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Publication date: 1 December 2005

Brian Hinton

The state of science education is similar to that of other disciplines: research shows a clear need for new instructional strategies based on a constructivist model of learning…

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The state of science education is similar to that of other disciplines: research shows a clear need for new instructional strategies based on a constructivist model of learning emphasizing conceptual growth, conceptual change and the conditions that support conceptual change. Practice, however, remains anchored in behaviorist theory and rote methods of learning. “Serious constructivist approaches usually set out to reorganize traditional teaching by including changes of aims, setup of content structures, media, and teaching/learning strategies” (Treagust et al, 1996, p7). Maher and Alston (1990) discuss constructivist reform efforts and the implications for classroom teaching focusing on three issues that arise repeatedly: how to learn to listen to students’ thinking; how to organize classroom activities to support “listening and questioning”; and how to implement forms of assessment that document students’ questions.

This paper describes some constructivist teaching methodology and practices, and highlights their effectiveness as an aid to teaching and understanding in the classroom.

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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives, vol. 2 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2077-5504

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Publication date: 1 March 1987

BRIAN HINTON

One has to be so careful of evoking stereotypes — perhaps even ‘stereotypism’ — in the library world nowadays. I am still recovering from a fierce (if toothless) savaging from one…

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One has to be so careful of evoking stereotypes — perhaps even ‘stereotypism’ — in the library world nowadays. I am still recovering from a fierce (if toothless) savaging from one of the new inner‐city zealots for declaring my inherent racism in describing myself as English rather than British; mind you, the complainer was a Scot.

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New Library World, vol. 88 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

Article
Publication date: 1 February 1988

Jonathan Barker

Brian Hinton's article on librarian poets (“Librarians as unacknowledged legislators”, NLW March 1987) reminded us just how many librarians have been poets in our day and how many…

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Brian Hinton's article on librarian poets (“Librarians as unacknowledged legislators”, NLW March 1987) reminded us just how many librarians have been poets in our day and how many still are. Is this yet another aspect of the much publicised “poetry boom”, and how far is this “poetry boom” in fact a public relations exercise? Are more people reading, writing, buying contemporary poetry now? I shall take a look at these questions, focusing on manifestations of poetry activity today, and summing up with ways in which libraries, and especially public libraries, can gain from involvement with the “poetry boom”.

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New Library World, vol. 89 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 December 2005

David Palfreyman

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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives, vol. 2 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2077-5504

Article
Publication date: 27 May 2014

Ingo Stolz

This study aims to analyze how organization development (OD) practitioners develop corporate citizenship for the purpose of increasing their organization’s capacity to practice…

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Purpose

This study aims to analyze how organization development (OD) practitioners develop corporate citizenship for the purpose of increasing their organization’s capacity to practice corporate citizenship. Research shows that very few corporations have the organizational capacity to practice corporate citizenship. Evidence exists that ever more corporations adopt programs of corporate citizenship development to increase this capacity. However, there still is a general lack of a strategic understanding of how corporate citizenship development occurs. The potential of OD frameworks and tools for developing corporate citizenship have been highlighted. Nevertheless, how OD practitioners develop corporate citizenship has not been studied empirically so far.

Design/methodology/approach

A sociomaterial case study design was used. The work of six OD practitioners when developing corporate citizenship in one of the largest pharmaceutical corporations was studied over several months, based on interviews, observations and document analyses.

Findings

The findings presented offer model practices of corporate citizenship development, in the form of five core strategies and five core behaviors that increase an organization’s capacity to practice corporate citizenship.

Research limitations/implications

With this study, the notion of corporate citizenship development has become established as a distinct research area. The study might encourage further research in this important niche area.

Practical implications

The findings have direct practical implications for at least seven different stakeholder groups.

Originality/value

The findings shed new light on both the epistemological and practical foundations of the concept of corporate citizenship, and hint to a new role of the fields of OD and human resource development in the twenty-first century.

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European Journal of Training and Development, vol. 38 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2046-9012

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Publication date: 1 May 1997

Kathryn Brown and Brian H. Kleiner

“Welcome to the new world of banking, where the bank goes to the customer rather than waiting for the customer to come to the bank.”. Financial institutions are in the process of…

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“Welcome to the new world of banking, where the bank goes to the customer rather than waiting for the customer to come to the bank.”. Financial institutions are in the process of executing an unprecedented reconfiguration of the banking industry.

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Management Research News, vol. 20 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 1 September 1958

THERE is no argument more futile in the field of librarianship than that of whether it is preferable that librarians should be bookmen or administrators. Nonetheless, the…

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THERE is no argument more futile in the field of librarianship than that of whether it is preferable that librarians should be bookmen or administrators. Nonetheless, the President thought fit to make it one of the main points of his address to the Conference, painting in words two pictures—one of the “business executive” type librarian with his clear desk, telephone and secretary, and the other of a “scholar” type surrounded by books and dust, oblivious to the outside world. If it were possible to define the terms “bookman” and “administrator” in relation to library work there might be some point in a discussion on the subject. What is meant when a librarian is called a bookman? Is a bookman someone who comes to work like everyone else, but once arrived sits in an office and spends the rest of the day reading? If this is what a bookman does, does he read old books or new books? If old books, does he read them literally or bibliographically? Does he read purposefully in order to create some new work of his own, or without purpose? The question is an endless one, but then no librarian could possibly spend the whole of his working life so engaged.

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New Library World, vol. 60 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 June 1985

The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…

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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.

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Management Decision, vol. 23 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 January 1971

Myles Breen

Dr Myles Breen, of Northern Illinois University, reviews the audio tutorial system of instruction

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Dr Myles Breen, of Northern Illinois University, reviews the audio tutorial system of instruction

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Education + Training, vol. 13 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 June 1966

The Minister of Aviation, Mr Fred Mulley, has appointed Alderman V. E. Turton, of Birmingham, to be Chairman of the newly established West Midlands Regional Advisory Committee for…

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The Minister of Aviation, Mr Fred Mulley, has appointed Alderman V. E. Turton, of Birmingham, to be Chairman of the newly established West Midlands Regional Advisory Committee for Civil Aviation. The new Advisory Committee is being set up in accordance with the Civil Aviation (Licensing) Regulations 1964. It will have the statutory duty of advising the Air Transport Licensing Board on air service licence applications affecting the West Midland area, and will also be free to offer advice to the Minister of any matters pertaining to civil aviation in that area, including aerodrome questions.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 38 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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