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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"knowledge construction"”.
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Merging corpus linguistics and collaborative knowledge construction
… analysis to the concept of collaborative knowledge construction. It demonstrates that the traditional synchronic perspective of meaning in corpus linguistics needs to be complemented by a diachronic dimension. The fundamental assumption underlying this work is that knowledge is understood …
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Knowledge construction, social identity and social network structure in completely online groups
… of social-network structure, patterns of group-knowledge construction and trajectories of group-identity formation.
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As I sow, so shall you reap: The different roles of different gestures in knowledge construction
… that certain gestures prime a specific type of knowledge. For example, iconic gestures with structure knowledge of a concept facilitate learning of structures of a given concept and action gestures facilitate learning of movements, especially causal relation of the concept. This study also …
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Qualitative knowledge construction for engineering systems : extending the design structure matrix methodology in scope and procedure
… methodology is presented called Qualitative Knowledge Construction (QKC). QKC can be thought of as a Bayesian-type approach to grounded theory. The methodology integrates qualitative social science with quantitative methods by developing a procedure for translating textual reports of …
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Not All Who Wander are Lost: An Ethnographic Study of Individual Knowledge Construction within a Community of Practice
… the situated and informal nature of individual knowledge construction as mediated through a community of practice. Unlike place-based or cyber-bound communities, the ever-changing membership and location dynamics of AT hikers offered a unique and researchable community for study. The complex and …
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Knowledge Construction and Multiple Realities: Global Health Collaborations, Development Practices, And Face Masks in The Context of Covid-19
… by the GRASPIT team identified issues with knowledge sharing as one of the contributory causes of its failure. This prompted the reflection in this thesis upon apparent asymmetries when knowledge is shared. Quite soon after the research began, the global pandemic COVID-19 revealed the issue …
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How evaluation practice, knowledge construction, value, and social programming predict utilization of program review recommendations by community college department chairs
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Structuring asynchronous online discussion groups : the impact of role-supported student facilitation
… participation, interaction, levels of knowledge construction and cognition, as well as the impact of each role. All 13 graduate students who enrolled in a master's-level online course participated in this study. First, an unfacilitated discussion was implemented, followed by three …
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Scripts for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
… impact on how we construct and communicate knowledge today. Computer interfaces have not been genuinely designed, however, to support collaborative knowledge construction. This study shows how computer interfaces can be designed based on the instructional script-approach to facilitate …
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Multicultural Teaching Competence as Perceived by Business Education Student Teachers
… dimensions are Content Integration (8 skills), Knowledge Construction Process (6 skills), Prejudice Reduction (11 skills), Equity Pedagogy (5 skills), and Empowering School Culture (7 skills). The results of the study indicated that business education student teachers perceived themselves as …
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“It’s literally like I’m sat right there in the room with you!” A generic qualitative study of formative audio feedback within pre-registration nurse education
… student nurses learning, facilitating knowledge construction and mean-making, and contributing to development of professional identity. Methodology: This Generic Qualitative study initially explored sixteen pre-registration student nurses’ expectations of formative audio feedback …
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Sociocultural understandings of technology-mediated educational practices: improvable objects and meaning-making trajectories in the ICT-literate classroom
… across activities, brings new dimensions to the knowledge-construction process. Furthermore, the importance of addressing meaning making as an interactional achievement became evident, through extension of Baldry and Thibault’s (2006) ‘meaning-making trajectory’. Analysing teacher and pupil …
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Community-based co-design of a crowdsourcing task management application for safeguarding indigenous knowledge
Teaching indigenous knowledge (IK) to African youth has become more complicated due to a variety of reasons such as urban migration, loss of interest in it, the dominance of scientific knowledge and the technological revolution. Therefore, there is a considerable movement towards using technologies …
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Funding Patterns Within Academic Journal Articles: Does Money Buy Knowledge?
… realm of academia. Implications of this trend in knowledge construction are discussed. </p>
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Online pedagogy: the pedagogical variation model for asynchronous online teaching
… online behaviour - collaborative capability and knowledge construction ability. These are utilised to create a new model, the 'model of Pedagogical Variation', where online teaching is viewed as situational, and e-learners of varying degrees of capability can be given opportunities to maximise …
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Everything in di Dark Muss Come to Light: A Postcolonial Investigation of the Practice of Extra Lessons at the Secondary Level in Jamaica's Education System
… imperialistic and colonial representations of knowledge throughout history; (b) PCT in education uses an anti-colonial discursive framework to re-position indigenous knowledge in schools, colleges, and universities to challenge hegemonic knowledge; (c) PCT in education involves the "unlearning" …
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Argumentative Learning with Intelligent Agents
… role in information sharing, deep learning and knowledge construction. However, because of the high dependency on qualified arguing peers, argumentative learning has only had limited applications in school contexts to date. Intelligent agents have been proposed as virtual peers in recent …
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Cognitive Processing Language in Communities of Inquiry: An Examination of Cognitive Presence, Instruction Modality, and Academic Performance of Online Learners
… of learners represents a critical feature of the knowledge construction process in online settings. In this study, we analyzed 1852 thematic units of college students’ online discussion posts using both manual coding of cognitive presence and automated linguistic analysis of cognitive processing …
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