker on the shifting sands of modernity /." View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031210.130552/index.html.
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Thesis (M.Sc. (Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1996."A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney - Hawkesbury in fulfilment for the requirements of Master of Science (Hons) (Social Ecology)" Video filmed and edited by Mary Lane and Sue Richards. Bibliography : leaves 192-197.
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Grow, York Douglas. "Assessing community values of National Park Service units in Virginia." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09052009-040604/.
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Rikhotso, Rhandzavanhu Harris. "The challenges of community development workers in the implementation of the Community Development Workers’ Programme in Makhado Local Municipality, Limpopo Province." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85656.
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Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The community development workers’ programme (CDWP) is a strategic policy intervention by government to address challenges of service delivery to communities. The purpose of the CDWP is to facilitate the removal of obstacles in the course of providing services to communities. The CDWP is located in local government. Its purpose is often misunderstood by the stakeholders, because of the perception that the programme is meant to deliver services like provision of water, electricity and other social services. In essence, the CDWP is meant to facilitate communication between government and communities in order to ensure that services are delivered effectively and efficiently. Some of the challenges faced in the Makhado Local Municipality relate to the lack of infrastructure maintenance initiatives, including expansion plans that are well funded. Massive backlogs of infrastructure and services remain in the areas of water and sanitation, energy provision, housing, social security and others. If these problems relating to infrastructure and access to services are not adequately addressed, it will be impossible for the implementation of the CDWP to be successful. It is, therefore, critical that the government as a whole, and working with the private sector, should develop a comprehensive programme that mobilises society through both public and private initiatives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by community development workers (CDWs) in the implementation of the CDWP in Makhado Local Municipality. A qualitative research paradigm was adopted for the study. A literature review, focus groups and interviews were employed within the context of structured questions formulated in line with the framework of the study. The above were meant to facilitate a response to the research question of the study, which sought to find out what the challenges was faced by CDWs in the implementation of the CDWP in Makhado Local Municipality. One of the recommendations of the study is that the CDWP should be integrated with the Makhado Local Municipality plans and budget in order to ensure that it is sustainable and meets its stated objectives. Once this is achieved, it will be possible to confidently say that: The introduction of CDWs is succeeding in addressing challenges of service delivery in the implementation of the CDWP Challenges of CDWs in municipalities are being resolved through the effective implementation of the CDWP If the CDWP can be implemented fully in the Makhado Local Municipality, challenges of service delivery can be resolved over a reasonable period. It is, therefore, critical that the CDWP should remain an intergovernmental programme that fosters planning and partnership between the public, as beneficiary, and the government as service provider.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Gemeenskapsontwikkelingswerkers Program (GOWP) is ‘n strategiese beleidsintervensie deur die regering om uitdagings met betrekking tot dienslewering aan gemeenskappe aan te spreek. Die doel van die GOWP is om hindernisse tot dienslewering aan gemeenskappe uit die weg te ruim, en die program is binne die plaaslike regering gesetel. Misverstand oor die doel daarvan kom dikwels onder belanghebbendes voor vanweë die veronderstelling dat die program bedoel is om dienste soos die voorsiening van water, elektrisiteit en ander maatskaplike dienste te lewer. In wese is die GOWP bedoel om kommunikasie tussen die regering en gemeenskappe te bewerkstellig om te verseker dat dienste doeltreffend en effektief gelewer word. Uitdagings vir die Plaaslike Munisipaliteit van Makhado staan in verband met die gebrek aan inisiatiewe om infrastruktuur in stand te hou, insluitend goed befondste uitbreidingsplanne. ’n Massiewe agterstand van infrastruktuur en dienste bestaan steeds op die gebied van water en sanitasie, kragvoorsiening, behuising en sosiale sekerheid. Indien hierdie probleem met betrekking tot infrastruktuur en toegang tot dienste nie voldoende aangespreek word nie, sal die implementering van die GOWP geen sukses behaal nie. Dit is dus van uiterste belang dat die regering, in geheel, en met die samewerking van die private sektor, ‘n omvattende program ontwikkel wat die gemeenskap deur middel van openbare en private inisiatiewe mobiliseer. Die doel van die huidige studie was om die uitdagings waarvoor gemeenskapswerkers met die implementering van die gemeenskaps- ontwikkelingswerkers program in die Plaaslike Munisipaliteit van Makhado te staan kom, te ondersoek. ’n Kwalitatiewe navorsingsplan is vir die studie gebruik. ‘n Oorsig van die literatuur, fokusgroep en onderhoude is gebruik, met gestruktureerde vrae wat binne die raamwerk van die studie geformuleer is. Die vrae was bedoel om ‘n respons tot die navorsingsvraag oor die uitdagings wat deur die gemeenskapsontwikkelingswerkers met die implementering van die GOWP in Makhado ondervind word, te fasiliteer. Een van die aanbevelings van die studie is dat die GOWP by die planne en begroting van die Plaaslike Munisipaliteit van Makhado geïntegreer moet word om die onderhoubaarheid van die program te verseker en dat die gestelde doelwitte bereik word. Wanneer dit geskied, sal dit moontlik wees om te sê dat: Die instelling van die gemeenskapsontwikkerlingswerkers behaal sukses ten opsigte van die uitdagings van dienslewering binne die Gemeenskapsontwikkelingswerkers program. Die uitdagings aan gemeenskapsontwikkelingswerkers in die munisipaliteite word deur die effektiewe implementering van die GOWP oorkom. Indien die GOWP ten volle in die Makhado Munisipaliteit geïmplementeer kan word, kan die probleem rondom dienslewering binne ‘n redelike tydperk opgelos word. Dit is dus belangrik dat ‘n onderneming soos die program vir die gemeenskapsontwikkelingswerkers behoue bly as ‘n inter-regeringsprojek wat die vennootskap tussen mense en die regering ondersteun.
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O'Leary, Moira Patricia, and moira mal@gmail com. "The influence of values on development practice: A study of Cambodian development practitioners in non-government organisations in Cambodia." La Trobe University. Social Work and Social Policy, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20061025.123141.
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Evaluation reports, along with development studies literature suggest that development practice is often failing to enact espoused participatory, empowering and gender equitable approaches or to achieve these espoused goals. Mainstream development theories are underpinned by values and beliefs about what is good and what �ought to be�.
In this study I explore the influence of values on the development practice of Cambodian practitioners working in non-government organisations in rural Cambodia. Development practitioners are the major conduit of community based development assistance, but little is known about how their values impact their day-to-day practice, and influence their moral and political choices.
In the study I used ethnographic methodology, guided by feminist principles. The research was conducted with individuals and groups of experienced, mostly Cambodian development practitioners. Data were collected in four phases through in-depth and semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and observations of practice.
I examine the (in)congruity between practitioners� espoused theories and values and those demonstrated by their practice. The findings reveal that the values are not essentially different but are prioritized differently. The espoused values are consistent with those of the international development discourse, all of which are premised on a belief in human equality. Theories and values inferred from actual practice reflect hierarchical underpinnings. In the Cambodian context this is consistent with socio-cultural values and the hierarchical order of society. However, as expatriate research participants and the literature attest, this incongruence is not particular to Cambodian practitioners.
The study reveals practitioners give higher priority to fulfilling the tasks necessary for the achievement of their NGOs� planned outputs and organisational imperatives than to the facilitation of participatory and empowering processes. At the same time, the enactment of some development values is in tension with certain socio-cultural norms and practices. Practitioners are challenged to make desirable development values explicit and identify how to operationalise them in the lived social, cultural, political and economic context.
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Hartman, William M. "A Study to Define Current Practices, Attitudes and Values in the Software Development Community." NSUWorks, 1998. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/569.
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The objective of this study was to secure information from a wide distribution of software development practitioners about their development processes, their views about related processes and methods and their perceived and actual software process maturity. Research questions answered in this study were: (a) what are the current software development practices in industry? (b) Are there significant differences between the practitioner's perceived and actual development process maturity; (c) Is there correlation between professional and/or organizational demographics and perceived and actual development processes?; and (d) What do practitioners believe are significant success and failure factors as they relate to job performance? These questions and others were answered by this study.
A self-administered, mailed survey, the Software Development Process Survey, was developed for this study as the data gathering instrument. The survey experienced a return rate of 49.2% and 95.6% of the questions were answered by the 203 respondents. Due to the size, distribution and response to validity-check questions, the results of the survey were considered fairly representative of the targeted population.
Two metrics were also developed. The Perceived Process Maturity Level was the result of the subject's stated perceived, estimated, process maturity level. The Calculated Process Maturity Level resulted from calculating responses to 25 process-related questions. The two metrics were then compared to each other and to the actual distribution of the Capability Maturity Model developed by the Software Engineering Institute.
The data show that the subjects have defined a 0.3 level difference between their perceived and actual process maturity level. Additionally, the subjects generally felt that their present position, company and product quality were not as good as experienced in previous positions. The study also revealed that metrics and metric processes had low priority, neither helped or hindered the development process, could be minimized in today's competitive environment, and increased development costs. A fully annotated version of the survey is included.
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Willis, Lynyetta Gittens. "African American Baptist Church Community: Influence of SocioCultural Factors on Faith Development." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cps_diss/11.
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When describing faith development, established models often fail to incorporate the effects of an individual’s sociocultural context and control for additional dimensions of their identity such as ethnicity, gender and religious denomination (Mattis, 2001; Myers, 1991; Willis, 2005). This study involved 18 African American women and men between the ages of twenty and seventy-seven who identified as Baptist Church goers within the Southeastern region of the United States. A mixed methods design informed by interpretive and emerging social network paradigms was used (Hanson, 2005; LeCompte & Schensul, 1999). There were two phases of this study. Within phase one, twelve participants completed one semi-structured interview and the Optimal Theory and Identity Development-Revised (OTAID-R) instrument (Haggins, 1996) which was designed to evaluate identity development along multiple dimensions, including spirituality. Within phase two, six participants took part in a follow-up focus group to validate the emergent themes. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data (Strauss & Corbin, 1998). A circular socioculturally informed model of faith development was devised. The current model was most congruent with African centered models of faith development and revealed non-linear process of faith development. The OTAID-R survey was not significantly correlated with the age of the participants. Implications for research and practice include the importance of considering sociocultual context and experience when conceptualizing developmental processes within a culturally informed framework.
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Huiskamp, Juliana Gammon. "Connections, confidence, and competence the meaning of professional development for community college support staff personnel /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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Lay, Jennifer Celeste. "Building good citizens the roles of school size and community context in the development of democratic values /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1411.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Government and Politics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Porras, Estella. "Moving from cantaleta to encanto or challenging the modernization posture in communication for development and social change : a Colombian case study of the everyday work of development communicators /." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8591.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-232). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Crist, Angela R. "South African Ubuntu Theory in Cross Cultural Community Development Practice: An Autoethnographic Exploration." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1244121998.
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Lazenby, Daniel Jakobus. "A tax-compliance framework for short-term assignments in the Southern African development community - a South African perspective." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41322.
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Short term assignments to other countries are increasing and it is important to take note of the associated potential tax compliance requirements. South Africa is part of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) whose main objective is to advance the development and economic growth of the member countries through regional integration. It is difficult for persons with limited or no international tax background to identify potential taxes when going on short term assignments to other SADC countries as very little has been published with regard to the procedure to follow. The procedure to follow and the main tax concepts (corporate tax, personal tax, VAT and withholding tax) have not been published in a user friendly, holistic format to enable such persons to identify potential tax implications. In this research a conceptual tax-compliance framework was created and tested to enable persons to follow the procedure to identify potential taxes that could be triggered when going on short term assignments. It also enables them to have an understanding of the concepts of the main tax principles applicable in SADC countries that have double tax agreements in place with South Africa.Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Foster, Derek. "Prescriptive processes to frameworks : the evolution of a learning system and operational framework for professionals engaged in community development /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17282.pdf.
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Montenegro, Elena Carmen Raquel. "On the road towards empowerment : Ayllu-community values and practices in an urban setting, the case of the community of urban Aymaras of Pampajasi, La Paz, Bolivia /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/7778.
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Waisner, Cynthia L. "Through the Eyes of the Family: A Collective Case Study of Family Business Consulting." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1344002058.
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Heimos, Monica Heimos. "An Examination of Perspectives on Community Poverty: A Case Study of a Junior Civic Association." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6251.
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Nonprofit organizations have become a necessary staple in the lives of people and communities experiencing poverty. Many of these organizations provide services that they think their communities need. The solutions and services these organizations provide are incumbent on what the organizations think causes poverty. Although the motivations behind these organizations have good intentions, their approach to poverty could further jeopardize people and communities by not providing proper or necessary services that have the ability to help people get out of poverty. To explore how organizational values and perspectives on poverty are operationalized, I examined one nonprofit grassroots organization in Tampa Heights, Tampa, Florida. I applied the following four theories of poverty: individual, cultural, political-economic, and geographic to explain how participants discussed poverty in Tampa Heights. Interviews revealed that while many participants subscribed to multiple theories of poverty, each participant held one dominant view. This finding, among others, exposed the complexities of how individuals understand poverty as well as how nonprofit organizations approach these multifaceted issues. Thus, indicating the need for a clearer explanation of how and why people use these theories or combinations of theories to explain both causes and solutions to poverty.
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Leung, Yui-kee, and 梁銳基. "Perceived organizational climate and job satisfaction: a comparison between social work personnel in voluntaryagencies in community development and family welfare services." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247908.
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Leung, Yui-kee. "Perceived organizational climate and job satisfaction : a comparison between social work personnel in voluntary agencies in community development and family welfare services /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12341629.
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Lomas, Lisa Kapin. "The effects of local government expenditures on property values." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24402.
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This thesis examines the property value impacts of neighbourhood improvements to infrastructure provided by local government. The direct and indirect effects of a revitalization effort are studied in order to determine whether neighbourhood improvement programs generate positive spill over effects (externalities) to surrounding single family homes. These impacts are examined for a number of reasons: (a) property value determination studies have thus far omitted a treatment of detailed neighbourhood infrastructure variables; (b) the literature discussing externalities created by government intervention has either focussed primarily on the negative effects created by federal intervention, been theoretical in nature, or has been empirically inconclusive or contradictory; (c) the implementation of a neighbourhood improvement program in Canada was conceived of as a policy which would protect the investment of housing rehabilitation projects and has thus been expected to create positive neighbourhood effects.
The empirical analysis performed in this study examines neighbourhood improvements in general and a neighbourhood improvement program in particular. The Canadian Neighbourhood Improvement Program (NIP) is empirically analyzed using multiple regression analysis. An analysis of covariance technique allows us to test whether neighbourhood improvements have a greater impact on housing values if they were provided in NIP designated areas or in NIP years.
The empirical results of this study indicate that there are
very few externalities created by the NIP program. In some cases, improvements were found to have a negative impact on single family house prices indicating that some improvements generate a negative effect. In addition, living adjacent to a NIP designated area was found to negatively affect single family house prices in one of the study years. These findings imply that a justification for similar improvement efforts need to be based on something other than property value increases. Policy analysts should consider other economic and non-economic justifications for such efforts before embarking on similar programs.Business, Sauder School of
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Dusabemariya, Eugénie. "La contribution de la ressource humaine au développement communal : cas du Rwanda /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1990. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Rice, Claire Michele. "A Case Study of the Ellison Model's Use of Mentoring as an Approach Toward Inclusive Community Building." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/37.
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The Ellison Executive Mentoring Inclusive Community Building (ICB) Model is a paradigm for initiating and implementing projects utilizing executives and professionals from a variety of fields and industries, university students, and pre-college students. The model emphasizes adherence to ethical values and promotes inclusiveness in community development. It is a hierarchical model in which actors in each succeeding level of operation serve as mentors to the next. Through a three-step process--content, process, and product--participants must be trained with this mentoring and apprenticeship paradigm in conflict resolution, and they receive sensitivitiy and diversity training, through an interactive and dramatic exposition. The content phase introduces participants to the model's philosophy, ethics, values and methods of operation. The process used to teach and reinforce its precepts is the mentoring and apprenticeship activities and projects in which the participants engage and whose end product demontrates their knowledge and understanding of the model's concepts. This study sought to ascertain from the participants' perspectives whether the model's mentoring approach is an effective means of fostering inclusiveness, based upon their own experiences in using it. The research utilized a qualitative approach and included data from field observations, individual and group interviews, and written accounts of participants' attitudes. Participants complete ICB projects utilizing the Ellison Model as a method of development and implementation. They generally perceive that the model is a viable tool for dealing with diversity issues whether at work, at school, or at home. The projects are also instructional in that whether participants are mentored or seve as apprentices, they gain useful skills and knowledge about their careers. Since the model is relatively new, there is ample room for research in a variety of areas including organizational studies to dertmine its effectiveness in combating problems related to various kinds of discrimination.
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Sundström, Agneta. "Globalization, CSR and business legitimacy in local relationships /." Uppsala : Dept. of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2009. http://epsilon.slu.se/200923.pdf.
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Harvey, Edward S. "Development of an associate of sciences degree option program: Administration of justice with occupational concentrations." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/723.
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Hardy, Jennifer Lynette. "Healthcare providers communication mechanisms using a case management model of care implications for information systems development, implementation & evaluation /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060731.120940/index.html.
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Ramirez, Francisco. "Breaking the Cycle for a Better Life: Understanding the Decision-Making Process That First-Generation, Community College Students Experienced When Making College Major and Career Choices." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/824.
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Choosing a college major and career are the most critical decisions that college students make and students are expected to make these impactful decisions early in their academic careers. First-generation, community college students are a group that are especially affected by this early decision process as they require the knowledge and experience to make informed decisions. Their parents often lack the experience to guide them through this process since they are unfamiliar with being a college student and providing the necessary support in this area. These barriers cause stress among these students and inefficiencies in the decisions that they make. Nevertheless, first-generation, community college students are a group that possess a tremendous amount of motivation and determination for reaching their goals regardless of the barriers they encounter.
Community colleges and high schools are in a position to create intervention programs that help promote career development at a time when it’s most critical. The aim of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the decision-making process that first-generation, community college students experienced as they made college major and career choices. The study focused on understanding the factors that influenced students’ college major and career choices.
This study found that the factors that influenced students’ college major and career choices were: a desire to break the cycle of poverty for a better life; the desire to set a good example; the desire to become something real; the exposure to knowledge, engaging instructors, and to authentic careers during their educational experience; knowing there is a future; and the support and guidance students received while pursuing their education.
Furthermore, students reported that their exposure to knowledge, engaging instructors, and to their authentic careers during their educational experience, as well as the support and guidance they received, helped bolster their level of confidence about reaching their career goals, thus, providing students with a heightened sense of career self-efficacy. Results of this study indicated that having the proper support and guidance, both moral and financial, influenced the choices that they made related to their college majors and careers. Being confident about reaching a career goal gave students the determination and resiliency to keep moving forward in their academic path.
Participants described their major and career choice process as confronting unclear futures with determination and resilience; encountering and overcoming financial barriers; being stressful; and as a process of searching.
This new knowledge that emerged as a result of this study will assist counselors in utilizing effective counseling approaches in order to maximize the assistance provided to first-generation, community college students based on their actual career development needs. The study results will also help in directing the development of intervention programs focused on career development at community colleges and pre-collegiate institutions.
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Dam, Duy Long. "Développement touristique et développement local : la communauté lagunaire à Tam Giang-Cau Hai, province de Thùa Thiên Hué, Vietnam." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCC022/document.
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Thừa Thiên Huế dispose d’une situation géographique stratégique, possédant des paysages somptueux, des villages artisanaux et d’une culture très riche avec deux patrimoines culturels mondiaux... Parmi les ressources naturelles potentielles de Hue, la lagune de Tam Giang - Cầu Hai (TG-CH), avec ses ressources précieuses, est une nouvelle destination touristique de cette province. À TG-CH, les activités touristiques sont apparues depuis 2010. Mais en réalité, le tourisme à la lagune de TG-CH ne montre pas vraiment qu’il est un outil efficace pour lutter contre la pauvreté pour la communauté lagunaire locale. Cette étude vise à un développement local durable en analysant plusieurs facteurs. Les analyses profondes sur les impacts touristiques, sur la participation communautaire dans le tourisme ont une relation directe avec la valeur perçue par la communauté locale sur le tourisme à TG-CH. Spécialement, une proposition initiale du « tourisme à la ville fantôme » dans la lagune de TG-CH montre une destination unique dans le monde entier que les responsables de Thừa Thiên Huế ne connaissent pas. Pour la première fois, la culture locale devient une clé importante pour comprendre, pour expliquer les pratiques des communautés locales. Cette recherche va être encore développée pour un développement local durable à TG-CHThừa Thiên Huế inherites a strategic geographic position with many majestic landscapes, traditional villages and a diverse culture with two world cultural heritages. Among various potential natural resources of the place, Tam Giang – Cầu Hai Lagoon (TG-CH), with its precious resources, is an emerging tourist destination of the province. Althought tourism has established at TG-CH since 2010, it, in fact, has not shown as an effective tool for poverty alleviation. This research is aiming to a sustainable development of the area through analysing various factors. Analysises on the impacts of tourism and the involvement of local community in tourism have a very strong connection with the community perceived value in tourism. Specifically, a proposal for a model “tourism in the ghost town” at TG-CH would bring a unique aspect of a lost world which could not even be in the mind Thừa Thiên Huế authorities. For the first time, local culture becomes a significant key to understand and elaborate social changes. This research will continuously develop toward the sustainable development of TG-CH
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Johansson, Marit. "Life in a World Heritage City : A case study of discussions and contested values in Angra do Heroísmo, the Azores." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Kultur och samhälle – Tema Q, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-118008.
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The objectives of this study are to critically map and analyse past and current discussions, negotiations and social processes that take place and relate to conditions created by living in- or monitoring the World Heritage City Angra do Heroísmo in the Azores, Portugal. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews with the stakeholders in the city, the purpose has been to study how, and with what result and consequences, contested values, interests, rhetoric and powers are mobilized and made into dynamic forces for these stakeholders. Hence, this thesis gives a chronological presentation of selected issues and discussions, which have been taking place in the city from 1980 to 2012. The first subjects attended to are the 1980 earthquake and the nomination process which led to the inscription of Angra to the World Heritage List in 1983. However, some of the core objectives relate to the implications of living in a World Heritage City, given the preservation provisions which follow such a classified area. The aim has further been to assess the point of departure for the official monitors and their views on monitoring a vibrant historical area. The discussions analysed relate to the predicaments occurring when modern development is set up against preservation. However, the analyses show how policies and preservation ideals change, as well as how powers and authorities are challenged and affected by forces within and outside the “authorized heritage discourse”. Finally, this study has assessed the notions of pride, local attachment and identity among the inhabitants in Angra. The World Heritage Status can trigger a double sense of feelings; on the one side it holds emotions related to pride and recognition, on the other it represents obstacles for living- and developing the city in accordance with the present needs. World Heritage and tourism are closely linked, and this investigation explores how the stakeholders in Angra relate to the possibilities and threats which tourism holds. Angra represents a site where there is a limited influx of tourist, and we can see how most stakeholders speak for a quality-based tourism. In this respect, one could say there is a prevailing consensus among the stakeholders. Finally, this study has assessed the notions of pride, local attachment and identity among the inhabitants in Angra. These sensations are related to the historical cityscape, an environment which also frames personal experiences and processes. The World Heritage Status can trigger a double sense of feelings; on the one side it holds emotions related to pride and recognition, on the other it represents obstacles for living- and developing the city in accordance with the present needs. Angra do Heroísmo is studied for its particularities, yet comparisons made with other studies reveal that the matters and aspects addressed in this thesis can be universal rather than particular.Avhandlingen er en kritisk kartlegging og analyse av tidligere og pågående diskusjoner, forhandlinger og sosiale prosesser som er relatert til det å leve i og forvalte verdensarvbyen Angra do Heroísmo på Asorene i Portugal. Basert på etnografisk feltarbeid og kvalitative intervjuer med for eksempel innbyggere, kulturminneforvaltningen, politikere og utviklere har formålet vært å forstå hvordan, og med hvilke konsekvenser, ulike verdier, retorikker, interesser og ressurser er mobilisert og gjort til drivende krefter for disse stakeholderne. Avhandlingen gir en kronologisk fremstilling av utvalgte tematikker og diskusjoner fra 1980 og frem til 2012, hvor de første temaene er knyttet til jordskjelvet som rammet byen i 1980, og den påfølgende nominasjonsprosessen til verdensarvlisten som ga Angra do Heroísmo verdensarvstatus i 1983. Et hovedanliggende for denne avhandlingen er problemstillinger knyttet til det å leve i en verdensarvby, med de restriksjoner som følger et klassifisert område. Videre har målet vært å studere myndighetenes- og kulturminnevernets ståsted og deres bevaringspolitikk. I skjæringspunktet mellom hensynet til bevaring og behovet for utvikling oppstår diskusjoner og forhandlinger, og avhandlingen analyserer utvalgte diskusjoner som hovedsakelig er knyttet til utbyggingsprosjekter. Studien viser imidlertid hvordan bevaringsidealer- og politikk endres, og likeledes hvordan myndigheter og autoriteter utfordres av krefter innenfor og utenfor ‘the authorized heritage discourse’. Avslutningsvis gir avhandlingen en analyse av hvilken betydning verdensarvstatusen har for innbyggerne, noe som berører temaene identitet, stolthet og lokal tilknytning. Verdensarven har således en dobbeltsidig størrelse, som på den ene siden trigger følelser som stolthet og annerkjennelse, mens på den andre siden representerer begrensninger og diskusjoner.
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Castillo, Claudia. "Students with Physical Disabilities - Reflections on their Experiences with Work Preparation Programs, Services and Accommodations in a Higher Education Institution." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2567.
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For a variety of reasons, college students with disabilities encounter stressors beyond those of students who do not have disabilities. One of the more salient examples is that students with disabilities are required to disclose that they have a disability and to communicate with faculty and staff in order to receive academic accommodations, as afforded to them under sub-part E of Section 504 of the Education and Rehabilitation Act of 1974. Therefore, postsecondary institutions are required to make appropriate accommodations available to students with disabilities, but they are not required to proactively seek them out.
The purpose of this study was to learn about the needs that students with physical disabilities have concerning their successful transition into professional careers. This was accomplished by analyzing how five current senior students with disabilities reflected on their experiences, particularly in terms of using work preparation programs and/or accommodations necessary for them to participate in employment recruitment activities provided by the university’s career services office. The intent of those services was to transition disabled students from the university environment into the workforce.
The findings showed that the students perceived they did not receive a lot of information regarding the services available, and they also expressed that the university should have done more in transitioning them into their professional life. The basic premise is that higher education professionals, key support staff, and administrators who provide work preparation programs, career, transition and accommodation services to disabled students are in a position to help remove informational barriers, facilitate the use of services and accommodations, and to actively encourage students with disabilities to enter the workforce upon graduation. The results of this study may inspire university personnel to find creative ways to get students involved and motivated to seek services available to them, to be best self-advocates to students needing their services, and to understand the transition challenges that exist between academic life and entry into the workforce. By being more aware and sensitive about the needs of students with disabilities, the professionals who work with them might be better positioned to help them experience a successful and more supported transition into a competitive employment and independent life after college.
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Schweinsberg, Stephen Conrad. "Sustainable tourism development and rural community values in Australia's forest regions." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/849.
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Hou, Wen-Hai, and 侯玟卉. "A study of the community development center plan the curriculum which personnel training of the community development." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30518128744640904435.
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The main aim of this study was to investigate the process how the community development center planned the curriculum of personnel training. Therefore, the aims of this study were 1.To explore the conceptions and foundation while planning the course. 2.To analyze the process of curriculum planning. 3.To investigate what problems will they have and what solutions are. 4.To conclude the consultations for the other units. The methodology used in this study is Case Study method to achieve the above-mentioned purposes. All of the Interviewees are the planners of the curriculum of human resources. And choosing eight interviewees to interview. According to the data, the study can find seven indications: 1.The community development center emphasizes the offering of the basic community development concept and guidance. 2.The developing curriculum needs to notice the practicability. 3.The foundation of diagnose the situation and requirement of the community, combining them with guidance to find the learning way of the different communities. 4.The curriculum of community development talent emphasize operating and offering the opportunities to learn from each other . 5.The qualification of the teacher emphasize on the people who have the community concept and can offer the additional resources 6.The center usually faces the administration limit, such as the time isn’t enough or the staff often change. 7.The center faces some problems in the process of administrating, including less motivated students、the lack of teachers and the curriculum is highly ditto. According to the conclusions , the study provide some suggestions of the practical situation in the community development center, the governmental agency and the other study.
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Garneau, J. E. Paul. "Faculty development in British Columbia Community Colleges." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1764.
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This thesis was an attempt to better understand what it would take for faculty development decision makers to promote faculty vitality more effectively in British Columbia community colleges. First, it was necessary to examine governmental expectations and objectives for the entire system. Next, a review of the complex terminology used to describe multiple aspects of faculty development was presented. This was followed by an extensive review of the literature on the subject, going back to its early development through to the year 1992. This review revealed the existence of considerable diversity throughout the field. In an effort to somewhat rationalize what faculty development pursuits had come to, a comprehensive model was developed and put to the test with a sampling of decision makers employed at two-year institutions. The model served as a base for the development of an integrated questionnaire which featured an elaborated checklist of potential faculty development activities. Respondents were asked to provide strategic as well as operational information as it related to the developmental needs of regular full-time faculty members. The study's inductive findings supported the model well, enabling an analysis of its implications regarding theory, research, and practice.
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Lawrie, Richard Singleton. "The Ministry of Social Services’ Community Development Workers’ Initiative : workers’ perception of their practice." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4386.
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The start-up of the Community Development Workers'
Initiative (CDWI) aims at formally beginning the process of
re-establishing community development practice within British
Columbia's Ministry of Social Services (MSS). This report's
goals are to document the MSS Community Development Workers1
(CDWs) perceptions of their practice, challenges, and
successes both outside of and within the MSS. These goals are
carried out within the context of organizational change
theories and models. This research was conducted
approximately one year after the start-up of the CDWI.
This is an explorative/descriptive study which garners
CDW input from questionnaires and face-to-face interviews.
These two measures were utilized in order to yield qualitative
data. Qualitative methods and Rothman's framework (three
modes of community organization) are employed to extrapolate
major themes.
The findings reveal that most CDW respondents report
their practice to reflect one or more of the three models
described in Rothman's framework. Underlining this trend, the
selection of community organizational strategies usually
appears to be driven by a process involving the community and
their identified needs and interests. Documentation and
discussion also include CDWI community work constructs, the
obstacles faced by the respondents, CDW's perceptions of MSS' s
needs and interests, and the sampled CDW's recommendations
surrounding organizational change through the use of a
community development approach.
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Konda, Laura Suzanne. "The effects of an airport relocation on property values a noxious siting or community development? /." Thesis, 2004. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2004/kondal60678/kondal60678.pdf#page=3.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004.Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-283). Also available online via the University of Texas Libraries website (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/).
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Konda, Laura Suzanne Fullerton Don. "The effects of an airport relocation on property values a noxious siting or community development? /." 2004. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1346/kondal60678.pdf.
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Wang, Cheng-Hao, and 王承皓. "The Key Factors of Development in Community Social Enterprise －An Analysis of Values Creation View." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03858578984503457435.
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碩士崑山科技大學
視覺傳達設計研究所
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In recent years, the public start approving and accepting the social enterprise, and many people want to invest into social enterprises so as to play their own power to make changes. The government supports this practice, and has promoted many counseling and assistance programs in the past few years. But confusion still remains for how to change social enterprises into community oriented social enterprises. This thesis takes the key to the development of community social enterprises as the research object, adopts the three pointer communities as a case, and conduct more detailed and further understanding of value creation view with the case study method and semi-structured in-depth interview method. The research object visits community Dagang community, the west community, Anshun salt field these three communities on operation, and understand the key to the development of the different community operation social enterprises and enterprises entering into the different modes of the community, and how to resolve social problems respectively. Through the three different types of community-oriented social enterprises, this thesis analyze the three orientation from the semi-structured interviews, and understand how the community and academic groups, and even government departments collectively cooperate, acquire, create and distribute the value. Finally, the study found that trust, resource acquisition and co-creation in the community are the cornerstone of the early development, and provide the basis for building consensus and unity, but community-oriented social enterprises not only solve community problems of society with their care and practical help, but also assist the operation and development of the community and Production and marketing business, and promote the overall development of the community at the same time.
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"Connections, confidence, and competence: The meaning of professional development for community college support staff personnel." IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3316199.
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Hulme, Thérèse. "Transforming a school community: facilitators living values." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2453.
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From a feminist theology of praxis the appreciative inquiry used in this research
reflected on the constituting role the living of values by facilitators play in
transforming the lives of children who suffer the effects of poverty, neglect and abuse.
The concretisation or the living of values within the school community linked with the
theme of solidarity with the marginalised.
The facilitators' solidarity with children as "concrete others" became ways of doing
participatory ethics. As part of a postmodern paradigm, a social constructionist
discourse made it possible for therapist-researcher and participants to view the
facilitators' work and the research itself as part of a relational process. Appreciative
inquiry invited a reflective stance towards action, relating and personal knowledge.
The research also reflected on poststructuralist theory and practice, and the power of
imagination and language to re-describe of the work of facilitators.Practical Theology
M. Th. (Practical Theology, with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy)
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Foot, Shelley. "The place of community values within community-based conservation : the case of Driftsands Nature Reserve, Cape Town." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11914.
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The most contemporary approach to biodiversity conservation within South Africa is that of
community-based initiatives, which seek to combine biodiversity conservation with socioeconomic
development. As a challenge to the Western, science laden approaches to
conservation there is an increasing need for community initiatives to reflect the values of
local communities.
Values of local communities and the management body, CapeNature, with regards to
Driftsands Nature Reserve, Cape Town, were captured and analytically coded through the
qualitative methods of interviewing and participant observation in order to develop a
grounded theory and model.
A discussion of the expressed values suggests that community-based conservation
initiatives are doing little to include community values even though there is a large degree of
agreement between these and corporate values. As such, it is questioned whether
community-based conservation can be practised within an organisation which, due to
procedures and protocols, is top-down in its approach.Geography
M. Sc. (Geography)
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Bombardier, Louis. "An analysis of mediating factors, perceptions, and personnel related to strategic change in community college based small business development centers." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28919.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the events and activities that
triggered strategic and large-scale changes in four community college based
Small Business Development Centers. A review of the literature in
organizational theory and community college education was used to form
an integrated conceptual scheme which could be applied to the description
and examination of the change process.
Tichy's TPC (Technical, Political, Cultural) model for managing
strategic organizational change was used to provide the conceptual
framework for conducting research and organizing data as it related to the
events and activities that triggered change in case studies at four
community college based Small Business Development Centers in Oregon.
The case studies dealt with how strategic and organizational changes were
triggered, whether they were initiated by a common set of triggering events,
and the management responses to these changes used in each of the four
community college based Small Business Development Center.
Information concerning the changes that took place was obtained
through using the TPC's in-depth diagnostic plan to analyze the events that
trigger change and their impact on the key organizational components of the
Small Business Centers. The research produced three findings related to
the events that triggered in the four SBDC's organizational changes and the
manner and means by which they were perceived, managed, and dealt with
by each of the SBDC's studied.
The three primary findings were: (a) the role played by key
individuals as responders and/or innovators of organizational change was
to a large degree dependent upon the congruence between the situation(s)
being faced and their backgrounds, personalities, and leadership
characteristics; (b) the different roles and hierarchical levels existing in an
organization significantly influenced how individuals perceived the nature,
type, properties, and characteristics of the events triggering the change
process; and (c) when there is no agreement among key organizational
decision-makers on the nature or type of change taking place, social power,
influence and/or bargaining is used in selecting the strategy used to deal
the change event.Graduation date: 1992
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Spence, Kellie. "The Relationship of Landscape and Water Perceptions to Community Engagement in Rural Southern Ontario." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/5280.
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Engagement is an essential component to community building.
Among the factors which contribute to engagement is perception. Of
specific interest to landscape architecture are perceptions of landscape
and water as they reveal environmental attitudes.
Rural Southern Ontario has experienced notable land use pressures for
resource extraction and renewable energy. This study explores the
relationship between landscape and water perceptions by rural residents
and levels of community engagement in a changing rural landscape.
Instruments used for this study were a photo-based questionnaire and
Visitor Employed Photography. The study found that individuals who are
more engaged with the community have a greater ability to interpret
landscape in the context of resource extraction and are more critical in
their perception of quarry rehabilitation. Findings of this study can assist
rural groups by providing insight into social capital and inform landscape
planning and design practices when working with rural groups to increase
engagement.
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Pausigere, Peter. "Curriculum development in an urban refugee centre in South Africa." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8871.
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The Zimbabwean refugees sheltered at Holy Cross Church* in central Johannesburg have taken the
initiative to develop their own curriculum. There have been many orientations to curriculum
development with current reconceptualisations emphasising practical and descriptive curriculum
development approaches. This research is framed specifically by Walker’s naturalistic curriculum
development model, the community-based approach to education development, literature on
refugee education and generally by broader theories of curriculum. The study employed the
ethnographic research method and gathered data through non-participant observation, interviews
and document analysis. Taking a wider approach to curriculum development and in the context of
displaced people, the research redefined the term curriculum developer to mean ordinary people
and refugees in their communal social setting. This study provides an analysis and description of how
the refugees successfully initiated and developed effective learning and training programmes which
resulted in the establishment of a school, early childhood, adult-education and vocational training
centres. The refugee meetings and school council deliberation forums guided by common values and
political, social and economic factors made practically defensible, education and training
resolutions on language, school policies, curriculum options, pedagogy, knowledge and certification
issues. On the forms of refugee-emergency education, the refugee school curriculum followed that
of the country of origin, with some minor modifications thereby preparing learners for return to
their country. The training programmes utilised a slightly adjusted curriculum of the host country in
synergies with local private colleges and prepared the refugees to integrate into the host country’s
economic communities. To improve the quality of education and training at Holy Cross there is need
for intervention from government and international humanitarian organisations. In addition to the
academic curriculum, subjects with a social reconstructionist ideology, double-shift schooling and
democratic teaching and learning approaches must be introduced as well as awarding refugees with
regionally recognised training certificates.
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Mutiti, Alfred Stuart. "Creating community structures for sustainable social reintegration of child soldiers in Liberia." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13846.
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The study is about how to work with and create community structures for effective and sustainable social reintegration of Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG), also called child soldiers in Liberia. It analyses the community structures which were engaged in the Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration processes and questions whether these were premised on community values and norms. The study challenges some of the existing practices of working with community structures in reintegration programmes.
The Structural-functionalist perspective is used as theoretical framework of the study based on the notion that social events, like DDRR programmes can best be explained in terms of the functions they perform or the contributions they make towards stability and continuity of societies where child soldiers are to be reintegrated.
The study adopts a qualitative methodology to investigate community structures to reintegrate child soldiers in an effective, sustainable way. Different related research techniques, or triangulation, are used referring to a combination of mainly qualitative methods of data collection and analyses. Focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and documentary sources have different complementary strengths which are more comprehensive when used together.
The findings indicated that children of all ages were “recruited” by armed groups and forces for diverse reasons. The findings confirmed children going through difficult experiences as they participated and supervised over violence. The war disoriented children‟s socialization processes. In some situations they returned to dysfunctional communities, without adequate support systems. The humanitarian led community approaches delivered results, however, these were short-lived. The engagement of the community structures was not based on clear community analysis. The intended manifest functions of the DDRR programmes and reintegration objectives for sustainability were eventually dysfunctional in most cases.
The study‟s major recommendation is that a careful analysis of existing community structures, identification and engagement of positive community networks be made and that comprehensive capacity building programmes, built on societal values and norms nested within a National Planning Policy framework, will deliver durable and sustainable social reintegration of child soldiers in Liberia.Sociology
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Hanekom, Wouda. "Kriteria vir prestasiebeoordeling van gemeenskapsontwikkelaars: 'n kwalitatiewe studie." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/552.
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Text in AfrikaansCurrent society view performance appraisal in organization as a very important component and organization are sometimes legally obliged to apply performance appraisal. From a qualitative perspective the researcher want to explore and describe the criteria that must be taken in account during performance appraisal of community developers. A qualitative approach will be utilized following an explorative, descriptive and contextual research design. The study will be conducted by municipalities, non-governmental organizations and state departments in the Boland area in the Western Cape. Data will be collected by means of semi-structured focusgroup interviews with community developers. Data will be analysed according to the framework provided by Tesch (in Creswell, 1994). Guba's model (in Krefting, 1991) will be employed for data verification. Recommendations were provided according the criteria that must be taken in account with performance appraisal for community developers.
Prestasiebeoordeling word in die hedendaagse samelewing as 'n belangrike komponent binne enige organisasie beskou en organisasies word soms wetlik verplig om prestasiebeoordeling toe te pas. Vanuit 'n kwalitatiewe perspektief beplan die navorser die navorsingstudie om kriteria wat in aanmerking geneem behoort te word by prestasiebeoordeling van gemeenskapsontwikkelaars te verken en te beskryf. Vir die doel gaan 'n verkennende, bekrywende en konteksueie navorsingsontwerp geimplimenteer word. Die studie sal gedoen word by munisipaliteite, nieregeringsorganisasies en staatsdepartmente in die Boland streek in die Wes-Kaap. Semi-gestruktureerde fokusgroeponderhoude sal met gemeenskapsontwikkelaars gevoer word om die toepaslike data in te samel. Data sal geanaliseer word volgens die stappe van Tesch (in Creswell, 1994)) en data verifiering sal volgens Guba se model (in Krefting, 1991) onderneem word. Aanbevelings is voorsien met betrekking tot kriteria wat in aanmerking geneem kan word by prestasiebeoordeling van gemeenskapsontwikkelaars.
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Geel, Pieter Andrew. "The management of staff development programmes at FET colleges in the Gauteng Province." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1783.
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The fragmented and unequal system of technical and vocational education and training in South Africa is a consequence of the apartheid era. Since 1994 comprehensive legislation has been introduced to create a transformed system of Further Education and Training (FET) guided by the principles of redress, equity and lifelong learning and aimed at producing graduates who can contribute to making South Africa a key player in the global economy. In particular, the Technical College sector requires transformation. This in turn demands new knowledge, attitudes and skills from college managers and educators. Therefore, relevant staff development programmes is a key instrument of change in colleges. Against this background this study examines the management of staff development programmes in FET colleges in Gauteng Province by means of a literature study and an empirical investigation. The former addresses the management of change, human resource management, staff development and organisational development with an emphasis on the application of chaos/complexity theory. Moreover, the dynamic FET landscape in South Africa is sketched and FET policies and legislation since 1994 are discussed. The empirical investigation adopts a qualitative approach using focus group and individual interviews, observation and document analysis to gather data from a small sample of participants: educators and members of senior and middle management. Participants were selected by purposeful sampling from three former Technical Colleges (one previously advantaged and two previously disadvantaged) in Gauteng, which have recently merged to create a new multi-campus college, the Tshwane North College. The findings of the interviews present the experience of participants according to six themes: the management of change; communication during change; stakeholder involvement in change; the impact of FET legislation; human resource management and the role of staff development programmes in this process. These findings were integrated with observations of staff development programmes and their management and analysis of key documents. It was concluded that people are complex and may resist change; during change effective communication, stakeholder participation, adequate funding for staff development and its effective management are essential. Recommendations for the improvement of practice are presented based on the findings of the literature and empirical study.Educational Studies
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Knox, Colin. "Whakapumau te mauri : values-based Maori organisations : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Maori Studies at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/912.
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The political and economic history of New Zealand since the turn of the nineteenth century has been characterised by the colonisation of the indigenous Maori people by settlers mainly from Britain. In 1840 the British Crown and representative Maori Rangatira signed the Maori language version of the Treaty of Waitangi, which guaranteed to Maori continuing ownership of their land and natural resources, and self determination under the protection of the Crown, What Maori did not know in signing the Treaty was that already thousands of new settlers were being recruited in Britain on the promise of a paradise, where vacant land could be purchased cheaply and every man was the equal of his master. While the Maori population was in decline following the introduction of disease and the musket, the immigrant European population exploded. It established a Westminster styled Government which in its early years included no Maori, and passed laws which over the next 50 years alienated Maori from 95% of their land, prevented Maori from accumulating capital and participating in the most rewarding industries, and imposed alien social institutions on a previously well organised and successful people. For many Maori in the twenty-first century, the legacy of colonisation has been either marginalisation in rural communities on land frozen by legal structures which run counter to traditional values and procedures, or migration to towns and cities where employment opportunities are mainly in less skilled work and subject to variation in the economy. This thesis examines the extent of the displacement of the institutions of Maori society and its impact on the development of Maori land and other assets. It proposes an approach which could assist shareholders in Maori land to reassert traditional values and tikanga and promote collective decision making, while gaining understanding of the concepts and language of business and organisations and a skill base for greater participation in the organisations which own and manage their assets. The research results are promising, with participants in a research project accepting an approach to governance and organisation which bridges tikanga and modem business structures. There is evidence from an extended case study that the approach engenders a confidence which has positive social and cultural outcomes while encouraging the development of Maori land
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Schenck, Catherina Johanna. "Paradigma ontleding van en paradigma beskrywing vir deelnemende werkswyses." 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17673.
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Community development and in particular participatory development is about
people.
This means that the person who studies or practices participatory development
or any other of the participatory pratices should have a particular way of thinking
about people. The main aim motivating this study was to investigate the
paradigm/s about people on which participatory practices are based. This
included a literature research on five participatory practices namely
participatory development;
participatory communication;
participatory learning;
participatory research; and
participatory management.
A guideline for paradigm analysis was developed by using Schriver's (1995) and
Capra's (1996) descriptions of a paradigm as well as ideas of hermeneutics.
From the paradigm analysis on the participatory practices two themes emerged:
A shift from modernism to post modernism in the thinking processes and
participatory practices.
From the participatory practices the same concepts repeatedly emerged
indicating a similar paradigm for all the participatory practices.
Three post modern theories were therefore applied to enhance the description
of the different concepts. The end result of this study is the development of an
evolving paradigm for participatory practices in order to give enhanced meaning
to concepts in the participatory vocabulary.
Finally a critical reflection was done on the post modern research process.Text in Afrikaans
Social Work
D.Phil. (Social Work)