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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Education--Social Sciences"”.
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A casa de Minerva: entre a ilha e o palácio - os discursos sobre os lugares como metáfora da identidade institucional
… the structuring process of the university education in Brazil, inserted in a nationality construction project, drawing on theoretical frameworks from the fields of History of Education, Social Sciences, Social Memory and Language. We start out from the principle that the construction of a …
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An Examination of Pre -Service Teacher Knowledge of Subject Matter and Its Effects on Curriculum Selection and Instructional Decision Making
The findings of the study indicated variable knowledge of South Africa by teachers and the presence of teacher misconceptions about Africa in general and South Africa in particular. The study supported a schema-based theory of knowledge representation and the theory of constructivism. Those …
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The Unbelievable Truth and the Dilemmas of Ignorance: Rethinking Student Resistance in Social Justice Education
… the past play themselves out in the present in social justice teacher education. I examine obstacles involved in coming to understand how each and everyone of us is (albeit in different ways) complicit in ongoing social and global injustice, and, more specifically, how we often we fail to see …
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Teachers' Ideologies and Reports of Practice: A Cross-Cultural Study (New Zealand, United States)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' ideologies and reported classroom practices in New Zealand and the United States. In addition, an attempt was made to identify those factors that prevented teachers from teaching in a way that was consistent with their …
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Qualitative Aspects of Egyptian Social Studies Textbooks
… study considered some critical problems in the social studies curriculum in the Egyptian preparatory school, i.e., the school serving students in grades seven to nine.
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Denominationalism or Nationalism: A Conflict Analysis of Secondary School Reforms in Trinidad, West Indies
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The Categorization of Students' Points of View in The Process of Value Analysis
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Adolescent Parenting and Parenthood Preparedness: Procedures for Collection of Opinions About Children, Child Rearing, Parenting, and Parent Education From Rural County Secondary Schools
The purpose of this study was to assess the opinions and skills of secondary school students concerning their state of preparedness for assuming the parenting role. A questionnaire designed by the researcher was used to accomplish this purpose. The study examined the opinions high school students …
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Ethnicity and Schooling - Aboriginal-Australian Children in a Suburban Australian School
… as but one institution by which systems of social dominance are reinforced. Bias in favour of dominant groups is seen to be built into the everyday, generally accepted, operative culuture of the institution, so that the skills and values required for success in school are those generated …
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The Dissemination of Information on Title Ix, Sex Equity Legislation, to Teachers
… Title IX, the sex equity provision of the 1972 Education Amendments, to teachers in Minnesota. The study focused on describing that process, determining what conditions (political constraints, financial resources, etc.) have affected the process, and assessing the effectiveness of the …
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Fifth Grade Pupils' Understanding of Terms Encountered in Their Social Studies Texts
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Essays on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
… are aimed at preserving the individual and social welfare in society. The latter refers to measures that allow individuals to adjust to changing climate conditions. Although research in mitigation of climate change has considerably increased recently, studies on the economics of adaptation …
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Determinants of Choice of College Major Among Women and Men: Comparisons of Cohorts in the Late 1960s and 1970s (Sex Differences)
The primary purpose of this study is to examine factors related to the choice of college major among young women. The study compares a cohort of women in the late 1970s with one in the late 1960s to explain the dramatic increase in the relative representation of women in nontraditional fields …
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Educated Afghan women in search of their identities
This study was conducted among educated and uneducated working women of Kabul, Afghanistan, during 1986-88, to determine how these women dealt with the dual role of home and office while the predominant tradition of Islam encourage their confinement to the private domain of home, and to the role of …
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Playing in the Margins: Collaboration Between Local Party Organizations in the Canadian Party System
Collaboration between local party organizations is a peculiar organizational trait for Canadian political parties. It is peculiar because local party organizations were once conceived to be solely concerned with electoral activities in their own district, while central parties helped local …
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A Re-Evaluation of the Educational Production Function
… economic fields of labor and development to view education as an input into the production process of individual goods or the economy as a whole. In this dissertation, I look at the process by which education itself is produced. In particular I look at the educational production process which …
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Social Science, Social Cohesion, and Moral Uplift: The Historian and the Development of Modern American Secondary School History Curricula
… to explore the influence of the scientific, social, political, and moral beliefs prevalent among American historians on the development of modern American secondary school history curricula at the end of the nineteenth century. It traces both the origins of the American historical profession …
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International education assistance to higher education development in Zambia: Problems, policy implications and future prospects
Although most comments and implications in the study refer to the Zambian situation, the author thinks that they are a representative example of the pervasive issues and problems inherent in the aid process. It is therefore concluded that the findings, recommendations and conclusions are in many …
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Social studies reform in Illinois: Teachers' perceptions of the Illinois educational reform package of 1985
… was conducted utilizing a purposeful sample of social studies teachers in two non-contiguous Educational Service Center Regions in Illinois to answer the research question, ""How does a sample of informed social studies teachers in Illinois view the 1985 state school reform package as it relates …
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