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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education"”.
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The Emotional Experience of Continuing Professional Development for Social Workers
… connect and engage openly with opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) while others seem to have a more conflicted relationship with their learning. Using psychoanalytically informed free association narrative interviews with eight social workers, the study explores the …
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An examination of the costs and benefits of the quality assurance mechanisms of Authorised Validating agencies applicable to three key stakeholder groups: higher education institutions, Access course providing institutions and students
… the providing institution, students, and higher education institutions. The general principles of cost-benefit analysis are outlined along with case study examples. A computer-based model is produced with the capability of manipulating the generalisable costbenefit factors to accommodate local …
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A case study of a blended e-learning programme for carers and practitioners in the field of autism spectrum disorders
… of practice can add value to pedagogy in higher education and that programme tutors need to consider the specific properties of different communication mediums when designing programmes.
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A challenge to teacher professionalism : the training and deployment of Specialist Teacher Assistants in the North West of England
… which could be carried out by a responsible adult, rather than a qualified teacher. The ST A initiative introduced a different set of tasks for classroom assistants. These placed a direct emphasis on assistants "contributing to teaching and learning of basic skills" (DfE 1993: par. 33). STAs …
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Adult Literacy discourses, their philosophical origins and their impact: case studies of the values and assumptions of practitioners
… their impact on the professional values of adult literacy Practitioners. Four key discourses are identified, ‘Literacy as skills’, ‘literacy as an experiential process’, ‘literacy as a social practice’, and ‘literacy as a critical transformation process’. The research explores the …
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A study of the cognitive styles and learning preferences of Fire Service officers
… The research examines the psychological and educational derivations of models that underpin the CSA and LSQ instruments in order to help clarify the construct systems used to describe both cognitive and learning style; and to examine their relationships with other psychological constructs. …
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Enhancing learning through opening the group model in a synchronous computer-based environment.
This research seeks to apply the concepts of collaborative learning and open learner modelling in order to find out whether seeing their own group learner model helps learners improve their learning in a computer-based collaborative learning environment. There is previous work on giving back …
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A case study of the knowledge and understanding of leadership amongst leaders in the Scout Association in an English city
… leadership of voluntary providers of informal education for young people. This is true of one of the largest providers: the Scout Association. The thesis examines the nature, diversity and sources of the knowledge and understanding of leadership of Scout Association leaders in one English …
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The knowledge-based economy and higher education: cases from the State of Florida
… referred to as executive and professional education (EPE). To properly define level of support several additional undertakings were necessary, including: discovering methods of valuing knowledge to a region, state or country, establishing why participants in EPE programs enroll in them, and …
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An investigation into the provision and impact of foundation degrees for teaching assistants
This thesis investigated the provision and impact of Foundation degrees for teaching assistants by examining; teaching assistants on Foundation degrees, Foundation degree providers, Head teachers, and local authorities across four different areas of the Midlands. Findings confirmed that teaching …
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Educational methods and technologies in undergraduate veterinary medicine: a case study of veterinary teaching and learning at Glasgow, 1949-2006
This case study, of veterinary education at Glasgow between 1949 and 2006, was undertaken to provide an illustrative account of learning and teaching practices over time. Ultimately the aim was to inform discussions on curriculum reshaping in undergraduate veterinary education at Glasgow. A …