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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"informal knowledge"”.
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Social Technologies and Informal Knowledge Sharing within and across Organizations
… to the roles social technologies play in informal knowledge sharing practices, both within and across organizations. Social technologies include (a) traditional social technologies (e.g., email, phone and instant messengers), (b) emerging social networking technologies commonly known as …
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Towards a knowledge sharing framework based on student questions : the case for a dynamic FAQ environment
… computer mediated interaction on question-driven knowledge acquisition among students. A growing concern for educational institutions in general and educators in particular has been to augment what students are formally taught and what they informally learn from one another. Anecdotal evidence …
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Knowledge Transfer through Narratives in an Organization
… Specifically, the research examines how informal knowledge is embedded in organizations in the form of narratives, and how narratives are used to transfer knowledge across the organization. The dissertation develops the concept of narrative, and the qualities of the narratives used in …
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The recruitment and recognition of prior informal experience in the pedagogy of two university courses in labour law
… a discussion of the ways in which formal and informal knowledge have been constructed in various theories of knowledge and thought, as well as in discourses on the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). Thereafter, drawing on Bernstein, Dowling and Bourdieu , and in dialogue with the empirical …
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Desarrollo de conocimientos matemáticos informales a través de resoluciones de problemas aritméticos verbales en primer curso de educación primaria
… of this research is to study the development of informal knowledge on base 10 grouping and place value. This is done through the study of the strategies used by children in solving arithmetic word problems and the analysis of representations of discrete quantities used in their procedures, and …
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Essays In Corporate Finance
… two questions in corporate finance: 1) Does knowledge sharing affect innovation? and 2) How do profit sharing and loss sharing affect the choice of underwriting fees and offer prices in the IPO market? In the first chapter, I investigate the impact of knowledge sharing on innovation using the …
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Online learning communities for school teachers’ continuous professional development : the cognitive, social and teaching aspects of an eTwinning Learning Event
… moderation was reinforced at key points and informal social interaction was encouraged through the addition of a virtual staff room. Data were collected via a participant questionnaire, interviews and the coding of the messages in the discussion forums. The subsequent analysis suggests that …
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Early Childhood development Level 4 learnership: A qualitative study of the curriculum responsiveness to the needs of experienced ECD teachers
… (ECD) Level 4 Learnership recognized the informal knowledge of experienced practitioners. It focused on whether the curriculum and pedagogy considered the experiences of adult learners and to what extent adult education principles were followed in its delivery. A review of the literature …
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Teacher and pupil subject knowledge and the processes of mathematical instruction in reception classrooms
… was to investigate teachers' pedagogical subject knowledge, in particular, through examination of the co-ordination and utilisation of teacher and pupil knowledge in the complex environments of reception classrooms.Phase One and Two (orientation and overview) concerned the design, piloting and …
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Understanding the role of conferences for industry-university collaborations
Industry-university collaborations have been acknowledged as a crucial mechanism for innovation in knowledge-based economies. However, ties between the industry and university sectors is relatively weak globally and especially in Australia. Governments wish to encourage links between industry and …
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The canon or the kids: Teachers and the recontextualisation of classical and popular music in the secondary school curriculum
… a rich source of data concerning the values and knowledge they hold as important. Each case provides valuable insights into the influences and processes of music teaching in New Zealand secondary schools, as well as shedding light on the views of students. This research establishes that the …
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Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations
… and subjectivity. This work builds on formal knowledge from the social sciences, HCI, and game design, as well as informal knowledge from facilitation, gathering practices, party games, and Tarot, by presenting five distinct design principles aligned with theories grounded in past work: 1) …
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, NATURAL HAZARD MITIGATION, AND INNOVATIVE RESPONSES
… process, I examine the effect of technical knowledge stocks, constructed by patent counts in quake-proof building technologies, and informal knowledge, measured by prior earthquake experiences, on reducing earthquake-related losses. Using a global cross section, I find that countries with …
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Exploring indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being: a case study of isiXhosa-speaking women in the rural Eastern Cape
… analyzes and conceptualizes the indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being held by different generations of women and how they are reproduced cross-generationally in a rural isiXhosa-speaking community. It also explores how the relationship between concepts of self, …
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Emancipating the Many: A practice led investigation into emergent paradigms of immediate political action
… collective co-operation on the other. ‘Official’ knowledge, incorporated by endless columns of statistical data, gathered and administered meticulously thanks to the firm grip of institutionalised observation, is of little help though, for we have become increasingly conscious that the …
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Transforming migrancy: Basotho experience and participation in the South African labour system
… to reveal the dynamics of the system, with its informal knowledge, attitudes, practices, and so on. Migrants tell stories that show not only how unjustly the system is treating them, but how they have survived and even made the most of its limited opportunities. The answers to our economic …
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An Action Research Study Involving Fifth-grade Students Learning Fractions Through A Situative Perspective With Story Problems
… revealed that my students constructed their own knowledge about various fraction concepts and operations because students engaged in discussions, after solving story problems, that developed, extended and restructured their knowledge. One example of this occurred after students had solved an …
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El desarrollo de la pericia en los entrenadores expertos de baloncesto : etapas en la formación del entrenador a partir del estudio de su itinerario vital
… se dividen en medios formales, no formales e informales. En función de las experiencias previas de los entrenadores, unos tendrán más repercusión que otros en su formación. En nuestra investigación, los medios formativos informales son los más destacados, y entre ellos, el día a día en el …