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This volume thoroughly discusses methods and strategies appropriate
for conducting design and development research. Rich with examples
and explanations, the book describes actual strategies that
researchers have used to conduct two major types of design and
development research: 1) product and tool research and 2) model
research. Common challenges confronted by researchers in the field
when planning and conducting a study are explored and procedural
explanations are supported by a wide variety of examples taken from
current literature. Samples of actual research tools are also
presented. Important features" "in "Design and Development
Research" include:
*concise checklists at the end of each chapter to give a clear
summary of the steps involved in the various phases of a project;
*an examination of the critical types of information and data often
gathered in studies, and unique procedures for collecting these
data;
*examples of data collection instruments, as well as the use of
technology in data collection; and
*a discussion of the process of extracting meaning from data and
interpreting product and tool and model research findings.
"Design and Development Research "is appropriate for both
experienced researchers and those preparing to become researchers.
It is intended for scholars interested in planning and conducting
design and development research, and is intended to stimulate
future thinking about methods, strategies, and issues related to
the field.
Parenting is always a vital and challenging task. Even more
vital and challenging is the task of parenting a child with a
disability. When there is more than one child in the family, all
parents want to share their time, energy, and love with all their
children--and all siblings sometimes wonder if they are being
treated fairly. When one child in a family has a disability, all
this becomes more complex. Parents and sisters and brothers often
feel that for them, It isn't fair.
Selected and compiled from two decades of The Exceptional Parent
magazine, "It Isn't Fair " reveals first-hand the myriad feelings
of normal brothers and sisters at all stages as they grapple with
caretaking, frustration, powerlessness, jealousy, guilt, and worry
about their special siblings. Breaking the wall of silence that
deference has imposed on their experiences, here are the siblings
of the child with autism, the child injured at birth, the child
institutionalized after many years at home. Parents offer their own
experiences and perspectives on their children, and they illustrate
the importance of sharing information within the family. The
editors also include professional commentary.
In the second half of the twentieth century, a number of
researchers have conceptualized modern society as a social system
composed of differenti ated yet interrelated institutional spheres.
Commonly identified institu tional spheres are the family,
religion, the economy, the polity or state, medicine or health
care, religion, law, and education. The institutional perspective
has sometimes been linked to a structural-functional frame work; it
has often been asserted that institutions must be understood as
parts of a larger whole operating at the societal level. Equally
important have been recent institutional theory and research
focusing on the more microscopic dynamics of intrainstitutional
change. The concern here has been processes governing the
institutionalization of rules and practices and the formation and
decline of particular social structures. Although valid and useful,
neither of these perspectives has yielded a systematic comparative
assessment of societal institutions. The aim of this edited volume
is to meet this critical need. It brings together recent theo
retical and empirical research on societal institutions in a time
of rapid change. The chapters focus on how these institutions adapt
to societal change and what the outcomes of these changes are."
The Instructional Design Knowledge Base: Theory, Research and
Practice provides ID professionals and students at all levels with
a comprehensive exploration of the theories and research that serve
as a foundation for current and emerging ID practice. This book
offers both current and classic interpretations of theory from a
range of disciplines and approaches. It encompasses general
systems, communication, learning, early instructional, media,
conditions-based, constructivist design and performance-improvement
theories. Features include: rich representations of the ID
literature concise theory summaries specific examples of how theory
is applied to practice recommendations for future research a
glossary of related terms a comprehensive list of references. A
perfect resource for instructional design and technology doctoral,
masters and educational specialist certificate programs, The
Instructional Design Knowledge Base provides students and scholars
with a comprehensive background for ID practice and a foundation
for future ID thinking.
Infinitism is an ancient view in epistemology about the structure
of knowledge and epistemic justification, according to which there
are no foundational reasons for belief. The view has never been
popular, and is often associated with skepticism, but after
languishing for centuries it has recently begun a resurgence. Ad
Infinitum presents new work on the topic by leading
epistemologists. They shed new light on infinitism's distinctive
strengths and weaknesses, and address questions, new and old, about
its account of justification, reasoning, epistemic responsibility,
disagreement, and trust, among other important issues. The volume
clarifies the relationship between infinitism and other
epistemological views, such as skepticism, coherentism,
foundationalism and contextualism, and it offers novel perspectives
on the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of regresses and
reasons.
The Instructional Design Knowledge Base: Theory, Research and
Practice provides ID professionals and students at all levels with
a comprehensive exploration of the theories and research that serve
as a foundation for current and emerging ID practice. This book
offers both current and classic interpretations of theory from a
range of disciplines and approaches. It encompasses general
systems, communication, learning, early instructional, media,
conditions-based, constructivist design and performance-improvement
theories. Features include: rich representations of the ID
literature concise theory summaries specific examples of how theory
is applied to practice recommendations for future research a
glossary of related terms a comprehensive list of references. A
perfect resource for instructional design and technology doctoral,
masters and educational specialist certificate programs, The
Instructional Design Knowledge Base provides students and scholars
with a comprehensive background for ID practice and a foundation
for future ID thinking.
This volume thoroughly discusses methods and strategies appropriate
for conducting design and development research. Rich with examples
and explanations, the book describes actual strategies that
researchers have used to conduct two major types of design and
development research: 1) product and tool research and 2) model
research. Common challenges confronted by researchers in the field
when planning and conducting a study are explored and procedural
explanations are supported by a wide variety of examples taken from
current literature. Samples of actual research tools are also
presented. Important features" "in "Design and Development
Research" include:
*concise checklists at the end of each chapter to give a clear
summary of the steps involved in the various phases of a project;
*an examination of the critical types of information and data often
gathered in studies, and unique procedures for collecting these
data;
*examples of data collection instruments, as well as the use of
technology in data collection; and
*a discussion of the process of extracting meaning from data and
interpreting product and tool and model research findings.
"Design and Development Research "is appropriate for both
experienced researchers and those preparing to become researchers.
It is intended for scholars interested in planning and conducting
design and development research, and is intended to stimulate
future thinking about methods, strategies, and issues related to
the field.
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating
pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This
second volume provides readers with articles on topics such as
transnational marriages, exile, soccer, and missionaries as well as
on the campaigns in Communist countries for freeing the American
civil-rights activist Angela Davis. These articles highlight the
movement of ideas, people, policies, and practices across various
cultures and societies and explore the relations, connections, and
spaces created by these movements. The articles in this volume
explore interconnected historical phenomena in Asia, North and
South America, and Europe from the late seventeenth century to the
late twentieth century. These articles make clear that historical
phenomena such as soccer and exile cannot be contained and
explained within just one national setting. This volume also offers
a theoretical article that provides insights into the concept of
intercultural transfer studies and its relationship to comparative
and global history. and an article that surveys the state of
research in the field of transnational crime.
The Gettier Problem has shaped most of the fundamental debates in
epistemology for more than fifty years. Before Edmund Gettier
published his famous 1963 paper, it was generally presumed that
knowledge was equivalent to true belief supported by adequate
evidence. Gettier presented a powerful challenge to that
presumption. This led to the development and refinement of many
prominent epistemological theories, for example, defeasibility
theories, causal theories, conclusive-reasons theories, tracking
theories, epistemic virtue theories, and knowledge-first theories.
The debate about the appropriate use of intuition to provide
evidence in all areas of philosophy began as a debate about the
epistemic status of the 'Gettier intuition'. The differing accounts
of epistemic luck are all rooted in responses to the Gettier
Problem. The discussions about the role of false beliefs in the
production of knowledge are directly traceable to Gettier's paper,
as are the debates between fallibilists and infallibilists. Indeed,
it is fair to say that providing a satisfactory response to the
Gettier Problem has become a litmus test of any adequate account of
knowledge even those accounts that hold that the Gettier Problem
rests on mistakes of various sorts. This volume presents a
collection of essays by twenty-six experts, including some of the
most influential philosophers of our time, on the various issues
that arise from Gettier's challenge to the analysis of knowledge.
Explaining Knowledge sets the agenda for future work on the central
problem of epistemology.
The Gettier Problem has shaped most of the fundamental debates in
epistemology for more than fifty years. Before Edmund Gettier
published his famous 1963 paper, it was generally presumed that
knowledge was equivalent to true belief supported by adequate
evidence. Gettier presented a powerful challenge to that
presumption. This led to the development and refinement of many
prominent epistemological theories, for example, defeasibility
theories, causal theories, conclusive-reasons theories, tracking
theories, epistemic virtue theories, and knowledge-first theories.
The debate about the appropriate use of intuition to provide
evidence in all areas of philosophy began as a debate about the
epistemic status of the 'Gettier intuition'. The differing accounts
of epistemic luck are all rooted in responses to the Gettier
Problem. The discussions about the role of false beliefs in the
production of knowledge are directly traceable to Gettier's paper,
as are the debates between fallibilists and infallibilists. Indeed,
it is fair to say that providing a satisfactory response to the
Gettier Problem has become a litmus test of any adequate account of
knowledge even those accounts that hold that the Gettier Problem
rests on mistakes of various sorts. This volume presents a
collection of essays by twenty-six experts, including some of the
most influential philosophers of our time, on the various issues
that arise from Gettier's challenge to the analysis of knowledge.
Explaining Knowledge sets the agenda for future work on the central
problem of epistemology.
Dedication. The ibstpi Board. Acknowledgements. Author Biographical
Sketches. Foreword. Preface. Chapter 1: An Introduction to
Instructor Competencies Overview. The Evolution of Instructor
Competence. Traditional Conceptualizations of Instruction. New
Learning Paradigms. New Educational Technologies.
Australia is a land full of opportunities, but where can you go to
find the things that matter to women? This book is a guide to the
land as well as the diverse culture of women. Women's culture in
Australia goes back more than 40,000 years and is a rich mosaic of
story, art and music. On the top of this has come the culture of
the past 200 years: from the British convicts, from China, from the
Pacific, from the newer waves of migration and from the women's
movement. This is reflected in literature, theatre, the visual
arts, music, circuses and dance. Rural and urban women describe the
places they know and love, they also describe their histories and
show something of what lies behind a first impression.Contributors
featured include: Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Faith Bandler, Portia
Robinson, Elizabeth Jolley, Sara Dowse, Janine Haines, Dale
Spender, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Kate Llewellyn, and Finola Moorhead.
Computer hardware continues to get smaller and computer software
continues to get more complicated. Computer programming (often
shortened to programming or coding) is the process of writing,
testing, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. The
source code is written in a programming language. This code may be
a modification of existing source or something completely new. The
process of writing source code requires expertise in many different
subjects, including knowledge of the application domain and
algorithms to implement the desired behaviour. Within software
engineering, programming (the implementation) is regarded as one
phase in a software development process. This book presents new
leading-edge international research in the field.
Parenting is always a vital and challenging task. Even more
vital and challenging is the task of parenting a child with a
disability. When there is more than one child in the family, all
parents want to share their time, energy, and love with all their
children--and all siblings sometimes wonder if they are being
treated fairly. When one child in a family has a disability, all
this becomes more complex. Parents and sisters and brothers often
feel that for them, It isn't fair.
Selected and compiled from two decades of The Exceptional Parent
magazine, "It Isn't Fair " reveals first-hand the myriad feelings
of normal brothers and sisters at all stages as they grapple with
caretaking, frustration, powerlessness, jealousy, guilt, and worry
about their special siblings. Breaking the wall of silence that
deference has imposed on their experiences, here are the siblings
of the child with autism, the child injured at birth, the child
institutionalized after many years at home. Parents offer their own
experiences and perspectives on their children, and they illustrate
the importance of sharing information within the family. The
editors also include professional commentary.
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