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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"challenging circumstances"”.
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How infant massage enhances pedagogical attachment in families facing challenging circumstances
This doctoral research project aimed to contribute a needed in-depth understanding of the effects of infant massage for families around the times they faced stressful life events. It was developed in response to Bennett, Underdown and Barlow’s 2013 meta-analysis and critique of studies examining …
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Educators’ Understanding of Child Development in Successful Schools that Face Challenging Circumstances
… how educators who teach in schools that face challenging circumstances understand child development and the school context, and how their understanding of child development is manifested through non-academic responses to these challenging circumstances. Using mixed methods to explore and …
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Primary Schools Facing Challenging Circumstances: Effective leadership and the potential contribution of complexity theory.
… is, ‘What happens in primary schools facing challenging circumstances that results in their improvement or decline?’ It reports on a study of three English primary schools either subject to an Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) improvement category following inspection and/or coping …
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Leading the teaching and learning: a study of transformational leadership in secondary schools facing challenging circumstances
… in secondary schools identified as facingchallenging circumstances. It adopts the hypothesis that headteachers with strong transformational leadership behaviours are more effective in raising standards of student attainment than headteachers with other types of leadership behaviour. The …
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A Pilot Study Comparing Total Physical Response Storytelling™ With the Grammar-Translation Teaching Strategy to Determine Their Effectiveness in Vocabulary Acquisition Among English as a Second Language Adult Learners
… adult students who need to learn English under challenging circumstances. These students have complex lives and are trying to survive in addition to studying to improve their language ability.</p>
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Business models: obstructer or driver of early-stage entrepreneurial businesses in the west-coast district municipality, south africa? a model for change.
… of business models and their alignment with challenging circumstances. The study contributes to the literature by positioning business models not only as structural tools but also as dynamic processes contingent on both internal competencies and environmental awareness. Policy and practice …
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The Roman Catholic Communities of Cloyne Diocese, Co. Cork, 1700 -1830
… Diocese, Co. Cork to their changing and often challenging circumstances. A rich repository of source materials such as the visitation books of Roman Catholic Bishops, clerical correspondence and other sources has been relied upon. A scalar analytical framework ranging from the personal, to the …
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Remediation of place : the role of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in designing reuse at superfund sites
… sites is often difficult and plagued with challenging circumstances and uncertainties. Impediments to Superfund site redevelopment include fears associated with health risks and liability, uncertainty on the length of clean up time, lack of willingness of the property owner, and stigma. The …
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A Reformed Theological Perspective on God’s Providence Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Thulamela Local Municipality, South Africa
During challenging circumstances, people often find themselves contemplating inquiries such as, "What is the underlying cause for these events occurring in my life?" The question of the location of God has been a topic of philosophical and theological inquiry for centuries. And what is the …
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'Fresh start': a model for success and sustainable change?
… examines school improvement in schools with challenging circumstances (where many Fresh Start schools are based) and includes the theoretical framework underpinning school improvement. It examines the recent political context that has driven school improvement, the role of inspection in …
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Narratives of Experience in Education: Living and Working Through Poverty in a Rural Community
… lived stories of working in areas affected by challenging circumstances. From my stories and those of secondary participants, three themes were explored: student authorship, teaching practice, and community involvement. An examination of these themes through commonplaces of place, sociality and …
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A Comparative Evaluation to Determine the Effectiveness of the Behaviour Support Classrooms and other Positive Behaviour Management Interventions in Designated Disadvantaged Schools
… way forward for certain schools operating in challenging circumstances.
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A study to define the key factors that lead to school improvement in the secondary sector
… many of the schools previously studied faced challenging circumstances in areas of social deprivation. This study takes a cross section of eight school leaders as a sample. A composite model is presented highlighting eleven factors which act as levers for improvement, and the subsequent data …
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Family-friendly workplace policies in the United States: Associations with maternal and child health
Women in the United States face uniquely challenging circumstances regarding employment and childbirth. Unlike all but two other countries worldwide, the U.S. does not guarantee paid leave to employed women who give birth, and the 12 weeks of unpaid leave provided under the Family and Medical Leave …
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Creating Positive Opportunities in the Classroom.
… 2005) to identify, support and target schools in challenging circumstances. The site for this research is a mixed gender school with 228 children on role including the fourteen participants in this study. Heeding the statistics derived from the Growing up in Ireland Study (2017), it is pertinent …
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Cultural capital in urban communities as a pathway to engineering at a predominantly white institution: Narratives of African American women in engineering
… American girls in urban communities overcome challenging circumstances to succeed in math and science in high school, what experiences do they report as motivating them to pursue engineering at a selective predominantly white institution (PWI)? and 2) What is the role of family, school and …
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Assessing variability in eDNA metabarcoding: implications for ecological interpretation in environmental monitoring
… storage and clarify sample viability given challenging circumstances. This can prevent over-conservative sample discard, and it identifies the issues that will occur with incorrect sample storage. The results of the BLAST searches identified the parameters most influential on V3-4 16S …
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Talking back: the dialogical identities of dyslexic students in the figured worlds of the university. A narrative enquiry
… of ‘talking back’ and ‘holding their own’ in challenging circumstances within the FWs of school and university, where their difficulties with literacy practices often position them as ‘academically inadequate’, ‘unmotivated’, ‘needy’ or ‘difficult’. The analysis of the students’ storied …
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Using Lesson Study as collaborative professional development for high performing Early Career Teachers
… (ECTs) cultivate their craft in an increasingly challenging profession. Lesson Study (LS) is widely recognised for its potential to not only help teachers learn and develop through collaboration, but also for its power to promote teachers’ professional subject knowledge and professional growth. …
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Republicans, Citizens, and Wards: Indian Voting in New Mexico and Arizona, 1598—1912
… Indigenous land and rights. Still, under these challenging circumstances many Indigenous communities continued with their systems of electoral town politics. While Indian in New Mexico and Arizona remained mostly outside of the political mainstream, they maintained their dedication to the vote …
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