246 research outputs found
Gender Stereotypes of Leaders: Do They Influence Leadership in Higher Education?
This article reviews social psychological and organizational development literature on gender stereotypes and leadership style and effectiveness and explores its relevance for leadership in higher education. Implications of the dichotomous stereotypes of “friendly vs. competent” and “agentic vs. communal” frame a discussion of social psychological research on how stereotypes affect perceptions of leaders. Ways to overcome stereotypes and the application of feminist values to leadership strategies are also discussed
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Wives\u27 marital satisfaction, perceived personal control, and blame of husband.
Not the spice trade : Australian women\u27s contribution to educational change in Pakistan
This thesis critiqued the professional practices of an Institute’s graduates in order to establish the effectiveness of a teacher education innovation in Pakistan shaped in partnership with Australian educators. The research findings show that relevant, high quality teacher education, capable of effecting positive changes in schooling, is achievable within Pakistan
Horror of personality: exploring the gothicisation of mental illness in American fiction of the long 1950s
This thesis examines the gothicisation of mental illness — specifically, disorders of personality —
in American fiction, as illustrated through four popular novels written in the long 1950s. In so
doing, this thesis aims to demystify not only the complex intersections between American history
and literature, but also the nation’s ambivalent relationship with psychiatry and its fascination
with psychological explanations for deviance and evil. While previous research has explored
depictions of psychopathology in literature with limited scope, this thesis offers a detailed study
of the ways in which contemporary history, popular culture, and concurrent psychiatric
developments within the United States coalesce to shape depictions of personality disorder in
fiction with particular consideration to the close-knit relationship between the American gothic
and Freudianism and the implications of gender in post-war society.
The first chapter explores national anxieties concerning communism and homosexuality,
which converge in the figure of the sexual psychopath, embodied within Robert Bloch’s novel
Psycho (1959) by the Bluebeardian figure of Norman Bates. The second chapter reads Shirley
Jackson’s novel The Bird’s Nest (1954) against Corbett Thigpen and Hervey Cleckley’s
psychiatric study The Three Faces of Eve (1957) in order to examine the symbiotic relationship
between fictional gothic texts and contemporary psychiatric texts centring on what was previously
termed multiple personality disorder. Both chapters find that the pervasive use of gothic language
in contemporary psychiatric and cultural documents describing psychopathy and multiple
personality disorder, respectively, underlines a lack of understanding concerning severe forms of
mental illness, resulting in the marginalisation and villainization of those afflicted with disorders
of personality.
Chapter three examines the depiction of what might now be termed borderline
personality disorder in Henry Farrell’s novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960). This
chapter argues that the novel’s subversion of the Bluebeard gothic offers a counternarrative to
the classic Woman in Peril plot that nonetheless underscores the folly of patriarchal culture and
concludes that texts like Baby Jane help to expose the gendered nature of concepts such as
normality and deviance within western culture. Finally, chapter four analyses the depiction of
child psychopathy in William March’s novel The Bad Seed (1954). This chapter finds that by
focusing on the role of genetics in the formation of psychopathology, March’s novel poses a
challenge to the dominant psychoanalytic framework of 1950s American psychiatry and exposes
the gothic undercurrents of American suburban social structures.
By studying these texts as a collection, this thesis confronts the driving factors behind why
the gothic remains such an integral part of American culture at large. It ultimately concludes that
a long history of female marginalization and androcentrism within both medical and popular
culture continues to feed the gothicisation of mental illness within fiction of the United States
BRIDGING THE GAP: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF UNIVERSITY LIAISONS IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS
ABSTRACT
Title of Dissertation: BRIDGING THE GAP: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF UNIVERSITY LIAISONS IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS
Mary Margaret Madden, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005
Dissertation Directed by: Professor Francine Hultgren
Department of Education Policy and Leadership
In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, I explore the lived experience of six university faculty who serve as liaisons and coordinators in Professional Development Schools (PDSs) and bridge the gap between P-12 schools and universities. My question for this investigation asks, "What is the lived experience of university faculty in Professional Development Schools?" The themes arising from their lived experiences are opened through the lifeworld dimensions of lived body, time, space and relation.
Throughout this study, I have used the metaphors of bridge and building to understand the liaisons' experiences, as well as other metaphors brought forward by my conversants. These metaphors led to my understanding that the experience of a liaison is grounded in movement, that they become bridges as they engage in the process of building them. I examine the manner in which they were called to this work, and the importance of building relationships in order to sustain them. Through the building process, the liaisons are building identities as liaisons, as well as experiencing changes in their personal lives. I identify exuberance (Jamison, 2004) and sacrifice as essential elements of the liaisons' work. Reflecting on these themes has made me more aware of what the liaisons are required to do, the combination of relationship and administration, and I suggest ways in which schools and universities can re-design perceptions and structures to provide support for the liaisons as they do their work
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Perceived control and power in marriage : a study of marital decision making and task performance.
Taking Control of What Counts in Accountability: The Context Enriched Report Card
During the last two decades concerns about the quality of education have resulted in widespread calls for educational improvement and reform in many nations
ALMA Resolves 30 Doradus: Sub-parsec Molecular Cloud Structure Near the Closest Super-Star Cluster
We present ALMA observations of 30 Doradus -- the highest resolution view of
molecular gas in an extragalactic star formation region to date (~0.4pc x
0.6pc). The 30Dor-10 cloud north of R136 was mapped in 12CO 2-1, 13CO 2-1, C18O
2-1, 1.3mm continuum, the H30alpha recombination line, and two H2CO 3-2
transitions. Most 12CO emission is associated with small filaments and clumps
(<1pc, ~1000 Msun at the current resolution). Some clumps are associated with
protostars, including "pillars of creation" photoablated by intense radiation
from R136. Emission from molecular clouds is often analyzed by decomposition
into approximately beam-sized clumps. Such clumps in 30 Doradus follow similar
trends in size, linewidth, and surface density to Milky Way clumps. The 30
Doradus clumps have somewhat larger linewidths for a given size than predicted
by Larson's scaling relation, consistent with pressure confinement. They extend
to higher surface density at a given size and linewidth compared to clouds
studied at 10pc resolution. These trends are also true of clumps in Galactic
infrared-dark clouds; higher resolution observations of both environments are
required. Consistency of clump masses calculated from dust continuum, CO, and
the virial theorem reveals that the CO abundance in 30 Doradus clumps is not
significantly different from the LMC mean, but the dust abundance may be
reduced by ~2. There are no strong trends in clump properties with distance
from R136; dense clumps are not strongly affected by the external radiation
field, but there is a modest trend towards lower dense clump filling fraction
deeper in the cloud.Comment: accepted to Ap
The Relationship Between Molecular Gas, HI, and Star Formation in the Low-Mass, Low-Metallicity Magellanic Clouds
The Magellanic Clouds provide the only laboratory to study the effect of
metallicity and galaxy mass on molecular gas and star formation at high (~20
pc) resolution. We use the dust emission from HERITAGE Herschel data to map the
molecular gas in the Magellanic Clouds, avoiding the known biases of CO
emission as a tracer of H. Using our dust-based molecular gas estimates,
we find molecular gas depletion times of ~0.4 Gyr in the LMC and ~0.6 SMC at 1
kpc scales. These depletion times fall within the range found for normal disk
galaxies, but are shorter than the average value, which could be due to recent
bursts in star formation. We find no evidence for a strong intrinsic dependence
of the molecular gas depletion time on metallicity. We study the relationship
between gas and star formation rate across a range in size scales from 20 pc to
~1 kpc, including how the scatter in molecular gas depletion time changes with
size scale, and discuss the physical mechanisms driving the relationships. We
compare the metallicity-dependent star formation models of Ostriker, McKee, and
Leroy (2010) and Krumholz (2013) to our observations and find that they both
predict the trend in the data, suggesting that the inclusion of a diffuse
neutral medium is important at lower metallicity.Comment: 24 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. FITS files of
the dust-based estimates of the H2 column densities for the LMC and SMC
(shown in Figures 2 and 3) will be available online through Ap
Spitzer View of Massive Star Formation in the Tidally Stripped Magellanic Bridge
The Magellanic Bridge is the nearest low-metallicity, tidally stripped
environment, offering a unique high-resolution view of physical conditions in
merging and forming galaxies. In this paper we present analysis of candidate
massive young stellar objects (YSOs), i.e., {\it in situ, current} massive star
formation (MSF) in the Bridge using {\it Spitzer} mid-IR and complementary
optical and near-IR photometry. While we definitely find YSOs in the Bridge,
the most massive are , found in the Large
Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The intensity of MSF in the Bridge also appears
decreasing, as the most massive YSOs are less massive than those formed in the
past. To investigate environmental effects on MSF, we have compared properties
of massive YSOs in the Bridge to those in the LMC. First, YSOs in the Bridge
are apparently less embedded than in the LMC: 81% of Bridge YSOs show optical
counterparts, compared to only 56% of LMC sources with the same range of mass,
circumstellar dust mass, and line-of-sight extinction. Circumstellar envelopes
are evidently more porous or clumpy in the Bridge's low-metallicity
environment. Second, we have used whole samples of YSOs in the LMC and the
Bridge to estimate the probability of finding YSOs at a given \hi\ column
density, N(HI). We found that the LMC has higher probability than
the Bridge for N(HI) cm, but the trend reverses at
lower N(HI). Investigating whether this lower efficiency relative to HI is due
to less efficient molecular cloud formation, or less efficient cloud collapse,
or both, will require sensitive molecular gas observations.Comment: 41 pages, 20 figures, 6 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ;
several figures are in low resolution due to the size limit here and a high
resolution version can be downloaded via
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~cc5ye/ms_bridge20140215.pd
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