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by | May 22, 2013

Case Study on Understanding Parental Motivation to Home School

Case Study about Understanding Parental Motivation to Home School

Abstract: Comparatively little educational research hasfocused on home schooling. Since most students are educated in public schools, parents’ choice of other educational alternatives is often perceived as a deviation from the societal norm. Friends and neighbors of parents who home school rarely understand their motivation for doing so. Thisstudy addresses the following question: why do parentsremove their children from traditional, public school programsto initiate home schooling, and how well do public school personnel understand this motivation? Using qualitative case study methodology, the researcher confined the study to a specific concentrated population of home schooling families. Phenomenological data analysis procedures were used to refine the volume of data and to construct a narrative containing the essence of parents’ lived experience concerning the decision to home school their children.

Case Study on Parental Motivation

Introduction: According to American Home School Legal Defense Association Counsel Scott W. Somerville (2007), although home schooling, at the turn ofthe 21st century,should never have been a successful movement, it has. At the onset of the modern home schooling movement in the mid-1960s, “there were no support groups or newslettersfor parents who taught their children at home…many parents who taught their children at home never knew there were any other people doing the same thing” (p. 1). In the early days of the movement, the only sure way to avoid legal trouble wasto hide. Therefore, until the early 1980s, home schoolers comprised a primarily underground movement because public school officials viewed the practice as “criminal truancy” (p. 1). Some parents were arrested, jailed, or fined to compel them to put their children back in school. Public school officialsstrongly believed that they “were protecting innocent children from serious harm” (p. 1). Now, overforty yearslater, many school officialsstill have mixed feelings about the viability of home school. Keep reading…

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by | May 22, 2013

A Case Study to Develop the Transformational Teaching Theory

A Case Study about Develop the Transformational Teaching Theory

Abstract: Leadership educators teach Transformational Leadership Theory in their classrooms, but could transformational theory be used as a pedagogical model to deepen students’ understanding of leadership? This article presents Erin Gruwell, a first-year teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach and subject of the 2006 movie The Freedom Writers, as a case study where an educator practiced the components of transformational leadership in the classroom to transform students’ lives. Gruwell used idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individual consideration to transform a classroom of gang members into a community of scholars and authors. Following the case examples, leadership educators are provided examples of how to incorporate the four components of transformational leadership in their instructional methods.

Case Study on Transformational Teaching

Introduction: Leadership educators continually seek the most effective means to enhance student learning. Tom Gallagher (2002), founding editor of The Journal of Leadership Education, advocated that leadership education “is not a singular focus,” but instead “sits at the nexus of two disciplines, the art and science of leadership and the art and science of education” (pp. 3-4). Gallagher implies that these two disciplines can be combined in a symbiotic relationship to impact leadership students on a deeper level. One path for engaging leadership students in the classroom is to examine the use of transformational leadership as a pedagogical theory. James McGreagor Burns first proposed the idea of a transformational leader as one who connects with the needs and motives of his or her followers and raises both the follower and leader to a higher level of motivation and morality. Keep reading…

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by | May 22, 2013

A Study on Phenomenological Research

A Study about Phenomenological Research

Introduction: The purpose of the phenomenological approach is to illuminate the specific, to identify phenomena through how they are perceived by the actors in a situation. In the human sphere this normally translates into gathering ‘deep’ information and perceptions through inductive, qualitative methods such as interviews, discussions and participant observation, and representing it from the perspective of the research participant(s). Phenomenology is concerned with the study of experience from the perspective of the individual, ‘bracketing’ taken-for-granted assumptions and usual ways of perceiving. Epistemologically, phenomenological approaches are based in a paradigm of personal knowledge and subjectivity, and emphasise the importance of personal perspective and interpretation. As such they are powerful for understanding subjective experience, gaining insights into people’s motivations and actions, and cutting through the clutter of taken-for-granted assumptions and conventional wisdom.

Case Study on Phenomenological Research

Methods: Phenomenological and associated approaches can be applied to single cases or to serendipitous or deliberately selected samples. While single-case studies are able to identify issues which illustratediscrepancies and system failures – and to illuminate or draw attention to ‘different’ situations -positive inferences are less easy to make without a small sample of participants. In multipleparticipant research, the strength of inference which can be made increases rapidly once factors startto recur with more than one participant. In this respect it is important to distinguish between statistical and qualitative validity: phenomenological research can be robust in indicating the presence of factors and their effects in individual cases, but must be tentative in suggesting their extent in relation to the population from which the participants or cases were drawn. Keep reading…

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by | May 21, 2013

A Case Study on Evaluation of Post Matric Scholarships (PMS)

A Case Study about Evaluation of Post Matric Scholarships (PMS)

Executive Summary:~ Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are the most disadvantaged groups of the Indian society. Due to socio-historical and geographical isolation socio-economic development has bypassed them so Central and State Governments have adopted many affirmative actions and strategies for their protection, welfare and development. The Constitutional safeguards in the form of reservations in legislature, Parliament, admissions in educational institutions, and jobs in government and Public enterprises establishing National Commission for SCs, STs and Safai Karmacharis, Protection of Civil Rights (PCR) Act, 1955 & Prevention of Atrocities (POA) Act, 1989 are some of the important measures.

Case Study on Evaluation of Post Matric Scholarships

The socioeconomic up-liftment had been undertaken through various economic and social empowerment programmes of provision of livelihoods, amenities, infrastructure facilities and educational development programmes through Finance Corporations, skill development, training and educational development programmes. The Central and State governments are adopting special strategies of Scheduled Caste Sub Plan and Tribal Sub Plan as a comprehensive strategies for the overall development of SCs and STs in the country with outlays specifying for their targeted development to minimise the socio-economic gaps between these disadvantaged groups and the rest of the population for an egalitarian society. Keep reading…

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by | May 21, 2013

A Case Study on National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children

A Study about National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children

Executive Summary:~ This report focuses on the experiences of Save the Children in monitoring, implementing and reviewing NPAs in Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Each of the country offices commissioned the documentation of case studies to identify promising practices and challenges around effective implementation of NPAs. This report consolidates these case studies and aims to draw lessons learnt from the various efforts undertaken by the country offices. The report analyses the differing processes that have been carried out in order to identify and develop a set of key messages and recommendations.

Case Study on National Plan

Furthermore, this publication contextualizes the development of NPAs on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in the context of current thinking around social protection for all children in need. It also highlights the debate between stand-alone NPAs and mainstreaming children’s issues into existing development strategies. The report’s findings and recommendations were presented to approximately forty regional and national stakeholders at Save the Children’s two-day workshop on NPA implementation in April 2010 in South Africa. Together with the keynote presentations, these formed the main inputs for the workshop’s discussion and were used as the basis to develop the workshop’s recommendations. Keep reading..

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by | May 21, 2013

A Study on Pre-Service Teacher Education Institutional Heads about Inclusive Education in Bangladesh

A Study about Pre-Service Teacher Education Institutional Heads about Inclusive Education in Bangladesh

Abstract: This paper investigates beliefs about inclusive education of heads of higher education institutions that offer pre-service teacher preparation programs in Bangladesh. Since 2003, Bangladesh started including children with diverse needs in regular schools in both primary and secondary education. However, pre-service teacher preparation institutions are not yet fully ready to prepare teachers for a diverse classroom. In this journey of education reform, heads of the institutions that are offering pre-service teacher education in Bangladesh have a key role in better preparing future teachers for inclusive education. A thematic analysis procedure was administered on 22 institutional heads using a semi-structured interview guide.

Case Study on Pre-Service Teacher Education

Introduction: Inclusive education is premised on a philosophy of educational reform that gives the highest priority to equal right to education for all people irrespective of their diverse circumstances, as pronounced in UNESCO’s Salamanca Declaration (UNESCO, 1994). Bangladesh, like many other countries, is moving towards inclusive education. Bangladesh is the signatory of a number of international agreements such as Education For All – EFA 1990 (UNESCO, 1990), Salamanca Framework of Action (UNESCO, 1994), Dakar Framework for Action (UNESCO, 2000) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN, 2008). In line with these international accords, Bangladesh has taken several policy initiatives to promote inclusive education. The most recent national education policy statement known as the Education Policy 2010 recognises inclusive education as a strategy to ensure education for all citizens. Keep reading…

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by | May 20, 2013

A Study report on Children with Special Educational Needs

A Study report about Children with Special Educational Needs

Introduction:~ All children, including children with special educational needs, have a right to an education which is appropriate to their needs. The aims of education for pupils with special educational needs are the same as apply to all children. Education should be about enabling all children, in line with their abilities, to live full and independent lives so that they can contribute to their communities, cooperate with other people and continue to learn throughout their lives. Education is about supporting children to develop in all aspects of their lives – spiritual, moral, cognitive, emotional, imaginative, aesthetic, social and physical.This booklet is written for parents to answer key questions they may have about special education, both generally and as it relates to their child. The word ‘parent’ in this document should also be taken to include guardians of children.

Case Study on Children with Special Educational Needs

Children with special educational needs are children first and have much in common with other children of the same age. There are many aspects to a child’s development that make up the whole child, including – personality, the ability to communicate (verbal and non-verbal), resilience and strength, the ability to appreciate and enjoy life and the desire to learn. Each child has individual strengths, personality and experiences so particular disabilities will impact differently on individual children. A child’s special educational need should not define the whole child. Keep reading…

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by | May 20, 2013

A Case study in Special Education needs School

Study about Special Education needs School

Situation: The building shown on the right is a Special education needs school (in Montreal, QC, Canada) that opened in 1911 and re-opened in 1918 after a devastating fire (1914).The school is using a central water-based heating system. The only way to locally control heating is to manually adjust each radiator; which is both tedious and imprecise. There is no remote control of the system to allow the override of local commands or scheduling according to school use.

Case Study on Special Education needs School

Objective: Reduce energy bill associated with heating while increasing student comfort and providing remote centralized and local management capabilities. Create zones throughout the school to make sure that empty rooms and hallways are not heated in the winter. Use remote management capabilities to heat and pre-heat zones according to school schedules. As the retrofit takes place in the fall, during school session, it is imperative to use the least invasive method possible. Keep reading…

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by | May 18, 2013

A Case Study on Effect of Improvement of Pre-school Education

A Study about Effect of Improvement of Pre-school Education

Abstract: Methods:~ A case-control study was undertaken to evaluate an intervention. Eight Anganwadi centers were selected using simple random sampling out of sixteen Anganwadi centers in Talegaon PHC area where intervention was done. Ten children in age group of 4-6 years were selected randomly from each of the eight Anganwadi center in intervention arm. For each child from intervention arm, one agematched child was selected from the matched Anganwadi center. For each subject, Intelligence Quotient and Development Quotient were assessed.

Case Study on Pre-school Education

It is widely acknowledged that the young child is most vulnerable to malnutrition, morbidity, resultant disability and mortality. The early childhood years in particular represents the important span for intervention aiming at their balanced overall development and these years are the most crucial period of life, when the foundation for cognitive, social, emotional, language, physical, motor development and life long learning are laid. Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) is a comprehensive approach specially aimed at providing opportunities for the holistic development of children. Keep reading…

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by | May 18, 2013

A Study report in Key Characteristic of a European Style of Management

A Study report about Key Characteristic of a European Style of Management

This article investigates whether key characteristics of a European style of management can be discerned. To this end, a conceptual framework is developed for reconciling the observed tension and pinpointing a key common characteristic of a European style of management. No attempt is made here to show that national styles of management such as Swedish or British management (Barsoux and Lawrence, 1990) will disappear in the fiiture. On the contrary, we maintain that national styles of management are and will remain part of Europe’s diversity (Lessem and Neubauer, 1994). We aim to improve our understanding of how management relates to the European business environment as a contingency factor. In particular, we investigate ways of approaching the above-mentioned management problem in Europe.

Case Study on Key Characteristic

We begin with a short overview of the literature and draw attention to the tension between integration opportunities and constraining diversity for managers in Europe. We then introduce a managerial perspective in describing various relevant forms of an important contextual variable of Europe—namely, diversity. After developing a conceptual framework for reconciling this tension, we describe how this framework can focus attention on a key characteristic of a European style of management. We use a case study of Unilever Foods Europe to illustrate the proposed conceptual framework. In discussing our findings, we touch upon some implications for developing the distinctive managerial skills required by a European style of management and suggest directions for future research. Keep reading…

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