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Environmental Education Program for Preschoolers
Get PDFThe present study looked at the effects of a three-week environmental education program on preschoolers aged from three to five years old. Attitudes about the environment were measured using a questionnaire adapted from The Children’s Attitudes Towards the Environment - Preschool Version (Diamond & Musser, 1999), and knowledge was measured with an additional five questions about specific facts. Nine children from two different schools, Community School and Lab School, received the intervention of the environmental education program, and 15 children from both schools were in the control group. The main goal of this study was to see if participation in a brief, virtual environmental education program results in greater knowledge about the environment. Overall pre-test knowledge was statistically significantly associated with age (r = .46, p = .03), indicating that older children knew more at the pre-test than younger children. No statistically significant results were found between the control and intervention group for knowledge, and the attitudes portion of the questionnaire was not analyzed because of low reliability. The only statistically significant results were between Community School and Lab School, which was not the aim of the study, and with the small participant size it is unfair to make generalizations about the populations based on those findings
An Other Story
No full textThis project originated from Blount’s powerful artists book \u27First Impressions\u27 in which he asked participants to recount the first time they felt othered. Blount put the same question to students in Rachel Simmons’ book arts class in spring 2021. The students responded through personal writing & bold imagery, then designed and printed folios on their provisional presses using metal type and other relief printmaking materials. Their folios addressed a range of personal experiences with feeling demeaned and marginalized—culturally, physically, socially. They responded to the prompt with honesty and courage. For almost every student in class, this was their first time working with letterpress, and they were inspired to take on that challenge by Blount’s bold use of typography in his work. Blount designed & printed the striking covers and Simmons did the colophon and assisted with assembling the edition of 20. The book is now part of the Rollins Book Arts Collection. This project was made possible by a grant from the Rollins College Thomas P. Johnson Visiting Artist & Scholar Program. - Rachel Simmonshttps://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/1042/thumbnail.jp
The Role of Individual Board Member Resilience, Professionalization, and Commitment in Predicting Volunteer Intentions Among A Not-For-Profit Board of Directors
Get PDFThe U.S. property management industry, of which community association management is a subset, is valued at $88.4 billion (Roth, 2020). In a volatile industry such as community association management, client retention is critical, and company success lies with the volunteer members of the board of directors. This dissertation investigates the relationship between individual board member resilience, volunteer board members’ organizational commitment, and the impact of these variables on volunteer intention in not-for-profit board of directors in condominium associations. Furthermore, the study investigates the moderating relationship that the perception of professionalization of the community association manager has on resilience and volunteer board member commitment. Results establish that individual board member resilience does in fact have an effect on a board members’ volunteer intention through the mediation of board member affective commitment. Results further establish that individual board member resilience has a positive effect on board member commitment (affective and normative), and affective commitment has a direct effect on volunteer intention. Findings suggest that community association managers (CAM’s) and management firms need to be mindful of these effects and make every attempt to ensure that their relationship with their respective boards are enhanced on an individual level. CAM’s have the ability to impact organizational objectives through the inherent-principal agent relationship. This study adds to the academic literature on resilience within the property management and volunteerism context as well as stewardship theory in nonprofit governance. Managerial implications and future research opportunities are also discussed
The Center for Post-Capitalist History\u27s Field Guide to Embodied Archiving
No full textThe Center for Post-Capitalist History invites you to consider your own body and subjectivity in relation to the writing of history. As a field guide, this publication has a goal of helping you identify your own body as a valuable archive of information. Through this process, your body-archive reveals inconsistencies between Capitalism’s promises of infinite progress and the reality of the unsustainable and destructive nature inherent in its systems of production.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/1065/thumbnail.jp