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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Learning Culture"”.
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Perceptions Of Organizational Learning Culture In The Aerospace Industry
… failures becomes critical to success. Creating a culture of organizational learning then becomes essential. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore perceptions about organizational learning culture held by professionals in the aerospace industry. Eleven individuals …
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One to one connections : building a community learning culture
… and dominant cultural beliefs about teaching, learning, and knowledge constrain people's mindsets, paradoxically preventing the fundamental changes that can take advantage of new technologies and address the inadequacies of current educational systems. The same constraints permeate reform …
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The Open Academy: An Exploration of a Prison-Based Learning Culture
… both the structured and structuring aspects of ‘learning culture’ theory (Hodkinson et al., 2008; James and Biesta, 2007) as experienced within a unique prison-based educational environment. Attending to differing scales of focus, the thesis explores numerous interlocking personal, social and …
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Antecedents to turnover intention : examining organizational learning culture and leader member exchange.
… with turnover intention, organizational learning culture has not been a prominent within the human resources management literature. I found an existing model of turnover intention which examined organizational learning culture, leader member exchange, and organizational commitment. The …
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EQUITY AGENTS: CREATING AN INNOVATIVE LEARNING CULTURE WITH FOREIGN TEACHERS AND LĂOSHĪ 老师 WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
… the use of promising practices such as Community Learning Exchanges and Networked Innovation Communities may work to mitigate these tensions.
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A Culture of Learning in One Non-Profit Organization
… is to describe and analyze the facets of the learning culture in one non-profit organization. Based on my reading, I define a learning culture as: the observable and unobservable processes, structures, norms, and communication patterns that support ongoing, work-related, learning for …
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Supporting The Growth Of Principals As Instructional Leaders: An Interpretive Study About The New Work Of School Leaders
… growth for teachers; and 3) the creation of a learning culture within their schools. Additionally, principals identified that the key attributes of Instructional Leadership could be classified under four broad categories: 1) actions related to leadership style and approach; 2) actions which …
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The effect of organisational culture on the relationship between data-driven decision-making and firm performance
… its adoption has been slow over the years. With culture playing a vital role in adopting technologies and how employees adopt them or react to change, this paper investigated if culture influenced the adoption of data-driven decision-making. By investigating the moderating effect of innovative …
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School improvement planning and the development of professional community
… change in schools and to invest in developing a culture of ongoing improvement. Curricula designed to assist schools in learning how to engage in self-reflective improvement are increasingly common. In contrast to packaged reform models, these programs are founded on the belief that, when trained …
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A Clinical Leader’s Influence in Physical Therapy Education: A Case Study
… than 20% of their education engaged in workplace learning, yet little has changed in clinical education over the last fifty years. Clinical leaders are uniquely positioned to influence PT education by establishing a culture fostering professional growth. The purpose of this descriptive, …
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Social networking software in higher education : investigating the influence of using different interaction levels on learners’ achievement and satisfaction
… software as a key factor affects the learners’ learning and satisfaction (Prammanee, 2005) where “to teach is to communicate, to communicate is to interact, to interact is to learn” (Hefzallah, 2004, p. 48). Analyzing the relation between teacher-learner interaction from a side and learning …
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An exploration into the impacts of music learning experiences on the musical proficiencies of popular musicians
… their predecessors in the 20th century, as the learning culture has evolved from an aural tradition to one that embraced the use of notation (and new technologies). Therefore, the music-making experiences of today’s popular musicians are not just different from the past, but also less homogenous …
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Interkulturell förståelse i engelskundervisning - en möjlighet.
… to reveal a space for the interpretation of culture teaching and learning culture in EFL.The thesis is set in a broad social constructionist frame. The study draws on perspectives applied to culture theory (Street, Hannerz, Thavenius, Sjögren), current theories about language and culture …
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High School Language Arts Methods of Instruction And Professional Development Program for Ipad Integration: A Change Leadership Project
… aim is to move the school from a traditional learning culture to an integrated technology based one. The study focuses on the language arts content area iPad integration at Wentworth High School (a pseudonym). The school’s original attempt to integrate iPad use was not effective due to …
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Incorporating the Cultures of English-Language Learners in Daily Lesson Plans: A Two-Way Street
<p>Teaching and learning culture have been matters of interest for teachers of English to speakers of other languages during the past half century. Since the development of the concept of communicative competence, theorists and practitioners have asked questions about the role of culture in the …
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Dysacademia in the Ivory Towers: Performativity, Discipline, Control & Chaotically Moving Towards the Shadows of the 3Rd Educational Spaces
… had upon the inorganic institutions of higher learning, and upon its primary subject concerns, the organic constituents known as the professoriate and the student body. As a follow up to this Ivory Tower deconstruction, a reconstructive enunciation is shaped using a conglomeration of …
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Not All Who Wander are Lost: An Ethnographic Study of Individual Knowledge Construction within a Community of Practice
… and collective traditions that comprise the AT learning culture. In contrast to traditional approaches to knowledge and skill acquisition, this study found socio-reflective exchanges, nested in hiking pods, to be critical sites for cognitive modeling and informal scaffolding between experts and …
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Conceptualizing commitment to quality in an elementary school: Factor analysis of the effect of communication on employee attitudes and behaviours for Quality Management
… that three communication factors -- Involvement, Learning Culture and Formal Communication -- contributed to changes in both attitudes and behaviours suggesting that organizations can emphasize these factors in their communication plans to set the foundation for commitment to quality. This study …
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Barriers to Career Advancement in the Music Products Industry: Experiences and Reflections of Women
… and work to change their hierarchical workplace culture into a more inclusive, learning culture that can reduce barriers to career advancement and lead to stronger organizational performance.
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