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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"knowledge transmission"”.
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Formal education and traditional ecological knowledge transmission in Samburu, Kenya: research and revitalization
… concern that the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of indigenous communities is eroding due to globalization. Such erosion is seen as a threat to both the cultural continuity of indigenous societies and their ability to sustainably manage their natural resources. As in other parts of …
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Nigerian science teachers' beliefs about effective science teaching, their pedagogical content knowledge, and how these influence science teaching
… science teaching, their pedagogical content knowledge and how these influence their classroom teaching behaviour. The research is underpinned by a conceptual framework, which establishes a strong relationship between teachers' beliefs about teaching, teachers' pedagogical content knowledge …
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Differential analysis of student and teacher instructional expectations
… measure response to the following factors: (a) Knowledge transmission; (b) Classroom entertainment; (c) Intellectual challenge; (d) Psychological support; (e) Achievement responsibility, and (f) Formatting the class to the textbook. Eighty-six students and 85 teachers from northern Colorado …
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Plants And Foodways Of The Standing Rock Nation: Diversity, Knowledge, And Sovereignty
… Interviews with elders reveal a diversity of knowledge about plants. Elders know about different plants, and also hold different knowledge about the same plants. These differences are explained by variation in use. Elders' knowledge about the seasonal availability of plants varies according to …
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A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat
… Sufi poetry performance as a means of Islamic knowledge transmission and ethical self-formation in rural Muslim communities in Kachchh, a border district in the western Indian state of Gujarat adjacent to Sindh, Pakistan. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research with Muslim …
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A Study of Students' Conceptions of Networked Learning in a Developing Country Setting
… of description were identified: resource access, knowledge transmission and knowledge construction. Regarding the roles of technology in mediating learning through connections, three categories emerged: flexibility, tool and medium. These categories are argued to demonstrate a conceptual variation …
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Three essays in development economics: Private transfers, farmers' retirement, and learning failures
… we assess information efficiency along the knowledge transmission chain from researchers to agricultural extension agents (EAs) to lead farmers (LFs) to other farmers. By asking the same set of questions about a fairly well known technology, pit planting, we construct a measure of knowledge …
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In Search of Minerva's Owl: Canada’s Army and Staff Education (1946-1995)
… warfare within theatres of war. This body of knowledge was analogous to what today comprises the operational level of war. It is a structured vision of conducting conflict that was reaffirmed and sustained by institutional memory created in the crucible of the Second World War and traces its …
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O olhar do professor acerca dos valores humanos no ambiente escolar
… Questionnaire (BVQ). The results showed that the knowledge of elementary school teachers about human values is not enough to adopt educational measures for knowledge transmission in values to the process of teaching students' learning. Nevertheless, the results also showed that their evaluative …
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An investigation into the curricula of two secretarial courses and their relationship to a socially constituted image of the secretarial function
… to provide information on the effects of knowledge transmission in the classroom on individual students' beliefs and ideas about secretarial work. The tacit teaching of values and expectations within the hidden curriculum is also explored. The theoretical analysis of the curricula in …
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Dialectical Performance and Political Economy: Adapting the Brechtian Learning Play to Reimagine 21st Century Social Participation
… articulate a critique of the aspects of economic knowledge determining widespread assumptions on the nature of social participation through a practice of participatory performance that fosters democratic forms of access to and discussion of knowledge, such as the learning play. The thesis adopts …
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Technology Gatekeeping: Influences on Three High School Social Studies Teachers' Implementations of Digital Technology
… of their students engagement, technical knowledge, and behavior, and their experiences with the reliability and accessibility of the technology tools available to them were the biggest factors and relations impacting digital technology use in a unit of instruction. Teachers acted as …
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Implications of African Pianism on the arrangement and Orchestration of mmino
… the shaping and preservation of African knowledge, cultural traditions, artistic expressions, and songs. Additionally, systematic cultural codes play a significant role in shaping performance styles, song structures, and the usage of musical instruments. As a result, songs become a …
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Conversion Charter School Leaders' Perceptions of School Change: A Narrative Inquiry
… practices, authority and power distribution, knowledge transmission regarding vision and goals, was examined. The study aimed to illumine the perspectives of these principals regarding their leadership experiences and changes they were making in their organizations to improve student …
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A cross-cultural investigation of learning among Hadza and BaYaka hunter- gatherer children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo
… these environments because we rely on skill and knowledge transmitted and improved upon from one generation to the next. Thus, studying learning is essential to understanding the diversity in, and evolution of, human cultures. Hunter-gatherers may be especially important to study knowledge …
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Inclusion in Practice: An explanatory study of how patterns of classroom discourse shape processes of educational inclusion in Tanzanian secondary school classrooms
… research is premised on the need to expand our knowledge of what inclusive education can mean in classrooms typically characterized by material and human deprivation, and in teaching approaches most often defined by a strong pedagogic tradition of knowledge transmission. The findings support the …
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A kaupapa Māori framework approach to filmmaking
… to showcase a unique way of storytelling and knowledge transmission methods of our tūpuna, with contemporary methods and technology. Put simply, realising old ways with new ways. To help realise this research, I will develop a kaupapa Māori framework approach to filmmaking and apply it to …
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The Processes of Learning and Teaching Cimbveka: Enhancing Music Education Practices in Primary Schools of the Southern Region of Mozambique
… reveal cimbveka as a holistic concept in music knowledge transmission as its performance features particular musical aspects such as rhythm, melody, pulse, tempo, and so forth, distinctly. The remarkable distinctiveness of these musical elements in cimbveka performance makes cimbveka practice a …
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Repatriation claims on cultural material from former British colonies in museums in Britain and Ireland: using experiences to effect change
… grounded in Western frameworks of ownership and knowledge transmission, thereby perpetuating colonialist practices rather than dismantling them. This thesis investigates the processes of repatriation from British and Irish museums to original custodians in former British colonies, uncovering how …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
… as book technology and culture, medicine, and knowledge transmission more generally, this study shows how Sogdian Christians were instrumental not just in processes of transmission but exercised varying degrees of autonomy as adaptors and creators. By scrutinizing the evidence of Sogdian …
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