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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Construction of Knowledge"”.
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The construction of knowledge amongst expert golf coaches from Europe, working at elite level
… to work with and understand a wide range of subject knowledge. However, as coaching seeks to be considered a profession, there appears little research into the “required knowledge/ expertise necessary for effectual practice” (Brewer & Jones, 2002, p.139). It has been proposed that to be …
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Microdevelopment of co-construction of knowledge during problem solving : puzzled minds, weird creatures, and wuggles
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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KNOWING THE NATURAL WORLD: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVOLUTION IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM
… underlying concept to a significant number of discourses in civilized society, but the complexity of understanding basic tenets of this important theory is just now coming to light. Knowledge about evolution is constructed from both formal and "free-choice" opportunities, like television. …
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KNOWING THE NATURAL WORLD: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVOLUTION IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM
… underlying concept to a significant number of discourses in civilized society, but the complexity of understanding basic tenets of this important theory is just now coming to light. Knowledge about evolution is constructed from both formal and "free-choice" opportunities, like television. …
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Midwifery knowledge and the medical student experience. An exploration of the concept of midwifery knowledge and its use in medical students' construction of knowledge during a specialist obstetric rotation
… is scarce. In the UK, despite a long tradition of providing midwifery attachments for medical students, it is almost non-existent. Working with midwives is arguably the only opportunity medical students have to experience holistic or social models of maternity care, focusing on normality rather …
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The Intersection of Writing Process Pedagogy and Prolepsis: A Phenomenological Case Study of Secondary Writing Instruction
<p>The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the lived experiences and essences of secondary high school students and participating teachers in a three-week summer journalism camp sponsored by the National Writing Project and funded by the MacArthur T. Foundation. This study employs …
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The Evolution of Pre -Service Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs About and Understandings of Mathematics: Toward a Community of Learning
The results of this study contribute to a growing body of research that seeks to understand how belief structures and conceptual understandings of mathematics influence pre-service teachers and, in turn, all of mathematics education. The study embraces the cyclical complexity of the influence of …
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Virtual Students/Virtual Teachers: the Reality of Student Responsibility in Education
<p>A wide range of possibilities exists for the use of computers in the freshman composition classroom. Computer technology can help students reach and understand new concepts of learning. A computer "pedagogy" in the writing class can promote collaboration, responsibility for learning, decentering …
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In Situ Vision: The Student Experience of Collaborative Learning in a Virtual Drawing Class
The purpose of this study was to elucidate the construct of collaboration and the co-construction of knowledge in a distance learning drawing class. Distance learning drawing classes are rare, due to resistance by fine arts departments holding onto traditions that date back to Renaissance times. As …
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Modernization and the Redefinition of Religion
This study is a social psychological examination of how modernization impacts the religious beliefs of individuals. A social construction of knowledge model is used to predict that exposure to modernization will lead to a redefinition of religious faith. This redefinition can be summarized as a …
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Discourses of health, sexuality and gender in the H360° HIV/AIDS education portal on MXit.
The widespread adoption of mobile communication by South African teenagers is playing an increasing role in their formation of identities and construction of knowledge. This dissertation uses feminist critical discourse analysis as an explanatory framework in order to investigate what types of …
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Os sentidos que surgem da interação dos alunos com as tecnologias no ensino fundamental
The focus of this research is the production of mearnings that arise from the interaction of the students wiht the computer in a elementary education of a public school from Malta city, PB. The theorical presuppositions for the analysis of this work ware the Bakhtin verbal interaction concept and …
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Writing in the Digital Era: New Dimensions for English Learners' Literacy
… where computers play an important role in the construction of knowledge. This study approaches theoretical and practical conceptions of the use of computers in education. Although the focus is on the development of writing skills of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students, this study …
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O lúdico como opção metodológica no contexto escolar
… general objective: to understand the importance of the play, as a methodological option in the acquisition of knowledge in the routines of early childhood education. Through play activities the child communicates with the world around them, build knowledge, and develops fully. Therefore, we …
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Jogos didáticos no ensino da multiplicação e da divisão de números naturais no sexto ano do ensino fundamental: relato e análise de uma experiência.
… this work we intend to propose, through the use of educational games to highlight its importance as a methodology for teaching and learning to present problem situations that can be worked on teaching the content of multiplication and division with integers. The teacher's role is central to this …
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