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Showing 1 to 20 of 492 for “"contextual or "situated" learning"”.
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Views : situated learning experiences in the school community
Vossenkuhl, Angela D. This study focused on a situated learning experience with the stakeholders in the school community with the goal of gaining an understanding and perspective of the structures and culture of the school. Situated learning is the process of pre-service teachers gaining experience …
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Situated computer vision
… of the application scenario they are designed for. This is an inherent problem that has already been noticed a long time ago. Solutions can be based on different principles. First, we can add explicit contextual knowledge to the system that is used to control the application of image operators. …
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Situated Evaluation of an Interorganizational Collaboration
The existence of an organizational divide pervades among nonprofits and community organizations, where access to computers, Internet use, and opportunities for professional development in information literacy are limited. The issue of providing ongoing support, cost effective training, and …
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Situated mappings : augmented-reality clay and adaptive interfacing
… collectively developed methods of structuring information through graphical and natural user interfaces (GUI, NUI) largely emphasize visual and visuo-spatial representation over other types of sensory information. As our interfaces continue to develop we seem to select for fidelity of visual …
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Young people, situated learning, and peace praxis at the margins of everyday life
… peace is often depicted in relation to conflict or war-affected areas e.g. the troubles in Northern Ireland or Colombia. By contrast, this study does not prioritise epistemologies of peace validated in spatial and conceptual spaces of ‘conflict-affected peace’, such as ‘everyday peace’ and …
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Organizational Learning and Situated Identities : A Study of Change in "High Reliability" Organizations.
This research explores situated learning and identity during periods of major organizational change within two 'high reliability' organizations (HROs), a British nuclear power station operator and a Canadian electricity grid operator. Situated learning refers to learning that occurs in the everyday …
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CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment): A Situated Evaluation of an Innovative Learning Environment
Five child protection investigators participated in the study, and qualitative data was collected by means of a variety of probes. Reader-response theory, which seeks to understand the transaction between the reader, text, and context, guided the analysis of the data. Results showed that CARA was …
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A Conceptual Model Incorporating Mindfulness to Enhance Reflection in a Situated Learning Environment
Key to designing instruction for situated learning is ensuring the ability of learners to transfer acquired knowledge to a variety of situations. Common to models of instruction and frameworks for situated learning is the importance of including activities for promoting reflection within the design …
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ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING PROCESSES UNDERLYING ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGIC RENEWAL WITHIN GROWTH-ORIENTED SMALL FIRMS: A SITUATED LEARNING THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… overarching aim of this study is to examine the organisational learning (OL) processes underlying entrepreneurial strategic renewal in growth-oriented small firms. Specifically, Situated Learning Theory (SLT) is applied as the major analytical lens to scrutinise the generation, dissemination and …
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Situated Language Learning Practices in an EFL Reading Class: Case Studies of Six College Students
This microethnographic study explored the second language acquisition and the use of reading strategies of six EFL college students in Thailand through the lenses of sociocultural and cognitive frameworks. With the overarching purpose to promote successful learning, the investigation examined and …
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Bidirectional gaze guiding and indexing in human-robot interaction through a situated architecture
In this body of work, I present a situated and interactive agent perception system that can index into its world and, through a bidirectional exchange of referential gesture, direct its internal indexing system toward both well-known objects as well as simple visuo-spatial indexing in the world. …
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Connecting School-Based Learning and Work-Based Learning: Perceptions of Students, Their Teachers, and Their Workplace Supervisors
Vocational educators are reexamining methods of preparing students for the transition from school to the workplace as employers from business and industry are looking to schools for help in meeting their human resource needs. The School-to-Work Opportunities Act (1994) has stimulated a number of …
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Harmony through disharmony in online communication : an investigation of rapport management in discussion forums from a perspective of situated learning
… investigates how people build and maintain rapport or harmony in interpersonal relations in the context of language learning–related forums in two websites, Japan Reference and Reddit. In the intercultural contexts of these fora, the participants negotiate their beliefs and values about …
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Development of a Framework for Teaching L2 English as a Situated Practice in Malawi
… English as second language (L2) in Malawi. Using situated cognition theoretical construct as a basis, a framework for teaching L2 English as a situated practice was created. The development process was guided by views and practices of English methodology faculty members in Malawi's five secondary …
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Conceptions of literacy in context : situated understandings in a rural area of Northern Cameroon
… of literacy of people in a village in northern Cameroon and explores how these are influenced by the circumstances of their lives. Many developments have taken place in local life in the last fifty years as the village has become progressively integrated into a wider world. Most people …
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“Facing both ways” an investigation of the mix of situated knowledge and formal knowledge in boat building
… HSRC commissioned study (2015) into artisanal work of the future. The study develops a conceptual framework of the logic of boat building work that meets the dual demands of innovation and reproduction. The conceptual framework develops the hypothesis that different types of knowledge are …
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Authentic learning in interactive multimedia environments
… from a behaviourist to a constructivist framework, a move that may begin to address the growing rift between formal school learning and real-life learning. One theory of learning which has the capacity to promote authentic learning is that of situated learning. The purpose of the study was to …
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An exploration of the efficacy of instructor modelling in the application of situated learning to educating student British Sign Language/English interpreters in healthcare interpreting
… of this thesis was to determine whether the performance of student sign language interpreters in simulated healthcare assignments was positively impacted by viewing a modelled interpretation, done by an experienced interpreter beforehand. It also explores the benefits of situating learning in a …
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The loci of learning in focus : a qualitative study of grade 7 students' conceptions of 'school' and 'learning'
… investigates the conceptions of 'school' and 'learning' held by twenty grade 7 students between the ages of 12 and 15. While the subjects' participating in the research were selected from two Cape Town metropolitan schools in close proximity, the schools were situated within vastly different …
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