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11	Enacting Agency: Understanding How First-Generation College Students’ Personal Agency Supports Disciplinary Role Identities and Engineering Agency Beliefs Dina Verdin (8966861) 16 June 2020 (has links) <div> <div> <div> <p>This dissertation is a three study format. In this dissertation, I used an explanatory sequential mixed method design. Study 1 develops a measurement scale to capture first-generation college students’ agency using the constructs of intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, and self-reflectiveness. Study 2 used structural equation modeling to establish a relationship between personal agency, disciplinary role identities, and students’ desire to enact engineering agency. Study 3 was a narrative analysis of how Kitatoi, a Latina, first-generation college student, authored her identity as an engineer. Data for study 1 and 2 came from a survey administered in the Fall of 2017 of 3,711 first-year engineering students across 32 ABET universities. </p> </div> </div> </div> Education Engineering not elsewhere classified first-generation college students Latinas in engineering Personal Agency Critical Engineering Agency Structural Equation Modeling Narrative Analysis Survey development
12	An Alternative Woman: Breaking From the Binary Options of Sir Walter Scott's Heroines and Their Successors in Historical Fiction Hernan, Rachael 09 September 2020 (has links) No description available. Literature alternative woman womanhood femininity Suzannah Dunn Tracy Chevalier Sir Walter Scott wife spinster professional woman personal agency historical fiction female historical fiction female novelists
13	Strolling to the beat of another drum : living the 'Slow Life' Zeestraten, J. January 2008 (has links) As the pace of life in contemporary Western society accelerates, an increasing number of people are engaging in an alternative lifestyle: ‘Slow Living’. Although popular in the media, Slow Living, which addresses issues of quality of life, is a relatively new area of academic enquiry. Given a lack of empirical research, especially on the realities of the Slow Life in a New Zealand context, this ethnographic study aims to augment the knowledge on this lifestyle by focusing on how families experience Slow Living. The key research question is: How do families live their interpretations of a Slow Life? To answer this question, this study examined the everyday lives of five Slow Living families in Canterbury, New Zealand. Adult family members were given a time-use diary to complete over two days. These diaries were then used as a foundation for in-depth interviews and participant observation. Slow Living families hold to a number of personal values, such as personal agency, conscious living and leading meaningful lives. These comprise their ideal way of living. The families are also faced with a number of challenges and have to employ strategies to balance their ideal and what is possible. The different ways families adapt produces a variety of Slow Living lifestyles. Slow Living lifestyles quality of life time-use families ethnography personal agency conscious living meaningful living New Zealand Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs pace of life Canterbury values challenges strategies practices
14	Zefektivnění procesu získávaní a výběru pracovníků / Development of Recruitment Process Štulíková, Marie January 2007 (has links) This Master´s thesis deals with the analysis of recruitment process in a production company. It contains the recommendation and the new proposals of solution which will be determinate in development of recruitment process. This can be more superior for the development of the whole process and for the company as well.

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