Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Culture of Learning"”.
-
Drug Abuse and the Culture of Learning
This study encompasses the phenomenon of drug abuse in the context of learning and teaching. The researcher endeavoured to explore certain aspects of this phenomenon in this particular context in view of a growing concern about the apparent demise of a culture of learning in our schools and related …
-
A Culture of Learning in One Non-Profit Organization
The purpose of my research is to describe and analyze the facets of the learning culture in one non-profit organization. Based on my reading, I define a learning culture as: the observable and unobservable processes, structures, norms, and communication patterns that support ongoing, work-related, …
-
The culture of learning in Khayelitsha secondary schools: teachers' perspectives
… on teachers' perspectives on improving the culture of learning in their schools. The 'culture of learning' is a term which has achieved widespread popular usage, serving as a catch phrase to describe the overall crisis in education. Broadly defined, the 'culture of learning' refers to the …
-
Parent-educator partnership and the culture of learning and teaching in secondary schools in KwaZulu-Natal
The issue of involving parents in education has been explored by several studies in the past with all pointing towards greater success than failures amongst learners whose parents work in partnership with educators. Parental involvement not only ensures maximum development of learner-motivation, …
-
An analysis of the extent and effects of politics on KwaZulu-Natal secondary schools
… sought to determine; "the extent and effects of politics on KwaZutu-Natal Secondary Schools". The study was influenced by the fact that politics is inescapable so are the consequences of politics. As an introduction the History of Politics and Education in South Africa was reviewed. It was …
-
THE PRINCIPAL’S ROLE AND IMPACT ON TEACHER ATTRITION IN AN URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VANDERBILT ASSESSMENT OF LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION (VAL-ED) RATINGS AND TEACHER ATTRITION.
… achievement is the quality and commitment of the teachers who are providing rigorous instruction. As efforts to recruit more individuals into the teaching profession have been successful, determining how to keep highly qualified teachers who provide meaningful and effective instruction …
-
Lunch Tutoring in One High School’s Regular Daily Schedule: A Policy Advocacy Document.
… steps for reconfiguring a school culture as a learning community that values the potential of student and teacher school day time for effective, beyond the classroom, academic support. Stakeholders efficiently leverage all available time for highly engaged, innovative learning in a …
-
Acts of Resistance – Cultural Humility in Action: How First Nations Health Authority Employees Have Become Catalysts for Systems Change and Equity
… Authority (FNHA) employees with deep practices of cultural humility participated in this action-oriented research to answer the question: How might the lived experience of FNHA employees, who have a sustained commitment to cultural humility and who enact acts of resistance against colonialism …
-
Chinese Postgraduate Students in a British University: Their Learning Experiences and Learning Beliefs
This thesis is an ethnographic study of a group of Chinese postgraduate students in a British university as they become adjusted to the culture of teaching and learning in the new learning environment during their first year of overseas study. It focuses on these Chinese students’ initial …
-
Traditions of Learning in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya (296-362/909-973): Networks, Practices, and Institutions
… the practices, networks, and institutions of learning (ʿilm) in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya with a focus on the practice of disputation (munāẓara) in its scholarly and courtly contexts — in the majālis — and the relationship between the learned elite of Ifrīqiya and the ruling Fāṭimid dynasty. It …
-
Mapping a Late Antique Republic of Letters
This is a study of how the letters of Procopius of Gaza, Aeneas of Gaza, Synesius of Cyrene, and Isidore of Pelusium, created circuits of intellectual sociability and exchange transcending the territorial limits of Empire and thereby affirmed their participation in a common culture of Learning. The …
-
Building and sustaining a culture of assessment: How student affairs programs assess and contribute to student learning and development in the co-curricular and curricular environments
… study analyzed how three award-winning divisions of Student Affairs are using assessment to show evidence of student learning and development at their institutions. There is a movement in U.S. higher education toward increased accountability through outcomes assessment. Institutions are called …
-
Examining the role of organisational learning in customer relations management : a case study of microfinance institutions in the Central business district of Lusaka, Zambia.
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of organisational learning in customer relations management, using a case study of Microfinance Institutions in the central business district of Lusaka, Zambia. The study was prompted by the problem of a continuous rise in customer complaints. This …
-
Examining the role of organisational learning in customer relations management : a case study of microfinance institutions in the Central business district of Lusaka, Zambia.
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of organisational learning in customer relations management, using a case study of Microfinance Institutions in the central business district of Lusaka, Zambia. The study was prompted by the problem of a continuous rise in customer complaints. This …
-
Increasing student active engagement and deeper learning in the classroom: Using targeted professional learning interventions to enhance instructional practices through expanding teachers’ capacity and self-efficacy in a rural K-12 school
… is a huge divide in the academic performance of economically disadvantaged students and their peers. Many school districts, especially those that serve a disproportionate percentage of economically disadvantaged students, have chosen to address this achievement gap by narrowing the curriculum …
-
Famílias Indigenas Entre Mundos: Standing in Pachakuti, Living in Chi’xi Within the Constellation of Their Comunidad de Saberes
… spread your sunrays, no matter winds or clouds of colonization that strive to dim you. This qualitative study explored ways Indigenous Latine families negotiate a sense of place within onto-epistemological realities and their home culture of learning and Western education. This research is …
-
Assembling the socio-educational spheres within contested urban environments: The Role of a Community Learning Hub in a Contested Urban Environment
Within the context of this dissertation, community transformative education is regarded as a pathway to an explicit community lifelong learning culture of learning. It aims to liberate marginalized communities from states of oppressive socio- economic status-quos within contested urban locations. …
-
Pre-service Chinese English as A Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers Perceptions about Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching
The government of China requires that the Communicative Language Teaching Approach (CLT) should be applied in primary and secondary school English education by issuing the New Curriculum early in 2001 to develop learners competence of using the language; however, implementation of CLT is still a …
-
Blended Learning In Elementary Schools: An Interdependent Enterprise
… qualitative case study, bounded by a scope of leadership, was one way to analyze how leaders encouraged teachers to leverage blended learning in the public elementary school. The theoretical framework lending to cognitivism included sociocultural cognition and contingency theory. With the …
Page 1 of 3