Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. / Field problem. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

During the last years, diversity has been a hot topic for both researchers and professionals. In global markets with an increased competition, appropriate management of diversity within an organization might be highly relevant for the success of a company. One kind of diversity is the differences in ages of an organization’s workforce. Today, up to four different generations, each with different characteristics, attitudes, and peculiarities, work together at the workplace. To ensure fruitful, productive, and effective collaboration, cooperation, and cohabitation, leaders are often responsible to manage intergenerational encounters and to delegate tasks in an appropriate way. In fact, leaders and subordinates of different ages and generations have always had to collaborate in organizations. However, especially in today’s times of rising market pressure, increasing complexity and with various increased demands on organizations, a deeper understanding of how leaders might be able to effectively lead their followers and subordinates is of a high value for themselves and organizations.The purpose of this Thesis is it to examine how leaders should behave in intergenerational encounters, i.e. how they should act and communicate to their followers and subordinates of different ages in a way that makes sense to the latter.Within this Thesis, the methodological approach of Grounded Theory is applied. For this purpose, a qualitative research was conducted in which qualitative data was gathered through an examination of the existing literature about leadership, diversity in organizations, and generations. Additionally, eight interviews with leaders, coaches, and professionals from human resource development departments in organizations were conducted. By analyzing those interviews and combining the findings with data from the existing literature, a concept of A Leader’s Generational Intelligence emerged. This concept is composed of the categories Appropriate Behavior Regarding Other Generations, Open Mental Attitude, and Knowledge and Experience. It is assumed that if leaders possess these three elements, they might be able to perform more effectively in intergenerational encounters and might succeed in their attempts to make sense regarding their followers of different ages.The findings of this Thesis may contribute to the discussion about how to appropriately and effectively manage diversity, especially when it comes to generational diversity. For this reason, the outcome of this Thesis might be valuable for future research but also for leaders and professionals.

This work contributes to an ongoing conversation about how practice-based teacher education might be designed to support preservice teachers professional judgment, particularly in the area of writing instruction. By synthesizing research on practice-based teacher education with sociocultural understandings of concept development and work on how writing teachers learn to teach writing, I offer three design conjectures about how preservice teachers might be supported to teach writing in intellectually rigorous and equitable ways. I then used discourse analysis to investigate preservice teachers concept development in a methods course which used these design conjectures. Finally, I followed preservice teachers into their student teaching placements, using discourse analysis to understand how they developed concepts about writing instruction through their practice. I found that preservice teachers developed concepts about a core teaching practice, making student thinking visible, in combination with other ideas about writing instruction that arose in the contexts in which preservice teachers taught writing. Thus, teaching concepts develop ecologicallyin relation to one another, to the cultural and historical discourses and practices that characterize particular contexts for teaching, andmost importantlyto students. Findings contribute to research on how teachers learn to teach writing, to research on concept development in teaching, and to broader conversations about the potential and limits of practice-based approaches to teacher education.

Educational Administration / This study analyzes the effects race-neutral admissions policies have on a large predominantly white law school through the lens of its administrators and alumni. Previously, this law school relied on race conscious admissions policies to help it increase and maintain diversity. Utilizing historical documents and relevant stakeholder interviews from prominent former students and staff, in addition to current faculty and staff, I hope to provide a blueprint for other law schools to follow during a race-neutral admissions environment. This is especially relevant with affirmative action policies threatened by state voter referendums, executive orders, and legislation. / text

Issues relating to diversity and pluralism permeate both social and political discourses in Canada. Of particular interest to this thesis are those issues raised when the demands of ethno-cultural diversity fail to converge with prescriptive objectives to promote said diversity within a democratic liberal state. In this way, this thesis scrutinizes the prescriptive intentions of Canadian multiculturalism and the ways in which it functions to conceal and protect White-European cultural and political dominance in Canadian society. So proposed, this thesis argues for a robust reorientation of liberalism through the normative starting point of non-ideal theory. Likewise, I will show that a radical liberal interculturalism triad, consisting of interculturalism, asymmetrical reciprocity and rectificatory justice can upend the misleading framework of mainstream liberal social contract theory. Hence, I move away from ideal theory’s tendency to exclude, or at least marginalize, the actual state of affairs, by (1) subverting the taken-for-granted neutrality of the liberal individual; (2) jettisoning the misrepresented truths of ideal theory; (3) exposing the hegemonic practices of multiculturalism; and (4) illustrating the racial foundations of mainstream liberalism. In sum, this thesis claims that the radically liberal interculturalism triad offers a viable path toward dislodging the sites of White cultural and epistemological domination that lies just beneath the misleading facade of Canada’s official multiculturalism. / Graduate / 0422 / 0727 / 0998

ITC/USA 2014 Conference Proceedings / The Fiftieth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 20-23, 2014 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA / This experiment has two purposes. One, to determine if a modern diversity combiner normally used in missile telemetry for polarization diversity can be used for spatial diversity to obtain a gain in the signal quality. Two, to determine if a simple test can be designed such that a non-laboratory test can be performed by the average telemetry operator in order to assess the first purpose.

This study focuses on the learning of preteen children who must repeatedly spend periods of several days or weeks in a hospital setting because they require treatment for Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic disease. Hospitalized preteenagers struggle with a number of issues that may impact their learning, including interruption of everyday routines and activities, including school; a diminished sense of agency over ones immediate and long-term goals; isolation from peers; and anxieties about the future. To address these challenges I presented eight pre-teen patients with a mobile Makerspace and supported their personal efforts in devising and implementing design and invention projects with a range of digital devices. Patients recruited and negotiated a wide range of resources (including conceptual, material, and social) for purposes of pursuing their personal goals with the Makerspace. This view of learning emphasizes the role of childrens personal agency in orchestrating their own learning and identity formation as a critical long-term consequence. Across eight case studies, patients working with the Makerspace adopted a varied set of positions with respect to design and making. I call these Maker Mentalities, because they seem to be predominant orientations toward design. These mentalities were characterized by different motives and processes, such as whether patients valued the inclusion of other people in the design process and whether their engineering approaches were predominantly systematic or tended to capitalize on fortuitous, trial-and-error discoveries. I also describe the categories and duration of patient projects, their formats they devised for documenting their work for others, and the Makerspaces influences on patient mobility and health.

Efforts to diversify the colonial economy in Guyana after 1966 were unsuccessful. With the oil shock of 1973, and falling commodity prices after 1975, the economy became unstable. This instability is expressed in large balance of payments deficits, deficit financing, lower export levels and a rise in inflation. Policies to restore economic stability involved the implementation of stabilisation and structural adjustment programmes between 1977-84, with the participation of the IMF and World Bank. The objective is to investigate factors affecting economic stabilisation of both domestic prices and the balance of payments Emphasis is placed on the study of aggregate supply, which examines . the behaviour of exports and inflation. These two factors are linked to the balance of payments. The assumption is made that exports are influenced by supply variables, such as domestic output, international prices, labour costs and movements in the exchange rate. The analysis of exports reveals that their response is delayed and inelastic to changes in price and other factors. This is consistent with estimates for primary commodity exports from small low income countries. The partial adjustment/adaptive expectations model provides satisfactory evidence for the behaviour of commodity exports, except in the case of sugar. For sugar an export supply function is estimated. The analysis of inflation reveals that external influences are more dominant than domestic factors in the inflationary process. The results suggest that the supply response for all commodities is slow in the short run, but may be faster in the long run. This implies that the implementation of appropriate stabilisation policies may be able to improve the deficit in the balance of payments, but that lags may exist in the adjustment process. The constraining factors would be increased labour costs in the export sector and higher import prices for industrial inputs.