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An Opportunity Fumbled: Francis James Child and the Late Victorian Folksong Revival in England
(2009-07-17)
Francis J. Child’s professed aim was to include in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads “every valuable copy of every known ballad”. He encountered three major obstacles to achieving this goal. One was the problem of ...
Questioning Favoured Truths of Work and Learning Research
(2009-07-15)
Questioning Favoured Truths of Work and Learning Research Peter Sawchuk, Bonnie Slade and Bruce Spencer This paper seeks to open a discussion about some of the assumptions that underpin policy and research on work and ...
"Continuous Response Evaluation of Digital Clips Over the Internet"
(2009-07-20)
The main objective of the conference is to promote and disseminate the experiences in New Technologies in Education and E-learning in all educational fields and disciplines.
EDULEARN09 will be a unique International Forum ...
Exploring the Contribution of Mentoring to Knowledge Building in PLAR Practice
(2009-07-22)
Through RPL’s process of intensive reflection, learners come to understand the nature of their past learning. In so doing, new knowledge – knowledge about their own learning histories and learning styles – is created. This ...
Circumscribing Regulation or Reforming the Regulatory Process
(2009-07-30)
ABSTRACT In Canada, environmental regulation is circumscribed by several directives, framework documents and guidelines such as “The Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation,” the “Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide,” ...
Predicting the Asian Currency Crises with Artificial Neural Networks: What Role of Function Approximation?
(2009-08-13)
Indicators approach and probit and logit models are the two most widely used early warning systems for currency crisis.
Several studies however suggest that despite their strengths these systems have high error rates ...
Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law
(2009-08-12)
Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law:
A co-authored 2003 article, "Delegation as a Source of Law", recognized the traditional sources of law to be legislation and precedent. It went further to analyze the decisions ...
Creating a Culture of Community in Online Courses
(2009-07-31)
Title – Creating a Culture of Community in Online Courses Margaret Edwards, Ph.D,, R.N. & Beth Perry, Ph.D., R.N. Purpose – This presentation focuses on the facilitation of a culture of community in online courses using ...
Using Digital Archives to Store and Create Knowledge About Colonial Print Cultures
(2009-08-04)
HARP 2009 – Toronto Using Digital Archives to Store and Create Knowledge About Colonial Print Cultures This paper describes a project that addresses problems in the reconstruction of print culture history in former ...
Family Members' 'Work of Getting Through' Critical Illness: A Call for Nurses to Lighten Our Load
(2009-09-01)
Background
A critical illness constitutes a crisis for family members. While family members necessarily yield primary responsibility for the physical well-being of their ill relative to the health professionals, they ...