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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"practitioner inquiry"”.
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A practitioner inquiry and framework for seeding entrepreneurial leadership as part of identity formation in teenagers
… future entrepreneurial leadership role. However, practitioner experience and observation suggest that foundational self-awareness, self-leadership skills and the ability to positively influence others enhances the ability of all students to navigate their future career choices. To meet four …
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Not just a simple dressing: A practitioner inquiry exploring the complexity within residential care homes and the district nursing response
… healthcare needs. This qualitative study used a practitioner research approach to answer the following questions. Firstly, what challenges do care staff face in meeting the healthcare needs of residents, in particular those living with dementia, and secondly, what are the challenges faced by the …
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A practitioner inquiry into the creation & application of a contextualised therapeutic model to raise the competencies of youth facilitators in Singapore
… for clients and this is often accomplished by practitioners expanding their scope of practice through rigorous inquiry to enhance their competencies. In similar vein, the present project, aimed at advancing real-world practice via the utilisation of action research, served as a practitioner …
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THE CLASSROOM AS INQUIRY LEARNING COMMUNITY: A PRACTITIONER STUDY OF ADOLESCENTS’ DEVELOPING CRITICAL LITERACIES
… dissertation presents findings from 10 months of practitioner inquiry (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1993, 2009) using qualitative data collection and analysis. Informed by communities of practice theory (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and critical literacy theory (Luke, 2000; Janks, 2010; Comber, 2016), the study …
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Science Teaching and Learning as Transformation: Making Meaning with My Students
… I hope to contribute to the literature on practitioner inquiry, the power of student voice and rethinking science teaching and learning.</p>
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Investigating a Relationship of a Perception of Agency in Task Based Discourse and Change in Concepts: A Practitioner Research in Education
This research is a practitioner inquiry into change in concepts in contexts of task based discourse in teacher education classrooms. The particular concepts selected for study are epistemic beliefs about knowledge in history. A hypothesis that there is a relationship between a perception of agency …
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Critical Moments: Exploring Critical Pedagogy in an Adult ESL Classroom
… research, participatory action research, and practitioner inquiry, the teacher-researcher engaged in implementing critical pedagogy within the classroom of 16 student participants, set within an urban community adult ESL Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program. The …
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Cosmopolitanism in multicultural children’s texts and reader response
… children's texts. This study is a qualitative practitioner inquiry that included 15 third-grade students. The questions included considerations of how texts reflected cosmopolitan stances, the instructional decisions a teacher makes to encourage development of cosmopolitan stances, and what …
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Braiding Education, Workforce, and Community: Designing Cohesive Learning Systems for Democracy and Mobility
… IRB-approved qualitative research and embedded practitioner inquiry, the dissertation addresses three gaps in existing scholarship. Workforce development research rarely engages civic theory or democratic outcomes; civic education scholarship seldom examines labor markets or intermediary …
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Exploring the value of adverse life experiences of social service and support workers
… The questions that guided this research inquiry were: o To what extent are adverse life experiences perceived as an underlying motivator for the vocational choices of social service and support workers? o To what extent are adverse life experiences perceived as contributing to …
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Knowledge exchange at York St John: Building capacity in a small university.
… 1979) through action research is questioned. The practitioner-inquiry experience leads to a more critical and interpretive understanding about the barriers to university based organizational change. Further consideration is given to managing action research using more participative methods. I …