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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Personal backgrounds"”.
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The influence of teaching environment on music teacher self-efficacy perceptions
… or have taught in environments outside their personal backgrounds in order to understand how working in environments dissimilar from their personal backgrounds might influence feelings of teacher self-efficacy. The constituent elements of music teacher participants' personal backgrounds …
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Factors Influencing Teacher Mobility in Nigeria
… perception of their profession, and their personal backgrounds influence their decisions to either quit teaching, or move between schools. It also compared their attitude towards job change and inter-school mobility with that of teachers in Western societies.
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A study of students with community college backgrounds in secondary teacher education
… information was gathered on academic and personal backgrounds of these students, including students' attendance at a community college, students' concerns in completing their programs at UIUC, and students' goals of entering and remaining in the teaching profession. Follow-up interviews …
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CoMIC : an exploration into computer-mediated intercultural communication
… the participants were surveyed regarding their personal backgrounds, their work, and their perception of the communication processes that took place. The study shows that in an intercultural communication process DNVs are used to avoid intercultural misunderstandings and to underline the various …
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The role of music and musicians in current English parish church worship : the attitudes of clergy and organists.
… yields an overall picture of: - respondents' personal backgrounds and general attitudes; - respondents' perceptions, both objective and subjective, of the situation at their church, and of each other. From these varied strands are drawn certain conclusions for improving clergy-organist …
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"""Movin' Up That Third Grade Hill"": Discourses of Progress and Hybrid Language and Literacy Practices in a ""Mainstream"" Multilingual Classroom"
… 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 cognitive growth and the gospel of …
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First Ladies of the United States-Advocates for Children, Women Leadership and Social Causes: A Historical Examination of Nancy Reagan and Hillary Rodham Clinton
… the White House is due in large part to either personal connections or leadership goals that are assumed with a specific social or political cause.</p><p>The purpose of this study was to examined how two First Ladies, Nancy Reagan and Hillary Rodham Clinton, have developed, promoted and advanced …
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Winning the peace: the British in occupied Germany, 1945-1948.
… economic reconstruction, political renewal and personal reconciliation in the British Zone of occupied Germany in the first three years after the end of the Second World War. The selected individuals all possessed power, authority and influence, at different levels of the hierarchy, and …
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A History of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics in San Diego Community Colleges from 1955 to 1972
… many cultural and social restraints in their own personal backgrounds toward participation in athletics and in spite of the resistance they encountered from their own administration and men's athletic faculties, the women leaders in this study were able to persevere and create women's athletic …
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Understanding Narratives through Sentiment, Emotions and Events
… knowledge. This is particularly evident in personal narratives, i.e. recounts of emotionally charged personal events. In personal narratives, each narrator has a unique lexicon and style for recounting personal experiences grounded in personal backgrounds. Another challenge is the ambiguity …
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Principal Leadership for Equity: Actions and Preparedness in One Urban School Division
… (LEAD) rubric. Moreover, principals noted that personal backgrounds and professional learning helped shape their preparedness to lead for equity most significantly. Principals indicated a need for professional growth relative to developing and evaluating teachers to be more equitable and …
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The Caring Beliefs and Practices of Effective Teachers
… educational reform tends to emphasize an impersonal test-driven approach to teaching while the present research maintains this reform is inequitable because it neglects the personal component of teacher caring, which is necessary to reach all students, especially disaffected underachievers. …
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The Personal and Professional Backgrounds of Georgia's Female High School Principals
<p>The purpose of this study was to describe the personal and professional backgrounds of the female public high school principals in Georgia. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to conduct the research. A demographic questionnaire, which included items addressing personal, …
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Investigating the influence of Automated Programming Assessment Tools on self-reported understanding of threshold programming concepts in Key Stage 4 GCSE computer science students
… the context of students' diverse educational and personal backgrounds. Methodologically, the study adopted a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative data analysis with qualitative insights to provide a comprehensive view of the impacts of APATs. Quantitative data were collected through pre- …
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Effects of Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices on the Literacy Learning of Latino Students
… gap between students from mainstream and diverse backgrounds seems to be essentially dependent on educators’ personal knowledge, perspectives, and definitions regarding the terms multicultural education and equity pedagogy. Research studies confirm that addressing student’s culture, language, and …
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Exploring the experiences of youth in a development program with integrated physical activity in Costa Rica
… include main themes of relationships, poverty, personal change and empowennent. For many youth, the ACJ is a relatively safe place to play, to "detach," their minds, to "distract" and "disorient" themselves from their dysfunctional families, violent neighbourhood, the poverty they live in, and …