<p> </p><p>Abstract</p><p> </p><p>Study: Degree project in teacher education, Advanced level, 15hp</p><p>University of Skövde</p><p>Title: A study on students' self-esteem Students' statements on the encouragement and support in a sixth grade</p><p>Number of pages: 26 pages</p><p>Author: Marie Agapuu & Ingrid Svensson</p><p>Tutor: Anna-Stina Ahlrik</p><p>Date: January 2009</p><p> </p><p>Keywords: Self-esteem, encouragement, support</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A good self-esteem of students will often coincide with good academic performance, but it has also shown that students do not have low self-esteem due to low academic performance. Students' self-esteem is both a complex topic and concepts. We want this study to draw attention and to discuss teachers' efforts to enhance students' self-esteem in school. Encouragement and support of the school adopted in the study contribute to strengthening students' self-esteem. The study examines whether and how nine pupils in a sixth class is that they get encouragement and support of / from their teachers in school subjects and in learning situations. Of the results revealed that some students feel that the teacher encourages them through praise, it may be both written and oral. It further appeared that some students feel the support of teachers by allowing them to practice more on what they think is difficult and some students expressed that they do not receive any encouragement or no aid from their teachers. The results show that students have different difficult to perceive what is aid and what is encouragement from the teacher. The results illustrate the discussion we pupils statements in relation to the concept of self-esteem and our thoughts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68).

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-06-26T14:00:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 luciaelisagalvaodeoliveiraalves.pdf: 791214 bytes, checksum: 7e780ef599dcfa55ea514a1ad6b4a4d6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-06-26T14:17:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 luciaelisagalvaodeoliveiraalves.pdf: 791214 bytes, checksum: 7e780ef599dcfa55ea514a1ad6b4a4d6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-26T14:17:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 luciaelisagalvaodeoliveiraalves.pdf: 791214 bytes, checksum: 7e780ef599dcfa55ea514a1ad6b4a4d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-21 / A presente dissertação é desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação Pública (PPGP) do Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). O caso de gestão a ser estudado pretende responder a seguinte questão: de que forma a gestão do CESEC X pode incentivar o uso do acervo literário da biblioteca escolar? O objetivo deste estudo é investigar a utilização do acervo literário da biblioteca pelos alunos e apresentar uma proposta de incentivo à utilização do acervo literário da biblioteca escolar, uma vez que a busca por livros é muita pequena. Assumi como hipóteses para a baixa procura por literatura o fato de que os alunos do CESEC X buscam a escola para concluírem a Educação Básica de forma rápida; a falta de tempo para se dedicarem aos estudos; além da falta de projetos que incentivem a leitura. Para tanto, utilizei como metodologia a pesquisa de caráter exploratório, baseada nos conceitos de autores como Campello (2005), Cosson (2009), Soares (2004) e Souza (2009). Como instrumentos de pesquisa, foram utilizados os documentos e registros da biblioteca, entrevistas com as professoras e com as especialistas, assim como questionários direcionados aos professores orientadores de aprendizagem. Por fim, após análise das entrevistas, na tentativa de oferecer mais qualidade ao ensino oferecido aos alunos, por meio do acervo da biblioteca escolar, o presente estudo apresenta uma proposta de incentivo à utilização do referido acervo. / The following research was developed in the range of the Professional Master degree in Education Management and Evaluation (PPGP) of the Center of Public Policies and Evaluation of Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAED/UFJF). The case in study has the objective of answering the question: How can CESEC management increase the literary reading at the school library? The research objective is to investigate the library‟s literary books use by its students. Besides that, the study aims to present a proposal to increase the library‟s literary books use by those students, since the demand for literature is small. We take as a hypothesis: i) the CESEC‟s students have the goal to finish basic education in a fast way; ii) these student have a lack of time to dedicate for study purpose; iii) there are no literary projects inside the school. As methodology, it was used the exploratory research, based on many authors concepts. As research instruments, there were used documents, library registers, interviews with teachers and specialists, and forms, answered by professors and school advisors. To finish, after the interview analysis, this dissertation presents a proposal that aims to increase the library‟s literary books use.

The purpose of our study is to get an overview of how the after-school teachers work to arouse children's interest in mathematics and how they further develop the children's mathematical knowledge. The study is examined with the help of the following questions: How do educators believe that students' interest in mathematics can be aroused through informal learning? How can the informants' ideas about informal learning in the after-school center be understood with the help of socio-cultural theories? We chose qualitative interviews as the method of our data collection in our study, in which three trained after-school center teachers were happy to participate. The empirical data that we collected has been analyzed through the socio-cultural theory. Furthermore, we chose to discuss our study with regard to previous research, which then consisted of nine researchers.  The results show that children through play and activities develop more than we think and that informal learning as a way to arouse interest and learning, is the basis for after-school teachers. Furthermore, the results show that the themes that we have analyzed can possiblyhave a positive impact on the business. Then, among other things, creativity and collaborationas strategies, collaboration with teachers and the environment are discussed. Similarly, theresults show that after-school teachers use the socio-cultural theories as an approach to arouse students' interest in mathematics / Syftet med vår studie är att få en överblick över hur fritidshemslärarna arbetar med att väcka barns intresse i matematik samt hur de vidareutvecklar barnens matematiska kunskaper. Studien undersöks med hjälp av följande frågeställningar: Hur anser pedagoger att man kan väcka elevers intresse i matematik genom informellt lärande? Hur kan informanternas föreställningar om det informella lärandet i fritidshemmet förstås med hjälp av sociokulturella teorier? Vi valde kvalitativa intervjuer som vår datasamlings metod i vår studie, där tre utbildade fritidshemslärare ställde upp i. Empirin som vi samlat har analyserat genom den sociokulturella teorin. Vidare valde vi diskutera vår studie med hänsyn till tidigare forskning. Resultatet visar att barn genom lek och aktiviteter utvecklas mer än vi tror och att informellt lärande som ett sätt att väcka intresse och lära, ligger till grund för fritidshemslärarna. Vidare visar resultatet att de teman som vi analyserat möjligtvis kan medföra positiv inverkan på verksamheten. Då bland annat kreativitet och samarbete som strategier, samverkan med lärare och miljö tas upp. Likaledes visar resultatet att fritidshemslärarna använder sig av de sociokulturella teorierna som tillvägagångssätt för att väcka elevernas intresse inom matematik.

Researchers have found positive associations between physical activity and executive function in adolescence and adulthood. However, research in early childhood has revealed only negative relationships. In the present study, I explored whether maternal encouragement of physical activity might moderate this relationship in very young children. Using video recordings from an archival dataset, eight maternal encouragement measures were derived from mother-child free play sessions. Although it was expected that maternal encouragement of child activity would broadly play a moderating role in the relationship between children’s physical activity and their executive function, only maternal questions seemed to moderate this relationship. One explanation for these overarching null findings is that maternal encouragement of physical activity may not have a moderating effect until later, such as when children are well on their way into language. Future efforts to explore the impacts of physical activity on executive function may benefit from experimental approaches.

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In pace with a noticeably fiercer global competition and an increased customer awareness, today’s organizations are faced with vast requirements for higher productivity and stronger customerorientation. This transformation has denoted that human resources have become more and more accentuated, and a consensus has grown for the true power embraced within them. In Sweden, some few prominent leaders have distinguished themselves by being highly successful in reinforcing employee motivation, and their knowledge and experiences are priceless in the pursuit of utilizing the full potential of the workforce. The purpose with this thesis is to study how ten of Sweden’s most successful and acknowledged leaders view and work with employee motivation and critically examine their standpoints. The purpose is furthermore to exemplify how other leaders can strengthen employee motivation through adapting these motivational suggestions. Qualitative cross-sectional interviews were conducted for the empirical research, holding a hermeneutic and inductive research approach. The respondent pool is comprised by both commercial leaders, as well as leaders from the world of sports. They range from being managers over purely service-focused organizations, to being founders of innovative product-producing organizations. The major areas, which are touched upon are; general work motivation intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, communication, and lastly empowerment, responsibility and participation. Four major areas influence employee motivation (The Society and Social Surroundings, The Organization and Business Environment, The Manager and The Employee). This is visualized in the “Four-Factor Model”.

Medical Cosmoceutical service is a new rising medical service in recent 5 years. It combines medical profession and cosmetic service, offering customers integrated aesthetic therapy services that are safe, reliable, delicate and effective. Due to medical cosmoceutical is a popular and self-payed medical service not limited to any specific medical field by law, it is undouhtedly an effective way of business transformation for the medical institutes with difficult running under poor National Health Insurance policy. Therefore, many plastic surgery and dermatological clinics, and other medical field even beauty salons, quite to establish their medical cosmoceutical service for competing this big market. Surviving the strong competition in this hot market of medical cosmoceutical is an important issue for every member of the plastic surgery field that seeks to succeed in this medical cosmoceutical business. The key successful factor for plastic surgery field in medical cosmoceutical shall be an innovative strategy and innovative business model that leads to attracting and retaining customers. Through literature review and the practice data of T Union Clinic of Plastic Surgery based on its mamagement philosophy and business model, this study proposes the following three innovative strategies for medical cosmoceutical service: (1) Pioneer into the offering of medical cosmoceutical service that providing dedicated post-cosmetic surgery massage therapy ; (2) Pioneer into the research and development of skin care product therapeutic compound formula; and (3) Pioneer into the training and certification center for medical aesthetician. Followed by the dimensions of four innovative business model listed below, successful business performance will be obtained through the offering of comprehensive service attachment that enhances customers¡¦ willingness to accept such services. The four innovative business models comprise: (1) Knowledge transfer to customers, by delivering medical cosmetic knowledge for promoting trustworthiness from customers; (2) Customer relationship management (CRM) ,with higher customer value through maintaining close relationship with customers by offering multiple two-way communication channels; (3) Experience marketing, by creating word-of-month effects, and (4) Strategic alliance, through the referrals from related clinics, beauty salons, and affiliated medical cosmetic workshops to acquire more customers. In the verification of innovative strategies and business models for medical cosmoceutical business, this study adopts both qualitative and quantitative research methodology to provide deep insights and findings. In qualitative research, a small scale qualitative ¡§customer in-depth interview¡¨ is conducted on the medical cosmoceutical customers (5 people) of the T Union Clinic of Plastic Surgery, to verify accuracy of the innovative strategies and business model, followed by a large scale quantitative questionnaire survey (100 people) on the customers that are randomly drawn from the customers of T Union Clinic of Plastic Surgery. With quantitative data derived from the survey, the viability of the innovative strategies and innovative models are further verified. In conclusion, the research finding is that after quantitative and qualitative verification from the customer perspective, the three innovative strategies and four innovative business models proposed for medical cosmoceutical business has been indeed proved as the successful model for medical cosmoceutical business in the plastic surgery field, and is also commonly accepted by the medical cosmoceutical customers. Furthermore, an additional insight extracted from the verification in customer perspective is the need for designing of system for employee training and encouragement. By this, the effectiveness of transfering knowledge to customers and service quality delivery will be expected to enhance. So, this study adds the fifth dimension ¡§Employee training and encouragement¡¨ to the innovative business model. In the point of view of management implicatin, when performing the innovative strategy and innovative business model for medical cosmoceutical business in plastic surgery field, one should pay more attension to two management aspects, including internal management and external customer service. In the peer suggestion, the three innovative strategies and the four innovative business model proposed by this study are practically viable and may serve as the practical suggestions for the plastic surgery peer when providing medical cosmoceutical service.

<p>In pace with a noticeably fiercer global competition and an increased customer awareness, today’s organizations are faced with vast requirements for higher productivity and stronger customerorientation. This transformation has denoted that human resources have become more and more accentuated, and a consensus has grown for the true power embraced within them. In Sweden, some few prominent leaders have distinguished themselves by being highly successful in reinforcing employee motivation, and their knowledge and experiences are priceless in the pursuit of utilizing the full potential of the workforce.</p><p>The purpose with this thesis is to study how ten of Sweden’s most successful and acknowledged leaders view and work with employee motivation and critically examine their standpoints. The purpose is furthermore to exemplify how other leaders can strengthen employee motivation through adapting these motivational suggestions.</p><p>Qualitative cross-sectional interviews were conducted for the empirical research, holding a hermeneutic and inductive research approach.</p><p>The respondent pool is comprised by both commercial leaders, as well as leaders from the world of sports. They range from being managers over purely service-focused organizations, to being founders of innovative product-producing organizations.</p><p>The major areas, which are touched upon are; general work motivation intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, communication, and lastly empowerment, responsibility and participation.</p><p>Four major areas influence employee motivation (The Society and Social Surroundings, The Organization and Business Environment, The Manager and The Employee). This is visualized in the “Four-Factor Model”.</p>

Neformaliojo muzikinio ugdymo poreikiui patenkinti ir jo tikslų įgyvendinimui užtikrinti svarbu ne tik galimybė pasirinkti interesus atitinkančią ugdymo įstaigą ar mokymo programą, bet ir sudaryti sąlygas vaikui džiaugtis pasirinkta muzikine neformalia veikla. Deja, neretai susiduriama su sėkmingai vaiko neformaliai muzikinei veiklai trukdančia motyvacijos šiai veiklai stokos problema. Kadangi vaiko motyvaciją lemia ne vienas veiksnys, susijęs su visa vaiko aplinka, pedagogui ypatingai svarbu į neformaliojo muzikinio ugdymo procesą įtraukti ir mokinių tėvus bei su jais bendradarbiauti. Todėl darbe nagrinėjamos pedagogų ir tėvų bendradarbiavimo galimybės įtakoti vaiko neformalios muzikinės veiklos motyvacijai poveikį darančius veiksnius. / In order to meet the need for musical education and to ensure achievement of it’s goals it is important not only to have a possibility to select an educational institution or an educational program meeting personal interests, but also to create conditions for a child to enjoy the informal musical activity selected. Unfortunately, very often the problem is encountered related to the lack of motivation in a child for informal musical activity and preventing him from successfully involving into such activity. Since motivation of the child is predetermined by several factors related to his whole environment, it is particularly important for a pedagogue to also involve children’s parents into the process of informal musical education as well as to cooperate with the latter. Therefore, the paper analyses possibilities of cooperation between pedagogues and parents in influencing the factors affecting the child’s motivation for informal musical activity: personal characteristic features of the child, family, pedagogue’s personality and competences, contemporaries.