... play a role insocial inquiry, which theoretical traditions and paradigms are influential in determining, or at least influencing, research choices and agendas. Methodological and theoretical ... methodological and theoretical developments and innovations in a discipline or collection of disciplines important and, perhaps, even useful? We would argue that an interest in methodology and theorizing ... human nature and society. Tony Giddens describes it in the following terms: Social theoryin my view, spans social science. It is a body of theory shared in common by all disciplines concerned...
... loved ones in combat, chal-lenges communicating) interfere with spouses’ efforts to maintain their relationships, damaging marriages that would have remained satisfying and fulfilling in the absence ... neurotic individ-uals (Bolger and Schilling, 1991; Bolger and Zuckerman, 1995). e in uence of the individualist view of marriage extends to the present day inresearch that examines such enduring ... have been no studies examining direct links between financial strain and marital outcomes in military marriages, but in civilian marriages, financial strain is a reliable lon-gitudinal predictor...
... revisiting theirunderstandings of social work values and principles in order to internalise thethinking, which has so thoroughly fed into social work’s distinctive value base. 32Teaching and ... about teaching and learning communication skills insocial workqualifying education. It is intended to be aresource for all of those involved in teaching and learning on the new social work ... explores looking at the use of theory and research to underpin practice and includes specific terms used insocial work, and how to evidence effectiveness in listening, communication and assessment...
... discovering and dis-cussing new relationships to resolve existing conflicts about meaning and definitions), and concept analysis (defining relevant attributes/empiricalindicators and ... design will include recording baseline measures of the de-pendent variable, introducing the treatment/intervention, subsequentrecording of the dependent variable, and comparing findings from ... Nursing in Rochester,New York. She received a BS degree in nursing from Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia, and an MS in nursing as well as MA and PhD degrees in ...
... actors,including consumers, have ‘perfect information’ about the nature and value of commodities traded. In reality, we know that consumers canface difficulties in obtaining and using information ... second-hand cars and home improvements. See Hadfield, Howse, and Trebilcock, ‘Information-Based Principles’, p. 153. x Prefacelargely in the regulatory field that the increase in criminalisation ... is perhaps in the area of economic interests thatadministrative sanctions could have an increasingly important role, and the role of such sanctions in fair trading law is considered in this context.Consumer...
... still gaining increasing worldwide importance. 22 2 Differing Views on the Environmentpanels and wind turbines. Total renewable power capacity in China, including hydropower, reached 226 GW in ... of (marginal)farmland into forest and grassland with farmers receiving living subsidies as compensation for lostincome from farming ([1], p. 56). Springer Texts in Business and EconomicsFor ... forcertain environmental technologies. In fact, Chinese companies are exporting solarproducts to Europe and the US, and are gaining increasing market shares at theexpense of US American and European...
... writing. Swaffer, Janet “Language Learning Is More than Learning Language: Rethinking Reading and Writing Tasks in Textbooks for Beginning Language Study.” Foreign Language Acquisition: Research ... facilitating the process of writing. These include invention strategies (i.e., pre-writing strategies such as brainstorming, clustering, free-writing, mapping), syntactic analysis and sentence combining, ... (reporting, requesting, thanking, etc.) in both teacher and student writing, and Joy Kreeft Peyton studies the use of teacher questions in promoting student interaction. In the final section of the...
... introducing it at the 2004 Joint Social Work Education Conference in Glasgow. He brings to this task a long-standing interest and experience in educationalevaluation, most recently in post-qualifying ... analysis and dissemination of findings. In this way, we might reasonablyhope both to build capacity and capability amongstacademics and trainers (including users and carers) in theevaluation of social ... groupbeing ‘contaminated’ by knowledge gained second handfrom a colleague in the education group.Page 28Evaluating Outcomes inSocial Work Education | Research Designs et al. (2003) and Carpenter...