AIIAS DSpaceThe DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material.http://dspace.aiias.edu:802024-03-13T02:05:48Z2024-03-13T02:05:48ZThe Implementations of 21st century education : a case study of Japan's Super Global High school initiativeKoranteng, Samuel Oseihttps://dspace.aiias.edu/xmlui/handle/3442/5412024-01-31T07:00:23Z2022-04-01T00:00:00ZThe Implementations of 21st century education : a case study of Japan's Super Global High school initiative
Koranteng, Samuel Osei
Twenty-first-century skill-based education has emerged as an innovative
approach to education. Many countries worldwide have adopted its principles to
infuse fresh ideas into their educational system to prepare students to be global
leaders. In 2015, the Japanese government also initiated the Super Global High school
(SGH) program to incorporate 21st-century learning skills into selected high schools
in Japan to empower students to be active participants on the international stage. Blue
Mountain High School was one of the selected high schools to implement the SGH
program.
This case study research provided an in-depth probe into how Blue Mountain
High School implemented the SGH program. This study demonstrated that the SGH
program had a significant impact on students who participated in the numerous
programs Blue Mountain offered under the umbrella of the SGH program. The results
showed that students who participated in the program gained profound exposure in
terms of knowledge and experience on global issues. Students demonstrated more
interest in global affairs and were eager to engage like-minded foreigners in
collaborative problem-solving projects. The result also showed that the SGH program
provided a forum for students to interact with experts in various fields of
humanitarian services. Through these interactions, students developed awareness and
understanding of domestic and international humanitarian issues. These issues
included social, political, and economic challenges people face around the globe.
Students were challenged to think and explore ways to address those issues as future
leaders.
The program also allowed the participants to develop, improve, and
demonstrate the essential 21st-century skills needed to survive current and future job
requirements. The participants demonstrated that despite their level of education and
status in society, they, too, could contribute effectively to solving social problems and
contribute to the welfare of society. During the implementation of the program,
classroom activities were engaging, motivating students to take more interest in
learning and expressing their opinions about issues freely. Students expressed more
interest in communicating in English as an outcome of Blue Mountain’s international
programs. The study also demonstrated through an innovation configuration map that
Blue Mountain substantially met all the requirements for implementing the SGH
program.
Unpublished Dissertation (PhD Education)
Shelf Location: LC54.J3 .K67 2022 ATDC
2022-04-01T00:00:00ZPromoting dementia awareness and healthy lifestyle monitoring to reduce dementia and chronic disease risk in at-risk adults in Bowmanville North, Ontario, CanadaOdondi, Donaldhttps://dspace.aiias.edu/xmlui/handle/3442/5392023-11-08T07:30:28Z2019-05-01T00:00:00ZPromoting dementia awareness and healthy lifestyle monitoring to reduce dementia and chronic disease risk in at-risk adults in Bowmanville North, Ontario, Canada
Odondi, Donald
Over half a million people in Canada live with dementia (Alzheimer's Disease
International, 2015a). According to various reports, prevalence cases was higher among
adult women between the ages of 18 and 49 years (Alzheimer's Impact Movement,
2019b; World Health Organization, 2015). The same report highlighted a 60% increase
(from approximately 10 billion, spent in 2016, to above 16 billion Canadian dollars, by
the year 2013) in health care costs of managing the care and support of dementia cases.
The chief findings of the Bowmanville North community health baseline study supported
to show higher levels of psychological distress, leading to anxiety and depression among
women, as compared to men. Other studies, such as by Rogers and Pilgrim (2014)
similarly showed women as needing more professional health attention. Women's health
need was particularly necessary for those who were dealing with four or more chronic
health conditions.
A healthy lifestyle was associated with a reduced risk of dementia and chronic
diseases. Hence efforts of public health intervention targeted to mitigate dementia and
chronic diseases among the population at risk in Canada (a high-income country) was to
those who would be 70 years old by 2050 (Longe, 2015). Hence, toward an
understanding of the target population's health needs, the goal of the Healthy Practices
promotion project was to promote a comprehensive intervention comprising of healthy
practices (dementia awareness, healthy lifestyle monitoring). Thus, by using the
NEWSTART (Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunlight, Temperance, Air, Rest, and Trust)
modality lifestyle-changes of health (one of the ideologies of health), the project target
was to reduce Canada's economic and social health imbalance from caregiver stressors,
in predominantly women. Awareness of dementia and practice of a balanced lifestyle was
promoted among close family members (parents, siblings, children, neighbors, and
friends) of the individuals at risk of dementia and chronic diseases. To reduce dementia
and chronic disease risk in at-risk adults, targeted were those at least between the ages of
18 to 49 years who were living in Bowmanville North community of Clarington
Municipality.
MPH Project
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2019-05-01T00:00:00ZThe role of dual anthropology in theistic evolutionist systems : an analysis and assessmentRazmerita, Gheorghehttps://dspace.aiias.edu/xmlui/handle/3442/5372023-10-05T03:30:55Z2006-03-01T00:00:00ZThe role of dual anthropology in theistic evolutionist systems : an analysis and assessment
Razmerita, Gheorghe
Triggered by the insistence of some theistic
evolutionist models on the indispensability for their
systems of an anthropogenesis containing the idea of the
infusion of an immortal soul into an evolved pre-human body,
this research focused on identifying and assessing the role
of such appeal to dual anthropology. The study employs both
historical-theological and systematic-theological
methodologies and is sectioned in three major chapters.
After the introduction, which distinguishes between
theistic evolutionist systems appealing to dual anthropology
and those not appealing, chapter 2 analyzes and describes
the former and chapter 3 reviews the latter groups. These
chapters reveal that theistic evolutionist systems both
appealing and rejecting dual anthropology spread across all
Christian confessions and include remarkable Christian
theologians and scientists.
The theistic evolutionist systems that appeal to
dual anthropology do so from both philosophical and
theological considerations. The former represents the
dualistic ontology established by the Greek philosophy and
historically adopted in the Christian Church. The latter is
an attempt to salvage the core biblical narrative of the
salvation history by upholding its foundational doctrines of
the creation of a perfectly moral and conditionally immortal
man, and of the Fall from that status. Dual anthropology
accomplishes the role of "lifting" the pre-humans to that
absolute status by the idea of the infusion of the soul.
The device of appealing to dual anthropology appears
the best theological hope among the theistic evolutionist
systems. It rejects both the alteration of the foundational
'- Christian theology and such threatening concepts as
polygenism, unavoidable in the theistic evolutionist systems
not appealing to dual anthropology.
Beyond appearance, however, the appeal to dual
anthropology does not actually serve its purpose. On the
one hand, critiques notice that dual anthropology itself is
biblically and theologically unfounded. On the other hand,
the appeal to dual anthropology, while offering a sense of a
pre-Fall absolute moral stand of man, does not solve the
problem of death as a consequence of the Fall. This is
assessed in chapter 4.
This study, then, concludes in chapter 5 that
theistic evolutionism suffers an irremediable internal
incoherence: it faces the choice between keeping a biblical
anthropology but abandoning the essential Christian theology
and appealing to a non-biblical anthropology and claiming to
preserve the core biblical theology, but actually failing to
do so. Such a state leads one to conclude that theistic
evolutionism must be definitively re3ected as a viable model
of reconciliation between the scientific evolutionary
worldview and the biblical doctrine of creation.
Unpublished Dissertation (PhD Religion)
Shelf Location: BL200 .R39 2006 ATDC
2006-03-01T00:00:00ZContinuing to the end : a narrative inquiry into the lives of retired principals of faith-based elementary schools in the PhilippinesSusada, Isabelo Villahttps://dspace.aiias.edu/xmlui/handle/3442/5362023-09-28T03:00:21Z2022-08-01T00:00:00ZContinuing to the end : a narrative inquiry into the lives of retired principals of faith-based elementary schools in the Philippines
Susada, Isabelo Villa
Public and private school systems lack qualified principals. Numerous research
studies have shown the causes behind school principals’ leaving. Notwithstanding, few
research studies have been done to determine why principals continue in their positions.
This narrative inquiry study explored the life and career journey of 6 Adventist
elementary school principals who remained in the position until retirement. Further, it
aimed to identify the factors that influenced principal retention. This study was anchored
on resiliency theory, spiritual leadership theory, and job embeddedness theory. The
participants shared their stories and experiences through narrative interviewing using
McAdams’s life story interview framework, aesthetic portrayals, and pertinent
documents. As the researcher, I did a restorying of the participants’ narratives, following
a chronological frame. Then I analyzed the data using the thematic analysis of Braun and
Clark (2006). Among the reasons principals in Adventist elementary schools stay until
retirement are spiritual maturity, vocational commitment, service opportunity, passion for
students, and community engagement. One of the most important contributions of this
study is the development of the principal retention model. The model has the following
components: retired faith-based school principals’ formative experiences, reasons why
they remain in the principalship until retirement, and the strategies they used to overcome
challenges in the principalship. Drawing from the findings, I recommend that further
research using a quantitative approach be conducted to help verify the accuracy of the
principal retention model and in measuring the incidence of different factors that
influence retention.
Unpublished Dissertation (PhD Education)
Shelf Location: HF5549.5.R58 .S98 2022 ATDC
2022-08-01T00:00:00Z