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The problem of this study was to determine how capable college students are in making choices relevant to each other's success as student teachers when compared with (a) college faculty ratings, (b) the judgments of cooperating teachers, and (c) scores from two objective self-rating scales.

An urban community is a fusion of new and old that is constantly changing. We understand better the plight of a community through raising awareness of its unique history and visual character. Linking individual and community experiences offers an opportunity for dialogue, especially as long-time residents and their new neighbors learn about their different pasts and explore their common future. Community building happens from within, when many individuals sharing common values create positive change.

Le concept de subjectivation a guidé l’avancée de cette thèse, pour saisir les remaniements des processus de la construction subjective chez l’enfant, pris dans les discours dominants de notre postmodernité. La création d’un espace psychique différencié inhérent aux processus de subjectivation, pose d’emblée le lien à l’Autre et aux autres, au sein de l’institution, familiale et sociale, dans laquelle évolue l’enfant. Les incidences sur le déroulement de la construction subjective ont été explorées à partir du champ de l’école, dans la triangulation père–mère-enfant et sa répétition parents–enfant–école. Une approche historique de l’institution scolaire a permis de dégager cinq basculements cliniques, témoignant de l’évolution des places assignées aux différents acteurs de l’école et aux idéaux respectifs, entraînant des retombées sur les enjeux subjectifs et intersubjectifs.C’est en suivant l’articulation filiation/affiliation, développée à partir des enjeux de nominations et d’identifications que le rapport au père va se poser. Il s’agira d’interroger la fonction du père imaginaire, empêchée par l’ombre portée de l’Autre maternel. Cet empêchement, adossé aux discours dominants de l’immédiateté effaçant la différence générationnelle, semble s’ériger comme un point de butée sur lequel achoppe le déploiement imaginaire de la fonction phallique au temps de l’enfance. L’empêchement de cet "à venir" porté par la promesse oedipienne, semble mettre en exergue le rapport fraternel, l’autre semblable du temps du complexe d’intrusion. L’Autre social est appelé en suppléance de plus en plus tôt dans le parcours de la subjectivation au temps de l’enfance, parcours qui ne peut se penser sans l’Autre, pour aller de l’UN à l’autre. / The concept of subjectivization guided the progress of this thesis, to understand the reorganizations in the processes of the subjective self-construction of the child, caught in the dominant discourses of our postmodern time.The creation of a differentiated psychic space inherent to the processes of subjectivization, poses at the outset the link to the Other and the link to the others within the family and social institution in which the child evolves. The impact on the subjective construction processes was explored from the angle of the school, according to the father-mother-child triangulation and its repetition in the school-parents-child triangulation. An historical approach of the academic institution has enabled to extricate five clinical changeovers, showing an evolution in the places assigned to the different school partners and the respective idealized roles, affecting the subjective and intersubjective issues.The relationship with the father will arise from the filiation / affiliation articulation, developed from the concepts and issues of naming and identification. The function of the imaginary father (paternal imago) will be examined and seems hindered by the shadow cast by the maternal Other. This impediment, leaning on the dominant discourses of immediacy erasing the generation difference, seems to put up a stumbling block on the imaginary phallic function deployment at the time of childhood. The impediment of this "future to come”, carried by the oedipal promise, seems to highlight the fraternal term, built at the time of the intrusion complex.The social Other is called in substitution, always earlier in the process of subjectivization at the time of the childhood. This process cannot be conceived without the Other, in order to find the path the One to the other.

Internalizing disorders, specifically depression and anxiety, affect up to 18% and 33% of youth, respectively (Costello, Egger, & Angold, 2005b). Schools have become a major provider of mental health services to children, primarily in attempts to overcome barriers to receiving community services (Farmer, Burns, Philip, Angold, & Costello, 2003). As such, it is important that schools have effective mechanisms in place to accurately identify students who may be in need of such services. The current study examined the accuracy of one such method, educator nominations (including from both teachers and school-based mental health professionals) in identifying students who self-report elevated levels of anxiety and/or depression. Participants were 238 fourth and fifth grade students within a large, urban school district in a southeastern state; 26 classroom teachers of these youth; and 7 mental health professionals who served the two schools that the student participants attended. Regarding sensitivity, teachers identified 40.74% and 50% of students who repeatedly reported clinically elevated levels of anxiety and depression, respectively. Teachers falsely identified as symptomatic 17.54% and 16.2% of students with typical levels of anxiety and depression, respectively. As a team, school-based mental health professionals identified 66.67% of students with elevated anxiety symptoms, and 45.45% of children who self-reported depressive symptoms. The team misidentified 31% and 35% of students as depressed and anxious, respectively. Individual school-based mental health professionals were less accurate (as compared to ix the team as a whole) in identifying students who self-reported symptoms of depression. Taken together, findings suggest educators can accurately identify approximately half to two-thirds of youth who experience clinical levels of anxiety and children, but substantial misidentification rates underscore the need for further follow-up assessment of students identified during educational nomination procedures. Implications for practice, contributions to the literature, and future directions for research are discussed.

The question of whether or not campaigns have an impact on vote choice and mobilization has been debated by a number of scholars. In this dissertation, I explore this question using data from presidential nomination elections, as I argue this setting allows us to better understand campaign effects than the general election. Due to the intra-party nature of nomination contests, voters are not able to rely on partisanship in making their decision among candidates. Instead voters need to use some other source of information in making their decisions about 1) whether or not to vote and 2) which candidate to vote for. I explore these two decisions in depth in my dissertation, focusing mainly on the effect visits have on both. I have compiled data on both the timing and location of all of the candidate visits throughout the presidential nominating contests of 2008, across both the invisible primary and election year campaigns. Using this unique dataset, I explore the different ways in which state visits affect presidential nomination outcomes. Specifically, I investigate the strategy behind the visits, whether or not visits increase turnout, and how visits affect vote choice. By examining these different aspects of nominating campaigns, I am able to address a number of different literatures and theories, including those focused on candidate strategy, presidential nominations, political communication, and whether or not campaigns matter.

Šios disertacijos tyrimo objektas – kalbinės politinės konfliktinės komunikacijos išraiškos priemonės, būdingos Lietuvos ir Didžiosios Britanijos vadovų politiniame diskurse (1998–2008). Šis tyrimas atskleidžia faktą, jog kalbinės priemonės yra glaudžiai susijusios su kalbančiojo ideologija bei kultūros nulemtomis kalbinėmis praktikomis. Disertacijoje tiriamos tokios kognityvinės lingvistikos sąvokos, kaip konceptualiosios metaforos, domenas, prasmės sritis bei kalbinės priemonės – nominacijos. Žvelgiant iš siauros lingvistikos metodologijos perspektyvos, komparatyvinė analizė ir aprašomasis analitinis metodas naudojami Lietuvos ir Didžiosios Britanijos vadovų konfliktinės komunikacijos diskurso tyrime. Didžiosios Britanijos ir Lietuvos politiniame diskurse isreikštas konfliktas turi bendrų ir skirtingų bruožų. Bendrumą nulemia bendra konfliktinės komunikacijos esmė – politinių jėgų pozicijų ir interesų nesutapimai. Skirtumai remiasi įvairių politinių kultūrų ypatumais. Politinė konkurencija tiek Lietuvoje, tiek Didžiojoje Britanijoje remiasi domenais pokyčiai ir nauda. Tos pačios POLITIKA – TAI KARAS, POLITIKA – TAI KELIONĖ ir VALSTYBĖ – TAI PASTATAS metaforos Šios yra būdingos abiejų šalių politinei komunikacijai. Tačiau Didžiosios Britanijos politiniame gyvenime konfliktinė komunikacija turi ideologinį pobūdį, o Lietuvos vadovų konfliktinės komunikacijos diskurse politinis konfliktas išreikštas ne kaip ideologinis konfliktas. / The object of this research is the linguistic means of political conflict communication that are characteristic of the political discourse of the political leaders of Great Britain and Lithuania (1998–¬2008). This dissertation discloses the fact that linguistic means are closely related to the ideology of the speaker and linguistic practices are conditioned by culture. Such cognitive linguistic concepts as conceptual metaphors, domain, meaning field and such linguistic means as nominations are analysed in this dissertation. Looking from the narrow perspective of linguistic methodology, comparative analysis and descriptive-analytical methods are applied in the conflict communication discourse research of the political leaders of Lithuania and Great Britain. The conflict which is expressed in the political discourse of these countries has both similarities and differences. Resemblance is determined by the general essence of conflict communication, i.e., the discrepancy between positions taken by political forces and interests. Differences are based on the peculiarities of the two political cultures. Political competition in both Lithuania and Great Britain is based on the domains change and benefit. The same POLITICS IS WAR, POLITICS IS A JOURNEY and THE STATE IS A BUILDING conceptual metaphors are characteristic of political communication of both countries. However, conflict communication has an ideological nature in the political life of Great Britain while in the discourse... [to full text]

This paper examines the causes of the rise in vacancies on the federal courts in recent decades. Under President Barack Obama, the number of vacancies on the federal courts has sharply jumped. This is due to firm opposition by Senate Republicans, who have used the various procedural tools of that body to make it difficult for nominees to get confirmation. This antagonism is the result of a shift in how the parties view the courts and their role in the American political process. The Warren Court's expansion of substantive due process rights increased the Court's powers to the chagrin of conservatives. Republicans responded by blocking the nomination of Abe Fortas for Chief Justice; Democrats retaliated by defeating several of Richard Nixon's nominees to replace Fortas. These battles, and the prominence of legal issues such as abortion, would culminate in the vicious fight over Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Court, which influenced increasingly bitter fights in recent decades. I also propose a possible solution to the obstruction problem, inspired by procedures used in jury selection.

In this research, I analyze the effects of candidate nomination rules and campaign financing rules on elite recruitment into the national legislatures of Germany and the United States. This dissertation is both theory-driven and constitutes exploratory research, too. While the effects of electoral rules are frequently studied in political science, the emphasis is thereby on electoral rules that are set post-election. My focus, in contrast, is on electoral rules that have an effect prior to the election. Furthermore, my dissertation is comparative by design. The research question is twofold. Do electoral rules have an effect on elite recruitment, and does it matter? To answer these question, I create a large-N original data set, in which I code the behavior and recruitment paths and patterns of members of the American House of Representatives and the German Bundestag. Furthermore, I include interviews with members of the said two national legislatures. Both the statistical analyses and the interviews provide affirmative evidence for my working hypothesis that differences in electoral rules lead to a different type of elite recruitment. To that end, I use the active-politician concept, through which I dichotomously distinguish the economic behavior of politicians. Thanks to the exploratory nature of my research, I also discover the phenomenon of differential valence of local and state political office for entrance into national office in comparative perspective. By statistically identifying this hitherto unknown paradox, as well as evidencing the effects of electoral rules, I show that besides ideology and culture, institutional rules are key in shaping the ruling elite. The way institutional rules are set up, in particular electoral rules, does not only affect how the electorate will vote and how seats will be distributed, but it will also affect what type of people will end up in elected office.