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Investigating Understanding and Facilitation of Social Emotional Development at a Diverse Socio-economic Status YMCA Preschool
No full textChildren from low SES homes face many challenges which have a lasting impact. Early education positively impacts child development and life outcomes when social emotional learning is a focus. This Dissertation in Practice is a qualitative case study to explore how a subsidized non-profit YMCA in the western United States servicing preschool students from varying economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds understands and facilitates social emotional development. Children in the preschool represent 17 different zip codes and are enrolled from three tiers of funding. Forty-one parents and 12 teachers completed a survey asking about how social emotional learning is understood and facilitated at this YMCA. Three parents, four teachers, the program director, and the CEO were also interviewed. Documents were reviewed and 9 classroom observations were conducted. The findings revealed that this YMCA understands social emotional learning to be the process by which all community members model and develop the social responsibility, independence, and social skills that lead to good citizen behavior. The YMCA PS facilitates social emotional learning using strategies through developing intrinsic motivation (1) dependent on modeled and practiced behavior that (2) creates an inclusive learning environment welcoming for teachers, parents, and students of different ages, ethnicities, and SES groups, and (3) set clear expectations, create routines, and develop strong families and community through shared responsibilities. The conclusion and recommendations are to cultivate programs serving diverse SES populations centered in social emotional learning.
Key words: early education, preschool, socioeconomic status, poverty, social emotional learning, YMCAProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Organizational Choice in UK Marine Insurance
Get PDFFrom the eighteenth century British marine insurance developed via a wide range of organizational forms, including individual and syndicated underwriters, mutual associations, chartered corporations, unchartered stock companies, and protection and indemnity clubs. At times the issue of what was the best vehicle to deliver marine insurance became a hotly debated topic. This chapter explores why these different organizational forms emerged and what were the relative advantages and disadvantages that explain their subsequent performance. It points to the importance of historical contingency, such as specific financial and political circumstances, to the search to control asymmetric information problems, to the role of specialization, local knowledge, and niche markets, and to the entrepreneurial qualities of individual managers and promoters
Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance: An Overview of the History and Theory
No full textThis introductory chapter provides an overview of the development of organizations in insurance worldwide from the origins of the industry to the present day and summarizes the relevant theoretical and empirical literature on this topic. It describes the research project that underpins this book, outlines the content of the contributing chapters and points to some conclusions about organizational choice that have a wider relevance for modern theory
The Evolution of the Industry Structure
No full textChapter 3 provides a historical overview of the reinsurance market and business development since its earliest days. It covers not only dedicated reinsurers but also other market participants, such as brokers and first insurers’ risk sharing through co-insurance. Between 1860 and the Second World War, reinsurance is shown to have grown from being an infant service to large multinational insurance companies, into adulthood as a specialist industry in its own right. This period, also called the ‘golden age’ of reinsurance, witnessed the formation of modern reinsurance practice and the development by the professional reinsurance companies of a global network of treaty partnerships with cedent companies. A final section outlines major trends since 1945
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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