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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"science and humanities"”.
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The Role of Executive Functions in Mathematics and Physics Achievement in Secondary Schools: A Comparative Study of 15- to 17-year-old Students Across Science and Humanities Curriculum Tracks
… often including working memory, inhibition and switching – seem essential to secondary school achievement. However, it is unclear how their impact applies to different academic domains of secondary education. Owing to the complex structure of physics, teachers often express concerns about …
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Teacher Perceptions of English Language Learners in Physical Education
… English Language Learners. ERIC, SPORTDiscus, and Taylor & Francis Social Science and Humanities Library online databases accessed through the SUNY Brockport Online Library, and Google Scholar were used to obtain the critical mass of research. The search included key terms including “English …
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Towards a disability justice pedagogy in the higher education classroom
… Disability Justice (DJ) pedagogy is in social science and humanities higher education classrooms. While higher education has been engaging with pedagogical practices to aid the inclusion of students with disabilities (i.e., universal design), fewer faculty have engaged with DJ as a framework …
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Uniquely Structured: Debating Concepts of Science, from the Two Cultures to the Science Wars
The purpose of this thesis is to compare the science wars of the 1990s with the two-culture debate of the 1960s. It is a work in the history of intellectual debates, focusing on contested concepts of science. Over the past decade, there have been numerous references made in science wars literature …
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Gifted adolescents : social comparisons and changes in self- concept on entering a rigourous academic program in a residential environment
… a pluralistic approach to examine self-concepts and social comparison processes of students entering the Indiana Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Humanities-a residential program for high school juniors and seniors. Following the Big-Fish-Little-Pond-Effect (BFLPE) theory it was hypothesized …
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Preparing and Progressing: A Narrative Study of Optics and Photonics Graduate Students' Identity-Trajectory
… is a topic understudied in most disciplines, and completely unstudied in optics and photonics. As a physical science and engineering discipline with blossoming scientific value, optics and photonics is growing a small number of graduate programs. With this growth, a more in depth and detailed …
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Characteristics of students receiving mental health services at the university of Cape Town
… students attending the University of Cape Town, and (iv) to examine the association between the number of consultations at the UCT -SHS-MHS. They are described in terms of selected demographic, academic, residential (home address), financial assistance and, where appropriate, clinical …
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Indicators of Linguistically Responsive Teaching in the Work of EC-6 and Grade 4-8 Preservice Teachers in an Asynchronous Course on Second Language Methodology
… language methodology. This study seeks to understand whether these pre-service teachers are learning to be linguistically responsive teachers (LRT). Lucas and Villegas (2013) define LRT as knowing the diverse backgrounds of ELLs and being able to plan and deliver instruction that supports these …
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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
… study of migrant labor, development, and gender among Malaiyaha ("Hill Country") Tamil tea plantation residents in contemporary Sri Lanka. It draws on one year of field research (2008-2009) conducted during state emergency rule in Sri Lanka amongst Malaiyaha Tamil plantation residents, …
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Contextualizing Science: Examining Science’s Moral and Social Dimensions Using Virtue Ethics and the Humanities
Science and society share considerable relationships, with each shaping course of the other. Because of this, scientists have a responsibility to reflect upon their work’s social and moral dimensions when producing knowledge. Placing science within a virtue ethics framework highlights critical …