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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"social constructivist"”.
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Paul Ernest's Social Constructivist Philosophy of Mathematics Education
The main focus of this project is to critically analyze Ernest's philosophy of mathematics education and his conceptions of mathematical knowledge and democratic education. Specifically, I use textual analysis to interpret what he intends for each group of students and to critically analyze the …
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Situated Animals: A Critique of Social Constructivist Excesses in Political Theory
… freed from two opposed extremes of biologism and social constructivism because, ultimately, the human animal is both a biological creature and capable of becoming. While it has been highly significant for humanistic scholars to challenge the governing authority of the "hard sciences" as the prime …
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Identity makes the World go round: Social Constructivist Foreign Policy Analysis
Publication based dissertation on social constructivist approaches to foreign policy analysis and critical security studies.
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“He was the Mirror of the World”: Social Constructivist Reflections in Le Roman de Silence
… performance of gender and class reflects the social context in which she lives. </p>
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The mature learner: understanding entrepreneurial learning processes of university students from a social constructivist perspective.
… that is embedded into and emerges from its social and cultural context (Jack and Anderson 2002; Rae 2001). Consequently, entrepreneurial learning is understood as a social learning process (Korsgaard and Anderson 2011) of profoundly experiential nature (Krueger 2007). The thesis addresses …
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Appropriating Wittgenstein: Patterns of Influence and Citation in Realist and Social Constructivist Accounts of Science
… in two journals (Philosophy of Science, and Social Studies of Science) and (b) references to Wittgenstein's writings. Interpretations of science can be classed according to the degree to which they support a realist or social constructivist understanding of the entities described by current …
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The Business Of Teaching The Teaching Of Business : Using Social Constructivist Techniques To Teach Business-Orientated Advanced GNVQs
Vygotsky’s social constructivist theory suggests that the culture of a situation helps develop cognitive structures. Therefore it follows that a business ‘culture’ is needed to teach business orientated GNVQs. The perceived need was to develop such a culture and within it to construct teaching …
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Implementation of social constructivist learning environments in grade 9 natural science in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… of Grade 9 Natural Science classrooms toward social constructivist learning environments in three contexts described by socio-economic status (SES) (i.e., high, medium and low SES). The study further assessed the influence of social constructivist learning environments on three key student …
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Gender Perceptions: A Narratological, Social Constructivist, Case Study of the Literacy Experiences of Urban African American Male Elementary Students
The purpose of this critical, narratological, social constructivist case study was to explore the literacy experiences of African American males and their relationships to masculinity in a third grade public school classroom within a Midwestern urban metropolitan area. The blending of critical, …
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A social constructivist grounded theory exploration into the impacts of infant sleeplessness on ‘normal’ experiences within the transition to motherhood
… were transcribed and analysed according to a constructivist version of grounded theory methodology guided by Charmaz (2006). Analysis: A central narrative of ‘the wearing mask of transition’ was developed from four analytic categories: being me’, ‘being pushed to the limit’, ‘relationships’ …
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Towards a social constructivist game-based learning model: a case of using digital games in sports studies in South Africa
… clusters. The aim of this study is to develop a social-constructivist game-based learning model, by critically exploring the production and reproduction of cross-cultural interactions, using emerging technologies in sport studies. Game-based learning is regarded as a promising vehicle to …
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Socio-cultural contexts in trauma recovery and post trauma growth in women who experienced intimate partner violence: A social constructivist lens
… are governed by socio-cultural contexts. Social constructivism emphasizes that the way in which individuals think, feel, and act are engrained in her being early on by the social and cultural networks that surround her. Therefore, even though an individual may think that she is generating …
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Univerzális kollektív létezés és kommunikáció. A szociálkonstruktivista kommunikáció-modell módosítása felé = Universal Collective Existence and Communication. Towards a Modification of the Social Constructivist Model of Communication
A disszertációban egy olyan világalkotó kommunikációmodell kidolgozását végeztük el, melyben szociálkonstruktivista mintára az együttélések tagjainak közös valóságalkotásában az emberi és nem-emberi tagok szerepe, aktivitása egyaránt figyelembe vehető.
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Analysis of the effects of a Constructivist-Based Mathematics Problem Solving Instructional Program on the achievement of Grade Five Students in Belize, Central America.
This thesis examined whether social constructivist activities can improve the mathematical competency of grade five students in Belize, Central America. The sample included 342 students and eight teachers from two rural and urban schools. A switching replication design was employed enabling …
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The Journey of Nine Sixth Graders: From Struggling Readers to Strategic Readers
… readers should consider implementing a social constructivist approach for reading instruction that includes components of equity such as, explicit strategy instruction and performance assessment in order to provide an opportunity for all students to learn. Teachers also should provide …
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Children, television, and families: A content analysis of prime-time family programs and an examination of the influence of children's family structure on their perceptions of TV and real families
… were conducted. The project was guided by social constructivist theory, which proposes that children's interpretations of television are influenced by their cognitive development, their prior experiences, and the media content. Studies of both content and audience interpretation were …
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The Experience of Being a Collaborative Writer
… textbook collaboratively with 2 other authors. Social constructivist theory and the idea of cognitive apprenticeship provided a conceptual framework. In this study, I compared my experience with the benefits, challenges, and relational dynamics reported in the literature. Data included …
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"""I'm Just a Guy."": Narratives of Mexican American College Students' Constructions of Masculinity and Sexual Health Beliefs"
A social constructivist qualitative methodology was used to examine 6 Latino college students' sexual health beliefs about the human papillomavirus (HPV). Data were collected through the use of in-depth interviews and analyzed utilizing a thematic analysis. Participants' narratives showed …
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Older Adults’ Implementation of Discharge Instructions Following an Acute Care Hospital Stay
… an emergent qualitative paradigm, specifically social constructivist grounded theory. Emergent methods were appropriate for a study designed to bring emerging properties of an understudied phenomenon to light. Interviews were recorded and transcribed by a professional transcriptionist. In …
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Creating global synergies: inter-organizational cooperation in peace operations
… in peace operations? I test several rational and social constructivist explanations introducing an innovative collective principals-multiple agents framework. There are three rational-interest explanations for inter-organizational cooperation tested: resources, complementarity, and conflict …
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