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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Disciplinary Knowledge"”.
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Teachers' and students' 'relationships with knowledge' : an exploration of the organisation of knowledge within disciplinary and educational contexts
… nature of students' engagement with disciplinary knowledge, primarily in further education contexts. The disciplinary nature of students' engagement is frequently obscured by concerns relating to their engagement with educational processes. A model which distinguishes between …
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Student Explanations in Content and Language Integrated Learning
… an investigation of students’ explanations of disciplinary knowledge in content and language integrated learning (CLIL). In recent years, an increased interest in teaching content subjects in a foreign language (FL) has brought a growing body of research on CLIL (e.g., Dalton-Puffer, 2007; …
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A Comparative Study of the Cognitive Integration of Disciplinary and Societal Knowledge Between First-year and Senior Engineering Students Through Mathematical Modeling: An Epistemic Network Analysis
… structures. Therefore, it is essential to expand knowledge in engineering education research regarding learning experiences that foster engineering students’ integration between disciplinary and social knowledge. This dissertation aimed to compare the cognitive integration processes of …
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The recontextualisation of architecture and accounting education: Views from the academy and the professions
… of architecture and accounting professional disciplinary knowledge following the recontextualisation and shift of professional learning into higher education in New Zealand. This study set out to examine how and in what way architecture and accounting knowledge and professional identity are …
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Conceptualising design knowledge and its recontextualisation in the studiowork component of a design foundation curriculum
… curriculum, which has to impart subject knowledge and specialized knowledge valued by industry, whilst simultaneously encouraging the acquisition of vocational identity. This study of a Design Foundation Course’s curriculum is located at a University of Technology which is currently …
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An Investigation of the Integration of Science, Mathematics and Technology within a Technological Design Context
… class were analysed with a focus on the knowledge and skills used while designing individualised projects (street luge gravity-powered vehicle) with a view to identifying the integration of cross-disciplinary knowledge. This research is aligned with the elements of both interpretive and …
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Critical thinking across the disciplines: understanding and application
… a unique lens through which to consider the disciplinary knowledge practices of each discipline area, and how these impact on the development of critical thinking. Whilst a number of studies have explored disciplinary understandings of critical thinking, none of them as yet have considered …
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The nature of engineering and science knowledge in curriculum: a case study in thermodynamics
Abstract The study explores the nature of disciplinary knowledge differences and similarities between the sciences and the engineering sciences as these appear in curriculum texts. The work is presented as a case study of curriculum knowledge in thermodynamics, and the epistemic properties are …
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Citation Context Analysis of Theory Use in Instructional Design and Technology Academic Articles
… to an understanding of how theory has shaped IDT disciplinary knowledge and augments discourse analysis and bibliometrics by examining the context in which theory is incorporated into academic publication.
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Many mini model homes
… itself as a critical tool in the deliverance of disciplinary knowledge. Producing a book became a milestone for many architects in cementing themselves as authoritative figures within the architectural profession. Acting as broadcasting devices, these books were utilized as instruments of …
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Efficient Automated Generation of Local Descriptors for Use in ab initio Electronic Structure Simulations
… This approach opens up possibilities for cross-disciplinary knowledge and techniques from computer vision, which may further improve the accuracy and efficiency of electronic structure calculations.
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Going Beyond the Outcome Assessment Minimum: Toward a Framework to Assess Students' Integrative Learning in a University General Education Program
… continuous process of integrative learning from disciplinary knowledge to application to real world and established an initial framework for assessing students learning outcomes of integration. Finally, the research provided implications for researchers and practitioners to utilize the instrument …
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Decolonizing visualities: changing cultural paradigms, freeing ourselves from Western-centric epistemes.
… pervasively held as the only basis for knowledge production. In turn, this philosophical position delegitimises any other epistemologies or methodological frameworks from elsewhere. In many cases, the methods of teaching and assessing subscribe, impose and perpetuate these same protocols …
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Food For Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, and Critical Food Literacy
… This project contributes to and deepens disciplinary knowledge in the areas of critical food literacy, community-engaged pedagogy and sustainability.</p>
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Undergraduate engineering students' experiences of interdisciplinary learning: a phenomenographic perspective
… are expected to work with people with different disciplinary knowledge to solve real-world problems that are inherently complex, which is one of the reasons that interdisciplinary learning has become a common pedagogical practice in engineering education. However, empirical evidence on the impact …
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Privileging Tacit Knowledge within a Software Engineering Curriculum: A Living Educational Theory of Practice
… practice by questioning the nature of knowledge I valued as a lecturer. This questioning led me to develop my ‘living educational theory’ (Whitehead, 1989, p.41) of privileging tacit knowledge within a Software Engineering curriculum. My living educational theory is grounded in ideas of …
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Spiritual caregiving silence : an exploration of the phenomenon and its value in end-of-life care
… and their family members, by drawing on cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience. The interpretive process, illuminated by examples of specialist lived experience, has produced a deeper understanding of the phenomenon that may find resonance with the experience of other caregivers, to …
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London Zoo, Commercial Television, and Primate Ethology from the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape
… behaviour which circulated widely, shaping disciplinary knowledge in ethology - the evolutionary science of animal behaviour - industry norms of natural-history broadcasting, and the institutional identity of London Zoo. High hopes for financial and scientific rewards brought the unit into …
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Conceptualising differentiated forms of knowledge : the Medical (MBChB) curriculum of the University of Cape Town
… review is a better understanding of how disciplinary knowledge is recontextualised into educational knowledge. This study is an investigation into the concepts of differentiated forms of knowledge that inform the Medical (MBChB) curriculum of the University of Cape Town (UCT). The object …
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Exploring and Understanding the Practices, Behaviors, and Identities of Hip-hop Based Educators in Urban Public High School English/Language Arts Classrooms
… from hip-hop culture can be used to transmit disciplinary knowledge, improve student motivation, teach critical media literacy, and foster critical consciousness among urban students in traditional and non-traditional K-12 learning environments. However, the field's overreliance on firsthand …
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