Mixing methodologies in ESL: Cumulative or contradictory?

Mixing methodologies and paradigmatic commensurability

My first critical awareness of the tensions between different methodologies arose 5 years ago when preparing the materials for two undergraduate courses: ‘Operations Management’ and ‘Strategy’. The former was concerned with explanation in which there is the assumption of causality; the operations environment could be designed in an optimal manner with predictable behaviour—the domain of those f...

Phonics in ESL Literacy Instruction: Functional or Not?

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Disability equality and prenatal testing: contradictory or compatible?

I. WHAT IS DISABILITY “REALLY” LIKE, OR HOW MISINFORMED ARE PEOPLE ANYWAY?.............................................................................................................. 318 A. Models of Disability ...................................................................................... 318 B. Disability and the Normal Opportunity Range........................................... 322...

Developing Conceptualizations of Europeanization and European Integration: Mixing Methodologies By

Mixing methodologies to enhance the implementation of healthcare operational research

Healthcare Operational Research (OR) has had limited success in achieving sufficient level stakeholder acceptance to lead to implementation of results. This research study aimed at combining OR methodologies to achieve greater acceptance of results for organizational change. Patient flow delays in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin were identified using...