throughout your time as a CAS student, you have been exposed to various developmental theories and practices that align with them. One way that we can connect theoretical understandings with developmentally appropriate practices is through the spaces we create for children and adolescents at-risk.
Develop a classroom or community center/plot of land floorplan where there is intentionality behind every inch of the space. Label each area with its purpose and what area of development it is meant to foster. Be specific, go beyond saying, "Cognitive, Social-emotional, Language, or Physical development". You should have a minimum of 4 pages:
1. A cover page (1 points) where you list your name, student ID, dat, "HW3" and then tell me about the space you are designing and for what age group and population.
· Ages can range from 4 year old's to 18 year old's
· Populations can range from a low-income classroom in an urban, suburban, or rural area to a targeted population (e.g., LGBTQIA+, sexual assault survivors, individuals with learning differences, undocumented youth, etc.)
· Overarching goal of the space you are creating
2. The visual (3 points) representation of the space you created with each area labeled
· You can do this with colored pencils and paper (take a picture or scan it) or on your ipad/tablets and computers using any software/program available to you.
· You can label using letters or numbers or short label names/descriptors
3. The index (4 points) for each area with
· a full name of the area & its goals
· the developmental aspect it is targeting
· through what processes specifically it is targeting that area of development
· Finally, how is it serving a buffer or protective factor for children and adolescents at risk
4. Reflection (2 points) on the process and how realistic your design would be in a school or organization with low resources.
· What 3 areas would you cut and what 2 areas would you absolutely fight to keep if budget was a barrier?
*** You do not need to be an artistic genius to do well on this assignment. It is most important to demonstrate your intentionality in curating spaces for children and adolescents at-risk. Importantly, it needs to be clear that you thought through different processes that impact development.
***There are no file format restrictions given that this is more than a writing assignment.
Research Paper Project Guidelines
This project is an exercise in the social scientific study of public administration,
Students are expected to perform the following tasks:
(a) Choose a substantive, empirical issue pertaining to the topic of the class. The
topic may certainly have normative implications, but it should be
fundamentally an empirical issue. The paper should not be an advocacy
document.
(b) Examine a substantial portion of the social scientific or scholarly literature
analyzing that issue.
(c) Select one or more explanations or perspectives from t ...
throughout your time as a CAS student, you have been exposed to va
1. throughout your time as a CAS student, you have been exposed
to various developmental theories and practices that align with
them. One way that we can connect theoretical understandings
with developmentally appropriate practices is through the
spaces we create for children and adolescents at-risk.
Develop a classroom or community center/plot of land floorplan
where there is intentionality behind every inch of the space.
Label each area with its purpose and what area of development
it is meant to foster. Be specific, go beyond saying, "Cognitive,
Social-emotional, Language, or Physical development". You
should have a minimum of 4 pages:
1. A cover page (1 points) where you list your name, student ID,
dat, "HW3" and then tell me about the space you are designing
and for what age group and population.
· Ages can range from 4 year old's to 18 year old's
· Populations can range from a low-income classroom in an
urban, suburban, or rural area to a targeted population (e.g.,
LGBTQIA+, sexual assault survivors, individuals with learning
differences, undocumented youth, etc.)
· Overarching goal of the space you are creating
2. The visual (3 points) representation of the space you created
with each area labeled
· You can do this with colored pencils and paper (take a picture
or scan it) or on your ipad/tablets and computers using any
software/program available to you.
· You can label using letters or numbers or short label
names/descriptors
3. The index (4 points) for each area with
· a full name of the area & its goals
· the developmental aspect it is targeting
· through what processes specifically it is targeting that area of
development
· Finally, how is it serving a buffer or protective factor for
children and adolescents at risk
2. 4. Reflection (2 points) on the process and how realistic your
design would be in a school or organization with low resources.
· What 3 areas would you cut and what 2 areas would you
absolutely fight to keep if budget was a barrier?
*** You do not need to be an artistic genius to do well on this
assignment. It is most important to demonstrate your
intentionality in curating spaces for children and adolescents at-
risk. Importantly, it needs to be clear that you thought through
different processes that impact development.
***There are no file format restrictions given that this is more
than a writing assignment.
Research Paper Project Guidelines
This project is an exercise in the social scientific study
of public administration,
Students are expected to perform the following tasks:
(a) Choose a substantive, empirical issue pertaining to the topic
of the class. The
topic may certainly have normative implications, but it should
be
fundamentally an empirical issue. The paper should not
be an advocacy
document.
(b) Examine a substantial portion of the social scientific or
scholarly literature
analyzing that issue.
(c) Select one or more explanations or perspectives from that
literature (or derive
a new approach) for the chosen phenomenon.
(d) Meet with the prof (or communicate by phone or e-
mail) to discuss the
project. This may be done at the start of the student’s
research, if desired.
At some point students who are examining an empirical
3. issue should be able
to state, in hypothesis form, what observable implications can
be drawn from
their explanation(s). Students should also be able to
state the assumptions
from which their hypothesis is derived. Students dealing
primarily with a
normative issue need to be able to state a particular
thesis and also the
premises from which that thesis may be derived. The
prof will ask each
student what literature he/she has read in researching
his/her topic. Each
student is required to submit a written version of a paper
proposal. The
written proposal should contain a stated hypothesis or
thesis, the premises
upon which the argument(s) is/are based, and a preliminary
bibliography.
(e) Submit a brief, written progress report on the research
project. The progress
report should contain an outline of the paper, an
introductory section and
literature review, as well as an expanded bibliography.
and
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(f) Write a paper, roughly seven to eight pages long, evaluating
the
explanation(s) or thesis as applied to the substantive topic.
Students should
cite references using the format used by the American
Psychological
Association. Use Times New Roman, 12 point font. At least
ten of the
sources cited in the bibliography and used in the paper
should be from
4. peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Students should submit
an electronic
copy of their papers. The electronic copy should be
submitted to the
Assignment function within Canvas. Late papers will be
penalized. The
instructor will be happy to read and make comments upon
rough drafts of
student papers up to one week before the deadline.
The methodological approach used in the paper is pretty much
up to the student.
In-depth case studies of single events, comparative case
studies of two or more events,
bibliographic essays comparing several explanations or
perspectives in general terms,
qualitative examinations of trends over time or across different
agencies or states, cities,
etc., or statistical analyses of large numbers of cases are all
permissible.
Students may find newspapers, magazines, government
documents, and a variety
of Internet sources helpful in doing the paper. If so,
they are encouraged to use them.
Yet these sources are not generally adequate to provide an
understanding of social
science explanations. For that reason students must rely
upon some scholarly journals
and/or books as sources. Journals dealing generally
with public administration,
management, public policy, political economy, and law may be
helpful. These include
Public Administration Review, Administrative Science
Quarterly, Administration and
Society, Journal of Human Resources, Academy of
Management Journal, Journal of
Public Administration Research and Theory, Policy Studies
5. Journal, the Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Political
Economy, and others.
General social science journals such as the American
Political Science Review, the
American Journal of Political Science, the American
Sociological Review, and the
American Economic Review may be helpful. Magazines and
web pages may be useful,
but they should not be relied upon exclusively
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Paper Proposal for Spring 2022
I would like to do my paper on the topic of connecting people to
meaningful work and how it drives our economy forward.
I hypothesize that when employees are passionate and satisfied
with their jobs, they are more detailed with their work, are
likely to grow within the organization, and report having a
better quality of life.
Preliminary Bibliography: More sources are to come.
Primary Sources:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mea ningful_Work_and_
Workplace_Democracy/aWyoBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=
How+being+connected+to+meaningful+work+drives+the+econo
my&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/all-things-work/pages/the-
search-for-meaning.aspx
http://www.digitalcommons.www.na-