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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Critical learning"”.
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Accidental and lifelong activists: embodied knowledge, identity and learning
… on activists’ pedagogy in the context of critical learning. Learning in social action is largely seen as taking place informally. Learning is tacit and implied and not always identified or articulated as knowledge or learning. This thesis expands and builds on the existing scholarship …
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Neural substrates of avoidance behavior: The afferent limb
… conditioning, sources of afferent input to critical learning-related limbic structures were examined for their influence on neuronal activity and behavior.
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The 'feeling of what happens' in fourth year : exploring the emotive dimensions of learning in a communication design programme
… and renewal in my approach to teaching, learning and research. The research is a product of insights gained through the holistic theories of cognition offered by enactivism and complexity thinking. Some of the more established learning theories have clarified areas of concern I …
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Turning Inward: Students’ Experiences with Mindful Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy in Higher Education
… participants and interviews and analysis of critical multimodal art projects with 14 student participants, this study sought to explore three research questions: 1) how students describe their engagement with mindfulness in a sociology of body course 2) how students describe their …
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A Study to Determine Teacher Attitudes Towards Evaluation and Assessment of Students' Progress and the Relationships of Student Grades With the Missouri Mastery and Achievement Test
… as to the MMAT's inability to measure the most critical learning of children. Communication with parents was cited as most important to grading and evaluating students. Teachers addressed inconsistency as a problem in grade determination. A need for more uniform guidelines between both teachers …
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Growing 'homeplace' In Critical Service-Learning: An Urban Womanist Pedagogy
<p>This dissertation explores the role of critical service-learning from the perspective of urban community members. Specifically, it examines the counternarratives produced by Black women community gardeners who engage in academic service-learning with postsecondary faculty. The study focuses on …
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All for one and one for all: building communities of practice during a secondary social studies student teaching experience
… model with regard to participants’ experiential learning, instructional practices, and collaborative relationships. Presenting findings in three distinct narratives of critical learning incidents, I then discuss the student teachers’ situational learning through the theoretical framework of …
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Tinkering with Nature of Science (NOS) learning: The development of an evidence-based coding framework to identify primary pupils’ encounters with NOS when Tinkering
… is here defined as an approach to inquiry-based learning (IBL) that offers a playful, pupil-led, hands-on approach to investigation and construction, with wide walls, high ceiling, and a low threshold to entry. After investigation into alternative approaches, this study uses the consensus view of …
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The Development of Intercultural Maturity in Second Year College Students
… of our experiences in a global setting is a critical learning outcome in order to address the complex issues of society. Higher education associations have deemed intercultural competence as an important outcome for graduates and international education is often a key strategy to realizing …
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Exploring the strategies used by grade 6 teachers in the teaching of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Ngwelezane Circuit schools
… including, inter alia, encouraging an Active and Critical approach to learning rather than rote learning and uncritical learning of given truths. Teaching strategies play a role in developing the love of the subject. South African Science teachers are struggling due to inadequate Science content …
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Investigating Global Englishes-oriented teacher development through the lens of transformative learning theory: A study of South Korean elementary EFL teachers’ experiences
… development. By drawing on transformative learning theory, a framework that is widely used to explicate critical learning of adults, this study aims to provide a theorised account of the outcomes, processes, and factors of GE-oriented teacher development. The study took place in South …
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Teaching for Thinking: an action research inquiry into the Pedagogical potential of modern literature to foster critical thinking and facilitate critical consciousness in third level students.
… use of modern literature in fostering critical thinking and facilitating critical consciousness in adulthood. This thesis will make a small but significant contribution to knowledge in the field. My original contribution to knowledge lies in releasing the pedagogical potential of modern …
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The principal as learner: perceptions, beliefs and experiences of nineteen New Zealand principals
… be principals? How did they perceive that their learning impacted on their practice? A self-study paralleled the study of the principals, as a study of an educational manager who was not a principal. The qualitative methodology applied in the study was grounded theory. The methodology and the …
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Critical theory, adult learning and‘xenophobia’: a critical perspective on Umoja wa Afrika’s human rights peer education programme
… attitudes. This long research paper presents a critical analysis of how a human rights and counter-xenophobia peer educators’ programme enables young adults to develop a critical consciousness about human rights and ‘xenophobia’. The research focused on learning materials, course content, …