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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Engagement in Education"”.
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How can Bourdieu’s ‘Habitus’ inform the development of a parental engagement intervention for secondary school parents?
A phenomenological inquiry identified factors impacting on low-income parental engagement at primary and secondary school using the concept of Bourdieu’s habitus. Bourdieu’s framework brings together several related concepts including cultural capital, the field and habitus. After scrutinising the …
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Integrating landscape into early childhood development in Kabul, Afghanistan
This thesis is an exploration of children's educational interactions with their landscape in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the ways in which landscape, as an important contributor to human development, can be integrated as a topic and as the setting of learning, into the early childhood curriculum in a …
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Parental engagement in primary schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand: A policy enactment case study
Parental engagement in education is a deceptively simple idea. Supported by theory and empirical evidence, it is promoted in educational policy in many countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand. Nevertheless, research demonstrates a gap between the rhetoric and the reality of parental engagement …
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The struggles and triumphs of the invisible subject: the experiences of mature women students caring for those with learning disabilities whilst studying in Higher Education
The caring role entails substantial social, physical, emotional and financial costs, especially for women with caring responsibilities, which presents challenges and restrictions for them when participating in activities outside the care-giving domain, such as engagement in education. Against these …
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Teachers' lived experiences of responsible leadership: a transcendental phenomenological study
Research regarding Responsible Leadership seems to be dispersed, making it difficult to understand the construct's place in leadership literature and the construct's role in theory and practice. There also seems to be a lack of the teacher voice in informing general school leadership and …
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PREPARATION OF BUILDING AND DISTRICT LEVEL ADMINISTRATORS: AN INVESTIGATION OF FAMILY ENGAGEMENT CONTENT AND PRACTICES IN ADMINISTRATOR PREPARATION PROGRAMS IN KANSAS
ABSTRACT Although the requirements for family engagement in education are included in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), teacher education and administrator preparation programs have offered limited educational opportunities for new teachers and administrators to gain knowledge, …
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ENHANCING TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING FOR MARGINALISED GIRLS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF PEDAGOGICAL PROCESSES IN AN ACCELERATED EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN GHANA
Despite global progress in school enrolment, many children enrolled in basic education still achieve learning outcomes that are only slightly better than those children who never attended school. Additionally, millions of children remain out of school altogether. The ones most affected are those …
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EXAMINING SECONDARY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH ENGAGEMENT, AUTONOMY, AND EMPATHY THROUGH INTEGRATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy is not widely taught in Canadian high schools, although research surrounding its benefits to secondary students—critical thinking, open-mindedness, interest, curiosity, and autonomy—is significant. This study examines an interdisciplinary high school program that integrates English …
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Who chooses? A sociological portrait of families active in school choice in urban areas in the U.S.
… that choosers, families that are active in school choice, are different than non-choosers, but the nature of this difference is rarely examined directly. For years, commentators have expressed concern that chooser families will tend to have more educationally engaged parents than …
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Factors impacting effective dual language immersion (DLI) programs across three U.S states
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms