Social Consciousness: A Fair Trade Campaign

Campaigns addressing social issues often focus on awareness as the first step. The educational process begins with equipping people with information that is essential to making the choice of whether or not to act upon their newfound knowledge. Coombs’ text on public relations emphasizes caring for others (Coombs 2007) as a key approach to understanding social issues. Using the ethical principles outlined by Coombs, a campaign about social consciousness was designed around fair trade. The fair trade movement is about empowering impoverished communities around the world with the means to break the cycle of poverty. The purpose of such a movement aligned with our goal of educating others about making socially conscious choices that have a global impact. A pre-test measured the base attitudes and knowledge held by a convenience sample of participants. The questionnaire instrument measured their knowledge of fair trade concepts. A display was designed to provide a visual reinforcement of the concepts. The evaluation also measured whether or not one agreed or disagreed with statements about the movement. The results indicated the need for campaigns focused on developing an understanding about fair trade

Agency Decision-Making for Climate Change: Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Precautionary Principle, and the Bounds of Rationality

Climate change tests the limits of human understanding of complexity and uncertainty. It challenges assumptions about our presumed power of control over this planet. This paper examines the theory of how governmental executive branch agencies make regulation decisions about climate change using the decision-making methodologies of cost-benefit analysis and the precautionary principle, and as influenced by perceptions of the bounds of human rationality and ability to deal with risk and uncertainty

Alien Registration- Jacques, Laura (Auburn, Androscoggin County)

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The Role of Librarians and Informationists in Disaster Response

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) website provides a wealth of resources for disaster planning, deployment and reporting. Librarians can play a valuable role in training responders in use of tools such as WISER, CHEMM and REMM.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/1076/thumbnail.jp

Training Needs of the Paraprofessional

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Senior Recital, Neil Walters, double bass

The presentation of this senior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Performance. Neil Walters studies double bass with Kelly Ali

Closing the gap :what role can attribution retraining interventions and implicit theories of intelligence play?

D.App.Ed.Psy.This thesis consists of three chapters: a systematic review, a bridging document and a piece of empirical research. Chapter one consists of a quantitative investigation into the effectiveness of attribution retraining programmes on school-aged children’s achievements. The findings of this systematic review suggest that attribution retraining programmes have variable degrees of success. The most successful attribution retraining programmes are those that focus their attention to a given “gap” rather than those that aim to raise achievement generally. While the findings are positive, the lack of longer-term research designs is a cause for concern. Chapter two consists of a bridging document, intending to guide the reader from the systematic review of the literature to my empirical research. The bridging document outlines my personal interest in the research area, the development of my research focus, my epistemological and ontological perspectives, as well as my thoughts on the methodological choices I made along the way. In addition, it considers the ethical implications of my research and reflections upon the ways in which the research area can be interpreted. The third and final chapter consists of my empirical research study. This research study aimed to explore the mindsets (Dweck, 2006; Hong, Chiu, Dweck, Lin, & Wan, 1999) of parents whose children access their two year old Early Education Entitlement in Children’s Centres (the Two Year Offer). The research study adopted a two-phase mixed methods design. The first phase noted that far more parents than would be expected reported having incremental theories of intelligence (growth mindsets). The second stage involved carrying out semi-structured interviews with seven parents, which were then analysed using latent theory-driven Thematic Analysis. Six themes were created and were discussed in the light of implications for Educational Psychologists’ (EP) practice