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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"student culture"”.
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Student culture and binge drinking
New Zealand student culture has had a strong tradition of alcohol use. Research, both in New Zealand and internationally, has identified halls of residence student drinkers as at more risk of alcohol-related harm than their same age non-resident and non-student peers. This research project …
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Student Culture and Classroom Assessment Practices
… orients instruction and learning, combining student culture with formative assessment could result in a powerful approach to learning. This study explored what a sample of dual language teachers, primarily grades four and five, reported about their classroom assessments, culture and student …
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The Imagined Reproductive Futures of Post-Graduate Students
… this thesis explores how thirty post-graduate students at the University of Saskatchewan enact their imagined reproductive futures. This ethnographic research was conducted using the methods of walkabouts, participant observation, and semi-structured one-on-one interviews, and finds that …
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The socialization of students at a midwestern college
… study was to understand and explain the overall culture and subcultures of Prairie College (a pseudonym) and how those cultures socialized students to persist or depart from the institution. In accordance with the higher education student retention theory and research of Braxton (2000), Kuh and …
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The Renovation of East Campus: Control and Culture
… projects and the goals of end users, their students. These goals often diverge, given that universities must make decades-long financial decisions, while students’ experiences can be seen as more fleeting. This thesis investigates this tension and what it means for planning processes and …
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The balancing act: Negotiating home and school for the father doctoral student
… the lived experiences of 12 father doctoral students at Maywood University. The purpose of this study is to understand how the participants balance their roles as father and student. This study was influenced by identity theory and social identity theory along with the concepts identified in …
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Intersubjective Culture: A Further Examination of the Role of Cultural Value Importance in Cultural Identification
In the intersubjective consensus approach to culture, culture can be defined from cultural member's shared representations of what the culture is like. Past research has found that core cultural values identified through this approach play an important role in people's cultural identification. The …
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The perception of culturally responsive teaching from the perspective of educators
… highlights the need for teachers to include students’ culture in their learning. Culturally responsive teaching acknowledges student culture, teacher relationships, student engagement, and curricula. These attributes help to contribute to student success and attainment as they relate to …
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An exploration of the beliefs, values, and attitudes of black students in Fairfax County
… of the beliefs, values, and attitudes of black students which guide their behavior. The cultural factors investigated included: student occupational and educational aspirations; student academic strategies; and people and.forces impacting upon student beliefs. The purpose was to determine if the …
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The Global Leadership Program's engineering design challenge as an example of a successful cross-university introduction to engineering and design
… University of Technology and Design (SUTD) students to travel to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and participate in a cross-university cultural and educational exchange. The students have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from MIT's own students and faculty during …
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A critical investigation and evaluation of access: the experiences and subsequent employment of black students in higher education
… policies on recruitment and experience of black students in higher education. As part of a broadening and reconceptualisation of institutional access programmes and of black students responses to them, I have examined black student admission and progression with a specific focus on student …
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Positioning Student Voice in the Classroom: The Postmodern Era
Typically, students have had limited voice in their schooling (Erickson & Schultz,1992). The purposes of this study were to explore the concept of student voice in the elementary school and to develop strategies that develop student voice in the curricula. An elementary school principal and four …
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Culture, surprise, and adaptation: Examining undergraduate students’ matriculation processes
… of this study were to (a) explore undergraduate students’ experiences as they transitioned to the university, (b) explore how the cultures of students’ hometowns influenced student culture at the university, and (c) provide a conceptual model which has analytical generalizability across higher …
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The Twilight Program: A Phenomenographic Study
… the qualitatively different ways in which student’s experienced an alternative program, like Twilight. In these phenomenographic inquiry two current students, two Twilight graduates, and four Twilight teachers discuss the qualitatively different ways that students’ experience Twilight. The …