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From Chaos to Clarity: Educating Emergency Managers

O'Connor, Michael J, Jr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1123250948

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2005, Doctor of Education, University of Akron, Educational Administration-Higher Education Administration.
Emergency management is a rapidly growing and evolving discipline and profession. While only two degree-level programs existed prior to 1995 these two programs were joined by an additional forty programs by 2005. These new programs contributed to a broad expansion of courses and instructional materials. However, none of this growth and expansion had been guided by a commonly agreed upon curricular framework. This meant that programs within and between degree-levels varied widely on what they defined as an appropriate emergency management curriculum. The past several years have seen repeated efforts by a small group of academics and practitioners to develop a curricular framework out of lists of competencies, functions, skills, etc. This research combined and refined those earlier efforts into a unified list of broad goals, which were qualitatively and quantitatively studied to identify sets of goals sufficient to describe a curriculum appropriate for emergency management bachelor’s and master’s degree-level programs.
Sandra Coyner (Advisor)
276 p.
Emergency Management; Homeland Security; FEMA; Disaster Science; Hazard Management

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  • O'Connor, Jr., M. J. (2005). From Chaos to Clarity: Educating Emergency Managers [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1123250948

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • O'Connor, Jr., Michael. From Chaos to Clarity: Educating Emergency Managers. 2005. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1123250948.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • O'Connor, Jr., Michael. "From Chaos to Clarity: Educating Emergency Managers." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1123250948

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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