A Self-Guiding Communities Approach     

Leonard R. Askham 《The Journal of environmental education》2013,44(3):6-7

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the leadership characteristics of effective Colorado Outward Bound school instructors and develop criteria which might be useful in their selection. A biographical inventory questionnaire was developed and administered, along with the FIRO-B personality test, to 130 instructors and assistant instructors at the Colorado Outward Bound school. Profiles of instructors and assistant instructors rated “most effective” and “least effective” were compared to determine if statistically significant differences between the two groups existed. Statistical evidence was found relating a limited number of biographical characteristics to leadership effectiveness. There was no statistical evidence linking personality characteristics and leadership effectiveness.  相似文献   

Health literacy and social capital: what role for adult literacy partnerships and pedagogy?     

Stephen Black  Jo Balatti  Ian Falk 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(2):146-164

This paper makes the case for adult literacy (including numeracy) practitioners to play a greater role in health literacy initiatives in Australia. The paper draws on data from a national research project that investigated adult literacy partnerships and pedagogy viewed from a social capital perspective. The primary purpose of the project was to produce guidelines on how to deliver integrated adult literacy and numeracy programmes using a social capital approach. Prior experience of partnerships was explored through a review of the literature and an environmental scan of adult literacy providers using an email survey and follow-up interviews. An in-depth case study of a health literacy partnership was trialled using action research. Partnerships between adult literacy and health organisations in Australia were found to be largely ad hoc and rarely documented. To enable sustainable health literacy programmes, partnerships are needed across the three interlinked organisational levels – micro, meso and macro, and in particular the latter, which is currently almost completely absent. The conceptual frameworks outlined for health literacy partnerships and social capital pedagogy in this paper are new and potentially of value to policy makers, researchers and practitioners in the fields of health and literacy.  相似文献   

Henry Barnard—Educator of Teachers     

Philip W. L. Cox 《The Educational forum》2013,77(1):25-39

Palestinian youth face developmental, cultural, and political barriers that impede them from fully engaging in civic life. Non-traditional, youth-centered pedagogies of engagement, like community-based service-learning (CBSL), have shown promise to motivate marginalized populations and provide space and roles for them to form individual identities while developing civic skills. Using data collected through focus group interviews, this paper reports how West Bank youth who participated in a non-governmental organization's CBSL leadership program were impacted.  相似文献   

The effect of trust on teacher empowerment: the mediation of teacher efficacy     

Hong-biao Yin  John Chi-Kin Lee  Zhong-hua Zhang 《Educational studies》2013,39(1):13-28

This study explores the impact of teachers’ perception of trust in colleagues on their sense of empowerment in Mainland China, with a particular focus on the mediating role of teacher efficacy. The results of a survey of 1646 teachers indicate that although teachers scored positively on trust in colleagues, efficacy and empowerment, they had relatively lower scores on general teaching efficacy (GTE) and participation in decision-making. Trust in colleagues was a significant predictor of teacher empowerment. In addition, personal teaching efficacy had a significant mediation effect on the relationship between trust in colleagues and teacher empowerment, while GTE had not. These findings lead to some implications for understanding the nature of GTE and the relationship between trust and teacher empowerment.  相似文献   

Participatory Action Research and MSW Curricula     

《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(3-4):101-124

Abstract

The value of partnership and participation for human empowerment is routinely stressed in today's social work practice literature, in which scholars emphasize the need for consumer participation, co-inquiry, and client collaboration. Because research is recognized to be a crucial element in such collaborations, one would expect that, alongside traditional research topics, the goal of empowerment would likewise be recommended in current social work research literature and curricula. One might further expect that the curricula, as part of the menu of research methods, would espouse specific kinds of participative inquiry available in the social work and social science literature.

The purpose of this study is to explore to what extent social work research methodology courses offered through social work MSW graduate programs in the USA include content that encourages active involvement in the process of research by the people whose lives are being studied. In other words, the question put to test has been how much emphasis (or how little) is placed on a relationship of partnership between “inside” and “outside” participants in the design, implementation, and analysis of the research activity? Utilizing a content analysis research design, the study posed and addressed three exploratory hypotheses in an attempt to answer this question.  相似文献   

组织创新气氛对员工心理赋能的影响研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘云  石金涛 《科学学与科学技术管理》2009,30(2)

组织创新气氛是指员工对组织政策、管理行为、组织流程以及其它创新支持要素产生的主观认知.心理赋能是个体通过对工作情境的评价而形成的内在动机状态,这是一个可变的状态变量.以知识型员工为研究对象,探讨了组织创新气氛对员工心理赋能的影响,结论表明,创新气氛的各个维度对心理赋能均有显著性的影响.  相似文献   

基于风险感知的管理授权实证研究     

杨英  龙立荣 《科学学与科学技术管理》2009,30(3)

通过对482名管理人员的实证调查发现,管理人员在权力下放时将同时面对权力地位、组织利益和任务绩效等三个风险来源,其中管理者感知到的任务绩效风险最高.通过对比国有企业和民营企业,发现除了组织利益这个风险来源以外,民营企业管理者在权力下放时感知到的权力地位风险和任务绩效风险显著高于国有企业.另外,管理者的工作控制点也显著影响其对授权风险的感知,管理者的他控水平能够显著预测管理者对授权风险的感知.  相似文献   

组织气候、心理授权与科技人员工作态度的影响关系     

陈迪 《科学学与科学技术管理》2008,29(4):195-200

研究的主要目的是考察组织气候与员工满意度、组织承诺之间的关系.采用结构方程模型对组织气候、心理授权、员工满意度、组织承诺之间的关系进行了交叉验证分析.研究发现,组织气候对科技人员的组织承诺和工作满足有影响;心理授权对组织气候与科技人员工作态度的关系具有一定的中介作用.  相似文献   

员工授权管理：起源、研究范式及其发展趋势 /FONT /P   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

王国猛  郑全全 《科研管理》2008,29(3):164-171

随着世界经济一体化进程的加快,为获低成本、高绩效和高弹性的竞争需求优势,组织授权员工的重要性日益增加。员工授权越来越受到学者和实践者的关注,已成为西方管理学研究的热点问题之一。本文在综合国内外文献的基础上,论述了近二十年来有关授权的系列研究,包括授权理论产生的背景,授权概念和授权三种研究范式,文章最后指出授权未来的研究趋势。  相似文献   

Watershed Education for Sustainable Development     

Stapp  William B. 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2000,9(3):183-197

Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN) is an international network that seeks to bring students, teachers, and communities in the world closer together through the bond of studying and improving our river systems. The network is an expanding global communication system that invites participants to analyze watershed usage, monitor the quality and quantity of river water, reflect on ways that land and water usage and cultural perceptions influence river systems, and present their findings and recommendations to appropriate governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The pedagogical model that GREEN has been working under is Action Research and Community Problem Solving (ARCPS). It is a process that enables students and teachers to participate more fully in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of educational activities aimed at resolving an issue that the learners have identified. Some of the cornerstones of the instructional approaches are watershed analysis, experiential learning, interdisciplinary orientation, integrated problem solving, action-taking, and the support of networks. GREEN encourages classrooms to consider a cross-cultural component to their watershed education program in an effort to further global citizenship by linking students, teachers, and community members from different regions of the world.  相似文献