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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"social sciences education"”.
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A Formative Evaluation of Personal Learning Networks for Professional Development in the Architecture + Design Industry
… organizational learning within the social sciences, education and the human computer interaction disciplines, indicating its potential as an effective method for the dissemination of knowledge. The research strategy draws upon the human computer interaction discipline's user-centered …
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Rich and Poor Divide: How Portrayals of the Poor and Poverty in News Media Perpetuate Stigma and Inequality
Discourses about people who are rich and those who are poor are pervasive in our society. Online news media is one of the ways in which these power dominated messages are disseminated. Forty online news articles from four major news outlets in Canada were examined using Critical Discourse Analysis. …
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Civic Education in West Virginia: Guidelines and State Standards in a Case Study
… in the state must take a year long civic education course. The goal for the course is offered by the state in published documents. The documents lay out a course that is guided in part by the definition of civic education offered by the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS). West …
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Effective strategies for the interdisciplinary teams within the Alberta Justice and Solicitor General, Training Academy to strengthen collaborative practice
At the Alberta Justice and Solicitor General (JSG) Training Academy (TA), interdisciplinary teams, together, are responsible for provision of regulated and adjunct training to provincial law enforcement professionals. Collaboration requires individual reflection, willingness to seek understanding, …
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Curriculum assessment in the Division of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University
Program evaluation is essential for any organization to be successful. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the curriculum assessment in Division of Sociology and Anthropology and to make recommendations for next steps. Graduating senior surveys from 66 seniors during the Spring 2008 …
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Children's evaluations of moral and conventional retaliations
Recent research has found that children are able to effectively interpret and justify situations of moral provocation and retaliation and that their disapproval of provocation increases with age (Astor, 1994; Smetana, Campione-Barr & Yell, 2003). The current study aimed to discover whether children …
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Teacher candidates’ development of pedagogical design capacity for inquiry-based concept lessons
… lessons of a case sample of elementary (K-6) education teacher candidates (hereafter, candidates) as they engaged in design tasks in a social studies methods course within a teacher education program. The results indicated candidates had inherent, yet varied, pedagogical content design …
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Eighth grade social studies teachers' perceptions of the impact of technology on students' learning in world history
… many perceptions of what should be taught in the social studies classroom. With the expansive amount of information that must be transferred to students, the job of the social studies teacher is becoming more challenging. To assist with this issue, there are numerous instructional strategies that …
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Determining the influence on technology integration by the problem solving styles of instructors of history, classics and humanities courses
More is spent on a single B-2 bomber than the combined annual budgets of the National Endowments for the Arts, the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. History, classical, humanities studies instructors are traditionally the last to receive instruction on integrating technology …
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Sensitizing Christians to the value of creation : exploring the role of the Eucharist
Many Christian churches incorporate environmental policies as part of their mission while others appear hesitant to embrace ecological concern. I set out to explore the nature of this difference and the possible reasons for it by interviewing 12 clergy from a wide variety of Christian traditions. I …
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Resegregation: a case study of the failure of the color blind ideal in K-12 schooling policy
… Clark presented about the deleterious effects of social and school segregation on Black children in the court cases leading up to Brown v. Board of Education . Like the child participants in his famous doll experiments, students assigned to the all Black high school internalized a type of social …
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Mathematic Teachers’ Lived Experiences of Teachable Moments
This study emerged from a deeply felt tension rooted in my lived experiences as a teacher—moments when unexpected insights and connections surfaced in the classroom, calling forth profound questions about their essence and transformative potential. The study sought to interpret K–12 mathematics …
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Through the lens of Levinas: An ethnographically-informed case study of pupils’ practices of facing in music-making
… Emmanuel Levinas might shape practice in music education. In a climate of accountability and performativity within wider educational policy-making, the drive for ever-increasing efficiency has overtaken notions of professional judgement and ethical practice. This study opens by introducing …
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