Browsing Donald L. Gilstrap by Title
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Assessing learning, critical reflection, and quality educational outcomes: the Critical Incident Questionnaire
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008-09)This research study incorporates Brookfield’s Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) as a qualitative instrument to assess the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in one library’s instructional ... -
Collective case study method and fractal geometry: Instrumental and intrinsic cases in organizational research
(ISCE Publishing, 2009-10)In case study methods of organizations, researchers are often limited to the aggregation of individual cases within the context of the organizational case. Borrowing from Stake's (1995) use of instrumental and intrinsic ... -
A complex systems framework for research on leadership and organizational dynamics in academic libraries
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009-01)This article provides a historiographical analysis of major leadership and organizational development theories that have shaped our thinking about how we lead and administrate academic libraries. Drawing from behavioral, ... -
Connecticut Community Colleges join forces to share library system
(Haworth Press, 2001)In 2001, libraries of the twelve Connecticut community colleges joined together to purchase and share the Endeavor Voyager integrated library management system. In previous years, these colleges had been members of ... -
Critical reflection as an irreversible process: Epicurus, the Arrow of Time, and an ontology for organizational learning phenomena
(ISCE Publishing, 2010-05)Time’s Arrow has been widely debated in scientific and philosophical circles, yet this theoretical construct is relatively nascent in the social and behavioral sciences. More specifically, we may have much to discover ... -
Developments in Central and Eastern Europe: The Alliance of Universities for Democracy and Higher Education Reform
(Routledge, 2000-12-29)This article highlights the tenth conference of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM) held in Budapest, Hungary. Over the past ten years, AUDEM members have been instrumental in the reform of higher education ... -
Dialogic and the emergence of criticality in complex group processes
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), 2008-05)This article suggests how Paulo Freire's ontology of subjective reality is influenced through nonlinear and non‐deterministic perspectives of a world of open and irreversible rather than dynamically ... -
Digital literacy and the emergence of technology based curriculum theories
(2013-11-07)A shifting focus in education is resulting in more networked, technology-enhanced classrooms. Contemporary educators need to be aware of the skill sets students require to thrive in twenty-first century educational ... -
Dissipative structures in educational change: Prigogine and the academy
(Routledge, 2006-11)This article is an interpretive study of the theory of irreversible and dissipative systems process transformation of Nobel Prize winning physicist Ilya Prigogine and how it relates to the phenomenological study of leadership ... -
Human ecological complexity; epistemological implications of social networking and emerging curriculum theories
(University of Alberta, 2011)This article explores the growing use of social networking among contemporary students and researchers in education. It is argued that social networking systems exhibit many of the characteristics of complex systems, ... -
Le délégué de la compagnie: Claude E. Boillot and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956-57
(1995-08)For 90 years the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez played an integral role in the economic development and stability of the world. The Suez Canal connects the western world to the eastern, and, consequently, ... -
Leadership and decision-making in team-based organizations: A model of bounded chaotic cycling in emerging system states
(ISCE Publishing, 2013-11)This article discusses the results of both intrinsic and instrumental case study investigations of team-based leadership and decision-making in an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institution undergoing dramatic ... -
Librarians and the complexity of individual and organizational change: Case study findings of an emergent research library
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009)The purpose of this case study was to increase the knowledge base of how research librarians experience and cope with the turbulence of change within their library system. A library belonging to the Association of Research ... -
Librarians and the emerging research library: a case study of complex individual and organizational development
(2007)The purpose of this case study was to increase the knowledge base of how research librarians experience and cope with the turbulence of change within their library system. This research also examined the issues that surround ... -
Managing World Wide Web information in a frames environment: a guide to constructing Web pages using frames
(Sage Press / Emerald Publishing Group, 1998-12)Explains how to build World Wide Web home pages using frames-based HTML so that librarians can manage Web-based information and improve their home pages. Provides descriptions and 15 examples for writing frames-HTML code, ... -
New rates of exchange: Technological integration and university libraries in Central and Eastern Europe
(University of Tennessee. Central and East European Center, 2000)Over ver the course of the past ten years, Central- and Eastern-European Countries have seen significant changes in virtually all sectors of society. Higher education has been transformed, bringing western philosophies to ... -
Phenomenological reduction and emergent design: Complementary methods for leadership narrative interpretation and metanarrative development
(International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, 2007-03)The author's intent in this paper is to discuss new methods for conducting research on and connecting the works of chaos and complexity theorists with interpretive, hermeneutical, and phenomenological theorists as a ... -
Quantitative research methods in chaos and complexity: from probability to post hoc regression analyses
(University of Alberta, 2013)In addition to qualitative methods presented in chaos and complexity theories in educational research, this article addresses quantitative methods that may show potential for future research studies. Although much in the ... -
A regression model of predictor variables on critical reflection in the classroom: Integration of the Critical Incident Questionnaire and the Framework for Reflective Thinking
(Elsevier Publishing, 2008-11)This research study investigates the influence of independent variables on students’ critical reflection scores in a library instruction program. A student sample (n= 321), enrolled in English Composition II courses, ... -
Strange attractors and human interaction: Leading complex organizations through the use of metaphors
(University of Alberta, 2005)This article is intended to explore the theoretical background behind complexity science in management and leadership and provide ways to approach educational leadership research through the use of strange attractor ...