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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"ethnographic case study"”.
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Comprehensive school health : an ethnographic case study
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to describe the characteristics of one school's Comprehensive School Health (CSH) initiative and to explore the experiences of school community members in order to gain an understanding of how one school embraced a Comprehensive School Health …
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Young children's expressions of spirituality : an ethnographic case study
… Located within an interpretive paradigm, this ethnographic case study of children aged two and three years in a day nursery, explores the language(s) of spiritual expression. A socio-cultural (Vygotsky, 1978) perspective of the child underpins the study that recognizes children's agency …
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An Ethnographic Case Study of a Deaf Workforce Collective
<p>This ethnographic study seeks to increase our understanding of the individual and shared experiences of five members of a Deaf United States Postal Service (USPS) collective employment cohort in regards to their early learning experiences, how these experiences led to collective employment, and …
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A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town
This study contrasts children’s digital communicative literacy practices in two homes in Cape Town, South Africa. It aimed to find out whether children’s early engagement with digital media in home settings might vary across socio-economic settings, with implications for their subsequent …
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Democracy in education: a philosophical analysis and ethnographic case study
… The review of literature leads up the to the ethnographic case study of an alternative school that has been in existence for twenty-two years and is a member of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools. As an ethnographic work, I "write the culture" as I find it at Connectionist …
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Examining a cross-cultural distance education course : an ethnographic case study
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to explore how different distance learning modes and environments affect the design and implementation of a crosscultural, university-level, distance education course. The case chosen was a U.S. -Taiwan collaboration that used H.323 videoconferencing …
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Provision for students with dyslexia in EFL: an ethnographic case study
This study investigated the provision that students with dyslexia receive in Greek state secondary schools in EFL and if it corresponds with the Education Ministry’s policy on dyslexia. A study of the literature on dyslexia in Greece has shown that there is lack of teachers’ training on dyslexia …
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The Far Reaching Impact of Transformative Learning: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study
This multiple case study focused on the lives and experiences of four women who participated in an adult literacy program. This case study approach used critical ethnography as an analytic tool employing grounded theory leading to the development of a substantive theory. In-depth, semi-structured …
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Live the Vision church culture: an ethnographic case study and theological inquiry
… how LTVCC exerts its influence, are needed. This case study contributes the desired knowledge through an in-depth, ethnographic investigation of a single Southern, evangelical church with strong LTVCC characteristics. The thesis describes what LTVCC can look like in a congregation through an …
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One school's process of becoming more culturally responsive: an ethnographic case study
… opportunity gaps continue to widen. In this ethnographic case study, the researcher studies one school’s process for becoming a more culturally responsive community. Through semi-structured interviews, field notes, and surveys, the researcher describes what happened after the school launched …
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An ethnographic case study of collaborative learning in a higher education choral ensemble
… and internationally-connected state. This ethnographic case study outlines the process and examines the benefits of implementing a collaborative learning curriculum into a higher education choral classroom. In this project, students encountered and examined the cultures represented by …
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Lives in the informal art trade : an ethnographic case study of Maputo, Mozambique
This minor dissertation investigates the lives and businesses of informal artists and vendors in Maputo, Mozambique. The research points to a swell in numbers of artisans in Maputo over the past dozen years. Tourism has developed in Mozambique; expanding the clientele for Maputo's informal …
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An Ethnographic Case Study Examining the Experiences of African American Students with Nonresident Fathers
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to identify influences that replace the presence of Black fathers with children living in non-paternal homes. For my research investigation, influence was defined as people and/or experiences and/or activities engaged in positively or negatively. When …
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Discouragement, encouragement, and at risk Hispanic elementary students' self-esteem: an ethnographic case study
The purpose of this study is to describe ways in which self-esteem of at risk Hispanic elementary students are affected by discouragement and encouragement. An ethnographic approach and participant observer method make it possible to document the lives of two students within the educational setting …
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College students' transformative learning: an ethnographic case study of an alternative break program to Kenya
This study describes the processes and forms of college students' learning resulting from a non-credit-bearing, two week alternative break program to Kenya that took place December 2012 - January 2013. It is necessary to understand students' learning on short-term education abroad programs because …
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN PRIMARY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY OF THREE SCHOOL CONTEXTS
This study focuses on primary foreign language teaching and learning. It seeks to reveal the perspectives and practice of three different stakeholders: specialist teachers, generalist teachers and head teachers. The study then places these beliefs and practice within a local, national and …
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Cripping the Border – Acompañamiento as Access: An Ethnographic Case Study of Transborder Youth with Disabilities
… acompañamiento and Transborder DisCrit, this ethnographic case study examines the lived experiences of both students and their families who cross the border daily to attend school in the U.S. It frames these journeys not as mere commutes, but as acts of defiance within the broader disability …
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