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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"participatory learning"”.
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Participatory learning environment : requirements and design analysis
… preliminary database and class designs for the Participatory Learning Approach Environment (PLAE). The requirements and the designs will be presented for version 1.0 and 2.0 with version 2.0 supporting an enhanced requirements set. Participatory Learning Approach Environment (PLAE) is an …
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Stakeholder-based sustainable design: a participatory learning model
… In this thesis, I examine the efficacy of a Learning Circle, a participatory learning model, in building the competence and confidence of stakeholders in Mattoon, Illinois to engage in a sustainable design process for their communities, and in facilitating buy-in within the community.
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Effects of the participatory-learning method on sex-related
The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of 'teacher-centered class' (widely used at present in elementary schools) & 'activity-based class' (making program by writer). The subjects of this study were 128 sample in H elementary school in the I city. The study consisted of 64 students in …
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A Critical Analysis of Participation and Empowerment in Community Development: An Ethnographic Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico
Participatory approaches to international and community development have gained significant popularity, and are commonly held to be intrinsically empowering processes. In the context of development, both participation and empowerment were borne of radical claims and democratizing goals, but over …
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An Exploration of How Primary School Teachers in Malawi Plan and Implement Social Studies Lessons for the Preparation of Active Participatory Citizens in a Democratic Society
… nation-states is the preparation of an active participatory citizenry. For this reason, educators advocate the use of participatory classroom practices for instilling in students knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes for active civic responsibilities. In this connection, Malawi has since the …
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A Search for Understanding Why Male, Long Term High School Dropouts Resist Returning to Complete a Secondary Credential
… learn the same way, (2) there is a need for more participatory learning, (3) learning should be relevant to life as perceived by the student, and (4) there is a dislike of computer content that is not supported by personal instruction. While these themes are supportive of past research efforts and …
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Multi-Stage Research Focused on Instructional Redesign and Organizational Reculturing
… staff toward instructional norms that promote participatory learning. The following objectives guided the research: (a) to design an intervention that might observe and evaluate teacher efforts to implement new instructional norms in the classroom; (b) to evaluate the extent to which the …
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Development of a Co-participatory and Reflexive Approach to Teaching and Learning Instructional Design
… education program. The model supports co-participatory learning of instructional design and mutual examination of one's learning and participation by both instructor and students. A design and development framework is used to describe the design decisions, model implementation, and …
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Social Media as Connected Learning Technology: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Facebook for Undergraduate Education
… study explores Facebook as a collaborative and participatory learning tool to provide information on sex-related topics to undergraduate students. Connected learning was used as the guiding framework for exploring the ways that social media blend peer culture, academics, and learner interests to …
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An ethnographic study of gender differentiation in a middle school
… self-esteem and facilitating the acquisition of participatory learning skills are distributed in favour of boys. Certain preoccupations and predispositions are, moreover, presented by pupils and the inquiry elaborates how these are reciprocated with institutional arrangements and expectancies. In …
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Life skills for adolescence : evaluative research on the Quest programme
… as with most life skills programmes, is participatory learning as opposed to didactic teaching. This pilot-study was based at the Sentinel High School in Hout Bay. The study evaluates whether module one and two of the Quest Life Skills programme achieved their objectives. The second …
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Learning from change: benefits and implications of distinct primary and secondary schools for education in Zambia.
… The study was guided by the change theory and Participatory Learning approach. Findings revealed that having a distinct primary school free from secondary classes was difficult. In other words, change did not materialise in the studied schools as grades eight and nine were still a part of …
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An investigation of factors impacting on facilitator's implementation of a participatory development programme in Orange Farm, South Africa
… affected the implementation of a particular participatory development programme. As such, it is a case study of the Vukani group: a group of facilitators who implemented the participatory development programme of REFLECT in their area of Orange Farm, Johannesburg. The four factors guiding my …
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Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Orientation of Undergraduate Science Students in Rwanda
… which converge on the action and experiential learning as an alternative to classical business plan. Action-learning theory capitalises on the potential that human beings have in dealing with difficult challenges and problems through own learning experiences. It acknowledges that individual …
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Digital Echoes of the iGeneration: An Examination of Digital Media Used in 21st Century Education
… Equally important, I wanted to examine the participatory process; as well as how this process affected the students' views, values, and to what extent, if at all. This study was made possible due to the 2011 JOCO Film Festival. Each of the teams of students participated in the film festival …
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Coping with uncertainty: perspectives on sustainability of smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
… and models (NUTMON, MonQI and QUEFTS), (ii) participatory learning and interdisciplinary research methodologies (on-farm comparative participatory research, PTD, Farmer Field Schools), and (iii) qualitative perceptions of farmers and researchers to investigate sustainability of smallholder …
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The Spiritual Pedagogy of the Cloud-author
… but also emulates for his readers a sense of participatory learning in an otherwise very solitary process. In my third chapter, I consider the author’s engagement with monastic and devotional epistolary culture, namely the eleventh- and twelfth-century Latin letters of Bernard of Clairvaux and …
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The implementation of learner-centred pedagogy in Rwanda: Teachers as mediators
… pedagogy (LCP) as the teaching and learning approach. The envisaged goal of LCP is to engage students in more active and participatory learning experiences, which can help to cultivate competencies relevant for their futures (REB/MINEDUC, 2015). While LCP is considered as being one …
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Classroom Assessment in Malawi: Teachers' Perceptions and Practices in Mathematics
… and tools to understand and to support both the learning and teaching processes. The following three questions guided the study: 1) How do primary school teachers perceive classroom assessment in mathematics? 2) What kinds of assessment methods and tools do teachers use to assess their students …