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Showing 1 to 20 of 361 for “"School community"”.
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Summerfield kindergarten school/community center
The thesis will examine the design of a kindergarten for the Summerfield area in Lubbock, Texas. Through knowledge gained from a literature review of Montessori and Piaget, this kindergarten is to be an environment that stimulates learning in children. Through the investigation of factors …
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School-community relations : a case study
Insecurity in South African schools has reached great levels. To curb this problem, the National Director of Education through a new policy statement appealed for community participation in schools. This case study investigates the feasibility of this call by examining the features of …
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The guidance background in the Wilson School community
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1943 C3
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The guidance background in the Wilson School community
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1943 C3
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The changing nature of the Catholic school community
The role of the Catholic school, as outlined by Catholic leaders within dioceses around Australia and supported by Vatican documents, is to assist in the Church's role of proclaiming the message of Jesus Christ. Catholic schools aim to promote Gospel values within the daily life of their community. …
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Views : situated learning experiences in the school community
… learning experience with the stakeholders in the school community with the goal of gaining an understanding and perspective of the structures and culture of the school. Situated learning is the process of pre-service teachers gaining experience while both participating in a community of …
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Implementing citizenship education in a secondary school community
… case study to investigate the impact on a whole school community of a special focus on citizensbip. It begins by exploring conflicting meanings attributed to citizenship and citizenship education. It goes on to adopt an understanding of citizenship as involving a set of relationships between …
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Building transformative school-community collaboration : a critical paradigm
School-community collaboration has received increasing attention in social work because of its potential for enhancing the quality of services to meet the multifaceted needs of students. However, there is little understanding of how to create and maintain successful school-community collaboration. …
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School, Community, and State Integration in Nineteenth Century Japan
… and to establish its own conception of school as dominant and commonsensical. However, informed by the memory of those pre-Meiji educational experiences, villagers from all socio-economic strata of local society contested the Meiji government's policies and, more broadly, its definition …
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Critical Beginnings: Creating School Community for All Children and Families
Ernest Boyer's The Basic School: A Community for Learning (1995) aligns with other important research and programs that encourage parent involvement to maximize each child's educational potential. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand and to document the first steps undertaken by …
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A School Community Needs Assessment of the Albia Community School District
… assessment of the educational needs of the Albia Community School District as viewed by parents, voters, and civic leaders in the community, thereby aiding the Board of Education, administration, and faculty in planning the curriculum, facilities, budgets, in-service, etc. Procedure. The …
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Restorative Justice Experiences of Juvenile Female Offenders : School, Community, and Home
… young women present unique challenges for their schools, communities, and homes. A Midwest suburb created a diversion program, a Youth Justice Initiative, to address the entire family system of the youth who were committing crimes in their city. There was a dearth of research surrounding the …
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Self-Authorship: a teaching approach during the after-school community program
… of a self-authorship program during an after-school community program examined the self-authorship pedagogy approach following the developmental theory designed by Baxter Magolda (1999, 2001). Much of previous research in self-authorship was influenced by college student population. There was …
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Latino Academic Achievement: Impact of Individual, Family, School, Community and Immigration Factors
… and dynamic interaction of individual, family, school, community, and immigration factors on the academic achievement of Latino students through a secondary data analysis of the ELS: 2002 dataset utilizing hierarchical linear modeling. Academic achievement is measured with a dichotomous …
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A Survey of School-Community Communication Processes in Selected Washington High Schools
… and compatibility involving secondary school faculties, and (2) if problems exist: (a) to determine whether communication and compatibility is lacking between communities and secondary school faculties; (b) to identify, if possible, the various academic areas involved in the problem; …
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The Teacher-Police-School-Community Scale and the Prediction of School Suspensions and Truancy
… scale to predict suspensions and/or truancy from school. The sample population consisted of the student body of the one junior high school in an urban school district of some 4,500 students located in the south-central part of the United States. Of the eight- and ninth-grade students in the study, …
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School improvements and student achievement: teachers' conceptions and practices in an urban school community
<p>SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT:</p> <p>TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES IN AN URBAN SCHOOL COMMUNITY</p> <p>by</p> <p>JENDAYI JOHARI GARDNER</p> <p>May 2012</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Jazlin Ebenezer</p> <p>Major: Curriculum & Instruction</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>This …
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Developing an Instrument to Measure School Community Engagement with Implementation of Information Literacy Curriculum
… leaders to measure implementation of a school's information literacy program. The goal was to create an instrument that would consider implementation of a library-centered program within the context and culture of the whole school. Once developed, the survey would identify areas of …
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Asking Latino Students: Strategies to Improve Dual Credit High School – Community College Bridge Programs
… in the first two years of a 2+2+2 program (high school – community college – university). As community college leaders attempt to reach the fastest growing, youngest minority group in the United States (Passel, Cohn, & Lopez, 2011), questions emerge on how to create and implement an effective …
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