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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Patterns of participation"”.
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Patterns of Participation in Extracurricular Activities in a Neighborhood Urban School
The results of the responses to the supplemental findings showed that 100% of the parents and teachers participated in extracurricular activities; while in secondary school, 80% of the parents stated that their children participated in extracurricular activities compared to 92% of the children of …
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Patterns of extracurricular participation in high school
<p>Participation in extracurricular activities is associated with higher educational aspirations and expectations, higher levels of academic achievement, higher levels of self-esteem and a lower likelihood of dropping out of high school. There is extensive research documenting the value of …
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Learning in MOOCS: An exploratory analysis of participation patterns and their relation to demographic variables and other influential factors
One of the recent innovations taking place in higher education is the phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses, known as MOOCs. MOOCs have grown rapidly over the last several years and have become a popular topic in media and academic research. Much has been said about MOOCs in terms of their …
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Running and swimming : a materialized account of careers and practices
While regular exercise can bring a range of benefits, the social processes underpinning how participation in various exercise activities starts and, in particular, is sustained and changes continues to be contested. This thesis explores the relevance of an approach that takes practice – and the …
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Listening to Decatur: Musical Ethnography in an Illinois City, 1992--1997
… and coherence in the musical lives of individuals and institutions in Decatur, a small city in central Illinois. Individual chapters are devoted to the various forms of participation in local musical culture, to the maintenance of a ritual musical/holiday calendar, to the …
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Modes of engagement in hands-on science learning: A microanalysis of elementary students' relationship to the object of study
… generally focuses on children's development of ideas, the nature of their conceptions, and their methods of reasoning. When closely examined the current theory of constructivism does not explicitly say anything regarding the modes of engagement through which children experience the natural …
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Motivations for participation in adult education of predominately African Americans in a religious organization
<p>The purpose of this study was to research (a) the participation patterns of selected predominately African American adults in a religious-based educational program (n=225), (b) determine relative motivational patterns, (c) to compare the 'most' and 'least' of importance of motivations, and to …
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Computing Trajectories: Pathways into Computer Science and Programming Experience in the First Year
… to meet increased demand runs the risk of damaging ongoing efforts to broaden participation in computer science. To manage growth, and increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the field, we must first understand current patterns for participation, and …
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Claiming the state : citizen-state relations and service delivery in rural India
… resources from the state and, by extension, the patterns of participation and citizen-state relations that emerge. Using the case of rural India, I explore whether and how citizens navigate their local environments to demand public services such as drinking water, health services and education, …
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Constructing the Active-Body: A Sociological Investigation
This thesis is set against a backdrop of continued initiatives by the Government for promoting the 'active-body' as a central tenet of its current and future health policy. The purpose of this study was to construct an in-depth investigation into the processes and mechanisms involved in …
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Participation in vocational further education : a study of factors influencing entry into commercial, construction and engineering training in Inner London
… The aims were: 1) to identify patterns of participation in three types of vocational training within inner London; 2) to compare the characteristics of students undertaking different courses; and 3) to establish the relative importance of a variety of factors (socio-structural, …
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Exploring Participation Processes for Technology Development: Case studies of Biotechnology Research and Development Projects in Thailand
… organizational and management literature that participation can make contributions in technology development. One of the problems in developing biotechnology in Thailand is that only a small portion of publicly funded research and development projects directly result in commercial success. …
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Choosing more mathematics: an exploration of participation and learner identities in the further mathematics network
… how students account for their choices of whether or not to study further mathematics within an after-school widening participation programme, the Further Mathematics Network (FMNetwork). I seek to conceptualise how patterns of participation in advanced mathematics arise not only from …
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Infrastructures for participation : institutional and technical considerations for new forms of participation in urban development
The proliferation of Internet-connected mobile and situated digital devices combined with the ubiquity of online collaboration and interaction exposes the need to review the ownership models for data and digital infrastructures that increasingly perform as politicised resources in everyday life. …
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Why people don't go to church : a study of factors associated with non-participation and participation in church in Australia
… many sociologists to be in decline. The causes of this decline have been linked to secularising processes such as institutional differentiation, urbanisation, industrialisation, and the rise of scientific rationalism. The primary research aim of this study is to identify what contribution the …
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Modeling Social Participation as Predictive of Life Satisfaction and Social Support: Scale or Index?
<p>Social participation in late adulthood through activities such as volunteering with charities, playing sports, and joining clubs can increase life satisfaction, directly by providing enjoyable engagement and indirectly by increasing a person's sense of social connectedness. When reported levels …
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Brandvägg. Ord och handling i en yrkesutbildning
Brandvägg describes how a group of firefighters, who consistently maintain that they are “practitioners and not theorists”, relate to various forms of language based knowledge and language based “knowledging” in their vocational training, which is based on problem based learning. From a …