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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"Professional Knowledge"”.
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Surrounded by Sound. Experienced Orchestral Harpists’ Professional Knowledge and Learning
… the field of orchestral musicians’ learning and knowledge has mainly focused on students’ learning orchestral playing. Working conditions and work-related problems were also emphasized in previous studies. This thesis, however, focuses on professional orchestral musicians’ knowledge and learning. …
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Constructing professional knowledge: the Neighborhood Unit concept in the community builders handbook
… Unit concept in the literature of twenty professional and governmental organizations. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, the Neighborhood Unit was influential primarily in advancing the changes in development practices advanced by Adams and institutionalized by the FHA: …
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Street science : the fusing of local and professional knowledge in environmental policy
his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that …
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Pre-Service Teacher's Professional Knowledge Development Of Phonological Awareness Through Constructivist Learning Engagements
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The restructuring of the professional knowledge base of teachers in England 2010-2024
… is defined above all by a new official knowledge base for teachers: one based on cognitive science and knowledge derived from randomised control trials (RCTs). In order to grasp where this new knowledge base comes from and how it wends its way into policy, the origin(s) of four prominent …
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Investigating the Professional Knowledge of New Zealand Primary School Teachers when Teaching Mathematics for Numeracy
… the relationship between teachers’ espoused professional knowledge, professional knowledge in practice, and student learning, when teaching ‘mathematics for numeracy’ in the New Zealand primary school classroom. The focus was on teaching within the multiplicative and proportional domains, as …
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High School Athletic Directors Perceptions of Athletic Trainer's Professional Knowledge and Competence Based on Attire
… athletic training field impacts perceptions of professional knowledge and competence. The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of attire on high school athletic directors’ perceptions of an athletic trainer’s professional knowledge and competence. The researcher emailed a …
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The professional knowledge base for teaching : a philosophical justification for a plurality of ways of knowing
… acceptable research methodology and adequate professional knowledge for teaching. The positivistic paradigm of educational inquiry employs the scientific method to obtain general laws explaining classroom phenomena. These generalizations are then taught to teachers as technical rules for sound …
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Sources of professional knowledge and their impact on teacher beliefs, behaviors, and development of student creativity in art
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Teaching with Passion: A Narrative Inquiry into Elementary Teachers' Identity Development, Personal and Professional Knowledge, and Love of Teaching
… teachers' identity development, personal and professional knowledge, and love of teaching. The participants of this inquiry are six teachers who teach at Hesse Elementary School in Savannah, Georgia. Diane, Julie, Mary, Susan, Uticia, and Yolanda provide viable insights about their journey as …
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“Dancing in shackles”: How the professional knowledge of university-based teacher educators develops in a complex authority dynamic in China
… pays insufficient attention to teacher educator knowledge, and the limited existing discussions predominantly focus on what teacher educators should know. This doctoral thesis explores the development of university-based teacher educator knowledge, with particular emphasis on “how teacher …
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The Relationship of Professional Educational Courses to The Professional Knowledge of Pre-Service Elementary Education Students at The University of Illinois
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Values in teacher education: developing professional knowledge through engaging with trainee teachers’ personal moral and political values in the context of standards-based teacher education
… course leader and head of the department of professional and leadership education. I am currently an associate School Direct university tutor. In these roles I have been fully immersed in the implementation of the 2002, 2007 and 2012 Teaching Standards for qualified teacher status, working …
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Lesson Study: Developing a Knowledge Base for Elementary Writing Instruction
… that elementary teachers receive more professional development in how to teach writing (National Commission on Writing, 2006). However, there is currently little evidence about the knowledge teachers need to teach writing well, and it is therefore difficult for teacher educators to …
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Teaching-Focused Faculty and Their Pedagogical Practices in Middle and Upper-Level Engineering Courses
… yet little is known about how they draw on professional knowledge and navigate institutional structures in research-focused contexts. To address this gap, my dissertation examined the pedagogical practices of full-time teaching-focused Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty and …
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Taiwan's Values Teaching Program: Teachers' beliefs regarding implementation and effect
… education effects of the VTP on teachers' professional knowledge and skills as well as on their students' learning performance. Finally, it attempted to explore what factors hindered the implementation of the innovation program.
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Assessment, Knowledge And The Curriculum: The Effects Of A Competence-Based Approach To The Training Of Teachers In Further And Adult Education
… and how those differences affect their professional practice, the students’ learning experiences and the students’ professional knowledge. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection, and the participants consisted of 14 practitioners in the South West of England, and a …
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Privileging Tacit Knowledge within a Software Engineering Curriculum: A Living Educational Theory of Practice
… practice by questioning the nature of knowledge I valued as a lecturer. This questioning led me to develop my ‘living educational theory’ (Whitehead, 1989, p.41) of privileging tacit knowledge within a Software Engineering curriculum. My living educational theory is grounded in ideas of …
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Technology in Teachers' Work Lives: Tensions and Tactics
… of tactics. The validity and limits of the Professional Knowledge Landscape framework are also discussed.
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Knowledge of and for Social Work: A Philosophical, Professional and Methodological Inquiry
This thesis explores the ways in which professionals (in particular, social work professionals) define, produce, transfer, use, develop and disseminate knowledge of and for their profession and their practice. The thesis considers the issue(s) of professional knowledge from three related but …
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