Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Debates on the role of theory in administrative practice must move away from a focus on best practice to one of informed practice in which administrators analyze specific decision contexts and incorporate appropriate theory. By analyzing actual scenarios from the perspective of selected theories, we illustrate ways in which administrative praxis can emerge through a reciprocal process in which theory and practice mutually inform and transform one other.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Broadband Video conferencing helps build a community of practice with classrooms in rural or urban schools that are otherwise remote to many campuses. This proposal demonstrates and reviews research outcomes.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This interpretive study aims to develop a post-foundational framework based on notions of “hermeneutics” and “practical wisdom” to explore how a middle school English method course affects pre-service teachers’ understanding and perception of notions of “practice” and “good teaching.”

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: Objectives: 1) To train pharmacists and pharmacy students to develop expanded patient care services in community pharmacies and 2) mentor pharmacist-student pairs (PSPs) through implementation of a patient care service. Methods: Students complete a 10-month longitudinal rotation with community pharmacists to establish a self-sustaining, expanded patient care service. Community pharmacists serve as primary preceptors for the rotations. A clinical practice faculty member provides training, mentorship, and feedback on ideas and materials to the PSPs throughout service implementation. Prior to the rotation, PSPs participated in a workshop with sessions on preceptor development, documentation and outcomes, and administrative aspects of implementing expanded patient care services. Throughout the rotation, PSPs continue to improve their administrative skills, including marketing, human resource management, workflow, and billing and reimbursement. Impact will be assessed at the conclusion of the rotation. Results: 7 PSPs are developing services including lipid screening and management; diabetes education, screening, and management; comprehensive medication reviews; and immunization clinics. 2 PSPs received external grant-funding for their projects. Program-specific outcomes to be evaluated via surveys include: student and preceptor satisfaction with the rotation (end of rotation), career directions of students (6 months, 12 months, 24 months post-graduation), sustainability of the patient care services at individual sites (6 months, 12 months, and 24 months post-graduation), and changes in pharmacists’ job satisfaction (beginning and end of rotation). Implications: This project describes an experiential teaching model which provides pharmacy students and pharmacists with patient care service implementation skills and promotes the evolution of clinical community pharmacy practice.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The most important thinker of the Netherlands during the late 16th/early 17th century was Justus Lipsius. Largely forgotten for the last two hundred years, his guides for action were nonetheless highly influential in the establishment of moderate absolutism and the fiscal-military state across Europe, and he was a direct inspiration for Grotius. In this paper I explore the key concept of Lipsian practice-oriented theory: prudentia, and how it was related to early-modern international thought and practice. I pay particular attention to how prudentia was thought to discipline both the ruler and those that he rules. In the form of prudentia mixta, it stressed how dignity, self-restraint and discipline must influence foreign policy, whereas in the form of prudentia civilis, it subordinated the individual to the purposes of the state, and taught him to control his own life by mastering his emotions. Whereas the first of those concepts informed continental aristocratic thinking around the proper conduct of foreign policy, the latter came to influence Anglo-American bourgeois-liberal ideas of foreign policy. Thus, although the idea of prudence as a guideline for action has been commonplace in thinking about international relations, the ideas of what forms of actions that are prudent have varied considerably.

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