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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Curriculum Theory"”.
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The Individual and The Educated Imagination: An Essay in Curriculum Theory
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Phenomenology, Film and Curriculum Theory: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Persona of Teachers
Teachers have lost autonomy due to the restraints placed on them by local and state standards and standardized testing. I am concerned that teachers have lost sight of their purpose as intellectuals who guide students in the development of critical thinking skills. In this dissertation, I used film …
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String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment
Curriculum Theory affords us the opportunity to examine education from a multitude of directions. This work takes advantage of that opportunity to explore the relationships between science, nature, and curriculum using string theory and our ideas about the environment as a backdrop. Both the energy …
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So-journeying: creating sacred space in education
… given to school, education, teaching and curriculum from an African/African American perspective. This inquiry is based on my experiences as an African American woman curriculum theorist committed to the education of African American youth. Drawing on the lifework of Sojourner Truth, a …
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Beyond the Veil: A Case Study of Context, Culture, Curriculum, and Constructivism at Dubai Women's College
This case study of curriculum at Dubai Women's College (DWC) examines perceptions of international educators who designed and implemented curriculum for female Emirati higher-educational students in the UAE, and sheds light on the complex social, cultural, and religious factors affecting …
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Theoretical Conceptions of Curriculum: Implications for Juvenile Correctional Education
… has not undertaken the theoretical analysis of curriculum within which current methods and programs can be evaluated. Procedures. Content analysis is employed to determine the theoretical orientation of juvenile correctional curriculum. Articles relevant to juvenile correctional education …
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Perennial Educational Tensions: Saint Gregory Palamas’s Approach to Byzantium’s Exothen and Kath’imas Educational Traditions & Its Consequences for Thinking with Byzantium in a Contemporary Context
… of exothen and kath’imas education, which in theory, is ratified as the official position of the Orthodox Church in Byzantium thereafter. There are four studies in this work representing the interplay of the three areas of academic specialization required for a comprehensive examination of …
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Soils of regeneration: exploring conceptualizations of the natural world as a context for an ecologically-sensitive curriculum
… might be used as a basis for new curriculum theorizing. In looking at our relationship to Earth, this dissertation explores the notion of intersubjectivity (Abram, 1996) as expressed in philosophical and theoretical writings on participatory consciousness (Berman, 1981, Abram, …
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ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ ΕΓΧΕΙΡΙΔΙΩΝ ΞΕΝΩΝ ΓΛΩΣΣΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΗ ΤΟΥΣ ΩΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΤΑΛΛΗΛΟΤΗΤΑΓΙΑ ΕΠΙΔΙΩΞΗ ΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΤΟΧΩΝ
… TEACHING MATERIALS ANALYSIS, WHICH IS BASED ON "CURRICULUM THEORY" AND MORE SPECIFICALY ON ITSBRANCH KNOWN AS "TAXONOMIES OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES". THE MODEL PERMITS THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF EACH TEACHING/LEARNING ACTIVITY IN THE MATERIAL, AS WELL AS THE EVALUATION OF …
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Sympathetic Rationality in Elementary Schools
… and the Educated Imagination: An Essay in Curriculum Theory, which was accepted by the Graduate College of the University of Illinois in 1969. Building on the Starratt concepts which were geared for a secondary school curriculum, this study attempts to identify the factors influencing …
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Developing a Responsive Curriculum for 6th Grade Art Students' Critical Consciousness and Empowerment
… study provided important insights regarding art curriculum research. First, this research investigated how various social issues were identified by students, and the effects of a responsive instructional approach that sought to engage these students. Various types of students' critical …
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Curriculum and the Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure
… lenses to explore the intersection of curriculum theory and the Geographic Cure. I first discuss the effects of parental alcoholism, then examine the impact of frequent family moves upon school-aged children in general. What follows is my assertion that the chaotic melding of those two …
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Growing Up Biracial and Gay in the Deep South: Living between the Color/Gender Lines
… racism and heterosexism, I turned to curriculum theory (e.g., Pinar, Reynolds, Slattery & Taubman, 2002) that encompass race, class, gender (e.g., Giroux, 1992), sexual orientation (e.g., Savin-William, 2005) and place (e.g., Pinar, 1991) as well as critical race theory (e.g., Tate, …
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Christian Curricular Emphases and Academic Rigor in Fine Arts: A Mixed Methods Study
… It then examined qualitative areas, such as curriculum theory, Christian school curriculum, fine arts curricula emphasis, and academic rigor in fine arts. This study then considered the quantitative literature regarding academic rigor, Bible literacy, and fine arts AP course offerings. Few …
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21st century tertiary design education in post-apartheid South Africa : a question of quality
… the higher educational providers do in terms of curriculum and methodology that creates excellence? In the first part the dissertation traces the development of higher education policy in South Africa following the political changes from Apartheid to Democracy after 1994. It explores the …
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Defining and understanding the role of cofaqs in teacher education : a multiphase sequential exploratory mixed methods hermeneutic study
… during a subsequent semester to assist with curriculum development and instruction. Utilizing an original theoretical framework of hermeneutic connoisseurship-bricolage derived from philosophical hermeneutics, educational connoisseurship, and bricolage, this study consisted of four distinct …
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Traversing Creative Space, Transforming Higher Education: A Contemporary Curricular Vision of Teaching and Learning
… of a PhD level Education course, Contemporary Curriculum Theory. Findings from this exploratory study informed a multiple-case study that involved the observation of two graduate level courses, Professionals in Rural Practice and The Lived Experience of Disability, which together form the unit …
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Exhibiting Climate Change: An Examination of the Thresholds of Arts-Sciences Collaborations in the Context of Learning for a Sustainable Future
… to climate change. Drawing on sustainability theory, Jacques Rancière’s theory of political aesthetics, Grant Kester’s theory of artistic collaboration, phenomenological curriculum theory, and Tim Ingold’s notion of wayfinding, the dissertation describes these expeditionary field studies as …
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Incorporating technology into the Lesotho science curriculum: investigating the gap between the intended and the implemented curriculum
The inclusion of technology in the school curriculum has been a concern in many countries following the 1990 Jomtien World Conference on Education for ALL (Jenkins, 1996). However, there are different perspectives and views about technology education. As a result technology has been included in the …
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Interkulturell förståelse i engelskundervisning - en möjlighet.
… study draws on perspectives applied to culture theory (Street, Hannerz, Thavenius, Sjögren), current theories about language and culture (Kramsch, Byram, Risager), critical discourse analysis (Fairclough) and curriculum theory (Svingby, Englund). The intercultural dimension of EFL form an order …
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