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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Social Construction of Knowledge"”.
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The Evolution of Pre -Service Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs About and Understandings of Mathematics: Toward a Community of Learning
The results of this study contribute to a growing body of research that seeks to understand how belief structures and conceptual understandings of mathematics influence pre-service teachers and, in turn, all of mathematics education. The study embraces the cyclical complexity of the influence of …
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Virtual Students/Virtual Teachers: the Reality of Student Responsibility in Education
<p>A wide range of possibilities exists for the use of computers in the freshman composition classroom. Computer technology can help students reach and understand new concepts of learning. A computer "pedagogy" in the writing class can promote collaboration, responsibility for learning, decentering …
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Modernization and the Redefinition of Religion
This study is a social psychological examination of how modernization impacts the religious beliefs of individuals. A social construction of knowledge model is used to predict that exposure to modernization will lead to a redefinition of religious faith. This redefinition can be summarized as a …
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Online Teaching and Learning: Student-Student and Teacher-Student Discourse for Student Learning in Asynchronous Discussions of High School Courses
The purpose of this study was to examine the occurrence of student discourse in asynchronous computer-mediated communication and its relation to student learning. From in-depth investigation of teacher design, facilitation and direction for asynchronous discussion, implications for high school …
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Out Of Sync: Analyzing The Paradoxical Impact Of Synchronous Learning In Distance Education
<p>Modern forms of distance education provide students and instructors with the ability to access their online experiences without being limited by time or place. Though this quality is convenient for many, the predominantly asynchronous nature of online learning creates transactional distance that …
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An investigation of mobile-mediated social learning using socio-constructivism: a case study of convergence of informal and formal learning at the Polytechnic of Namibia
… learning in the study setting, the Polytechnic of Namibia. Formal learning that is widespread in the study setting does not allow the design of authentic learning tasks. Nevertheless, mobile learning allows the design of authentic learning tasks and enables students to construct knowledge …
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Considering practitioner influence on student success: exploring community college faculty funds of knowledge
In the context of persistently low retention rates for underrepresented students of higher education, the role of the practitioner in the academic success scholarship is largely understudied. There is comparatively little scholarship on the ways in which the practitioner influences the student’s …
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Marketing managers : The evocation and structure of socially negotiated meaning.
… management and grows into an investigation of marketing managers as practising professionals. The subsequent methodological inadequacies of a dependence upon oral data lead to additional readings in anthropology and a methodology which attempts the complexities of consumption and the …
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The design and use of Internet-mediated communication applications in education: an ethnographic study
This dissertation presents a study of the design and use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in education. It concentrates on a specific type of Internet-based CMC called asynchronous structured discourse (ASD). Using ethnographic methods and data from real-word case studies. this research …
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Visualizing the invisible: The role of race and white racial identity in the teaching and pedagogy of new ESOL teachers
<p>The nature of my dissertation inquiry and my overall argument explore the role that white racial identity has in the teaching and pedagogy of new ESOL teachers. Throughout this dissertation I argue for better understandings of race to raise awareness of how knowledge systems are socially …
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Teacher learning within a transactional process
This qualitative case study explored a professional development project designed to support teacher learning. A group of teachers and instructional supervisors met regularly for an academic year to create alternative assessment practices for the elementary classroom. The team of instructional …
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Understanding teaching practice in support of non-English-speaking-background (NESB) students’ mathematics learning
… that gives special attention to the experiences of mathematics teachers of Non-English-Speaking-Background (NESB) students. This need prompted me to investigate four of my tertiary mathematics classes that included a number of NESB students, through practitioner research. The main data collection …
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The political economy of wilkiality: a South African inquiry into knowledge and power on wikipedia
This dissertation explores how knowledge construction on the English-language Wikipedia produces hegemonic representations of South Africa. Using Wikipedia's entries on Cape Town and various places in the Free State province as case studies, this dissertation demonstrates through critical discourse …
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The rhetoric of ecological restoration: Ethnography in the Cook County Forest Preserves
This research is an exploration of how people socially construct nature through the work of natural resource management. Using participant observation, interviews, and content analysis, I explored the experiences of staff and volunteers in the Cook County Forest Preserves to understand how they …
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Social media as a communication tool during emergencies and disasters in Ghana
Problem Statement: The integration of social media into daily life has revolutionized information dissemination and communication practices, particularly in emergency and disaster management. While current research mainly focuses on one-way communication from Emergency and Disaster Management …
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The Induction Process of Newly Hired Teachers into the Existing School Culture of Niles Community Schools
… resources and experiences that promote the professional development of their employees. Professional learning and skill development are essential for educators as they work to improve student achievement. However, conventional professional development often fails to provide a collaborative …