Following the Leaders: Issue Attention and Agenda Dynamics in Women’s Health Care Policy

This dissertation focuses on shifts in issue attention in the policy process and examines policy changes. Describing agenda setting is important not only for understanding congressional behavior in general but also for understanding the institutional context of other political behavior. I focus on the processes of positive feedback to explain periods of dramatic policy changes observed over a long period of time. The purpose of this study is to examine the changes in the politics of health policy which opened the door to women’s health care as an important feature of health politics. Thus, my research is motivated by three questions: (1) How do women’s health concerns get on the agenda? (2) Does positive feedback through legislative entrepreneurship and composition of Congress shift attention? (3) How has women’s health care policy evolved over time? The results of this study not only contribute to the agenda setting literature but also have important implications for practitioners, professional organizations and associations, researchers, patients, and others who contribute to the policy community

SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE HIV+ CLIENT:A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRADITIONAL VERSUS VOLUNTEER CASE MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION

This longitudinal repeated measures study was designed to evaluate and compare the ffectiveness of volunteer support versus traditional case management for those with HIV in improving level of independent functioning. A non-random sample of one hundred and fifty-three clients (eighty-two in professional, seventy-one in the volunteer program) participated in the study. Evaluative tools utilized included a Checklist of Needs and Level of Independent Functioning Scale (LIF).It was predicted that volunteer case managers would be more effective than professionals in improving the independent functioning of clients with HIV and mental health/drug and alcohol problems. It was also predicted that volunteers would be more effective than professionals in assisting clients with obtaining a greater percentage of outside needs (needs provided by other agencies and defined as more critical in increasing independence).Multivariate analyses of data collected were used to test for relationships between two case management interventions (independent variables), time spent with clients (mediator) and two outcome (dependent) variables, level of independent functioning and percentage of outside needs met .Results supported the prediction that clients of volunteers improved their level of independent functioning and had more outside needs met than clients in the professional group.Path analyses revealed that increased time spent by volunteers (total time, number of contacts) partially mediated improvement in level of independent functioning. Face to face time, the most intense form of time, appeared to fully mediate the relationship between independent and dependent variables. However, the time variables did not mediate the relationship between type of intervention and outside needs met.Recommendations were made for agencies to consider utilizing volunteers in a professional capacity. Also, the evaluative tools developed for this study may be useful to demonstrate outcomes to support lobbying efforts for increased funding. Future research could focus on further refining the LIF scale

The text of Targum Qoheleth

The aim of this thesis is to produce a lightly-corrected diplomatic edition of Targum Qoheleth (the Targum to Ecclesiastes), using MS Urbinati Ebr. 1, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana as the base text for the transcription, and incorporating readings from 52 other witnesses into the critical apparatus. The texts range in date from 1189 to the 17th century; both Western and Yemenite manuscripts have been used. The edition features physical descriptions of the textual witnesses; an explanation of the methodology used in constructing the apparatus, detailing which types of readings have been included or excluded in order to produce an apparatus which is of a manageable size rather than a “graveyard of errors”; a translation of the text; and stemmatological analysis. Criteria have been developed to establish which variant readings and shared errors allow the manuscripts to be grouped together into textual families. Only the consonantal text has been taken into consideration, as the pointing is of poor quality in many of the manuscripts; the presence or absence of matres lectionis may be simply a matter of scribal preference. It is hoped that through the examination of the relationships between the different witnesses, some light may be shed on the nature of the Late Jewish Literary Aramaic dialect, and the extent to which there is a division between the Western and Yemenite recensions for Targum Qoheleth. This edition would also allow for a more detailed study of Targum Qoheleth and its textual history than currently afforded by existing editions

Kettle's Yard: anti-museum. H.S. Ede, modernism and the experience of art.

KETTLE’S YARD: ANTI-MUSEUM H.S. Ede, modernism and the experience of art Elizabeth Anne Fisher ABSTRACT This thesis attempts to tackle the question of what is, or more precisely, what was Kettle’s Yard, by exploring the intellectual origins of the institution initially conceived and developed by H.S. Ede. Ede bought Kettle’s Yard in 1956, and began to welcome visitors into his home in 1957. As a private initiative, Kettle’s Yard promoted an unusually intimate encounter with art. Following its transferral to the University of Cambridge in 1968, Kettle’s Yard still offered a qualitatively different experience to that of a conventional museum. Over the last fifty years, the ineffable quality of the visitor’s experience has inevitably changed. One of the motivating questions for me, through this research, has been how or even whether Kettle’s Yard now differs from other collection museums, and what that means in terms of understanding the institution Ede originally founded. It was also my aim to situate Kettle’s Yard in relation to a rich history of experimental museum practice and private philanthropy. My approach has been to map a genealogy of key ideas and influences that shaped Kettle’s Yard. My research focuses primarily on the interwar period, which roughly coincides with Ede’s time in London between 1919 (when Ede returned to London after active duty in the First World War) to 1937 (when he resigned from the Tate Gallery and moved to Tangier). This was a formative chapter in Ede’s life. I also seek to draw pertinent comparisons with other collection museums and ‘modernist’ institutions from that era. I begin with an introduction to Kettle’s Yard and to Ede himself. Chapter 2 looks at Ede’s activities and intellectual interests in the interwar period, taking into account the wider cultural context with which he is engaged. In Chapters 3 and 4, I examine the prevailing themes of spirituality and the home in relation to Ede’s engagement with modernism, and his relationships with artists and other key figures. I trace the eventual expression of Ede’s beliefs in the collection and interiors at Kettle’s Yard with reference to relevant archival materials, including Ede’s book on Kettle’s Yard, A Way of Life (1984). Finally, I come back to my original question to assess what Kettle’s Yard means today

We’re All In This Together: Identifying Meaningful Outcomes for K-6 Students of Teacher Candidates

poster abstractConnecting K-6 student outcomes with teacher preparation programs remains a critical need for the field (Bondy, 2004, Cochran-Smith, 2006). Even while we have begun to sort through and document outcomes for teacher interns relative to national standards, the task of connecting performance to K-6 student outcomes has been little documented. This interview study identified what mentor teachers associated with one urban teacher preparation program believed are positive student and associated mentor outcomes that result from student teacher participation in their elementary classrooms. This interview study consisted of an emergent analysis of individual interviews with sixteen student teacher mentors using an interview guide with a set of six questions. Data from a teacher candidate focus group which addressed a subset of these questions served to triangulate this analysis. Findings are shared in light of implications for teacher educators and their use by teacher education programs for in-depth follow-up studies. This local study, while unique to our own institution, relied on the use of a promising practice – that is, including the voice of mentor teachers – and its findings broadened the participant stakeholder base beyond the usual limited representation of university teacher educators and university researchers only

A Brief History: Bank Street College of Education

Documents in brief fashion the Bank Street College of Education from it\u27s earliest days as the Bureau of Educational Experiments to the present.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/books/1001/thumbnail.jp

Building Global Citizenship through Network Leadership

This article is based upon a paper delivered by Anne Beales about the Interrelate group to the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership, IIMHL, Conference in Killarney, Ireland, May 2010, and developed by the Interrelate group: Daniel Fisher, US, Shaun McNeil, Scotland, Jenny Speed, Australia, Paddy MacGowan, Ireland, Gary Platz, New Zealand, and Joan Edwards-Karmazyn, Canada