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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Values and Knowledge"”.
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Supervisory Skills, Knowledge, and Values Perceived as Important by Special Education Supervisors and Their Teachers
… was designed to examine the supervisory skills, knowledge, and values of special education personnel with supervisory responsibility. The aspect of supervision addressed relates to the process of supervision and not to technical skills needed in specific special education positions. The focus was …
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The Home Schooling Movement in the United States: Historical Development, Contemporary Status and Legal Issues
… the means by which children are socialized and enculturated, as they transmit the essential cultural knowledge and core values of a given society. However, this approach can become difficult when a society cannot agree on what shared values and knowledge should actually be transmitted. The …
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Addressing the influence of context and development in rural international engineering design
… alternately developed societies’ needs and conditions in favor of values and knowledge that most closely aligns with the engineers’ own experience. A sociological analysis of the relationship between technology interventions and place-based identities, particularly for rural societies …
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Evaluating Case Study Based Learning in Transgender Healthcare
… on topics affecting transgendered patients and determine if this is an efficacious mean to change the perceptions and increase knowledge of students in a Physician Assistant program. Methods: The researchers presented students (n=91) participating in case study discussion with a pre-test …
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Fashion and sustainability: increasing knowledge about slow fashion through an educational module
… low-quality garments, quick production and sale, and high consumption. A sustainable alternative is the “slow fashion” business model, where consumers invest in the quality of the garment and are encouraged to hold onto it longer. The purpose of this study was to understand whether …
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Implementing an Organisational Intervention for Work-related Stress : An Action Research Study.
… of the effectiveness of the HSE Management Standards approach in managing work-related stress. The study developed and utilised a two-stage action research framework that guided the research and intervention design and informed the choice of the research methodology. This approach, comprising …
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Conserving Pollinators: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Evaluating the Ecological, Economic and Cultural Value of Native Bees in Mid-Atlantic Sustainable Agriculture
… threatened globally due to habitat fragmentation and alteration, pesticides, disease and infestations by parasites. Localized population declines have prompted interest on the part of various stakeholders in restoring and maintaining pollinator-friendly habitats on working landscapes, particularly …
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Convergence or Divergence of Values? A Comparison Case Study of Teacher Credentialing Programs
… of a profession is commonly anchored in Andrew Abbott's criteria, which include knowledge (specialized and academic), jurisdiction (diagnosis, treatment, professional inference), and control (ethics, professional organizations, licensure). Teachers in most states need to complete …
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The canon or the kids: Teachers and the recontextualisation of classical and popular music in the secondary school curriculum
The purpose of this study was to investigate and explain the ways in which six secondary school music teachers manage the relationship between classical and popular music in their elective teaching programmes. The focus of this research was on the teachers and the influences on their curriculum …
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Development of a Math Interest Inventory to Identify Gifted Students from Underrepresented and Diverse Populations
… program whose objectives include the development and validation of a protocol to identify students from underrepresented and diverse populations as gifted in the content areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Identification of students from low-income and diverse populations as …
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“The voice of the people” : personal reflections on the impact of the 1985 class
… school community's participation in a regional and nationwide class/school boycott, from July 1985 to January 1986. It analyses how this event affected the community, and how the community responded to the authoritarianism of apartheid rule at critical moments during the course of the boycott. A …
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Investigation of the impact of change on social work manager-professionals after more than a decade of ideological shifts and legislative reform. 1979 - 2007
… during a time of profound economic, political and social change. It was triggered by social work academic and professional unrest at the 'crisis' that was characteristic of change within state social work (Clarke 1993). The first stage of enquiry took place between 1994 and 1999, during most of …
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‘娩’ 与 ‘通’: Migrant Ethnic Chinese Mothers’ Intercultural Communication Experiences with Their Maternity-Care and Health Providers in New Zealand
… migration, ethnic Chinese mothers in New Zealand experience different health and support systems compared to the ones they have knowledge of in China. At the same time, New Zealand maternity-care and health providers find communicating with Chinese mothers a challenge as their knowledge of …