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Showing 1 to 20 of 371 for “"Out-of-School"”.
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An Investigation into Children’s Out-of-School Physical Activity
… a multi-methods approach to explore children’s out-of-school physical activity (PA). Study 1 found that children living in the most deprived neighbourhoods represent an important target group for future PA and health interventions. Further, the study also revealed that self-reported PA was …
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Adolescent substance use and participation in out-of-school time interventions
Adolescent consumption of alcohol, marijuana and tobacco is a significant problem that affects youth of all demographic groups and can have lasting, damaging impacts into adulthood. Furthermore, it is a complicated issue, with many social and economic risk factors. The focal mediator for adolescent …
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Perceptions of Out-of-School Reading Motivation for Female Middle School Students
… and motivation to read is lacking in middle school reading classrooms. Educators struggle with the challenge of motivating students to read and actively engage with text both inside and outside of school. Research indicates that female and male middle school students have unique …
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Participation of out-of-school youth in agricultural programmes in Bushbuckridge, Nothern Province
… The rural areas are characterized by a scarcity of job opportunities as opposed to the abundance of such opportunities in certain designated areas. As a matter of fact the availability of job opportunities would arguably place the out- of -school youth in good stead of employment. The only …
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Queer adolescent girls use of out-of school literacy events to semiotically express
<p>This qualitative study focused on the use of multiliteracies (reading, writing, viewing, visually representing, talking, and listening) by four low-income African American LBT (lesbian, bisexual, transgender) adolescents in an out-of-school setting. Data collection methods over a three-month …
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Cognitive change in out-of-school learners in a Western Cape intervention programme
… here, analysed and described cognitive change in out-of-school and overage learners who were involved in a 12 month educational intervention informed by Mediationla Learning Experience (MLE). The questions which the thesis addressed are as follows: 1. What kind of cognitive change(s), if any, do …
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Out-of-school literacy practices - the case of Sesotho-speaking learners in Cape Town
This study investigates the out-of-school multilingual literacy practices of four Grade Seven learners aged between 13 and 14 years at Lehlohonolo Primary School (henceforth LPS) in Gugulethu, Cape Town. They come from lower-income Sesotho speaking households and live in residential areas where …
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A biographical inquiry into the occupational participation of men who drop out of school
… biographical inquiry describes the nature of the occupational participation of men in Lavender Hill who drop out of school. School dropout was constructed as an occupational transition for the purposes of this study and the occupational participation of men who drop out of school was …
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Preparation for school art: young children's meaning making practices in out-of-school settings
… making with art related media in the home of a set of siblings, a brother and sister, of 8 and 6 years old respectively. It is argued that children’s meaning making with art related media is a self-sustaining, multimodal and dialogic site where family narratives, identity and childhood aims …
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Making it Work: Credential and Employment Outcomes of Out-of-School Youth in Southside Virginia
Entering the labor force is noted as one of the most significant role transitions of young adulthood. Multiple studies find that a significant portion of the nation’s young adult population has not been able to make this critical role transition successfully. The purpose of this dissertation is to …
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Perspectives from parent-adolescent dyads on parental engagement in their adolescents' out-of-school programs
… perceive parental involvement in adolescents' out-of-school programs. As part of a larger study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 36 adolescents in youth programs and their parents separately. Youth were 13-18 years old (M = 15.9, SD = 1.2). Also, youth were a diverse sample of 14 …
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The out of school literacy practices of children with specific learning disabilities : a case study
A number of studies have been conducted on in-school and out of school literacy practices in the United Kingdom and North America within a sociocultural framework. However, there is very little research on the out of school literacy practices of children in South Africa and there is a general …
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Access, barriers and successes of educational pathways for out-of-school youth. applying the capability theory
The study investigated the impact of BASIC College, a private, non-profit educational institution, on youth accessing alternative post-school pathways, and how new theoretical insights were generated about the relationship between the Capability Approach (CA) and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory …
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Investigating Middle School Students’ Mathematical Reasoning in a Connected In-school and Out-of-School Context
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the various aspects of middle school students’ mathematics task solving in a context that connects the students’ experiences in out-of-school and in within-school contexts. Specifically, the study explores the forms of mathematical reasoning that the …
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An Investigation into the Connection Between Out-of-School Time S.T.E.M. Learning and Student English Acquistion
… support ELLs’ learning is through the provision of high quality out-of-school time (OST) programs. These programs not only enhance students’ understanding of content and skills but also expose them to more English. Research has investigated the relationship between students’ participation in OST …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
My dissertation demonstrates the importance of an examination of the literary works included as part of the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools both for understanding the instruction of generations of schoolchildren and for reading the Middle English literature …
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Best of both worlds : issues of structure and agency in computational creation, in and out of school
… creating new demands for what to learn and offering new possibilities for how to learn. In this dissertation, I adopt a predominantly qualitative approach to exploring learning in computational culture, studying how the Scratch programming environment and online community are employed to …
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Neighborhood design: an investigation of associations between suburban neighborhood morphology and children's outdoor, out-of-school, physical activities
North Carolina State University Theses Design.
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