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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"participant-observer"”.
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Coyote Ugly Librarian: A Participant Observer Examination of Lnowledge Construction in Reality TV.
… is created and may differ from what the participants of the shows experience. I appeared on two reality shows, Faking It and That's Clever, and learned a great deal as a participant observer. Within the study, I outline my experience and demonstrate how editing changed the reality I …
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The expression and development of teachers' capacities within two learning communities : a participant-observer case study
The learning community model has been an integral component of teacher development in Ontarian schools and beyond. This research was conducted to understand how teachers' personal capacity and professional, interpersonal, and organizational competencies are developed and expressed within this …
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Virginia's Implementation of Web-based High-stakes Testing in Public Education
… implementation of online testing, conducted a participant-observer case study and interviewed individuals closely associated with the Virginia Web-based Standards of Learning Technology Initiative. The interview transcripts, project documents, and experiences of the researcher as a …
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Discouragement, encouragement, and at risk Hispanic elementary students' self-esteem: an ethnographic case study
… and encouragement. An ethnographic approach and participant observer method make it possible to document the lives of two students within the educational setting of the classroom so that the researcher can look at the ways in which classroom life affects their self-esteem. Thus, observations by …
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From physical to virtual : extending the gallery experience online
… a case study, I describe from the viewpoint of a participant/observer, the design and development of the Web site for the exhibition Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator at Art Interactive.
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Shifting the Atmosphere : An Examination of the Relationships among African-American Female Discourse(s), Culturally Competent Education, and Social Action through the Black Church against Domestic Violence
… domestic violence awareness workshop led by the participant-observer researcher and attended by a group of African-American women of Christian faith who are interested in discussing, learning more about, and, ultimately, combating domestic violence within and/or beyond their rural communities …
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Negotiating uncertainty: making sense of the student teaching experience
… to full participation in teaching. As an observer in the classroom, the student teacher begins to understand her supervising teachers' classroom instruction. As a participant-observer, the student teacher begins to plan the classroom instruction and works with students in small groups. The …
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Parent-Teacher Communication During Transition Times: A Teacher's View
… ethnography was used for this study. I, as the participant observer, recorded the natural interactions and comments between 28 parents and myself during the transition times. I analyzed the data using a coding procedure that uncovered four main themes: (1) Opening Communication, (2) …
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Striving Towards an Understanding of Experienced Teachers’ Perceptions of the Usefulness, Ease of Use and Effective Integration of Technology in their Classroom
… experience by focusing on the stories of each participant, and it analyzes narrative themes. This study found that there were numerous impacts on teachers’ perceptions on the usefulness and ease of use of technology: this included (a) Limits: technology limits, teacher limits, student limits, …
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Computers and classroom teachers: A case study of staff development and a national survey of technology integration
… in the training. The case study, conducted by a participant/observer in the training, documents the staff development from June 1989 to December 1989. The methodology includes analysis of observations, informal conversations and formal interviews; analysis of computer records of electronic mail …
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An ethnography of black collegiate sprinters: A formal model of cultural identity and the identity complex
… labeled ""experiential positivism"" (intensive participant observation to the point where the participant observer can at least hope to possess some of a real participant's cognitive understandings and intuitions by which the activity is ordered), can generate the required kinds of empirical …
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Fraternity Re-Founded: A 'Pedagogues'
… rhetoric of fraternity through an observational participant-observer study of founding the Lambda Phi chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha at Texas State University. It examines how fraternity operates as a communicative system shaped through recruitment, ritual, governance, and everyday interaction …
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A Study of Student Teacher Experiences in a Multicultural School or Learning to Teach Teachers Who Will Teach 'Other People's Children'
… own stories from her experiences as a participant-observer in the school. Results are reported as four case studies with cross-case analysis. The researcher makes recommendations for teacher education based on findings from the four cases and group similarities. Results suggest that …
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The project management challenges, benefits, risks and limitations of adopting agile methodologies for a multiphase ERP program
… primary research method I adopted was that of participant observer. As a fully engaged participant in Dell’s IT Transformation journey, my role provided me with the opportunity to attend professional Agile training, participate in the piloting of Agile Transformation Programs and be part of a …
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Communicating Culture Through Capoeira
… major foreign cities. My thesis, through the participant/observer method and the use of long interviews, examines capoeira as it is practiced in one particular academy far from the art form's place of origin. In the tradition of the cultural studies branch of communication, my thesis analyzes …
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"It takes a lot out of you": ethnography of secondary English teachers' writing pedagogy
… Responses. The researcher assumed the role of participant observer for three months which resulted in two themes: first, traditional teaching methods in the teaching of writing, and secondly, teacher perceptions influence writing (composing) choices. Findings include the teachers’ modification …
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Playing class: a case study of ludic pedagogy
… course assessments. The researcher acted as a participant observer and used Constant Comparative Method as data driven teaching focused on student created documents. This research provides an exploration on the use of ludicly styled teaching methodology which includes students as instructors, …
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An Ethnographic Study of The Moth Detroit StorySLAM
… college students and young professionals.</p><p>Participants were informally interviewed during the September, October, and November slams of 2010 and the January 2011 slam. In addition to conducting these interviews, the researcher was a participant observer—throwing her name into the hat and …
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Stories Women Tell: An Ethnographic Study of Personal Experience Stories in a Women's Rap Group
… For nine months, the researcher acted as a participant/observer in a group of eleven young mothers who met once a week for 1 1/2 hours at a local church. Sessions were tape recorded for a five-month period; the stories told during the first eight recorded sessions were transcribed and then …
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A case study of the action research process in a school for at-risk students
… process, and (3) observe the interactions of the participants in an action research team. A case study methodology and a participant -observer technique was used in an action research team as the forum for implementing the process. The researcher in this single case study was the principal of the …
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