Positivism
Essays

Astleitner, H. (2000). Designing Emotionally Sound Instruction: The FEASP-Approach. Instructional Science 28(3), 169-198.

Modernism, in its biggest description, is looked to be belief that is moder, eccentric, or practice. To add a little more, the word gives a description of the modernist movement occurring in the arts, its set of cultural propensities and related cultural actions, initially rising from wide-scale and extensive differences to Western civilization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This essay will discuss how moderism played a huge deal in the lives of paintings.

These three articles compared the methodological approaches employed by the authors from three peer reviewed tourism articles. The approaches in turn were feminism, positivism, and interpretative approach. The article dissected each of these three perspectives reviewing the research paradigms, underlying principles and different epistemological, ontological and methodological world views underpinning each perspective. Ultimately, we may agree with Kuhn in agreeing that no one perspective is the same and that all accord oftentimes contradictory assumptions and conclusions of the same subject and/ or issue.

Effective and Ethical Theoretical Frameworks and Conceptual Underpinnings in Social Research

While the Renaissance in Europe bred abundant literature on every lively intellectual subject, the Baroque period was filled the Spanish nation with disappointment. In Europe in 1567, the Netherlands revolted against…

Beginning in the 1970s, various writers of the high and social sciences were proclaiming the need to return to the value of adding narrative understandings to cultural assessments. The Revival of the Narrative made this case for reasons of economic justice, which has always been the case since other critics of history made their cases in the past. Now a second revival of sorts is happening a technology gives new and broader life to the concept with so many people sharing their voices through computer connectivity across the universe of knowledge.

The way training is delivered in a corporate environment has a tremendous effect on results. This study investigates the role of culture in the learning styles of adult French and American students enrolled in online training programs at an international university. Using Kolb's learning style inventory, the learning style preferences of respondents in both cultural groups will be classified as divergers, convergers, accommodators, and assimilators, reflecting their general tendencies toward learning environments as conceptualized by Kolb (1985). The assumption is that Americans prefer to learn from action-oriented methods and are more comfortable learning from activities that are not job related, such as role plays and games, than do their French counterparts who prefer to learn from job-related activities based on solid research. These preferences will then be examined in light of learners' responses to Hofstede's Culture in the Workplace questionnaire, which examines cultural tendencies towards collectivism/individualism, power orientation, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long/short term orientation (Hofstede, 1980). The sample population will be composed of 150 American and 150 French trainees. They are all employed in multinationals and hold jobs that require them to attend corporate training and travel around the world. Conclusions will be drawn which compare French and American cultural differences in learning style preferences and the extent to which these preferences are mediated by cultural orientations as conceptualized by Hofstede (1980). Results will assist multinational corporations in understanding the role of culture in their training scenarios as they seek to provide more effective training for their increasingly cultural diverse learner populations which can provide some proof that they will be successful in using the new skills.

Aside from positivism or quantitative research paradigm, two other paradigms are considered essential in the conduct of research or simply, knowing and understanding a particular event or phenomenon using a particular…

Conclusion The objective of this project is to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the Home and Community Based Waiver Services (HCBS) program in Alaska. The proposal reveals that HCBS came into being with the increase in the mounting pressure to provide care for certain group of people at their home and their communities. Alaska is among the six states that introduced the HCBS program shortly after the enactment of the HCBS act. Analysis of the HCBS waiver program in Alaska reveals the states include the children infected with AIDS. Since the introduction of the program in Alaska, the number of people continues to increase. With the increase in the HCBS participants, the budget allotted to the program could not cover the expenditure associated with the program. Moreover, the shortage of staff is also the challenges facing the implementation of HCBS in Alaska. The proposal employs mixed method for data collection and data analysis. The estimated time frame for the proposal will take approximately 12 months. The findings of the proposal will provide several contributions.

Patients always desire to have a competent physician that treats them with dignity and respect. Patients are always curious enough to hear and aware about the sickness they suffer from and the way it affects their lives.