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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"constructing knowledge"”.
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A SEMANTIC APPROACH FOR CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS EXTRACTED FROM TABLES
Knowledge graphs (KGs) are networks of real-world entities with their relationships and properties and are more and more used as a means for the integration of heterogeneous sources of information in a common model that facilitates the interoperability of different applications and generates a huge …
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"We Know Where We Stand": Contesting and Constructing Knowledge in Nicaragua's Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic
… in northwestern Nicaragua, it analyzes how knowledge production interacts with scientific uncertainty about CKDs specific biomedical causes. It posits that scientific knowledge does not close controversy, but rather proliferates uncertainties, thereby forestalling the potential for rights …
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Facing trauma: co-constructing knowledge to empower and support psychotherapists and counsellors in their clinical practice when working with trauma. A constructivist grounded theory study
… would often report reconnection with skills, knowledge and experience they already possessed, but had ‘displaced’ through seeing working with trauma as such a different entity to their ‘regular’ practice. From this situation emerged a key objective of this study; that of developing a better …
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Personal epistemology: Implications for stress in college students
… students' epistemological beliefs (i.e. certain knowledge, simple knowledge, fixed ability, quick learning, and omniscient authority) could predict negative stressors and/or reactions to stress in their college experience. Based on responses to two self-assessment inventories and a demographic …
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Learning Outside the Box: Designing Social Learning Spaces
… learning theory asserts that learning involves constructing knowledge through dialogue with others. Traditional learning spaces designed with didactic pedagogies in mind are often not flexible enough to cater to the range of social learning activities promoted by educationalists in classrooms …
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Perceptions and understandings of educators working in an MLK Street community school in the Central Valley of California
… Accordingly, how educators construct their knowledge of the community is as important as the development of instructional practices. The present case study analyzed data to explore the overarching research question: What are educators' interpretations of the work, the school, and community …
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Habilidade social educativa de “dar e receber feedback” em processos avaliativos: contribuições na formação do(a) pedagogo(a)
… for it enhances the possibilities of (re)constructing knowledge by students, so that they became more autonomous; it also helps teachers to be more reflexive and critical; besides, it consolidates interpersonal relationship between those implied at teaching/learning, promoting dialogue and …
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Joint document-level information extraction
Constructing knowledge graphs from unstructured text is an important task that is relevant to many domains. Recently neural models have been used to great effect in order to solve many information extraction tasks. However, there are still many challenges that need to be solved before our models …
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SME leaders’ learning in networked learning: An Actor-network theory and Communities of Practice theory informed analysis
… programme under investigation forms part of the knowledge exchange initiatives at Lancaster university management school. The research explores the learning process through a qualitative, inductive approach underpinned by an (online and offline) ethnography and is supported by qualitative …
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The pedagogy of computer programming using cognitive development through an e-learning object
… the learning difficulties in program semantics knowledge and logical reasoning, this research project develops a cognitive development-based pedagogy for introductory programming to support students in organizing and constructing knowledge to learn computer programming. A pedagogy is described …
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SME leaders’ learning in networked learning : an actor-network theory and communities of practice theory informed analysis
… programme under investigation forms part of the knowledge exchange initiatives at Lancaster university management school. The research explores the learning process through a qualitative, inductive approach underpinned by an (online and offline) ethnography and is supported by qualitative …
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Emergent literacy in Chinese: Print awareness of young children in Taiwan
… in Taiwan and the evidence that they are constructing knowledge about written Chinese. The study utilized Print Awareness Tasks including twenty environmental print items chosen from the Taiwanese society. Sixteen kindergartners age from three to six were the informants. These children …
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Measuring early literacy behaviors: preschool-age children and first-generation Mexican immigrant parents
… overlook strengths as a point of reference for constructing knowledge. The myth that Latino and other parents of diverse backgrounds do not value education is one of the primary reasons cited in this dissertation as a need to develop an instrument designed to measure diverse cultural values and …
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How can I, as an early childhood educational leader, cultivate a Community of Practice in my setting?
… I value a colleigal environment and socially constructing knowledge with my colleagues. However, I was aware that my values were not reflected in my practice. Through engaging in self-study action research, I could examine my practice, identify methods in which I could enhance it and align my …
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Jogos digitais da plataforma MEC RED para a alfabetização: uma análise fundamentada na psicogênese da língua escrita
… those games do not explore the child's prior knowledge of written language, nor their structure are based on the writing levels of the psychogenesis of written language; in addition, most of them do not provide constructive feedback. Focusing on the contributions, among others, games allow …
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When teachers are victims : A study of support in Western Australian government schools for teachers who have been assaulted by students
… This 'truth' is created by the reader actively constructing knowledge from constant reflection on the experiences of the characters and then modifying these experiences within the story by using cultural knowledge as a basis for comparison (Gray, 1996, p3). In this study three individual stories …
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Classroom Assessment in Malawi: Teachers' Perceptions and Practices in Mathematics
This study investigated teachers' perceptions of classroom assessment in mathematics and their current classroom assessments practices. Specifically, the study sought to gain an understanding of the extent to which teachers use different classroom assessment methods and tools to understand and to …
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The influence of cultural background on teaching and learning in synchronous online sessions
… appropriately for creating interactivity and constructing knowledge with diverse participants; e.g., text chat can be used as a discussion tool for students who are too shy to speak into a microphone. Future studies are recommended to investigate the perception of students from various …
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Learning in a digitally connected classroom: Secondary science teachers’ pedagogical reasoning and practices
… decision-making drawing upon a range of teacher knowledge bases, most notably technological pedagogical content knowledge took place. The pedagogical reasoning and action model presented demonstrates a backward mapping approach where the use of ICT was directed at supporting the development of …
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The Role Of Education System In Preparing Youth For Agricultural Career Decisions And Aspirations: Exploring Ways To Attract More Youth To Engage In Agriculture And Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Tanzania
… and entrepreneurship is influenced by the knowledge they acquire through formal, informal, and nonformal settings. Changing youth perception of agriculture is essential for agriculture and youth development. The purpose of the study was to examine current youth perceptions of agriculture, …
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