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1	The Effects of Emotive Reasoning on Secondary School Students' Decision-Making in the Context of Socioscientific Issues Powell, Wardell Anthony 30 October 2014 (has links) The discrepancy between what students are being taught within K-12 science classrooms and what they experience in the real world has been well documented. This study sought to explore the ways a high school biology curriculum, which integrates socioscientific issues, impacts students' emotive reasoning and their ability to evaluate evidence, make informed decisions on contemporary scientific dilemmas, and integrate scientific content knowledge in their reasoning on SSI. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine differences within and between an SSI treatment group and a comparison group as well as individual differences among students' responses over a semester of high school biology. Results indicated students used emotions largely to evaluate evidence and make decisions on contentious scientific dilemmas. In addition, the results showed students used newly gained scientific content knowledge to make logical predictions on contentious scientific issues. Statistical significance was found between groups of students in regard to their interest in the use of embryonic stem cell treatments to restore rats' vision, as well as students' abilities to evaluate evidence. Theoretical implications regarding the use of SSI in the classroom are presented. ethical evidence-evaluation moral issues science education Curriculum and Instruction
2	Political Ideology And Ideological (Re)Alignment 1972-2006 Shapley, Derrick Ryan 10 December 2010 (has links) This study tests the relationship of the 6 ideological variables and 7 contextual variables to shifts in ideological alignment through a latent class regression analysis for three periods of years (1972-1978, 1980-1992, 1993-2006). The latent class regression models determine the number of identifiable classes for each model. Using ideological realignment theory (Abramowitz and Saunders 1998) this study finds there has been a moderate polarization of opinions that has occurred, as well as, a moderate hardening of ideological beliefs with moral issues during the third time period becoming the driving force in ideological makeup. With regard to the culture wars hypothesis (Hunter 1991) there seems to be so much randomness in peoples overall ideological makeup that it hardly suggests a salient culture war is taking place. It also seems to matter very little what opinions individuals express on domain specific issues with regard to political ideology. Latent Class Regression Analysis moral issues welfare crime political ideology ideological realignment conservatism liberalism
3	Towards an ecosystemic understanding of suicidal behaviour Eksteen, Elmarié 03 1900 (has links) In this dissertation the literature on suicidal behaviour is reviewed, with particular emphasis on professional conceptualizations and understanding as informed by the psychiatric and sociological paradigms. Basic postulates of the Ecosystemic paradigm, as it is informed by Maturana's second-order cybernetic approach was discussed. The effect of such an approach on therapy with suicidal individuals was pointed out. It became clear that perceived methodological problems experienced when researching suicidal behaviour from a Newtonian/realist paradigm can be side-stepped when viewed from an Ecosystemic paradigm. It was finally proposed that an ethic of participation, as informed by a second-order cybernetic approach, be adopted when viewing the suicide situation. In the process ethics was reconceptualized as an awareness of the therapist's participation in whatever is created, and not in finding the ''right" way when working with suicidal individuals. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Suicidal behaviour Psychiatric paradigm Sociological paradigm Ecosystemic paradigm Second-order cybernetic approach Ethics of participation Reconceptualization Methodology of suicide research Theories of suicide Ethics Moral issues Professional liability Right to suicide 616.858445 Suicidal behavior Conduct of life Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects Suicide victims -- Psychology
4	Towards an ecosystemic understanding of suicidal behaviour Eksteen, Elmarié 03 1900 (has links) In this dissertation the literature on suicidal behaviour is reviewed, with particular emphasis on professional conceptualizations and understanding as informed by the psychiatric and sociological paradigms. Basic postulates of the Ecosystemic paradigm, as it is informed by Maturana's second-order cybernetic approach was discussed. The effect of such an approach on therapy with suicidal individuals was pointed out. It became clear that perceived methodological problems experienced when researching suicidal behaviour from a Newtonian/realist paradigm can be side-stepped when viewed from an Ecosystemic paradigm. It was finally proposed that an ethic of participation, as informed by a second-order cybernetic approach, be adopted when viewing the suicide situation. In the process ethics was reconceptualized as an awareness of the therapist's participation in whatever is created, and not in finding the ''right" way when working with suicidal individuals. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Suicidal behaviour Psychiatric paradigm Sociological paradigm Ecosystemic paradigm Second-order cybernetic approach Ethics of participation Reconceptualization Methodology of suicide research Theories of suicide Ethics Moral issues Professional liability Right to suicide 616.858445 Suicidal behavior Conduct of life Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects Suicide victims -- Psychology

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