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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"practitioner research"”.
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Practitioner Research in Schools: Revealing the Efficacy Agency Cycle
… declining sense of efficacy and agency. Researchers have yet to examine the perceptions of teachers following requirements to improve student engagement and school climate in an effort to improve academic performance following the authorization of local and national educational …
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Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research
… Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research In this thesis, I have taken an English independent school as a case study and used an evolving design to explore teachers’ views of school education, teacher knowledge and teacher research, scrutinizing their perceptions …
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A Study of teacher stress exploring practitioner research and teacher collaboration as a way forward.
… 1990; Wilson, 2002). Much of the traditional research on teacher stress has been carried out by external 'experts' using quantitative survey type approaches to analyze occupational stress levels resulting in restrictive data analysis unrepresentative of the true picture of stress in the …
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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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A Case Study of Faculty Perceptions of the Characteristics of a High-Performing, High-Poverty School
Research shows low-socioeconomic status (SES) students typically score lower than their mid- to high-income peers on academic standardized tests; consequently, high-poverty schools, which enroll 75 percent or more low-SES students, generally perform below proficiency standards. However, some …
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Putting reflective practice into practice – teaching in a changing Japan
… textbooks and to undertake innovative practitioner research projects, which include possibly the first use of a crowd-sourcing methodology in secondary education research, and being the first to investigate the ability of secondary students to generate items for Student Experience of …
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Negotiating Power, Identity and Mutuality: Graduate Students in Relation with Faculty, Administrators and Each Other
… education, and (c) demonstrate ways to link practitioner research and critical incidents. Through the study, I explored aspects of four graduate students relational practices, and the mutuality that was fostered through the sustained interactions with each other and through their work with …
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The Mart Theatre Project : exploring identity in a community-based applied theatre project with young people
… on traditions of ethnography and reflective practitioner research, this document explores the roles of identity and identity-based inequities as they relate to Mart Theatre Project, an applied theatre project aimed at engaging students in Mart, Texas in a larger community development …
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Research ethics as practice
The ethical principles underpinning the current research ethics system were developed based on a bio-medical ethical model where the assumption is that these principles are valid and applicable in all research situations (Msoroka, & Amundsen, 2018). However, with the growth of social research and …
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Democracy as Becoming: A Lived Enquiry into Teacher Perspectives of Philosophy for/with Children (P4C) Practice in Irish Educate Together Schools
… through a P4C/Educate Together context. This research is a lived enquiry, involving deep immersion in the research environment as an embedded extern – that is, as both a researcher and a P4C practitioner. The ‘livedness’ of this research incorporates the social dimension of John Dewey’s theory …
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Supporting early career teacher mentors in primary and secondary education: developing a context specific coaching training programme
… for Early Career Teachers (ECTs). In this practitioner research project, I identify and explore major issues of concern to key stakeholders, in relation to the inconsistency and variability in ECT mentor support for Early Career Teachers (ECTs). This resulted in the development of a context …
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Stories as theories: co-building critical and humanizing literacies’ spaces with Adivasi (indigenous) and De-notified tribal (DNT) youth in central India
… work involves critical ethnography, humanizing practitioner-research, and sociocultural methods of understanding youth compositions. Through using mentor texts of several authors who have disrupted marginalisation, locally created and relevant literary artifacts, and various critical writing …
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A study of pupil participation in learning : factors which promote or undermine inclusion
This small-scale piece of practitioner research centres on the participation and learning experience of one group of year 7/8 pupils. My aim was to increase pupil participation in learning. I considered the pupil experience of inclusion and factors which promoted or undermined participation in …
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Transformation in teaching : listening to every voice
Action research is a methodology that supports practitioner research. This study is an exploration of one researcher's practice using the living-theory approach to action research. Initially, my focus was to improve my practice by asking how I can facilitate transformative learning experiences with …
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Talking about science? A study of the nature of discussion carried out when students work in small groups in the secondary science classroom
This research focuses on small group work and talk in the science classroom. Peer collaboration is considered important in supporting learning and as a means of generating cognitive conflict in the science classroom for the individual; often the social aspects of this collaboration are overlooked. …
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Conflict Sensitivity and Conservation: Evaluating Design, Implementation & Practice
… conservation work. Employing an action research methodology, it consists of a multi-phase evaluation of the design and implementation of Conservation International’s (CI) Environmental Peacebuilding Training Manual. Through needs assessment, formative evaluation, and outcome evaluation …
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Temporal separation of payments and consumption in online payment systems and their impact on firm strategies
Although practitioner research in Information Systems has touted the relevance of online payment systems as a critical element for success of e-commerce business models, the strategic needs for adopting online payment systems are still unclear to most firms. This dissertation studies how one design …
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The past, the present and the person: an exploration of the use of reminiscence-based activities as a catalyst for learning in later life
… such learning opportunities. This is a piece of practitioner research with the author combining the roles of facilitator of the themed reminiscence groups and observer. The study used a qualitative methodological approach from a social constructivist perspective, relying on observation and …
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Changing position: an exploration of the meaning of sexual well-being for physically disabled people.
… with adults. It uses a practice project and research to achieve this aim. The well- being principle in the Care Act 2014 makes this a topical subject for social work practice with adults in England. The study uses theoretical concepts such as humanisation of care services to develop an …
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Recognising and appreciating the artistry in professional practice: a means to researching and developing practice through insider practioner research.
… practice and examines an approach to research that could be useful for the practitioner in developing and extending their practice. The existence of artistry is recognised within professional practice (Schon 1983), and is important in making professional judgements (Fish and Coles …
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