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Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff
This paper reports on the application of culture change methodology to co-design a whole-of-university health and wellbeing strategy. We outline considerations that necessitate a change in the way higher education contributes to student and staff mental ...
Berni Cooper +2 more
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Appreciative Inquiry for stress management [PDF]
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the innovative application of an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach for the design and implementation of organizational stress management interventions, alongside a case study of the successful design and implementation of the approach.
Ravalier, J.M +2 more
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Narrative inquiry has often been merged with other methodologies to conduct research in schools. Its interweaving with appreciative inquiry as a methodology to research within education, however, is newly emerging.
Allison Tucker
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Leading schools as complex systems: exploring a new strengths-based approach
IntroductionEducation has become a complex and unpredictable landscape, creating a need for a paradigm shift in school leadership from deficit-based “firefighting” to designing new, strengths-based approaches that can effectively address emerging ...
Michael Ian Johnson
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Communities of knowledge and knowledge of communities: An appreciative inquiry into rural wellbeing
This article offers a retrospective examination of the use of appreciative inquiry (AI) in a study on rural wellbeing. It provides a reflection on the rationale for choosing AI as a suitable methodology, critiques the application of AI in rural settings ...
Kathleen May Kevany, Margaret MacMichael
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{Excerpt} Every organization has something that works right, even if only in small quantities. Hence, it might be easier to foster organizational effectiveness by focusing on what one wants more (not what one wants less of). Getting people to inquire into the best examples of what they want more of creates a momentum toward the creation of more ...
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The Role of Social Security and Appreciative Inquiry in the Work of a Social Service Manager
The article focuses on the importance of social security and appreciative inquiry in the work of social service managers, with particular emphasis on the role of social workers.
Jozef Mlynski +4 more
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Orientation: Considering the impact of the unprecedented worldwide changes on employee well-being; well-being will increasingly become a competitive edge for organisations. The focus of this study was on appreciative inquiry (AI) as intervention for well-
Dirk J. Geldenhuys
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Objectives: Paediatric obesity predicts adult obesity, and alarming new data in New Zealand reveals that obesity among the young continues to rise. In this study, we used a novel solution‐focused paradigm, or appreciative inquiry perspective, to explore ...
Tasileta Teevale, Joseph K. Kaholokula
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O presente artigo tem por objetivo delinear uma visão da avaliação como um processo, no qual aspectos positivos e generativos do contexto interativo podem ser explorados.
Laura Vilela e Souza +2 more
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