Learning From the Community: Effective Financial Management Practices in the Arts

Provides financial management practices identified from a survey of directors at leading arts organizations, in order to understand how their practices could be used across the arts sector. Includes a framework for developing self-assessment tools

Secondary teachers’ perceptions toward school leadership: A generational divide?

There has been a diminishing pool of suitable candidates for school leadership positions in the Australian Catholic education sector. Currently, there are three major generational cohorts of teachers in schools, including Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials. Research in corporate and government sectors has found that these cohorts have distinctive traits and characteristics that shape their approach and expectations to the workplace. Significant research has been undertaken into the declining number of teachers willing to undertake middle and senior school leadership roles. But there is limited research into the factors behind this numerical decline. One area to consider is whether generational differences exist amongst teachers, and how they may be influencing school leadership shortages. This multi-generational workforce teaching and leading alongside each other simultaneously is a new challenge for education officials and schools who are facing leadership succession shortages in both the quality and quantity of aspiring candidates. The main focus of this research project is to explore the differing generational perceptions of each cohort in their perceptions towards workplace behaviours, as well as whether their differing attitudes toward traditional school leadership processes are contributing to these leadership succession issues. This research has sought to identify generational differences in perceptions and expectations of teachers and school leaders towards their workplace and leadership succession culture; and, evaluate the extent to which these differences can provide insight into leadership succession issues faced by the Catholic education sector. This quantitative, quasi-experimental study has a positivist theoretical framework, and was explored through the lens of Generational Cohort Theory (GCT). It utilised the Generational Perceptions of School Leadership (GPSLi) Instrument to elicit any differences amongst the three generational cohorts. Five subscale variables of Motivation, Work Ethic, Professional Feedback, Leadership Development Culture, School Hierarchy were framed under the construct of Workplace Perceptions; and, four subscale variables of Intentional Leadership Succession Planning, Culture of Mentoring Leaders, Leadership Styles and Expectations, and Awareness of, and Catering of Generational Differences under the construct of Leadership Perceptions. Data analysis was conducted through Kruskal-Wallis H testing, followed by Mann- Whitney T testing to locate and explore identified differences. Mannheim (1972) and Strauss and Howe’s GCT (Strauss & Howe, 1991) was chosen as the guiding framework for discussion and analysis as it holds that each generational cohort is shaped by social and historical events that influence their perceptions, traits, expectations and preferences. The present study identified differences in two subscales of Motivation and School Hierarchy under the Workplace Perceptions construct; and, three subscales of Intentional Leadership Succession Planning, Culture of Mentoring Leaders, and, Leadership Styles and Expectationsunder the Leadership Perceptions construct. These results support previous research from other sectors that the generational cohorts have different motivations, perceptions, preferences, and expectations in their attitudes towards workplace behaviours and leadership culture. Interpretations of the findings also infer that the differences of the generational cohorts can be utilised for both further research, as well as provide opportunities for school leaders to potentially adapt and change existing recruitment, development and retention strategies for both existing and aspiring leaders

Healing Through Mother Earth

This thesis deals with mental health, with a focus on Black women. Historically, Black women are often so compromised, being constant caregivers and helping everyone else, that they forget to help themselves, not having the time and financial means to do so. If we go back in the time of slavery, many Black women were taking care of slave owners\u27 children and suckling the white women’s babies instead of their own. By the time they got home and after diligently caring for other people’s children they were focused on their own children, who they had been away from for hours on end, in turn having no time to focus on themselves. During the times of slavery, women were abused physically and sexually, which created a lot of mental illnesses, crazed behavior, and post-traumatic stress, leading to death or their slave owners killing them. In today’s society, we still see similar instances of how women put on a façade, hiding what is truly happening to them. The history of strength and survival of Black people perpetuates ludicrous attitudes within the Black community of not needing help for psychological issues, including the stereotype that psychological therapy and natural healing are only for white women. However, natural healing is a part of Black history, as Black women healed through natural ways using the herbs that they had access to in the fields. This thesis will not only discuss healing wholly but healing through Mother Earth and the breaking of attitudes within the identity of the Black community that limit opportunities for healing

The Grasshopper or the Ant: A Review of Endowment Giving Policy Options for the DDCF Arts Program

Outlines the history, necessity, benefits, and risks of endowment funds in the arts; its effectiveness in advancing the foundation's mission; and alternatives. Suggests questions to help clarify whether an endowment is the best option for a grantee

Unpacking the Trunk: Producing Whiteness in Private Memory-Making within One Southern Family

This thesis concerns constructions and reproductions of whiteness in familial memory-making in the South during Reconstruction, the late nineteenth century, and in the immediate decades following the Civil Rights Movement. The chapters discuss three generations of women in the Payne-Wooten-Russell family and their keepsaking and storytelling. Frances Payne’s (1832-1918) life as a wife of a Confederate veteran dictated the majority of her memory-making project, and she reconstructed the Southern white male as glorified and honorable. She took part in original reproductions of Lost Cause ideology. Through scrapbooking, Josephine Payne Wooten (1861-1937) looked beyond the Southern landscape to echo a national acceptance of Lost Cause narratives as well as a global interpretation of whiteness within the project of civilization. In the final chapter, Bryce Wooten Russell (1900-1996) returned to her grandmother’s project by re-telling stories to her children that contained Lost Cause ideology. These women show that private memorymaking in the home mirrors the project of memory in the public landscape

Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis

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Power without representation? The House of Lords and social policy

In the past the House of Lords has generally, and arguably for good reasons, been ignored in discussions of the making and scrutiny of welfare. However, it has always played some role in this field, particularly in the scrutiny and passage of legislation, and since the removal of hereditary Peers in 1999, some writers have argued that the House has become more assertive. This article examines the attitudes of Peers, including a comparison with the views of Members of Parliament, and draws a number of conclusions about the role of the upper House in relation to social policy