...The Feminist Revelation The escalating academic industry of feminist/womanist studies is rife with declarations of a grand social revolution. Contemporary feminism, says Sommers, has more to do with revelation than with revolution. She notes that Alison Jaggar identifies four dominant feminist “frameworks”: liberal, Marxist, radical, and socialist. The last three frequently overlap, and all are determined that feminism requires the overthrow of prevailing social arrangements, especially the “nuclear family,” and the wresting of power from men. As Andrea Dworkin puts it: “Men love death. In everything they make the hollow out a central place for death. . . . In male culture slow murder is the heart of Eros, fast murder is the heart of action, and systemized murder is the heart of history.” Sommers simplify the typology by suggesting that there are essentially two feminisms: liberal feminism and gender feminism. She identifies herself as a liberal feminist. Liberal feminists respect what women want, also if that includes such “gendered” choices as marriage and motherhood. The goal of liberal feminism is straightforward: women have a right to fair treatment and equal opportunity in trying to realize their aspirations. Gender feminism is very different, indeed radically different. Gender feminism views all of social reality in terms of the “sex-gender system.” According to gender feminist Sandra Harding, this system is a “system of male-dominance made possible by men's control...
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...will take place within an organization. The structure of an organization is important to the main areas that make an organization function effectively. Organization functions and designs determine the organizational structure. Memphis City Schools has a horizontal organizational structure. Although a horizontal structure exists as the overall structure at the executive level, a vertical structure is also in place at the management/staff level. The main structure for Memphis City Schools is called the executive cabinet. Each member of the executive cabinet is responsible for the main departments of the entire school district. Each executive member reports directly to the School Superintendent. The Superintendent, along with Internal Audits, and General Counsel reports directly to the Board of Commissioners. Chief of Staff is also under the Superintendent with a direct report from Policy and Legislation. The Chief of Staff has to be ready to act and decide for the Superintendent in the event the Superintendent is unable to perform. The organizational structure of Memphis City Schools is similar to the structure of the Methodist hospital, because there are so many departments, legal issues, laws, and procedures that have to be accounted for. And both of these organizations provide services for more than 100 thousand people. In contrast, Memphis City Schools’ structure is quite different from the organizational structure of Mid South Managed Properties, although this company services...
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...THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL COUNSELLOR AND HIS FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY. By Dr. Adeyemi Idowu ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of roles and functions in counselling and in so doing the writer highlights the expected roles of counsellors and their functions in Nigerian Schools. GENERAL BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF STUDY Guidance and Counselling, as an educational service and academic discipline, has received much more public attention in Nigeria than any other field of education in the last one or two decades. Speeches have been made by various public officers in education (both Federal , and State), educationists, and private individuals alike, and all have addressed the need to revamp Nigeria's educational system with a more productive and functional type that incorporates guidance and counselling. In a landmark address delivered at the 1976 launching ceremony of the Counselling Association of Nigeria (CAN), Colonel (Dr.) Ahmadu All, then Federal Commissioner of Education, stated, inter alia: Guidance and counselling is an educational innovation that enjoys my full support. Any educational system will be deficient without educational guidance. Our students' need to be helped by personal counselling, career education and vocational guidance to discover their talents, aptitudes and to make intelligent career decisions, (pp. 1-2) The Federal. Government of Nigeria also endorsed its total commitment and support to the guidance and counselling movement...
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...Examine the different functions perform by the education system Different theories try to explain the function and role of education in society. Some look at the positive side of education and others the more negative side due to some pupils only being exploited in the education system. Despite all having different views that can be related to, they also all have their advantages and disadvantages meaning some arguments are stronger than others. One group of sociologists, the functionalists, believe that education has four main functions to help society. One role of education is to create social solidarity. It is Durkheim who believes that this is essential for the survival of societies. He believes that it helps to bring people together as it enables students to share similar beliefs, norms and values. Education helps to bind the members of a society together as there are essential similarities that help people to unite and all feel a sense of belonging. The way schools helps to allow its students to feel apart is by making all students wear a uniform enabling everyone to have something in common and to feel apart of a community. Lessons such as history, CPSHE and R.S help to weld the diverse mass of people into a nation as we realise we have much in common with each other. The second function is to allocate people to the role and job by testing students to discover talents and then develop the talent to enable them to find a job that will best suit them in the future....
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...Functions of Management Julia Luciano MGT/330 May 18, 2011 Angela Guest Functions of Management The functions of management are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Each function plays a crucial role in how that manager builds a successful team. It is the job of the manager to lead his or her team and to teach the employees how to become leaders. In order to do this the functions of management must be used. In this paper I will discuss how the functions of management correlate with administration in the education industry. Functions of Management The first function of management is planning. Planning is specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding in advance the appropriate actions needed to achieve these goals (Bateman & Snell, 2009). This is when the managers sit down and take a look at the company, the budget, the programs etc; and decide what they want to see in the future. Summer break is coming up this week and administration sat down at the beginning of the school year and made a plan to roll out a new summer program in May 2011. The school has always had a summer program; however a lot of students would attend camp at a very close competitive neighbor because of the price and activities. Administrative addressed the staff and told us all about the new plan and how we could all help to gain enrollment for the program. The summer camp plan was to cut the cost in half, and offer a larger variety of educational/fun and extra curricular activities...
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...“The main function of education is to maintain a value consensus in society” According to Item “A” functionalists believe that a Value Consensus is essential for the well-being of society. A Value Consensus is an agreement among society’s members about what social values (such as getting qualifications, learning job skills, etc.) are important. Item “A” also stats that functionalists believe that school is vital because it socialises (this is known as secondary socialisation, this is where children are taught social norms and values such as respect and obeying orders through school) young people. Functionalists also believe that schools operate on a meritocratic principle and they see education as “sifting and sorting” young students (this is another term for Role Allocation which is where students are matched to work roles that suit their abilities). On the other hand according to Item “A” Marxists believe that education doesn’t transmit values about society as a whole but values that benefit the ruling class (those who own the means of production are called the ruling class or the Bourgeoisie these are a minority in society). Functionalist Durkheim identified the two main functions of education were, creating social solidarity and teaching specialist skills. Durkheim argues that society needs a sense of solidarity, without social solidarity, social life and cooperation would be impossible because each individual would pursue their own selfish desires; the role of education...
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...class, is set out below and incorporates Schedule 2 of the Victorian Government Schools Agreement 2013. PRINCIPALS The role of the principal is to lead and manage the planning, delivery, evaluation and improvement of the education of all students in a community through the strategic deployment of resources provided by the Department and the school community. A key component of this role is to increase the knowledge base of teachers within their school about student learning and quality teacher practice. At the same time, the principal, as executive officer of the school council, must ensure that adequate and appropriate advice is provided to the council on educational and other matters; that the decisions of the council are implemented; and that adequate support and resources are provided for the conduct of council meetings. Principals have a clear set of accountabilities, which distinguish their work from other employees in the Teaching Service and the education community and are set out in detail in the contract of employment. The principal is accountable for the overall leadership, management and development of the school within state-wide guidelines and Government policies. The core accountabilities of all principals are to: − Ensure the delivery of a comprehensive, high quality education program to all students. − Be executive officer of the school council. − Implement decisions of the school...
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...Self Access Learning Module ICT Literacy for Secondary School Programme Computer Hardware System Unit PUSAT PERKEMBANGAN KURIKULUM KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN MALAYSIA ICTL For Secondary School - Computer Hardware Module MODULE 3 SYSTEM UNIT Curriculum Development Centre Ministry of Education Malaysia 1 ICTL For Secondary School - Computer Hardware Module 1. Name of Module : System Unit 2. Learning Outcomes: The students should be able to: • • • identify the components of a system unit state the functions of the main components of a system unit state the functions of cpu, ram, rom and expansions slots found on the motherboard 3. Knowledge and Skills: • main components in the computer system 4. Module Summary: • • • At the end of the module, a student is able to : identify main components of system unit and motherboard state the functions of main components of system unit state the functions of CPU, RAM, ROM and expansion slot This module contains 2 activities: Activity 1 : Identify the components of a system unit Activity 2 : Identify the components of a motherboard As you are doing this module, use the computer in the lab to identify the components in the system unit. 2 ICTL For Secondary School - Computer Hardware Module Notes: What is system unit? Box-like case that contains computer’s electronic components Sometimes called the chassis Figure 1 Examples of System Unit 3 ICTL For Secondary School - Computer Hardware Module Activity 1 : Identify the components...
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...to the establishment of schools, colleges and universities and expansion of school enrolment all over the country. Though the area of pupil personnel services has received very little attention in the professional literature, it is an administrative post that is critical to the effective operation of a school district (Duffy, 1990). Because some of the pupil personnel functions such as special education and counseling services are particularly sensitive, they have become areas of increasing concern at all level of education. This paper seeks to discuss the area of function of pupil’s personnel management in the primary school system. MEANING OF PUPIL PERSONNEL SERVICES These are special student services that supplement and support the instructional program. Except in schools with very small enrollments, the main role of the administrator in pupil personnel services is one of integrating these services with instruction and coordinating the various kinds of personnel services. Though the area of pupil personnel services has received very little attention in the professional literature, it is an administrative post that is critical to the effective operation of a school system (Duffy, 1990). Because some of the pupil personnel functions such as special education and counseling services are particularly sensitive, they have become areas of increasing concern in the education system. Variations of what services constitute the pupil personnel function have existed historically...
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...that on-time graduation rates are still low (Stetser, 2014). Many studies have been conducted to identify the factors that contribute to the high school dropout rate. One of the factors that has been identified is the success or lack of success in Algebra 1. Some educational professionals have proposed that an earlier exposure to Algebra 1 in middle school could assist students with being more successful in high school. Thus those students would have a greater chance of graduating with their cohort and possibly even being accepted into a post-secondary school. This action research project studied the correlation between the use of graphic organizers and concept...
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...Functions of Management Paper Kesia Mulrain MGNT 330 June 18, 2012 Dick Amible Functions of Management Paper In every organization management is a process and a key to success. I work for an organization call Mosaica. Mosaica Education is an educational company which is global and has been around since 1997. Mosaica has received many awards, excellent recommendations and is recommended from AdvancED. The company educates 45,000 children has eight programs in eight states and manages about 90 school which include the Middle East and District of Columbia. The company has Passionate leadership with skills and expertise in which AdvancED distinguished them as a profoundly successful educational company. According to Bateman and Snell, Management is the act of controlling and directing the affairs of a business to achieve organizational goals (Bateman & Snell, 2009). Management has specific foundations that have been around and are not going to vanish. The essentials functions of management are controlling, planning organizing and leading. This paper will explain each function, and how they are applied in an organization. In spite of the change in society, management continues to absorb its main four functions; planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Authors Bateman and Snell (2009) explain the four management functions as follow: Planning: Is determining what goals are needed and deciding in advance the actions that are appropriate in order to achieve...
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...The claim that the main function of education is to maintain a value consensus in society is portrayed by different sociologists in different ways e.g. feminists believe that to maintain a value consensus in society, patriarchy needs to be abolished. Different theorists believe in different functions of the education system, some think of it as promoting value consensus and some see otherwise. Functionalist Durkheim (1993) identified the two main functions of education were, creating social solidarity and teaching specialist skills. Durkheim argues that society needs a sense of solidarity, without social solidarity, social life and cooperation would be impossible because each individual would pursue their own selfish desires; the role of education is to produce social solidarity. School also acts as a ‘society in miniature’, preparing us for life in wider society, school serves a function that cannot be provided the family or peer groups and that individuals must learn to cooperate with those who are neither family nor friends, he says the school is a place where these skills can be learned. Modern industrial economies have a complex division of labour, where the production of even a single item usually involves the cooperation of many different specialists. Durkheim argues that education teaches individuals the specialist knowledge and skill that they need to play their part in the social division of labour, therefore the main function of education is to maintain a value...
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...Teams Describing the Group The school board of Redeemer Community Christian School (RCCS) is a formally structured group that fulfills a particular need of the overall organization. It meets Shockley-Zalabak’s definition of a “directional group”, or one that “establishes policy and is generally responsible for both the oversight and the performance of the organization (2012, p. 187)”. The school board is co-located group of six individuals who set school policies, make financial decisions, and provide overall guidance about the direction and mission of the school. The school board has the final word of authority in all matters related to the running of the school. Communication within the Group Group communication roles tend to fall into three important classifications: task roles, maintenance roles, and self-centered roles (Shockley-Zalabak, 2012). The RCCS school board exhibits two of these: task roles that help them accomplish goals, and maintenance roles which facilitate social support among members. Fortunately, self-centered roles, which tend to exhibit negative behavior and slow down the work of the group, are not normally experienced within Redeemer’s school board. Specific communications within the school board primarily take place during their semi-monthly meetings. The group meets for 2-3 hours every other Tuesday evening to discuss the business of the school and make decisions. The school board members also communicate via phone...
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...'711101,fririltrilrfr0117,!*.. REPORT RESUMES ED 012 169 GUIDANCE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. BY- PRUETT, ROLLA F. WHITEMAN, KAREN INDIANA STATE DEPT. PUBLIC INSTR., INDIANAPOLIS REPORT NUMBER ISDPI-BULL-251 PUB DATE EDRS PRICE MF-$0.50 HC-$2.76 69P. CG 000 146 JAN 67 DESCRIPTORS- *ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GUIDANCE, *ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, *ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELORS, *PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, COUNSELOR FUNCTIONS, BULLETINS, *GUIDANCE SERVICES, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA THE ROLE OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROVIDING GUIDANCE SERVICES AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL ARE DISCUSSED. THE FUNCTION OF GUIDANCE SERVICES AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL IS EXPLORED, WITH EMPHASIS ON DEFINITION. PHILOSOPHY, OBJECTIVES, AND GUIDES FOR PROVIDING THE NECESSARY SERVICES FOR OPTIMUM DEVELOPMENT OF ALL CHILDREN. FOLLOWING THE BIBLIOGRAPHY, A PARTIAL LIST OF INDIANA REFERRAL AGENCIES FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PERSONNEL IS PROVIDED. (SK) INDIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION GUIDANCE in the ELEMENTARY SCHOOL by Rolla F. Pruett Karen Whiteman William E. Wilson Superintendent Bulletin No. 251 January, 1967 CG 000 146 INDIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION GUIDANCE in the ELEMENTARY SCHOOL by Dr. Rolla F. Pruett Director, Division of Pupil Personnel and Guidance Services Karen Whiteman Field Supervisor, Elementary School Guidance U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION REPRODUCED EXACTLY...
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...of my designs are the most suitable. | This design fits this specification because of the materials it is made of; wood and metal which both last for a longer amount of time as supposed to a piece of paper due to its solidity . Main Award This award meets the function of the specification as the award can be used for both criteria’; progress and achievement depending on the colour used. By this I mean, if it were to be awarded in the colour brass it would function as an achievement award and if it was for progress award it would be in the colour Nickel silver. I have used these two colours because they are identical to the colours used in any competition: gold and silver, so that the students will appreciate it more. This award also functions as a picture in the spherical acrylic so that when the picture is taken of the student receiving the award they can print at a size of 3x4. And including this picture frame enables the award winner to remember the time in which they won it. Also according to my design influences it does not offend anyone because there are no crosses on it referencing a religion that can offend other people with different ethnicities. The colours I have used enable the design to function in a living room environment as they are not bright colours which in short fulfils the end users needs and requirements. After taking in account the size and weight of the award this design fulfils this specification point in order to make it comfortable for the...
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