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1	A study of Model of Treatment for Incompetent School Teachers in Taiwan Lee, Hsiu-Chuan 22 June 2004 (has links) A Study of Model of Treatment for Incompetent School Teachers in Taiwan Abstract Lee, Hsiu-Chuan The main purpose of the study is to formulate a treatment model for incompetent school teachers in Taiwan. The study consists of two stages. The questionnaires used for stage one collected opinions of public school teachers, school administrators, members of teacher associations, educational administrators and parents. Nine hundred and sixty one questionnaires were collected in good condition. Chi-square and Z-test were two statistics adopted to analyze the data and to filter the contentious questions for the Delphi survey on stage two. The Delphi questionnaires used for stage two collected opinions of fifteen experts. These experts included school administrators, parents, educational administrators, members of teacher associations and scholars. Percentage was adopted to analyze the data and sixty percent was the threshold to reach the so-called consensus. The study has come to the following conclusions¡G 1. As for the dimension of so-called clear incompetent teachers, ¡§A teacher violates the criminal law and is sentenced by the court¡¨ can be a definition. As for the unclear incompetent teachers dimension, ¡§A teacher is diagnosed with mental illness by doctors and performs his duty badly¡¨ and ¡§A teacher is misbehavior¡¨ can be the definitions. 2.The educational authorities should not list the specific events of incompetent teaching as the criteria. 3. The procedure of treating incompetent teachers can be divided into four stages of two phases. (1)The school phase¡G (A)The sensory stage¡G(a)The complaint letter must be signed and describe incidents objectively. (b)The statutory members of the investigation squad are the principal, directors, parents and the members of the Committee of Teacher Selection and Evaluation (CTSE). (c)They should collect the principal¡¦s comments, director¡¦s comments, comments from the colleagues, parent¡¦s comments, student¡¦s comments, teacher¡¦s self-report, medical records and supervisor¡¦s comments. (d)The investigation must be summed up within a month. The investigation squad should notify the teacher of the investigation results in the teacher¡¦s presence. If the teacher refused to sign to receive the results, a law letter should be sent to the teacher. (B)The assistance stage¡G(a)The statutory members of the assistance squad are school¡¦s section directors and teachers. (b)Teachers misbehaved slightly will go into the assistance stage, while teachers misbehaved badly will enter the resolution stage. Teachers keep on teaching in class during the assistance stage. (c)If facts showed the teacher¡¦s mental illness and worked badly or undoubtedly, the CTSE should recommend him seeking diagnose or remedy from doctors within two weeks. If he or she did not obey, the school should force him or her to the hospital. If he or she did not obey still, the school should dismiss or ask him or her to retire. (d)The teacher should stop working while receiving the medication. The period for remedy must be less than two years. (C)The resolution stage¡G(a) The members of the CTSE should include people who are considered social justice representatives. (b)The Ministry of Education should not reduce the sum of signature to convene the meeting but can reduce required number of members to convene the meeting for the third time. (c)When the CTSE reviews the case, the teacher is entitled to be present to explain. The notification with related information should be sent to the teacher seven days before. (d)If the CTSE decided to dismiss the teacher, then the decision needed the authorization of Ed Bureau. Before authorizing the dismiss that accused the teacher for violating the criminal law, misbehaving badly and being mentally ill, the school was entitled to order the teacher to stop teaching in class. (e)If the CTSE did not manage the case of so-called incompetent teachers, the Ed Bureau would demand the school to handle it within two weeks. If the school did not act, the Ed Bureau had the power to organize a team to handle it and demanded the CTSE to operate afterward. (2)The educational authority phase¡G The review stage¡G(a)The members of the reviewing squad of the Ed Bureau are the representatives of local teacher association, principals of other schools, the local PTA representatives, educational scholars, jurisconsults, the Ed Bureau representatives and psychiatrists. (b)The teacher should be notified to attend the meeting and to explain. The notification letter should be sent to the teacher seven days before. Finally, several suggestions were raised to the educational authorities and future researchers. Keywords¡Gschool teachers, incompetent teachers, treatment model treatment model school teachers incompetent teachers
2	Mothers’ depressive symptoms, parenting, and child withdrawal : a dynamic view across early development Yan, Ni, active 21st century 24 July 2012 (has links) Withdrawal in early childhood is a risk factor for the development of many adjustment problems. Mothers’ depressive symptoms may affect the development of withdrawal through complex mechanisms. This study examined the relation of mothers’ depressive symptoms to children’s withdrawal from 24 to 54 months and developmental mechanisms of this relation. Based on data from the NICHD study of Early Child Care, results demonstrate that mothers’ cumulative depressive symptoms from 6 to 24 months predicted children’s withdrawal at 24 months across dyads. From 24 to 54 months, within-dyad increases in mothers’ depressive symptoms predicted within-dyad increases in children’s withdrawal. Finally, low competent parenting was partially responsible for the impact of mothers’ early depressive symptoms on children’s withdrawal. In addition, boys’ withdrawal was more strongly associated with mothers’ depressive symptoms than girls’. / text Maternal depression Incompetent parenting Child withdrawal
3	A Study of the Construction of Quality Management System for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers in Taiwan Ko, Hsin-Yi 28 July 2003 (has links) Abstract In this study, the theoretical basis of the management of teacher quality in U.S.A. in recent years was examined from several aspects such as human resource management, accountability, and related studies. Based on these measures, the theoretical structures developed in the process of the management changes of teacher quality since 1990s were studied. Secondly, the background and reasons of the reform were analyzed, and some concrete suggestions and methods were concluded from the various U.S. education reports and bills. Then, from realistic points of view, the policies developed by different states during the process of reforms were also probed into. Then, a questionnaire was developed as a tool for data collection. The populations of the questionnaire survey included teachers, school administrators, the members of parents¡¦ organizations, educational scholars, educational authorities, councilors and the representatives of teacher organizations. There were 1,360 samples, which contain 1,050 valid ones. The valid returned percentage was 77.2%. The data were testified through frequency distribution, percentage, means, standard deviation, one-way ANOVA, then were analyzed and discussed according to the results. Finally, the conclusions and suggestions were proposed as a result. When reflecting on the present conditions of U.S. teacher quality management, this research probed into five aspects: the access of teacher qualifications, selection and employment, payment and working conditions, assessment and dealing with incompetent teachers. The representatives of parents¡¦ organizations, councilors and elementary school teachers had significant correlation with each other in the perceptions of teachers¡¦ quality management problems and the measures. In addition, this study found that there were diversity in some aspects such as getting payment according to teachers¡¦ actual performances, assessing teachers according to their students¡¦ performance in exams, carrying out teacher career ladder program, and having principals observe in class. Most samples were quite unanimous in other aspects, such as raising the selection criteria of teacher education program, evaluating teacher education programs institutions, establishing professional development schools, setting up nationwide professional educational standard committees, implementing beginning teachers mentoring system, every elementary and secondary school posting reports on educational progress, the government posting nationwide teacher quality assessment report, raising teachers¡¦ basic hours of professional development, helping incompetent teachers improve their teaching methods. Finally, this study will propose several suggestions: 1. The measures of the reform should be taken from all aspects. 2. To select teacher education programs, post reports on teacher quality assessment and strengthen the cultivation and assessment system. 3. To establish the way to assess and report unqualified teachers for dismissal in order to raise the teaching quality. 4. Central government will request each elementary and secondary school to propose each report on teaching quality to raise the efficiency. 5. To set up beginning teachers mentoring system to improve teaching quality. 6. To raise teachers¡¦ professional recognition, correct the unreasonable long teaching hours and class distribution. 7.To give teachers various ways to get professional development to access different certificates to strengthen teaching abilities. 8. Teacher organizations will actively provide advices for education reform. 9. Teacher organizations will initiatively cooperate or participate with central government in the designing of the system in raising teacher quality. the access of teacher qualification teacher quality management system incompetent teacher
4	A Descriptive Study of Incompetent to Stand Trial and Non-Restorable Defendants in Pinal County Arizona January 2017 (has links) abstract: This thesis examines the demographic, clinical, and criminal characteristics and discharge dispositions of pre-trial defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial and non-restorable (IST/NR) in Pinal County Arizona. Currently, there is limited research on defendants who are deemed IST/NR and even less so on discharge dispositions. The study utilized comparative descriptive analysis of secondary data collected by the Pinal County Attorney Offices on IST/NR defendants and restored defendants. It employed chi-square analyses to compare key variables between defendant groups. The study found few variations in clinical, legal, and criminal characteristics observed by previous studies and no statistical differences amongst IST/NR and restored defendants. However, it found the re-offense rate of IST/NR defendants in Pinal County was considerably lower than the general prison population. Moreover, it identified a narrow use of civil commitment procedures and guardianship amongst the IST/NR defendants who have a mental illness. Implications for further research and policy for Pinal County and Arizona are made. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Social Work 2017 Social work Criminology Psychology Civil Commitment Dusky Guardianship Incompetent Non-restorable Pre-Trial Defendants
5	Över 90 år men inte vuxen? : En kvalitativ undersökning av Florence Stephens tvister om myndighetsförklaring och god man / A legally incompetent person’s fight : A study of Florence Stephens disputes regarding her becoming legally competent and the appointment of an administrator Johansson, Linus January 2017 (has links) Florence Stephens became the owner of Huseby bruk, an industry located in Småland, 1934 while she was just over 50 years old, she inherited it from her late father. Huseby bruk, while under the ownership her father Huseby bruk had a thriving economy and expanded. When he died his daughter Florence Stephens took over. Missing formal education regarding how to manage an industry led to a declining economy and later one of the bigger economic scandals in the county. One of the outcomes of the scandal was that Florence Stephens was declared a legally incompetent person and she remained so in 19 years. This study aims to fill in the gaps of studies regarding her attempts to regain her legal competence and in the legal dispute about arranging an administrator for Florence Stephens that followed. Further this study analyzes her right of possession to Huseby bruk and if she had all the rights she was entitled. The source material chosen for this study is documents left over from her cases located at Linnéuniversitetet in the Huseby archives. The result reached by the study was that Florence Stephens regained her legally competence 1976 which led to a response from Alvesta chief guardian requesting that this only happens if an administrator is assigned. This lead to a long lawsuit ending in October 1978. Regarding her possession of Huseby have the study concluded that she still had the rights but they were not absolute. Huseby bruk Florence Stephens legally incompetent person legal dispute administrator right of possession Property History Historia
6	Rozhodování za pacienta neschopného vyslovit souhlas s poskytováním zdravotních služeb / Proxy decision making for incompetent patients Francová, Terezie January 2021 (has links) 1 Proxy decision making for incompetent patients Abstract The author of this thesis discusses the applicable Czech legislation on the proxy decision making for incompetent patients and the provision of medical care without informed consent. The thesis is divided into six parts, while the first part is devoted to the definition of the basic terms that are directly related to this topic and which are repeatedly used herein. These basic terms are the following: health services and healthcare, informed consent and the patient. The second chapter is devoted to sources of law, which are divided into three levels - international sources, European Union law and national sources. Within the national regulation, attention is focused mainly on Act No. 372/2011 Coll., On health services and conditions of their provision, as amended. It also outlines the issue of the duality of legal regulation, that was caused by the adoption of Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code. The third chapter deals with surrogate consent, attention is paid mainly to resolving conflicts of opinions and to the best interests pricniple, as to the key factor when granting the proxy consent. The fourth chapter is devoted to the institute of previously expressed wishes. The fifth chapter analyses the issue of providing health services to vulnerable...
7	From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times MacLeod, Suzanne 26 March 2014 (has links) As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive. / Graduate / 0452 / 0680 / 0351 / macsuz@shaw.ca social determinants of health social exclusion crisis discourse Alzheimer's Alzheimer Society of Canada Suzanne MacLeod Susan Strega Donna Jeffery poststructural poststructuralism admission to long-term care funding for long-term care acute care aging demographic BC Psychogeriatric Association biomedical British Columbia Canada Health Act collective social responsibility competition corporate profit corporatization deresponsibilization elder friendly elderly citizens family caregivers Foucault found poetry genealogy of power knowledge incompetent Ministry of Health moral economics pharmaceutical bed blocker stigmatized tsunami absent-person action plan aging population alternative discourse apocalyptic demography appropriate archaeology archaeology of knowledge archaeological British Columbia burden Canada caregiver charity charitable collective collective car community community care condition of possibility conditions of possibility corporate counter-discourse dementia dementia care dementia policy dementia social policy dependent depoliticize discourse discourse analysis disruptive discourse economic burden economics economy elder emergency epidemic exclusion fear-monger Foucauldian found poem genealogy genealogical health authority health care health care staff health care system health policy document healthy lifestyle home and community care homogenization homogenize hospital imaginaries imaginary incapable individual responsibility individualism knowledge long-term care material effect materiality of discourse media moral panic national strategy neoliberal neoliberalism neoliberal rationality not prepared object objectification other person-centered people living with dementia person living with dementia persons living with dementia person with dementia poem poetic representation poetry policy policies political politics power power knowledge power relations private privatize privatization productivity of dominant discourse public health care residential care resistance responsibility responsibilization rising tide safety net shift costs to caregivers responsibility social policy imaginary social well-being social work social worker solidarity specialized stakeholder state stigma subject matter expert taxpayer threat unprepared unproductive voluntary volunteer wait time wave social policy
8	From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times MacLeod, Suzanne 26 March 2014 (has links) As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive. / Graduate / 0452 / 0680 / 0351 / macsuz@shaw.ca social determinants of health social exclusion crisis discourse Alzheimer's Alzheimer Society of Canada Suzanne MacLeod Susan Strega Donna Jeffery poststructural poststructuralism admission to long-term care funding for long-term care acute care aging demographic BC Psychogeriatric Association biomedical British Columbia Canada Health Act collective social responsibility competition corporate profit corporatization deresponsibilization elder friendly elderly citizens family caregivers Foucault found poetry genealogy of power knowledge incompetent Ministry of Health moral economics pharmaceutical bed blocker stigmatized tsunami absent-person action plan aging population alternative discourse apocalyptic demography appropriate archaeology archaeology of knowledge archaeological British Columbia burden Canada caregiver charity charitable collective collective car community community care condition of possibility conditions of possibility corporate counter-discourse dementia dementia care dementia policy dementia social policy dependent depoliticize discourse discourse analysis disruptive discourse economic burden economics economy elder emergency epidemic exclusion fear-monger Foucauldian found poem genealogy genealogical health authority health care health care staff health care system health policy document healthy lifestyle home and community care homogenization homogenize hospital imaginaries imaginary incapable individual responsibility individualism knowledge long-term care material effect materiality of discourse media moral panic national strategy neoliberal neoliberalism neoliberal rationality not prepared object objectification other person-centered people living with dementia person living with dementia persons living with dementia person with dementia poem poetic representation poetry policy policies political politics power power knowledge power relations private privatize privatization productivity of dominant discourse public health care residential care resistance responsibility responsibilization rising tide safety net shift costs to caregivers responsibility social policy imaginary social well-being social work social worker solidarity specialized stakeholder state stigma subject matter expert taxpayer threat unprepared unproductive voluntary volunteer wait time wave social policy

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