2024-03-28T18:24:56Z
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/do/oai/
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1002
2014-06-13T19:47:36Z
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Democratic Education: A Deweyan Reminder
Hewitt, Randall S.
Educational historians, philosophers, and sociologists have long warned that the increasing encroachment of business logic in public schools bodes ill for democracy as a way of life. Many have concluded that the business person’s interest in affecting public education is to bring about a greater bottom line, which, of course, is profit, albeit secured in the name of democratic freedom and social progress. These scholars have noted that the corporate parasite is eating away the insides of our public schools and is reproducing its hereditary material (consumer materialism) within the bodies and souls of its captive hosts: our children. Through corporate advertisements on school walls, corporate-sponsored curriculum materials and programs, and corporate-sponsored fundraisers and contests (not to mention the enormous political influence corporations have in framing the very aim and purpose of public education), corporations use schools as conduits by which to establish consumption as the ultimate expression of participatory democracy and, thus, as the supreme good and standard of personal growth. Drawing upon the work of John Dewey, this paper articulates a conception of democracy and a democratic theory of education that privileges the social over the private, the public over the corporate, such that the homo-economicus ideal that our public schools train our children to aspire to on a daily basis is checked by a wider commitment to the good life, defined in more socially benevolent ways.
2007-01-26T14:33:51Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1008
2014-06-16T15:36:07Z
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John Dewey “on the side of the angels”: A Critique of Kestenbaum’s Phenomenological Reading of A Common Faith
Ralston, Shane J
In chapter eight of The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal, Victor Kestenbaum disputes the naturalistic-instrumentalist reading of John Dewey’s A Common Faith. Rather than accept the orthodox reading, he challenges mainstream Dewey scholars to read Dewey’s theism from a phenomenological perspective. From this vantage, Kestenbaum contends that Dewey was wagering on transcendence, gambling on an ideal realm of supersensible entities, and hoping that the payoff would be universal acknowledgement of “a widening of the place of transcendence and faith in every area of his philosophy.” In a long-neglected correspondence between John Dewey and Albert Balz, Dewey responds to Balz’s misreading of his logic as a correspondence theory of truth by stating that through translation of all the ontological into the logical in the context of inquiry, he is “on the side of the angels.” I argue that Dewey is accomplishing much the same thing in A Common Faith by naturalistically unifying the real and the ideal under the heading of the religious. In this respect, Dewey’s naturalism and instrumentalism, rather than Kestenbaum’s transcendentalism, is firmly “on the side of the angels.”
2008-02-01T00:44:18Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
religion
metaphysics
epistemology
Dewey
pragmatism
philosophy of religion and pragmatism
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1012
2006-02-23T22:13:25Z
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Editor's Note
Rud, A. G.
2006-02-02T18:56:45Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1016
2006-02-24T14:48:36Z
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Civic Journalism: News as Transactional Pedagogy
Perry, David K.
2006-02-02T18:56:47Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1017
2006-02-24T14:46:55Z
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Encounter: The Cultural Progressivism of James Earl Davis
Waks, Leonard J.
2006-02-02T18:56:50Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1013
2006-02-24T14:52:59Z
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John Dewey's Call for Meaning
Hansen, David T.
2006-02-02T18:56:46Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1015
2006-02-24T14:50:13Z
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Reflections on Whitman, Dewey, and Educational Reform
Garrison, Jim
O'Quinn, Elaine J.
2006-02-02T18:56:49Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1014
2006-02-24T14:51:49Z
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John Dewey and Hubbards, Nova Scotia: The Man, the Myths, and the Misinformation
Simpson, Douglas J.
Foley, Kathleen C.
2006-02-02T18:56:48Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1011
2006-02-24T14:54:04Z
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Contents--20/2
Rud, A. G.
2006-02-02T18:56:44Z
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Education and Culture
Purdue University
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:eandc-1024
2014-06-16T13:22:07Z
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Dewey's Concepts of Stability and Precariousness in His Philosophy of Education
Harris, Fred G.
This article connects two of Dewey’s generic traits of existence—stability and precariousness—to four elements specified in his preface to Democracy and Education (democracy, evolution, industrialization and the experimental method) and one element specified in his preface to How We Think (childhood). It argues that Dewey’s metaphysics of stability and precariousness is implicit in his philosophy of education and provides a unifying aspect to his philosophy of education that is relevant to the modern world. The article then briefly looks at whether Dewey developed a metaphysics at all and concludes that Dewey did indeed develop a metaphysics—a new metaphysics of human experience—which needs to be further analysed in relation to various aspects of his philosophy of education.
2007-04-27T17:56:39Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/context/eandc/article/1024/viewcontent/05._Harris.pdf
Education and Culture
Purdue University
precariousness
stability
education
philosophy
metaphysics
childhood
adulthood
philosophy of education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1015
2020-07-21T01:59:14Z
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publication:dissertations
SQUIRREL MONKEYS AND DISCRIMINATION LEARNING: FIGURAL INTERACTIONS, REDUNDANCIES, AND RANDOM SHAPES.
NASH, ALLAN JOHN
Abstract not available
1963-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6405756
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ENG
Purdue University
Psychology|Experiments
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1017
2020-07-21T02:00:08Z
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publication:dissertations
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF III-V SEMICONDUCTING COMPOUNDS.
JOHNSON, EARNEST JOSEPH
Abstract not available
1964-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6505018
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ENG
Purdue University
Condensation
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1002
2022-02-03T04:54:10Z
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publication:dissertations
THE SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS OF CERTAIN FLUORINE-CONTAINING ALKANES, CYCLOALKENES AND KETONES
CAMPBELL, DONALD HARVEY
Abstract not available
1955-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI0011617
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ENG
Purdue University
Organic chemistry
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1014
2022-02-03T04:51:21Z
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publication:dissertations
THE ELECTRIC FIELD VARIATION IN NON-ABRUPT P-N JUNCTIONS, AND ERROR ANALYSIS OF NUMERICAL INTEGRATION WITH PREDICTED OPTIMUM NUMERICAL INTEGRATION-INCREMENT.
WILLIAMS, JAMES DOYLE
Abstract not available
1963-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6404632
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ENG
Purdue University
Electrical engineering
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1019
2022-02-03T04:56:46Z
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publication:dissertations
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC SPEAKING OF JOSEPH SMITH, FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
SMITH, CALVIN N
Abstract not available
1965-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6605304
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ENG
Purdue University
Theater
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1004
2022-02-03T04:50:08Z
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publication:dissertations
AN ANALYSIS OF THE SILK INDUSTRY (PARTS I-V)
PADGETT, ROSE
Abstract not available
1955-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI0013963
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ENG
Purdue University
Home economics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1008
2022-02-03T04:51:59Z
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publication:dissertations
THE DIRECT ALKYLATION OF PYRIDINE BASES AND THE STUDY OF THE BUTTRESSING EFFECT IN 2-METHYL-3-TERT-BUTYLPYRIDINE
HOWIE, MILHAM SALEM
Abstract not available
1960-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6002212
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ENG
Purdue University
Organic chemistry
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1021
2020-06-03T01:11:11Z
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publication:dissertations
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL: THE BEGINNING OF A FICTIONAL TRADITION
KETTLER, ROBERT RONALD
Abstract not available
1968-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6907468
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Purdue University
Literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1031
2022-02-03T04:51:13Z
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AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED AMERICAN CRITICISM OF THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER IN THE LIGHT OF HIS OWN COMMENTARY ON DRAMA.
ZURCHER, CARL DONALD
Abstract not available
1973-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7415268
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Purdue University
Theater
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1028
2022-02-03T05:27:17Z
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRUCTURED ENCOUNTER-GROUP EXPERIENCE AND REPORTED SELF-CONCEPT IN FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS
WILDBLOOD, ROBERT WILLIAM
Abstract not available
1972-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7315890
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Purdue University
Academic guidance counseling
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1035
2022-02-03T05:29:41Z
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A DOCTRINAL GROUP COUNTERATTACKS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORAL RHETORIC OF THE MORMONS IN THE UTAH WAR, 1855-1859.
KEELE, REBA LOU
Abstract not available
1974-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7517224
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ENG
Purdue University
Communication
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1023
2022-02-03T05:14:40Z
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MCLUHAN: AN INQUIRY INTO HIS RETRIBALIZATION THEORY
KILPATRICK, WILLIAM KIRK
Abstract not available
1970-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7109413
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ENG
Purdue University
Sociology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1040
2022-02-03T04:51:15Z
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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS IN MARKETING MODEL BUILDING.
HANSSENS, DOMINIQUE MARIE IGNACE ALFONS
Abstract not available
1977-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7813068
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ENG
Purdue University
Business community
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1041
2019-05-18T10:50:41Z
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THE CONSIDERATION OF RISK IN AGRICULTURAL POLICIES: THE PHILIPPINE EXPERIENCE.
RODRIGUEZ, GIL R.
Abstract not available
1978-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7821492
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ENG
Purdue University
Agricultural economics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1047
2022-02-03T04:51:16Z
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WORK AND PLAY AMONG THE BASQUES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
EAGLE, SONIA JACQUELINE
An identifiable Basque community has existed in the Los Angeles-southern California area since 1850. This thesis is an ethno-historical account of the community from 1850 to the present, plus a description of the present-day community and its activities with emphasis on ethnic identity maintenance mechanisms, both past and present. Basque studies in the past have involved rural, predominantly ranching and sheepherding communities. While sheepherding was the primary occupation of the Basques in the Los Angeles area in the 1800s, as Los Angeles grew from a pueblo of two thousand in 1850 to the megapolis of today, the Basque settlement became widely dispersed and its occupational specialization diversified. In response to the changes in the environment Basques have expanded their agricultural specialization to include dry ranching, wheat cultivation, irrigation crops, citrus fruit ranching and dairying. They have also moved into urban-surburban occupations such as baking, pork butchering, gardening and ethnic restaurant operations. Economic patterns characteristic of the sheepherding complex such as beginning as a helper (sheepherder), hiving off to start a small independent operation, expanding into a successful business, bringing relatives or fellow villagers from home who begin the cycle again, using the Basque hotels as employment agencies and preferring to employ fellow Basques were all continued in the new occupational specializations. Further, occupations in which these social structures were readily utilized, such as gardening, have been preferred by independent Basque immigrants. Historically this Los Angeles Basque community is also unique in that it was the center of the sheepherding industry in California in 1860. As such it became the jumping off point for the expansion of the sheep industry into the rest of the American west. In the past, as in the rest of the southwest, ethnic identity was closely related to this single occupational specialization - sheepherding. As the community became increasingly more urban, and occupations became highly diversified, economic specialization ceased to be as important a factor in maintaining ethnic identity. In recent decades a revitalization and formalization of social activities has occurred and ethnic identity is now best expressed and maintained in play forms. They include social clubs, handball, folk dancing, card playing and gambling. Presently there are three Basque social clubs in the area, The La Puente Handball Club, The Southern California Escualdun Club and the Chino Basque Club. Both newly arriving immigrants, established immigrants and Basque Americans participate in Basque social activities. In an urban environment like Los Angeles where "anomie" and alienation are common, Basques have turned to their ethnic heritage for meaning a sense of identity.
1979-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Cultural anthropology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1043
2020-07-21T02:29:39Z
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CONSCIOUSNESS, LANGUAGE, AND WORLD: FOUR ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL THOUGHT.
LELAND, DOROTHY JANE
Abstract not available
1978-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7914925
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ENG
Purdue University
Philosophy
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1042
2019-05-18T10:50:43Z
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publication:dissertations
THE MOTIVATION FOR AND VOTER RESPONSE TO STATE-TAX-EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS -- A DESCRIPTIVE, THEORETICAL, AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS.
SUYDERHOUD, JACK PAUL
Abstract not available
1978-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7905777
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ENG
Purdue University
Finance
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1044
2019-05-18T10:52:41Z
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADER BEHAVIOR AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING CONTRACT TYPE ON TEACHER PROFESSIONAL ZONE OF ACCEPTANCE
DAVIS, MARLENE ESTELLE
Abstract not available
1979-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8005855
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ENG
Purdue University
School administration
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1024
2022-02-03T05:18:28Z
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publication:dissertations
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF CREATIVITY TRAINING PROGRAMS IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHIVELY, JOE E
Abstract not available
1970-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7109466
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ENG
Purdue University
Educational psychology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1025
2020-06-03T01:11:23Z
publication:etd
publication:dissertations
Faith and Fiction: A Study of the Effects of Religious Convictions in the Adult Fantasies and Novels of George MacDonald
Hein, Rolland Neal
Abstract not available
1970-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7120467
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ENG
Purdue University
British and Irish literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1026
2022-02-03T04:51:13Z
publication:etd
publication:dissertations
AN ANALYSIS OF DECISION-MAKING ON UNITED STATES CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE POLICIES IN 1969
CONWAY, PAUL G
Abstract not available
1972-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7221175
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ENG
Purdue University
Public administration
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1000
2022-02-03T04:54:23Z
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publication:dissertations
A COMPARISON OF TWO PLANS OF STUDY IN ENGINEERING PHYSICS
WARREN, RICHARD
Abstract not available
1954-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI0009386
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ENG
Purdue University
Education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1001
2022-02-03T04:55:04Z
publication:etd
publication:dissertations
PHOTOPRODUCTION OF LOW ENERGY CHARGED PIONS
VOSS, JAMES RICHARD
Abstract not available
1954-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI0009901
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ENG
Purdue University
Nuclear physics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1003
2022-02-03T04:50:08Z
publication:etd
publication:dissertations
THE POLITICAL SPEAKING OF SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT, 1939 TO 1953
RAPP, NOEL GEORGE
Abstract not available
1955-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI0013817
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ENG
Purdue University
Theater
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1045
2019-05-18T10:51:06Z
publication:etd
publication:dissertations
INSTITUTIONAL RHETORIC AND RADICAL CHANGE: THE CASE OF THE CONTEMPORARY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA, 1947-1977
JABLONSKI, CAROL JEAN
Abstract not available
1979-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8005898
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ENG
Purdue University
Communication
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1046
2020-07-21T02:36:00Z
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publication:dissertations
ADJUSTMENT TO EARLY RETIREMENT: THE CASE OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYERS
LERCH, STEPHEN HERBERT
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1979-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8005905
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ENG
Purdue University
Sociology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1048
2022-02-03T05:23:18Z
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publication:dissertations
CITY-COUNTY CONSOLIDATION: ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR METROPOLITAN REVENUES, SERVICES, AND ADMINISTRATION
MURRAY, KENNETH RYAN
Employing an interrupted time-series design to analyze the budgetary data of the consolidated cities of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Nashville, Tennessee; Jacksonville, Florida; and Indianapolis, Indiana, and a case study of the Indianapolis merger, the dissertation attempts to determine the effect that city-county unification has had on revenues, services, and administration in a metropolitan area. The basic premise of the study is that urban consolidation will result in additional intergovernmental and own-source revenue, a greater percentage of the budget being devoted to services, and a lesser percentage being used for the political and administrative infrastructure.The findings indicate that the anticipated changes occur for Jacksonville and Indianapolis, but that revenues change only slightly for Baton Rouge and that Nashville experiences a revenue decrease. The hypothesized service and administration relationship also occurs for Baton Rouge and Nashville. However, for all four cities the changes appear to be only minor interruptions in general trends. Regression lines indicate that pre-consolidation patterns will be re-established in the near future. The general conclusion is that, while some revenue, service and administrative changes may occur, they are temporary. The main benefit of city-county merger appears to be the consolidation of political power in a metropolitan area by a particular political party or faction.
1973-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8113631
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ENG
Purdue University
Political science
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1038
2020-07-21T02:23:11Z
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STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE CURVE EFFECT FOR AVIONICS ACQUISITIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
CHENEY, WILLIAM FITCH
Abstract not available
1977-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7803207
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ENG
Purdue University
Business community
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1039
2020-07-21T02:25:18Z
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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FOUR TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING WORD MEANINGS WITH THIRD AND FIFTH-GRADE STUDENTS.
GIPE, JOAN PATRICIA
Abstract not available
1977-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7803224
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ENG
Purdue University
Education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1022
2022-02-03T05:12:42Z
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PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR GENERALIZATIONS AND REMEDIAL READING
WHARRY, RHODA ELIZABETH
Abstract not available
1969-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6917290
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ENG
Purdue University
Education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1007
2022-02-03T04:52:24Z
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FILM COOLING OF ROCKET MOTORS: PART I: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF FILM COOLING OF ROCKET MOTORS PART II: FILM COOLING, ITSTHEORY AND APPLICATIONS
GRAHAM, ALFRED RAPP
Abstract not available
1958-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI5801783
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ENG
Purdue University
Mechanical engineering
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1006
2020-07-21T01:55:37Z
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COMBINED FORCED AND FREE CONVECTION IN A VERTICAL TUBE
HALLMAN, THEODORE MORGAN
Abstract not available
1958-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI5803160
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ENG
Purdue University
Mechanical engineering
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1016
2022-02-03T04:57:05Z
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PRECISE DETERMINATION OF THE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF HELIUM GAS AT HIGH PRESSURES AND MODERATE TEMPERATURES
HO, CHO-YEN
Abstract not available
1964-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6505012
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ENG
Purdue University
Mechanical engineering
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1020
2022-02-03T05:02:21Z
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THE SENATE DEBATE ON THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
KANE, PETER EVANS
Abstract not available
1967-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6806320
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ENG
Purdue University
Communication
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1009
2022-02-03T04:53:15Z
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PREPARATION AND AMINO ACID COMPOSITION OF SELECTED SEED PROTEIN FRACTIONS
PETERS, FRANK ERNEST
Abstract not available
1960-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6002235
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ENG
Purdue University
Biochemistry
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1010
2022-02-03T05:04:05Z
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A STUDY OF STRUCTURAL PROPORTIONING UTILIZING THE CONCEPT OF A LIMITING PROBABILITY OF FAILURE OF THE TOTAL STRUCTURE
INGRAM, GERALD EUGENE
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1961-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6102483
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ENG
Purdue University
Civil engineering
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1011
2022-02-03T04:55:26Z
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THE REDUCTIVE CLEAVAGE OF ORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS WITH ALKALI METALS IN AMINE SOLVENTS. PART I: THE REDUCTIVE CLEAVAGE OF SULFIDES WITH LITHIUM IN METHYLAMINE. PART II: THE STEREOSPECIFIC CLEAVAGE OF VINYLIC SULFIDES.
BREITER, JEROME JOHN
Abstract not available
1962-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6203436
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ENG
Purdue University
Organic chemistry
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1012
2022-02-03T04:51:13Z
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GERMINATION INHIBITION AND PROMOTION OF RAGWEED (AMBROSIA TRIFIDA L.) ANDSMARTWEED (POLYGONUM PENNSYLVANICUM L.).
TIENG, MAI TRAN-NGOC
Abstract not available
1962-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6300179
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ENG
Purdue University
Botany
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1013
2022-02-03T04:51:22Z
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DEGRADATION OF BASE COURSE AGGREGATES DURING COMPACTION
AUGHENBAUGH, NOLAN BLAINE
Abstract not available
1963-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6404560
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ENG
Purdue University
Civil engineering
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1018
2022-02-03T05:04:31Z
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THE GENERALIZED BOLTZMANN EQUATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE SHOCK STRUCTURE PROBLEM
BOBER, WILLIAM
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1964-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI6502580
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ENG
Purdue University
Aerospace materials
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1030
2020-07-21T02:07:09Z
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A STUDY OF THE MULTI-FACETED BASIC ENGLISH COMPOSITION PROGRAM AT VINCENNES UNIVERSITY.
KLINKER, HARRIETTE G
Abstract not available
1973-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7328098
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ENG
Purdue University
Education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1029
2021-01-20T04:01:42Z
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SIMULATION OF A SWINE BREEDING HERD
STROM, JAY LOREN
Abstract not available
1973-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7328146
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ENG
Purdue University
Agricultural economics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1033
2020-07-21T02:12:27Z
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THE EASTERN FARMERS' MARKET: AN URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY.
DEWEESE, PAMELA MARSHALL
Abstract not available
1974-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7517180
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ENG
Purdue University
Cultural anthropology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1034
2022-02-03T05:28:15Z
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STRATEGIC MODELS IN THE BREWING INDUSTRY.
HATTEN, KENNETH JOHN
Abstract not available
1974-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7517208
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ENG
Purdue University
Business community
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1036
2020-07-21T02:11:44Z
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AN EXPLORATION OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN INITIAL INTERACTION: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY.
WIEMANN, JOHN MORITZ
Abstract not available
1975-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7607153
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ENG
Purdue University
Communication
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1037
2020-07-21T02:19:35Z
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WHO DIED IN VIETNAM? AN ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF VIETNAM WAR CASUALTIES.
WILLIS, JOHN MARTIN
Abstract not available
1975-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI7607155
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ENG
Purdue University
Sociology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1055
2019-05-18T11:02:18Z
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THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION CUES ON FACULTY PROMOTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE APPLICATION OF A LINEAR MODEL IN DECISION MAKING
GALLAGHER, KAREN SYMMS
The purpose of this research was twofold. It was primarily a methodological validation of a linear decision making model. It was also designed to bring together literature on decision making organizational theory, on promotion and tenure policies in higher education, on simulation as a useful research tool for predicting behavior, and on applications of linear statistical models to human decision making. The research questions asked were (a) did the decision makers use the five information cues of faculty quality (scholarship, teaching, university service, years of service at rank, and rank under consideration) in a linear, reliable method to make judgments about faculty promotion; (b) was the use of those information cues stable when additional information about race and sex was provided; and (c) did faculty members and administrators make different promotion decisions when given the same information about a candidate's quality? The study involved a sample of professors with teaching or administrative responsibilities judging 105 candidate profiles using five information cues and then judging 105 candidate profiles using seven information cues. The demographic characteristics of the sample group included sex, race, status, position, and school. Using multiple regression and covariance as the statistical analyses, this study found that decision makers do reliably use the five information cues about faculty quality when making promotion judgments; that the addition of more information results in a change in the weights of the original five cues; and that faculty and administrative decisions do differ significantly. Based on these results, five conclusions may be appropriately drawn: Stewart's Two-Component Lens Model is a reliable methodology to independently validate factors utilized in promotion and employment decisions in a research oriented university; simulated decision making is a valid and reliable methodology to identify how multiple pieces of information are utilized; individuals have patterns of cue utilization which are altered by additional information; individuals do not utilize all information provided to them in a decision making situation, and, in fact, the predictability of those decisions is diminished by the presence of many discrete pieces of information; and full-time faculty and department heads evaluate information about faculty quality differently than do university-level administrators and are more likely to rate a prospective candidate higher.
1982-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8225711
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ENG
Purdue University
Higher education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1051
2022-03-20T04:02:25Z
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HEALTHY FAMILY FUNCTIONING SCALE: FAMILY MEMBERS' PERCEPTIONS OF COHESION, ADAPTABILITY, AND COMMUNICATION
SENNOTT, JOHN STEPHEN
This was a two-phase study involving the development and testing of a new self-report instrument called the Healthy Family Functioning Scale. The HFFS was designed to assess individual family members' perceptions of healthy family functioning. The major dimensions chosen for the instrument were cohesion, adaptability, and communication which had been identified in both the theoretical and the empirical literature as important characteristics of healthy family functioning. It was hypothesized that reliability, construct validity, and lack of correlation with social desirability would be established for the HFFS. After being screened for face validity by two groups of professionals, the HFFS was then administered to a sample of college students (N = 210) on two occasions. Internal consistency was measured using the split-half test and Cronbach's Alpha. Stability was assessed using the test-retest method. Degree of association with social desirability was evaluated using the Pearson Correlation procedure. The results indicated that the HFFS showed exceptional internal consistency at the level of .97. The stability score for the test as a whole was relatively high at .72. The results of the factor analysis were such that construct validity could not be confirmed. One reason for this is that the adaptability dimension showed primary item loadings that overlapped with primary loadings for the other two dimensions. In addition, the HFFS was highly correlated with social desirability (.82). Whether this latter effect was due to a religious bias against reporting negatives about one's family, an "idealizing" of one's family due to not living with one's family at the time of testing, or due to the items themselves is not known at this time. Implications for the HFFS are that the instrument has demonstrated sufficient reliability to justify further research to determine whether validity can be established for the instrument.
1981-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8123700
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ENG
Purdue University
Families & family life|Personal relationships|Sociology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1061
2019-05-18T11:08:29Z
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BLACK AND WHITE SUBURBANIZATION IN THE SEVENTIES: A CAUSAL ANALYSIS
O'FLAHERTY, KATHLEEN MARY
Suburbanization is a dynamic process in American society. This study is a causal analysis of black and white suburbanization for the period of 1976-1978 using logit analysis. Attention is focused on the suburbanization of families with school-age children as well as households without children. The data come from three sources: the 1976 and 1977 Annual Housing Surveys, an NIE Summary Report, and a computer systems file containing structural characteristics of metropolitan areas. The most overriding finding was the consistently strong effect of terminal level of segregation on the movement of families with children to the suburbs. Previous research has focused on white enrollment changes. No one had examined where those who withdraw from central city public schools go. Do those children remain in the central city and attend private schools or do their families move to the suburbs? This study suggests that there is a clear tendency for them to move to the suburbs when terminal level is high. Also apparent was the fact that percent change had no main or interactive effect. In terms of the meaning of black suburbanization in the seventies, several interesting findings also emerged. Historically, blacks have been much less involved in the exodus to the suburbs and those they did move to were older, industrial and located in the inner ring. Moreover, high income blacks were hardly more likely to move to the suburbs than their low income counterparts. This is no longer the case. Not only is there a strong relation between income and the odds that blacks moved to the suburbs among households with and without children, within the latter group, blacks at every income level were more likely than whites to move to the suburbs. Blacks who move to the suburbs, regardless of marital status, are also becoming homeowners. This was true for both subgroups under analysis. It appears that black suburbanization resembles the white pattern of forty years ago. Initially wealthier members of the racial group move to the suburbs and are later followed by families with children and even later by childless households.
1984-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8423402
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ENG
Purdue University
Social structure|African Americans
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1068
2020-06-03T01:22:25Z
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ENVISAGING A WAR: VIETNAM AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL NOVEL
MYERS, THOMAS ROBERT
Beyond its identifiable military, economic, and political aspects, the Vietnam war was a supreme work of the American imagination that, at its deepest levels, exposed and threatened the core elements of national mythos. An entire American belief system--one that included strains of secular evangelism, faith in technology and cultural engineering principles, and collective assumptions of national innocence, virtue, and purpose--was brought into high relief, and it was simultaneously extended and reshaped within the pressurized configuration of new history. The achievement of the most successful American novelists and memoirists writing on the war is a two-fold one: they recreate with expanded definitions of reportorial objectivity how new American practices and attitudes manifested themselves, but they also assume the task of suggesting how those developments are illustrative of the larger rending of the cultural fabric. The Vietnam war was fought by disproportionate numbers of America's disenfranchised, and a new figure emerges within the novels and personal narratives. The American participant-resister is the historical protagonist who fights with sparse knowledge of the war's origins or purpose, with little sense of personal or collective commitment, with hope only of surviving a plentiude of threats to mind, body, and spirit. As representatives of the new sensibility that often lay buried beneath official narrative and traditional journalism, the best novelists and memoirists of the war write what may be called compensatory history; their narratives are self-conscious, antagonistic responses that retrieve and recreate the data from the war's dark center with a new sense of what constitutes faithfulness to facts as they dramatically heighten or concentrate those facts within finished aesthetic-historical documents. The core project displays a variety of modes and strategies--self-conscious realism; the application of classical categories; black humor; a revised romantic impulse; narrative as mnemonic device--but all of the modes meet in the central proposition that, as the rigorous historian conjoining processes of invention and recording, the Vietnam war novelist deposits the most necessary report in an expanding American archive.
1985-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8606592
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ENG
Purdue University
American literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1065
2019-05-18T11:10:20Z
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BLACK PHYSICIANS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE ABILITY OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF BLACK MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES
LLOYD, DAISY RILEY
The present study was designed to assess the unique needs of the black middle class family, based on perceptions of black physicians, and to gauge, in the opinion of the physicians, how well marriage and family therapists are meeting these needs. The sample consisted of 195 male and 35 female black physicians selected from the membership roster of the National Medical Association. Survey research techniques were utilized for the study, with mailed questionnaires employed to examine the research problem. Results showed that black physicians considered the following problems to be most disruptive of black middle class families: (1) financial management, (2) poor communication, (3) employment opportunities, (4) infidelity, and (5) the problems of discipline of teenagers and (6) fighting and resolving conflict. Z-test results indicated that black physicians who attended black or integrated medical schools tended to view marriage and family problems among black middle class families similarly. Analysis of variance results indicated that of seven different types of professionals, only psychiatrists were considered to be more effective than marriage and family therapists. Results of a chi square analysis indicated that black physicians who know either black or white marriage and family therapists personally and/or professionally were more likely to refer black families to therapists than those who did not. Results of correlational analysis showed that the physician's frequency of church attendance and degree of religiosity were related to his/her agreement with the importance of religion as a source of therapeutic help for black middle class families. Findings support the main thesis of this study that problems of black middle class families differ from white middle class families. Further, the data suggest that marriage and family therapists are not meeting the needs of black middle class families because present methods of intervention do not take these differences into account.
1985-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8520040
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ENG
Purdue University
Families & family life|Personal relationships|Sociology|African Americans
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1073
2020-06-03T01:23:44Z
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FOR MY PEOPLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF IN AFRO-AMERICAN FICTION--THE EXAMPLE OF ALICE WALKER
TOOMBS, CHARLES PHILLIP
Chapter 1 argues that major ideas in black psychology are useful tools in the analysis of self in Afro-American fiction. Kinship (the communal or extended self) is postulated as being particularly beneficial in evaluating self in black fiction because of its focus on the dynamics of group behavior. Chapter 2 examines major texts in black fiction, looking at how the self is presented. Tentative conclusions are that individuals develop their best self when they are connected to the black community. For example, the protagonist of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man fails to develop a positive sense of self because he is estranged from the black community. In contrast, Bita Plant in Banana Bottom has a positive sense of self because she returns to the black community. In Chapter 3 the fiction of black women writers is investigated for its presentation of self. The relationship between the individual's development of a healthy self and the black community is a paramount concern of such writers as Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, and Toni Morrison. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 specifically analyze the notion of kinship (the communal or extended self) in the fiction of Alice Walker. Her fiction pays particular attention to the development of black women. In her early fiction, kinship is not returned by the community and many black women are defeated. In Meridian, which occupies a middle ground in Walker's vision, she studies black motherhood in detail. In her earlier fiction, her women offer kinship primarily through motherhood and it often destroys them. Meridian ultimately abandons conventional motherhood and finds an alternative way of serving her people, while at the same time developing a sense of self that she can life with. In her case, her understanding of her personal and communal past and present "make her." In The Color Purple, Walker continues to explore the health and healing that Meridian begins. Her latest novel demonstrates that the black community is completely capable of taking care of its own. It can bring the tree-like Celie back to life and bring out the best in an Albert. Kinship is important in Walker's fiction, and her fiction proves that at least one idea from black psychology has merit as a literary tool.
1986-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8709864
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ENG
Purdue University
American literature|Black studies|African American Studies
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1067
2019-05-18T11:09:08Z
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COST AND COST EFFECTIVENESS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIFTED/TALENTED PROGRAMS IN INDIANA
PARKER, CATHARINE JANET
The purpose of this study was to provide policy makers and school administrators with statistical data on the cost and cost effectiveness of operating different types of gifted/talented programs, how these costs compare with regular instructional education costs, and the existence within selected programs of Gallagher's essential elements. The population for this study was the 130 gifted/talented programs at the elementary level in Indiana during the 1983-84 school year. Two samples were included in this study. The first sample included 13 school districts identified as best current practice by a random sample of gifted/talented cadre members from Indiana. The second sample had 22 gifted/talented programs with five different administrative strategies identified as best current practice by a random sample of gifted/talented cadre members. The five strategies are advanced classes, classroom enrichment, mentor program, pullout/resource room, and special school. Four statistical procedures were used to reject or not reject hypotheses. Multiple Regression, Analysis of Variance, Student's t-test, and Pearson r were performed. The study was designed to answer seven questions and the following conclusions flow from the hypotheses that were developed to answer said questions. (1) The cost of gifted/talented programs is higher than the cost of regular instructional education with an average cost index of 1.32. (2) Two administrative strategies, mentor program, and pullout/resource room, cost more than regular instructional education. Three strategies, advanced classes, classroom enrichment and special school, do not cost more. (3) No important correlation exists between gifted/talented programs costs and existence of Gallagher's essential elements. (4) When comparing the level existence of essential elements within each of the five administrative strategies, no noteworthy differences are found among the strategies. (5) There is no important difference between the cost effectiveness of five different administrative strategies. Classroom enrichment was the most cost effective followed by advanced classes administrative strategy. Special school administrative strategy was the least cost effective. (6) The cost of gifted/talented programs is not predictive of the level of existence of essential elements in gifted/talented programs.
1985-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8520063
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ENG
Purdue University
School finance
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1069
2019-05-18T11:13:31Z
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LIBERTY AND SELF-CONTROL: REPUBLICAN VALUES IN THE CIVIL WAR NORTH
HESS, EARL J
This study examines popular republican values held by mid-nineteenth century Northerners and how those values and ideas were involved in the issues arising from the Civil War. It focusses on key aspects of republican culture in America, such as democracy, egalitarianism, individualism, and the need to balance self-good with common-good through the practice of self-control on the individual as well as the collective, or political, level. It combines intellectual, cultural, and military history in an effort to understand how a society emotionally and intellectually reconciled the horrors of a long, costly war effort with their motives for prosecuting it. Using published and unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs of both common Northerners as well as members of the intellectual elite, the study identifies ways in which Northerners saw those key components of republicanism threatened by the slavepower and the creation of a Southern confederacy. The study discusses how Northerners created positive self-images as well as negative images of their enemies by using republican values. The adoption of radical policies to prosecute the war created ideological division within the North, further illustrating the way in which republicanism delineated the sectional conflict. Finally, the study examines post-War uses of republican values in evaluating what the conflict meant for American civilization. Republicanism was self-created among members of the Civil War generations of the North. Their source for this self-satisfying cultural identity was the heritage of the founding fathers as altered by the modernizing trends experienced by the North in the nineteenth century. Their republicanism was a blend of old, classical ideals and new, liberal attitudes toward commerce, nationality, and morality. At times Northerners were able to reconcile the conflicting elements of this heritage with themselves, and to reconcile the heritage itself with the issues of the war; at other times, they were not able to do so. The overarching theme of this study is how they were able to make sense of the war in terms of republicanism, how Northerners viewed the conflict as the supreme test of America's ability to preserve free government.
1986-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8700894
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ENG
Purdue University
American studies
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1074
2019-05-18T11:17:31Z
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APTITUDE, ATTITUDES, AND ANXIETY: A STUDY OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
TRYLONG, VICKI LYNN
In recent years, much attention has been given to the impact of attitudes and anxiety on student achievement in the foreign language classroom, and teaching techniques and methodologies have even been developed for the purpose of alleviating anxiety in order to maximize learning. Although numerous studies have indicated that positive attitudes tend to facilitate language learning, there have been very few quantitative research studies on the role of anxiety in achievement. The present study, then, gathered data on student aptitude, attitudes, and anxiety in order to investigate the relationships of these variables to achievement on written tests, oral quizzes, and semester grades as well as their interrelationships with one another. Two hundred sixteen students in the first course in French at a midwestern, state university were included in this study. Test instruments measuring aptitude, positive attitudes, and anxiety in the language classroom were administered, and student scores on written exams and oral quizzes and overall course grades were reported by the departmental teaching assistants. Correlational analyses of the data indicated that anxiety had a negative relationship to achievement while strong positive attitudes had a positive relationship to achievement. T-test comparisons of the mean scores of students demonstrating high versus low levels of anxiety indicated that those who were very anxious tended to get lower grades. A similar comparison of students demonstrating strong versus weak positive attitudes showed that those with strong positive attitudes were more successful in learning French. In addition, there was a negative relationship between anxiety and attitudes so that students who were very anxious tended to have lower scores on the attitudes measure. Finally, in multiple correlations, aptitude, attitudes, and anxiety accounted for more of the total variance in all areas of achievement than aptitude and attitudes without the anxiety variable.
1987-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI8729805
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ENG
Purdue University
Language arts
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1078
2019-05-18T11:21:07Z
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Decision problems in miniload automatic warehousing systems
Shah, Pradeep
In Mini-Load automatic warehousing systems, individual items are very small compared to the bin size, and so it is possible and generally desirable to keep several different items in the same bin. There are several decision problems associated with such systems. For example, the Pallet Assignment Problem deals with grouping items together to share the same pallet; the Batching-Time Problem deals with the length of time orders are batched together before being filled; and the Lot-Sizing Problem deals with the trade-offs between inventory and retrieval costs. The above decision problems (and others) are modelled under a variety of operating assumptions (e.g. correlated and uncorrelated demand). Algorithms are suggested to solve problems optimally in some specific situations and, in other cases, when the problems are hard, proofs of NP-Hardness are provided and heuristic solution techniques are developed.
1988-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Ward, James E.
Management
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1076
2020-06-03T01:24:18Z
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Thematic and Structural Subversion in the Fairy Tales and Fantasies of George MacDonald
Pennington, John B
This study attempts to distinguish between the fairy tales and fantasies of George MacDonald. The argument is that fairy tales and fantasies provided MacDonald a form that allowed him to escape the confines of the realistic novel that dominated the Victorian period. His fairy tales mirror the classical fairy-tale conventions found in such writers as Perrault, the Grimms, and Anderson. Since fairy-tale stucture is a given, MacDonald can focus his attention on thematic issues; child rearing, education, religion, and sex-role conditioning are a few of his dominant themes. MacDonald's views on these issues were quite radical for his day, and his fairy tales are thematically subversive. His fantasies, on the other hand, have no ordered structure as found in the fairy tale; his fantasies are in a sense structurally original. Consequently, MacDonald creates a new structure which is at odds with realistic conventions; structure undermines narrative stability and opens up to the uncanny, the strange, and the forbidden. Thematic concerns meld with structural equivocation and create a narrative that is ambiguous and uncertain--and highly anti-realistic. In his fantasies MacDonald explores sexual and spiritual desire and the longing for death, and the fantasy mode allows him to find a space where he can display desire and death. His fantasies, in their atypical structure and thematic emphasis, can be considered structurally subversive. The rest of the study analyzes in depth MacDonald's shorter fairy tales in terms of their thematic clusters--themes of education, themes of equality, and the theme of self-reflexivity. The Curdie books are discussed in relationship to their political, social, religious, economic, and scientific dimensions. The short fantasy stories show MacDonald's experimentation with structure, a structure fully realized in Phantastes and Lilith.
1987-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Hughes, Shaun F. D.
British and Irish literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1081
2020-06-03T01:26:18Z
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James Joyce: "The loveliest mummer of them all"
Fitch, Frances Jeanette
This dissertation examines mummery in Ulysses, analyzing its personal and social contexts and employing Bakhtin's theories to do so. As a historic carnival genre, mummery resists being seen as a controlling context. Its ambivalent social, political and economic operations augment Joyce's own ambivalence over specific aesthetic, political, and economic issues. To examine this I take up three contexts for Joyce's uses of mummery: the cultural activity called mumming in Ireland and elsewhere which takes place on St. Stephen's Day; Joyce's uses of the term outside Ulysses; and last its internal contexts in Ulysses. First I show that mummery's cultural operations in Ireland are deeply ambivalent in political, social, and economic arenas. As a social genre of exchange, it serves not to center interpretation on a death and resurrection narrative but rather allows us to detect similar operations of ambivalent exchange in Ulysses and in Joyce's early polemic uses of the term, uses which both distance him from his aesthetic milieu and yet raise the issue of his own ambivalence over the practice of a mimetic art exempt from simony, begging and debts. I argue that his exploration of this ambivalence moves him from an aesthetic economy of isolation, initiation, and privileged inquisition to an aesthetics of the text as carnival mummer performance. I examine his treatment of simoniacal exchanges not only in the public realm of mummer priests but in the private realm of sex and paternity. Bourdieu's analysis of gift exchange helps us understand Joyce's desire to institute a "love gives, freedom takes" economy in which the pejorative mummer figure (the father) can be a source of "symbolic capital." Then I examine both Buck Mulligan's pejorative and Stephen's metaphor for a heteroglossaic or mummer text--an algebraic "grave morrice" of meanings. Lastly I argue that Stephen performs a mummery in the library in which he gives up attempting to "adequate the balance sheet" with a mummer/simoniac father in order to reinterpret his ways as "absentminded beggar"--not as a figure of betrayal and loss but as one of "abcedminded" gain, a mummer's accumulation of heteroglossia, a treasure trove of language.
1989-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Selig, Robert L.
British and Irish literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1086
2019-05-18T11:26:28Z
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Economic liberalization and structural adjustment: The Moroccan sugar policy
Esslimi, Lahsen
Up until the early years of independence, Morocco was completely dependent upon foreign sources of sugar. With installation of capacity for domestic production, imports dropped off starting in the mid-sixties. By 1985, about 65 percent of consumption was supplied by domestic sources. The economic liberalization of the Moroccan economy begun in the mid-eighties has led to gradual restucturing of many sectors. This study examines the effects of liberalization of Moroccan sugar policy on social welfare in the present period (1985), and in the future (1995). Special attention is devoted to the influence of four domestic policy changes, but liberalization in the linkages to the world market for sugar is also considered. Based on previous studies of liberalization in the world market of sugar, it is expected that liberalization would increase the world price and the quantity of trade. The basic method of analysis is an econometric model which allows for the simultaneous determination of domestic supply, demand, and imports of sugar. A structural system of equations was developed. The behavioral equations estimated the supply, marketing margins (industry, wholesale, retail), consumer demand, and intended imports of sugar. Estimation was performed by the three-stage-least-squares regression method. Finally, a simulation of the sugar subsector is used to predict the 1985-1995 adjustment to certain policy changes. Simulation results indicate the benefits of piecemeal liberalization and adjustment of the Moroccan sugar sector are tenuous. Net social welfare changes by at most 4% for five individual policy changes (eliminating consumer subsidy, producer tax, or fuel tax; increasing farm prices; and devaluation). However, the overall effect of the all six domestic policy changes (including lifting import quotas) resulted in a net social welfare increase of up to 24.0% compared to the 1985 benchmark. With liberalization of the world market of sugar as well as full domestic liberalization, however, social welfare increases slightly to about 16% because the decrease in consumers' surplus outweighs the increases in producers' surplus.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Connor, John M.
Agricultural economics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1091
2019-05-18T11:27:49Z
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The evaluation of the effects of public involvement on natural resources planning and decision-making
Denq, Fur-jen
This study examines how social, political and economic factors contribute to change in bureaucratic behaviors. Specifically, it examines the role of public participation in natural resources decision making. Theoretical bases of public participation (power relationship, social values and organizational approach) are related to organizational theories (closed versus open systems) to develop hypotheses about the effects of public participation on final environmental impact statements (EIS). Seventy-eight EIS's from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service and Federal Highway Administration are examined. The findings support public participation having an impact on agencies' environmental decisions. Nevertheless, the overall findings also show the reluctance of planning officials to share power with citizens. Prior litigation against the agency is also found to have an indirect effect on agency's behavior. In addition, the data also indicate that the general public have changed their views to a more homogeneous and new environmentally oriented views for forest management. Several limitations and directions for future research are presented.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Potter, Harry R.
Demographics|Social research|Sociology|Environmental science
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1088
2020-06-03T01:27:02Z
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The shock of trifles: Decadence in the novels of Joseph Conrad
Martin, Joseph William
This dissertation considers the influence and the interpretive possibilities of late nineteenth-century decadence in the novels of Joseph Conrad. Four novels are examined: Lord Jim, Victory, The Secret Agent, and The Arrow of Gold. It considers not only such matters as how Conradian vision in landscape and cityscape is similar in point of view to painters and writers of the fin de siecle, but also how Conrad's work evokes decadent style and paradigms, and how his characters are expressive of decadent temperament and values. Whenever possible this dissertation attempts to use decadence as an interpretive tool, leading to new readings of Conrad's texts, rather than simply tracing influence. It considers, for instance, how Marlow in Lord Jim, a narrator normally considered to be Conrad's alter-ego, is first invested with decadent qualities and then shown to fall in his task as both observer and writer. The Secret Agent is considered as emblematic of decadent concepts of ontology, and Victory is examined as an exercise in decadent self-parody.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Gottfried, Leon
British and Irish literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1093
2019-05-18T11:30:02Z
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The politics of race: Black women in Illinois, 1890-1920
Hendricks, Wanda Ann
This dissertation is a study of black women in Illinois who participated in the Progressive reform movement from 1890 to 1920. Black women in Illinois adhered to the Victorian ideal of the era and embraced the argument that women bore a moral responsibility for reforming society and addressing social ills that threatened to weaken and destroy the fabric of black life. They maintained kindergartens, orphanages, homes for the aged, shelters for wayward girls, social settlements, nursing schools, and hospitals. In 1913, when Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to grant female suffrage, black women broke through the parameters of the private domestic female sphere and politicized themselves. They strengthened their rhetoric, pressed for stronger anti-lynching legislation, better housing, more sanitation, and equal employment. More important, however, was their push for a "race" man in a key government post to represent the interest of the Afro-American community. By developing a grassroots strategy of canvassing the Second Ward of Chicago, black Chicago women were instrumental in electing Oscar DePriest as the first black alderman in Chicago. The study concludes that because black women experienced both racism and sexism, they waged war on the inequalities and injustices plaguing Afro-Americans and women. Through voluntary associations they challenged traditional perceptions of black womanhood and redefined their status. Ultimately, this redefinition addressed the needs of the Afro-American community within the context of electoral politics.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
May, Robert E.
Black history|Womens studies|Minority & ethnic groups|Sociology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1095
2019-05-18T11:28:21Z
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Effects of experiential learning on knowledge acquisition, skill mastery and student attitudes
Williams, Anna Marie Graf
This investigation was designed to examine the effects of the Kolb Model of Experiential Learning on knowledge acquisition, skill mastery, and attitudes toward learning. The subjects were 202 undergraduate students enrolled in a human relation course at a large midwestern university. For the purpose of this study they were divided into an Experimental group (n = 103) and a Control group (n = 99). At the end of a six-week treatment period in which the Experimental group was taught with the Kolb Model and the Control group with traditional teaching methods, subjects participated in a video simulated role-play to demonstrate their mastery of human relations skills. Knowledge acquisition, attitudes toward learning experiences, demographic information, and preferred learning styles were determined by responses on a skill evaluation inventory, knowledge examination, self report assessment, demographic data sheet, and the Learning Style Inventory (Kolb, 1986), respectively. In addition to analyzing the main effects (knowledge, attitudes, and skills) of treatment, three modifying variables were studied. These were learning style, area of study, and amount of work experience. The study also investigated whether the treatment affected the preferred learning styles of the subjects. The findings indicated that the Kolb Model of Experiential Learning had a significant effect on knowledge acquisition, skill mastery, and attitudes toward learning experiences. All of the relationships were significant at p $>$.0001. Of the 9 possible effects of the modifying variables only one was significant. It was area of study on skill mastery. Exposure to the Kolb Model of Experiential Learning did not have a significant effect on preferred learning style. These findings suggest that experiential learning, and possibly other alternative approaches to teaching, can have a positive effect on the achievement of undergraduate college students. However, they were unable to establish direct causality.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Gay, Geneva
Higher education|Educational psychology|Curricula|Teaching
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1092
2019-05-18T11:28:46Z
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Potential returns and constraints to the adoption of new technologies in the mechanized rainfed region (eastern vertisols) of the Sudan
Habash, Mohamed K
Since the establishment of the Mechanized Crop Production Scheme (MCPS) in the 1940's, almost five million hectares of land have been brought under cultivation in the vertisols. The development of the MCPS has taken the form of an extensive farming system. The prevalent cropping pattern is a sorghum monoculture on large scale farms with few purchased inputs. One consequence has been cereal yield declines. The long run potential of the region, which was once considered the "breadbasket of the Arab world", has been challenged due to the low and falling cereal yields. Even though there has not been much agronomic research, there have been various efforts to produce new sorghum cultivars. Technologies to be evaluated here consist of improved sorghum cultivars, an improved cereal crop-rotation, and the use of chemical fertilizers. This study estimates the potential farm-level economic impact of these various new land-augmenting technologies. The results for the agronomic improvements and the new cultivars should be useful to future research planning in the region. Base model results confirm farm survey findings of farmers' non-adoption of the improved sorghum cultivars. Their lack of adoption is apparently due to the perceived 35% market-price discount below the price of local varieties. Either a reduction of the price differential to 16% or a 29% increase in yields of the new cultivars is needed before the new cultivars would be introduced by farmers according to model results. Intensive technologies of fertilization and crop-rotation increase farm income by 29% over the income achieved under tradition farm practices, according to model results. At the "real" (street rate) exchange rate for imports, chemical fertilizer use is not sufficiently profitable to be utilized on these vertisols. Farmers' perceptions about sesame yields appear to be a major constraint impeding the adoption of the crop-rotation in the region. The MCPS has been receiving substantial governmental support in the form of subsidized credit and low land rental fees. The removal of the credit and the elimination of the land subsidies have little impact on increasing the adoption rate of these technologies, according to the model results. Over time as land supply becomes more inelastic, model results do show an increasing adoption of the more intensive technologies even at current prices.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Sanders, John H.
Agricultural economics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1097
2019-05-18T11:27:22Z
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Europe and the United States defense establishment: American military policy and strategy, 1815-1821
Fitzgerald, Michael Stuart
Following the defeats and frustrations of the War of 1812, the United States undertook an extensive reformation of its defense establishment and a substantial build-up of its military and naval forces. Historians have often ascribed this unprecedented interest in a stronger military to the "lessons" of the war. They have also credited it to a burgeoning postwar nationalism, buttressed by economic prosperity and a healthy United States Treasury. The demise of the military program in 1821 has been conversely ascribed to a waning of that nationalism, and the Panic of 1819 and its deleterious impact on Federal revenues. This dissertation seeks to explain this cyclical pattern in postwar American military policy through reference to the above-mentioned factors, but also through examination of the roles of domestic politics, American expansionism and the international situation. My research indicates that American expansionism and the chaotic condition of post-Revolutionary Europe and South America influenced military policy far more than any other factors. The retention of an enlarged, peacetime army in 1815 reflected an American belief that a renewal of major European wars was a strong possibility, as was also the possibility of further conflict with Great Britain over issues left unresolved by the Treaty of Ghent. American interest in military strength remained strong even after the threat of an immediate resumption of war had passed. The larger army survived Congressional scrutiny in 1816, and a major ship building program was enacted in the same year. These forces were essential diplomatic tools in the United States' efforts to take Florida from Spain and secure a favorable western boundary for the Louisiana Purchase. By the terms of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, Spain surrendered Florida and the western limits of the United States were defined. The Panic of 1819 provided the followers of William H. Crawford and Henry Clay with financial arguments to use in an attack on the size of the military establishment. Their ultimate goal was to inflict damage on the Presidential prospects of Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, the military program survived because the Spanish refused to ratify the treaty. When word did reach Washington of Spain's ratification in early 1821, reduction of the army and a scaling back in naval building immediately followed.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Rothenberg, Gunther E.
American history|Political science
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1098
2019-05-18T11:35:54Z
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Rhetorical theory in business communication curricula from 1900 to 1980: An historical critique
Brooks, Randy Mark
This historical study examines the implicit and explicit rhetorical theories of business communication curricula in higher education from 1900 to 1980. Existent histories of business communication curricula are limited by a developmental historiography which merely celebrates "pioneers" of the dominant craftsmanship approach to business communication instruction. This history examines the rhetorical assumptions which serve as the bases for various approaches to business communication curriculum. An examination of curriculum discussions, research, and textbooks reveals two major approaches to business communication: the craftsmanship approach and the managerial problem solving approach. The craftsmanship approach, which has dominated the curricula from 1900 until the present, is based on a tacit, implicit rhetorical theory extolling the well-crafted sales letter. The rhetorical assumptions of this approach are conveyed through a collection of widely accepted folkloristic principles for the writing of business letters. Based on faculty psychology, the late nineteenth century sales process strategy becomes the central advice for business writing commonly known as the ADCA or AIDA formula. Every business letter is viewed as a sales situation, so the goal of every letter is to (1) get the reader's attention, (2) stimulate the reader's desires (for your product, services, or request), (3) convince the reader of the reasonableness of your request or suggestion, and (4) arouse the reader to act. The "you attitude" in which the writer attempts to identify with the reader's needs, perspective, language, and desires becomes the master strategy for planning means of stimulating the reader's faculties in various letter situations. The managerial problem solving approach has its origins in the rise of management training in analytical and writing skills, specifically the Harvard case study method. Following attacks on the traditional business communication curriculum in the early 1960s, this managerial problem solving approach became the accepted basis for the curriculum within schools of management and business departments and stresses an explicit theory of business communication as an ongoing series of exchanges and interactions in organizations. Communication establishes relationships, creates organizational structures, and is the means of carrying out daily business in order to solve problems, not merely to persuade and appease customers.
1991-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Berlin, James
Curricula|Teaching|Education history|Language arts|Business education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1102
2019-05-18T11:33:23Z
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The effects of final and intermediate product innovation in a model of international trade
Bosshardt, William Draeger
Innovation is a scarce resource--in order for innovation to occur, a country must forgo something else. In the international trade literature, the sacrifice is usually in terms of inputs that could have been used in production. However, to imply that innovation depends on productive resources such as labor is dubious, since examples of labor rich countries that are not known for innovation can be readily seen in the world. The goal of this paper is to create a model where the opportunity cost of innovation is in terms of other innovation activities rather than production. Two types of innovation will be modeled--the innovation of new final goods and the innovation of new intermediate goods. Each type of innovation will provide benefit to the economy, and so each country must allocate scarce research resources between the two types of innovation. The first chapter develops a two-country, general equilibrium model, and finds the equilibrium amounts of final and intermediate goods when there is trade in: (1) autarky, (2) final goods only, (3) intermediate goods only, and (4) trade in both. In each case, when the final production process becomes more labor intensive, when consumers place more value on variety, or when the construction of intermediate goods helps the production process, the trade-off made between final and intermediate goods moves towards final goods. Analysis of the trade-off shows that only in the intermediate and full trade cases does factor abundance affect the trade-off. The second chapter examines the transfer of innovation technology from one country to the other and finds such transfers push a nation away from final product innovation and towards intermediate product innovation due to terms of trade effects. The third chapter develops a model in which technological change occurs in the form of increased productivity instead of the development of new goods. These results are compared to the results of the first and second chapter. Differences between these models, which represent the effects of variety, are then discussed. The final chapter introduces monopolistic competition into the model, and examines the effects of monopolistic competition on the trade-off.
1991-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Thursby, Marie G.
Economic theory
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1101
2019-05-18T11:31:44Z
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The Equal Rights Amendment campaign in Indiana: A study of ideas and arguments
Seward, Linda Gail
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to add to an understanding of the ideas and arguments used to support or oppose the Equal Rights Amendment, and (2) to connect those ideas with ideas expressed during efforts to secure women's suffrage. As the last state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, Indiana provided an opportunity to examine changes that occurred over time, both in substance and construction. Thus, for example, while supporters began by arguing that the ERA should be supported for such abstract ideals as choice and the need for a symbol, they eventually turned to more pragmatic arguments that focused on specific sex discrimination cases. Opponents switched from stressing the value of women as homemakers and mothers, to increasing the type and number of negative ramifications that would occur if the ERA were ratified. Structurally, both sides improved arguments after the initial year of debate. Interestingly, while ERA supporters in Indiana were more politically experienced and better-funded than their counterparts, a comparison of arguments from a critical perspective revealed that opponent arguments were more soundly constructed. This was due, in large part, to the influence of Phyllis Schlafly's ability to prepare and disseminate information to followers who employed her arguments almost wholecloth. In addition to problems of construction, a Toulmin analysis of the arguments revealed that ERA supporters continued to meet resistance to their ideas because they were based on warrant-establishing versus warrant-using arguments. This meant that even with improved data, the argument might still be rejected on the basis of either the claim or the warrant. Both the suffrage and Equal Rights Amendments were proposed during times of social change, and in each case, it was women's participation in other social movements that prompted them to re-examine their own status in American society. There were notable differences, however, between supporters of suffrage and the ERA on the topics of politics, the status of minorities, and the nature of women.
1991-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Berg, David M.
Communication|Political science
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1100
2020-06-03T01:28:13Z
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Transforming fictional genres: Five nineteenth-century American feminist novelists
Ross, Cheri Louise Graves
Many nineteenth-century women writers in America were popular with the general reading public and considered by contemporary critics to be serious contenders for a lasting place in American letters. Despite their obvious commercial success and critical acclaim, these writers have been excluded from the canon of American literature. There was no consensus among the women writers about what women's role should be or could be and which genres might best express such concerns. Thus, although most nineteenth-century women literary writers examined the role of women in society, their work was not confined to a single genre. This dissertation focuses on five feminist novelists each of whom experimented with and excelled in a different genre: Catharine Maria Sedgwick (the frontier romance); Louisa May Alcott (the Gothic romance); Anna Katharine Green (the detective novel); Fanny Fern (the domestic novel); and Marietta Holley (the novel of social satire). Each transformed the conventions of her chosen genre and promulgated a feminist view which undercut the assumptions of androcentric society about the proper role for women. Contesting conventions of genres whose focus were linked to formulations, these writers foregrounded female heroes, thereby providing readers with models for alternative values and roles for women. Believing in the transformative power of literature, women writers who undercut generic conventions also hoped to undercut societal assumptions about gender roles and behavior, thus helping to free women from their entrapment in the "women's sphere." That these writers were conscious of the conventions of their chosen genres and deliberately altered some or all of those conventions to contribute a distinct feminist commentary on the "Woman Question," a statement which subverted societal assumptions concerning the role of women, provides the foundation for my analyses.
1991-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Oreovicz, Cheryl Z.
American literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1105
2019-05-18T11:32:10Z
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A model of post-modern political candidates: Responses to the candidacies of Clint Eastwood, Fred Grandy and Sonny Bono
Kelly, Christine Marie
This study posited that the importance of images and the dependence on television in the political realm coupled with the prominence of celebrities, especially entertainment celebrities, in society have likely facilitated the rise of a new type of political candidate, the celebrity politician. Since 1964 actors, such as George Murphy (1964), Ronald Reagan (1968 and 1980), Clint Eastwood (1986), Fred Grandy (1986), Sonny Bono (1988) and Ben Jones (1988) have run successful campaigns for political office. This study examined three campaigns which involved actor-politicians--Clint Eastwood's 1986 campaign for mayor of Carmel, California; Fred Grandy's 1986 campaign for congressperson of Iowa's sixth district; and Sonny Bono's 1988 campaign for mayor of Palm Springs, California--to determine how those involved in campaigns with these actor-politicians responded to the actors' celebrity statuses and images during the campaigns. The case studies were based on interviews with the actor-politicians or their campaign managers, the opponents, a local reporter for each of the campaigns and local and national newspaper and magazine coverage of the campaigns. Some of the findings were that due to the celebrity status of these actor-politicians the media responded with increased coverage of the campaigns; the voters responded with increased participation in pre-election events and at the polls and the actor-politicians responded with large campaign expenditures. The actor-politicians also responded to their acting backgrounds by discussing it in terms of a small business success and presented themselves as symbols of the American Dream. Further, the voters responded positively to the actor-politicians because they appeared more believable than their opponents in their television appearances due to their expertise in the use of the medium. The study concluded that in times such as the early 1990's when the American public seems dissatisfied with the ability of their elected leaders to move and inspire them, they are responding positively to the charismatic style of celebrity-politicians and supporting their political agendas.
1991-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Webb, Ralph
Communication|Political science
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1104
2019-05-18T11:33:39Z
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Optimal policy design in the iron and steel recycling industry
Farhangi, Anoushiravan
In this study an analytical framework is developed to allow the policy makers in the recycling industry to determine the optimal set of policies to obtain a variety of objectives. The scrap iron and steel recycling industry is modeled as an oligopsonistic spatial price equilibrium. Each recycling firm within the industry is modeled as a cost minimizing follower, and the government is modeled as the policy leader. Within this framework, government's optimal policies under a variety of objectives is determined. Elaborate procedures are used to estimate local supplies and demands for scrap. Local demands for scrap are derived using pseudodata generated from a generic process model of the iron and steel industry. The plant level capacities and outputs are used to simulate the process model, and the scrap price is varied to determine the plant level demands for scrap. Furthermore, scrap generation is assumed to be proportional to population and industrial activity distribution. An estimate of the own price elasticity of scrap is then used to derive regional supply functions for scrap. In this study, the market for iron and steel scrap and the interactions by the policy maker are modeled as a bilevel programming problem. The general bilevel programming problem results when the objective function and the decision space of one agent are influenced by other agents. The bilevel programming problem is then reformulated as a single nonlinear complimentarity problem, and solved using a rapidly converging Newton type algorithm. The decision made by the NUCOR corporation to locate in Crawfordsville, Indiana is considered. The results indicate that Crawfordsville is the lowest cost location to NUCOR in the East North Central region, and subsidies by the government and the local electric utility may have been unnecessary. This study also shows that, in the short-run, subsidies are not a cost effective approach to increasing scrap use by the industry. It is unclear how much of this ineffectiveness is due to an inelastic demand for scrap as claimed by previous studies, and how much is due to the imperfect nature of the market, however, the imperfect market is a limiting factor to scrap usage by the industry.
1991-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Doering, Otto C.
Economics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1080
2019-05-18T11:22:12Z
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Class and source substitutability in the demand for imported wheat. (Volumes I and II)
Hjort, Kim Colette
There is an increasing recognition among wheat market modelers that wheat is a differentiated product. Three recent studies have analyzed the impacts of various policies under assumptions of differentiation of wheat on either a class or a supplier basis. This research extends these studies by allowing importers to differentiate on both levels. Wheats shipped from the five major wheat exporters are identified and grouped into classes based on common physical characteristics. This yields four wheat classes with two to four suppliers within each class. Three structural characteristics of the market are identified including the applicability of aggregating wheat importers into geographic regions, the applicability of assumptions of price responsiveness in demand and the impact that non-commercial sales of wheat have on market shares of classes and suppliers of wheats. This information is used to develop a theoretical model of differentiated demand for imported wheat. The model is empirically implemented by estimating two specifications of the demand functions with differing restrictions on the values of the substitution elasticities. The estimated substitution elasticities reveal that the common practice of aggregating countries into geographic regions is invalid because aggregation often creates either a false sense of competition in import markets or yields an over- or understatement of substitution potential among countries within a region. It is also found that there are three distinct behavioral patterns exhibited by importers with substitution elasticities generally differing for these groups. Bias is introduced in demand function estimation if import data are not adjusted for non-commercial sales of wheat, but data constraints are limiting in determining the magnitude of bias. In many cases, both demand specifications are rejected on the basis of non-significance of estimated functions or due to perverse quantity-price relationships. This result may reflect a lack of reliance on relative prices in class and supplier import determination. Overall, there are few countries where substitution between classes or suppliers is high.
1988-01-01T08:00:00Z
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ENG
Purdue University
Paarlberg, Philip L.
Agricultural economics
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1082
2019-05-18T11:24:26Z
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The effect of drill question sequencing on learning and user satisfaction in computer-assisted instruction in molecular geometry
Doherty, Michael Paul
In the literature on computer-assisted instruction (CAI), three patterns for the presentation of drill problems have been described as optimal: (1) a fixed series of random problems, (2) a sequence entirely user-selected, and (3) a sequence programmed for mastery learning. An experimental investigation of the effects of these three problem sequencing strategies on learning was performed using a randomized post-test-only design. Subjects were general chemistry students practicing labeling and pattern recognition tasks in a computer-based tutorial on molecular structure. The experimental treatment was programmed into the practice problems which followed a lesson on hybridization. Experiments were conducted in trailer sections of general chemistry courses at both Vincennes University, a comprehensive, resident junior college (n = 35), and Purdue University, a major midwestern land-grant university (n = 210). A 2 $\times$ 3 unbalanced ANOVA of mean scores on a ten-item post-test revealed a significant main effect for the school. No significant main effect for treatment group was observed, nor were interactions between school and treatment significant at the.05 level. Planned contrasts revealed inferior performance by the user-control group at the junior college. A similar set of contrasts failed to confirm comparable differences between groups at the land-grant university. The mastery group did not perform significantly better than the group with a fixed arrangement of problems at either site. This may be due to the use of insufficiently rigorous mastery criteria. When the three sequencing strategies were described to them, students from all three groups expressed a preference for the mastery-based sequence. Additional feedback from the students offered ideas for improving the program and for implementing CAI into the curriculum. Response to the program was uniformly positive. Most students preferred it to text-based homework, and wished for more CAI in their study of chemistry.
1989-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9008601
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ENG
Purdue University
Bodner, George M.
Science education|Curricula|Teaching|Educational software
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1083
2019-05-18T11:20:44Z
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Perceptions of American teachers, American parents, Korean teachers, and Korean parents of the gifted regarding underachieving gifted
Jeon, Kyung-Won
The purpose of the study was to ascertain and compare perceptions among American teachers (ATG), American parents (APG), Korean teachers (KTG), and Korean parents (KPG) of the gifted on the social-psychological and pedagogical factors of underachievement. A survey instrument, which was constructed on the basis of a review of literature, interviews with teachers and parents of underachieving gifted, and discussions with professional colleagues, was designed to measure perceptions among the four responding groups. The questionnaire was divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with general conceptions of underachievers among the gifted; Part 2 of the questionnaire focuses on social-psychological factors of underachievers; and Part 3 deals with pedagogical factors in underachievement among the gifted. A Likert scale ranging from 5 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly disagree) was employed with each item of the scale. The survey was distributed to 288 teachers and parents: 60 American teachers and 77 American parents of the gifted enrolled in the Purdue University Super Saturday and Super Summer Programs responded; 28 Korean teachers and 50 Korean parents of the gifted in the Korean National Association for Gifted Children Sunday Programs responded. One-way analyses of variance were conducted to assess the differences in mean ratings for each item among the four responding groups. The method of orthogonal contrast was also employed to identify the differences (a) between ATG and KTG and (b) between APG and KPG. Discrepancies were found mainly in General Conceptions and Social-Psychological Factors among the four responding groups, possibly due to different types of cultural value systems. These factors and conceptions found to be significant among perceptions should be reconsidered for the future direction toward prevention of underachievement by teachers, parents, school personnel, and researchers in the American and Korean cultures. Korean teachers and parents, as compared to American teachers and parents, seemed to have a broad conception of underachievement in gifted youngsters,; however, they tended to overlook the importance of peer relationships, psychological environment, and social environment in children's achievement. American teachers and parents, as compared to Korean teachers and parents, tended to overemphasize the psychological and social environments of underachievement. Factors of underachievement in gifted youngsters appeared to be varied, to overlap, and to be interrelated. Even though symptoms and behaviors, e.g., poor study/work habits, of underachievement might look similar in the two cultures, these behaviors may originate from the different cultural and educational backgrounds.
1989-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9008633
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ENG
Purdue University
Feldhusen, John F.
Educational psychology|Special education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1084
2019-05-18T11:25:03Z
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Factors that influence the persistence of Afro-American science students
Johnson, Irene V. Harris
This study examined the relationship between grade point average, study habits and a combination of seven noncognitive variables. These noncognitive variables have been derived from the work of Sedlacek and others (1978). These are positive self-concept, realistic self-appraisal, understanding and dealing well with racism, preferring long-range goals to short-range goals, availability of a strong support person, leadership experience, and demonstrated community service. The study sought to determine if the traditional measure of attitude and study habits in combination with the newer noncognitive dimensions are more reliable for determining academic success for A-A students than the traditional measures only. The population for this study consisted of 68 Afro-American students enrolled in the School of Science at Purdue University. The subjects were administered the Brown-Holtzman Survey of Study Habits (SSHA), the Non-Cognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) and a personal career planning data form. There was a significant relationship between GPA and study habits and attitude for fifth and higher semester students. There was a significant relationship between attitude and GPA for first semester students. There was a significant relationship between self-concept and GPA for entry level students. Long range goals and GPA was significant for fifth and higher semester students.
1989-01-01T08:00:00Z
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Purdue University
Segrist, Allen E.
Academic guidance counseling
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1085
2019-05-18T11:20:17Z
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Communication skills predictive of interpersonal acceptance among college students in a group living situation: A sociometric study
Samter, Wendy
This project investigated the contribution of communication skills to the maintenance of friendships among young adults living in fraternities and sororities. More specifically, three core research questions were pursued: (1) What communication skills predict interpersonal acceptance among young adults? (2)What communication skills do young adults value in their same-sex friends? and (3) What is the relationship between the communication skills people value in friends and those that actually predict success? In an effort to identify the skills most relevant to the maintenance of friendships, literatures on friendship conceptions and behaviors were examined. This review suggested eight skills as potentially important in the friendship relation. Four of these skills were "affectively oriented" (comforting, ego support, conflict management, and regulation) and four were "nonaffectively oriented" (narrative skill, referential skill, conversational skill, and persuasion). Direct assessments of individual differences in four of these skills (comforting, ego support, conflict management, and persuasion), sociometric information, evaluations of communicative abilities, measures of communicative competence and motivation, and correlates of acceptance were obtained from 208 subjects (102 males, 106 females) living in either fraternity or sorority houses. Weak and generally nonsignificant associations were observed between communication skills and indices of interpersonal acceptance. However, small, but statistically significant relationships were found between a lack of ability in conflict management and comforting and peer rejection. Students valued affectively oriented skills in friends more than nonaffectively oriented skills. Results also indicated that while the skills people valued did not predict peer acceptance, they did predict peer rejection. Subsidiary findings indicated that the motivation to communicate was an important predictor of communication skill, skill valuings, and peer acceptance. Implications of these findings were discussed.
1989-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9018897
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ENG
Purdue University
Burleson, Brant R.
Communication|Social psychology|Sociology
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1087
2019-05-18T11:26:50Z
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The relationship among adolescent perceptions of control, perceptions of maternal caretaking and identity development
Goldstein, Avery E
This is an exploratory investigation of the relationship among adolescent locus of control, perceived maternal caretaking and adolescent identity development. Julian Rotter and his associates have discovered that individuals differ in the degree to which they believe they are able to influence the outcomes of events in their lives. Further research (Connell, 1985; Harter, 1978) has found that children differentiate between the domain (cognitive, social, physical) and source of control (internal, external or unknown) in their perceptions of control. A theoretical and empirical link has been made between internal locus of control and adaptive behaviors such as positive self-concept and independence (Crandall, Katovsky, & Crandall, 1965; Crandall, Katovsky & Preston, 1962; Harter, 1978) as well as identity achievement (Abraham, 1983; Grotevant, 1987). In addition, the family is thought to be an important context for the development of both perceptions of control and identity status (i.e., achieved, moratorium, foreclosed, and diffused). Therefore, it was hypothesized that identity achieved adolescents would percieve their mothers as more supporting or demanding while identity diffused subjects would perceive their mothers as controlling or punishing. Also, it was hypothesized that identity achieved and moratorium subjects would perceive less external control across domains than identity diffused or foreclosed subjects. Finally, it was hypothesized that girls would perceive less control and more support in the family than boys, and that perceptions of external and unknown control would decrease with age. Subjects were 248 adolescents who completed questionnaires that measured multidimensional, domain specific perceptions of control, perceptions of maternal caretaking and identity status. Results indicated that subjects in moratorium were less likely to feel external control in the social domain than either foreclosed or diffused subjects. Also, perceptions of supporting maternal caretaking were significantly positively correlated with internality over most domains while perceptions of punishing maternal caretaking were significantly positively correlated with externality. Additionally, girls reported feeling significantly less internal control in the family than boys. Girls also reported feeling significantly more support in the family than boys. Generally, findings suggest that perceptions of control are domain-specific and linked to both identity and perceptions of caretaking.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9031328
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ENG
Purdue University
Schulenberg, John
Families & family life|Personal relationships|Sociology|Developmental psychology|Social studies education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1089
2019-05-18T11:29:55Z
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Linkages among parental beliefs about development, parental attribution styles, parental patterns of information use and child development
Peet, Susan Hobbs
This research study examined three research questions. First, parental beliefs about development and parental attribution styles were examined in relation to patterns of information use among parents. Second, parental beliefs about development, parental attribution styles and parental patterns of information use were linked to the child's development on measures of overall development and receptive vocabulary. Finally, the constructs of parental beliefs about development were examined in relation to parental attribution styles. These relationships were examined in an effort to gain a fuller understanding of what parents think about how children develop, and how these thought processes are related to a child's actual development. Sixty families with a mother, father, and three-year-old son or daughter participated in this study. The findings indicated that parental beliefs about development and parental attribution styles were related to each other and to patterns of information use, as well as to child development. A model is presented which summarizes the relationships among parental beliefs, parental attribution styles, parental patterns of information use and child development.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9031373
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ENG
Purdue University
Melson, Gail F.
Families & family life|Personal relationships|Sociology|Preschool education
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1090
2019-05-18T11:29:21Z
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Evaluating education strategies for adolescent parents
Wiemann, Constance Mary
Adolescent parenthood is associated with a unique set of disadvantages. High rates of teen pregnancy and childbearing coupled with research documenting the negative outcomes of youthfull childbearing to mothers and infants in terms of medical, social and developmental difficulties has spurred the growth of hundreds of interventions nationwide. Unfortunately, efforts to successfully evaluate these interventions lag well behind program growth. And program evaluations often suffer from severe methodological limitations that make results difficult to interpret. This study helped to improve upon and add to the existing evaluation database by using sound methodology to assess the relative effectiveness of different educational media (videotapes, written materials and the two combined) commonly used in adolescent education programs. It addressed the role that participant levels of academic achievement play in programming effectiveness. This study also explored the interrelationships among different outcome levels, including knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and end results. Eighty-eight primarily primiparous adolescent mothers between 14 and 19 years of age were recruited to participate in a short-term longitudinal parent education program evaluation. Four treatment groups were formed based on the type of education material to which they were exposed: video-only, booklet-only, video and booklet, and a standard treatment control. Between-group orthogonal comparisons were made using either repeated measures analysis of variance or analysis of variance with change scores. Results suggest that the combined media group did not significantly outperform the other three groups on most outcome measures. Stronger support for the effectiveness of the video component alone was found as compared to the booklet-only and control groups. When compared to the control group, those in the booklet-only group demonstrated greater positive behavior change among discipline-related behaviors, while all three program groups demonstrated tendencies toward positive change in feeding-related behaviors relative to the control group. There was little support for the presence of an interaction between the subject characteristic academic achievement and type of program media. There was mixed support for the hypothesized relationships among changes in knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and end results. Of note, increased self-esteem and/or parenting self-confidence were associated with less accurate knowledge and less optimal behavior change. Implications for adolescent parent education programming are discussed.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9031409
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ENG
Purdue University
Powell, Douglas R.
Families & family life|Personal relationships|Sociology|Curricula|Teaching
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1094
2019-05-18T11:28:35Z
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The Little Caesar of civil rights: Roscoe Dunjee in Oklahoma City, 1915 to 1955
Thompson, John Henry Lee
This dissertation focuses on the struggle between black leaders to define the response to segregation and discrimination by Oklahoma City's black community. Roscoe Dunjee, a black newspaper editor, will be the primary focus in this study of leadership.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9104715
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ENG
Purdue University
May, Robert E.
Black history|American history|Biographies
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1096
2019-05-18T11:27:38Z
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A study of the myth of the family in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
Borders, Scott Bennett
Hardy's fiction often portrays families that depart from the Victorian myth of the family. The myth assumes societal values should be inculcated within the home, wherein competent and caring parents would foster an environment of security and love for their children and thereby establish the home as the moral authority while providing the children with a walled garden in which they could thrive. Hardy, however, chronicles the myth's failure. Hardy exposes the dangers inherent in a system which places inordinate power into the hands of oftentimes flawed parents; moreover, the myth's strongly paternalistic bias effectively moves the power into the hands of only one parent, the father. Hardy's works demonstrate the myth's effects on the family. His parents react to the myth in two different ways: either the parents earnestly attempt to uphold their role as shapers of their children's moral and civic beings, or the parents abandon the role. Hardy thus categorizes parents as either repressive or neglectful: a too-direct involvement in the child's life leads to the first, a lax regard for the child's welfare leads to the latter. The influence upon the child is great. When the child becomes an adult (the stage upon which Hardy chiefly bases his investigation) the repressive parenting style leads to a dutiful adult who is excessively tied to his parents' wishes. The result is an adult who has not grown up. The neglectful parenting style undercuts the myth by inverting the mode of the earnestly responsible parent which the myth assumes in its project. Without that element, the child suffers more directly, for his basic security, self worth, and welfare are threatened. Hardy's dutiful children clearly show the damage the myth can inflict. Excessive obligation to one's parents causes much hurt and trouble for these children. Ultimately, since the parents are responsible, Hardy's most scathing criticism is reserved for them. Often out of a desire to match a myth that simply could not be matched, in their ignorance these parents doom their children to a stunted adulthood. Hardy thus strongly questions the efficacy of Victorian society's chief formative agent, the family.
1990-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9116358
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ENG
Purdue University
Lauterbach, Edward S.
British and Irish literature
oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:dissertations-1099
2019-05-18T11:33:00Z
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Writing at Good Hope Hospital: A study of negotiated discourse in the workplace
Dautermann, Jennie Parsons
Based on a two-year observation of a midwest hospital department of nursing, this study focuses on the composing processes of a group of head nurses writing regulatory prose. Transcripts of audiotaped writing sessions, interviews with nurses, field notes and texts were collected in order to illuminate the writing strategies that appeared in a discourse community which had both hierarchical power structures and interdependent social subgroups which influenced the work of composition. Writing in this setting became an act of negotiation among hierarchical forces and peer influences. Situated on the border between delivery of bedside care and nursing administration, this collaborative group extended the composition process beyond planning and drafting to activities such as building community consensus, publishing local texts, and arranging for future revision. Negotiating among various community subgroups and revising documents in light of those negotiations were primary activities of the group. The proposed model of negotiated composition ties socially constructed community discourse to organizational change.
1991-01-01T08:00:00Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI9132442
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ENG
Purdue University
Sullivan, Patricia A.
Language|Language arts|Communication|Nursing
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