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Personal Reflection (personal + reflection)
Selected AbstractsXI. THE ROLE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOLARS IN RESEARCH ON AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PERSONAL REFLECTIONSMONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2006Vonnie C. McLloyd First page of article [source] The Making of the Modern Vice Presidency: A Personal ReflectionPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2008RICHARD MOE Thirty-two years ago, Walter Mondale was elected vice president of the United States. His actions in the first months after the election profoundly recast that office. Richard Moe, then Mondale's chief of staff, provides an inside perspective on this transformation. The article first appeared in Minnesota History in the fall of 2006. [source] Richard E. Neustadt as Teacher and Mentor: A Personal ReflectionPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2004Stephen J. Wayne No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Mexican Peritoneal Dialysis Model: A Personal ReflectionARTIFICIAL ORGANS, Issue 4 2007Dr. Alejandro Treviño-Becerra First page of article [source] Personal Reflections on Saratoga Springs, New York: Hydrogeological and Horse Racing,Hot Spot' of the EastGROUND WATER, Issue 1 2004Donald I. Siegel No abstract is available for this article. [source] G. C. Bunn, A. D. Lovie, and G. D. Richards (Eds.) Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections.JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 4 20032001., Leicester, UK: British Psychological Society No abstract is available for this article. [source] Personal Reflections: Reflections on an educationBRITISH JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2000Richard Mawby [source] 35 YEARS OF BJSE: Personal reflections on 35 years of BJSEBRITISH JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2008Christina Tilstone Christina Tilstone was, for many years, the editor of BJSE and subsequently became the chair of the Editorial Board for the nasen journals. She is therefore in an excellent position to reflect upon the contribution the journal has made to the field over the past 35 years. In this article, she traces the origins of the journal back over 100 years. She notes the launch of BJSE's ancestor, Special Education: Forward Trends, and shares the contents of the issue of this journal that marked the publication of Mary Warnock's seminal report in 1978 and the development of the notion of inclusion. She goes on to describe the metamorphosis of Special Education: Forward Trends into BJSE in 1985 and soon after that, in 1992, the formation of nasen , still BJSE's sponsoring organisation. Christina Tilstone records the origins of BJSE's valued ,Research Section', now building a substantial archive of educational research papers, and the popular ,Focus on Practice' feature that enables practitioners to share reports of their work. She also notes the role that BJSE's other regular features, ,Book Reviews', ,Politics Page UK' and ,Notes from the SENCo-Forum' (itself now ten years old) have played in the journal's recent national and international success. [source] Exploring the mast cell enigma: a personal reflection of what remains to be doneEXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, Issue 2 2008Beate M. Henz Abstract: Mast cells are traditionally viewed as effector cells of allergic reactions and parasitic diseases, but their importance in host defense against bacteria, in tissue remodelling, their bone marrow and stem cell origin and a central role of the stem cell factor (SCF) as mast cell growth and chemotactic factor has been worked out only in recent years. Despite this, major aspects about the nature of the cells and their role in disease remain unclear. This holds in particular for the identification of mast cell precursors and the role of growth factors that stimulate specific mast cell commitment from stem cells, such as nerve growth factor, neutrotrophin-3 and certain interleukins, alone and during interaction with SCF. Early data suggesting also an involvement of specific transcription factors need to be expanded in this process. Furthermore, although mast cell proliferative disease (mastocytosis) has been shown to be often associated with SCF receptor c-kit mutations, reasons for the development of this disease remain unclear. This holds also for mast cell release mechanisms in many types of mast cell-dependent urticaria. Exciting new insights are emerging regarding the role of mast cells in bacterial infections, in defense against tumors, in wound healing and in the interplay with the nervous system, with hormones, and in the neurohormonal network. The aim of this reflection is to delineate the many known and unknown aspects of mast cells, with a special focus on their development, and to discuss in detail two mast cell-related diseases, namely mastocytosis and urticaria. [source] Podcasting Communities and Second Language PronunciationFOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, Issue 2 2008Gillian Lord Abstract: Although often neglected in language classrooms, second language phonology is a crucial element in language learning because it is often the most salient feature in the speech of a foreigner. As instructors, we must decide how to emphasize pronunciation and what techniques to use. This article discusses a collaborative pod-casting project in an undergraduate Spanish phonetics class. Students worked in small groups to create and maintain their own podcast channel on which they uploaded recordings for group member feedback. Each recording focused on particular aspects of Spanish pronunciation, using tongue twisters, short readings, and personal reflection on students' own pronunciation. Both attitudes and pronunciation abilities were assessed before and after the project, and both were found to improve. The benefits of podcasting projects to improve language skills are discussed from an empirical as well as a pedagogical perspective. [source] The differences and commonalities between United Kingdom and Canadian Psychiatric/Mental Health nursing: a personal reflectionJOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 3 2003Associate Professor, JOHN R. CUTCLIFFE Chair of Nursing [source] A personal reflection on the life and work of Dame Sheila SherlockLIVER TRANSPLANTATION, Issue 3 2002Prof. Roger Williams Commander of the British Empire (CBE) [source] Early clinical exposure to people who are dying: learning to care at the end of lifeMEDICAL EDUCATION, Issue 1 2003R D MacLeod Background, The nature of medical care at the end of life and, in particular, the way in which caring is learned remain problematic for medical educators and the profession. Recent work has indicated that doctors learn to care, in an emotional and intimate way, from people who are dying. Methods, This paper reports on the development of a programme designed for medical students in their first clinical year who spend time with a person who is dying and their family. The students are required to produce a portfolio assignment that includes a personal reflection of the experience. The findings from a phenomenological study undertaken using these personal reflections are reported. These reflections and comments are interpreted as being embedded in five key themes. Results, The actual encounters differed from the medical students' anticipation of them. Students identified an emotional component to the experience; they explored their own and the patient's understandings of spirituality; they reflected on personal meanings of the encounter and they suggested ways in which they might learn to care more effectively for people who are dying. Discussion, The way in which many of these students approach end-of-life care has been altered through a transformative educational experience that encouraged them to draw on their own experiences and skills. Their learning was facilitated by the writing of accounts and the discussion that each group held with teaching staff at the conclusion of the programme. [source] From personal reflection to social positioning: the development of a transformational model of professional education in midwiferyNURSING INQUIRY, Issue 4 2002Diane Phillips A transformational model of professional identity formation, anchored and globalized in workplace conversations, is advanced. Whilst the need to theorize the aims and methods of clinical education has been served by the techno-rational platform of ,reflective practice', this platform does not provide an adequate psychological tool to explore the dynamics of social episodes in professional learning and this led us to positioning theory. Positioning theory is one such appropriate tool in which individuals metaphorically locate themselves within discursive action in everyday conversations to do with personal positioning, institutional practices and societal rhetoric. This paper develops the case for researching social episodes in clinical education through professional conversations where midwifery students, in practice settings, are encouraged to account for their moment-by-moment interactions with their preceptors/midwives and university mentors. It is our belief that the reflection elaborated by positioning theory should be considered as the new epistemology for professional education where professional conversations are key to transformative learning processes for persons and institutions. [source] In Memory of the Father: Laurence S. MossAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2010Joshua Louis Moss A personal reflection on the life and philosophy of the late Laurence S. Moss (former editor of the AJES) by his son, Joshua Louis Moss. Mixing personal anecdote with a general academic analysis, Moss informally examines his father's intellectual beginnings in the 1960s drawn from the lectures of Ludwig Von Mises, and traces this through his father's development of innovative teaching techniques like the incorporation of stage magic. Moss examines his father's intellectual contrarianism and canonical skepticism as key developmental foundations used to build his father's academic and pedagogical approach. Moss examines his father's interest in expanding economics through a cross-disciplinary approach utilizing philosophy, history, sociology, and performance studies through his father's innovative examination of points of contact between the principles of stage magic and the principles of economic theory. [source] Mutual empowerment in the treatment of torture and other war trauma survivors: a personal reflectionPSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1 2005John R. van Eenwyk Clinical Director Abstract Practitioners from developed countries who travel to developing nations to teach theories and methods of treatment would do well to consider that the most important aspects of their work have to do more with the relationships they form than with the information they dispense. We all have much to learn from each other. Mutual empowerment benefits all. Consequently, as much effort should be made to arrange time for relationship as for formal instruction. The expectations of those teaching and those taught, however, will have to be acknowledged for true mutual empowerment to take place. Copyright © 2005 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [source] Implementation Studies: Time for a Revival?PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 2 2004Personal Reflections on 20 Years of Implementation Studies This paper presents a review of three decades of implementation studies and is constructed in the form of a personal reflection. The paper begins with a reflection upon the context within which the book Policy and Action was written, a time when both governments and policy analysts were endeavouring to systematize and improve the public decision-making process and to place such decision-making within a more strategic framework. The review ends with a discussion about how public policy planning has changed in the light of public services reform strategies. It is suggested that as a result of such reforms, interest in the processes of implementation have perhaps been superseded by a focus upon change management and performance targets. It is further argued that this has resulted in the reassertion of normative, top-down processes of policy implementation. The paper raises points that are important ones and indeed are reflected throughout all four papers in the symposium issue. These are: (1) the very real analytical difficulties of understanding the role of bureaucratic discretion and motivation; (2) the problem of evaluating policy outcomes; and (3) the need to also focus upon micro political processes that occur in public services organizations. In conclusion, the paper emphasizes the continued importance of implementation studies and the need for policy analysts to understand what actually happens at policy recipient level. [source] The UK Research Assessment Exercise: Performance Measurement and Resource AllocationAUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, Issue 1 2010Jane Broadbent This paper is a personal reflection on the nature and implications of research assessment in the UK. It reflects on the extent to which the dual functions of performance measurement and resource allocation interact. It provides a description of the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises (RAE) in the United Kingdom (UK). It also refers to the developments undertaken at the time of writing to develop the successor exercise , the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The paper illustrates the changes that have taken place over time in order to address perceived weaknesses in the structures of the RAE that have led to particular types of game playing. The RAE is a form of management control that has achieved its success by the alignment of individual and institutional interests. Success in the RAE produces both financial and reputational gains for Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) that they are willing to pay for. Hence, the RAE has provided financial gains for academics who can deliver success. The peer-evaluation process in the UK research assessment is a key characteristic of the UK approach. While this is seen as expensive, it has maintained the legitimacy of the RAE. The accounting and finance academic community has engaged with the exercise and retained some control over the assessment process. A question is raised as to whether UK accounting and finance is likely to be subsumed in larger Business School submissions in the future. [source] A personal reflection on election issues and lessonsAUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Issue 1 2002Leonie Short No abstract is available for this article. [source] Robert F. Furchgott, Nobel laureate (1916,2009) , a personal reflectionBRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY, Issue 3 2009William Martin Robert F. Furchgott, pharmacologist and joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology (1998) died on the 12th of May 2009 aged 92. By unlocking the astonishingly diverse biological actions of nitric oxide, Furchgott leaves behind a rich legacy that has both revolutionized our understanding of human physiology and stimulated new and exciting opportunities for drug development in a wide range of pathological conditions. In this article, William Martin, who worked with Furchgott for 2 years (1983,1985), following the exciting discovery of endothelium-derived relaxing factor/nitric oxide, pays tribute to his close friend and colleague. [source] Promoting ethical reflection in the teaching of business ethicsBUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 4 2008Howard Harris A case study provides the basis for consideration of the purpose of business ethics teaching, the importance of reflection and the evaluation of ethics teaching. The way in which personal reflection and an increased capacity for ethical action can be encouraged and openly identified as aims of the course is discussed. The paper considers changes in the design and delivery of the international management ethics and values course taught at the University of South Australia as part of the undergraduate management degree in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. As a result of student and teaching staff responses, and course evaluations, the course design, teaching and assessment has moved steadily toward an aim which explicitly refers to behaviour, without losing the significant conceptual base. Ways in which opportunities can be provided to enhance the development of a reflective capability are considered, including narrative, role models, ethical reflection, journal-keeping and practice. The changes required a change in assessment practice. The difficulties of assessing intention and commitment to ethical action, whether in an individual course or across the curriculum, are discussed. [source] Reflections on smoking relapse researchDRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, Issue 1 2006SAUL SHIFFMAN Abstract This paper presents personal reflections on the history, current status and the future of research on smoking relapse. Relapse was traditionally viewed primarily as an outcome, to be reduced with increased treatment. In the 1980s, relapse research was invigorated by a focus on the process of relapse, focusing on the specific situations in which lapses to smoking occurred, and on the processes that mediated progression from a lapse to a relapse. This line of research had substantial influence on treatment, but has currently been displaced by a return to a pure outcomes-focus, driven in part by the practical need to find treatments that work and to package them for dissemination. At the same time, technological and methodological developments have enabled detailed monitoring of experience and behaviour throughout the relapse process, and progression of these developments will make monitoring of relapse process compelling in the future. The need to understand how interventions work will also drive a resurgence of research on the relapse process. Finally, the same technological and conceptual developments that enable detailed monitoring of behaviour will spawn the development of just-in-time interventions that are offered and implemented as needed, rather than being addressed in the abstract in advance of the need [source] The development of an ePortfolio for life-long reflective learning and auditable professional certificationEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DENTAL EDUCATION, Issue 3 2009R. L. Kardos Abstract Recent legislative changes, that affect all healthcare practitioners in New Zealand, have resulted in mandatory audits of practitioners who are now required to provide evidence of competence and continued professional development in the form of a professional portfolio. These changes were the motivation for our development of an electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) suitable for both undergraduate and life-long learning. Bachelor of Oral Health (BOH) students, studying to qualify as Dental Hygienists and Dental Therapists, and BOH teaching staff (who held registrations in Dental Hygiene, Dental Therapy and Dentistry) trialled the use of a personal ePortfolio for advancing their academic and professional development. The ePortfolio enables BOH students to collect evidence of their achievements and personal reflections throughout their 3 years of undergraduate study, culminating in registration and the award of an Annual Practising Certificate (APC). The ePortfolio was designed to allow users to store information and then select appropriate material to be displayed or published, thus assisting health practitioners to present high-quality evidence of their participation and achievements, and to meet the professional requirements for their APC. [source] Building Research Competence in Nursing Through MentoringJOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 4 2002Mary W. Byrne Purpose: To explore how mentoring can be used to build research competence in nursing in various professional and geographic settings. Organizing construct: The traditional concept of mentoring in interdisciplinary health professions and its application to nursing research. Methods: Literature review of MEDLINE and CINAHL databases 1990,2001 and personal reflections on mentoring and mentored experiences. Findings: Mentoring relationship models identified include: traditional mentor and protégé, team, peer, inclusive, and mentoring forward. E-mentoring strategies facilitate interactions for long-distance relationships. Discrete projects, multiple mentor sources, and mutually beneficial peer relationships can enable mentoring across one's career. Psychosocial dimensions of mentoring support creative work. When scholarly productivity with funded research is the desired outcome, intense involvement of a protégé with an expert researcher is essential. Conclusion: Choices among mentoring models can be made in accordance with resources, priorities, and objectives congruent with a given nursing setting and time, but optimum scholarly productivity requires experts and sustained support. [source] Early clinical exposure to people who are dying: learning to care at the end of lifeMEDICAL EDUCATION, Issue 1 2003R D MacLeod Background, The nature of medical care at the end of life and, in particular, the way in which caring is learned remain problematic for medical educators and the profession. Recent work has indicated that doctors learn to care, in an emotional and intimate way, from people who are dying. Methods, This paper reports on the development of a programme designed for medical students in their first clinical year who spend time with a person who is dying and their family. The students are required to produce a portfolio assignment that includes a personal reflection of the experience. The findings from a phenomenological study undertaken using these personal reflections are reported. These reflections and comments are interpreted as being embedded in five key themes. Results, The actual encounters differed from the medical students' anticipation of them. Students identified an emotional component to the experience; they explored their own and the patient's understandings of spirituality; they reflected on personal meanings of the encounter and they suggested ways in which they might learn to care more effectively for people who are dying. Discussion, The way in which many of these students approach end-of-life care has been altered through a transformative educational experience that encouraged them to draw on their own experiences and skills. Their learning was facilitated by the writing of accounts and the discussion that each group held with teaching staff at the conclusion of the programme. [source] A journey to understand the role of culture in program evaluation: Snapshots and personal reflections of one African American evaluatorNEW DIRECTIONS FOR EVALUATION, Issue 102 2004Stafford Hood Taking a historical view of selected program evaluation approaches, this chapter articulates a personal lens and journey of understanding how culturally responsive evaluation is geared toward effectiveness, benefits, and outcomes of programs designed to serve the less powerful. [source] Changing face of entry to occupational therapy practice: Some personal reflections from a Person Environment Occupation perspectiveAUSTRALIAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY JOURNAL, Issue 3 2005Sue Baptiste No abstract is available for this article. [source] Prose, Psychopaths and Persistence: Personal Perspectives on PublishingCANADIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2002David J. Pannell The process of attempting to publish a paper in a refereed journal can be rather stressful. This paper presents a number of personal reflections on the publishing process, with the aim of helping aspiring journal authors to appreciate the nature of the challenge, and some of the requisites for success. The challenges in dealing with referees include the element of luck involved in securing sympathetic referees, the poor quality of the reports prepared by some referees, and the slowness of the review and editorial process. A number of examples from my experiences in agricultural economics journals are presented. These reveal that one of the most important characteristics that a journal author needs is persistence. Publier un article dans un périodique scientifique s'avère parfois une tâche éprouvante. L'auteur nous fait part de ses réflexions sur le monde de l'édition, le but étant d'aider les auteurs en herbe à apprécier la nature du défi et de comprendre certaines conditions préalables au succès. Trailer avec un comité de lecture anonyme suppose une certaine intervention du hasard. En effet, il faut non seulement dénicher des lecteurs bienveillants mais aussi composer avec la piètre qualité de certains comptes rendus et la lenteur du processus de lecture et de correction. Suivent maints exemples tirés de périodiques d'économie agricole. Ces exemples révèlent qu'une des principales qualités des auteurs d'articles pour périodique scientifique est la ténacité. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||