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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Pedagogical change"”.
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From passive to active learning: contingent faculty collaboratively leading pedagogical change
… can not only contribute to deep and meaningful pedagogical change, but how they can become empowered to lead that change. This dissertation examines how a change from passive to active learning transpired in a single course through an academic year. Through three iterative action research …
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Facilitating pedagogical change in online learning in higher education through professional development
… accentuated the need for lecturers to develop pedagogically-informed online teaching practices. This research used an appreciative inquiry methodology during the first wave of the pandemic to explore enacted TPACK (technology, pedagogy and content knowledge) knowledge of in-service teachers. …
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A study of the influences on middle years teachers’ pedagogical decision making
… study contributes to the understanding of the pedagogical choice of secondary school middle years teachers. The findings support the past research which has reported adolescents having specific pedagogical needs and the difficulty schools have in changing established teaching and learning …
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Changing Pedagogy: The Introduction of Experiential, Cooperative Learning and Interactive Multimedia into the Statics Learning Environment
Teacher change is about moving from thought, feelings and an understanding of teaching and learning into action and practice (Fullan, 1982). This naturalistic case study describes the initial phases of the teacher change process resulting from the implementation of a restructured undergraduate …
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Teacher Experiences with Multiple One-to-One Technology Integration Models: A Phenomenography
… student behavior, technology monitoring, and pedagogical change. COVID reinforced teacher preference. Neither model was conclusively preferred in the areas of student engagement and professional development. Recommendations for future research included a comparative study of the impact of each …
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1:1 Chromebooks In High School Classrooms: Teacher Perceptions Of Integration Efforts
… facilitate 1:1 Chromebook usage and stimulate pedagogical change. Throughout this narrative study, several emergent themes surfaced; (a) instructional effectiveness, (b) professional learning (c) student engagement, (d) performance expectancy, (e) effort expectancy, (f) social influence, and …
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Children's Dance-Making: An Autoethnographic Path Towards Transformative Critical Pedagogy
… defended privately by each person. It calls for pedagogical change in elementary school dance education practice to insure that spaces for this multimodal educational endeavor are embedded into educational policy, curriculum, and instructional practice.
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Mapping professional development in TAFE
… (TAFE) in Australia has experienced significant changes due to the implementation of a series of government policies of vocational education and training reform. TAFE teachers are now part of a national Vocational Education and Training (VET) system and responsible for the delivery of National …
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"""Movin' Up That Third Grade Hill"": Discourses of Progress and Hybrid Language and Literacy Practices in a ""Mainstream"" Multilingual Classroom"
… multilingual third graders. Her efforts toward pedagogical change are framed according to her personal language and literacy background---her ""literate life history""---as the daughter of Filipino immigrants. The findings show how two mainstream discourses of language and literacy---literacy as …
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Imagined Futures: The impact of mlearning and access to mobile technology on the role of the teacher
… predicted and imagined. Recent technological changes and increased affordability have enabled pioneering schools and educators to embark on mobile device initiatives. In the Irish educational context, schools were able to link their use of devices to anticipated curricular reforms, but lacked …
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Investigating Early Childhood Educators’ Experiences In Teaching Phonological Awareness: A Case Study
… and phonological awareness; to describe any changes they made to their pedagogical practices as a result of their learning; to use their observational skills and to indicate if they observed students responding to the changes the educators made to their instructional practices.</p> <p>Five …
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LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND EQUITY IN CHINESE-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE BILINGUAL EDUCATION: FROM CURRICULUM TO CLASSROOM PRACTICES TO STUDENT EXPERIENCE
… the study explores how intersecting ideological, pedagogical, and interactional factors shape curriculum, instruction, and student experiences. Findings reveal that raciolinguistic ideologies embedded in Chinese Language Arts and Mathematics curricula and assessments privilege English over …
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How Faculty and Student Preferences for Active and Traditional Instructional Methods Relate to their Beliefs, Quantity, and Quality of Experiences, Knowledge of the Benefits, and Professional Training
… and the mitigating factors that influence pedagogical preferences impact the current realities of health professional education. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study is to explain the relationships between faculty preferences and student preferences for active over …
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Teachers' beliefs: understanding the thinking of secondary mathematics teachers as a starting point for improved professional development
… constraints to curriculum implementation and pedagogical change, but that the worldviews of teachers affect their interpretation of the curriculum (Chapman, 2002). Significantly, a relationship between the mathematics epistemology a teacher holds and their ability to admit language as a …
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Managing science teachers’ adoption of the 2005 Tanzanian Inquiry and Student-Centred Curriculum: Revealing schoolbased leaders’ practices and achievements
Many countries have made considerable changes to their education systems in response to the forces of globalisation. Tanzania is no exception. The most recent educational change attempt in Tanzania relates to the introduction of the 2005 Tanzanian Inquiry and Student- Centred Curriculum. Sound …
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Supporting The Growth Of Principals As Instructional Leaders: An Interpretive Study About The New Work Of School Leaders
… of student outcomes; 2) positively impacting pedagogical change and 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) …
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Change Leadership Project Plan: District Financial Transparency and Sustainable 1:1 Business Model
<p>The focus of this Change Plan is to find a transparent, sustainable business model for a school district looking to implement a 1:1 technology initiative. The public-school system is a high-performing high school district with two schools, located in an affluent Chicago suburb. The challenges …
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English language instruction as ‘co-creation': a new CHAT model for integrating mobile technologies in advanced TEFL
… and find drivers for local, English language pedagogical change which draws on mobile technology. This study is anchored within the critical tradition of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and its encompassing Expansive Learning theory of development. Using a participatory, formative …
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Towards a pedagogical model of learning to teach with information technology; a study in a primary teacher education programme in Hong Kong
… specifically, in teacher education to facilitate pedagogical change by the use of information technology in teaching. The overall goal of the research was to investigate the effect of some pedagogical interventions involving with information technology, and based on constructivist views of …
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Success and attrition of students on a science Foundation Year: an exploratory study of their experiences in a mixed-methods framework
… interventions require revising the programme’s pedagogical approach, particularly through an embedded model of delivering study skills, and increasing interactive learning to enhance academic and social integration in a community classroom space. Research is needed to develop tailored …
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