Strong and healthy collegial relationship among school teachers is regarded as an essential component of school effectiveness and teacher enhancement. Based on literature review, the present article highlights the importance of collegiality among educators and determines the major outcomes and benefits of highly collaborative and collegial cultures in educational organizations. The study sugges...

The Collegial Leadership Mo del of Emancipation (COLME) is used to address the concerns of transforming traditional management practices (TM Ps) in secondary schools . This model is based p rim arily on the princ iple s of co llaboration and p articipation that facilitate collegial leadership practices to flourish in an environment characterized by shared decision-making, shared values, shared ...

Televised medical dramas often fail to include the nursing role in resolution of ethical dilemmas. Since the nursing role is portrayed inaccurately, excerpts from these dramas should not be included in the educational setting. Doing so would damage understanding between the health professions by wrongly sustaining physicians’ beliefs that they are the sole decision-makers in health care and by ...

Public organizations concerned with planning and implementation of developmental activity, education, research and development, as well as private firms delivering professional services and operating in a rapidly changing socio-economic environment are often concerned mainly with innovation, problem solving and learning rather than with the production of any tangible outputs. The income streams...

Developing better therapies through collegial interaction The Society for Applied Research in Aging (SARA) was founded to serve the needs of practitioners who seek to sustain health, vitality, and quality of life of their patients during aging. Recognizing that a most basic and important part of that task is to provide relevant professional information to its members, Clinical Interventions in ...

A sublime and serendipitous setting I chose the gracious rural village of Penestan in central Bali as a retreat for the beginning of our family journey. Penestan is a sublime setting of tropical ridges of palm, papaya, and tamarind trees; rice terraces; and vibrant traditional village life, against the backdrop of distant volcanoes. Penestan is the cultural home of Balinese painters and dancers...