the concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...

This paper attempts to place regional development within the context of modern resource base theory. Firms do not locate or relocate in order to make use of ubiquities, but to utilise appropriate differences in regional capabilities, and the paper discusses the nature of such capabilities in enhancing or abating the competitiveness of firms, emphasising the crucial role of collective learning a...

this paper aims to investigate the role of relative deprivation in the formation of collective behavior among the young in kermanshah based on blumer’s interactionism theory. he is one of the outstanding figures concerning studies done about collective behavior in the field of sociology. he believed that collective behavior develops through five stages: social motivation, formation of connectiv...

Contributing to debates over relations between the collective and juridified regulation of labor, this article analyzes a rich case study in Israeli construction sector claim that juridification can spur unions employers’ associations initiate strategic inclusive change. By subsuming processes into traditional IR frameworks embracing its logic practices, corporatist social partners broaden rele...

the purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the retention of two word types (synonyms and homonyms) in the short term memory, and (b) to investigate the effect of these word types on word learning by asking learners to learn their persian meanings. a total of 73 iranian language learners studying english translation participated in the study. for the first purpose, 36 freshmen from an ...

This paper tests theoretical tools developed to frame social construction, historicization, and speech-action as performance on IV Castellanos’s sculpture Homage an Activist Tripod. How can one say that a temporary, collective, non-representation yet intentional collective matters ‘world history’? What constructive agencies do different frameworks provide performance-as-art other Othered otherw...