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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"students' descriptions"”.
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Negotiating whiteness: a discourse analysis of students' descriptions of their raced experiences at Rhodes University, Grahamstown,1 South Africa
… body post 1994, there are still reports of students experiencing such institutions as alienating and excluding due to the privileging of whiteness. This thesis draws on the significant role played by discourse in how the world is constructed and reconstructed, to better understand how …
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Becoming Prospective Medicine Students. A Case Study of Access to Medicine Students’ Descriptions of Their Experiences of a Further Education Course in the UK as Determined Through Narrative Enquiry and Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis
‘Becoming prospective medicine students' is about how ‘Access to medicine’ students at a college of Further Education (FE) in England describe their experiences of the course and how they become positioned through discourses as they prepare to progress from an ‘Access’ course to medical schools. …
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A Mixed Methods Case Study Exploring Simulation and Caring in Nursing Education
… student-centered pedagogies to prepare nursing students with substantive knowledge necessary for competent practice in a complex healthcare environment. Simulation has emerged as a pedagogy that offers students the opportunity to critically think, solve problems, and care for diverse patients in …
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Students’ perceptions of the practice firms network learning environment in Brazil : a phenomenographic approach
This research deals with how students of a particular learning environment in management education, which I call here the Practice Firms Network Learning Environment (PFN), describe their relationship with this learning environment. In the PFN model students conceptualise, design and sell ‘virtual’ …
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Examining and Supporting Domain Identification and Student Interest in First Year College Students
Students entering college with a pre-selected major have often developed some beliefs and knowledge related to their major. Domain identification (DI) and interest are two constructs that could be particularly useful to researchers and practitioners examining the first year experiences of college …
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Exploding heads, doing school and intangible work: an ethnographic case study of first year education doctoral students becoming education researchers
… research concerned with how education doctoral students become education researchers, what Labaree (2003) described as "the peculiar problems of preparing education researchers." This is an ethnographic case study of a cohort of first year education doctoral students in a qualitative research …
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Developing An Assessment Framework For Cultural Responsiveness Through A Japanese Program In A Southeastern University
<p>As its paralleled learning goals for students toward an increasingly globalized world, the Japanese program in a state university in North Carolina lists language fluency and cultural responsiveness. In order to evaluate students’ language fluency, the program adopted the Oral Proficiency …
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A classroom of life : a qualitative analysis of the reflections of medical students on their entry into an obstetric community of practice
This study looks at how students describe their entry into an Obstetric community of practice.In common with other Health Science Faculties in South Africa the MBChB curriculum offered by the University of Cape Town is in a state of transition with the last final year class of the outgoing …
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Extending Students' Practice of Metacognitive Regulation Strategies in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory and Investigation of Pb2+ Binding to Calmodulin with Circular Dichroism and Molecular Dynamics Modeling
… The chemistry education research explored students' practice of metacognitive strategies while solving open-ended laboratory problems when engaged in an instructional environment, the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH), that was characterized as supporting metacognitive regulation strategy …
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The nature of learning from the clinical experience of nursing students
… by this research project were: What are nursing students' conceptions of learning from clinical experience, and what is the relationship between the different conceptions of learning? The subjects were 13 nursing students in the fifth semester of a two year nursing program in a large urban …
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Why Blame Me? Interpreting Counselor Student Resistance to Racially Themed Course Content as Complicity with White Racial Hegemony
… educators commonly experience resistance from students when the classroom focus turns to issues, literature, projects, or discussions involving race. Recognizing this resistance as an obstacle to learning, scholars developed strategies to address it. These strategies, however, have been based …
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“They got a spot for us in this school”: Sense of community among students of color with disabilities in urban schools
School inclusion is the process of educating students with disabilities in general education settings with appropriate support. It is also an attempt to develop schools into supportive learning communities where all students feel they belong. The nationalization of school inclusion (i.e. IDEA) …
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Course-triggered Identity Exploration, Motivation, and Success among Community College Students
… success experienced by community college students. The purpose of this dissertation research is to explore the nature and prevalence of motivational orientations, identity processing styles, and course-triggered identity exploration among community college students, the relation of these …