Amartya Sen‚ an Indian economist and political philosopher‚ first articulated the “The Capability Approach” in the late 1970s and 1980s in order to create an alternative and new framework of thinking and evaluating issues of poverty‚ development‚ well-being and equality by embracing complexity‚ plurality and individualism with the aim to not overlook anything. Through his creation of the Capability Approach‚ Sen shows that his primary concern is to create a pluralistic conception of poverty and development
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Small-sided Games ABSTRACT Physical Education teachers have a responsibility to create learning environments that facilitate for the motivational and skill acquisition needs of their students. In this paper‚ we begin to explore the impact an approach drawn from Non-linear Pedagogy would have in overcoming the key challenge teachers face in the development of programs that support relatedness. Research conducted for this paper is based upon the comparison of small-sided and traditional games of
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Retrieved from: http://www.cifas.us/smith/chapters.html Title: “A structural approach to comparative politics.” Author(s): M.G. Smith Source: In Varieties of Political Theory. David Easton‚ ed. Englewood Cliffs‚ NJ: Prentice-Hall. p. 113-128. Reprinted in Corporations and Society. p. 91-105. FIVE M. G. SMITH University of California‚ Los Angeles A Structural Approach to Comparative Politics Comparative politics seeks to discover regularities and variations of political organization by
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approaches. "Aggression - a wide variety of acts that involve attack" (The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology-Third Edition 2001) In this essay‚ I will explain and evaluate three psychological approaches of aggression from Sigmund Freud‚ Burrhus F Skinner and Carl R Rogers. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed the psychoanalytical theory of the personality‚ whereby he divided it into layers; the unconscious‚ preconscious and the conscious. These represented different levels of awareness in our minds. He also
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leadership approach. We will analyze the purpose‚ strengths and weaknesses of the situational leadership approach‚ and provide an example of how it can be applied to real situations. Situational Leadership Approach As it name suggests‚ the situational leadership approach states that leaders should use different approaches as situations change. In short‚ leaders should be flexible‚ embrace change as it comes‚ and be capable of adapting to it. The situational leadership approach is a model
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between the different activities and the members‚ and subdivides and assigns roles‚ responsibilities‚ and authority to carry out different tasks. Organizations are open systems they affect and are affected by their environment. Charles Handy (1976) and Roger Harrison (1972) with linking organizational structure to organizational culture. They described four types of culture in organization: Power culture Concentrates power among a small group or a central figure and its control is radiating from its
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EBSCOhost 12/10/11 6:12 PM Record: 1 Title: Authors: Other Publishers: A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description. Block‚ Jack‚ U California‚ Dept of Psychology‚ Berkeley‚ US US: Psychological Review Company US: The Macmillan Company US: The Review Publishing Company PsycARTICLES Database: A Contrarian View of the Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description By: Jack Block Department of Psychology‚ University of California‚ Berkeley Acknowledgement: This
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The Biological Approach The biological approach is concerned with how our biology affects us‚ such as genes and the biological environmental influences to which we are exposed to. This approach focuses on genetics‚ neurochemistry‚ the nervous and the endocrine systems‚ and brain structure. Our biology can affect us due to our genes as we can inherit a faulty gene which predisposes us to develop a particular disorder as we grow older‚ unfavourable environments can trigger the faulty gene to develop
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Compare and contrast the approaches taken by Huesmann et al. (2003) and Hall et al. (1978) to explaining social disorder. This essay will compare and contrast the approaches taken by Huesmann et al. (2003) and Hall et al. (1978) to explaining social disorder by firstly discussing what is meant by social disorder‚ who it applies to and the affect that it has on society. It will then look at the views of Hall et al. and their arguments surrounding the involvement of the media in social disorder
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1 Introduction Utilitarianism is a major position in normative ethics stemming from the late 18th and 19th century philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Contrary to the deontological approach to ethics that perceives morality as a duty or a moral rule that has to be followed‚ utilitarianism is a form of teleological ethics focussing on the consequences of actions meaning that the moral value of an action is solely determined by its outcome. Thus an action is considered right if it tends
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