A University as the Center of Change: Preparing Educational Activists and Change Leaders

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

the educational development center: working for change,

introduction educational development centers (edcs) in the health sector act as a resource and a catalyst for educational change and therefore have a significant role to play in the professional development of health personnel. the world health organisation has actively supported the establishments of edcs by its member states because of the valuable contribution they can make to improving medi...

Design and Psychometrics of an Assessment Tool for University Characteristics as a Learning Organization from the perspective of Educational Leaders

Introduction: Universities as learning organizations are places for transcendence, teaching, research and offering knowledge. The aim of this study was to design and assess psychometric properties of an assessment tool for university characteristics as a learning organization from the perspective of educational leaders. Methods: This mixed methods research was performed on faculty members of Te...

Nurse Leaders as Stewards: The Beginning of Change

In understanding fully persons' moral predicaments, a core component of forming perceptual judgments, nurses may need to shift the epistemology of their practice from instrumental reasoning, or means-ends thinking, integrating a virtue-based practical reasoning. A bearing witness that achieves understanding of clients' moral qualities is attained through the articulation of nurses' self-identit...

Preparing for Climate Change