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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"education history"”.
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Implementation of Document Based Question Essays in Regular Education History Classes
… essays (DBQs) in non-Advanced Placement (AP) history classes. DBQs are essays in which students are given a question and a set of primary and secondary source documents that they must use to support an argument in answering the question. They must write a well-developed five-paragraph essay …
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Music For Caroline: Including Students With Autism In The Elementary General Music Classroom
… ofthis paper is to research and analyze the history ofspecial education, special education in music, and Autism. The goal is to provide elementary general music educators with a detailed understanding ofthe history ofspecial education and ways to modify lessons to accommodate students with …
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A history of the Ottery School of Industries in Cape Town: issues of race, welfare and social order in the period 1937 to 1968
… in relation to social welfare, delinquency and education came to South Africa and was mediated through a racial lens unique to this country. In doing so the thesis uses a broad range of material and levels from the ethnographic to the documentary and historical. The work seeks to locate itself …
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Graduate Record Examination scores and grade-point averages of graduate students at the College of the Pacific
… of students majoring in the departments of education, history, literature, fine arts, psychology, and science; and the number of years since receiving the A.B. in relation to the scores obtained on Graduate Record Examination Profile Tests?</p>
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Post-Secondary Education Influence: College VS. Skilled Trades
<p>Vocational education is a learning process where individuals focus on manual training with a non-academic curriculum related to a specific trade or occupation where individuals seek careers without college. According to Merriam-Webster (2019), vocational education is a type of education or …
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Sexuality among older adults: A comparative study of perceptions of undergraduate nursing and social work students.
… (perceptions), socio-demographics, gerontology education history, geriatric employment and volunteer experiences, and interactions with elderly family members and friends. Major findings revealed that: (1) the socio-demographic profile of the sample was similar to those in other studies reported …
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The Creation Of Choctaw Central High School And Its Transition To A Bureau Of Indian Affairs Contract School: An Oral History
… or their feelings and contributions toward education. As such this work explored the history of the Mississippi Choctaw with emphasis on education using data collected from Tribal members' stories. The following study is a Native American Education History on the Creation of Choctaw Central …
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The development of the public school support plan in West Virginia
… system for public elementary and secondary education in West Virginia from 1863 through November, 1984. In addition, the study provided a compiled source of data on selected aspects of the West Virginia school support system which had bearing upon the 1975 legislation that successfully …
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The Forms of Capital and Intergenerational Change in Higher Education Access: A Case Study of Aranguez
The study explores higher education access in a marginalised community within a post-colonial context, specifically, why access was low given supportive government policies. The case study of Aranguez, a former sugar-cane plantation in Trinidad, involved interviews with descendants of East Indian …
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A Delayed Birth of Freedom? Public School Graduates' Perceptions of School Choice Viewed through the Pragmatic Lenses of the American Ideal
… a historical and contextual overview of education as it specifically relates to low socioeconomic and minority populations. It analyzes governmental controls that may serve to restrict access to a quality education. This study seeks to promote equity through education as viewed through a …
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PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES GOALS AND CONTENT AREAS IN OMAN
… of 538 social studies teachers in basic education schools of the second cycle (grades five-10). Of 538 surveys, 407 surveys were completed and returned for a response rate of 76%. Cronbach's alpha values for each subscale ranged from .723 to .861. The resulting alpha value for the whole …
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The strange career of bilingual education: A history of the political and pedagogical debate over language instruction in American public education, 1890-1990
This dissertation is an analysis of the history of the modern bilingual education movement of the 1960s, the older bilingual tradition of schooling in this nation since the nineteenth century, and the early to middle years of the twentieth century when English-Only pedagogy appeared as a, dramatic …
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Constructing ambiguous identities negotiating race, respect and social change in 'Coloured' schools in Cape Town, South Africa
… of former and current teachers and students. Education is used as a site through which to explore the wider social impacts of social and spatial engineering during and subsequent to apartheid. Two key themes are examined in the space of education, those of racial identity and of respect. These …
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State aid to private higher education in North Carolina: a historical description
A new issue of public policy in America's higher education history is the state support of private higher education. As of January 1, 1980, all of the states except Wyoming and Nevada provide some type of aid to private higher education institutions. One state, North Carolina, began its efforts to …
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Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939 - 1984
This paper examines the current literature on the achievement and attainment gaps between African American and white students in United States public schools. It specifically examines evidence of student engagement and the attainment gap in Topeka High School. An examination of relevant academic …
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From Social Welfare to Social Work, the Broad View versus the Narrow View
… emerged during the development of social work education in Alberta, and captured by a dispute about the name of the school. The difference of a single word – welfare versus work – led through selected events in the history of social work where similar differences led to disputes about important …
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The History of the Western Illinois University Band From 1904--1942, and Its Evolution From Within the Illinois Normal School Movement
… of this study was to examine and report the history of Western Illinois University band from 1904-42, and its evolution from within the Illinois normal school movement. Following a brief historical review of the common and normal school's development in the eastern United States, the study …
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Lennie Tristano (1919--1978): His Life, Music, and Teaching
… re-evaluates Tristano's position in jazz history and addresses problems of the current tendency toward the canonization of jazz, in which he is misleadingly labeled as a ""cool"" jazz musician. The research methods combine oral history, archival research, and musical analysis. The main …
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History of the Baccalaureat: A Study of the Interaction Between Educational Legislation, Government Policy, and Language Theory in the National Language Examination
… national examination to complete secondary education and determine admission to higher education. In my dissertation I will discuss the development of the Baccalaureat and use the methodology of ""reverse engineering"" to analyze how the language portions of the examination reflect changes …
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A History of the Bands at Ohio University, Athens
… a major role in the development of the music education division, often teaching the majority of instrumental music education courses within the School of Music. This close association with music students had an overwhelmingly positive effect on the student/mentor relationship of music …
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