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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"socio-cultural approach"”.
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A socio-cultural approach to higher education students' experiences with academic literacies
… with personal histories and students' broader socio-cultural experience. Three themes: journeying, identity and emotional concerns, have been identified. The themes highlight the complex, nuanced and socially-embedded nature of the participants’ academic lives. In particular, Bakhtin’s notion …
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Stakeholders' voices : A socio-cultural approach to describing and extending an understanding of primary education in Mauritius
… countries. The research was conceptualised as a socio-cultural approach. It gave analytical priority to the actions, experiences and perceptions of teachers, pupils, parents and educationists in order to create an account of what Mauritian education was like and meant to individuals involved in …
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Popular Tradition in the Senegalese Novel
… different trends of thought which depart from socio-political concerns has generated a new wave of interest in African literary criticism. Consequently, the socio-cultural approach is being re-examined, but it remains, however, the most widely used form of critical analysis in the study of …
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The contribution of literacy education in raising the standard of living: A case study of two Namibian informal settlements
… Within a qualitative paradigm, this study uses a socio-cultural approach to explore the views of selected literacy educators who teach in two informal settlements as well as groups of informal settlement residents who have participated in literacy programmes. The findings of this research …
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The contribution of literacy education in raising the standard of living: a case study of two Namibian informal settlements
… Within a qualitative paradigm, this study uses a socio-cultural approach to explore the views of selected literacy educators who teach in two informal settlements as well as groups of informal settlement residents who have participated in literacy programmes. The findings of this research …
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A study of the religio-political thought of Abdurrahman Wahid
… argues, through the articulation of a socio-cultural approach, that the antagonistic relationship between state and Islam can be overcome. By focussing on this controversial question and the methodology of Indonesian neo-modernist thinking, I examine the potential of Abdurrahman's …
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A phenomenon in the making: the Hizmet Movement, its philosophy on education, schools, and notions of bilingual education
… philosophy, educational practices, and approaches to bilingual education are the focus of the study. The research question aims to bring out the views of HM administrators on education as well as bilingual education. The present day leader of the HM, Mr. Fethullah Gülen, was interviewed …
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A case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school
… discourse. This study is grounded in the socio-cultural approach, language and literacy as a social practice, and multimodality. Furthermore, this study adopted case study, and linguistic ethnography as a methodology. There are three major findings. First multimodality is not inherently …
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Shining a Light: A Single Case Study of Shine Literacy and the Implementation of their Literacy Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… The theoretical framework incorporates a socio-cultural approach to literacy and Epstein's (2009) framework which speaks to the overlapping nature of the three spheres of influence in children's education: schools, families, and communities. This study highlights the integral role played …
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Investigative Learning in an Undergraduate Biology Laboratory: an Investigation into Reform in Science Education
… working in small groups. This model linked a sociocultural approach to teaching and learning to conceptual change theory. Qualitative research methods were employed to collect a variety of data. Documentation of this innovative curriculum is provided. This investigative curriculum incorporated …
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The language socialisation experiences of a grade r child in a black middle-class multilingual family
… middle-class multilingual family? It uses a socio-cultural approach, drawing from linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics to critically analyse the language ideologies, language practices and linguistic repertoires evident in both the home and school domains across …
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Verktyg för lärande: Informationssökning och informationsanvändning i kommunal vuxenutbildning
… as opposed to teacher-led instruction. This approach is reflected in public inquiries, proposals, syllabi and grading criteria, as well as in schoolwork in practice. The approach has implications for various stakeholders in education, for example, students, teachers and librarians. Students …
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Eco-hydro-morphodynamics and ecosystem services of near-natural river corridors
… in the Anthropocene with an interdisciplinary approach, bridging fluvial geomorphology and environmental planning disciplines to support freshwater management and conservation in international cooperation for development. The first part of the research activity is rooted in fluvial …
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South Korean Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Curricular Autonomy
… to meet the needs of students with varied cultural, socioeconomic, racial, and linguistic backgrounds. Teachers’ curricular autonomy is a prerequisite to diversify curriculum. Guided by sociocultural approaches to agency and social cognitive theory, this quantitative survey study …
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An exploration of Key Stage 3 girls' peer group friendships outside the class-room and their influence within the class-room
… through the exploration and application of the socio-cultural theory (in particular through the work of Vygotsky and his zone of proximal development, Lave and Wenger's (1998) Communities of Practice literature and Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological approach). Here, learning is reconceptualised …