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Showing 1 to 20 of 292 for “"Active participation"”.
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Hybrid residues: exploring experiences of displacement through active participation in art practice
… and examines reciprocity between art practice, active participation, and traced memories of displacement. I review the significance of the active participation of the viewer with artwork which embodies personal experiences of war and displacement, with the aim of promoting what David Abram calls …
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Active participation of buildings in the power sector : the case of small office buildings
… poised to transform from passive consumers to active electricity market participants. A data-driven multi-zonal thermal response model is formulated and fit to EnergyPlus simulation data from a Department of Energy Small Office Reference Commercial Building for the months of June, July and …
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Boosting Chinese ESL Students' Active Participation in Classrooms in the U.S.: A Handbook for Teachers
<p>American language schools face a lot of challenges with Chinese students that stem from these students’ cultural beliefs and educational backgrounds. This field project is focused on addressing Chinese ESL students’ biggest learning obstacles in American schools, namely to participate in class …
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Local area planning and primary geography: enabling children’s active participation in local decision-making through primary geography education in the Republic of Ireland
… and policy provision. The benefits to the participation of children in planning processes include better outcomes, as well as educational and personal development benefits for children. The main barriers preventing effective participation of children in planning processes include a failure …
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Evaluating College Biology Laboratory Accommodations For Students With Blindness And Visual Impairments
<p>Studies show that active participation in science laboratory activities promotes student learning. However, students with blindness and visual impairments (BVI) often confront obstacles to active participation in the required activities of the college biology laboratory. Legislation requires …
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The critical state of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in Initial Teacher Education (ITE): an exploration of student teachers’ initial understandings of and experiences with, a ‘praxis’curriculum design to promote greater inclusion, equality and active participation in global democratic societies
… to promote greater inclusion, equality, and active participation in global democratic societies. The study is conducted at University College Cork (UCC) in collaboration with Professional Master of Education (PME) student teachers as they carry out their practices of praxis across various …
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An Intelligent Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Exoskeleton for Robotic Gait Rehabilitation
… task specific repetitive training and patients’ active participation can lead to more effective gait rehabilitation. However, conventional trajectory tracking controlled robotic gait rehabilitation could change the dynamics of the walking task, reduce inputs from patients’ motor systems, lower …
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Meditation and nocturnal dreams in the psychology of C. G. Jung : an experimental investigation
… between the therapeutic technique of Active Imagination, which he described as a form of meditation, and dreaming. In the present investigation, the laboratory and home dreams of seven experienced practitioners of Yogic meditation are compared to those of a group of seven matched …
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Developing dialogic mathematics teaching with tablet technology in Chinese primary school classrooms: A design-based research approach to teacher professional development
… and limited, inequitable and passive student participation are frequently reported in Chinese mathematics classrooms. Recently, the potential of digital technology to foster classroom dialogue has been the focus of a growing body of research. One of the key claims is the need to support …
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Professional Growth and Development: A Study of Exemplary Middle School Principals in Iowa
… perceived were conditions that influence their active participation,and the factors that influence their effectiveness. Procedures. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with fifteen exemplary Iowa middle school principals who were nominated by their peer as having good …
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The nature and dynamics of learning among caregivers in a national certificate training programme
… analyses the relationship between experience, participation and learning and seeks to establish how the experience of adult learners can be mobilised through active participation and how situational conditions can either facilitate or inhibit participation and learning amongst the learners. …
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A historical/legal analysis and case study of a high school art classroom as a least restrictive environment for students experiencing disabilities
… at the classroom level, one that provides for active participation and maximizes the student's involvement in his/her education. These barriers included the class's exercise of an inclusion-defined-as-proximity paradigm (especially regarding the student experiencing severe disabilities), along …
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The impact of new communications technology on filmed-entertainment copyrights
… its copyrights. These efforts also involved the active participation of the U.S. government. Accordingly, the government's role is of central interest in this work.
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Decarbonization of Power Systems, Multi-Stage Decision-Making with Policy and Technology Uncertainty
… of energy storage technologies and the active participation of demand in electricity systems requires the appropriate consideration of temporal and spatial resolution to properly account for the cost and value of different resources at the system level.
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And then the letting go
… into a frightening, yet exhilarating, life of active participation.</p> <p>Within a nine month temporal framework, the novel explores a period of psychological gestation which results in the birth of her new Identity. Sam Evans passes from frozen passivity ("The nerves sit ceremonious, like …
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Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
… something new and unforeseen that involved the active participation of many social agents (such as farmers, consumers, laws, neighbors, land grant universities, capital investments, government agencies, agricultural companies, and grassroots organizations) and physical agents (such as swine, …
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Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation
… identifying it to be based on a duality of an active performer and passive audience, and suggests ways in which this form sponsors ‘everyday’ social structures and relations, emphasizing rationality and individuality. It follows this by proposing an alternative form of performance, one of …
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Determining continual improvement process methods within quality management systems
… standards require organizations to actively define and implement quality management systems, which includes active participation in continual improvement efforts. Interpretations and practices vary on implementation methodology. Traditional views of quality do not integrate the …
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Arts space under (narrative) construction.
… gentrification and the influences limiting their active participation in complicating that narrative.
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Towards a Sustainable Knowledge Sharing Environment for Online Research Communities
… communities have suffered from the lack of active user participation. To explore this problem it is necessary to study both social and technical issues. In this thesis, social and economic theories have been employed to investigate users' demand and behaviour in an online knowledge-sharing …
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