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Showing 1 to 20 of 304 for “"Curriculum and Social Inquiry"”.
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Multicultural Attitudes of Construction Management Students in a Rural Southern University
… influences of a critical multicultural education curriculum on the multicultural attitudes of construction management students in a higher education construction management program. This research study used a survey instrument along with classroom observations, field notes and a research diary to …
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Connected: An Artist’s Investigation into Digital Communication
… conflict I have with digital communication and its impact on social interactions. I draw inspiration from historic ceramic artworks for my wheel-thrown and hand-built forms. My traditionally inspired utilitarian forms are ornamented with surface decorations that represent contemporary …
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Identification of the At-Risk Mathematics Student Within the Community College Environment
… student for correct placement, monitoring, and retention. A comparison in academic achievement of at-risk, remediated students with nonremedial students in a first college-level mathematics class (Intermediate Algebra 101) was also studied.</p> <p>Method. The ex post facto study sought to …
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Factors that impinge upon the implementation of a formally structured pastoral care programme in a government school
… that societal ills have entered the schools and become manifest in the school environment in the forms of student alienation from the mainstream of the school community and pressures upon schools to provide a range of care related services Although schools are not responsible for the ills of …
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Ethnographic Narrative Project: At Promise
… I examine my history, process, environment, and changing contexts in the transition to becoming a teacher. My initial intention was to examine myself deeply and formulate a coherent classroom process and presence to facilitate the social, educational, and civic growth and learning that I want …
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A Survey of Practices and Attitudes of Elementary Educators Regarding Playground Supervision in Douglas and Chelan Counties
… in selected schools in Central Washington, and (3) to gather information that would aid teachers and administrators in the elementary school playground supervisory problem.
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Identification of Key Strategies for School Effectiveness and How They Are Implemented, as Perceived by Administrators and Teachers In Selected Exemplary Private Secondary Schools
<p>Problem. Educators in the 1970s and early 1980s identified characteristics of effective schools. But researchers had not addressed the problem of identifying what strategies exemplary schools used to make the characteristics effective, nor how the strategies were implemented.</p> <p>Method. …
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A Tempest in the Halls: Intersections of Social Justice, Student Collaboration, and Devised Theatre
… increasing disconnection exists between students and schooling as these formal institutions continue to prioritize high-stakes testing and quantitative measures over the specific needs of individual learners. Drama attempts to interrogate spaces in all echelons of social and economic standing and …
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A sociocultural approach to the study of an ICT curriculum for at-risk students in Singapore
This thesis describes the curriculum and classroom practices of a Computer Applications (CPA) classroom in Singapore. It attempts to answer the question: why and how the affordances of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been or have not been perceived and taken up in the CPA …
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THE BLUEPRINT OF REFORM, SOCIAL JUSTICE QUESTIONS, AND THE MISSING PERSPECTIVE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
… successful in assimilating European immigrants and their descendants, this has not been the case for nonwhites. Orfield points out the fact that Native Americans, African Americans, and people of Mexican origin in the United States received little education until well into the twentieth century …
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Vagabond: Returning To Autoethnography As A Doctoral Nomad
… a journey into what is described as a purposeful and rhizomatic inquiry of spaces and places in knowing. It prompts questioning within the author such as, “What has this doctoral journey come to mean, and where do I go now as I step outside the roots which have planted in me this need to wander? …
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Teaching Bodies: Curriculum and Corporeality
… expecting a third child while teaching full-time and pursuing a doctoral degree, and in earnest later that year at Bergamo, where I began to see a connection between my own interest in desires and bodies as they relate to education and the work of several of my colleagues. I began to think about …
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Journaling as a Tool to Improve Story Comprehension for Kindergarten Students.
… twenty-four stories to the class. The class was randomly divided into Group A and Group B, with 3 focus participants from each group retelling the story. The retelling was audio taped and analyzed using Morrow's (2001) procedures. Group B experienced the intervention of story journaling on the …
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An Empirical Study of Factors Associated with Physical Fitness of Sixth Grade Students
… achieved on the Elementary School Fitness Test and the following factors: (1) the economic level of the neighborhood in which the schools were located; (2) family size; (3) achievement scores on the Iowa Basic Skills Test; (4) absenteeism of the students; and (5) health history of students.
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Some Creative Processes Involved in an Original Children’s Play
… the writer with an opportunity to write, produce and evaluate the creative processes involved in an original children's play. It provided insights into writing, directing, producing an original script, and to children's plays in general.
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The Perceptions of Students, Teachers, and Parents Regarding the Value of the LIFESKILLS and Lifelong Guidelines Program.
… acts of violence prompting many schools to adopt and implement character education programs. Character education has been defined as educating students to understand, act upon, and care about universal virtues like respect, truthfulness, responsibility, and caring. There are many character …
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Relationship between Implementing Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Fifth Graders' Attitudes toward School.
… Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and fifth graders' attitudes toward school. The focus population consisted of fifth grade students within a 300-mile radius of Kingsport, Tennessee. Surveys were administered to students at 15 elementary schools. Data were collected from five …
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Teaching to the Heart: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Elementary Educators’ Journey Toward Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice
… school boards of education have banned books and Critical Race Theory while attacking social justice teaching pedagogies. Presently, there is growing empirical research on teaching mathematics for social justice in public elementary schools. This study explored the ways in which public …
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The Efficacy And Limits Of The Collegiate Men Of Distinction Mentoring Program
… this research was to examine the effectiveness and limitations of the Collegiate Men of Distinction mentoring program. This program was created to combat low persistence rates among the Black male population at the University. In creating the program, young men were given an opportunity to gain …
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PEDAGOGICAL PRAXIS IN AN AGE OF PRIVATIZATION: THE CONTRADICTION OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
… inconsistency between pedagogical theory and uncritical practice in education, specifically in charter schools. The researcher reflects on the historical creation of charter schools to fulfill the needs of struggling students in contrast to a perception of modern charter schools that are …
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