Building a Productive, System-Level, Change-Oriented Organization

Ontario's Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health: building a productive, system-level, change-oriented organization.

The Relative Effectiveness of Input and Output-oriented Tasks with Different Involvement Loads on the Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners

Framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported L2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the vocabulary knowledge of Iranian EFL learners. The goal was to investigate the way that the construct of involvement load is related to the Input Hypothesis (Krashen, 1985) and the Output ...

Advancing Health Promotion Priorities: Stories of Capacity Building from the Canadian Heart Health Initiative (CHHI) Faire avancer les priorités en matière de promotion de la santé : exemples de renforcement des capacités tirés de l’Initiative canadienne en santé cardiovasculaire (ICSV)

The purpose of this paper is to explore how public health professionals built capacity to carry out health promotion despite a low level of investment and competition for financial resources with acute-oriented healthcare services. Three data sources are used in this analysis: key-informant interviews with project participants, final reports from three provincial Heart Health projects in Canada...

Designing the Model of Strategic Planning Systems in Automobile Industry with Using System Dynamics Approach

Strategic planning increases the probability of reaching goals with the optimal use of organization resources by determine the organization strategic goals, identify and select the suitable strategies to achieve selected goals and develop the organization strategic capability.  In this study not only identify the various models in strategic planning systems, but also presented the features of a...

Teachers ‘professional development and conceptual change through the knowledge building environment

This study aimed to investigate conceptual change as a fruitful framework in teachers’ professional development through knowledge building environment. In cognitive approaches towards education, the quality of education is seen as a result of teachers’ actions and teachers’ action is seen as a result of their cognition. Thereby the goal of many teachers’ professional development programs is to ...