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Showing 1 to 20 of 267 for “"Ways of Knowing"”.
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Understanding Student Mathematical Ways of Knowing: Relationships Among Mathematical Anxiety, Attitude Toward Learning Math, Gender, Ethnicity, and Separate and Connected Ways of Knowing
… gender, ethnicity, and separate and connected ways of knowing within the context of the mathematics classroom. Participants were 88 student volunteers enrolled in undergraduate mathematics classes at an open admissions technical college in the southeastern United States. Survey data consisted …
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Inuit and scientific ways of knowing and seeing the Arctic landscape
… traditional Inuit and Western scientific ways of knowing and seeing the Arctic through a number of cultural expressions of landscape. Inuit and Western perceptions of the Arctic are analysed by examining a series of thematic and cognitive 'maps', drawings and satellite imagery. The study …
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Ways of Knowing: developing the Mosaic approach with young children and adults
… Published Work dissertation provides a summary of a programme of research on the theme of listening to young participant perspectives. It is based on twelve core publications during the period 2001 to 2011. The selected publications are composed of a single authored book (Clark, 2010b); two …
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The struggle to afford adequate energy : different ways of knowing fuel poverty
This thesis examines the co-existence of three ways of knowing fuel poverty – statistical, procedural and experiential – how they interrelate and interact and the implications that follow for the opportunities and challenges of tackling what has proved a persistent inequality and injustice in UK …
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Cultural Characteristics of Western Educational Structures and Their Effects on Local Ways of Knowing
This critical ethnography is a study of how the interfaces between Western educational structures and Native cultural structures function in the daily operations of a privately owned school in a Native community, how these functions have evolved, drawbacks and strengths of both Western and Native …
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Cultural Characteristics of Western Educational Structures and Their Effects on Local Ways of Knowing
This critical ethnography is a study of how the interfaces between Western educational structures and Native cultural structures function in the daily operations of a privately owned school in a Native community, how these functions have evolved, drawbacks and strengths of both Western and Native …
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The professional knowledge base for teaching : a philosophical justification for a plurality of ways of knowing
This thesis discusses how the related fields of educational inquiry and teacher education have been captured by a foundational view of what constitutes acceptable research methodology and adequate professional knowledge for teaching. The positivistic paradigm of educational inquiry employs the …
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How does a Native American student’s exposure to “ways of knowing” impact their higher education success?
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Local ways of knowing : schooling, language, and literacy in a marginal, culturally distinctive community in Botswana
… with those employed in most 'ethnographies of literacy'. I however. settled for what is referred to as an ethnographic-style study to account for time constraints.
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The political and economic context of Keynes’s 1933 Finlay lecture: transforming a business practitioner’s ways of knowing
This thesis is structured in the format of a three part Portfolio of Exploration to facilitate transformation in my ways of knowing to enhance an experienced business practitioner’s capabilities and effectiveness. A key factor in my ways of knowing, as opposed to what I know, is my exploration of …
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Widening the Sweetgrass Road: Re/Balancing Ways of Knowing for Sustainable Living with a Cree-Nishnaabe Medicine Circle
… have learned about it through twenty-eight years of ceremonies, guides this learning journey of an Indigenous way of knowing as it applies to the theory and practice of sustainability, a strategic ideal established to negotiate the complexities of human-nature relationships and balance social, …
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Interweaving Iiyiyiu (Cree) Ways of Knowing and Land-Based Learning with Science Curriculum at Waapinichikush Elementary School, Chisasibi, Quebec
This study is the result of work done in close collaboration and partnership with local Cree (Iiyiyiu) teachers, Elders and community members at Waapinichikush Elementary School in Chisasibi, Quebec, to identify approaches to learning and teaching science that are culturally appropriate and to …
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Valued Kinds of Knowledge and Ways of Knowing in Mathematics and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: A Worldview Analysis
This dissertation is a theoretical investigation of the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing that are valued within mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics. Central to this research is a theoretical framework based upon the Traditional Western Worldview and an Indigenous …
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New Epistemologies in a Digital Age: Ways of Knowing Beyond Text-Based Literacy in Young Adult Learners Within An Ontario College Context
The purpose of this study was to examine how young adult learners acquire and construct knowledge in a digital age within a post-secondary context. The research questions were: 1) What digital devices and technologies/tools do young adult learners use for learning and why? 2) How is the digital age …
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Stories of becoming and being an associate degree nurse educator: A narrative inquiry study examining how participants' ways of knowing evolved through their experiences
<p>This study explored the stories of the experiences of three associate degree nurse educators and how they evolved in the way they viewed their world as they transitioned in their role from nurse expert to experienced nurse educator. As associate degree nursing education is the most commonly …
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An áit ina bhfuil t-anam is ann a thógas do chosa tú (your feet will always take you to the place of your soul): A study of transformation through indigenous ways of knowing in a County Kerry Community
… inner life. This study illustrates how a group of County Kerry adult learners with visual impairment communicated an understanding of their lives to their communities through various arts media. Exploring their worlds creatively through six stage performances and preparatory workshops, over a …
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Tracking the movement of fish: skipper's logbooks and marine knowledges in fisheries management
… sectors specialise in tracking the movement of fish. The knowledge thus gained is integral to both fishing practice and fisheries research, yet the two have often been posited against each other on opposite sides of a spectrum. This dissertation problematises the modernist divide between two …
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