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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Learning conversations"”.
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A learning conversation approach for teacher appraisal and professional development: An investigation of the ways in which specific forms of appraisal of teaching performance evoke different levels of Learning Conversations, and how far this affects teachers' perceptions of their own performance
… classroom performance to generate developmental Learning Conversations is examined and compared. Using video-recordings of their lessons, two groups of ten teachers in one secondary school, individually reflected, discussed and evaluated their own performance with the researcher, by using either …
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Design and conversational evaluation of an information technology learning environment based on self-organised-learning
… this period was to develop a new kind of IT learning environment. The main purpose was - and continues to be - to provide for mixed 'open-access’ student targets wishing to pursue generic IT activities and gain commensurate vocational qualifications. This Open-Learning (OL) environment …
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Conversational uses of the repertory grid for personal learning and the management of change in special educational needs
… the repertory grid as a framework for Learning Conversations, is used to examine the management of change for a group of teachers and their schools. The study sets out to analyse how individual, teachers, from twelve primary and middle schools, in three outer London boroughs, learnt …
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Design and Development of a Socratic Intelligent Tutoring System: Leveraging Agentic AI for Asynchronous Online Learning
… method, an ancient teaching approach where learning happens through questioning rather than lecturing, to have a conversation with the student in a casual text-based exchange. The study was based in a longstanding educational challenge: how to give students the benefits of one-on-one …
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Language Interactions between Reading Recovery Teachers and their English-Language Learners
… learners, and Clay's theory about literacy learning. The study used the data collected on one student from each of nine Reading Recovery teachers in California who were teaching Spanish-dominant English-language learners. The data were collected from videotaped lessons, field notes of …
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An evaluative study of a university course for professional adult educators using an experiential learning methodology
This study explored the use of the experiential learning methodology and the concept of learner responsibility within a course for the professional preparation of adult educators at university level. The research methodology was illuminative evaluation using case study research and participant …
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Experiential learning: An exploration of the effect of Zen experience on personal transformation
… of Zen, and comparing it with Self Organised Learning. The aim was to see what effect each system had on the lives of the participants. The thesis plots how I had a tacit reliance on myself as a measuring instrument, and how this became an integrating theme running through my 'finally chosen' …
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A study of designerly activity in secondary design and technology
… in the following fields: - theories of learning which promote the idea that understanding is constructed socially and culturally; - the nature of design activity as revealed by some design professionals; - the nature of design activity as revealed by 'fledgling designers' (Trebell, …
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Experimenting with self-organised learning for organisational growth: A person-centred approach
… search was my introduction to Self-Organised Learning (S-O-L) in 1984, during the Centre for the Study of Human Learning's S-O-L action research project on supervisory and managerial effectiveness. My survey of the literature in the fields of management, learning and psychology has prompted me …
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Aro mai aro atu: Raising Māori-medium students' academic oral language proficiency
… system is a significant site of language learning for new generations of Māori children. In Māori-medium education, children are nurtured, educated, and loved as Māori, and they are more likely to attain educational qualifications than their Māori peers who attend English-medium schools. …